Myers Park Carpet Cleaning | Since 1988

What Gets Into Myers Park Carpet

Myers Park rests beneath old-growth oak canopies, complemented by amazing landscaped yards and manicured lawns. All that greenery ends up on the floor. The oaks along Queens Road and Queens Road West throw a heavy load of pollen every spring, and April is the worst of it. The fine yellow dust drifts inside and settles into carpet, rugs, and upholstery. The rest of the year it is the ground itself. Charlotte sits on Cecil red clay, and after the region's frequent rain it tracks in off shoes and paws and stains light wool. Many of these 1920s homes have narrow original driveways, so a second or third car ends up at the curb and everyone crosses the lawn to reach it, carrying grass and damp clay to the door. The homes are under near-constant renovation too, and the trucks leave mud and grit on the roads and sidewalks. Even a well-kept house collects more soil underfoot than it looks like it should.

Area Rug Cleaning in Myers Park

What's on the floor here raises the stakes. Myers Park has North Carolina's largest collection of 1920s Tudor homes, along with Georgian and Colonial Revival houses, and inside they tend to be original hardwood layered with handmade wool and silk rugs, with older wool wall-to-wall in the bedrooms. Wool and silk are natural fibers. Too much heat, too much agitation, or water left to soak will felt, brown, or fade them for good. Metro Steamway's owner is an IICRC-certified journeyman textile cleaner, so each rug is identified and cleaned by what it actually is.

A handmade rug is often worth more than the furniture around it, and it is the easiest thing in the house to ruin with the wrong cleaning. The dyes in an older Oriental rug can bleed if they are flooded with hot water. Wool mats and dulls if it is over-agitated. Silk needs a gentler touch than either. We test for colorfastness, match the method to the material, and clean at a temperature and moisture level the rug can take, so it comes back clean and still itself, not brighter in a way that means the color moved.

How Our In-Home Carpet Cleaning Works

Metro Steamway cleans with a truck-mounted hot water extraction system. The heat and suction stay in the truck, so the crew brings in just the hose and wand. We move what needs moving, work through the carpet room by room, and clean area rugs in place on your floor. Drying is quick, which matters in Charlotte's humidity. A carpet left damp for a day in July is how a house ends up with a musty smell, and strong extraction pulls most of the water back out before the crew leaves.

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