Rug Cleaning in French Quarter
Collection and delivery in French Quarter are included. We take the rug back to the workshop, wash it properly, and bring it home.
What French Quarter is built from
The small district bounded roughly by Broad, East Bay, Market and Meeting, around the Dock Street Theatre and the Huguenot church. Eighteenth and nineteenth-century buildings with commercial ground floors — galleries, offices, showrooms — and residences above them, on some of the last cobbled and Belgian-block streets left in the city.
Dealers, galleries and a small resident population living over the shopfronts. As often as not the rug we are called about here is furnishing a room that is open to the public rather than a private one.
The French Quarter problem
The street surface is the source, and it is genuinely particular to these few blocks. Cobble and Belgian block grind a fine, sharp grit out of the joints between the stones under traffic, and the carriage tours that work these streets all day put horse traffic and everything that goes with it onto the same surface. Both leave on the soles of shoes. Then a gallery or an office at ground level takes public footfall that no house takes: dozens of people a day walking in off that street directly onto a rug, with no mat, no lobby and no mudroom in between. The soiling that produces is not spread evenly — it arrives as a lane about a metre wide running in from the door — and it is organic as well as mineral, so it holds odour as well as darkening the pile. A rug in that position is on a schedule set by the footfall rather than by the calendar, and the lane needs treating as its own job rather than as part of a general wash.
If that sounds like your rug, send the form and describe what you are seeing. We will tell you whether it needs the full treatment or not.
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Ready when you are, French Quarter
Free inspection, free collection, and a real number before anything starts.