Rug cleaning
in Sausalito.

Sausalito incorporated in 1893, and the housing still reads that way. Late-Victorian and Edwardian cottages sit on the lower slopes of New Town around Caledonia Street, larger view houses stack up The Hill, and north of them lies flat filled ground at Marinship, where Bechtel laid out a 210-acre shipyard in 1942 and turned out 93 vessels before the war ended. Rugs take two kinds of punishment in a town shaped like this. Hillside houses run narrow stairs and tight landings, so a room-size Heriz gets dragged rather than carried, and the wear turns up first along fold lines and end finishes. Waterfront households, including the four hundred-plus floating homes that grew from material left when the yard was decommissioned, sit in air that never really dries. Morning fog holds until about midday through much of spring and summer, and afternoons on Richardson Bay run twelve to fifteen degrees cooler than San Rafael. Wool kept damp under a sofa goes moldy at the foundation long before the pile looks dirty, and airborne salt stiffens fringes and cotton warps. We wash cold, by full immersion, twelve steps, which keeps lanolin in the fiber and vegetable dyes where the weaver put them. Collection is straightforward. Tell us the address and where a van can stand — curb space on Bridgeway and access down at Gate Five Road both need thinking about — and we wrap the rug in the room and return it flat and dry.

Call or text (650) 675-8160 and we will hold a slot that suits the household; someone answers from 8am to 8pm, seven days. The time is fixed with you a day or so ahead, never dropped on you. Our own crew drives the van, so whoever wraps the rug in Sausalito is whoever unrolls it in Newark. If it has to come down a stair or along a dock finger, say so and we send two people.