Sofa Cleaning Tips...

[Willopotomas]

Does anyone know of an effective way of getting the putrid stench of cigarette smoke out of a fabric sofa? Normally the covers would be washed, but they're non-removable.. Short of cutting them off and making new covers, I'm at a loss.. Fabreze (or whatever it's called) isn't working. Took delivery of a new (second hand) sofa this afternoon and it stinks like it's been in a house filled with ten 40-a-day'ers..

HELP!

[Aladinsaneuk]

baking soda

try it on a patch of fabric out of sight

sprinkle it on - leave for a couple of hours then vacuum off

if it does not stain then do whole sofa

[kneescratch]

baking soda

try it on a patch of fabric out of sight

sprinkle it on - leave for a couple of hours then vacuum off

if it does not stain then do whole sofa

If it works but does stain, then do the whole sofa anyway.............

[D-Rider]

Bake on regulo 5 for 30 mins ..... but if the baking soda has made it rise, you might struggle to fit it in the room .........

[Willopotomas]

No need to worry now.. It's going back to the shop it came from.

[Nooj]

This stuff's supposed to be pretty good on bike kit, so may well do wonders for smokers' and stinky-arsed type's furniture:

http://www.cyko.co.uk/index.php/bike-kit-deodoriser

According to my smelly mate who rides every day, the kit deoderiser does a good job on his wiffy kit. I've been trialling their bike cleaner and it's pretty fecking good stuff, so I'd expect this to work very well as well.

[Jadaris]

I like febreeze, everything in my house gets febreezed, have to restrain myself from febreezing Pete

[BikerGran]

Why restrain yourself?

[Nooj]

If you took away the evil smell, there'd be very little of him left