so one of my friends had a huge house party last night.
except it isn't really his house, per say...
and SOMEHOW the entire leather couch is soaking wet, as are the hardwood floors. and he needs to know ASAP how to fix it. the water is all absorbed from the sofa and floor, but it still left this mark:





should we let the cushions out to dry in the sun? or will that make the dried stain worse?

or clean it with something???

it's hard because neither one of us know what happened, or what the substance is. i assume it's all water, but who really knows...??

also, someone barfed on a bed, and it soaked through to the mattress. all the superficial stuff has been cleaned off, but there's still a smell and stain IN the mattress (not just on top of it). how do we get rid of that??

so two problems here:

1. how to get the water damage off a leather sofa
2. how to get a barf smell/some residual liquid out of the INSIDE of a mattress

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I think it depends what leater it is.
I have a really expensive leather sofa and even if you get a drop of water on it stains and won't come out.
I guess trying to let it dry wouldn't hurt?

it's an 8,500$ sofa...
so i think it falls into that category. i think it's beyond help, but then i don't know alot about leather furniture.

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i am so vain. and yet, so masochistic. how can the two coexist?
-francesca woodman

I've had the mattress barfing scenario before myself (yeah, gross) and it's pretty much impossible to actually get the liquid out of the inside of the mattress. I'd say slap the heating on really high in the room to dry it out, and spray febreze or similar odour-masking stuff on the mattress to mask the smell. I don't know how to deal with the puke stain itself, but I guess if you catch it early enough before it dries, you can get rid of the worst of it.

I have no idea what to do with the leather. I tried googling but it's all cleaning companies offering their services. Maybe they are worth a try, and probably safer than trying some home remedy and potentially arsing it up even more?

have you tried Yellow Pages?