One of the most abused pieces of equipment in your home! It is used to work from, eat from, jump on and sleep on, yet rarely receives any attention in the form of maintanence. Your upholstery is a hot bed of grit, dirt, sand, food, dust mites and normal air born pollutents. Hence why it should be professionally cleaned.
Prior to any upholstery cleaning all items must be carefully inspected for type of material and and overall condition, hence why it is in your best interests for a site visit to be made prior to any agreement to clean. From this we then decide what is the most suitable cleaning process.
Upholstery cleaning can be a very complicated task. It is more involved than carpet cleaning and should not be attempted by consumers. For anything other than spot cleaning, you should call a professional upholstery cleaner to do the work. Here is a brief overview of what is involved in upholstery cleaning.
Fibre Identification This is the most important part of upholstery cleaning and one of the chief reasons that consumers should not attempt their own upholstery cleaning. Every different type of fibre responds to cleaning differently and must be handled carefully. Cotton is cleaned differently from rayon which is treated different than acrylic which is cleaned different from silk, etc, etc, etc. Your fabric might contain several different types of fibres. You might have a combination of cotton and polyester threads or cotton and rayon. Every thread in a fabric must be tested to determine what types of fibres are present.
Dye Stability The fabric should be tested for stability of the dye before upholstery cleaning. Your technician should test the cleaner that they will be using on a hidden area of the fabric. Every different colour should be checked. If the dye bleeds or transfers to the test cloth, special procedures must be used. The technician can use a dye lock chemical which will keep it from bleeding or they might switch to a less aggressive chemical. In the worst cases, the fabric might not be cleanable.
Fabric Construction The construction of your upholstery's fabric must be taken into account. If it is delicate, then the upholstery cleaning technician must be gentle with it. If it has different colored threads running underneath the fibre then it must be handled carefully. If it is velvet, it must be brushed after cleaning. If it is a sturdy fibre, the technician can be more aggressive with the cleaning. The upholstery cleaning technician should also unzip the cushions and look behind the fabric. Sometimes during assembly, furniture manufacturers will use a pen to mark the fabric. This can bleed through if cleaned. These marks can not always be seen but an attempt should be made to look for them.
Upholstery Cleaning Codes You might notice that a tag with a cleaning code is attached to your furniture. These codes are seldom correct. It is not uncommon to have three pieces of upholstery in the room made of the same fabric and each of these pieces will have a different cleaning code on it. These stickers are often just slapped on upholstery and should not be used by your technician to determine a cleaning method. The codes you might see on your upholstery are S (Dry Clean Only) , W (Wet Clean) , SW (Low Moisture Cleaning) and X (Vacuum Only).
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