Carpet Cleaning in Kings Norton

Towpath silt and park mud in Kings Norton halls

What gets walked in here is quite specific. Kings Norton Park and the canal towpath are the two places everybody in the area walks, and towpath dirt is fine wet silt, unlike garden mud, so it travels further into a house and grinds deeper into the pile than ordinary soil does. Dogs bring the same thing in at ankle height all winter. On the estates the second driver is age: many of these carpets have been down through more than one tenancy, and the traffic lane from the front door to the living room is doing the work of a hallway that was never wide enough for it.

• Fine wet silt off the canal towpath, which travels further into a house than garden mud ever does
• Park walking through autumn and winter, landing on the stair carpet within a few strides of the door
• Traffic lanes in the narrow estate hallways, where every room opens off the same strip of pile
• Carpets in the B38 estate houses that have been down across more than one tenancy
• Return stairs and landings in the older B30 houses taking the whole household, with boards and rugs below

Fibre test, then a long dry vacuum before any water

Fibre and backing are identified before anything else, with a fastness test somewhere nobody looks. Then the dry vacuum, and on a Kings Norton carpet that stage decides the result: towpath silt is powder while it stays dry and mud the moment water reaches it, so it has to come out first. Pre-spray, dwell, agitation, then hot water extraction. Nosings take the wear on a staircase, so every tread is worked individually. At a landing edge in one of the older houses we run the moisture low and the vacuum hard, keeping water off the boards.

• Silt vacuumed out dry before any solution goes down, since towpath dirt turns to mud on contact with water
• Every tread worked individually, with most of the attention on the nosing
• Low moisture and hard extraction along the landing edges where boards meet carpet in the B30 houses
• Rugs taken up and cleaned away from the floor they normally cover

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: the full carpet cleaning process.

Who books it in Kings Norton

Estate family houses in B38 suit a hall, living room, stairs and landing in one go, since the machine comes off the van either way. Landlords on the same streets can add changeover work to a move-out clean. B30 jobs are smaller and more particular: a staircase, a landing, one bedroom, and rugs carried out from over the boards. Autumn into winter is when it matters most, once the park and the towpath start arriving indoors on everybody’s shoes. A single room can be booked on its own, subject to the minimum, and at about fifteen minutes from Selly Oak a slot within the week is usually possible.

Rooms, flights and the minimum charge in an older B30 house

We charge by the room and by the flight, with a floor under it for one small room, because the van, the hoses and the water go in regardless. In the older B30 houses that floor is worth planning around: a staircase and landing alone will meet it, so a bedroom or the rugs added the same morning cost very little by comparison. Estate houses get the opposite advantage, since hall, living room and stairs together spread that setup across a large area in one visit. Pet contamination, heavy soiling and individual stains are quoted from photographs.

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A year to eighteen months, closer to twelve on the towpath walk

A year to eighteen months covers most family homes in the area. Pull that towards twelve if the park or the towpath is on your daily walk, or the dog’s. Households with pets, toddlers or somebody with an allergy are better served at six to twelve. Rented estate houses want doing at each changeover, which a fair number of agreements insist on anyway. Stairs can be booked alone between full cleans, since they show wear long before any room does.