Rug cleaning
in San Jose.

San Jose rug work splits into two kinds of house. Willow Glen was its own incorporated city from 1927 until residents voted to join San Jose in 1936. Naglee Park was subdivided from General Naglee’s estate in 1902 and mostly rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake. In both, the floors are oak and the rugs are room-size wool that has been walked on for decades. Grit works down into the foundation of the weave. A full cold-water immersion wash rinses it out of the foundation; because the water is never heated, the wool keeps its lanolin and the vegetable dyes stay put. The second kind is newer and harder on wool than it looks. The Fairglen Additions in Willow Glen are 218 Eichler houses built between 1959 and 1961, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. They sit on radiant-heated concrete slabs behind floor-to-ceiling glass. A rug on a warm slab in that much light dries out and loses color along one edge. Newer tracts in Almaden Valley and Evergreen do the same thing more slowly. NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals put San Jose at 16.14 inches of rain a year, with July and August measured in hundredths of an inch. The drying season is long. We collect from Japantown and Downtown as readily as from the south end of the city. Our crew wraps the rug at your door, drives it to Newark, and brings it back. No contractor handles it.

Call (650) 675-8160 or book online. Customer service answers 8am to 8pm, seven days. We schedule your pickup window in advance and confirm it within a day. Our own crew comes down I-880, wraps the rug at your door, and writes the condition notes on the spot: moth damage, pet staining, dye bleed, a break in the foundation along one end. The same crew brings it back to San Jose when the wash and any repair work are done.