Sofa.com fabrics - most hardwearing

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I am looking at sofa.com sofas and was wondering (as quite a few people on historic threads seemed to have them) how their standards fabrics wore over time. Can any of them be wiped with a damp cloth without it ruining the pile? I would get the stainguard thing on whatever I bought.

I have Laura Ashley and Sofa Workshop sofas and they are ok to wipe to get small marks off but they are not the plain brushed linen style of sofa.com.

The matindale (rub test) information should give you durability on upholstery fabrics. 100,000 is very hard wearing and suitable for contract upholstery. Sofa.com should have this information. Lower figures, eg 40,000, are suitable for everyday use, but will not last as long.

Thanks - I should definitely have asked them that specifically. They said their highland tweed and brushed linen were the most hard wearing. Not sure that I could imagine getting marks off the linen, it just looks so smooth. I have a couple of footstools in a contract velvet type fabric and they are virtually indestructible...maybe I should go down the own fabric route.

I have the cotton/linen mix with the stain guard thing and the instructions specifically say to not rub stains.

You could order their fabric samples and try?

Hi there, I have two Bluebells, one in a navy brushed linen cotton (midnight blue I think) and the other in heath highland tweed. The heath tweed we chose specifically because we wanted something super hardwearing that didn't show dirt (normal dirt, we are clean… honest) as with kids around etc… with the navy one, even though it's in a room we don't use as much, it has a blanket across the seat and much time is spent removing dust/lint/hair with a stick lint roller - we have no pets and the room it is in is hardly used and immaculate! If you have kids or like to lounge around a lot - def the tweed.

However I do LOVE MY SOFAS, they are so comfortable and really good value compared to other sofas of their quality, plus they are the nicest company to deal with ever, nothing is too much trouble for them I have found. In fact now that I think of it we have a couple of other things of theirs too - building up a collection over the years! - because they are so reliable. Went to loaf which looked so pretty in brochure/magazines etc and were underwhelmed by products and off-hand service in comparison (though in fairness could have just been a very off day for the girl we dealt with) and bobbed straight back to sofa.com.

We've had our sofas for four years and got the anti-stain thingee and it seems to have worked well. Small blobs of curry and pasta sauce haven't stained over the years (wish I could say the same for the rug). We went to the sofa.com showroom in Chelsea Harbour and found that you could actually get loads of different fabrics so ours is a grey wool as we were trying to create a lookalike to something we'd seen in Bo Concept. warwick.co.uk/qualities/amatheon-3?id=106956