We own storage units and when someone doesn't pay - they're stuff is gotten rid of....however, this time, there is a pretty decent leather set but the sofa is severely worn and stained. I was wanting to try to clean it up....any suggestions would be helpful! Thanks!!
Get it cleaned professionally. It's hard manual labour and you'll hate doing it so much that you'll never like the sofa...
THere are certian products that you can get at the store for it just look around maybe at walmart or something in the car isle. Hope this helps
we being like pirates..... we gots a leather treasure!!!!!! LOL..... go to a furniture or leather shop and let them know about the dirty couch and ask them on how to clean it!! they will sell you a good leather cleaning prouduct and BOOM go home and clean it up!!!
Good leather cleaners are available at both saddle shops and stores where there are a lot of shoe maintenance supplies (like a drugstore). It might be cheaper to find a saddle supply (My thinking is: saddles are bigger than shoes so the container amounts might be larger). Usually you start with a saddle soap or leather cleaner and work it in with clean rags and wipe off the excess, then you use some kind of conditioner like mink oil, which is also a paste that you work in and helps protect the leather from moisture, keeps it from getting brittle, and gives it a nice luster. If the cleaner doesn't take care of the stains you might try dye... carefully!... before you apply the mink oil. I saw in a magazine once that a guy dumpster dived two leather sofas. They were red when he got them and the leather was in poor condition, so he took extra fine steel wool and black Rit dye and worked the dye into the leather with the steel wool, wiped off the excess, and then put mink oil over that. The sofas were gorgeous! They looked like new, $5000 sofas! At least! But if you try this, i would explore more carefully and perhaps do a test spot with very diluted dye and some place on the sofa that won't show as much like the lower back. good luck!
