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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: AquaMagic on April 20, 2006, 10:51:05 pm

Title: Protecting Upholstery when Wood is Present
Post by: AquaMagic on April 20, 2006, 10:51:05 pm

Hi all, ive been asked to Stainguard some dining room chairs, the chairs in question have upholstery on the seat on the back rest, however the back rest doesnt cover all of the wood, i quoted accordingly and the customer raised a concern that other cc's said they couldn't gaurantee that thier stainguard wouldnt cause the varnish in the wood to bleed.  I decided to seek advise by an experience CC and without mentioning names (without permission) i was advised a good way to get round this would be to maybee coat the wood in a silican such as the stuff you use on your dash in the car, this would protect the wood while i apply the fabric protector and then i would wipe of the silican as soon as im done.

I like this solution but wanted to share it and also see if there were other ways around this problem, purely because im curious?

Any Ideas?

Dene

Title: Re: Protecting Upholstery when Wood is Present
Post by: Jason Hedges on April 20, 2006, 11:21:37 pm

Hi Dene,

I cleaned my mums dining chairs when I first started and took the varnish off the wood. I used fabric restorer though as a pre-spray and left it to dwell for 10 minutes before rinsing. After rinsing wiped down the wood and noticed the varnish coming off the wood onto the towel. Luckily enough it was my mums so a tin of varnish later and she was all smiles!

I now make sure I wipe off any chemical from any wood straight away so this doesn't happen again (and touch wood (excuse the pun) it hasn't). I think it was the time I left it for that caused the problem.

I've done the same with protectors and haven't had a problem. Maybe I've just been lucky!

Will be interested to hear anyone elses comments.

Kind regards,
Jason.

Title: Re: Protecting Upholstery when Wood is Present
Post by: Ian Gourlay on April 21, 2006, 07:19:25 am

apply vasiline on a clear wax before treating to the wood . Rub off when finished

Title: Re: Protecting Upholstery when Wood is Present
Post by: AquaMagic on April 21, 2006, 08:58:01 am

Hi Ian, could you erlabortate please, when you say "on a clear wax" what do you mean, many thanks.

Dene

Title: Re: Protecting Upholstery when Wood is Present
Post by: magic_carpet on April 21, 2006, 12:12:26 pm

dene. just have a towel and wipe off all over spray as soon as you finished spraying. also try to do them outside.

Title: Re: Protecting Upholstery when Wood is Present
Post by: Ian Gourlay on April 28, 2006, 05:41:23 pm

I mean a clear wax funiture polish.