In short
Flying Carpet Cleaning NJ cleans carpets, area rugs, sofas, upholstered furniture and mattresses for homes and businesses across Essex County, New Jersey. Each visit starts with a look at the material, and the method is chosen for it. Open 24 hours, every day. Quotes are free with no obligation.
The homes of Essex County
Essex County runs from the Passaic River at Newark to the hills and suburbs of the west, and its homes change along the way. Of roughly 337,000 homes counted in the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 41 percent are single family houses, which is what most streets in Livingston or West Caldwell are lined with. Another 28 percent are in houses of 2 to 4 units, a pattern familiar from Newark, and 20 percent in buildings of 20 units or more, as in East Orange and downtown Newark. Renters live in 55 percent of the occupied homes. The county built early. Homes from before 1940 are 29 percent of the total and the median year built is 1958, while 14 percent date from 2000 or later.
How a visit works here
Access is the first thing we ask about, because it differs so much across Essex County. At a house with a driveway in the western towns, parking by the door makes the visit simple to plan. In Newark, East Orange, Orange or Irvington the home may be the upper floor of a two family house or an apartment off an elevator, so give us the floor, the number of flights and any rule the building has about outside work. Say where a work vehicle can stand on your street. Most homes dry in a few hours. Open windows or running air shorten that, and a wet day stretches it.
Towns in Essex County
Each town has its own page, with notes on its homes and buildings.
What we clean in Essex County
Carpet cleaning in Essex County
In Essex County 59 percent of homes are in buildings shared with other households, and the rest are single family houses. For carpet cleaning the difference is practical. In a house we plan around the staircase and the upstairs hall, and in an apartment around the building entry and the people living under the floor. In both, the worn lanes and the spots get treated first, and the method is matched to the fiber. Walk the carpet in daylight before the visit and note each spot you want us to see, because some disappear from view when the light changes. If something spills in the meantime, blot it with a dry white cloth and leave the scrubbing to us. Rubbing pushes a spill deeper and roughs up the pile, and that damage stays after the stain is gone.
Rug cleaning in Essex County
Homes built before 1940 make up 29 percent of Essex County, a share that takes in the older houses of Montclair, Glen Ridge and the Oranges as well as parts of Newark. In a home of any age, an area rug gets the same start from us: we identify the fiber, check how the rug is made and test the dyes before deciding how wet the cleaning can be. The rug is then cleaned where it lies and left to dry flat. Some rugs should not be cleaned that way, and if yours needs a full immersion wash, we will say so plainly. If you have several rugs, describe each one separately when you ask for a quote. A wool runner and a room size synthetic rug are different jobs, and the size, the fiber and the condition of each one set the quote.
Sofa cleaning in Essex County
Where the sofa sits matters as much as what it is made of. Essex County homes are split between single family houses, 41 percent of the total, and homes in shared buildings, so a sectional may be in a ground floor family room, a basement or a sixth floor apartment. Tell us which. A basement room has less moving air and fabric dries more slowly there, so we plan the method and the drying around it. In any room we begin with the code on the fabric tag, try the method somewhere out of sight, and only then clean the piece, with extra time on the arms and the seat edges. For the quote we need the seat count and the name of the fabric. If the tag says the fabric is not to be wet cleaned, say that when you call, since it changes what we can do.
Upholstery cleaning in Essex County
Essex County is home to about 863,000 people, and to the offices and shops where many of them sit down during the day. We clean upholstered furniture in businesses as well as in homes: desk chairs, waiting room seating, dining chairs, ottomans and headboards. Each piece is checked for its fabric and its cleaning code and then cleaned in place with the method that fabric allows. For a business, tell us how many chairs there are, what covers them and when the room is empty. We are open every day of the week, from 8 in the morning to 8 at night, so choose a time after which the seats can be left alone to dry. At home, count the pieces, group the dining chairs together, and tell us which spots matter most to you.
More about upholstery cleaning
Mattress cleaning in Essex County
Two in three Essex County homes are in houses with no more than four units, and the remaining third are in apartment buildings. Wherever the bedroom is, the mattress is cleaned on its own frame and nothing has to be carried down a staircase or into an elevator. For the quote, say how many mattresses there are and the size of each, a crib mattress and a king being very different amounts of work. Say what each is made of if you know. We vacuum, treat the stains and clean the surface with as little moisture as the job allows, because the inside of a mattress is slow to dry once it is wet. Have the beds bare when we get there. Leave them unmade afterward until the surface is fully dry, which takes 24 to 72 hours, depending on the season, in a room with moving air.
Essex County: questions, answered
Which towns in Essex County do you serve?
Essex County is one of the six New Jersey counties we work in, from Newark, East Orange and Irvington to Montclair, Bloomfield, West Orange and Livingston. Give us your address when you ask for a quote and we confirm it, and describe the home, because access at a house with a driveway differs from access at an upper floor apartment.
Is carpet cleaned differently in an Essex County house than in an apartment?
Mostly in the planning. The method is picked for the fiber in both cases, either hot water extraction or one that uses little moisture. In a house we plan around stairs and furniture, and in an apartment around the entry, the elevator and the neighbors below. About 59 percent of Essex County homes share a building with other households.
Can you tell me if a stain will come out before you clean in my Essex County home?
Not until we have seen it. We start every visit by examining the fiber or the fabric, the wear and the spots you care about, and you hear what to expect before any work begins. Describing the stain, its age and what you have tried on it when you call still helps us come prepared.