Car seats
Overview
Let’s face it, car seats have a really hard life!
Daily use, kids, pets, food & drink spills, sweat and body oils - these build up over the months and years.
Dust and soiling, skin cells, hair, clothing fibres, bacteria, dust mites, bits of dead bugs, soil particles, pollen, and microscopic specks of plastic - all these are in our cars (especially busy Tradie or family vehicles!).
Our clothing & towels are laundered regularly to keep them clean, but our car seat upholstery isn’t! Though it’s subjected to the same rigours of general life.
Regular vacuuming of your car seats will always help remove some of these particles, however over time, this build up of particles mixes with other elements like skin oils from ourselves and our pets, and it forms a bond with the fabric fibres that can’t be removed by simple vacuuming.
When the build-up becomes too much for the vacuum to remove, professional upholstery cleaning and extraction is the only way to restore them back to a clean, fresh and hygienic state.
Pricing.
Current 24’ pricing.
85
Fabric car seat cleaning.
Any size car - all seats deep cleaned for just 85.
85 60*
Second car add-on.
Add on your second car - all seats deep cleaned for just 60.
*Add-on service.
40 25*
Add-on child’s car seat or pram*.
Add-on a clean of your child’s car seat or pram for just 25/seat.
*Add-on service.
Chemistry
Car seat upholstery cleaning, like all cleaning, is a matter of simple chemistry.
The dirt & soiling clings to the fabric fibres with a bond that is slightly acidic in nature. Our process, in a nutshell, is to use a cleaning detergent that is slightly alkaline in its pH value. This simple alkali detergent, when used on the fabric will help soften the dirts acidic bond.
This then allows us to gently rinse, flush and extract the dirt and soiling from the fibres using our specialist cleaning machines, leaving them fresh, clean and hygienic.
Our process
Brush & Vac
We brush using a specialist fabric brush. This helps loosen dirt, hair, soiling and dried-on elements (food/drink etc).
Pre-spray
Remember the chemistry? A cleaning detergent with that slight alkali pH value is misted onto the fabric. This is allowed to dwell for around 4-5 minutes in order to do its work and loosen the dirt.
The detergent gently breaks down the dirt and dusts bond with the fabric fibres, and holds it suspended - ready for extraction.
Spotting & Agitation
Stubborn areas may require additional attention - slightly different detergents may be used to assist in breaking down certain areas. Simple agitation using our brush also assists in preparing these areas for extraction.
Rinse & Extract
We use a commercial cleaning machine and a technique called Hot Water Extraction to flush and rinse the fabric fibres. We spray pressurised clean, hot water onto the fabric to rinse the fibres clean - whilst simultaneously extracting the dirty water into a waste tank on the machine.
A number of passes may be used in order to remove as much soiling as possible, and to extract as much water from the fabric as we can to help drying times.
The clean hot water has a rinse-agent element added to it to neutralise the cleaning agent, bringing the pH values back to neutral (pH 7.0) and leaving the fabric fresh, clean and hygienic.
Brush
Finally, we re-brush the fabric to smooth & separate the fibres and assist in airflow & drying.