Dining Chair Cleaning
$30 to $55 each
Fabric seats absorb cooking oils that oxidize over time. Priced and cleaned per chair.
New York City Furniture Cleaning
Furniture Cleaning NYC: Every Upholstered Piece, Fabric Code Checked First
The sofa gets cleaned and everything else in the room stays as it was. Our furniture cleaning NYC service covers dining chairs, ottomans, headboards, recliners and home office chairs, which take the same body oils, food residue and city dust a sofa does. Care code read on every piece, then extraction or dry solvent depending on what it allows. All five boroughs, no travel surcharge.
In Action
Real Furniture Cleaning Work
Why NYC Furniture Gets Dirty Fast
Every fabric piece in your apartment needs the same care as the sofa
Dining chairs, ottomans, headboards, recliners, home office chairs. All daily contact. A Fort Greene dining chair gets pulled out three times a day. A Long Island City desk chair holds someone for eight hours. Body oils and food residue go into the fabric fast.
An open window on Atlantic Avenue or the Grand Central Parkway brings in exhaust and brake dust. It lands on whatever sits nearest the window, which is usually an ottoman or a bench. According to Olympian Water Testing, NYC tap water carries 50 to 100 mg per liter of dissolved minerals. Spraying it on a stained ottoman leaves those minerals behind as a white ring.
Steam heat runs through pre war Manhattan and Brooklyn. Mammoth New York's guide notes older radiators need extra attention. Dry heat makes headboard and recliner fibers brittle, so soil that would brush off gets locked in.
What professional cleaning removes
Dust mite allergens, skin cells, pet dander, cooking oil, water soluble stains. The IICRC S300 standard calls extraction removing contaminants from the fiber rather than masking them.
What goes wrong with DIY cleaning
A rental machine on an S coded velvet chair shrinks it. Overwetting an ottoman pushes soil into the foam. Hard tap water dries into a chalky ring around whatever you were trying to remove.
Cleaning method by furniture type
Dining chairs, benches
Hot Extraction (W)
Home office chairs
Hot Extraction (W)
Recliners, microfiber chairs
Code Dependent
Velvet headboards, accent chairs
Dry Solvent (S)
Antique or vintage chairs
Vacuum Only (X)
What We Clean
Every Upholstered Piece We Handle
Professional furniture cleaning NYC rates below are starting ranges, confirmed after we see the fabric and soil level.
These rates cover fabric pieces. Leather and hide are cleaned and conditioned by hand instead of extracted, and are quoted on the leather and hide pieces page. Whole house bookings outside the city are covered on Long Island.
Ottoman Cleaning
$60 to $80
Ottomans double as coffee tables and footrests, so the top surface takes on soil fast.
Home Office Chair Cleaning
$35 to $60
Task chairs used all day build up body oils on the seat and headrest.
Upholstered Headboard Cleaning
$80 to $150
Body oils and overnight humidity press against headboard fabric for hours every night.
Upholstered Bench Cleaning
$55 to $85
Entryway and foot of bed benches take heavy contact from bags, shoes, and coats.
Accent & Barrel Chair Cleaning
$75 to $110
Often vintage finds from a Brooklyn flea market, so we check the fabric code first.
Armchair & Club Chair Cleaning
$75 to $120
The most commonly skipped piece in a living room, despite daily use.
Recliner Cleaning
$90 to $140
More surface area than a standard chair. Arm zones and the headrest show soil first.
Upholstery Care Codes Explained
The W, S, WS, X fabric code guide for NYC furniture
Every piece of upholstered piece carries a tag with a one or two letter code. The IICRC S300 standard matches each letter to a method, and the wrong one does permanent damage.
| Code | What it means | Method we use | Common on |
|---|---|---|---|
| W | Water based cleaning safe. | Hot water extraction | Dining chairs, benches, home office chairs |
| S | Solvent only. Water causes shrinkage or watermarks. | Dry solvent cleaning | Velvet headboards, silk or wool accent chairs |
| WS | Both methods are safe. We choose based on the stain. | Extraction or dry solvent | Microfiber recliners, mid range chairs and ottomans |
| X | Vacuum only. No liquid should contact this fabric. | Vacuum and soft brush | Antique chairs, delicate vintage upholstery |
Where to find the code
Flip a dining chair or ottoman over for a stapled tag. On a headboard, check the back panel. If it is missing, we identify the fabric type and test a hidden area first.
Before & After
Real Furniture Cleaning Results
Furniture Cleaning Across All 5 Boroughs
We clean furniture across all five NYC boroughs, piece by piece
Manhattan
Home office chairs in small Murray Hill and Hell's Kitchen apartments. In East Harlem and Upper West Side pre war co-ops, dining and accent chairs never cleaned before.
Brooklyn
Fort Greene brownstone dining sets see daily meals. Carroll Gardens and Park Slope entryway benches track in stoop grit.
Queens
In a Sunnyside co-op, an entryway bench takes daily bag and shoe contact. Long Island City has many rental buildings where home office chairs stay in constant use.
The Bronx
Recliner cleaning is one of our most requested services in Riverdale. Parkchester and Co-op City buildings have freight elevator access, making a full dining set job easy to schedule.
Staten Island
Great Kills and New Dorp homes hold more furniture per room, including basement office setups.
Co-op and condo requirements
Most boards require a Certificate of Insurance (COI) before a vendor enters. We provide one within one business day of booking.
Walk up building logistics
Our equipment breaks down into pieces that carry easily up brownstone walk ups in Fort Greene, Park Slope, and Astoria.
Cleaning versus replacing
A new dining chair runs $150 to $400 at West Elm. Cleaning is $30 to $150 a piece.
Drying time
Hot water extraction pieces dry in 1 to 3 hours. Dry solvent pieces are ready in about 30 to 45 minutes.
Common Questions
Furniture cleaning questions from NYC apartments
Price depends on the piece: dining chairs $30 to $55 each, ottomans $60 to $80, home office chairs $35 to $60, headboards $80 to $150, benches $60 to $80, accent chairs $75 to $110, armchairs $75 to $120, recliners $90 to $140. Ranges confirmed after we see the fabric and soiling.
Yes. Antique and vintage chairs usually carry an S code, meaning solvent only, no water. We check the tag first, and with no tag we test a hidden spot before touching any visible surface.
A set of 4 to 6 fabric dining chairs usually takes 45 to 90 minutes. We vacuum every chair first, then clean with hot water extraction or dry solvent based on the fabric code.
Yes. We cover all five boroughs, including Riverdale and Fordham in the Bronx and Tottenville and New Dorp on Staten Island. There is no travel surcharge. Call (332) 242-5389 to confirm availability for your neighborhood.
Yes, before it comes through the door if you can manage it. Cleaning removes soil and odour, but it does not deal with bed bugs, and upholstered furniture off the street is the usual way they arrive in a New York apartment. Check the seams and the underside of the frame first.
A sofa and four dining chairs is about two hours. A full living room and bedroom is a half day. Setup and breakdown is most of the time on any job, which is why five pieces in one visit costs far less than five separate appointments.
Find Furniture Cleaning New York, East Harlem
We work out of East 116th Street. Chairs, ottomans and headboards, in all five boroughs, at one rate.
Call (332) 242-5389Furniture Cleaning NYC: Book Your Appointment
Our furniture cleaning service NYC covers every borough. Call to book an appointment; we can usually schedule within the same week.
Furniture cleaning is available in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island.
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