Elgin started out as Jeffers, became Blaney when the railroad came through, and in 1962 voted 61 to 16 to take the name of the Elgin National Watch Company, which was opening a plant in town. The watch plant has been gone a long time. The name stayed.
People here tend to call us when something has actually gone wrong. A dog got sick on the bedroom carpet. A used sofa came home smelling like the last owner's cat. A parent moved in, and the rug that spent ten years in a storage unit is suddenly in the living room.
Two Elgins
US-1 runs through the middle of this Kershaw County town as Main Street, and the houses closest to it have seen a lot of decades. Kids north of the highway go to Blaney Elementary and kids south of it go to Doby's Mill, and on both sides new subdivisions keep taking over old fields. Walnut Creek is one of those, a few years old, with builder carpet that stays in good shape if somebody keeps after it.
Woodcreek Farms is a different world. It covers about 2,300 acres around a private golf club, and the bigger homes there often have wood floors with good rugs on top. We clean oriental and area rugs right where they lie, in your home. For the wood itself there's our pH-neutral hardwood cleaning, which is safe on finished and engineered floors.
We don't sand or refinish. If the finish has worn through to bare wood in front of the sink, that's a job for a flooring contractor, and we'll tell you so.
Book before the Catfish Stomp
On the first Saturday in December the Catfish Stomp parade comes down Main Street and the Blaney Fire Department dishes up catfish stew. For a lot of families that's also when holiday company starts arriving. If people are staying with you, get the carpets done in November. Our calendar gets crowded after Thanksgiving, and a fresh carpet the week before guests show up is better than a scramble the day of.
What cleaning day looks like
The tech will walk the rooms with you, point out any spots that might not fully come out, and give you the price. Once the stains have a pre-treatment on them, a carbonated solution goes down and its bubbles push grime up out of the fibers for the machine to collect. There's no long hose snaking in from the driveway, and the carpet dries fast enough that the furniture can go back the same afternoon.
Pet accidents need something that gets below the surface. Our pet odor service works an enzyme down into the padding, and in our experience that's the only way the smell really leaves a room. A plug-in air freshener next to the spot just gives you two smells.
Call 803-393-7625 or send us a message. The drive over from Blythewood is a regular one for us.