Rug Cleaning in Five Points
Collection and delivery in Five Points are included. We take the rug back to the workshop, wash it properly, and bring it home.
What Five Points is built from
The streetcar-era blocks around the five-way junction of Glenwood Avenue, Fairview Road and Whitaker Mill Road, built out through the 1920s and 1930s: bungalows, small Colonial Revivals and Tudor cottages on tight lots, deep front porches on almost everything, and a great many screened side and back porches added since.
Long-tenured owners next door to households two or three moves into a career, a walkable row of shops and the Rialto at the junction, and porches that get treated as rooms from March through November.
The Five Points problem
The porch is where rugs die here, precisely because it is used like an inside room. Wool, jute and sisal get laid on painted boards under a roof, which sounds sheltered and is not. An unheated porch falls to the dew point on most clear nights from spring to autumn, so the rug takes water on every night and gives only part of it back during the day, and the strip actually touching the boards never dries at all. Onto that goes the spring pollen load, which settles far heavier out there than anywhere indoors and works straight down past the surface. By July the interesting things are all happening on the underside. Jute and sisal go first, staining from their own moisture and browning inward from the edges; wool goes more quietly, rotting in the foundation while the pile above still looks respectable. The second half of it is the autumn ritual of bringing the porch rug indoors without washing it, which moves a whole season of damp and pollen into a heated room.
If that sounds like your rug, send the form and describe what you are seeing. We will tell you whether it needs the full treatment or not.
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