Protect your fabric and leather so you don’t end up needing reupholstery services

Think about a condition an upholsterer team did your furniture’s upholstery repair and now your furniture is ready to use. Everything is ok and you can start using the furniture and enjoying life. However, not everything is like what you see. You need some protection to make your furniture last longer and be like its first day even after a while. In this article, we will discuss the ways to protect upholstery repair fabric against being damaged or ruined.

Slipcover, the best way you can choose

When talking about protecting upholstered furniture’s upholstery fabric, the first thing that comes to mind is to use slipcover. This way is the simplest and maybe the fastest one. You can buy pieces of textiles and use them in this respect. The only thing you need to do is to put the new fabric and textile on the furniture, a piece of cake!

By doing so, any problems will happen to the newly added fabric and not to the upholstery repair fabric.

Instead of slipcovers, you can also use blankets. There are blankets in each house, which are normally spare and not useful. These products can be a lifesaver for your furniture.

when you need fabrics as slipcovers, you can always count on your upholsterer team to provide you with the most suitable fabrics.

The main feature of these fabrics is to be washable. These fabrics are damaged instead of the upholstery repair fabric and they get dirty instead of the main fabric. Therefore, slipcovers should be washable to get rid of the dirt. Being machine-washable is another great feature of slipcovers, which can increase their popularity. One more feature of slipcovers can be their softness. Maybe in many cases, without taking off slipcovers, the upholstered furniture can be used. In these cases, slipcovers need to be soft to make the user comfortable.

Protection sprays, another option

There are a couple of sprays in the market that can be used on upholstered furniture to increase the fabric’s durability against damaging things such as different kinds of liquids.

This way, as mentioned, is a protection way and can be used. However, that is a very recommended method. These sprays are called stain-resistant upholstery protection sprays.

There are a couple of reasons that we never recommend this method. First, they are chemical sprays and can be harmful to the environment. The second reason is that because they are chemical products, they can chemically damage the upholstery coverings.

For instance, these sprays may damage the textiles of your furniture’s upholstery repair fabric. Consequently, the appearance of your furniture will be bad and not joyful. Additionally, the furniture’s comfort may also be affected negatively.

The mentioned sprays can contain acetone, aliphatic hydrocarbons, and fluorochemical urethane. The main functionality of these sprays is to avoid liquids getting into the fabric and affecting its colour and textiles. Using these sprays, different liquids spilt on upholstery fabric but did not penetrate.

One of the disadvantages of these sprays is that they contain different bioaccumulating man-made substances, as mentioned earlier, and these chemicals are not produced naturally in nature and can affect nature badly.

Performance upholstery fabric, the last method

Some fabrics are performance-based and can be used to protect upholstery repair fabrics. In this respect, there are many fabrics but none of them are exactly like the other ones. Many of these fabrics are covered by stain-resistant upholstery protection chemicals. As mentioned earlier, these chemicals have a set of drawbacks. Hence, whenever you wanted to buy performance upholstery fabric, you need to know whether they contain the mentioned chemicals. However, some other fabrics made by companies are not using chemical sprays and should be better to protect upholstery repair fabrics of furniture.

Cleaners as post protectors

When you could not protect the upholstery repair fabric of your furniture and now your furniture is dirty, you need ways to get rid of the dirt. Here is the time for cleaners. The vacuum cleaner may be the first cleaner that comes to mind. It is a useful method you can use to clean the dirt. However, be careful not to put too much pressure on the cleaner when you clean the furniture using a vacuum cleaner. Otherwise, not only you cannot clean the furniture, but you may also damage the furniture.

As for other cleaners, you can count on white vinegar as a natural cleaner. The combination of white vinegar and dish soap is a powerful cleaner and disinfector. To use this combination, you need to have two cups of distilled water, one tablespoon of dishwashing liquid, and one tablespoon of white vinegar. After combining these, magic happens! This combination is a great cleaner for, especially pet urine.

At last, it is worth mentioning that in some cases, when the situation gets even worse, you need to call expert people to solve your upholstery repair-related problems. Limitless upholstery team is here for your service and can do the best for you to make your upholstery repair tasks as well as possible. Furthermore, in case of having questions, you can call our professional experts to get your answers in the shortest time possible.