Furniture Cleaning

So you just bought new furniture and you want to keep it looking good for years.  A proper furniture cleaning program should be implemented to insure that this happens.  This should include regular vacuuming, periodic cleaning, and fabric protection being reapplied after cleaning.

As with carpet, rugs and draperies, your upholstery needs to be vacuumed on a regular basis. Since vacuuming can remove 75% of all soil in the fabric this is the best way to keep your upholstery looking and smelling great.  When vacuuming your upholstery, don’t use a brush bar or beater bar vacuum attachment.  Just use the suction.  This will prevent any damage to the fiber. 

Then from time to time periodic cleaning will be needed to remove the rest of the soil that vacuuming does not remove.  Vacuuming can only remove dry soil, but some soils are oily or sticky and cannot be removed by vacuuming alone.  If your fabric is synthetic then cleaning or spot cleaning it yourself should be fine.  If your furniture is cotton, silk or another natural fiber you should consider letting a professional cleaning company do the furniture cleaning for you.  Natural fibers are more delicate and can take special training and chemicals to get the results you want.

If you keep fabric protection applied to then the likelihood that you will spill something on the fabric that cannot be removed is slim.  Furniture protection should be reapplied every 12 – 18 months especially after cleaning.  If you have to do some furniture cleaning sooner than that then it would be a good idea to reapply the furniture protection at that time.