Rug cleaning
in Daly City.

Daly City is a 1950s city. Census figures put 8,807 of its 35,922 housing units in the years 1950 to 1959, and 15,008 of them before 1960. Much of that is Westlake, the tract Henry Doelger laid out on dunes and cabbage fields west of the old town and built between 1948 and 1962. The houses share a small vocabulary: modest living rooms, oak strip floors, and a garage below with the stairs above. A nine-by-twelve fits. An eight-by-ten fits better. We collect wool and machine-made rugs there, and hand-knotted pieces from the hillside streets of St. Francis Heights and Southern Hills. The other half of the job is weather. Daly City sits on the ocean side of the ridge and shares the fog pattern of San Francisco’s Sunset and Richmond districts, spring through late summer. Wool washed at home in that air does not finish drying. Moisture stays in the foundation, the backing sours, and casemaking moths find the fringe. That is the argument for taking a rug off the block. We roll it, drive it to Newark, and run the twelve-step cold-water immersion wash indoors, where drying is a controlled step rather than a hope. Pads matter here as well. Garage-under floors run cold, and a breathable felt pad keeps wool off a chilly slab landing. Serramonte and Crocker pickups work the same way.

Call or text (650) 675-8160 and we set a window before anyone drives out. Confirmation comes back inside a day, and the line is staffed from 8am to 8pm every day of the week. The crew that arrives is the crew that washes the rug. They photograph it where it lies, note the stair run or the garage entry, roll it and wrap it for the drive. Return delivery is free and booked the same way.