Cleaning your Upholstery
To clean the complete item please contacts a professional upholstery dry cleaner. Make sure they use perchlorethylene in the cleaning process.
Advice on Stain Removal:
Very important: please read these notes with great care.
As a general rule it is usually very helpful to consult an upholstery dry cleaner if in the slightest doubt. The following advice can only be of a general nature. The Harmony company cannot accept any responsibility for any damage that may be done during an attempt to remove stains from covers of our manufacture.
Before proceeding to tackle the stain itself, it is always advisable to try out the proposed course of action on a part of the cover which does not show.
Avoid tackling particularly difficult cases such as:
Indelible inks, hair dye, glue, paint, varnish etc or stain which cover a large area.
Do not forget that a stain that has been treated by yourself but which has not been removed may have been made more difficult to remove even by your professional dry cleaner.
Certain products (bleach, Milton etc) are very effective for the removal of stains, which means they are also very effective at removing printed patterns, dyes, etc!
In the case of velvets and printed woven fabrics, spot treatment is not advised (as it may attack the printed motif itself). An in-situ all over cleaning or dry cleaning by a professional is preferable. We cannot possibly cover all eventualities with these notes!
Type of stain – suggested treatment
Alcoholic drinks
Moisten with a solution of water and alcohol. Do not soak the material, but moisten it and then dry it again by absorption using a dry cloth. Your last application should be with pure water rather than the above solution.
Candle wax
After the wax has hardened, bend the fabric in order to break the wax into small pieces and remove those which become easily detached. Then using a cool iron place a piece of blotting paper between the iron and the fabric.
Coffee
Treat with a solution of water and white vinegar.
Chewing gum
Place an ice cube beneath the chewing gum pulling the fabric tight over it.
Scrape the gum with your nail. If any piece remains stuck treat the stain with trichloroethylene.
Wax
Same as for candle wax.
Fabric glue
Treat with a mild solution of hot water and ammonia.
Fruit
Moisten with a solution of water and alcohol and add a drop or two of diluted white vinegar.
Grease (oil, butter etc)
Such a stain can be removed by means of a mineral essence or trichloroethylene. Cover with an absorbent powder, brush and vacuum clean.
Milk
Brush to remove superficial dry particles. Then treat with a cold solution of water and ammonia. Get the stain moving by means of the edge of an ordinary piece of soap. Rinse after application.
Egg
Same treatment as for milk.
Blood
Same treatment as for milk and egg.
Sugar Syrup
Rinse with warm water.
Red Wine
Same treatment as for coffee.
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