Rug cleaning
in Concord.

Concord started in 1869 as Todos Santos, laid out by Don Salvio Pacheco II around what is now Todos Santos Plaza — still a full city block at the center of downtown, and still the site of the farmers market. The bigger story for rug cleaning here is what came after: the city’s population went from 1,373 in 1940 to 6,953 in 1950 to 36,208 in 1960, and most of Clayton Valley and Ygnacio Valley were built out in that stretch. That’s a lot of postwar tract housing on slab foundations, and a lot of rugs bought new for those living rooms rather than inherited. Concord also runs hot and dry in summer — average highs near 87°F, with a recorded high of 113°F in September 2017 — and inland heat like that dries out jute and cotton rug backing faster than the wool on top lets on. We rehydrate the whole rug in our cold-water wash rather than cleaning just the surface, and we check the foundation for splitting before it goes back down. Near Sun Terrace and the newer condo blocks close to downtown, synthetic-fiber rugs are more common, and those need a different wash chemistry than the wool pieces from older tracts.

For Concord, text or call (650) 675-8160 and we’ll fit a pickup window to your day rather than a fixed schedule — the line is open 8am to 8pm, seven days. The run to Newark is about forty-three miles each way, and it’s our own van making it, not a shipping contractor. Given how hot Concord gets in summer, we recommend scheduling a wash before storing a rug for the season rather than after; turnaround otherwise runs about a week to ten days.