Rug cleaning
in Woodside.

Woodside sits on the eastern slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains under redwood and Douglas fir, and the town takes about thirty inches of rain in a year. That shapes the work. Rugs we collect from the shaded lanes near Mountain Home and Woodside Glens often arrive damp underneath, with a gray bloom in the pile where the floor below never quite dried. We wash cold, then dry flat in a controlled room at the workshop rather than over a rail, because a heavy wool rug dried unevenly holds that smell for years. The other half of the town is horse country. The Town’s Livestock and Equestrian Heritage Committee reviews stable permits, and a great many properties keep horses at home, so rugs from Family Farm and the roads off Cañada come in with arena grit, hay chaff and barn dust worked down into the foundation. Grit is abrasive and cuts wool from below, so those rugs go through mechanical dusting before any water touches them. Then there are the estate houses. Woodside counted at least eight sawmills by 1855, and once the mills closed San Francisco families built country places on the cleared land; Filoli, finished in 1917, is the one everybody knows. Houses of that generation hold long hall runners and stair carpets that want reweaving and fringe work as much as a wash. Collections run up to Kings Mountain and Sky Londa as well. Our own van takes the hill roads, and no rug is handed to a carrier.

Tell us which times suit you and we will hold one, then confirm it the next day by phone or text; the line answers from 8am to 8pm, seven days. Gates, cattle grids and narrow turns are worth mentioning when you book, because the driver who collects your rug is the one who brings it back. Everything is washed at our own workshop in Newark, and nothing is passed to a subcontractor at any point.