So, today, my customer asked me to clean her recliner. OK, I look at it, and see it is olefin velvet. (Yeah, they DO make olefin velvet.)

Not too soiled, I would put it at average soil. Well, I am gonna encap her carpet (off white nylon plush), so I am gonna try it on the chair, since it is olefin. If it did not turn out OK, then I will steam clean it.

I get out my furniture roto (a 6 inch diameter U S Products machine) spray the chair, and since the center of a 17 inch diameter Fiber Plus pad core came out, I am gonna try that. The center core is about 3 inches diameter, and fits on my furniture roto in the center.

Hey!! It worked!! However, since it did not reach the edges because it is a 3 inch pad, I got out one of my regular furniture bonnets which are 6 inches diameter, and went over it where the 3 inchers did not go, then just for fun, went back over the areas cleaned with the 3 incher to see if I would get mnore dirt, and yep, I did get a tiny bit more dirt. The chair looked like new!!

Took me about 5 minutes total time!!

I am gonna do this again!!

Gary

Gary,
Were did you get the 6" matchine, is there a website to look at one ? sounds like a handy thing to have my arsonal of equipment.

Jeff

Gary you need to start takeing pics !! I think alot of us here could learn even more with visuals, what do you think?

p.s. would you consider this just treating the sofa rather then cleaning it? Don't get me wrong alot of times that is probably fine for most but since hardly anyone ever vacuums their furniture how clean besides image wise to believe you made the chair?

Regards
Chris Lawless

The machine is a U S Products furniture and stair shampoo/bonnet machine, made for the purpose.

I do have some photos of other similar jobs, but not up on my web site yet. Yesterday, I did not have my camera with me, but I do wish I had. Anyway, the chair was not too heavily soiled, I would say average soils. Olefin velvet cleans easily with most any process- I have steam cleaned lots of them, shampooed lots, bonnetted lots, and the average time to clean runs 35 to 45 minutes, so this encapping process was a LOT quicker, and the final results were as good as any other method of cleaning.

Gary

I encap a lot of furniture. A bucket, a horsehair shoe brush and a good hand held vac will do the trick on most synthetics.


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And a big YAAA HAAA HAAA!!! I did it again today!! More olefin velvet. ZOOOMMM!!! $200 per hour!! I love it!!!

Gary

hope this bumped!


BAHHHHHH it didnt, nevermind