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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Neil kell on October 21, 2010, 12:49:39 am

Title: Upholstery cleaning?
Post by: Neil kell on October 21, 2010, 12:49:39 am
Any tips? I did this one recently just applying cc techniques. It was going into the skip during an EOT clean. The property agent was on the fone ordering a new one when I piped up and promised her I could get this one brand new again. Silly promise but she has'nt gone anywhere else since.
Title: Re: Upholstery cleaning?
Post by: fitz2kleen on October 21, 2010, 01:10:09 am
how can u get something 'brand new again'?
Title: Re: Upholstery cleaning?
Post by: Jim_77 on October 21, 2010, 01:14:45 am
Keen salesmanship of course!
Title: Re: Upholstery cleaning?
Post by: james roffey on October 21, 2010, 08:09:04 am
I would never promise that, your come unstuck very quickly making promises like that. anyway the piping is damaged, a good result though.
I prefer the customer to be amazed by down playing the outcome, rather than expecting it
Title: Re: Upholstery cleaning?
Post by: fitz2kleen on October 21, 2010, 08:36:39 am
it doesnt look like u cleaned the whole bugga.......... try nappying.
A bit of elbow grease can do wonders.
good as new ???? ouchhhhh what a statement lol........ for the price u get for upholstery cleans off an EOT id have said get a feckin new en
marc
Title: Re: Upholstery cleaning?
Post by: markpowell on October 21, 2010, 08:46:00 am
Get some hot Ultrapac renovate on it brush in, leave 10 mins and rinse with Premium clean, should do the job to a better standard, dont worry about damaging it as its gonna get replaced anyway.
Mark
Title: Re: Upholstery cleaning?
Post by: idealrob on October 21, 2010, 09:05:17 pm
A good job, having a laugh, its patch and a poor result, as posted above, nappying or other method, just proves HWE is not the total answer to cleaning, as are other methods, not the total answer

idealrob
Title: Re: Upholstery cleaning?
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on October 21, 2010, 09:18:47 pm
I must admit I like cleaning these suites I always get a good result.

Shaun
Title: Re: Upholstery cleaning?
Post by: colin thomas on October 21, 2010, 09:25:28 pm
what's nappying  ???
Title: Re: Upholstery cleaning?
Post by: Carpet Dawg on October 21, 2010, 09:39:57 pm
Thats one of the easiest fabrics to HWE!
Title: Re: Upholstery cleaning?
Post by: fitz2kleen on October 22, 2010, 12:00:13 am
whats nappying !!!!!

cant actually believe you asked :(

its where u roll up your sleeves and use a bit of elbow grease to clean upholstery rather than spray and extract, but to be honest just leave the elbow grease aye........suite looks bad enough as it is :)
marc
Title: Re: Upholstery cleaning?
Post by: Gary Humphreys on October 22, 2010, 03:02:53 pm
Fabric restorer and some strongarm brushing would make a drastic improvement.
Title: Re: Upholstery cleaning?
Post by: Neil Williams on October 22, 2010, 03:45:41 pm
I'll name that sofa in one ;D
DFS special circ 2000, and I should know we used to have one exactly the same :D
Easy peezy to clean, any method will get these cleaned albeit I doubt any of us could do it in the 15 minutes that Ideal Rob would do it in ;D

Must say it does look a bit patchy which isn't in keeping with the promise to make it brand new again, but as it's an agency job I doubt they would pay the price to make this or any other 10 year old furnishing look new again. But all the same you've got your point across that buying a new one wasn't a requirement this time.
Title: Re: Upholstery cleaning?
Post by: colin thomas on October 22, 2010, 05:56:00 pm
fitz/mark, i'm still now wiser as to the method of cleaning that is 'nappying'. if your saying that you just use a terry towel and rub it, how does that clean it when the material is in that state?

 ???
Title: Re: Upholstery cleaning?
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on October 22, 2010, 05:58:54 pm
Hi Joe, I have some Strong Arm in my garage and won't use it on soft furnishings as it smells too much of solvent for me.

Shaun
Title: Re: Upholstery cleaning?
Post by: Gary Humphreys on October 22, 2010, 07:20:28 pm
 Shaun, after a day of strong arm its normally me that smells a bit whiffy.