Carpet Cleaning in Marston Green

Stair nosings and winter garden soil in long-owned houses

Two patterns of wear show up in these houses. The first is the stair carpet, which in a property with the bedrooms up and the living rooms down absorbs every trip anybody makes and shows it on the nosings before anywhere else. The second is seasonal and comes from outdoors: big gardens, dogs and soft ground on local walks put wet soil onto the hall floor from October to March, and it travels down towards the backing, out of reach of a vacuum. Long ownership adds a third factor that is not soiling at all, which is age. A carpet laid fifteen years ago responds very well to a clean without ever looking new again, and you hear which parts are worn before we start.

• Stair nosings absorbing the whole household’s traffic in a house with the living rooms downstairs
• Wet soil and leaf carried in from large gardens and local walks all winter
• Dogs in a village with easy walking, which is a different soiling and odour problem from ordinary foot traffic
• Carpets ten to twenty years into a long ownership, where the limit is fibre condition more than dirt
• Households out all week, so the visit suits a Saturday or a key or code left for us

A thorough dry vacuum first, then a hard extraction

A test patch out of sight tells us how the fibre and the dye will behave, and then the machine that matters most is the dry vacuum: winter soil in a B37 hall carpet is granular, and the bulk of it can be pulled out before a drop of water is involved. The pre-spray needs its time on the pile to release the greasy film binding the rest in place. Nosings get individual attention going up the flight, since that narrow strip does the work of an entire house. Extraction follows, run hard enough that very little moisture stays behind.

• A test patch out of sight first, then the dry vacuum, which takes out most of the winter soil on its own
• The narrow strip on each nosing worked individually up the flight, never swept over in one pass
• Pre-spray left on the pile long enough to release the film binding soil into it
• Moisture pulled back out aggressively, so an empty commuter house is not left damp until evening

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

Getting into the house at all

Access is the real scheduling question for carpets. Somebody has to let us in, or leave us a way in. Saturday visits run from 9am to 6pm, and if you give us a key or code, you need not be in for a weekday visit. Marston Green is about thirty-two minutes from Selly Oak and is covered on set days, so booking ahead is the way to get the date you want. If the windows are due as well, the two can go on one set day.

Priced by room and flight, and why grouping rooms pays

Charging is by room and by flight, and there is a floor under it, since wheeling the machine in and running out the hoses costs the same before a single square metre is cleaned. That floor works in your favour on this stock: the houses are big, the hall, stairs, landing and a room or two make a natural group, and the figure per room drops sharply once you are past the first one. Depth of soiling, pet contamination and individual stains all add time. Worn-through nosings are lost fibre, not dirt, and we flag that before you commit to anything.

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November cleans for the hall, stairs and landing

Twelve to eighteen months covers a family house here, with the hall, stairs and landing wanting the shorter end because they take the walked-in garden from October to March. Halve that where a dog, young children or an allergy is involved. If the month is yours to choose, put it after the wet weather has arrived: cleaning in November removes soil that would otherwise spend the winter being ground further down into the pile.