Carpet Cleaning in Rubery

Hill mud landing on the first two metres of hall carpet

Two patterns shape a Rubery carpet clean. The first is arrival soil. There is no buffer between the drive and the hall in these houses, so grit, road salt and wet mud from the hills land on the first two metres of carpet and get ground in by everyone who comes through. The second is stair nosings. A straight flight takes the whole household’s movement on the front edge of each tread, and that edge greys out long before the rest of the carpet does. Underneath both sits the age of the carpet itself. A lot of this stock has fitted carpet that has been down fifteen or twenty years, so it helps to know what extraction can and cannot recover.

• Halls opening straight off the drive, with no path or porch to take the grit first
• Mud and wet off the Lickey Hills, walked in by families and dogs all winter
• Straight flight stairs where the wear concentrates on the front edge of each nosing
• Through lounges with a single traffic lane worn between the door and the seating
• Long-lived fitted carpet in owner-occupied houses, where the question is soil or real pile loss

Fibre test, a long dry vacuum, then extraction

We test the fibre and the colour fastness somewhere out of sight before touching the middle of the room. Then a thorough dry vacuum, which lifts most of the grit that came in off the drive and is what separates a good result from a muddy one. A pre-spray goes down and is left long enough to soften the greasy soil that binds everything else into the pile, then the flight is done one tread at a time, each nosing worked on its own. Hot water extraction follows, the pile is groomed to dry evenly, and we tell you how to speed the drying up.

• Colour fastness tested out of sight first, on carpet that may be twenty years old
• Heavy dry vacuum before any water, since most of what a Rubery hall carries is dry grit
• Each stair tread done individually, nosings worked on their own, since the wear lives on that front edge
• Pre-spray given real dwell time, since that does more of the work than the machine alone

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: our carpet cleaning method.

Halls, stairs and lounges across B45

The typical job is a family semi or detached house on the streets off New Road or climbing towards the Lickeys, with the hall, stairs, landing and lounge done together because those four take the traffic. Dogs are a big part of life at the bottom of the Lickeys, and so is mud. Autumn and the weeks before Christmas are the obvious times to book, once the wet season starts moving the hills onto the hall carpet. Church and community halls on the Bromsgrove side are covered too, ideally just after a heavy season of hire.

Adding the lounge or landing to a Rubery hall and stairs

Rooms are priced individually and each flight separately, with a floor price for one small room, since the machine has to come out of the van and be set up either way. In Rubery that has a practical consequence: booking the stairs alone means paying that floor price, so adding the hall and the lounge to the same visit is far better value per room than calling us back in the spring. Heavy soiling, dog accidents and stain-by-stain treatment all add time. There is a ceiling, too. Extraction lifts a remarkable amount of soil, but a nosing that has worn through to the backing comes back clean, not new.

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Twelve to eighteen months, sooner with a hill-walked dog

Twelve to eighteen months suits most Rubery households for the hall, stairs and lounge. Six to twelve months in houses with dogs walked on the hills, small children or an allergy sufferer in the house, because the load on that hall carpet is heavier than in a house with a path and a porch. Bedrooms in this stock can usually go two or three years between cleans. Halls and community rooms want it twice a year, timed just after their busiest hire season.