Rug cleaning
in San Carlos.

San Carlos grew in two clear waves, and the rugs show it. The flats near Laurel Street — White Oaks, Howard Park and Clearfield Park — were laid out while the town was still selling itself as the City of Good Living, and those houses keep narrow-board wood floors that suit a hand-knotted rug. Then the population went from 1,132 in 1930 to 14,371 by 1950 and the hills filled with ranch houses. Streets like Beverly Terrace and Cordes sit on stepped lots with a flight of steps between the curb and the front door, so we plan the lift before the van arrives and bring a second pair of hands when the carry is long. What comes off those floors is mostly dry soil. Rain here falls almost entirely between November and March, about twenty inches a year, with July averaging a hundredth of an inch, so a rug spends the summer collecting fine grit that settles at the base of the pile and cuts wool from underneath. Our twelve-step cold-water immersion wash flushes that out without stripping the lanolin, and cold water keeps vegetable dyes where the weaver put them. Fringes and side cords are checked and quoted before anything is rolled. Pickup and delivery are free on orders of $150 or more, handled by our own crew, and the rug is never passed to a contractor.

Booking is a call or a text to (650) 675-8160, answered from 8am to 8pm every day of the week. You choose a time that suits you, and we ring or text back the next day to fix it. Tell us if the front door is up a flight of steps, which is common on the hill streets, and we will send two people. The pair who collect your rug are the pair who wash it in Newark and carry it back in.