How to make your fabric sofa shine like a star forever?
Many times in life, we do not at all like the furniture we purchased with all the careful considerations, expecting it to look the same beauty forever. Only little do, we realize that the comfort factor remains nearly same for years, but the look an attraction in the sofa is drifting away with each passing day. The only thing that is lacking in the whole process is the adoption of an appropriate process for the cleaning of our fabric sofas.
The fabric sofas are a graceful entity that can enliven up the living room decor with their striking presence and comfort rendering properties. Buying them with all the attention and paying heed to the interior will take you just the half way to achieving a beautiful fabric sofa. But to make your purchase a hit story for decades down the lane, read the following ways to keep your fabric sofas clean:
1. Pre-Cleaning the fabric sofa: Make use of the full-size vacuum cleaner to get rid of the large visible pieces of dirt off the surface of your fabric sofa. Let no dust or dust particles settle or get penetrated into the ‘Difficult to access’ voids inside the sofa. If the cushions and the seat of the fabric sofa are removable then, make it happen and clean it to the core. Else, you must vacuum clean all the cushions and the entire upholstery to the best extent.
If there is the formation of dust cake or deposition of a sticky dry layer on the fabric sofa, then you will try to rub it hard to get that off the sofa surface. This is fine, but make sure you rub gently because too much friction will deteriorate the quality of the fabric, eventually leading to the tearing apart of the fabric. You can also use the lint roller to clean the fabric surface from the lint remains of the pet hair. The hard, exposed part of the sofa must be wiped with the clean wet cloth, if possible, with the cleaner also. Also, remember do not spray the cleaner directly on the wooden surface, in fact, spray it on the clean towel first and then use that to wipe the surface.
2. Cleaning the spots on the sofa surface using detergents: The use of pre-conditioner for preconditioning the fabric of your fabric sofa is a must do. This is because the debris and the grim gets dissolved into the pre-conditioner, making their removal easy at the time of shampooing the fabric. But If this pre-conditioner if not available anywhere near and about then you will find them online.
So, first to check the quality, just perform the spot testing, in which you just have to drop the pre-conditioner on a spot and see whether any fumes are evolving, or the fabric quality is harmed because of this. You must also check that the color and shine of the fabric is not getting diminished.
After the pre-cleaning tasks are done, you must try to make the detergent for the cleaning purpose. The detergent must also be spot test against discoloration of the fabric. Pour the detergent solution, into the vacuum box and with the help of your vacuum cleaner try to shampoo the fabric of the sofa. Do not forget to remove the extra detergent from the surface of the fabric, if any. Just let the wet sofa dry under the fan and you are almost done. You can also take the help of sunlight if you want, keeping in mind that the fabric must not lose its color.
3. Dry cleaning the sofa fabric: If you do not want to let the water take in charge of cleaning of the fabric sofas, then you can simply use the dry-cleaning agent and use it to dry clean the fabric sofa. The most crucial and primary consideration before doing this will be to take care of the ventilation. This is because when you will make use of this dry cleaning agent. There will be strong fumes that will evoke, so make sure that you have made a way out for those pungent fumes.
All you have to do is take some agent in the clean towel and rub it against the spot gently. You are done.
There could be many benefits of cleaning fabric sofas from time to time. Therefore, one must never compromise on the cleaning of the attraction of your home, i.e., your fabric sofas.
