Carpet Cleaning in Kitts Green

Path grit, narrow estate stairs and damp conservatory floors

The soiling on this stock is mostly dry, with little grease, and that is worth knowing before anyone buys anything. Front gardens are hard-surfaced and the paths are concrete, so what comes through the door is grit, and grit is abrasive: it cuts the pile on the stairs and the hall run long before the carpet ever looks dirty. In the private lets the carpet is often a cheap contract grade laid by a landlord, which shows wear quickly. And a fair number of the rear conservatories here have been carpeted, which never ends well, because the room is unheated and the floor stays damp under it.

• Grit walked in off concrete aprons and estate paths, which abrades the pile on the stairs and the hall run
• Straight staircases off a narrow hall, some turning on a winder, so every footstep in the house lands on the same narrow run
• Cheap contract-grade carpet fitted by landlords in the private lets, which soils and flattens faster than it looks
• Carpet laid inside unheated rear conservatories, where damp comes up through the floor from the slab below
• Family homes wanting the living room and stairs done once, usually before Christmas or before family visits

Grit vacuumed out dry before any water touches a B33 staircase

Dry vacuuming comes first and it is not a formality, because most of what is in a Kitts Green stair carpet is grit off the path outside, and wetting grit simply makes mud down in the pile. After that a pre-spray goes on and is left long enough to work before being agitated through. Stains get their own chemistry instead of vanishing into the general pass. Stairs are done with a hand tool, the only workable choice on a straight flight in a narrow hall with a winder at the head of it. Drying is easy in a semi with a back door, so we set a through draught front to back.

• Extended dry vacuuming before any water, since the soiling here is abrasive grit, not grease
• Hand tool on the stairs, because a narrow estate staircase with a winder gives a wand nowhere to work
• Colour-fastness tested in a corner first, which matters most on landlord-fitted contract carpet
• Front and back doors opened for a through draught, which a semi with a rear door dries on very effectively

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: how we do carpet cleaning, step by step.

Booking a carpet clean in B33

Kitts Green is roughly half an hour from our Selly Oak base, and B33 is covered on scheduled days. A carpet clean goes onto one of those, so book a week or two ahead. Access helps too. Parking directly outside on a wide estate road keeps the hose run from the machine short, which genuinely improves extraction at the far end of a job.

Stairs, landing and living room: how a Kitts Green quote builds up

We charge per room, with the staircase counted as an item of its own and a floor under the total, because arriving and setting up takes as long for a single lounge as it does for three rooms. On these houses that pushes most people towards stairs, landing and living room together, which is the sensible grouping anyway since it is where the traffic actually goes. Bad soiling and one-by-one stain treatment stretch the visit. What will not appear on the bill is a promise we cannot keep: where a stair carpet has been walked through on the nosings or a conservatory carpet has gone at the backing, we say so beforehand and do not take the money.

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Twelve to eighteen months for a family semi, the stairs more often

Twelve to eighteen months for a family home in B33, and closer to annually where there are pets, small children or a household coming and going in work boots. Rented estate houses get it at each change of tenant, and it is worth checking the agreement because some of the private lets here specify it. If your stairs are the only carpet taking real traffic, doing that flight alone more often is better value than doing the whole house rarely.