Getting your upholstery cleaned on a regular basis is important for your health and your wallet. What is most important though is to hire the right professionals. Get it wrong and you risk damage to not just your furniture, but also your wallet and potentially your health. In this article, we analyse the different types of professional upholstery cleaning so you can make a more educated decision.
COMMON FURNITURE
Sofas are more often than not the most commonly used type of upholstery in the home. This is especially true for families with young children. Unfortunely, the family sofa can be a dangerous breeding for germs, bacteria and other harmful microorganisms like dust mites. Knowing about this, increases the importance of keeping the family sofa clean and sanitary.
“Steaming” and “washing” are the most popular methods of cleaning fabric upholstery. Both methods have there benefits when cleaning upholstery. At the same time, both methods undoubtedly have their drawbacks.
METHODS OF UPHOLSTERY CLEANING
Steaming upholstery is great for killing germs, bacteria and minimises dust mites. At the same time this cleaning method massively increases the warmth and humidity inside your upholstery. The inside of a typical sofa is already warm and humid. Increasing both of these elements makes your sofa more humid and warm. This creates an ideal environment for mildew, germs and bacteria to flourish inside your sofa. Apart from the health risks, steaming is a very intense method of cleaning and can easily cause damage. This is especially true with sensitive upholstery material.
Washing as opposed to steaming a sofa has similar advantages, without the drawbacks. The “hot water extraction” method of cleaning your sofa uses water at around 50 to 60 degrees celsius. This is sufficient to kill germs and bacteria without the risk of causing physical damage. Using this method also ensures that you will not significantly increase the temperature and humidity of your sofa. The only slight negative of using this cleaning method is that it does not remove dust mites or the physical dirt inside your upholstery.
Not removing the physical dirt from inside your sofa will prevent the removal of allergens and dust mites. Mix with water with dirt and you get MUD. The only practical solution to this conundrum is to deep dry clean the upholstery before washing.
It is vital to choose a company that uses the right equipment required to properly deep dry clean your upholstery. Regular vacuum cleaners simply do not have the capacity and technology to properly deep clean. A capacity to penetrate the deep depths of the inside of a sofa is vital to get the desired results.
THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT
The KIRBY is unlike any other vacuum cleaner in the world. It is a complete domestic home care system that outperforms any industrial vacuum cleaner. It is easy to operate with unrivalled technology in todays market.
“Kirby have been manufacturing their unique homecare systems since 1914. The kirby company has amassed over 150 worldwide patents. These patents illustrate the technological superiority kirby homecare systems have over their competitors.”¹
“Kirbys are engineered and built to ensure optimal performance. They remove dirt other vacuums leave behind. The Kirby Micron Magic HEPA filtration system ensures allergenic particles are properly trapped. “² “Vibration technology” ensures a kirby shakes & extracts physical dirt like no other machine. As a result of this technology, a kirby has the capacity to extract physical dirt and dust mites around 6 inches below the surface.
OUR METHOD OF upholstery CLEANING
BUFFERBOYS uses the KIRBY exclusively for “deep dry cleaning” all types of fabric upholstery. This process is vital as washing a sofa does not “melt” all that deep & hidden dirt. Washing on top of dirt will worsen the condition of your sofa as mixing water with dirt will cause the dirt to become like mud. Once this mud hardens, it will then become like concrete. Upon people sitting on the sofa, this hardened dirt will then break apart and can then very easily appear on the surface as stains.
After the process of deep dry cleaning, we then individually pre treat stains with powerful but safe products. Shampoo and hot water is then applied and scrubbed to loosen and lift all the grime. Industrial hot water extraction machines are used to rinse out the stain removal and shampoo products and extract as much water as possible. We then sterilize your upholstery using products made from natural and biodegradable ingredients. This sterilization ensures your upholstery is free from any germs, bacteria or viruses.
PROVEN TRACK RECORD
BUFFERBOYS have been operating in UK and Malta for the past 15 years specialising in the professional deep cleaning of all types of upholstery. We have over 1, 000 online client reviews, with a 4.9 rating on google that shows our commitment to providing a 5 star service. We take our after sales service very seriously and all work carried out is backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
UPHOLSTERY CLEANING DONE THE RIGHT WAY
REFERENCES
1 – www.kirby.com/about-the-kirby-company
2– www.kirby.com
