Headboard cleaning Krakow

When a darker patch shows at head height. That is sebum and hair products; they oxidise and yellow over time, so the longer you wait the harder it is to get the original colour back. On light velour the mark shows after a year; on dark fabric you only see it against the light, but it is the same thing.

After buying a second-hand bed and before guests arrive. The first is about what somebody else left in the fabric: dust, mites, smell. The second is about how the room looks — a freshly made bed with a soiled headboard looks worse than a bedroom cleaned as a whole, and the headboard with a mattress is one visit.

With allergies and hay fever, because the headboard is the first fabric by your face while you sleep and nobody airs or washes it. Extraction rinses dust and mites out of the quilting with the water, and if you mention the allergy when booking, we rinse longer. Spring is a good moment, together with the mattress.

A sofa has upholstery over springs and foam with space underneath, so surplus water runs down and evaporates. A headboard is usually a few centimetres of foam stretched over chipboard or MDF and stapled in place. Water that gets through the foam stays on the board: it swells, delaminates at the edge and the fabric never sits flat again. That is why we use less water on a headboard and pull the moisture out after every pass.

The second difference is direction. On a horizontal sofa the agent stays where it was applied; on a vertical headboard it runs down, collecting dirt on the way, and leaves streaks along the bottom edge. So we work from the top in short sections and take the solution back before it reaches the bottom. It looks like the same job as a sofa and takes longer over a smaller area.

The third thing is quilting. Buttons and stitching create hollows where dust binds with sebum into a hard layer; the machine cannot reach them, so those spots are done by hand with a brush before the panel is cleaned. A smooth headboard takes 40 minutes, a deeply quilted one with buttons closer to an hour.

A bedroom holds three textiles nobody puts in a washing machine: the headboard, the mattress and the upholstered bed frame. They get dirty for the same reasons at the same rate, and the machine is already set up in the room. That is why they are usually booked together: the headboard with the upholstered frame is 150 zł for the whole bed, plus a double mattress from 165 zł per side.

The order matters. We start with the headboard, because we work top down and do not want to drip onto a cleaned mattress, then the frame, then the mattress last — it dries longest and stays uncovered. The whole bedroom is usually two hours of work and one evening of drying; you can sleep there the same night if we start in the morning.

If there is a rug or fitted carpet in the bedroom we add it to the same visit from the carpet price list. We do not combine textile cleaning with ozonation of the same room on the same day: ozone works on dry surfaces and only makes sense once the fabrics are dry, so it goes on a separate date.