Sydney CBD · Sydney NSW
Upholstery in the city rarely arrives as one item. A booking is usually eight dining chairs and a mattress in an apartment, forty task chairs and a boardroom suite on a tower floor, or a run of banquette seating in a ground-floor food tenancy. Pro Clean Corp counts the inventory, quotes it piece by piece, and cleans it inside the access window the building gives us, without anything being carried out through a lift.
The four upholstery jobs we do most often between Circular Quay and Central look nothing like each other. Apartment work is dining chairs, bar stools at a kitchen island, a bedhead and one or two mattresses. Commercial work on the tower floors around Martin Place and Wynyard is task chairs by the dozen plus a boardroom set that gets used far harder than its condition suggests. Ground-floor retail and food tenancies on Pitt, George and Castlereagh have fixed banquettes and loose chairs. Hotel and short-stay stock is beds, headboards and the occasional tub chair. Each needs a different method, and pricing an hourly rate across that mix would be meaningless, so everything is counted and quoted per item first.
Small floor plates make city seating work harder than the same chair would elsewhere. A tower floor built for eighty desks now holds a hundred and twenty people on hot-desking, so a task chair specified for a single occupant carries three or four people a week and never gets a rest day. In apartments the dining chairs double as desk chairs, and in a co-working suite off Castlereagh Street the same six meeting-room chairs absorb every visitor in the building. The wear that follows is heavy contact soiling on seat pads and arm caps with backs and frames still close to new, which is why we price by piece rather than by set.
Counting properly at the quote stage also prevents the usual argument. We ask for a room-by-room count before the day, confirm it on arrival, and adjust the number up or down against what is actually there rather than what the office manager remembered. Nothing gets added to the invoice on the day without being shown to you first.
A city mattress cannot be treated the way a suburban one is. There is no laundry to work in, usually no balcony, often no openable window, and no realistic way to get a queen mattress down to ground level and back. It also never gets aired: apartments in the CBD run on continuous mechanical ventilation, so a mattress in a small bedroom sits in the same conditioned air for years while it absorbs body moisture, skin cells and the fine dust that the air handling keeps in circulation. That is the ordinary condition of a bed in this region, and it is why the method has to put in as little water as possible.
So mattresses are cleaned with a low-moisture approach: thorough dry-soil extraction over the whole surface and into the piping and buttoning first, targeted treatment of specific marks second, and a controlled damp pass only where it is warranted. Air movers do the drying, and we do not hand a bed back that is not ready to make up the same day. Headboards, which almost nobody thinks to clean, get the same dry-soil pass and usually show more hair oil and hand marks than the mattress does.
On mattresses we would rather set expectations than sell hope. Urine that has soaked through the ticking into the foam core is not fully recoverable by surface cleaning, and if the volume was significant we will say so and recommend replacement rather than a treatment that masks it for a fortnight. Mould speckling on a mattress that has been pushed against a cold external wall or a deep window reveal in an older converted building will not fully clear either, and the actual fix is moving the bed off the wall and dealing with the condensation. We also do not make dust-mite elimination claims: cleaning removes a great deal of the dust and allergen load a mite population feeds on, which is worth doing, and that is as far as we will put it.
Banquette seating in the cafes and small restaurants along the Pitt and George Street retail strips is the hardest upholstery in the city. Open kitchens put an oil aerosol into the room that lands on every vertical surface, the seating is fixed so nothing can be moved to reach behind it, and the fabric is usually a heavy commercial vinyl or a tight synthetic weave that hides soiling until it is well advanced. That work is done between close and open — commonly starting after 10pm — with the seat wells and the join between the base and the wall cleaned properly, because that is where food debris and grease collect and where a health inspection will look. Loose dining chairs are lifted and done separately so the banquette can dry.
Office seating is a different discipline. Task chairs are cleaned on the floor, in batches, and rotated so a section of the tenancy is always usable; the seat pad, the front edge and the arm caps do most of the work and take most of the attention. Mesh backs are the exception we flag: mesh is a tensioned membrane, not a fabric over foam, and we do not extract it — it gets a dry and detail clean only, and if the mesh has stretched or the frame has yellowed, cleaning will not change that. Boardroom and reception chairs, which are usually a better fabric than the task chairs, are treated individually.
Fabric protection comes up constantly, and it is worth being accurate about it. It is not a stain-proof barrier and nobody should buy it as one. What it does is slow the rate at which a spill wicks into the fibre, which turns a permanent mark into a blottable one if someone gets to it quickly. That is genuinely useful on pale dining chairs in an apartment and on cafe banquettes where the staff have a cloth within reach. It is a poor investment on mesh-backed office chairs, on leather, and on anything already heavily worn, and in those cases we will tell you to skip it.
upholstery cleaning is available at every address below. Each suburb has its own page with local pricing, access notes and booking detail — 18 in Sydney CBD in total.
Yes, and combining them is the sensible way to book in the city, because the access and setup cost is paid once for the visit rather than once per item. We quote each piece on its own line so you can see what the chairs cost against what the bed costs, then work through the inventory in one attendance inside whatever window building management allows us.
By putting very little moisture in to begin with. City beds are cleaned with a low-moisture method built around dry-soil extraction and targeted spot work rather than saturation, and air movers finish the job while the apartment air conditioning keeps running. That combination is what lets us hand a bed back ready to make up the same day in a sealed unit with no natural ventilation.
Almost always. Ground-floor food tenancies in the CBD trade long hours, so this work typically starts after close, often from about 10pm, and finishes with the seating dry before the morning service. Fixed banquettes cannot be moved, so we clean the seat wells and the base-to-wall join properly rather than only the visible faces, and loose chairs are lifted out and done separately.
Task chairs are cleaned in batches on the floor so part of the tenancy stays usable throughout, with the seat pad, front edge and arm caps getting the bulk of the attention. Mesh backs are the exception: mesh is a tensioned membrane rather than fabric over foam, so it is dry-cleaned and detailed only, never extracted. Stretched mesh or a yellowed frame is wear and will not improve with cleaning.
It depends on the piece. Protection is not a stain-proof coating — it slows a spill soaking into the fibre so somebody has a real chance to blot it before it sets. On pale dining chairs in an apartment and on cafe banquettes where staff have a cloth to hand, that is worth the money. On mesh office chairs, on leather, and on fabric that is already heavily worn, we will tell you not to bother.
Fixed-price written quote, no obligation. Tell us the address and what needs cleaning.
