Rug cleaning
in Redwood City.

This city runs from open water to the ridge, and the rugs change as you climb. Down at the bay, Redwood Shores was raised in the 1960s on bay mud that the Leslie Salt Company had worked as evaporation ponds; it is townhouses and condominiums around lagoons, mostly on slab, with damp air off the water for much of the year. A rug there wants a breathable pad and a wash that is dried properly rather than skimmed. Inland, Mt. Carmel, Edgewood and the older grid behind the 1910 courthouse hold the city’s earliest housing, and that is where the hand-knotted pieces usually turn up: Persian and Turkish rugs walked on for forty years, which want cold water rather than heat. The replica arches on Broadway still carry the line a 1925 chamber-of-commerce contest picked for the city, “Climate Best By Government Test”. Farm Hill and Woodside Plaza sit between the two, largely post-war ranch houses where one room-size rug now does the job a fitted carpet used to. Everything gets the same treatment — a twelve-step cold-water immersion that keeps lanolin in the wool and leaves vegetable dyes alone, with enzymatic pre-treatment where a dog or cat has worked at a corner. If water has come up through a floor, we photograph and document the damage in a form an insurer will accept. Collection and return are free, and the same crew does both ends.

Call or text (650) 675-8160 between 8am and 8pm on any day of the week and we will hold a window for you, then reconfirm it a day later. Redwood Shores addresses are reached through San Carlos or Belmont rather than straight across the freeway, so we allow a few extra minutes at that end and say so when we book. Our own crew loads, washes and returns the rug; nothing is handed to a carrier.