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While your sofa is the perfect place to relax and unwind, many of us forget it requires regular cleaning, as it collects everything from our dead skin cells to leftover crumbs of food.
Depending on how dirty your sofa gets, you should ideally have it cleaned once every few months.
Here are some top tips from cleaning experts at handy, the platform for connecting people who need home services with top-quality, pre-screened independent cleaners and handymen.
Sofa material
The first thing you must do before you start cleaning your sofa is identify the material, which can be anything from linen to leather.
The material is usually displayed on the tag, accompanied by the following signs, which tell you the various ways in which you can and can’t clean your sofa:
W – means you can wash the sofa with water
X – you can only use a vacuum cleaner
SW – you can use water, or solvent cleaner if you prefer
S – the sofa can only be cleaned with solvent cleaner