Sofa cleaning in Riga

What you can expect from sofa cleaning

A sofa does not get dirty evenly. Seats, armrests and the place where the head rests suffer most. Cleaning usually freshens these areas well. It is harder with anything that has soaked in deeper than the fabric or has already changed its colour.

Pressure marks and shade changes in velour and chenille are a property of these fabrics, not a stain, so cleaning does not remove them. Cleaning does not restore worn fabric either: a clean sofa will be clean, but not new. More on the limits: what comes out and what may stay.

The care label decides how a sofa may be cleaned

The label is usually under the seat cushions or on the underside of the sofa. On many fabrics it carries one of four codes:

Manufacturers give these codes voluntarily, so some sofas have none. In that case, before cleaning, you first have to find out how the fabric reacts, and it is worth writing in the form that there is no label. Do not confuse these letters with the care symbols on clothes: there, a circle with a W means professional wet cleaning, and that is a different system.

Sofa dry cleaning and cleaning at home

“Sofa dry cleaning” is an everyday term. It usually means cleaning the sofa on the spot, at your home, not a trip to a dry cleaner's. Whether a fabric needs a water or a waterless method depends on the code on the label, not on the name of the service.

A sofa should not be soaked. Too much water can leave a ring, shrink the fabric or make the colour run, and moisture can reach the filling. That is also why we do not recommend washing removable covers separately: New Mexico State University warns that the fabric can shrink, its backing can suffer or the colour can change.

More on both methods: dry or wet furniture cleaning. If you are still choosing who to trust with the job, see where to clean a sofa in Riga.

Sofas by fabric and shape

• Corner sofa cleaning: from €50, large corner sofa from €60, U-shaped from €65.
• Sofa bed cleaning: from €40. If someone sleeps on the sofa every night, photograph the sleeping area as well.
• Leather sofa cleaning: from €40, corner from €50. Direct water and heat can damage leather, and stains soak into the leather itself.
• Fabric sofa cleaning: the basic case, where everything starts with the label.
• Velour sofa cleaning: water and pressure can crush viscose pile for good, so it must not be rubbed. The price is the same as for a fabric sofa.
• Faux leather sofa cleaning: the price is the same as for a fabric sofa. The coating can peel over time, and cleaning cannot repair it.
• Microfibre and flock sofa cleaning: the label code is what counts.
• Light-coloured and white sofa cleaning: a stain shows more on light fabric, so photograph it up close.
• Sofa cushion cleaning: removable cushion from €2, usually together with the rest of the job.

Stains, urine and smells

First aid for a fresh stain is to blot it with a clean cloth, not to rub it and not to use hot water. Then send a photo: stains on a sofa, wine and coffee stains on a sofa, grease stain on a sofa.

Urine is a separate job, because the liquid often goes through the fabric to the foam, and the smell may stay or come back. See cleaning urine from a sofa and sofa cleaning after a cat or dog. If a cat keeps returning to the same spot, it is advisable to consult a vet first, as cleaning does not deal with the cause.

For a sofa with an unknown past there is used sofa cleaning, and before a sale sofa cleaning before selling is useful. Bedbugs and fleas are not a cleaning job but a pest control job.

How sofa cleaning at home works

1. Photo and request In the form, give the address and the type of sofa, and add photos: the whole sofa, the stain up close and the label. How to do it: how to photograph a sofa for a price.
2. Conversation After you submit the form, we contact you within 5 minutes. The specialist confirms the fabric and the stain and tells you what you can expect.
3. The price before the job We agree the price before the work starts. If things turn out differently on the spot from what the photo shows, we talk it through before cleaning.
4. The job at your place Clear the space around the sofa and take off any blankets. Tell us what the stain has already been treated with.
5. After cleaning Drying depends on humidity, airing, temperature, the fabric and the filling, so we do not promise a number of hours. Air the room if the weather allows. More detail: how long a sofa takes to dry after cleaning.

Sofa cleaning: the price, with a two-seater sofa as an example

A two-seater sofa costs from €35, a three-seater from €45, a corner sofa from €50, a large corner sofa from €60, a U-shaped sofa from €65, a sofa bed from €40. A two-seater leather sofa costs from €40, a leather corner sofa from €50. Velour and faux leather have no separate prices: we use the fabric sofa prices. Smell treatment costs extra, from €15, and it is not a promise that the smell will go.

The minimum order is €45: if the total is lower, you pay €45. Travel is included in Riga and up to about 15 km outside Riga; further out it is from €10. So cleaning a two-seater sofa with no other furniture costs at least €45, and it is worth booking a chair or the removable cushions in the same visit. The price is affected by size, fabric, dirt, smell and distance. All prices.

Where we work

We clean sofas throughout Riga and the Riga region, for example in Purvciems, Ziepniekkalns, Mārupe and Jūrmala. All places: where we work.