How To Clean Lightly Soiled Fabric Chairs

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You know those cleaning tasks that y'all just never seem to get around to? Well, that'south how things accept been with our kitchen and dining room chairs.

I know some of you volition call up that I am crazy for having upholstered chairs for our kitchen tabular array, but I beloved the await of them and the kids are {mostly!} by the ages of constantly spilling their milk or dropping their food. Since the chairs were slip covered, I causeless that I would be able to put them in the wash, just it turns out they are spot make clean only. I did treat them with a stain guard only they have actually been looking a little worse for wear over the past few months…

I am by and large pretty good near cleaning up whatsoever major nutrient spills that happen, simply the chairs were just looking really grungy – especially on the seat and beyond the elevation of the chair {I am assuming from grubby little hands pulling and pushing the chairs into the tables!} When my Mom started asking when I was going to buy new chairs, I figured that information technology was time to make cleaning them a little more of a priority. 😉

CLEANING SUPPLIES

dish soap
hydrogen peroxide {I like to add a spray superlative to my bottles to make information technology easier to apply. Brand sure y'all always go on it in the dark bottle though every bit information technology will intermission downward quickly when exposed to light}
HomeRight Steam Machine Plus {optional}
Microfiber cloths {I prefer the Norwex cloths}

CLEANING INSTRUCTIONS

Fill up a large bowl with hot water and a couple of drops of dish soap. {Annotation: Information technology is more important to use HOT water if y'all are not using a steam cleaner} Moisture down the microfiber fabric and wet the entire surface area that you would like to clean, giving it a quick scrub. You want this to be quite consistently wet throughout the area that you are cleaning. I did the full seat, back, and sides for all of our chairs so I basically covered the entire surface. If you are doing a smaller area, ensure that you don't have hard edges at the end of your moisture spot equally this could pb to water stains.
Generously spray any heavily soiled areas or stains with the hydrogen peroxide. Go out on for at to the lowest degree 10 minutes. I have used this safely on a number of dissimilar fabrics, but always spot check on the textile that yous are using.
Next information technology is time to steam make clean! I experimented with using the scrub brush and the microfiber cloth with the squeegee attachments. If you are only going for an overall clean or accept a more delicate fabric, I would become with the microfiber cloth option; however, I preferred to use the scrub brush over the more soiled areas and found that it worked better to clean the corners every bit well. Even with the cloth though, I was able to go a lot of extra dirt up…

Run the steam cleaner over the cloth in a grid like manner until all the areas of the chair are covered. Spend extra time on the heavily soiled areas and scrub equally needed using either the scrub brush or the microfiber pad.
If you do not have a steam cleaner, yous will demand to utilize a little extra man ability and give the chair a skillful scrub with the microfiber cloth and water/dish lather mixture. If whatever stains remain, give it another go with the hydrogen peroxide and scrub again.
Let dry and you will have a brand new chair! I was really surprised at how well they came out!

To keep them looking new {and brand them easier to clean in the hereafter}, spray with a stain baby-sit handling that you can selection upwards at any habitation supply store. It's worth the actress $10 or and then!

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