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Amy Cutmore

How to clean a sofa bed – top hacks for tackling stains and everyday cleaning for an immaculate couch

Gallway burnt orange sofa bed in white living room.

Cleaning a sofa bed can feel like a workout session if you want to do it properly. Fishing forgotten items trapped in the crevices – coins, crumbs, the remote you thought you'd lost months ago, a random sock – can require adopting some interesting yoga poses. As can attending to mechanisms buried deep within. And that's even before you've reached for the vacuum cleaner or flipped the mattress.

Then there are the stains, from the pizza you dropped on it last movie night to the red wine or Ribena spills. How do you remove the evidence, as it were, without potentially marking your sofa bed for good?

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