Commercial cleaning is largely about maintaining hygiene and an optimal standard of appearance for customers & workers alike. In a busy city centre coffee shop in OX1, the sofas & chairs experience a lot of use, as well as occasional spillages. We were instructed to carry out a full deep-clean on upholstery in the shop after closing.
It was already dark when we arrived and Gloucester Green Outdoor Market not long closed. Upholstery Cleaning in Oxford City Centre could have presented us with a logistical nightmare, but the parking Gods were with us :)
When we clean upholstery fabrics, we will usually carry out a pre-test to ensure the material is safe for “wet cleaning”. Commercial fabrics tend to be synthetic & fairly robust in order to withstand the greater use they have. This was the case here and a quick once over confirmed that the upholstery was suitable for rinse extraction cleaning.
In this image, our technician Pete is rinse extracting the sofa fabric.
Sometimes our customers think that this is the only process that is involved in an upholstery clean. In actual fact, it’s the final stage out of a series of processes all designed to remove the maximum amount of soil.
Our upholstery cleaning method involves:
The clean went extremely well.
The initial dry extraction removed the kind of debris you would expect might accumulate in a busy coffee shop.
We used a professional solution on the arms & edges of the sofa to help break down the greasy residue that builds up from lots of contact with human hands.
This is fairly typical in both commercial and domestic cleaning scenarios. It is more problematic on natural fibres, as they are more likely to have absorbed the problem within their fibres.
The one or two coffee stains (we had expected more) were treated with an acidic solution that addresses the familiar tannin brown stain and reduces it until it is invisible.
Once the spot/stain work was complete, we applied an appropriate pre-spray, brushed the solution in, gave it a reasonable “dwell” time, then rinse extracted.
Once the work was complete, we tented the upholstery to help accelerate the drying time, packed up our kit and headed back out onto Gloucester Green (where we had managed to park the van).
If you have a question about our commercial carpet/ upholstery cleaning service in Oxford & would like a free consultation or survey, please feel free to get in touch.
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