Adding a boost to clean Upholstery

[WillH]

can you add a boost to the prespray when cleaning upholstery?.

 

[Pat Muller]

You can but be careful of the fabric
High pH can cause issues with many fibers

 

[Desk Jockey]

can you add a boost to the prespray when cleaning upholstery?.

To cut oil? Standard care or Special care fabric?

Citrus Booster could work as long you rinse well. Test the colors just incase, before applying over all.

Remember upholstery isn't carpet a little will go a long way. Agitate with horsehair brush, rinse, terry towel dry.

 

[Jim Pemberton]

Most boosters are either solvent boosters or oxidizers.

Solvent boosters help to cut oily soils without changing pH. But they also increase the wetting/penetrating qualities of your prespray, and can end up causing your preconditioning solution through the fabric and into areas where a dry tool can't rinse it out.

That might contribute to bleeding, ink marker bleed through, water stains, etc.

Oxidizing boosters whiten whites and brighten colors. They can help make gray or brown pale background colors turn white again. Some have a moderately alkaline pH, and most can over whiten off white fabrics.

Use both with care and make sure you understand what you are working on.

 

[Mikey P]

Skip the booster and scrub more.

Tuway double striped mitts are my fave but sometimes a Makita is what you need

 

[WillH]

Thanks

 

[KevinD]

Tuway double striped mitts are my fave

Got a source?

 

[steve_64]

I need a boost to clean upholstery.

Ok it's a generic boost.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Got a source?

https://interlinksupply.com/index.php?item_num=AC93

The thing to consider is, how delicate is the fabric I'm cleaning? If it will clean better with aggressive agitation but damage the hand, texture or feel of the piece, you're better being cautious.

If you talking heculon plastic family room furnishings, the aggressive may be what is needed.

What you want to be sure you do is apply only what is needed to get the job done. Unlike carpet, upholstery can be unforgiving. Go too far and you can't correct it, you buy it.

 

[Lavon]

I wouldn't use any booster on upholstery all upholstery is different and it could stain or make a weird color on the upholstery I will stick to regular organic cleaner to be safe

 

[Jim Morrison]

We have pretty good luck with a trigger sprayer full of releasit DS diluted 1-20 for the trouble spots rather than boosting the whole container of prespray. Scrub with a brush or terry towel.

 

[Mikey P]

We have pretty good luck with a trigger sprayer full of releasit DS diluted 1-20 for the trouble spots rather than boosting the whole container of prespray. Scrub with a brush or terry towel.

Same, and some Fels when it's real bad.

 

[GeeeAus]

On microfiber I'll drop an atom bomb.

Spray it with my pH 10 carpet pre-spray and overspray the bad areas with my pH 12 ammonia-based protein spotter. Always works.

 

[SamIam]

On microfiber I'll drop an atom bomb.

Spray it with my pH 10 carpet pre-spray and overspray the bad areas with my pH 12 ammonia-based protein spotter. Always works.

It's the ammonia base spotter getting it done.

I mostly see micro fiber too. I'll use Cobbs upholstery pre spray.

It's got sudsy ammonia, I'll use the mitt to scrub, I also use a citrus degreaser hit it and scrub and also rub some Fels if necessary.

Most fabric usually pre spray light agitation and rinse.

 

[SamIam]

Also like @GeneMiller used to say get the water flowing on your tool so it heats up.

To often its spray vac, spray vac.

If you can keep the water flowing and build heat that will cut through some grunge to.