Cho Lon, An Dong and Cho Quan: the wards we take bookings in
The former District 5 has consisted of three wards since 1 July 2025, under Resolution 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15, after four pairs of its wards merged earlier that year. Papers and signboards may still use an older ward number; the house number and street are enough to book.
Sofa bookings are taken in all three wards by appointment, 07:00–20:00 every day, with the arrival time agreed around the shop's hours and where to stop nearby.
- Cho Lon ward
- The old Wards 11–14, ward office at 279 Hai Thuong Lan Ong: the traditional-medicine street, assembly halls and French-period townhouses. We clean the family sofa upstairs and the shop seating below.
- An Dong ward
- The old Wards 5, 7 and 9, about 1.32 km², taking its name from An Dong Market; live-work townhouses alongside commercial buildings.
- Cho Quan ward
- The old Wards 1, 2 and 4, about 1.28 km²: the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted, Saigon University, townhouses on the main roads and older apartment blocks.
Deep, narrow houses: why sofas here lose colour and smell of damp
A District 5 townhouse is narrow, deep and several floors high, with trade or storage below and the family room, altar room and bedrooms above. Built in continuous rows, it seldom has side windows mid-house; light and air come from the front and the light well, so the sofa upstairs rarely sees the sun.
Dust is one problem: around Hai Thuong Lan Ong and Trieu Quang Phuc, where traditional medicine, dried goods and fabric are handled daily, fine dust reaches seating above the shop or near the stairs. Damp is the other: with average humidity about 79.5% and rain from May to November, cushion foam in a closed room holds moisture until it smells.
Cho Lon's early twentieth-century row houses are described with fine timber furniture; where a wooden set survives, we clean its cushions and dust the frame.
- Favourite seats and armrests darker than the rest.
- Fabric grey despite vacuuming, with fine dust rising when patted.
- A damp smell from the sofa in the middle room after weeks of rain.
- Brown rings left by tea or coffee served to guests.
- Yellowing on the underside of wooden-set cushions that are rarely turned.

Shop, clinic or family room: when to book
Customer seating in shops, clinics, small offices and eateries is in constant use, so we suggest a time to suit each:
- Shopfronts and pharmacies
- Before opening or late in the afternoon. Leather is usable again in about 30 minutes; fabric needs a few hours, so a late afternoon before a day off works well.
- Clinics and small offices
- A closed day or a session with no patients. If you stay open, sets are cleaned one at a time so the waiting area always has seats.
- Family room upstairs
- Mornings, so the fabric is dry by evening; it can share a visit with the shop sofa and be priced together.
- Flats in older blocks in Cho Quan
- A weekday when corridors and stairs are quiet. Tell us if management or the residents' group must be notified.
Fabric, leather and wooden-set cushions: how each is cleaned
Your Up specialist, an identity-verified cleaner trained to the Up Standard, reads the care label, checks the stitching and tests the solution on a hidden spot before starting.
- Fabric and microfibre
- Crevices and underside vacuumed, stains treated one by one, then spray extraction lifts the dirty water straight out; dry in 4–6 hours in a well-aired room.
- Leather
- Never washed with water: vacuumed, dusted gently, cleaned with a leather solution and conditioned. Usable after about 30 minutes.
- Cushions of wooden sets
- Priced and cleaned as a sofa of the same material. The frame, carved or plain, is dusted with a dry cloth only; we do not polish or refinish it.
- Velvet and special weaves
- Send close-up photos of the fabric and label; we propose a method and price only after assessing it.
- Ottomans and loose cushions
- 50,000 VND each, in the same visit.
What sofa cleaning costs in District 5: worked examples
Rates: 130,000 VND per fabric or microfibre seat, 160,000 VND per leather seat, 50,000 VND per ottoman or loose cushion. The 390,000 VND minimum applies to everything cleaned in one visit at one address, not to each piece. Worked examples:
- Included: covers for floor and furniture, deep vacuuming, colourfastness test, spot treatment, leather conditioning and the Up Report.
- Long-set stains and cracked leather may improve only partly; you are told beforehand, and nothing is charged without your written agreement.
- Shops and clinics needing a VAT invoice should send their tax code with the booking.
- Family room, 3-seat fabric sofa
- 3 × 130,000 VND: 390,000 VND.
- Shop and home: 3-seat leather downstairs, 5-seat fabric corner sofa upstairs
- 1,130,000 VND.
- Wooden set 3 + 1 + 1 with fabric cushions
- 5 × 130,000 VND: 650,000 VND.
- Flat, 2-seat fabric sofa with 2 loose cushions
- 2 × 130,000 VND + 2 × 50,000 VND = 360,000 VND; the 390,000 VND visit minimum applies.
- Clinic, two 3-seat leather sofas in the waiting area
- 960,000 VND.
Steep stairs, busy streets and older apartment blocks
Townhouse stairs here are often narrow, steep and reached through the shop, so equipment goes up in small parts, clear of walls, handrails and stock. Streets are busy from early morning, with lorry delivery hours and limits on stopping, so please show us where to leave the motorbike. Where an older apartment block must be notified, we send the specialist's name and photo once the booking is confirmed; formalities after an on-time arrival do not count as lateness.
- Clear papers, ornaments and fragile items from the sofa and coffee table.
- Keep the way from the front door to the stairs free while the machine comes in.
- Leave a socket free near the sofa for the extraction machine.
- Afterwards, open a window or run a fan or the aircon until the fabric is fully dry.
Our commitments, and how to book
The total comes from published rates, in writing, before the visit; if we are over 15 minutes late, that visit is 10% off. The room is photographed as found, goods and altar items nearby are covered, and everything goes back in place. Your Up Report, with before-and-after photos of each set, arrives by WhatsApp or Zalo; anything short of standard is redone free if you tell us within 48 hours.
- Send a photo of each set with seats, material, location (shop or upstairs) and loose pieces to 0968 726 135 on WhatsApp or Zalo, or use the Quote page.
- Accept the written quote and pick a time between 07:00 and 20:00; you receive the specialist's name and photo before the day.
- Check each set with the specialist, then pay by bank transfer or cash; VAT invoices come from Uptech Technology Solution Company Limited (tax code 0316973414).
- Get a quote
- Seats, material and a photo.
- Sofa cleaning in Ho Chi Minh City
- Methods and the full price table.
- Sofa cleaning in District 1
- Our page for the city centre.
- Guide: cleaning a fabric sofa at home
- Care-label codes and stains between visits.
What does UpClean's sofa cleaning include?
- Upholstery, stitching and care label checked before we start
- Floors, skirting and nearby furniture protected
- Deep vacuum of frame, seat crevices, arms and underneath
- Colourfastness test on a hidden spot before any stain treatment
- Spray-extraction cleaning for fabric; gentle cleaning and conditioning for leather
- Spot treatment for drink spills, sweat marks, body oils and musty odours
- Moisture extracted, pile brushed, cushions set back in place and handover
Written by the UpClean technical team, reviewed by Trần Nguyễn Hữu Nhật — Founder of UpClean.
Sources
- Nghị quyết 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15 về sắp xếp đơn vị hành chính cấp xã TP.HCM năm 2025
- Chi tiết sáp nhập phường của TP.HCM áp dụng từ ngày 1/1/2025 — Tuổi Trẻ
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- Phường Chợ Quán độc đáo những gì? — Thanh Niên
- Dự kiến quận 5 sẽ có 3 phường: An Đông, Chợ Lớn, Chợ Quán — Tuổi Trẻ
- Mảnh ghép ký ức từ những ngôi nhà “đồng lầu” ở Chợ Lớn — Happynest (2025)
- Chợ Lớn xưa và nay — VnExpress
- Khí hậu, thời tiết TP.HCM — Cổng thông tin điện tử TP.HCM




