Rug cleaning
in Atherton.

Atherton is zoned for one thing: single-family houses on lots of at least an acre, with no commercial zoning anywhere inside the town limits, so there are no shops, restaurants or grocery stores to interrupt the pattern. The rooms that come with those lots take rugs that will not fit a small shop floor — twelve by eighteen, fourteen by twenty, occasionally a stair runner cut to a curve. We wash pieces that size flat at our Newark workshop, which is the reason we can quote them honestly instead of sending them out. Most streets here have no sidewalks and the town has consistently said it prefers to keep the semi-rural feel, so the van comes up the drive and the rug is carried rather than dragged over gravel. Under the heritage oaks the ground stays shaded and damp well into spring, and rugs by a garden door pick up tannin and leaf stain along the edges; those come out cold, before the marks set. Lindenwood, Lloyden Park and the lanes West of Alameda all send us work, and so do houses near Holbrook-Palmer Park. Anything going onto an insurance schedule can have a USPAP appraisal, and if a remodel runs long the rug waits in climate-controlled storage rather than in a garage.

Call or text (650) 675-8160 on any day between 8am and 8pm; the office sets a window with you and reconfirms it before the van leaves Newark. Gate codes, keypad entries and a note about where to park save everyone time, and it is worth mentioning a long drive or an oversized piece so we bring enough hands. The crew who lift the rug are the crew who wash it and lay it back down.