Rug cleaning
in Petaluma.

The rugs we see most from Petaluma come out of the Historic Commercial District downtown, where cast-iron storefronts like the 1882 Masonic Building have stood since the city shipped goods up and down the river by scow schooner. Apartments carved into those upper floors often sit on old fir flooring, and the runners laid over it pick up more foot traffic than a suburban hallway ever would. West of the river, pre-1906 Victorian houses survived the earthquake that leveled buildings elsewhere in the Bay Area, and their front rooms still hold the wool rugs bought back when Petaluma was shipping incubator-hatched eggs worldwide as the self-declared ‘Egg Basket of the World.’ Those older wool pieces need a lanolin-preserving wash, not a harsh detergent strip. East of downtown, past North McDowell and South McDowell Boulevards, the housing is newer and the rugs tend to be synthetic-blend pieces bought for open-plan living rooms — a different job entirely from the antiques closer in. Along Payran, nearer the river, flooding is a recurring risk, and rugs from there sometimes arrive with water staining that calls for insurance-ready documentation before we treat it. We collect all of it, wash it in Newark, and return it ourselves.

Petaluma is roughly sixty-eight road miles from our Newark atelier, so we set up pickups here by arrangement instead of a standing route. Call or text (650) 675-8160 — customer service answers 8am to 8pm, seven days — and we’ll pin down a window and confirm it back to you directly. Once scheduled, your rug is collected, washed at the atelier with the same twelve-step cold-water process used for every city we serve, and driven back by our own crew, never handed to a courier.