Carpet Cleaning in Palos Verdes Estates, CA

Usually worth cleaning. A lot of the original Spanish Colonial and Mediterranean homes here still have their hardwood and tile with wool or Oriental area rugs on top, and those rugs were built to be washed repeatedly over a long life. Dull, flat-looking pile is often soil packed into the base of the fibre, not wear. Before recommending anything, we look at the condition of the foundation and the sides and ends, whether dyes are stable, and whether the pile has worn down to the backing in traffic lanes. If the rug is structurally sound we clean it and tell you so. If it's worn through, we'll say that too rather than take your money for a cleaning that won't change much.

Longer than it would inland, and we plan for that. Salt-laden air, heavy fog and high humidity are constant here, so carpet that would dry in a few hours elsewhere can stay damp well into the next day if it's left alone. We control moisture during the cleaning itself rather than flooding the fibre and hoping, then use air movers and keep rooms open and moving air afterward. Closed guest rooms and back bedrooms are the ones that stay damp and turn musty, so we pay particular attention to those and give you a straight answer about how long to keep them open and fans running.

That's the most common complaint we hear on the Peninsula. Damp marine air settles into a room that's kept shut, the carpet and pad never fully dry out, and odour develops down at the base of the pile where you can't see it. Vacuuming doesn't reach it. It also shows up in older homes that have been in the same family for years, where a room is only used a few times a year. The fix is a cleaning that extracts thoroughly rather than adding more moisture, controlled drying afterward, and then keeping some airflow through the room. If the odour is coming from the pad or the subfloor rather than the carpet, we'll tell you, because cleaning the surface won't solve that.

We give a free estimate and a firm quote before any work starts, so there's no figure that moves once we're underway. What affects it: how many rooms and how much actual carpeted area there is, since many of the original homes have only rugs while the 1950s and 60s ranches have plush cut pile through bedrooms and hallways. Natural-fibre and Oriental rugs take more care and pH-safe products, so they're handled differently than synthetic wall-to-wall. Stairs, heavy soil in traffic lanes, pet issues and odour treatment all add to it. We'd rather walk the house with you first than quote blind over the phone.