Persian, oriental, wool and silk — washed by hand, repaired by hand.
The soil here is dark rather than rust-red, the summer runs long enough that a floor never really dries out, and half the houses in Cloverdale still sit on brick piers over an open crawlspace. Rugs pick all of that up from underneath, where nobody is looking. We collect the rug, wash it by hand off site, dry it flat, and bring it back.
A hand-knotted Tabriz and a polypropylene flatweave off a shelf are not the same object, and they should never meet the same brush. Vegetable dyes bleed. Silk scorches under heat. Cotton foundations shrink if they are pulled out of the wash wet and dried under tension. Guessing is how rugs get ruined.
So nothing gets cleaned until it has been looked over: fibre content, dye stability, weave construction, backing, previous repairs, and whatever a run of long Alabama summers has left down in the foundation. Only then does the rug get a method. That inspection costs nothing, it happens before you commit to anything, and if a rug is not worth the cost of cleaning we will say so.
Wool, silk, cotton, jute and synthetics each get their own water temperature, pH and agitation.
Chewed corners, unravelling fringe, moth grazing and split foundations rebuilt by hand.
Grey clay and the smell of a closed room are dealt with in the foundation, not perfumed over.
We collect and return across Montgomery, Autauga and Elmore counties. You never lift a roll.
Washing, structural repair, and getting water back out of a rug before it becomes a mould problem.
Full immersion hand-washing for Persian, oriental, wool, silk, cotton and modern synthetic rugs. Dry grit comes out before any water is introduced, then the rug is washed, flushed until the water runs clear, and dried flat under moving air.
Rug cleaning detailsFringe replacement, edge binding, moth damage, pet destruction, worn pile and missing corners. Reweaving is done with matched wool at matched knot density, so the repair settles into the field instead of announcing itself.
Repair servicesA storm that opened a roof, an air-handler pan that overflowed into the ceiling below, or a supply line behind a washing machine. Rugs in that state need flushing and controlled drying, not a fan pointed at them. We extract, decontaminate, dry flat, and document the condition throughout.
Water damage service
Montgomery sits at about 240 feet on the Alabama River, on the coastal plain, right up against the edge of the Black Belt. Roughly 51 inches of rain falls a year and it is spread through the calendar rather than dumped in one wet season, so there is no reliable stretch in which a floor dries out. Highs pass ninety degrees on about 86 days a year. Nothing on that list is dramatic. All of it is slow, and slow is what actually takes rugs apart.
Very few soaked rugs in this market met a river. They met an air-conditioning drain pan that overflowed through a ceiling in August, a water heater at the end of its life, a supply line behind a washing machine, or a spring storm that took shingles off and put six weeks of rain into a house waiting on a contractor. Water that starts clean is rarely clean by the time it reaches the pile, because it has crossed insulation, drywall and a floor to get there.
The slow soak is the one people lose rugs to. A tarped roof, a crawlspace that has been wet since March, a rug that has been faintly damp for a month — none of that announces itself the way a burst pipe does, and all of it is worse, because time is the variable that matters. A wet wool foundation is a growing medium, and in a house that sits above eighty degrees for most of the summer it does not need long. Drying the surface with a fan leaves the contamination at the base of the pile and produces a rug that seems fine for a few weeks and then does not. The rug has to be flushed, treated and dried flat with the moisture content actually measured — and photographed before any of it, because that is what an insurer will ask for.
Off-site washing, hand finishing, and a route that runs from Pike Road across the river to Prattville and Wetumpka.
Downtown and the historic districts, the whole east side out to Pike Road, and over the river to Millbrook, Prattville and Wetumpka. Collection is included.
One hand-knotted Persian rug, photographed before and after cleaning.
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How rugs are actually built, how to tell hand-knotted from tufted in ten seconds, and what any of it means for a house in central Alabama.
Free estimate, collection and delivery included — anywhere on the route.
