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| is there any way to do an all over cleaning job on a sofa? has anyone tried it? I don't know if there's a machine u can rent or what. thanks!! |
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| Hi Dot... First & Foremost, check for color fastness; your documentation, if you have it; tags on cushions or the dustliner under the cushions possibly. Most fabrics are colorfast now if the sofa is within 10 years old. If it's a fabric known as Haitian Cotton (not much of it around anymore but still find it on rare occasion) it can't be cleaned. Water will ruin it. Anyway, that said, rent a Rug Doctor machine from a food store or hardware store. With it should come an upholstery attachment. If your clean water solution container is 1 gallon, fill it with hot water from the tap, and add 1/4 (no more) cup of any liquid laundry detergent. Also add 1/2 cup of clear ammonia. Don't bother purchasing the detergent or defoamer they sell-it's just the same stuff that your laundry detergent is. BTW-don't substitute dish detergent, way too much foam. Aggressively stroke your fabric several times back & forth triggering the spray, then two slow passes sucking out the water. Then move to the next area. Do not wet the dust liner under the cushions; most of the time these furniture manufacturers use junk fabric that color-bleeds. If your cushions are removable, take them off of the sofa and set them somewhere to dry, maybe the Kitchen floor if tile. Hope this helps. |
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| wow!!! what good directions. I'm going to try it soon. thanks alot. |
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| You are welcome, Dot... Could you please post back and let us all know how it turned out? I would be interested! Thanks |
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| I rented a rug doctor today and cleaned my sofa and also a rose colored cordoroy chair. the chair looks better. the sofa is a dark color that doesn't show dirt much so I really can't see a difference but everything does feel cleaner. the only problems I had was they didn't give me the attachment and I had to go back to the store and then the machine leaked underneath so I had to put it on the porch and stretch the hose cause I didn't want to take the sofa out there. I didn't want to get the carpet wet but I don't guess it would have hurt it. lol. it does need cleaning too. after a while I got things going so the water didn't drip all over. u just have to work with it. thanks again for the help. dot |
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