Whats the best products to use to clean furniture that has a heavy smoke odor to them?

I have used a product called VABreeze and it has worked great so far.

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I use the water to clean it first time , I can see some of the smoke will be lost. Then for the remaining I will use the detergent water that will be working. I try to use only natural methods to clean the furniture.

First I use to cleanit with the water and the remaining smoke will be used by applying the product Vabreeze. It really works well.

The first step to remove odor is to remove the source of the odor by cleaning. Vacuum loose soot. Then use a prespray appropriate for the fabric being cleaned. You may need to use a solvent to boost if the soot is oil. Avenge Heavy Duty works well on synthetic fibers.

There are many good odor control products that work after the soot has been removed.

If the odor has been absorbed into the cushion, one trick is to place the cushion into a plastic bag and use a vacuum to remove the air. Then use a thermal fogger to introduce deodorizer as you let air back into the back. The fog will be sucked deep inside the cushion.

Thermal fogging also is good for getting through the bottom covering and into the fram and mechanisms of motion pieces.

Scott Warrington

Scott's posted good info.

Probably this begs the question of what type or smoke residue?

Nicotine? If soot residue from a house fire, what burnt?

If you've had a lot of plastics burning, and then have synthetic foam and fibres on the fabric, you may have buckleys chance at 100% restoration.

Firstly thopugh removal is the key as Scott said. Dry vac what can be. Start with approved detergetns but if it's bad, you may want to progress to something like Prochem UltraPac Renovate which I'm a big user of and have had reasonably good success with.

Also consider replacing foam on removalbe parts like cushions. For the frames, you can remove the ticking fabric below and saturation spray the faom and timber framing.

Also having a air tight chamber to fog, ozone and whatever in is a bonus.

Deodourising should be a last option NOT the primary option instead of cleaning.

For deodourising, I use a range of products and types. I use a range of thermal fogging with both water based and solvent based products. I also use ozone and a lot of products from the likes of Unsmoke, Vapor Tech etc.

With dedicated odour removal, sometimes it takes more than one go and more than one type, even then, there will be thte odd job you won't win.

John