Rug Cleaning in Darlington
Wool, synthetic, hand-made and antique rugs cleaned to suit the fibre, in your home in Darlington. Family run, over ten years behind us, and a free quote before anything is touched. We cover DL1, DL2 and DL3 and the area around it.
Rug Cleaning in Darlington
A machine-made rug is built much like a fitted carpet: tufts stitched into a primary backing, held there by latex adhesive, with a secondary backing glued over the top of it. Latex has a working life. After ten or fifteen years, and a good deal sooner if the rug has lived somewhere damp, it goes powdery, the two layers part company and the tufts lose their grip.
The sign is a fine sandy dust that keeps appearing under the rug however often you vacuum, usually with a faint musty smell and edges that have begun to curl. Once that has started, cleaning will not reverse it, and a vigorous wet clean can pull a weak rug apart. We check by flexing a corner and seeing what falls out of it.
Big wool rugs are the other half of the work here and they tell the opposite story. A hand-woven wool rug in one of the large West End houses has no adhesive in it at all and will outlive several fitted carpets, but it holds a great deal of soil before it ever looks dirty, which is exactly why it repays cleaning on a cycle rather than on appearance.
Areas we cover from Darlington
What it costs in Darlington
The same list everywhere we work. No call-out fee, no travel charge and nothing added at the end.
Rug Cleaning
- Small rugfrom £25
- Medium rugfrom £25
- Large rugfrom £25
- Runnerfrom £25
- Wool or hand-made rugQuoted on inspection
- Rug plus the carpet beneathQuoted together
Carpet cleaning, same visit
- Loungefrom £40
- Dining roomfrom £35
- Bedroomsfrom £30
- Hall£20
- Stairs£35
- Landing£20
- Other roomsPrice on request
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See pricesDarlington and the area around it
We cover DL1, DL2 and DL3 and every village on this map, at the same prices, with no charge for the travel.
Check out our work
Real jobs in real customers' homes. Click any photo to enlarge it.
Darlington questions
The things people in Darlington ask us most often.
Why is there sandy dust under my rug?
Latex backing breaking down. It holds the tufts into a machine-made rug and it perishes with age and damp, turning to powder. Vacuuming takes it away and more appears. Cleaning will not stop it, and we will say if the rug is too weak to clean.
How long should a machine-made rug last?
Ten to fifteen years is a fair working life for the adhesive inside one, and less in a damp room or a conservatory. The pile often looks serviceable long after the backing has gone, which is why a rug can fail suddenly when it is finally cleaned.
Does a large wool rug cost more to clean?
It is quoted on inspection rather than from the £25 list, because size, thickness and the foundation all change the time involved. Wool holds a lot of soil before it looks dirty, so a rug like that is usually worth doing every couple of years.
Which Darlington postcodes and villages do you cover?
DL1, DL2 and DL3, taking in Cockerton, Mowden, Blackwell, Harrowgate Hill, Haughton-le-Skerne, Red Hall, Hurworth and Middleton St George. Nothing extra is added for the distance, and there is no call-out fee.
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Tell us what needs doing and we will give you a firm price on the spot. No call-out fee, no travel charge and no pressure — just an honest quote from a family firm that has been doing this for over ten years.