Area rug cleaning in University Place, WA

Rugs in University Place come to us with a regional set of problems: mildew on the back from sitting on a damp slab, pet urine that went through to the foundation, and years of winter grit cutting the wool from the inside. Dusting the rug face-down before any water touches it removes pounds of that grit, and it is the step most in-home cleaners skip. It is a familiar story on our University Place route.

What University Place homes bring us

In University Place we regularly pick up rugs from Chambers Bay, Day Island and Sunset Beach. A customer's antique Kashmir rug went out and came back in beautiful shape; a Persian rug its owner had been afraid to clean for years came back restored. Those are the jobs we like most. University Place sends us this exact kind of job on a normal week.

For area & oriental rug cleaning in University Place that means dealing with wool and hand-knotted rugs that have been sitting on damp slab floors or taking a beating from winter grit. About thirty-five thousand live here across zip codes 98466, 98467.

Tacoma is where this company earned its first reviews. It is a city of real neighborhoods — the North End and Stadium District with their turn-of-the-century houses, Proctor, the Hilltop, the East Side, South Tacoma — plus Fife, Fircrest, Ruston and University Place around the edges. Housing is older and more affordable than Seattle, and a huge share of it is rented. University Place homeowners tend to book yearly maintenance cleanings rather than emergencies.

Neighborhood by neighborhood

• In Chambers Bay, most of our area & oriental rug cleaning calls are from homeowners doing their first professional cleaning in years, and the before-and-after is dramatic.
• Rentals in Day Island turn over regularly, and a good share of our Day Island work is turnover cleaning with a receipt for the landlord.
• Sunset Beach has a lot of homes where a previous pet left its mark; a UV inspection before area & oriental rug cleaning is worth asking for there.
• We keep notes on repeat customers in Narrows, so the tech knows the closet that never dries and the spot behind the sofa before he walks in.

From University Place the van usually continues to Fircrest (about 38 minutes from our yard), Fox Island (about 55 minutes from our yard), Lakewood (about 42 minutes from our yard), Ruston (about 40 minutes from our yard) on the same day, which is how area & oriental rug cleaning in University Place stays at our base rate: the drive is shared across the route.

Why it matters here

Wool rugs washed every two or three years last for generations. Wool rugs cleaned in place with alkaline carpet chemistry brown, felt and bleed. The difference between the two is the reason we take rugs out of University Place homes to clean them rather than doing what is convenient. Nothing about that is unusual for University Place — we see it often.

Spring is the best time to send out wool rugs: the wash floor dries them fast and the house is ready to have them back on clean carpet. We hear a version of this from University Place every few weeks.

Jobs like yours

A homeowner's rug had been sitting on a slab floor in a daylight basement and smelled of mildew. The back had mildew growth; the front looked fine. It washed out. Dry rot, where the cotton foundation has become brittle, would not have, and we checked for that first. University Place customers describe it to us the same way, almost word for word.

Locally owned, not a franchise

A franchise sends whoever is on the schedule. We send someone who has been with us for years and knows University Place — the Chambers Bay and Day Island area in particular. Customers in University Place mention that in reviews more than they mention the equipment: the tech who helped carry in groceries, the one who explained drying time before starting, the one who spent longer than expected because the sofa needed it. Locally owned means the reputation is personal.

How the visit goes

The tech starts with a fiber and dye check and ends with a controlled dry, groom, return; what happens in between is on the area & oriental rug cleaning page. What does not change from house to house in University Place: you hear the price first, and it does not move. Rug pickup pairs naturally with a carpet cleaning at the same address, and with upholstery in the same room. It is the kind of job that brings us back to University Place on a regular basis.

What we will tell you honestly

We do not clean wool or hand-knotted rugs in your home, even when it would be more convenient. The risk of dye migrating into your floor is real. Ask any tech on our University Place route and you will hear the same answer.

Pricing in University Place

University Place is about 40 minutes from our yard in South Park. It sits on a regular route, so there is no distance charge; we group it with the stops around it. The number the tech gives you on the walk-through is the number on the receipt, and the walk-through is free.