Facts To Know All About Upholstery Cleaning

• 02, 03, 2019
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It’s the time to clean if you see your carpet, or upholstery is getting dirty or look dingy with nasty smell around. The actual right time is way before this. You have to act on time to save the carpet’s fabric’s quality and hygiene of your home.

Consider professional upholstery cleaning for your couch, sofa, and etc. for a complete and 100% accurate makeover. Before calling a professional to clean your upholstery, there are few facts about upholstery cleaning that you need to know.

1. Understand the type of dirt or soil on your furniture. Is it a food spot, grease, dirt and pet stains (urine or stools)? Identifying the nature of dirt is very important because they ought to be treated differently. Also, identify the source of the staining or spots which make it easy for your professional to pick the right treatment for your upholstery and for the best possible outcome.
2. What is the material or fabric used in the making of upholstery furniture? It can be polyester, micro-fibre, polypropylene, chenille, cotton, tapestry fabric, micro-suede, rayon, velvet, olefin, nylon and linen. There are other types of contemporary fabrics as well and identifying them will help them to pick the sure shot treatment, leading successful outcomes. You can always find a manufacturer tag with care instructions to enhance the products’ life and quality.
3. A good technician or professional upholstery cleaner will always inspect the tag instructions first. And after the complete knowledge, the technician will start cleaning. They will know the type of cleaning solution required to be used on the upholstery. The manufacturer tag will inform you about:

• The type of fabric
• A mixture of fabric or material in the creation
• Cleaning suggestions
• Dos & don’ts

4. It is very essential to know if the upholstery is made of Haitian and/or Egyptian cotton, which are quite delicate. The quality can be easily tarnished if not cleaned by the necessary treatment solution or methods.

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A white cotton upholstery item should never be cleaned with a wet tool. Any kind of water based method if used on white cotton, it will turn colour of the fabric to brown. You may also expect to spot black specks. Those black specks are actually cotton seeds which are other remain invisible.

5. Synthetic fabrics are more strong and resilient than natural fabrics. They are much easier and safer to clean. Microsuede and microfibre are very comfortable but the wet cleaning method should be avoided. To eradicate the watermarks, the fabric should be cleaned with a white towel and brush the upholstery with a soft horse hair brush before drying.
6. The pressure of water during upholstery cleaning is also a concerning factor. If cleaning with high pressure, the upholstery becomes soaked and take a longer time to dry. Hire top class upholstery cleaning professionals as they use advanced tools where they use pressure adjustment valve, to change the pressure as per requirement.

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