How to clean fabric office chairs

A fabric chair certainly represents a furnishing element particularly appreciated by those who love a style inspired by a retro design; thanks to their elegance and personality fabric chairs have never gone out of fashion and continue to attract many people and to have a considerable commercial success.

A fabric chair will be perfect to be placed in the context of a classic, elegant and refined salon, a veranda or even an outdoor space such as a garden or terrace, where you can enjoy the beautiful days of spring and summer. Sometimes it may happen that during a barbecue, an aperitif or a dinner, a fabric chair may get stained, or simply dirty due to the accumulation of dust inside the fabric.

Today we will give you the best advice and directions for cleaning fabric chairs, using tools that you will certainly have available in your home, following our advice you can give new life to your fabric chairs, bringing them to shine as in the period in which you bought them.

Fabric chair cleaning products

To clean a fabric chair, you will need the following products and tools: a microfibre cloth, baking soda, Marseille soap, a steamer and eucalyptus oil. You will also need a sprayer, a common wooden spoon, white vinegar, a hoover with a thin nozzle or alternatively a brush with soft bristles and finally some almond oil.

How to clean a fabric office chair

The first phase of cleaning an office fabric chair involves the use of a hoover: with the appliance you will have to vacuum and remove all the dust that has accumulated on the surface of the chair. In this phase, our advice is to use a thin nozzle to facilitate the dust extraction operations.

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As an alternative to the household appliance, you can use a brush with soft bristles for dust removal, which will not scrape and ruin the fabric of the chair. If you use the brush, take care to pass it over the surface, following the weft of the fabric.

Once you have removed all the dust, you will need to create a solution with which to clean the fabric itself. Add to lukewarm water, sweet almond oil with a spoonful of white vinegar; the latter will help the solution to act making the colours of the fabric of the chair particularly bright and brilliant. At this point you will have to mix the solution created with the help of a classic wooden kitchen spoon, until the mixture becomes homogeneous.

You can introduce the mixture into a sprayer; once you have sprayed it onto the fabric of the chair, spread it carefully, using the microfibre cloth. Finally, let the solution dry completely.

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Remove stubborn stains from the chair fabric

In case the fabric of your office chair is stained and the stains are particularly stubborn and difficult to remove, our advice is to buy some common Marseille soap.

Rub Marseille soap on the most stubborn stains of the fabric, after moistening it: press on the fabric with the soap, until a slight foam forms. After rubbing the surface, let it work for about 10, 15 minutes. Then rinse the surface with a damp cloth.

To ensure greater effectiveness of this treatment, you can use a few drops of eucalyptus oil, to be applied directly on the stain: eucalyptus oil is an ingredient that will have a degreasing action and will allow you to better remove the most stubborn and greasy stains. Eucalyptus oil is also a product able to release a pleasant clean smell.

Cleaning fabric chairs with steam

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For even more intensive cleaning of the fabric of your office chairs, you can use steam. To clean with the help of steam, you will need to use the steamer, or any type of instrument designed and manufactured to clean with steam emission at 100 degrees centigrade.

To the steam you can add fragrances and aromas, such as tea three oil for example. For even more effective results, you can combine the use of sodium bicarbonate: in this regard, you will have to pour the baking soda directly on the fabric of your chair, letting the product act for about 2, 3 hours.

After that, you will have to vacuum or brush the baking soda that has accumulated on the fabric. Our advice is to absolutely avoid the use of chemical products for the cleaning of your fabric chairs; such products could damage the surface of the fabric.

Finally, we would like to point out how important it is to buy an office chair, made with the help of quality fabric; only chairs made with first choice materials can be cleaned frequently, without the fabric losing its natural shine and brightness.

Our proposal of fabric chairs for the office

Tavolisedie.com, inside the catalogue section "High-quality office chairs at a good price", offers you some models of high quality office chairs made of first choice materials and fabrics.

Design models, extremely elegant, refined and perfect for the office context, such as Newport Schienale Imbottito: this is a perfect chair to be prepared in the context of an office, a professional studio or a waiting room; this model is also ideal for home furnishing.

And you can also choose to purchase the Portland Presidential Armchair model, with eco-leather upholstery and oscillating locking mechanism. Portland Presidential Armchair, for its elegance is perfect to complete the furnishing of a professional office.

For lovers of more modern and futuristic lines, Tavolisedie.com proposes the Presidential Armchair Cleveland model, with seat made of special breathable technical fabric; very interesting is the thrust tension adjustment system, with which this model is equipped. Continuing the examination of this section of the catalogue, you can discover the characteristics of all our models of office fabric chairs.