Every home has fabric upholstery, some more than others. Upholstery is classified as any piece of furniture that you can sit on, e.g. sofas, armchairs, dining chairs, pouffes, etc… In this article we will be concentrating on the importance of cleaning your fabric upholstery. Fabric upholstery can also be referred to as “soft furnishings.”
IMPORTANCE OF REGULAR FABRIC UPHOLSTERY CLEANING
Using Professionals on a regular basis cleaning for deep cleaning & sterilizing your fabric upholstery on a regular basis is essential for many reasons. Reasons including:
1. IMPROVED HEALTH FOR YOU & YOUR FAMILY with REGULAR FABRIC UPHOLSTERY CLEANING
Due to its fibrous nature, fabric sofas is a breeding ground for many hidden dangers to your health. These hidden dangers include:
- Germs and bacteria
- General dust
- Dust Mites
It is important to hire a professional upholstery cleaner to ensure your fabric upholstery is safe for your health.
At the same time, it is essential to use the right professionals with the right equipment, products & staff.
2. SAFETY
In this day and age of YouTube and everybody wanting to save $$$, DIY tasks are increasingly popular. Attempting to deep clean your fabric upholstery carries a lot of risks. These risks include:
– damaged material.
– inferior cleaning results.
– stains appearing worse & new stains appearing.
– soaked Upholstery taking days to dry leaving the horrendous smell & appearance of Mould all over your Upholstery. studies are increasingly showing how hazardous mould can be for your health.
A cleaning company with the right expertise, products & equipment ensures your fabric upholstery is always cleaned without causing any damage to your pocket & health.
3. EXTENDING THE LIFE OF YOUR UPHOLSTERY:
Fabric sofas undergo extensive usage causing daily wear and tear and premature damage. Apart from perhaps your bed, the mattress is the most used piece of item in the family home.
Dust and dirt are the major elements that cause premature damage to your sofa. The vast majority of companies seem to concentrate only on wet cleaning. Wet cleaning does not extract the physical dust and dirt. Deep dry cleaning is the only solution to properly extract the physical dirt and dust from fabric upholstery. Washing without deep dry cleaning first makes the situation worse as injecting water into upholstery that has physical dirt turns the dust into mud causing a bigger problem.
DIY cleaning of your Fabric Upholstery can be dangerous for your health & your pocket. Without the necessary expertise and right equipment it would be quite easy for one to wash there family sofa using too much water and not having the right equipment to dry the sofa quickly leading to a moist sofa that takes to dry. Fabric Sofas especially, if they moist for more than 24 hours start to accumulate mildew, leading to mould.
Just sitting on this sofa breathing in all the Mould leads to immune deficiencies amongst many other health problems.
Using a professional company that focuses on deep dry cleaning before the wet cleaning prevents this problem. Ensure before using this type of service you ask the company what type of vacuum / machine they use to extract dust and physical dirt before washing.
Refer to this article for further, detailed information.
BUFFERBOYS….EXCELLENCE IN UPHOLSTERY CLEANING
BUFFERBOYS uses a multi faceted process to clean upholstery. We use the KIRBY machine to extract all the physical dirt that is embedded deep inside your furniture. Powerful stain removal products are used to treat stains. We then apply and scrub shampoo all over your sofa. The shampoo is effective in lifting and loosening all the grime, this helps to brighten and restore the colour of your furniture. Industrial hot water extraction machinery is utilised to rinse out and then extract all the shampoo and water. Afterwards we then sterilize your upholstery using products with natural and biodegradable ingredients. This sterilization ensures your soft furnishings are free from any germs, bacteria or viruses.
