<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I don't have personal experience with upholstery cleaning,<br>but I can tell you you need to be VERY careful about<br>what products are used. Also, it is normally carpet<br>cleaning services that do upholstery as well.<br><br>i did a quick search and came up with the following<br>information.and three carpet/upholstery cleaners<br>that service Providence and claim to use "green",<br>less toxic means.<br><br>Blessings,<br><br>Liberty G<br>*********************************************************<br>1. First, what are the concerns?<br><br><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(2, 17, 2);">Chemicals
in the Carpet Cleaning Industry</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(2, 17, 2);"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 34, 0);">The carpet cleaning industry is
notorious for using harsh and toxic chemicals. We have visited homes where the
owners claimed that carpet cleaning chemicals from a previous owner were
causing them health problems. We can't verify that these claims are true, but
we <i>can</i> tell you what you'll find in carpet cleaning solutions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 34, 0);">Many of the "steam cleaners"
use <b>petroleum based solvents</b> in the hot water solution that they inject
into the carpet. These have been implicated in skin rashes, asthma, and also
cancer. These same solutions can also contain <b>glycol ethers</b> which have
been implicated in anemia and birth defects. These solutions are labelled and
marketed as being "safe" because they pass certain industry or
government standards which allow these chemicals to be used in low
concentration. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 34, 0);">If you have your rugs dry cleaned or
send them to the rug store to be factory cleaned, chances are high that <b>PERC</b>
(percholorethylene) will be used to clean them. PERC has been shown to cause
liver and kidney damage as well as cancer in laboratory animals after prolonged
exposure. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 34, 0);">Most carpet and fiber protectants, such
as the famous name guard spray, contain petroleum based solvents and are
toxic.<span style=""> </span>Other chemicals in which can be
found in carpet cleaning products include dichloromethane, polymerized 2,5
furandione, styrene maleicanhydride, perfluoro alkyl acryl acetate,
perfluoroalkyl sodium tripoly phosphate, and 2-butoxyethanol amyl acetate. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Carpet Cleaning orders the MSDS (material safety data sheet) for every reagent
that we use.<span style=""> </span>We bring these into your
home or business in a binder when we come to clean.<span style=""> </span>You are free to browse through it. Any hazardous or potentially
hazardous chemical in a product has to be listed on this sheet. We choose only
reagents that are rated <b>0</b> or <b>1</b> on the MSDS health hazard scale.
The scale goes like this: 0=minimal, 1=slight, 2=moderate, 3=serious, 4=severe.
You can find cleaners on the supermarket shelf which are rated 2, 3 and 4.<span style=""> </span>We also highly favor products that are
completely biodegradable. We can't claim that all of our cleaners are
"natural", meaning not made in a laboratory.<span style=""> </span>We decided to concentrate on finding
cleaners that are <b>non-toxic</b> and <b>biodegradable</b> instead. These are
the key factors that make our cleaners harmless to you and the environment.<span style=""> </span>Seeking only "natural" products
might not achieve this and might also sacrifice cleaning effectiveness. </span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 34, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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begin work to make sure that you approve. We are always looking for effective
0-rated cleaning reagents to improve our arsenal of cleaners. If you have one
to suggest, and it has awesome cleaning power, let us know about it! Many
products which use words like "safe" and "eco-friendly" on
the labels are proven unacceptable once we take a look at the MSDS. Once in a
while, it goes the other way too.<span style=""> </span>We
have found great MSDS profiles for some products that don't bother to make a
claim about safety.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 10/5/10, Hapfra@aol.com <i><Hapfra@aol.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Hapfra@aol.com <Hapfra@aol.com><br>Subject: Re: [Summit] upholstery cleaning query<br>To: egrossman1@cox.net<br>Cc: summit@sna.providence.ri.us<br>Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 3:33 PM<br><br><div id="yiv143889200">
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<div><strong>have you asked Nanda---over at Nanda Interiors----she seems to be
quite resourceful--and a nice person to deal with. Good
Luck</strong></div>
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<div>In a message dated 10/5/2010 3:26:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
egrossman1@cox.net writes:</div>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid blue; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"><font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">I have
an upholstered armchair that I have resolved to have cleaned.
<br>Has anyone had a good experience in this department that you would
<br>recommend? Thanks Elizabeth</font></blockquote></div></font></div><br>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br><br><div class="plainMail">_______________________________________________<br>Summit mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Summit@sna.providence.ri.us" href="/mc/compose?to=Summit@sna.providence.ri.us">Summit@sna.providence.ri.us</a><br><a href="http://mail.sna.providence.ri.us/mailman/listinfo/summit_sna.providence.ri.us" target="_blank">http://mail.sna.providence.ri.us/mailman/listinfo/summit_sna.providence.ri.us</a><br>SNA Website: <a href="http://sna.providence.ri.us/" target="_blank">http://sna.providence.ri.us/</a></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>