Two Rooms of Carpet Cleaned in Downers Grove, IL

About this job

The beige cut-pile carpet in this Downers Grove home had gone grey through the middle of the walkway while the edges along the baseboards still held their original color. Against a doorway threshold the line between soiled and clean was easy to see, and a few darker specks sat scattered across the open floor. The homeowner wanted the two carpeted rooms brought back to an even tone rather than any one spot chased, and asked that we park in the driveway so the hose run stayed short.

We set up from the truck and cleaned the carpet with truck-mounted hot water extraction, working the walkway in overlapping passes and pulling the soil out toward the doorway. Around the nightstand and bed frame the wand went in close to the baseboards so the clean edges and the traffic lane would end up reading the same. Near the floor vent along the window wall the pile had flattened, and the passes there brought the nap back up with it.

Total time on site was about 3 hours, and the visit came to $300. We left the carpet damp rather than wet; with air movers it dries in 2-4 hours, up to 6 hours for heavy soil. The finished floor shows the even wand strokes across both rooms, with the color holding the same from the baseboard to the middle of the room.