Rug cleaning
in South San Francisco.

The 1950s produced more of this city’s housing than any other decade: 5,725 units, with 13,528 of the 23,515 total standing before 1970. The subdivisions that did the work were Buri Buri, Winston Manor and Westborough, opened on the slopes west of El Camino while the population more than tripled after the war. Those are single-story and split-level plans with oak strip floors and rooms cut for a nine-by-twelve. Old Town, under the concrete letters that went up on Sign Hill in 1929, is older and tighter, with flats, stair carries and smaller pieces. The local variable is wind, not fog. The hills to the west shield the eastern half of the city from fog that settles on its neighbors, while ocean wind averages 13.6 mph through summer and 7.5 mph in winter. Wind carries grit. Grit works down through the pile, settles against the foundation and cuts the wool from underneath every time somebody crosses the room. Once it is down there a vacuum will not lift it. Immersion will: the rug is dusted dry first, then run through the twelve-step cold-water wash at our Newark workshop, then dried on controlled air rather than in a driveway. The biotech blocks east of Highway 101, out to Oyster Point, are on the same run.

Reach us on (650) 675-8160 by call or text. Customer service picks up between 8am and 8pm on any day of the week, and the window you ask for is confirmed back to you inside a day. Let us know if the rug is above a flight of stairs in Old Town or behind a garage on the Westborough side. Whoever loads the van in South San Francisco is the person who washes your rug in Newark, and both legs of the journey are free.