Rug cleaning
in Richmond.

We regularly collect rugs from the Craftsman bungalows and Neo-Classic row houses of Point Richmond, a turn-of-the-century railroad and refinery town whose downtown has been on the National Register since 1979. Those pieces are often older wool weaves that have sat on fir floors through decades of bay fog, and a cold-water wash keeps the vegetable dyes and lanolin from stripping out. A few miles inland, Atchison Village tells a different story: built in 1941 as Richmond’s first public defense housing for Kaiser shipyard workers, its 450 units still stand on original fir framing, and the area rugs we see there tend to be newer, machine-made pieces bought for small rental rooms. The Iron Triangle grew up the same way, filling with shipyard families as Richmond’s population jumped from about 24,000 in 1940 to nearly 115,000 by 1942, and its housing runs from war-era cottages to postwar infill. Out toward Marina Bay, newer condominiums sit closer to open water, where salt air and wind put more wear on wool pile than most inland Contra Costa homes see. Whatever the era of the house, the rug gets the same twelve-step cold-water immersion wash we use on every piece that comes into our Newark workshop, and the same team that picks it up brings it back.

Pickup times are set ahead of your visit and confirmed with a call or text, and our customer service line is staffed from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week. Newark to Richmond is about thirty-seven miles by way of I-880 and I-80, forty-five to sixty minutes off-peak, longer when traffic backs up through Oakland. Your rug travels with our own crew the entire way — we collect it, wash it in Newark, and bring it home ourselves, no courier involved.