Persian, oriental, wool and silk — washed by hand, repaired by hand.
Two hundred feet of elevation separate the river plain from the top of the Hill, and a rug fails differently at each end of that. Downtown it is alluvial silt too fine to feel. Up on the sand ridge it is a house built to breathe, still breathing. Across the river in Aiken it is arena sand and stall chemistry walking in on a boot. Rugs are collected, washed off site by hand, dried flat, and brought back.
A hand-knotted Heriz and a polypropylene flatweave off a shelf are not the same object and they must never meet the same brush. Vegetable dyes bleed. Silk scorches under heat. A cotton foundation shrinks if it is pulled out of the wash wet and dried under tension. Guessing is how good rugs get destroyed, and it usually happens on the first clean rather than the tenth.
So nothing is cleaned until it has been read properly: fibre content, dye stability, weave construction, backing, earlier repairs, and whatever the Savannah River valley has managed to work down into the foundation since the last time anybody looked. Only then does a 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.
Moth grazing, chewed corners, unravelling fringe, badly cut edges and split foundations rebuilt by hand.
Ammoniacal stall residue, oily footing sand and the smell in a foundation are treated at the base of the pile, not perfumed over.
We collect and return across Richmond, Columbia and Aiken counties. You never lift a roll.
Washing, structural repair, and getting water back out of a rug before it turns into a mould problem.
Full immersion hand-washing for Persian, oriental, wool, silk, cotton and modern synthetic rugs. Dry sand and silt are drawn out before any water goes near the rug, then it 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, missing corners and rugs that were cut down badly to fit a smaller room. Reweaving uses matched wool at matched knot density, so the repair settles into the field instead of announcing itself.
Repair servicesA failed supply line, a water heater at the end of its life, a storm that put more water on a street than the drains could take. 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
Generic rug advice assumes one climate and one kind of dirt, and the CSRA supplies neither. The Savannah River divides two states here, and the ground either side of it arrives on a rug as three different materials with three different mechanisms. Nearly none of the damage we collect has anything to do with people walking on the rug.
Very few of the soaked rugs on this route met a river. They met a supply line behind a washing machine, a water heater at the end of its life, a slow leak under a dishwasher, or a thunderstorm that put more water on a downtown street in an hour than the drains were built to move. Water that starts clean is rarely clean by the time it has crossed a floor to reach the rug.
The slower version does more damage over time and gets noticed far less. A rug on a 1950s slab poured with no vapour barrier under it, sealed down by a solid rubber pad. An enclosed porch where winter condensation runs off the glass onto the same two sides of a rug every morning. A rug that crossed an ocean in a container and came out with tide lines along the folds. In every one of those the pile can look sound while the foundation is not, so what matters is the same: flush it, treat it, dry it flat with the moisture content actually measured — and photograph it first, because that is what an insurer will ask for.
Off-site washing, hand finishing, and a route that runs from Grovetown across the river to Aiken.
From Olde Town and the Hill out through Martinez, Evans and Grovetown, and across the river into North Augusta, Hammond’s Ferry and Aiken. 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 the Savannah River valley.
Free estimate, collection and delivery included — anywhere on the route.
