Rug cleaning
in Los Altos.

This was apricot country before it was a city. J. Gilbert Smith’s Blenheim orchard is still standing — ten acres of it around City Hall, on land the city bought in 1954 — and the streets around it were laid over the rest of the trees. Los Altos incorporated in 1952 and holds a quarter-acre minimum lot, so what we collect is largely single-story ranch houses with long living-and-dining runs and oak strip floors. Rooms like that take one big rug instead of three small ones: nine by twelve and upward, too heavy to handle wet at home and far too wide for any domestic machine. Summers on this side of the hills are dry. Fine grit rides in on shoes, settles at the base of the pile and works like sandpaper against the knots every time somebody crosses the room, which is why every rug is dusted mechanically before it meets water. Rancho opened at Springer and Foothill in 1951 and Loyola Corners sits at the far end of the same expressway; houses between the two have changed hands several times over, and rugs reach us marked by a pet two households back. Enzymatic pre-treatment handles what a surface clean will not touch. We collect from Old Los Altos and the Heritage Orchard end of town through to South Los Altos.

Booking is a call or a text to (650) 675-8160, answered 8am to 8pm every day; you pick the window and we confirm it inside twenty-four hours. Most of the city has no sidewalk, so the driver parks on the drive and carries the rug out rolled rather than dragging it across gravel. It is washed at our own workshop and brought back by the pair who collected it, which is also how any repair gets quoted honestly.