Grandfather's way of cleaning a sofa using soda and vinegar

If there are no suitable chemicals in the house, you can clean the sofa with soda, vinegar or a mixture of these substances. Bicarbonate perfectly absorbs odors, and acetic acid removes even the most persistent and obsolete contaminants.

General cleaning recommendations

Various materials are used for upholstery of upholstered furniture, each of which has its own properties and requires certain care rules. Suitable products for cleaning coarse cotton, matting or jacquard are not suitable for silk, flock or leatherette.

Getting started, it is necessary to test the selected cleaning composition in a small area of ​​the material in an inconspicuous place.

Soda is considered a gentle cleaning agent, but in combination with vinegar, it can forever spoil the appearance of the sofa. The fabric will change color and texture, whitish spots will appear. Particular care should be taken when processing coatings made of silk, velor, leather.

Here are the main rules for cleaning at home:

• Carefully remove dust from the surface of the material with a vacuum cleaner. Wipe leather and wood inserts with a damp cloth. Dried dirt is cleaned with a cloth brush.
• Wet cleaning of upholstered furniture is carried out with care, being careful not to wet the sofa filler. To do this, moisten the sponge in a soapy solution, wring it out and only then touch the upholstery.
• If the filler is still very wet, in order to avoid the formation of fungus, remove the sofa cushion and dry it. To do this, wet the surface with a dry towel or paper towel, use a fan or hairdryer. The main thing is that the fabric does not deteriorate, do not dry the furniture under a stream of hot air and do not expose it to the sun.
• After processing the sofa, soda powder must be removed completely, without residue. The fabric can be vacuumed or brushed. The remaining particles of soda quickly absorb moisture from the air, the matter in this place sticks and quickly becomes contaminated.

Shaggy materials such as velor, flock, velvet require careful handling. They are cleaned with a soft sponge or brush, and vacuum cleaned with a nozzle without bristles.

How to clean a sofa with soda?

Regular baking soda will return the upholstery of the sofa or chair to a bright color, help to clean stains from tea, coffee, juice and ink, and remove grease.

• Dry clean.

A piece of material that needs to be cleaned, or the entire surface of the sofa is sprinkled with baking soda. After an hour, the powder particles are brushed off with a dry brush or vacuum cleaned.

• Soda gruel.

To prepare a cleaning agent, 50 ml of water are added to 50 g of bicarbonate and the ingredients are mixed until a slurry is obtained. The mixture is evenly distributed over the surface of the sofa, rubbing with a soft brush into the structure of the material, and left for one hour to dry. Then the remains of soda powder are cleaned with a vacuum cleaner.

• Solution.

This method is suitable only for water-repellent fabrics. To prepare a solution, 2 tbsp. Are dissolved in 1 liter of water. l bicarbonate. Using a spray gun, the mixture is sprayed on the upholstery. After the surface of the sofa is completely dry, it must be vacuumed.

If the first time it was not possible to obtain the desired result and spots and dirt are still visible on the couch, the procedure should be repeated.

Vinegar cleaning

Vinegar is an inexpensive and effective cleaning product that every housewife will find in the kitchen.By itself, without soda, it has a delicate effect on the material and is usually used for everyday preventative cleaning of furniture. With the help of vinegar, it is easy to eliminate jammed and greasy spots, to restore the brightness of the colors of the textile upholstery.

To prepare a cleaning solution, you need to pour 1 teaspoon of 70% vinegar (essence) into a liter container with water. Now you can wet a sponge or a piece of cotton cloth in the resulting solution and wipe the contaminated surface.

A combination of soda and vinegar

A combination of soda and vinegar will cope with stained blood and fat stains, and will help rid upholstered furniture of the smell of cat urine.

A cleaning solution is prepared from the following ingredients:

• vinegar 9% - 150 ml;
• soda - 1 tbsp. l .;
• warm water - 1/2 l;
• Fairy detergent - 1 tsp.

The above substances are combined in one container, and soda is added last, as the mixture from it will foam very much, and mix. The solution is applied to the sofa upholstery using a spray or a sponge. The most polluted places are brushed off. At the end of the work, dirty foam is carefully collected with a sponge and wiped with a clean, damp cloth.

Refreshing cleaning

If the furniture got dusty during the repair or just looks stale, because it has been standing in the barn for a long time, a refreshing treatment with soda and vinegar will help. It will restore the bright color of the upholstery material, eliminate odors, soften the pile.

The work is carried out as follows:

1. Soda solution (1 tbsp. L. Powder per 1 l. Of water) is used to spray the sofa surface with a spray gun.
2. After the upholstery has dried, the furniture is vacuumed.
3. Now the vinegar solution is applied in the same way (1 tbsp. 9% vinegar per 1 liter of water).
4. After a few minutes, clean the surface of the sofa with a medium-hard brush.

To weather the smell of vinegar from the room, it is necessary to carry out cleaning with open windows or windows.

How to remove unpleasant odor from the upholstery?

Pet owners know how difficult it is to get rid of the traces and smell of urine accidentally left by their pets on an armchair or sofa. Fragrances and ordinary detergents in this situation will not help, because they do not eliminate the source of the smell, but only mask the "smell". Vinegar will help to cope with the problem:

1. in a glass of water dissolve 2 tbsp. l 9% acetic acid;
2. add 1 tsp. lemon juice;
3. impregnate a sheet with this composition;
4. impose it on the upholstery in the place of pollution;
5. so that the substance penetrates deeper into the structure of the material, the sheet in the fetid place is pressed harder by the hand to the upholstery;
6. after 5-10 minutes, the sheet is removed, and the contaminated area is wiped with a dry cloth.

To achieve one hundred percent result, it is better to repeat this procedure several times.

With such simple improvised means as soda and vinegar, you can refresh the sofa upholstery and rid upholstered furniture of various pollution and unpleasant odors. The main thing is not to overdo it with these cleaning products, because both soda and vinegar in themselves can change the color of the upholstery and destroy the structure of the material. When wet cleaning, do not wet the sofa heavily - protect the filler from getting wet.