Furniture Cleaning Services

Furniture cleaning services in Dubai

Furniture in Dubai gets a harder time than furniture anywhere temperate. Sand gets indoors no matter how well the building is sealed and settles into fabric rather than on it. Air conditioning dries out leather and wood. Humidity works on everything else. Meanwhile most people vacuum the sofa cushions occasionally and consider the job done.

We’ve been cleaning homes across Dubai for nine years. Furniture we do on site, at your place, with the machines brought to you.

Upholstery cleaning in Dubai

Upholstery is where the real difference shows, because the dirt isn’t on the surface. It’s worked down into the foam by everyone who has ever sat there, and it stays.

Extraction is what gets it out. Solution goes into the fabric, then comes back out with the soil suspended in it, which is a different thing entirely from wiping or from a domestic spray-and-vac. Steam handles the sanitising side, killing what’s living in the fabric without soaking it.

The reason we test first is that upholstery fabric varies wildly. Velvet crushes and watermarks. Linen shrinks. Chenille flattens if you work it the wrong way. Synthetic blends handle almost anything. Guessing here is how a chair ends up with a pale patch you can see from across the room.

Anything fabric-covered is upholstery cleaning: armchairs, dining chairs, ottomans, benches, headboards, upholstered bed bases, window seats.

Chairs and armchairs

Priced by the seat, at AED 40 plus 5% VAT for chairs. What most people underestimate is dining chairs. Hands go on the top rail every meal, food goes on the seat, and the fabric there carries more than a sofa does per square centimetre. A set of eight cleaned together makes a bigger visible difference than almost any other job in the house.

Armchairs get the same treatment as sofa seating: back, arms, cushion, and the deck underneath where crumbs and coins live.

Furniture steam cleaning

Steam is the part of the process people actually ask for by name, and for a good reason. It sanitises with heat rather than chemistry, so it deals with bacteria and dust mites without adding anything to the fabric that has to come back out later.

It also uses very little water. That matters more here than in most climates, because upholstery left saturated in a humid apartment stays damp in the core for days and comes back smelling worse than it started.

Steam works on most upholstery. It’s not the answer for everything though: some silks and certain leathers get a dry method instead, and we decide that at the test stage.

Leather furniture cleaning

Leather needs cleaning and conditioning, in that order, and the second half is the one that gets left out.

Air conditioning pulls moisture out of leather continuously. Without conditioning it goes stiff and cracks along the fold lines, usually on the seat front and the arm tops first. Standard upholstery cleaner accelerates this, because it strips the oils that are still in there.

We clean with a leather-safe product and then recondition, so the hide stays flexible. On older pieces this can bring back a lot of the colour depth people assume is gone for good.

Wooden furniture cleaning and polishing

Dining tables, sideboards, cabinets, bed frames. Cleaned with something that won’t lift the finish, then polished to bring the depth back.

The three problems we see constantly in Dubai: water rings from glasses, heat marks from dishes set down without a mat, and uneven fading where one side of the piece faces a window. The first two usually come out. Sun fading depends on how far it’s gone.

Pet stains and odour

The mark and the smell are two separate problems, and only fixing one is why the smell comes back.

A pet accident soaks through the fabric into the foam beneath. Surface cleaning removes the visible stain and leaves the source, and then the first humid day brings it straight back. We treat down at the level where it actually is, which takes longer and works.

Mould on furniture

Turns up on pieces standing against an external wall, in guest rooms nobody opens, and on furniture stored over a summer. It’s removed and the surface treated, and we’ll check whether it’s gone into the foam.

Sometimes the answer is that a piece can’t be saved, and we’d rather say that than take money for a job that won’t hold.

Home and office furniture

Office furniture follows the same rules with harder use. Task chairs get eight hours of contact a day, five days a week, and reception seating is the first thing a visitor touches. Both are extracted rather than wiped, and both are usually scheduled outside working hours.

How often

Every six to twelve months for furniture in daily use. Sooner with pets, small children, or a home where the balcony door stays open. Dining chairs and task chairs need it more often than their appearance suggests, because the wear is even and you stop noticing it.

Areas we cover in Dubai

Business Bay, Downtown Dubai, Dubai Marina, JBR, Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Hills Estate, DIFC, Jumeirah Park, Al Barsha, JLT, JVC, Discovery Gardens, Arabian Ranches, DAMAC Hills, Al Warqa, Sports City, The Springs, The Greens and the rest of the city.