Rug Cleaning Wishart,
for Homes That Keep
Their Rugs

A rug kept for decades accumulates slowly enough that nobody notices the change, until the wash reverses it all at once. The grit lifts out of the foundation, the colour depth returns, and the quote set at inspection is the one on the invoice.

• Long-held rugs welcome
• One figure, set and honoured
• About 7 days door to door

Wool bought once and kept deserves a method with the same philosophy. Immersion washes the whole rug through without stressing weave or dye, which is why pieces older than their owners' mortgages come off our floor looking freshly made.

• Submerged and hand worked
• pH matched to the fibre
• Dried through, then delivered

On long-held rugs the dyes have settled into their ways, and the wrong product moves them. We test first, treat to match, and give you the honest forecast at assessment: what lifts, what softens, and what history stays.

• Mature dyes tested first
• Treatment matched to age
• Honest forecasts given

The fix works at the depth of the problem. Immersion flushes the backing clean, enzyme treatment neutralises the residue at the source, and complete drying removes the humid-day trigger, so the smell does not return with the weather.

• Treated where it settled
• Enzymes finish the work
• Weather cannot bring it back

Nothing sprayed on a rug's surface reaches its base, which is where odour actually lives. A full wash dissolves the stored compounds and rinses them out entirely, and the rug returns smelling of nothing, with the room close behind.

• The archive emptied
• Removed at the base
• Nothing masked over

Spots turn into disasters through enthusiasm, because scrubbing spreads the mark and wears pile that took decades to earn its character. If a local fix cannot finish safely, you hear it plainly and choose the next step yourself.

• One spill, one fix
• Character pile protected
• Next steps stay yours

Steam is for machine made construction only and for nothing else, so the assessment sorts every booking out before any methods are chosen. The Persian and the good wool get steered to the bath instead, with the reasoning explained rather than simply invoiced.

• Modern synthetics only
• Quick, practical work
• The Persian takes the bath

One rug in a long-held house is often the oldest thing in it, and sometimes its dyes say so at the swab. Water then steps aside for compound work, done in small supervised passes, with the piece's age setting the pace rather than the clock.

• For the test failures only
• Unhurried, sectioned care
• Decided by evidence

The fish tank incident is funny later; on the day, it is a race. Ring while the towels are still out, let controlled drying lead the response, and hold every decision until the piece has been seen and its position stated plainly.

• The clock taken seriously
• Dried, washed, treated in order
• Verdicts before commitment

Creek-corridor damp gives stored rugs a quiet push toward trouble. The treated bath pulls them back: the colony dissolved away with everything it survived on, the rinse removing every spore it scattered, and a finish-to-the-core dry that cancels the next attempt in advance.

• The colony removed whole
• Antimicrobial wash included
• The welcome cancelled

Sideboards that have not moved since the seventies shelter more than memories. One treated bath ends whatever moved in, at every stage of its cycle, washes the history out of the pile, and the storage rules that come home keep the rest of the wool untouchable.

• Every stage ended together
• Residue fully bathed out
• The other wool protected

Twenty more years of service is the plan, and the margin is how the plan survives dinner parties. Underfoot nothing changes, in the light nothing shows, and the accident that would have become a permanent chapter gets blotted into a footnote instead, exactly as intended.

• Applied fresh after the bath
• Look and feel unchanged
• Future accidents defanged