[M.Acorn]

Just booked this for Monday,providing it's ok to clean.
It's light pink in colour,it's 98% viscose and 2% silk,she said about 8 year old,and is pretty bad due to having 2 young kids.
Any issues with these ?
Will obviously carry out testing,but just want to check.Ta

[wynne jones]

Were you going to attach a pic?

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Be careful it's a dry clean only, viscose loses it's strength when wet and can split also if you do clean it be sure to set the pile very very well as it can leave finger indentations, I have cleaned these with dry foam but you need a turbo drier as they take ages to dry.

Shaun

[M.Acorn]

Not been to see it,and yes was worried about wet cleaning it,there is also no care label.
Might have to either pass on it,or get her to sign a disclaimer,for the sake of £60 ,not worth stressing about,even though work is pretty slack,due to approaching half term.
Cheers for the heads up guy's

[wynne jones]

£60! 

Surely you can find a nice polyprop lounge to clean somewhere. Give it a miss.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I agree it's not worth it for £60 but the experience of doing it might be.

Shaun

[M.Acorn]

Yeah it's only a 2 seater.Will call her and have a chat,only just around the corner,so may go have a butchers,and possibly persuade her to have the carpet cleaned instead   

[wynne jones]

Shaun has a good point, especially if someone could show you how to do it first so you are confident you can handle it.

[Linds Russell]

I did one about a month ago and it came up brilliant. It was Laura Ashley and dry clean only in situ and thanks to a short training session with Jamie from Cleaning Systems UK, I was able to do it and do it well. £180 well earned for two 3 seaters. I used the dry, wet, dry method.

You need to get some Prochem Dri Pro, a trigger sprayer, gloves and a respirator mask. Some Chemspec Fast Drying Upholstery Shampoo (FDUS) is useful too.

You mist on a layer of Dri Pro, agitate and towel. Vac it with your upholstery tool.

For heavily soiled areas you then apply some of the foam from your FDUS and agitate then towel. Vac it with your upholstery tool to get rid of the moisture.

You then re-apply a layer of Dri Pro to repel the moisture from the FDUS, towel and vac.

As Shaun said, using a turbo drier speeds up the drying process and is recommended and only work on one panel at a time when cleaning.

Its a time consuming job but worth it when you see the results. This was for a posh customer of mine and they were raving about the result.

I hope that helps.

Linds

[M.Acorn]

Cheers Lindus 

[Richard Basey-Fisher]

mark  be carefull disclaimers are not worth the paper they are written on  if your unsure for the sake of £60 your better off walking

[L.Doubtfire - The Blade Runner]

What Richard says is true Mark.It`s like your companies terms
And conditions of contract for working.
A customer has statutory rights.
If a customers statutory rights by law are being contravened .
I know by bitter experience from `many many moons ago.`
Accept responsibility or `walk`.


Lewis  Doubtfire

[M.Acorn]

Think I will call her tomorrow and explain,like you said,for the sake of £60,it's not worth ruining my good name and reputation over.

[clinton]

You could even do a part thats not that visable and see how it comes out mark..

[wynne jones]

Think I will call her tomorrow and explain,like you said,for the sake of £60,it's not worth ruining my good name and reputation over.

It could worse Mark, at least your not doing Groupon at a tenner a room yet.

[steven Banks]

If i were you Mark. i'd give it a miss.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

If it were me I would go and explain that it's a delicate suite and say that it needs a special clean and it would cot £xxx the way I would clean it is, very very good brush and pre vac then I would use dry foam applied with a hand mitt or sponge using the foam and dry extract off pilate and turbo dry.

Shaun

[Paul Moss]

Leave it. Make your excusses and walk. Its only good to do if your experienced other wise you will get too stressed and for £60,,, well your at least half too cheap.

[garyfindlay]

see if there is a small cushion you could test. Since its local you could check it when fully dry, before deciding to clean the full suite.

[Jamie Pearson]

Do you have a decent hand tool and a velvet carding brush?