Cardinall and his brothers, Wilbur and Hartman, and other family members opened their dry cleaning store at North Church Street on property purchased from the Gressmans, named Puritan Cleaners Limited. Soon after Puritan expanded into bulk laundry services for hotels such as Beach Club,La Fontaine, and Coral Caymanian and later on Holiday Inn, Hyatt, Treasure Island and Condos on Seven Mile Beach.
Puritan acquired the dealership for F. E. Myers pumps and water systems, as the need for water handling and systems in their own business and demand from Hotels and Villas, especially on Seven Mile Beach as those hospitality businesses came on line before central pipes water became available. In later years they also supplied a large amount of water pumps and systems for the Government’s well water supply in Lower Valley for water truck distribution. Although central water supply systems have come on line Daco Water Specialties, a division of Puritan Cleaners, to this day are supplying to the public a variety of Myers pumps, parts, and stand by systems; i.e. household, sump, sewage, pool, deep well, commercial, etc.
During this year Puritan Cleaners became a member of International Fabric Care Institute (IFI).
The brothers sold their shares in the business to Cardinall and the name was changed from Puritan Cleaners Ltd. to Puritan Cleaners (1980) Ltd. in order to retain the name Puritan Cleaners.
Puritan Cleaners moved from North Church Street to 337 Eastern Avenue to a new and more spacious plant with ample parking to better facilitate his customers, and larger bulk laundry handling. Installing the largest 300 and over 400 pound washers on the island at that time, which was recently superseded by Ritz Carlton. Also now using 80 and 70 horsepower boilers from the start of three quarter horsepower boiler. Puritan now has the capacity to produce some 13,000 pounds of laundry per day, or with dry cleaning items some 30,000 pieces a day.
Puritan Cleaners moved from North Church Street to 337 Eastern Avenue to a new and more spacious plant with ample parking to better facilitate his customers, and larger bulk laundry handling. Installing the largest 300 and over 400 pound washers on the island at that time, which was recently superseded by Ritz Carlton. Also now using 80 and 70 horsepower boilers from the start of three quarter horsepower boiler. Puritan now has the capacity to produce some 13,000 pounds of laundry per day, or with dry cleaning items some 30,000 pieces a day.
Puritan opened its second drop store at Arboretum, Elgin Avenue.
Puritan moves its store from Coconut Place to the Strand West Bay Road. In addition to standard shirt units, Puritan installed a state of the art shirt pressing machine, the Carousel, which at that time was the first in the Caribbean.
Hurricane Ivan caused a lot of damage to Puritan Cleaners resulting in set back like a lot of other businesses on the island. However it could have been worse, as salt water was measured as footage in other areas, it was around seven inches at Puritan leaving most of the equipment usable. They employed a technical engineer out of Florida, Mr. Richard Goulet, to help get the equipment up to standard while awaiting electricity to be restored by Caribbean Utilities Company.
Before Ivan struck, Puritan had purchased a Laundromat on Mary Street. After Ivan the laundromat operated some 12 to 14 hours per day. With the use of portable generators, using the washers and dryers Ivan had spared. They were overloaded with laundry and had to limit poundage in order to help each customer. Sometimes they worked past police curfew and had to have a special permit in order to take their employees home after work.
In addition to their established dry cleaning systems, Puritan added a larger state of the art dry cleaning machine also making it the largest on the Island.
Puritan expands its business by adding Mat Rental and Cleaning Services and acquiring Pillow Machine.
Puritan acquired two additional state of the art pieces of equipment to further enhance the services to its local customers and the hospitality industry.
