I'm so happy you were able to keep it out of the landfill and someone could make use of it. I give the majority of my donations to a local organization that matches the items with people who were previously unhoused and don't even have the basics for their homes. So many of us living in excess and throwing good furniture to the landfill when there are people who actually need it.
I received furniture from a similar local charity when I got housing for me and my son after being homeless and pregnant with him. From someone who still has much less than others around me, you've done something that is going to change someone's life for the better for a long time, though ik it's hard to understand exactly why. All I'm saying is thank you. Thank you for caring about those of us who for the most part are invisible.
These are kinda pricy new, my friend recently got one. Love this series where you're spiffying up pre-owned items and giving them a new life!! Thank you for your work!!
That's so great! I'm so happy to see more and more people doing little acts when they have the means. My friend was struck by a bus whioe crossing the road. 5 years later she's only JUST getting back on her feet. She had help furnishing her new home with use of a place like you've mentioned. It really is heartwarming. Thank you for what you do!
Great cleaning job. And it nice that you clean and donate discarded items. I do the same, but for electronics, (but a do charge a nominal fee if I have to purchase parts). We need more people like you.
Hell! Even with bedbugs, this process would eliminate them. The alcohol kills, the scrubbing removes. Maybe get a big container you can gas that kind of stuff in. Then do this process.
SO AWESOME!! What a great thing to do! You’d be surprised at the things ppl throw away when they could easily donate it to someone in need. I hope you continue to do this type of thing! It helps in so many ways!
Here's what gets me though, you can always clean the outside upholstery pretty well but the foam is porous. The foam can be full of all kinds of dust and grime and bacteria and stuff that doesn't just get vacuumed out. It's not like the outside upholstery seals the internal foam from contamination.
Oh I did that! Except I stripped all the upholstery off, pulling all the staples, sanded and it had a piano hinge, a slow close hydraulic thingy and beautiful plywood with a nice grain!
I am curious what you do if you find bed bugs. A friend ended up with bed bugs and threw out a new couch and chair before telling me. I told her that we could have killed them by renting a moving truck. Putting the furniture in the back, then using my torpedo heater, we can have heated the storage area to 115 for 8 hours. Anyone else try this?
Honestly I wouldn't mess with it. It sucks to throw out expensive furniture but having bed bugs is hell on earth. I was literally to the point of considering suicide. It can really screw with your mind. I honestly think it gave me PTSD. I'm so scared of bugs now. I battled them day and night for three months. I would feel tickling and stinging on my body at night but I'd throw my blankets off and nothing would be there. I'd get so many bites on my hands at night that they'd swell up huge and I'd rip all my rings off in my sleep because they hurt. I wore the same clothes every day and the same pajamas every night, washed my day clothes each night and my PJs and bedding each day. Filled my room with diatomaceous earth. Put cups full of diatomaceous earth under my bed feet. Washed dried and bagged up every single blanket (except one sheet and one blanket and one pillow case and pillow) and every piece of clothing I owned (except one outfit and one set of PJs as I said) and moved it elsewhere. They can even get into your books, electronics,carpet, cracks in walls and floors, and electrical outlets. I covered every crack and crevice of my bed with tape and sprayed every inch of my bed and mattress twice a day with straight rubbing alcohol. I did not visit anyone's home during that time and I did not sit in any sort of cushioned chair in public. I was terrified of causing anyone else to get them. I had just bought a new bed and mattress and my sister let her friend stay the night in my bed and that's how I got them. Her house was so infested, even her backpack was full of them. I also bought an expensive mattress cover to trap any of the mattress dwellers inside until the infestation was over. Once I stopped getting any bites and nobody else in the house was haunted by those things anymore we burned three of our beds and our leather couch. I know this is a literal novel but you and anyone else reading this needs to know how serious bedbugs are. Wash any used or even new clothing in hot water and dry on hot. Do not let goodwill clothing you just bought sit around on your floor for a few days before washing it. Do not buy used furniture unless you are 100% sure it doesn't have them (which is hard to do) or make sure it's metal or something that can be painted completely so as to seal every single crack. Be extremely careful of who you let visit your home and who you visit as well. Check every hotel bed before sleeping there. Pull up the sheets and check under the mattress. Sometimes the only sign of bedbugs is their droppings that look like black or reddish brown speckles on the mattress or wood. This can sometimes look like mold or rust stains. For every one bedbug you find that represents TWELVE that are hiding. If you find a couple of bedbugs in the daytime you probably already have an infestation. Throw out whatever furniture they're on and treat your house IMMEDIATELY. Bedbug bombs and spray don't work because they can hide in the tiniest of cracks and avoid the spray. Heat, steam, diatomaceous earth, alcohol are the best killers.
@@shyofthemoon1175 She disposed of them before I was able to get them. My plan was to put them in a metal box, and heat it up to 115 F for 6 hours with a propane heater. That temperature kills the bugs and the eggs.
Glad you dont donate it to Goodwill. Don't get me wrong its a common place yet theres places (like the non-profit you know) that actually do good for the people within the community
You REALLY should make sure it doesn't have mold. I used to have couch with detachable coushions and even if you checked every inch of the surface you wouldn't know that it was absolutely FILLED with mold. Mold can be sneaky and it made my mom very sick for multiple years and nobody knew why until we discovered the mold😢. I love your channel though!
Saw someone tossed a "rustee's choice" ceramic topped table. It's mine now. Had to remove the bottom metal plate though, it was spilling rust EVERYWHERE.
What kind of spray bottles do you use cuz I have had four different types have their nozzles fail when I add the dawn to your cleansing spray recipe ! can you help?
Be careful....people throw things out because of bed bugs....we unfortunately got them 7 years ago and had to throw out all of our things and start over. People grabbed our furniture out of the trash....they probably got bed bugs after! 😂 not my fault
Is this cleaning solution good for all upholstery? If not, what other cleaning solutions do you use on upholstery and/or different types of fabric, and what does each solution do, as far as, smell, softness, stains, and more?
Hey there! I have a full upholstery tutorial on my channel. Check it out here and it will answer some of your questions - How To Clean Your Furniture Like A Pro ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wNtbeyQ1P-g.html
That is very thin alcohol...that doesn't do a proper job sanitizing?! Or does it? I would not take something inside my home...with fabric like that without sanitizing it😟 You never know what's in there... Or is there a part missing? Like ....doing those steps over and over again until the water comes out clear? I am not hating here. Just concerned...or maybe me hygiene is a little over the level. Former nurse, so...never getting rid of that I guess
