Rug Cleaning in Reading
Wool, synthetic, hand-made and antique rugs cleaned to suit the fibre, in your home in Reading. Family run, over ten years behind us, and a free quote before anything is touched. We cover RG1, RG2 and RG30 and the area around it.
Rug Cleaning in Reading
A good share of the rugs we are asked about in Reading turn out to be viscose, which the trade sells as art silk or bamboo silk, and it is the one fibre that genuinely does not like water. Viscose is a plant-based filament that loses most of its strength when wet, so the pile flattens, yellows in patches and goes stiff where a drink went in. A wool rug in the same room would have shrugged it off.
Telling the two apart is straightforward once you know what to look for. Wool feels dry and slightly springy, crushes and then recovers, and a snipped fibre singes to a brittle ash with a smell of burnt hair. Viscose is cold to the touch, very shiny, lies flat in bands and feels almost like damp paper once it is wet. We check before choosing a method, not after.
In practice that means a viscose rug gets a low-moisture clean with the pile set carefully as it dries, and nobody promises the original sheen back. Wool and good synthetics take a proper extraction instead. It is the same visit either way — the difference is how much water goes in and how long we spend brushing the pile straight afterwards.
Areas we cover from Reading
What it costs in Reading
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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Fabric sofas and armchairs cleaned to the code on the label.
See pricesMattress Cleaning in Reading
The mattress in a rented room is worth a clean before you sleep on it.
See pricesEnd of Tenancy Carpet Cleaning in Reading
Carpets cleaned for check-out, with the receipt your agent will ask for.
See pricesReading and the area around it
We cover RG1, RG2 and RG30 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.
Reading questions
The things people in Reading ask us most often.
How do I know if my rug is viscose or wool?
Feel it first. Wool is dry and springy, viscose is cold, very shiny and lies in flat bands. Wool recovers after you crush it in your hand and viscose keeps the mark. We confirm it on the day before deciding how much water the rug can take.
My art silk rug has gone stiff and yellow in one patch. Can that be fixed?
Sometimes improved, rarely made perfect. Yellowing in viscose is damage to the fibre itself rather than soil sitting on top of it. We can clean the rug, reset the pile and tell you honestly how much of the mark is likely to stay.
Do you cover Caversham and Tilehurst for rug cleaning?
Yes, along with Newtown, Southcote, Whitley, Coley, Katesgrove and Earley, across RG1, RG2 and RG30. There is no travel charge, and a rug can be done on the same visit as a carpet or a sofa.
Can you clean a rug in a flat with no outside space?
Yes. We work on it indoors over protective sheeting and leave it flat to dry, which takes longer in a flat than in a house. Tell us which floor you are on and how the stairwell works, so that we arrive with enough hose.
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Carpet cleaning in Caversham
RG4 — period villas north of the Thames, wool carpet and rugs on boards
Visit the Caversham pageCarpet cleaning in Tilehurst
RG30 and RG31 — a large hillside suburb of mixed eras above the Thames
Visit the Tilehurst pageCarpet cleaning in Earley
RG6 — student lets, shared houses and young family homes
Visit the Earley pageReady when you are, Reading
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.