If Your Water is DIRTY, you MUST remove all water damage affected materials; however, furniture is quite valuable is is treated slightly differently. Only if standing water than reached an absorbent fabric on a piece of furniture or a personal item you ought to discard the entire piece / item. If the water did NOT reach an absorbent area of the furniture or personal item, the piece should be salvageable through sanitization and deodorization.

If you are affected by grey water damage or clean water damage you can usually save the furniture even if some absorbent material was affected by standing water. However, if more than 2 or 3 inches of cushion was soaked, you may wish to simply discard the water damaged furniture.

If you are not discarding the furniture, you should have already blocked and padded your furniture with either non-stained wood, Styrofoam, or plastic in order to prevent wood bleeding or rusting from the legs of the furniture pieces onto your carpet or other flooring.

With the furniture and/or personal items that you deemed as salvageable, you must disinfect, sanitize, and deodorize all affected areas. Apply two coats of your disinfectant and deodorizer to do so.

For a true thorough cleaning, sanitization, and deodorization of your furniture, you may want to look at hiring a professional water damage company, or even a professional carpet and upholstry cleaner. Find professionals through the links on this website for your water damaged furniture needs.