Area rug cleaning in New Jersey

What we clean

Wool, synthetic, Persian, Oriental, tribal and shag area rugs

Where

In your home, on the floor where the rug lies, or by pickup

Pickup

On request the rug is collected from your home, cleaned and returned rolled and wrapped

First step

A check of the fiber, the dyes and the condition

Quote

Free, based on the size, the fiber and the condition

Where

North and Central New Jersey, including Bergen, Hudson, Essex, Union, Middlesex and Passaic counties

When

Open 24 hours, every day

Why a rug is not cleaned like a carpet

Wall to wall carpet is made to one standard and glued or stretched to the floor. A rug is its own object. It may be wool, cotton, silk, viscose or polypropylene, hand knotted or machine made, colored with dyes that hold fast or dyes that run. The same water temperature that suits a synthetic rug can make the reds of an old wool rug bleed into the ivory.

That is why every rug is looked at before it is cleaned. We identify the fiber, test the dyes in a corner, and check the fringe, the edges and the backing.

How we clean a rug in your home

We vacuum both the face and, where the rug can be turned, the back, because most of the grit in a rug sits at the base of the pile. Spots are treated first. Then the rug is cleaned with the amount of water and the temperature that its fiber and dyes allow, and the pile is groomed so it dries lying in one direction.

The rug dries flat, with air moving over it. A wool rug holds more water than a synthetic one and takes longer.

Pickup and return

When cleaning on the floor does not suit the rug or the room, we can pick the rug up from your home, clean it and bring it back rolled and wrapped. It suits a rug that covers most of a small room, a rug over a wood floor that should stay dry, or a home where the floor cannot be given up while the rug dries.

Before we collect it, clear the furniture off the rug and tell us its size and which floor it is on. The rug is looked over with you at the door, and anything already there, such as worn fringe, a stain or moth damage, is pointed out before it leaves. Have the floor swept and the pad in place for its return.

When cleaning at home is not the right answer

Some rugs should not be wet cleaned on a living room floor. A rug that is soaked through with pet urine, one whose dyes failed the test, a silk or viscose rug, or an old rug with a weak foundation is better picked up and cleaned away from the home. When that is the case we tell you before starting, and we explain what we saw.

Fringe, pads and the floor underneath

Cotton fringe darkens faster than the rug itself and is cleaned separately, by hand. If there is a pad under the rug, tell us, since a damp pad on a wood floor needs to be lifted while everything dries. Furniture goes back on the rug only when it is fully dry.

What to tell us when you call

• The size of the rug, even roughly.
• The fiber, if you know it, and where and when it was bought.
• If it is hand knotted or machine made (the back of a hand knotted rug shows the pattern knot by knot).
• Any pet accidents, spills or color that has already run.
• The floor it lies on, and if there is a pad underneath.