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Posted by: tinakimmens on: May 13, 2008

10 Upholstery Cleaning Tips To Keep Your Upholstery Look New

Here are few simple tips on keep your upholstery look new.

• To remove pen marks of marker pens from your upholstery, use hairspray on the affected area. Then rub it with some soft cloth.
• To remove candle wax from your wooden upholstery, use a blot paper and iron. Cover the wax area with the paper, some times tissue paper also helps, then iron on the paper. Melted wax will be soaked by the paper.
• Use mayonnaise to remove the ring marks from water pots on your wooden furniture. Apply mayonnaise on the ring, keep it for some long time, then get it rubbed gently with a soft cloth. Give the furniture a polish on that surface.
• While cleaning upholstery, always start from the top of your furniture, then eventually to come down of it.
• To get sticker residue off from your upholstery, get a piece of cloth dipped into alcohol and then rub on the residue.
• There are some chewing gums that stick with the furniture making it uneasy to go off or remove. Let this gum harden fast with the use of hair dryer or ice, once the chewing gum gets hard enough, just scratch it from the bottom. Give the surface a polish.
• The most economical way to give your furniture a polish, is mixing vinegar and water to make a solvent and then to wipe the entire surface of the furniture. It will shine!
• Wooden furniture if got some scratch mark looks bad. You can apply the children crayon of similar color on the scratch and then give it some finishing or polish.
• To keep odors away from your upholstery, keep some baking soda for few days. You will get the result immediately. It is one of the most common problems everybody faces and it has one of the simplest solutions.
• To give a polish, always use vinegar!

Keeping upholstery clean just take a little knowledge and it will look new for year and with people wanting used upholstery more these days Upholstery Cleaning is worth effort as it will add value when you want to change to the price you get

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