Leather furniture is extremely graceful and stunning in appearance.
Conversely, it is exceptionally sensitive too and it requires extraordinary
care in cleaning if any blemish becomes visible on it. In order to help you
out, here are some tips and formal procedure to clean the leather furniture,
such as leather sofa beds, to make
it functional for a long time.
Before starting the cleaning process, it is significant to find
out the type of leather you’re working with. You may uncover this information
on the tags fastened to your furniture. Let suppose you are having a leather
bed then you may view tags to find out either it is a real leather bed or a faux one.
Items required:
- Soft fabric pieces
- Body soap
- Distilled water
- Soft brush
- Vacuum cleaner
Steps for cleaning:
- Use a low voltage vacuum cleaner entailing a soft brush. High voltage or more powerful vacuum cleaners must be essentially avoided, because it will put down a scratch on leather, which will be horrible after sometime.
- Before starting cleaning process, you must try the contents on I side of furniture which is hidden. It will help you out in determining that either the material is leaving terrible marks or not. If there are marks, you need to change the contents.
- Make a watery solution of the body soap using condensed water. Now wet one cloth with that liquid and circularly rub it on the stain smoothly.
- Take another piece of fabric and dip it in clean distilled water that is without soap, use it to wipe out the soap remainders.
- Take a dry piece of fabric and use it to dry out the wet furniture part. Make sure that it absorbs all the moisture from the surface.
Follow some guidelines:
- Never use any sort of furniture polishes, oils and waxes because may harm the leather and make it sticky.
- Avoid the use of varnishes, strong cleaners, rough soaps, bleaches and ammonia products because they are having harsh effects that may destroy your whole leather item.
- You must vacuum and dust your leather items on regular basis. it will clean out the small stains and dust particles instantly and will let your leather items breath. Your furniture will last longer.
- To avoid hard stains, do some cleaning treatments once a month. Make a solution of vinegar, distilled water and linseed oil and apply it on the furniture. Let it stay for 10 minutes then wipe out. Dry it after wiping. It will remove all small stains.
- In order to protect your furniture from cracking or warning out, you need to place it outside in bright sunny day for at least 15 minutes once a weak. Keep it away from high heated places.
- If you do not have the confidence to wash out it at your own, please call any professional and let it do his job. It will cost you little and will save your investment that you made on purchasing the items.
These are some of the simple tips and guidelines that will
help you out in cleaning out your leather furniture in regular as well as
severe conditions.
