Rug cleaning
in Campbell.

The city calls itself the Orchard City, and its housing sits on ground that was fruit land first. By 1892 the Campbell Fruit Growers’ Union was running a seventeen-acre drying yard here, and the canneries that followed set the street grid. Most homes now are single-family, roughly 1,000 to 1,600 square feet on lots of about 6,000, and the great majority went up between the 1950s and the 1970s. That gives us a steady diet of eight-by-tens and nine-by-twelves sized to one living room, often the only rug in the house and often older than the owners think. Around Downtown Campbell there are pockets of earlier homes kept for their architecture, and the 1925 English Tudor of the Ainsley House sets the tone for them: narrow-board floors, small formal rooms, wool that has never been lifted. Newer builds of about 3,500 square feet, dropped onto subdivided lots in the 1990s, ask for something much larger and take far more traffic. The retail spine along Hamilton and Bascom, including the Pruneyard, means grit walked in off parking aprons, while San Tomas has bigger lots and more garden coming through the door. Everything is hand-washed at our Newark atelier in a twelve-step cold-water immersion bath that keeps lanolin in the wool and leaves vegetable dyes alone. Pet damage gets an enzymatic pre-treatment before washing. Pickup, free on orders of $150 or more, is arranged first, and the crew that collects is the crew that returns.

Pickup across Campbell is free on orders of $150 or more, and arranged ahead. Call or text (650) 675-8160 between 8am and 8pm, any day, and we will hold a window that suits you, then confirm it inside twenty-four hours. Our own crew arrives, rolls and wraps the rug at the door, and writes up condition notes before it leaves the house. No part of the job goes to a contractor. Finished rugs come back the same way, and climate-controlled storage is there if floors are still being refinished.