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Ten services, each with its own method

Fabric fails differently from leather, and velvet fails differently from both. These pages explain what actually goes wrong with each material, what we do about it, and what it costs.

How we clean

Seven steps, in this order, every time

The order is the method. Most of what goes wrong in this trade — patchiness, browning, shrinkage, a smell that comes back — comes from skipping a step or doing two of them the wrong way round.

  1. 01

    Fibre test before anything else

    We check the cleaning code, identify the fibre and test colourfastness on a hidden seam. This is the step that decides the method — and the step that prevents shrinkage, dye bleed and crushed pile.

  2. 02

    Dry soil removal

    A HEPA-filtered vacuum lifts the grit, hair and dust sitting at the base of the pile. Skip it and water turns that grit into mud and drives it deeper. Most of the weight we remove comes out at this stage, dry.

  3. 03

    Pre-spray and dwell

    An alkaline pre-spray breaks the bond between oily soil and the fibre. It needs time to work — usually eight to ten minutes. Rushing the dwell is why a fast clean looks fine wet and disappointing dry.

  4. 04

    Agitation

    Soft-brush or hand-tool agitation gets the solution through the full depth of the fibre and loosens what the pre-spray has released. Gentle on velvet and wool, firmer on polypropylene and heavy traffic lanes.

  5. 05

    Hot water extraction

    High-temperature rinse in, dirty solution straight back out. We put in the least moisture that will do the job and recover far more than we put in, because over-wetting causes browning, shrinkage and slow drying.

  6. 06

    Spot and odour work

    Anything still visible gets its own treatment matched to the stain type — tannin, protein, dye or oil. Odour is treated at the source with an enzyme, not covered with fragrance.

  7. 07

    Groom and dry

    The pile is groomed so it dries in one direction and the tone stays even. Air movers cut drying to a fraction of the time. Upholstery is usually dry in three to five hours, carpet in two to four.

  8. If a fabric cannot be cleaned safely, we say so on the doorstep and do not charge you.

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Every service, in every area we cover

Pricing is the same across Greater London. The borough pages cover the local practicalities — parking, building access, housing stock and how quickly things dry.

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