The river shapes every street
Rug Cleaning
New Farm,
Bought Once,
Washed Properly
New Farm interiors are put together with intent, and the rug usually anchors the room. We collect it from deco flats, verandah houses and riverfront towers alike, hand wash it at Yatala and bring it back genuinely dry.
- Safe for delicate and handmade rugs
- 48-hour express service available at additional cost
- The peninsula run also collects Teneriffe, Newstead and the Valley
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Watch your rug's full journey
From your front door to our Yatala facility and safely back again. This is the real process, not a quick spray.
A careful figure for a carefully chosen rug
A hand-knotted silk and a machine-made polypropylene deserve different answers, and pretending otherwise is how rugs get ruined. The driver identifies the piece at your door, quotes it firmly, and books it onto the peninsula run only if the work is genuinely worth doing.
- 1The driver collects the rolled rugDeco flat or verandah house, the rolled rug is collected
- 2Inspection and an honest quoteThe piece is identified, checked and given one figure
- 3Hand washed at YatalaDye test, bath and hand washing at our Yatala facility
- 4Home again in about 7 daysReturned genuinely dry in about a week, colours settled
I wanted the woven rug cleaned properly the first time. The woven rug is softer now, with the traffic areas much less obvious. I liked that the result looked clean without being overdone.
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Rug Washing New Farm, Done as the Maker Intended
Considered interiors, chosen rugs
New Farm mixes some of Brisbane's most loved housing: grand Queenslanders and Federation homes on the quiet streets, art deco flats from the interwar years, and riverfront apartments from every decade since. It is a suburb of considered interiors where the rug is chosen to match the home, hand-knotted wool and silk in the character houses, designer pieces in the towers.
Owners here know what they have and expect it handled correctly.
Peninsula air and deep verandahs
The river rings the peninsula, so the air stays moist, and the sheltered streets hold summer humidity under thick tree canopy. Deep verandahs keep rugs out of the sun but not out of the damp, and wool absorbs it quietly over months until the pile feels heavy and smells faintly wrong. Our full immersion wash at Yatala flushes the fibre completely, and controlled drying returns the rug genuinely dry rather than surface dry.
A century of adapting, underfoot
The picture house on Brunswick Street has screened since 1921 by changing with every era without losing its character, and that is precisely the trick a good rug has to manage: three generations of the same family, four different living rooms, one unbroken piece. Washing old wool and silk without harming either is the craft our 29 years have refined. We identify what you have, say plainly what it needs, and treat a deco flat's flatweave with the same respect as a tower's silk.
Twelve services for rugs chosen with intent
Hand-knotted wool, silk and designer pieces from the character streets and the towers, washed as the maker intended.
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Rug Cleaning New Farm
Cleaning for the anchor pieces of Brisbane's most considered interiors.
A New Farm rug is rarely an accident, so its care should not be either. Collected rolled from flat, house or lobby on the weekly peninsula run, and returned with colours and pile as the maker intended.
- Anchor pieces respected
- Flat, house or lobby pickup
- As the maker intended
Rug Washing New Farm
The full bath for wool and silk that has breathed river air under a verandah.
The bath at Yatala flushes months of quiet moisture and its smell from the fibre. Dyes are tested first, the rinse runs until clear, and the controlled dry finishes what a verandah never can.
- Quiet moisture flushed
- Dyes tested before water
- Finished past the verandah
Stain Removal
Dinner parties and pale weaves keep this part of the trade busy on the peninsula.
Wine, oil and espresso each answer to different chemistry, so identification comes first and the prognosis is honest. Careful treatment then does the rest.
- The dinner-party portfolio
- Identification before action
- Honest prognosis given
Pet Stain and Odour
Beloved dogs and beautiful rugs share most New Farm floor plans.
The compromise fails when accidents reach the foundation. Immersion removes the residue at its source, so the smell ends rather than fades, and the truce resumes.
- The floor-plan truce kept
- Source removal, not fading
- The smell actually ends
Odour Removal
When a beautifully kept room smells wrong, the rug is usually holding the past.
The full wash strips accumulated odour from deep in the pile and the controlled dry leaves nothing for humid evenings to bring back.
- The past washed out
- Deep pile emptied
- Humid evenings defeated
Rug Spot Cleaning
One mark on a treasured piece deserves precision, not an automatic full process.
Where a targeted treatment truly resolves it, that is what we quote. Where the whole rug is due, we explain why and the decision stays yours.
- Precision over habit
- Explained, not assumed
- The decision stays yours
Rug Steam Cleaning
The hardy synthetics of second rooms and offices suit steam extraction.
Steam handles durable fibres carrying surface grime quickly. The assessment protects the silk and hand-knotted pieces from any method beneath them.
- Second rooms served fast
- Durable fibres suited
- Fine pieces protected
Rug Dry Cleaning
Viscose, bamboo silk and delicate blends are common here and cannot take the bath.
Viscose declares itself under testing before any water gets near it. The gentle process then cleans to the fibre's tolerance and no further, keeping the sheen that sold you the rug.
- Identified before water
- Limits respected fully
- Sheen and body kept
Water Damage Restoration
A storm blow-in across a verandah or a failed hose can soak a rug overnight.
Speed and order decide the outcome: controlled drying, then washing, before mould starts. Collected quickly, most treasured pieces survive the event.
- Speed and order decide
- Mould denied its window
- Treasures usually survive
Mould Rug Cleaning
A rolled rug stored through renovations can come back out wearing mould.
When the growth is young the wash erases it entirely. When it is not, you hear a careful account of the likely result before committing a treasured piece to the attempt.
- The renovation risk
- Early growth removed
- Frank account first
Rug Moth Treatment
Stored wool anywhere quiet, a spare room or a storage unit, invites moths.
Full immersion halts the colony at every point in its cycle. We walk you through any damage honestly, then set the piece up to sit safely wherever it waits next.
- Quiet corners cleared
- Every stage removed
- Safe storage afterwards
Stain Protection
A protectant finish suits pale designer pieces that host real life.
The finish bonds to clean fibre without changing hand or colour, then quietly slows every future spill down to blotting speed. One saved dinner party and it has proven itself.
- Invisible in use
- Every spill slowed
- Proven at the first near-miss
Not sure what your rug needs?
Tell us what happened or book a free pickup. We’ll tell you honestly what your rug needs, and what it doesn’t.
New Farm to Yatala on the weekly run
Our Brisbane office
Premier Rug Cleaning and Washing - BrisbaneLevel 1, Suite 475/241 Adelaide St
Brisbane City QLD 4000
Adelaide Street runs the bookings and the accounts. The washing floor is at Yatala, and no rug of ours is cleaned anywhere else.
Where your rug is washed
Three constants on the peninsula
Where New Farm shops, watches and catches the boat, and has for the best part of a century.
The suburb's own shopping village on Merthyr Road, New Farm's daily centre of gravity.
Village suburbs prefer service that comes to them. Our driver collects the rolled rug at your door on the weekly peninsula run, and the booking takes two minutes on the form.
Anchored around its supermarket and surrounded by cafes, delis and specialty shops, Merthyr Village is where the peninsula does its everyday business. The name reaches back to Merthyr, the estate of Sir Samuel Griffith, whose land holdings shaped this end of the suburb and left the name on the road, the village and the parkland nearby.
The Brunswick Street picture house, screening since 1921 under one name or another.
A cinema that has adapted for a century without losing its character is very New Farm. So are rugs that have passed through three generations of one family, and washing those without harm is exactly our trade.
The building opened around 1921 as the Merthyr Picture Palace, was remodelled in 1938 into the Astor, and in 1970 became the Village Twin, Queensland's first twin-screen cinema and one of Australia's earliest multi-screen houses. Heritage listed and still running as New Farm Cinemas, it has outlasted a century of competitors, including the suburb's own open-air rivals.
The peninsula's CityCat stop, keeping New Farm connected by water as it always has been.
New Farm has always trusted things that arrive on schedule. Our pickup runs work the same way: a confirmed day, a driver who collects the rolled rug, and a rug returned washed and dry from Yatala.
The wharf at the end of Sydney Street serves CityCat and CityHopper services on the river's northern bank, rebuilt in 2015 and busier than ever. River transport is old habit here: ferries carried New Farm's residents to work and home again long before the suburb's apartments arrived.
7 careful stages, all 15 steps
No shortcuts and no guessing. Your rug moves through the same specialist system every time, from your front door and safely back again.
Standard turnaround 7 days door to door, or 48-hour service on request at an additional cost.
What customers say about New Farm
Rated 4.9 ★ from 11 customersaround New Farm, collected directly from our customers after every clean.
Off the peninsula, the same craft
New Farm's cards are above. The count below spans every region we wash for.
See our results
Real rugs from real jobs. Drag the slider on each rug to compare how it arrived with how it went home.
Every weave.
Every origin.
From Persian heirlooms to everyday synthetics. Twenty rug types, each hand washed to a method matched to its fibre and construction. Never a one-size clean.
- 29 years on rugs only
- IICRC-certified technicians
- Washed at our Yatala facility
Suburb pages either side of the river
Where the same trucks and the same standards go next.
New Farm asks, we answer
Who actually washes the rug?
Our own people at our own Yatala facility, under IICRC certification. Nothing is subcontracted, and the rug is hand washed in full immersion rather than surface cleaned and sent back.
Can you handle silk and antique pieces?
Yes, they are a large part of our work. Dyes are tested first, fragile foundations are flagged at assessment, and where immersion is not safe we explain what is. Honest assessment protects the piece before anything else does.
What will rug cleaning cost in New Farm?
Priced rug by rug: size, fibre, condition. The driver gives a firm figure at the door before collection, pickup and redelivery cost nothing on the peninsula run, and each rug after the first saves $20.
Can Teneriffe and Newstead rugs join our pickup?
Same truck, same day. The peninsula and its neighbours make one weekly loop, so a single form can book rugs from more than one address.
How dry is the rug when it comes back?
Completely dry, through the foundation, out of a controlled drying room. On a humid peninsula that matters, because a rug returned damp starts its next problem immediately. Standard turnaround is seven days; the paid express does it in 48 hours.
Can urine damage on a silk or fine wool rug be reversed?
The odour can, and often the mark can too. Urine residue settles into the foundation, which is why it outlasts every surface product, and on silk and fine wool it can also disturb dye. The wash removes the source in full immersion after dye testing, complete drying follows, and where colour has already shifted you hear an honest account of what treatment will and will not restore before we begin.
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Tell us about your rug and we’ll take it from there. Free pickup and delivery, and an honest assessment before any work begins.