We have learned of at least one of our competitors offering to disinfect fabric sofas. This article explains why we do not offer such a service.
Without cutting out the fabric, you cannot see the depth of the penetration into the cushion. Moving the sofa outside, giving it a heavy spray of disinfectant, and then drying it in the sun for a couple of hours is the method used by this competitor. Imagine the diarrhea or human urine was four inches into the cushion. Do you think a saturation from a fogging machine or spray bottle is going to get four inches deep in the areas it needs to? Very unlikely. Plus, it doesn’t remove the human waste from the cushion. It’s just killing the pathogens. Would you want your guests sitting on that sofa afterwards?
If the contaminant was rodent urine. The penetration of the rodent urine is not deep at all. But rodents don’t just run on top of a sofa. They love to get inside the sofa from underneath and build a nest. Saturating disinfectant will not remove the nest nor clean out the rodent droppings in the nooks and crannies of this sofa. Best case it will just make the droppings runny and allow the fecal matter to soak in.
For this reason, we haul away fabric sofas with biohazard. When you hire a biohazard cleaning service, you expect your living space to be free of biohazards. Make sure you ask questions before being misled to a false sense of security.