Eco-Friendly Sofa Cleaning Services

Eco-Friendly Sofa Cleaning Services

Booking a deep or a light sofa cleaning service should not be a hard experience. Most of the well established and most popular sofa cleaning contractors should be using top of the range 100% eco-friendly sofa cleaning shampoos that should not affect your health in any negative way and should also not affect the environment at all. Right? Well, it should be like that but unfortunately it is often not the case.

The Advantages Of Using Eco-Friendly Sofa Cleaning Products

A good quality sofa cleaning detergent that complies with all the eco-friendly legislation is a product that is responsibility sourced, it does not releases toxic fumes within the process of sofa cleaning or after the sofa has dried, it is fully degradable and it does not affect pets or people with allergies. These products are usually a bit more expensive than the non eco-friendly products and in most cases they also have a slightly lower dilution rate. The non eco-friendly sofa cleaning shampoos are usually cheap shampoos, with an incredible dilution rate, highly active and non degradable. The only way to find out if the products used by your local sofa cleaning contractor are eco-friendly, is to actually find out exactly what products they use and do online research.

How To Avoid Having Your Sofa Deep Cleaned With Harsh Chemicals

The first step should be to pay the fair price when you book a local sofa cleaning company and do not try to cut corners. As we have mentioned above, a good quality 100% eco-friendly or organic sofa cleaning shampoo costs usually 50% more than a low quality non eco-friendly product. Source a local sofa cleaning company that was used by someone that you know and comes highly recommended. You can also ask to see what types of sofa cleaning products your local contractor uses. A good quality contractor would have no problems showing you exactly what type of stain removers, shampoos or deodorisers that will be used on your sofas or carpets.

Pet Friendly Sofa Cleaning Shampoos

If you own pets, then you need to be very careful what type of sofa cleaning products are used to deep clean your sofa. Some harsh sofa cleaning shampoos are actually designed to be pet repellents as well. Your pet has a very sensitive nose and even if you do not feel the perfume that comes from your sofa, they will and then they will stay away from it. Some sofa and carpet cleaning products have specifications on the labels to make sure that the user understands that this product is or is not suitable for a pet.

Sofa Cleaning And Sofa Protectors

A sofa that gets exposed to a lot of daily usage and daily traffic is likely to get dirtier much faster than a sofa that is moderately used by a few people. For those people using their sofas more often or for those who are pet owners, we would highly recommend the use of sofa protectors. The protectors are eco-friendly and they will create a great barrier between the fibre of the sofa and the outside world. Whatever spill happens, it won`t be able to penetrate very deep. A sofa protector will not protect 100% but it will reduce the level of damage and it will give the owner some time to react and extract the spill. Without a protector, the fibre will fully absorb the spill and it will stain for good in some cases.

Best Sofa Cleaning Technologies

Most local sofa and carpet cleaning specialists either use hot water extraction sofa cleaning systems or dry sofa cleaning technologies. Both types are as efficient but are done with totally different tools. The most popular type of sofa cleaning system is the hot water extraction or sofa shampooing. This type of sofa cleaning technology will work very well, it will extract a lot of dirt and if used in conjunction with a great quality eco-friendly sofa cleaning shampoo, will have no impact on the environment. The second most popular sofa cleaning system is the dry sofa cleaning. Within this process a special foam will be used or a dry compound that will be brushed into the fiber of the sofa and then extracted out with powerful vacuums. There are some amazing eco-friendly dry foam shampoos available in Ireland right now.

It does not matter if you will go for a wet sofa shampooing or a dry sofa cleaning. Make sure to ask your contractor to use eco-friendly sofa cleaning products only.New