Persian, oriental, wool and silk — washed by hand, repaired by hand.
Central Florida damage is slow damage. The air is wet from May to October, the air conditioning is the only thing drying the room out, and a rug on tile over a slab is the coolest and stillest thing in the house. Add sandy soil underfoot and a thunderstorm most afternoons, and rugs here fail from the foundation up. We collect them, wash them off site by hand, dry them flat, and bring them back.
A hand-knotted Tabriz and a polypropylene flatweave off a shelf are not the same object, and they should never meet the same brush. Vegetable dyes bleed. Silk scorches under heat. Cotton foundations shrink if they are pulled out of the wash wet 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 a run of Central Florida wet seasons has left down in the foundation. 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, jute and synthetics each get their own water temperature, pH and agitation.
Chewed corners, unravelling fringe, moth grazing and split foundations rebuilt by hand.
The smell in a shut room is treated down in the foundation, where it lives, rather than perfumed over.
We collect and return across Orange and Seminole County. 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 sand 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, moth 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 lake over its bank, a stalled afternoon storm, a failed supply line, or the upstairs unit’s laundry closet. 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
Rug care advice written for a dry inland climate does not transfer to this one. Orlando sits about ninety feet up in the middle of the peninsula, far enough from either coast that salt is not the story — humidity is. The year splits in two: a hot wet season from roughly May to October, with July highs around ninety-two degrees and a thunderstorm most afternoons, and a mild dry season from November to April. A little over fifty inches of rain falls in a year and close to thirty of it comes down between June and September. For four months the only thing removing moisture from your house is an air conditioner, and it only does that while it is actually running.
Some of the soaked rugs in this county met a storm. Most of them met a supply line behind a washing machine, a water heater at the end of its life, an air handler with a blocked condensate drain, or a slider that was not quite shut when a wall of rain came through sideways at four in the afternoon. In a condominium or an apartment stack it is just as likely to have been somebody else’s laundry closet two floors up.
Inland flooding is its own category and it is routinely underestimated, because people hear “fresh water” and relax. It is rainfall and lake water rather than surge, but it still crosses lawns, roads, driveways and garages before it reaches your floor, and it arrives carrying every bit of that. What happens next is what decides the rug. A wet wool foundation is a growing medium, a warm room accelerates it, and here the room is always warm enough. Drying the surface with a fan leaves the contamination sitting in 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 Winter Garden across to Lake Nona and north to Lake Mary.
From Winter Garden and Windermere east to Lake Nona, and from Delaney Park north through Winter Park and Maitland into Altamonte Springs and Lake Mary. 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 Orange or Seminole County.
Free estimate, collection and delivery included — anywhere on the route.
