Hi all,
i have a suite (settee and an armchair) which is about 5 years old. It
lives in a pet free/smoke free home and the house is always kept very
tidy by my main squeeze. The suite is made of a heavy fabric which is
kind of white/cream coloured and has a light pattern which is a
slightly raised profile rather than a print. Its still pretty clean
but the high contact areas such as arms have taken on a very slight
greyish tinge. It was treated with scotchguard when it was new by the
manufacturers (DFS). Can anyone suggest a good home use product for
effective cleaning?

ta

joe



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tarquinlinbin wrote:

> Hi all,
> i have a suite (settee and an armchair) which is about 5 years old. It
> lives in a pet free/smoke free home and the house is always kept very
> tidy by my main squeeze. 


You have multiple squeezes? ;-)

 > The suite is made of a heavy fabric which is

> kind of white/cream coloured and has a light pattern which is a
> slightly raised profile rather than a print. Its still pretty clean
> but the high contact areas such as arms have taken on a very slight
> greyish tinge. It was treated with scotchguard when it was new by the
> manufacturers (DFS). Can anyone suggest a good home use product for
> effective cleaning?


Scotchguard should hopefully stop the dirt sticking to the fabric. If 
you can remove the covers, do so and follow the washing instructions.

If the covers are not removable then I have seen the little hand-held 
wash/sucker on a Vax produce impressive results.

Any chemicals might remove the Scotchguard.

Owain

On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:02:45 +0100, tarquinlinbin
 wrote:


>Hi all,
>i have a suite (settee and an armchair) which is about 5 years old. It
>lives in a pet free/smoke free home and the house is always kept very
>tidy by my main squeeze. The suite is made of a heavy fabric which is
>kind of white/cream coloured and has a light pattern which is a
>slightly raised profile rather than a print. Its still pretty clean
>but the high contact areas such as arms have taken on a very slight
>greyish tinge. It was treated with scotchguard when it was new by the
>manufacturers (DFS). Can anyone suggest a good home use product for
>effective cleaning?


It possibly hasn't been treated at all.

Some sofa shops (Not naming names..)  sell 'stain protection' which
amounts to nothing more than an extended warantee-no fabric treatment
is involved.

All they do is pay up in the unlikely event a stain that is covered in
the T&Cs can't be removed. (There are loads and loads of stains that
are excluded)

Did your sofa come with an official Scotchguard certificate? If not it
probably hasn't been treated at all.

If it has been treated with Scotchguard the marks will be very easily
removed.

sponix

On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:44:52 GMT, wibble@email.com (s--p--o--n--i--x)
wrote:


>On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:02:45 +0100, tarquinlinbin
> wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>i have a suite (settee and an armchair) which is about 5 years old. It
>>lives in a pet free/smoke free home and the house is always kept very
>>tidy by my main squeeze. The suite is made of a heavy fabric which is
>>kind of white/cream coloured and has a light pattern which is a
>>slightly raised profile rather than a print. Its still pretty clean
>>but the high contact areas such as arms have taken on a very slight
>>greyish tinge. It was treated with scotchguard when it was new by the
>>manufacturers (DFS). Can anyone suggest a good home use product for
>>effective cleaning?
>
>It possibly hasn't been treated at all.
>
>Some sofa shops (Not naming names..)  sell 'stain protection' which
>amounts to nothing more than an extended warantee-no fabric treatment
>is involved.
>
>All they do is pay up in the unlikely event a stain that is covered in
>the T&Cs can't be removed. (There are loads and loads of stains that
>are excluded)
>
>Did your sofa come with an official Scotchguard certificate? If not it
>probably hasn't been treated at all.
>
>If it has been treated with Scotchguard the marks will be very easily
>removed.
>
>sponix

Yes,i expect there are lots of fiddles that go on. Checked my
paperwork and i am in possession of an official scotchgurad cert. Of
course they still might not have done it and just issued a cert!.
Doubt whether DFS would risk their reputation though!



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