[Summit] upholstery cleaning query

Tue Oct 5 23:51:43 UTC 2010

I don't have personal experience with upholstery cleaning,
but I can tell you you need to be VERY careful about
what products are used.  Also, it is normally carpet
cleaning services that do upholstery as well.

i did a quick search and came up with the following
information.and three carpet/upholstery cleaners
that service Providence and claim to use "green",
less toxic means.

Blessings,

Liberty G
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1.  First, what are the concerns?

Chemicals
in the Carpet Cleaning Industry

The carpet cleaning industry is
notorious for using harsh and toxic chemicals. We have visited homes where the
owners claimed that carpet cleaning chemicals from a previous owner were
causing them health problems. We can't verify that these claims are true, but
we can tell you what you'll find in carpet cleaning solutions. 

Many of the "steam cleaners"
use petroleum based solvents in the hot water solution that they inject
into the carpet. These have been implicated in skin rashes, asthma, and also
cancer. These same solutions can also contain glycol ethers which have
been implicated in anemia and birth defects. These solutions are labelled and
marketed as being "safe" because they pass certain industry or
government standards which allow these chemicals to be used in low
concentration. 

If you have your rugs dry cleaned or
send them to the rug store to be factory cleaned, chances are high that PERC
(percholorethylene) will be used to clean them. PERC has been shown to cause
liver and kidney damage as well as cancer in laboratory animals after prolonged
exposure. 

Most carpet and fiber protectants, such
as the famous name guard spray, contain petroleum based solvents and are
toxic.  Other chemicals in which can be
found in carpet cleaning products include dichloromethane, polymerized 2,5
furandione, styrene maleicanhydride, perfluoro alkyl acryl acetate,
perfluoroalkyl sodium tripoly phosphate, and 2-butoxyethanol amyl acetate. 

2.  Hee are the three places I found.

GREEN HOMES CARPET
CLEANING  774-571-1973

www.greenhomescarpetcleaning.com/upholstery-cleaning.html

Green Homes
Carpet Cleaning orders the MSDS (material safety data sheet) for every reagent
that we use.  We bring these into your
home or business in a binder when we come to clean.  You are free to browse through it. Any hazardous or potentially
hazardous chemical in a product has to be listed on this sheet. We choose only
reagents that are rated 0 or 1 on the MSDS health hazard scale.
The scale goes like this: 0=minimal, 1=slight, 2=moderate, 3=serious, 4=severe.
You can find cleaners on the supermarket shelf which are rated 2, 3 and 4.  We also highly favor products that are
completely biodegradable. We can't claim that all of our cleaners are
"natural", meaning not made in a laboratory.  We decided to concentrate on finding
cleaners that are non-toxic and biodegradable instead. These are
the key factors that make our cleaners harmless to you and the environment.  Seeking only "natural" products
might not achieve this and might also sacrifice cleaning effectiveness. 

We will
always tell you what cleaner we plan to use at your home or job site before we
begin work to make sure that you approve. We are always looking for effective
0-rated cleaning reagents to improve our arsenal of cleaners. If you have one
to suggest, and it has awesome cleaning power, let us know about it! Many
products which use words like "safe" and "eco-friendly" on
the labels are proven unacceptable once we take a look at the MSDS. Once in a
while, it goes the other way too.  We
have found great MSDS profiles for some products that don't bother to make a
claim about safety.

DREAM CARPETS INC.

Tiverton,
RI  02878 Toll Free:
1-866-741-8400, info at mydreamcarpets.com   

HOURS:   M-F 9am - 7pm & Sat  10am - 5pm

www.mydreamcarpets.com/carpet_cleaning.htm

We
use Green Seal approved chemicals which are soap free, odor free,
hypo-allergenic, biodegradable, no-toxic with no VOC’s and no off-gassing. Made
with all natural ingredients and are the safest on the market today

SMART CARPET CLEANING

401-450-0573*PO
Box 836, Newport, RI 02840

www.servicemagic.com/rated.SmartCarpetCleaning.16898082.html

Green sealed Certified using
only Eco friendly-non toxic solutions to safe guard your family & pets.

--- On Tue, 10/5/10, Hapfra at aol.com <Hapfra at aol.com> wrote:

From: Hapfra at aol.com <Hapfra at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [Summit] upholstery cleaning query
To: egrossman1 at cox.net
Cc: summit at sna.providence.ri.us
Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 3:33 PM

have you asked Nanda---over at Nanda Interiors----she seems to be 
quite resourceful--and a nice person to deal with.  Good 
Luck

In a message dated 10/5/2010 3:26:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
egrossman1 at cox.net writes:
I have 
  an upholstered armchair that I have resolved to have cleaned.   

Has anyone had a good experience in this department that you would  

recommend? Thanks Elizabeth
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