Rug cleaning
in Antioch.

Antioch began in 1849 as Smith’s Landing, founded by the twin brothers William and Joseph Smith, and took its present name at a Fourth of July gathering in 1851. Rivertown is what survives of that town: brick commercial frontages and Italianate and folk Victorian houses on the bluff above the San Joaquin. The Roswell Butler Hard House at 815 West First Street, built in 1869 from brick fired in the city, went on the National Register in 1993. Floors in that quarter are old, wide and rarely level, and a rug from those blocks has usually outlasted several owners. River air shapes the rest of the work. Antioch summers are semi-arid, averaging around 91°F with 117°F on the record, and the delta breeze off San Francisco Bay drops the temperature sharply after dark. Wool follows that swing, taking on moisture overnight and giving it up by afternoon, and a rug left rolled in a garage through a season of it is where we most often find mildew and a rotted foundation. We wash cold, dry flat under controlled air, and document damage properly when an insurer is involved. South of Highway 4 the housing is new. Deer Valley, Dallas Ranch and Prewett Ranch filled in while the city went from 62,195 people in 1990 to 115,291 in 2020, and those rugs are larger, younger and mostly machine-made.

Antioch is outside our regular working radius, so pickups here are set up by arrangement rather than assumed. The number for that is (650) 675-8160, phone or text, staffed 8am to 8pm every day; we find a date that works at both ends and then confirm the hour. Our own van makes the full run each way. Allow seven to ten days for a straightforward wash, with a written quote first if the rug needs repair.