Can a light burn be corrected on upholstery fabric?

[icleancarpetz]

I was using a steamer on my pants then placed the steamer on my lazy boy recliner. Thought the steamer was cool enough. Obviously not....urg!

I don’t think anything can be done about the melted fabric but I maybe wrong?

 

[Desk Jockey]

I've sanded a burn like you're describing before. It helped the feel but the texture change was still noticeable.

 

[icleancarpetz]

I won’t mind the feel... getting it close to original color would be ok.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Unfortunately no, it was very obvious something had happened.

 

[Cleanworks]

Try a white rubber ink eraser. It may help a little.

 

[Nomad74]

 

[icleancarpetz]

I don’t think I have the nerve to do that kind of surgery on my recliner.

 

[JohnHawkP]

I don’t think I have the nerve to do that kind of surgery on my recliner.

Me neither

 

[Jimmy L]

Think out of the box why not use an iron to make more patterns like that on all of the chairs?

 

[steve_64]

Scrape a sharp razor blade over it?

Try to skim off the chunky stuff.

Its delicate work but doable. Might be a bald spot but it will look and feel better.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Be glad it was already your chair.

 

[Bob Savage]

Put a towel in it.

In the grand scheme of things, it is not worth any fretting over.

 

[icleancarpetz]

J

Put a towel in it.

In the grand scheme of things, it is not worth any fretting over.

hate seeing it everyday reminding me of how careless I was...I should have know better....it’s one of those things that says...’why did I do that!

 

[Cleanworks]

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hate seeing it everyday reminding me of how careless I was...I should have know better....it’s one of those things that says...’why did I do that!

We all have one of those somewhere. Hopefully, not on something belonging to a customer.

 

[J Brown]

color repair would make it much less noticeable if done correctly

 

[Desk Jockey]

Did you try sanding it?

 

[icleancarpetz]

sanding? I’ll try it.

I may try a magnifying glass and pointy snips to snip off the burn.

As for color repair...rule is light can go to dark but dark will not go to light. At least that’s been my experience and what Jeff Cross taught me years ago in his color repair class.