Hello World! Welcome Friends! If you are needing cleaning and repair done on an expensive piece of furniture or decoration in your home, chances are good that you are considering getting professional upholstery done.
While there are some spots and stains that may be fixable on your own, there are certainly some jobs that you should leave to the professional upholstery cleaners. That is especially true when fine fabric is involved.
If you are curious about what goes into upholstery cleaning for fine and rare fabrics, then you have come to the right place!
Let’s break down the 5 crucial steps to upholstery cleaning so that you can know what to expect when you call in some professionals to make your belongings look as good as new.
Let’s get started!
Step 1 – Inspection
The first step to any upholstery cleaning job is that a certain amount of inspection and testing has to be done. Fabric specialists will inspect the fabric to make sure that they know exactly what type of fiber and fabric it is. This will help them determine the best products to use for safe cleaning. On top of that, they will also do a color fastness test, which will also help them determine the safest form of treatment.
Step 2 – Pre-Conditioning the Fabric
The second step that will be done is that a pre-conditioner will be applied to the fabric that worked to loosen all the soil embedded within the fabric. This will help ensure that the cleaning will be as effective as possible.
Step 3 – The Cleaning
Up next is the actual cleaning part of the job. Here, the soil on the fabric will be extracted and rinsed. The fabric will be inspected throughout the process to make sure that the best job possible is being done. After that, spots that do not respond to the previous cleaning methods will be treated with the correct spotting solution. Finally, a fine fabric protector will be applied to the fabric to ensure long and effective protection from future spots and stains.
Step 4 – Drying the Fabric
Once the cleaning steps have been completed, professional upholstery cleaners will use a powerful air mover to decrease and expedite the drying time. This will ensure that no mildew begins to grow as the fabric dries and will also ensure that you will have the item back in your use faster than you otherwise would
Step 5 – Final Inspection
The final step of the entire process is that the professional upholstery worker or team that repaired your item will go through a thorough inspection of the final product. They will do this once the item is fully dried, to make sure that no stains that they missed are being covered up by wetted and darkened spots. The goal here is to find if there is anything that needs to be treated again or in a different way to ensure that the customer will be getting back the very best product possible.
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