Sofa cleaning in Aplokciems - for private houses by Lake Ķīšezers

More furniture in one visit

Aplokciems has private houses, some newer residential buildings and patches of allotment gardens, and in the north there is a golf club. In a two-storey house, upholstered furniture is usually spread around: a sofa downstairs, a bed upstairs, chairs at the table. In such a house the minimum order is no obstacle, because several things together exceed it.

Make your list before you fill in the form. Photograph each item and its biggest stain. That way the specialist can name a total price straight away, and less will need settling on the spot.

Terrace cushions and the garden house

During the season, terrace furniture collects dust and gets rained on. Cushion foam holds moisture just as in indoor furniture, so cushions need drying before winter and storing in a dry place. Outdoor furniture cushion cleaning can be done together with the sofa, if you gather the cushions in one place.

In a garden house that has spent the winter closed up, a sofa or mattress may begin to smell of damp. A surface smell can be reduced, but mould in the filling is another matter. Porous material with mould often cannot be saved.

Dogs, cats and sand from the yard

If you have an animal that can go out to the yard freely, the sofa gets sand, hair and paw prints. Hair and surface dirt can usually be removed. Urine is more complicated: the area of smell may be up to three times larger than the visible stain. On this kind of work, read sofa cleaning after a cat or dog.

If a cat marks the furniture repeatedly, show it to a vet first. Otherwise the cleaned spot may soon be as it was before.

A thick cushion in damp air

There is water and forest near Aplokciems, but that says nothing about your house. A hygrometer shows the humidity of a room. The Health Inspectorate (Veselības inspekcija) calls 40–60% relative air humidity comfortable, and considers a room above 80% a high mould risk.

For furniture this means one thing: the damper the air, the more slowly thick filling dries. For this reason we promise no number of hours. In a closed, unheated garden house, air movement is needed after cleaning, so such work is better planned for when the house is lived in and aired. The US Environmental Protection Agency states that fans and dehumidifiers speed up drying.

The price in Aplokciems

Travel in Aplokciems is included, and the minimum order is €45. For example, a three-seater sofa from €45 reaches it on its own, and two single mattresses for a garden house start from €60. A corner sofa costs from €50, a large corner sofa from €60, a U-shaped sofa from €65, a two-seater leather sofa from €40.

The price is affected by size, fabric, dirt, smell and distance, and we agree it before the work. All services: prices. If a sofa is new and a stain small and fresh, it is often enough to blot it gently straight away with a clean cloth, without rubbing and without hot water.

The guest bed and the mattress topper

In a house that visitors come to in summer, the guest bed stands unused for most of the year. If a mattress topper has been in a closed wardrobe or room for a long time, it is worth checking how it looks and smells before the guests arrive. Mattress topper cleaning and mattress cover cleaning are two different jobs, so add a photo of the label to the form.

Where cleaning reaches its limits

On light fabric, an old coffee or wine stain may stay, even if it gets paler. A water ring may stay where the fabric has been wetted too much. More on what usually works and what does not: what may stay after cleaning.

We also work in Jaunciems, Suži, Trīsciems and Bukulti. The full list: where we work.

What to write about the house and the furniture

In Aplokciems, the address does not always tell you how to get there, because most streets here are local ones leading out to Jaunciema gatve. Write briefly:

• which street is the easiest way in and where to stop;
• how many pieces, how big and in what fabric;
• whether there is a cat or dog in the house;
• whether the cushions are kept indoors or have to be brought in from the terrace;
• whether the sofa is leather, because leather prices start at a different level.

There is no separate price for faux leather: we use the fabric sofa prices for it. A two-seater leather sofa is from €40, a leather corner sofa from €50. If you do not know what the material is, a close-up photo is usually enough.