Rug cleaning
in Tiburon.

Two thirds of Tiburon’s 13.22 square miles is water, and the town’s history is stacked along that shoreline. Ark Row on Main Street is built from turn-of-the-century arks, floating summer houses hauled up and set on foundations once the lagoon behind them was filled. The railroad reached Point Tiburon in 1882, Old St Hilary’s went up in 1888 for the men who worked it, and the town itself did not incorporate until 1964. The housing follows that sequence, from Victorian cottages in Old Tiburon to the post-war ranch tracts of Belveron and the hillside subdivisions above them. Rugs in the older stock take the sea air first. Chloride carried on a marine breeze settles into cotton foundations, and over a decade or two the fringes go brittle and the selvedges part under a chair leg. Newer hillside houses have the light problem instead: west-facing glass over Raccoon Strait puts hard afternoon sun on one end of a rug for years at a stretch. We wash cold, by immersion, twelve steps, so lanolin and vegetable dye survive the process, and we reweave selvedges and fringes in the workshop rather than gluing them. For pickup, the peninsula’s single road is the constraint, so we plan the Tiburon Boulevard leg around ferry traffic and settle parking with you beforehand.

Start with a call or text to (650) 675-8160; the phone is answered 8am to 8pm right through the week. We fix a window together and send confirmation about a day beforehand. Our own crew makes the trip, no subcontractors, and they carry the rug out, wrap it on site and log its condition before it leaves. Tell us if the house is behind a gate or up a shared drive so the van arrives with the right kit.