Now operating as RARE Restoration by Catchlight Painting, the acquisition brings specialized restoration services into the Catchlight family while maintaining the standards of quality and care that clients have come to expect.
Avoid costly mistakes by testing for colorfastness before cleaning upholstery. Learn to identify risks, apply the right methods, and prevent fabric fading or bleeding. This guide walks professional cleaners through key steps to ensure furniture stays vibrant and damage-free.
Tour the 95,000-square-foot Blue Kangaroo Packoutz flagship facility. See the inner workings of the warehouse, including 750 storage vaults, a state-of-the-art training room, art restoration, contents cleaning, furniture upholstery and refinishing, and more.
This fall RIA will host a summit focused on contents! The 2018 Strictly Contents Summit will allow attendees to expand their knowledge and participate in hand-on learning.
Distributed nationwide and in Canada, ECONA members provide soft and hard contents restoration services and comprise a cross section of the industry’s top performers, from independent restoration firms to some of the top franchise groups.
In the world of contents restoration, there are a number of niche areas: textiles, furniture, electronics, etc. It seems a lot of people are ready to tackle that first category hands-on.
The IICRC UFT (Upholstery and Fabric Cleaning Technician) course covers upholstery fiber categories, fiber identification and testing, manufacturing of the fiber and fabric, chemistry of cleaning, 6 methods, protections, spotting and potential problems. A student will have a specific knowledge about fabric and fiber content, as well as furniture construction. This enables students to identify limitations and potential cleaning-related problems on a given piece of upholstery.