Upholstery & Mattress Cleaning in Alvalade

The Bairro de Alvalade was laid out in the 1940s and 1950s and much of it is still lived in by the households that arrived first, or by their children. That gives the neighbourhood a very particular kind of upholstery: solid sofas bought once and kept, wool rugs in rooms that open onto leafy logradouros, upholstered bed heads that came with a bedroom suite. Textiles like these hold decades of fine dust rather than recent accidents. Arranja Já cleans them at the address with hot-water extraction, working through the flats off the Avenida da Igreja, around Roma, up by Campo Grande and across towards São João de Brito.

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4.8

Average rating

98%

Satisfaction

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Years experience

About our service in Alvalade

What we find in these flats is depth of soiling rather than damage. A seat base that has been sat on daily for thirty years contains a surprising quantity of dust and skin debris well below the surface, and no household vacuum reaches it. So the first stage of every Alvalade job is dry and mechanical: agitate the fibre, draw out what is buried, and only then introduce water. Doing it the other way round turns fine dust into a paste that sets in the weave. On rugs we check the backing before wetting anything, because an old rug with a stiffened jute base can ripple if it takes on too much moisture, and we would rather clean it more gently than hand back something that will not sit flat. The planned blocks here have generous windows and inner courtyards, which helps, but the winters still do what Lisboa winters do. Rooms are shut against the cold, heating is intermittent, and mattresses in bedrooms facing the logradouro see little sun. Textiles hold onto damp in those conditions and dust mites do well in them. We clean and sanitise both faces of the mattress, extract more than once, and then talk about air: opening the room properly each morning, letting the bed breathe before making it, using a protector that is breathable rather than plastic. We do not put a number on what a clean removes and we will not pretend it fixes anyone's asthma. A large share of these visits are booked by a son or daughter for a parent, or by someone clearing a flat that has been in the family for years. In both cases the useful thing we do is tell the truth about what is left. Fresh spills come out. So does the general greyness that makes a good sofa look tired. Old rings that dried in long ago, ballpoint marks, moth damage and fabric bleached along the window edge will still be there when we finish, and we would rather point at them at the start than have you discover them at the end.

Our upholstery service in Alvalade covers:

Services Included

Deep dust extraction and hot-water cleaning of long-owned sofas
Mattress sanitising and dust-mite removal in shaded bedrooms
Wool rugs cleaned in place, with the backing checked before wetting
General grime and odour lifted from arms, seat bases and cushions
Upholstered bed heads and dining chairs cleaned on the same visit

Areas We Serve

We work across Alvalade: the original Bairro, the Avenida da Igreja, the Roma area, the blocks near Campo Grande and the São João de Brito side.

Bairro de AlvaladeAvenida da IgrejaRomaCampo GrandeSão João de Brito

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Rating

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Guarantee

We separate soiling from wear before we start and say which is which, and if a mark we treated reappears while the fabric dries we come back to correct it.

Hours

Mon-Sat: 9am-8pm

Sunday: Closed

We separate soiling from wear before we start and say which is which, and if a mark we treated reappears while the fabric dries we come back to correct it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions from Alvalade households:

The sofa does not look dirty, just tired. Is there anything to clean?

Almost always, and it is the most common surprise on this kind of job. The grey, flat look of an old sofa is fine dust and skin debris packed into the weave and the seat base, which a vacuum only skims. Our dry mechanical pass pulls out what is underneath before any water is used, and the colour usually comes back a shade or two. Genuine wear, such as shine on the arms, is a different thing and stays.

Can an old wool rug be cleaned without it shrinking or going wavy?

Usually, if it is treated as wool and not as carpet. Wool needs a gentler product, less moisture and controlled extraction, and we test the dye on a hidden corner first because older dyes can move. The bigger risk is the backing: if the jute has gone brittle, too much water makes it ripple. When we see that, we tell you and use a low-moisture method instead of the full extraction.

How long should we stay off the mattress after you clean it?

Give it the night. Extraction leaves the ticking and the layer beneath it damp for hours, and a mattress dries from the surface inwards, so it can feel ready long before it is. We clean bedrooms early in the visit for that reason, stand the mattress where air can reach both faces where the room allows, and expect it to be fit to sleep on again the following night rather than the same one.