Carpet Cleaning in Boldmere

Sandy park grit carried into Boldmere halls

What comes into a Boldmere hall is specific to the location. The Sutton Park paths at Boldmere Gate and around Powell’s Pool are sandy and gritty more than muddy, so what arrives on boots and on a dog is a fine abrasive that works straight down into the pile and stays there. It does not look like dirt from standing height, which is exactly why people leave it. Sand in the base of a pile cuts the fibre every time somebody walks the stairs, so the wear on a Boldmere stair carpet is often mechanical damage as well as dirt. The landlord flats are a different need again, driven by a checklist.

• Fine sand and grit carried back from the Boldmere Gate paths and Powell’s Pool, which cuts the pile as well as marking it
• A 1930s straight flight and quarter turn taking the whole household’s traffic between floors
• The first two metres of hall inside the front door, which soils several times faster than any room in the house
• Boards and rugs on the villa ground floors, so the fitted carpet is mostly upstairs and on the stairs
• Landlord and agent bookings on the parade flats, cleaned to a tenancy requirement

Long dry vacuum, pre-spray dwell, then extraction

We identify the fibre and check colour fastness somewhere out of sight, then dry vacuum at length, which on gritty Boldmere soil is where most of the result is won. Putting water onto unlifted grit only makes a paste of it in the pile. A pre spray matched to the fibre goes down, sits long enough to work, and is brushed through the pile. Stairs are cleaned with a hand tool tread by tread, with the nosings worked deliberately, since that is where the wear sits. Extraction follows, then the pile is groomed and we get air moving before we leave.

• Extended dry vacuuming before any water, because park sand has to come out dry or it turns to paste
• Hand tool tread by tread on the flight, with extra passes on every nosing
• Pre-spray given genuine dwell and agitation, which does more of the work than the extraction does
• Air moving and the pile groomed before we leave, so a B73 house is not left damp overnight

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: carpet cleaning across Birmingham.

Halls, flights and the flats above the parade

The domestic bookings are nearly all hall, stairs, landing and one or two reception rooms in a 1930s semi, booked together, since hauling the machine in and setting it up costs the same for one room as for four. The villa bookings are usually rugs lifted off boards plus the stairs. The parade flats come through landlords and agents, generally at a tenant change and often alongside the move-out clean. This goes onto a scheduled B73 day, and there is a minimum job size.

Getting value from the minimum job size in B73

Priced per room and per flight, with a minimum job size. That minimum is the thing to plan around: one small bedroom by itself is a poor buy in B73, whereas a hall, a flight, a landing and a couple of rooms together is not. Deep soiling, pet accidents and individual stain work each add time, and the quote says how much. There is a limit, too: extraction lifts an extraordinary amount of soil, but a stair nosing worn through by years of park grit is fibre loss, and nothing brings that back.

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Hall and stairs sooner, bedrooms every eighteen months

Twelve to eighteen months for a settled Boldmere household, though hall and stairs want doing more often than bedrooms, since almost all the traffic lands on them. Annually where a dog is walked into the park most days and comes back through the same front door, which describes a good share of the houses here. Between every tenancy on the parade flats, which many agreements require anyway. Between full cleans, vacuuming the first two metres of hall properly does more good than most people would expect.