Persian, oriental, wool and silk — washed by hand, repaired by hand.
Macon has kept more of its old houses than almost anywhere in the South, and the rugs in them are dealing with plaster dust, heart-pine floors and a hundred years of furniture that never moved. Thirty minutes down the road, rugs are dealing with their third move in six years. Both get collected, washed off site by hand, dried flat, and brought back.
A hand-knotted Tabriz and a viscose flatweave off a shelf are not the same object, and they should never meet the same brush. Vegetable dyes bleed. Silk scorches under heat. Viscose loses half its strength the moment it is wet. Cotton foundations shrink if they are pulled out of the wash and dried under tension. Guessing is how rugs get ruined.
So nothing gets cleaned until it has been looked over: fibre content, dye stability, weave construction, backing, previous repairs, and whatever is sitting down in the foundation from the last few Middle Georgia springs. Only then does the rug get a method. That inspection costs nothing, it happens before you commit to anything, and if a rug is not worth the cost of cleaning we will say so.
Wool, silk, cotton, viscose, jute and synthetics each get their own water temperature, pH and agitation.
Chewed corners, unravelling fringe, insect grazing and split foundations rebuilt by hand.
Iron-red clay and pine pollen are flushed out of the foundation, not brushed across the surface of it.
We collect and return across Bibb and Houston counties. You never lift a roll.
Washing, structural repair, and getting water back out of a rug before it becomes a mould problem.
Full immersion hand-washing for Persian, oriental, wool, silk, cotton and modern synthetic rugs. Dry clay and grit come out before any water is introduced, then the rug is washed, flushed until the water runs clear, and dried flat under moving air.
Rug cleaning detailsFringe replacement, edge binding, insect damage, pet destruction, worn pile and missing corners. Reweaving is done with matched wool at matched knot density, so the repair settles into the field instead of announcing itself.
Repair servicesA supply line behind a washing machine, a roof opened by a storm, or a rug that came out of a move already wet inside its wrapping. Rugs in that state need flushing and controlled drying, not a fan pointed at them. We extract, decontaminate, dry flat, and document the condition throughout.
Water damage service
Macon sits on the Fall Line, where the red clay of the Piedmont runs out into the sand of the coastal plain, and the city kept a stock of intact antebellum and Victorian houses that very few places in the South still have. Those two facts shape most of the work here far more than the weather does — along with a base thirty minutes south that moves several thousand households in and out on assignment.
Very few of the soaked rugs we collect around here met a river. They met a supply line behind a washing machine, a water heater at the end of its life, a slow drip under a dishwasher, a condensate line that backed up, or a roof that got opened by a line of storms and then waited its turn on a contractor's list. Water that starts clean almost never stays clean, because of everything it crosses on the way to the rug.
Rugs that arrive wet inside their own wrapping are their own category. A rug rolled in plastic with any moisture still in it, then left in a truck or a storage unit for a few weeks, comes out banded with mildew wherever the roll touched itself. Either way, what matters is what happens next. A wet wool foundation is a growing medium, and a warm room speeds that up. Drying the surface with a fan leaves the contamination at the base of the pile and produces a rug that seems fine for a few weeks and then does not. The rug has to be flushed, treated, and dried flat with the moisture content actually measured — and photographed before any of that, because that is what an insurer will ask for.
Off-site washing, hand finishing, and a route that runs from Forsyth and Gray down to Perry.
From Intown Macon, Vineville and Shirley Hills out through North Macon and Bass Road, south to Warner Robins, Bonaire, Kathleen and Perry, and north to Forsyth and Gray. Collection is included.
One hand-knotted Persian rug, photographed before and after cleaning.
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How rugs are actually built, how to tell hand-knotted from tufted in ten seconds, and what any of it means for a house in Middle Georgia.
Free estimate, collection and delivery included — anywhere on the route.
