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Prevention! If you have recently purchase a nice sofa, chair or recliner, and would like to keep it nice for a LONG time here are a few tips. First you need to establish what kind of finish the leather on your new (or existing) leather piece has.
There are basically two types of leather finishes. One is an Aniline dyed finish, and the other is a Topical finish. The Aniline dyed finish is like an oak door that has been stained and never varnished, while the topical dye finish is just about bullet proof.
To test to see which kind of finish your leather has just do this simple test. Wet your finger and touch the leather surface. If the water is absorbed, than you're leather is finished with the Aniline dyes, if the water repels than it is finished in a topical dye. The is an example of just what can happen (and in SHORT order) to "untreated" Aniline dyed leather.
Prevention? This couch could have been purchased as recently as six months ago, and yet look at the staining! With a simple in home preventative "Leather Treatment" performed by us, this problem could have been avoided, and kept that leather piece looking like new for years to come.
Why didn't the sales person tell me about this? Most sales people have NO idea as what kind of finish in on leather. They just know (like you might have as well) that it feels GREAT, and "the look" is just you've been looking for. Not to worry!
Aniline dyed leather can be as hard to take care of as silk! Just imagine how rapidly a stained, but unfinished door would look with out some sort of preventative coating on it. Actually, this is a MILD example of what just a few months of usage with out protection can do to your new piece.
If you give your new (or existing) leather goods the "wet finger test", and it turns out that you DO have Aniline dyed leather than just give us a call, and for a nominal fee we can come out and treat the leather so that it will look like new for years to come. If your just now checking on a piece that already looks like this, than there is a possibility that we can clean it, and then treat it so that the finish (and look) is just about "frozen in time".
Of course conditioning your leather goods on a regular basis will also help them last (in great condition) for years to come.
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