Sofa cleaning in Baldone - for private houses and country properties

First the sums: travel and the minimum

By road it is about 21 km from the centre of Baldone to the Riga boundary, which is beyond the 15 km limit up to which travel is included. In Baldone it costs from €10, and the minimum order is €45.

So it is worth walking through every room of the house before you fill on the form. A two-seater sofa from €35 does not reach the minimum on its own, but with two cushions and a pouffe it does. A corner sofa from €50 exceeds it on its own, and then you pay only the unit price for each extra chair.

The table shows starting prices. The final price depends on size, fabric, dirt, smell and distance, and we agree it before the work.

A house by the forest: what happens to furniture

Baldone is a small town with private houses, wooded surroundings and country properties on the edges. In a house like this, furniture usually gets used differently from furniture in a city flat: the dog comes in from the garden, people sit on the sofa after working outside, and a guest room mattress may stand unused for a whole season.

Animal hair and muddy marks are the good news, because they usually come out. The worse news is smell. If a dog or cat has slept in the same corner of a sofa for years, the smell may have soaked into the filling, and then cleaning may reduce it, but we cannot promise it will disappear. There is more on this on the page sofa cleaning after a cat or dog in Baldone.

If you find fleas in the house, that is a job for pest control, not furniture cleaning. Treating the animal and the rooms has to come first, and only after that does it make sense to think about the fabric.

A country property closed up over the winter

If a house has not been heated in winter, the sofa or mattress may smell like a cellar in spring. Before cleaning, the cause has to be found. If the damp is still in the room, the smell may return after cleaning, so the house must first be aired and heated through.

The Health Inspectorate (Veselības inspekcija) calls air humidity above 80% a high mould risk. If patches are visible on the fabric or there is mould in the filling, the honest answer is usually replacement and dealing with the cause of the damp, not cleaning. A photo will show whether it is a stain or mould; add the underside of the mattress and the back of the sofa as well. More: mould in a mattress and mould in a sofa.

What can be added to the same visit in Baldone

• Mattress cleaning at home in Baldone: single from €30, double from €45, second side +50%.
• Furniture cleaning in a private house in Baldone: everything room by room in one request.
• Terrace and outdoor furniture cushions: from €2 per removable cushion.
• Car seats: from €12 per seat, if the car is parked in the yard.
• Prams: from €20.

Dining chairs with an upholstered seat cost from €7 each. They are easy to forget when adding up an order.

Child car seat, pram and car seats in the yard

In a house outside the town, a car is part of daily life, and its seats collect the same things as the sofa: animal hair, soil and children's snacks. If the car is parked in the yard, its seats can be added to the order too. One seat costs from €12, a child car seat from €20.

A child car seat has a rule of its own. The straps and buckle are its most important parts, and they may only be looked after in the way the seat's instructions allow. Manufacturers warn that soaking and strong soapy water can weaken the fibres. If the straps are very dirty or frayed, they need replacing. We do not say that a seat is as strong after cleaning as it was before, so keep the instructions to hand and write the model on the form.

The road to your house

In Baldone, the road surface and access in the centre and in the rural part of the municipality can differ a great deal, and the way to Baldone runs along regional roads. On the form, write not only the address but also whether the last stretch is a gravel road, whether it is cleared in winter, and whether the house has a name rather than a number. Satnav does not always find a country property exactly.

Nearby are Ķekava and Baloži, where travel is included, and Iecava, where, as in Baldone, it is from €10.

The other rules are simple: you know the price before the work, and all the unit prices are on the prices page.