Area Rug Cleaning in Fordham, Bronx

Walk into a typical apartment near the Grand Concourse and you will likely step onto parquet, with a large rug anchoring the living room. In a busy household that rug is a playground, a picnic spot and the place where everyone drops their bags after school.

Weeks of that leave a layer of powdery grit underneath the pile, sitting on the backing and on the wood below. Surface vacuuming never reaches it. Our plant can, because the rug is soaked and flushed from top to bottom.

Hauling it out and bringing it back costs you nothing. The crew rolls it up on the spot and handles the stairs or the elevator.

Every rug that arrives gets a tag and an intake sheet. Measurements, material, the stains you told us about and any wear we notice are written down, so the condition is on record before work begins.

Before water ever touches it, the rug is turned over and the grit is knocked loose with a beater, then vacuumed away from both faces. On a family rug from a lively apartment, the pile of sand on the floor afterward is often surprising.

The wash solution depends on what the rug is made of. Wool, cotton and polyester are straightforward. Viscose, sometimes sold as art silk, and natural jute both turn yellow or brown when overwetted, so those get a quicker, drier treatment.

After the rinse, a centrifuge spins out most of the water, and the rug finishes drying in a heated room. Fringes are washed and brushed straight before it leaves.

Children's rooms here often have a bright play mat or alphabet rug. Glue, crayon, slime and juice usually let go with the right spotter, and nothing we use is harmful to kids once dry.

If you moved into a furnished share near the university and found a rug already on the floor, a wash gives you a clean slate before you live on it for a year.

Steam heat in older buildings dries the air in winter and makes wool rugs shed more. A wash and a slow dry help the fibers settle down.

Turnaround is about a week. On return, the crew lays each rug back down and can set the coffee table or bed on top if you like.

Tribal and hand-knotted pieces follow a different path through the plant; read oriental rug cleaning in Fordham.

Getting a rug out of a Fordham, 10458, apartment and into our plant takes one call to 1-800-589-4364 or the free quote form, and the first cleaning is 10% off. Bedroom wall-to-wall is covered under carpet cleaning in Fordham.