How to refresh + clean upholstered couch?

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Hey all! We have a cb2 fabric (orange colored) upholstered couch that doesn’t have any deep stains like coffee or wine but has seen some use and could benefit from a deep clean.

While it’s our off season we thought it would be a good time to give it some love. Suggestions? Fave products or steps you follow to refresh your couch or upholstered chairs?

Thanks!

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If you decide to clean your couch by the time you rent a cleaner, buy supplies & invest your time getting Machine & product & labor of cleaning then returning the machine, cheap-o me will gladly pay someone to do it.

Oxifresh steam cleaned my pillow top queen mattress for $80. It looks great.
They clean furniture too.

Oxifresh is a franchise in the USA with local cleaners. I don’t know if they are in your area, if not, maybe your area has something comparable.

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Me too. Our sofas are leather these days (so very easy to clean) but before we used to get someone in. We use Stanley Steemer and I think they have franchises throughout the US. They’ll also do carpets , tile and grout and - important in the COVID era - clean out the air ducts of your heating / AC.

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As other have said, a deep steam clean is what it needs, and your local carpet cleaning service has a truck with a long hose and everything needed, including stain and odor removal.

If you have area rugs that could use a cleaning, combine that with the upholstered furniture, but have them clean the area rugs in your garage or on your deck, patio, or driveway, and do it on a sunny day so they dry quickly.

Even though my robovac does a good job, that deep clean always pulls out dirt, even from the rugs in the B&B which is no shoes. I do that and my giant 8 foot Grandma’s couch every 4-5 years.

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I had someone whose wet and muddy dog made full use of my policy of allowing dogs on the furniture. Fortunately my cleaner also has a carpet and upholstery cleaning business. If I had rented a steam cleaner and product for the day and did it myself probably would have cost more and still not looked as good.

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