Rug cleaning
in Burlingame.

Two things shape rug work in Burlingame: old trees and old houses. From 1873, John McLaren set 557 English elms and blue and manna gum eucalyptus in rows along four miles of El Camino Real; roughly 2.2 miles of that planting survives and went on the National Register in 2012. Trees on that scale hold shade, drop litter and keep the ground beneath them cool and damp, which is why so many hall runners from the streets below arrive gray rather than soiled. The houses followed the trees. Burlingame Park began with the country club and five cottages in 1893, the town incorporated in 1908 after the San Francisco earthquake pushed families down the Peninsula, and the Easton Addition — first mapped in 1905 and annexed as the Town of Easton in 1910 — did not really fill in until the 1920s. Those blocks have narrow board floors, deep porches and inherited wool with vegetable dyes that will not survive hot water, so we wash cold through twelve stages and leave the lanolin in the fiber. Ray Park and Burlingame Terrace send more mid-century wool and flatweave, which is a different job with the same rules. Our own crew collects, cleans and returns each piece; nothing is handed to a contractor or a freight depot.

Name the day that works and we will settle the exact hour with you well before it, by call or text. Calls and texts reach us on (650) 675-8160 between 8am and 8pm, all week. Collection and return are free throughout Burlingame, and a normal wash and dry runs seven to ten days. Water-damage jobs come back with insurance-ready documentation, and a USPAP appraisal can be arranged for anything inherited or insured separately.