Furniture restoration

Furniture cleaning

Furniture cleaning, restoration and stain removal

No matter what your needs are, and what your price-range is, we can help create the best look for your space, keeping your business' style and budget in the picture. When a customer comes to H and L Office furniture with their needs, we don't look at them as a new sale. While we are an office furniture company, we consider our relationship with our customers a working project. Instead of pushing pieces of furniture on you, we will work with you to come up with the right furniture solution for your location.

Furniture restoration and cleaning

Quality furniture can be restored to it's former glory if it has been mishandled by restoration methods and cleaning. Furniture restoration is much better for the furniture rather than refinishing it if you can restore an old finish.
Cleaning is the first step when you're restoring furniture. The best place to start is another thorough inspection of the piece to be restored to determine where the worst build up is. Check inside corners, carvings, around hardware and moulding.
It's always a good idea to work in a small area at a time, ten or twelve inches in diameter, then go over the whole surface. After the cleaning is done give the piece a good buffing with a soft cloth. If the finish is all there, but it still looks a little dull you can wax it or use a polishing product. Before you wax or polish go over your furniture with a slightly damp cloth to remove dust and fingerprints, then buff with a clean, dry, soft cloth. Finally, use the wax or polish very sparingly.

Removing furniture stains

While using furniture regularly it can get stained by water, oil, colour, etc - but they can usually be removed. With wooden furniture use a very soft steel wool pad and some lemon oil. Dip the pad in the oil and rub on the stained area in the direction of the grain of the wood. When the stain is removed you may have to polish the rest of the piece to even out the sheen. As a final touch wipe off extra oil and apply a polish of your choice. If the furniture is stained with aniline dye then you can remove it using chemicals to bleach it. You will have to do this outdoors and you must use a respirator.
To remove dark stains from wood, such as dark rings or gray oxidation, use oxalic acid crystals. Mix with warm water till the crystals stop dissolving, then sand the entire surface lightly and apply this solution over the surface using a synthetic brush. Leave till the stain disappears. You will then have to sand the surface to smoothen it.

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