The Town Clock in Winnsboro has been keeping time since 1837, and the town will tell you it's the oldest clock in the country that has never stopped running. Across the street stands the Fairfield County Courthouse, built in 1823 from a Robert Mills design. A good number of the houses around them are past their hundredth birthday too.
This is also the town that gave its name to the state stone, Winnsboro blue granite. Things here are built to last, and people expect the things inside their homes to last as well.
Old houses change what a carpet cleaner has to watch for.
Rugs that have been in the family
A lot of our Winnsboro calls are about rugs. One is a wool rug that's been under the dining table since somebody's grandmother bought it. Another is a Persian that came out of an estate with a few decades of dust in it. We clean these in your home, on the floor where they sit. Before any solution touches the face of a rug, the tech tests the dyes in an out-of-the-way corner and checks the fringe and backing for weak spots.
Fragile areas get a gentler hand. And if a rug is too far gone to clean safely, we'll say that plainly. A cleaning can't repair dry rot or holes, and pretending otherwise just wastes your money.
There's more on our oriental rug cleaning page, and $25 off in-home rug cleaning on the coupons page.
Wood floors
Plenty of homes in the Winnsboro Historic District still sit on their original wood floors. Our hardwood floor cleaning is a pH-neutral, low-moisture clean that lifts off the grime dulling the finish. It won't sand the boards or add a coat of anything, and it can't fix gouges. What it does well is bring back a floor that's simply dirty, which describes most of the ones we see.
Carpet in the newer rooms
Many older houses here have a den or back bedroom that was carpeted later, and the newer homes toward the edges of town are carpeted throughout. For those, the routine is straightforward. Your technician walks through with you and gives you the price. Spots and paths get a pre-treatment, and then the carbonated clean lifts the dirt and dries fast enough that you aren't stuck tiptoeing around the house all day.
Winnsboro is a little over 20 miles up the road from our Blythewood office, so we plan these visits ahead. Call 803-393-7625 or use our contact form, and let us know if there's a rug or two in the mix so the tech comes prepared. It also helps to clear vases and lamps off any rug you want cleaned, and if you know roughly how old a rug is or where it came from, mention that too. Age changes how we handle wool and dyes more than anything else.