Rug cleaning
in Saratoga.

Saratoga’s houses were built to hold large rugs. Parker Ranch sits on one-acre minimum lots west of Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road and runs up into the hills; the Golden Triangle, bounded by Saratoga Avenue, Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road and Cox Avenue, is mostly four-bedroom ranch homes on quarter-acre parcels now giving way to larger custom builds. Long entry halls, double-height living rooms and open dining wings call for twelve-by-eighteens and bigger, and a piece that size is usually worth more than the furniture standing on it. Local taste tends to follow the period the town’s landmarks come from. Hakone Gardens, begun in 1915, is among the oldest Japanese-style residential gardens in the Western Hemisphere and joined the National Register in 2013; Villa Montalvo was built between 1912 and 1914 for James D. Phelan; the Foothill Club that Julia Morgan designed in 1915 stands a short walk from Saratoga Village. Houses furnished around that sensibility hold Heriz, Tabriz and silk pieces that need vegetable-dye-safe handling rather than a quick wet-clean. Hillside lots add their own load: oak litter, canyon pollen and wildfire smoke, all of it settling deep into a thick pile. We wash by hand at our Newark atelier, twelve steps in cold water with the lanolin preserved, and we issue USPAP appraisals when a rug needs a documented value. Collection and delivery are free and handled door to door by our own crew.

Saratoga collections are booked before we set out. Call or text (650) 675-8160 any day, 8am to 8pm, and we propose a window you will have confirmed inside a day. Long gravel drives and hillside turnarounds are normal here, so tell us where the van should stop. The crew rolls and wraps on site, records the condition of the rug, and brings it back themselves. Climate-controlled storage is available if the house is mid-renovation.