Rug cleaning
in Oakland.

Oakland’s rug question is really a housing question. Rockridge laid out its first residential tract in 1909 and filled in with California bungalows and Craftsman cottages: deep porches, hand-worked woodwork, and long open floors built to be covered. Temescal and Piedmont Avenue grew the same way along Key System streetcar lines, and the rugs that landed in those rooms have mostly stayed. Downtown holds the other half. The sixteen restored buildings at Preservation Park survive from a Victorian neighborhood that began in the 1870s, and the Italianate and Queen Anne rooms around Old Oakland take smaller, more formal pieces. The hills change the work. Montclair and Redwood Heights sit above a redwood valley that stays damp year-round, fed by air funneled in through the Golden Gate. Wool holds that moisture. We check for it first. A rug that has spent a decade on a shaded hill floor gets inspected for mildew odor and for dye movement in the fringe before it goes anywhere near water. After that, everything runs the same. Our own crew collects, rolls and returns. No contractor handles your rug at any point. At the workshop it is dusted, tested for dye stability, then given the 12-step cold-water immersion wash. Cold water is what protects the natural lanolin in the wool and keeps old vegetable dyes from bleeding. Repairs, reweaving, moth treatment, pet-damage enzymatic pre-treatment and USPAP appraisals all happen in the same building.

Call (650) 675-8160 and we set a window before anyone drives. Customer service answers 8am to 8pm, seven days, and we confirm your slot within a day of booking. Our own crew arrives, looks at the rug where it lies, notes wear, prior repairs and any pet or water history, then rolls and wraps it. Pickup and delivery are free across Oakland on orders of $150 or more. The same crew brings the rug back.