Three rooms for $88. That's the offer most of our Blythewood calls start with, and it covers up to 300 square feet, roughly a living room and two bedrooms in a typical house here. Your technician measures before any work begins, so the figure you hear at the door is the figure on the bill.
The rest of this page explains what you get for it.
A lot of carpet here is barely broken in
Blythewood went from about 2,000 residents in 2010 to well past 7,000 now, and the Scout Motors plant going up outside town means the building hasn't slowed down. So a big share of the carpet we clean is builder-grade nylon or polyester that's three or four years old and already looks tired. Builder carpet has a lighter pile with less twist in the yarn. It shows a traffic lane years before a heavier carpet would.
Tired-looking and worn-out are two different problems, though. Most of the gray in a hallway is soil and body oil sitting on fiber that's still in decent shape, and once that layer comes out the carpet usually has plenty of life left. If yours really is worn, matted flat or frayed along the tack strip, you'll hear that from us. A crushed pile stays crushed.
How the visit goes
First the tech walks the rooms with you and asks about the spots: what got spilled, about when, and whether anybody already went at it with a store cleaner. That last question surprises people, but some sprays leave a soapy film behind that grabs dirt, and the tech has to account for it.
A pre-spray goes on the heavy areas to loosen oil and tacky buildup. After that comes the main clean, a carbonated solution whose bubbles push soil up out of the fiber so the machine can pick it up, with a small fraction of the water a steam unit pours into a floor. And there's no truck hose snaking down your hall with the storm door propped open in July.
The pile gets groomed at the end so it dries standing up. Most rooms are fine for socks in about an hour. Before packing up, your technician goes back through the finished rooms with you, and anything that didn't come up the way you hoped gets another pass while they're still there.
Why we keep water and soap out of it
Steam cleaning floods the carpet and pulls most of the water back out. Most is the trouble. In a South Carolina summer the leftover moisture can sit in the backing and pad for a day or more, which is where that musty smell and the brown wick-up spots come from.
Soap is the other half. Detergent left in fiber stays sticky, sticky carpet picks up dirt fast, and that's why some folks swear their carpet looked worse a month after a cleaning. Our solution is soap-free. People tend to notice the difference around month six, when the hallway still looks decent.
Add-ons for the same visit
A standard cleaning covers most homes. A few need one more step, and the tech can add any of these while already on site:
- Carpet protectant for the main walkways and the spot where the kids eat on the floor
- An allergen treatment, worth it in spring when pine pollen coats everything in town
- Antibacterial sanitizer after a stomach bug or before a baby starts crawling
- Problem-stain work on rust, dye, or old coffee
- Enzyme treatment for pet urine and odor that went below the surface
No need to decide ahead of time. Your technician will point out where an add-on would help and price it before doing a thing.
Moving, renting, or just overdue
Plenty of our carpet jobs around Blythewood are tied to a move. Somebody's selling, somebody's turning the old place into a rental, or a landlord wants the carpet done before a deposit gets settled. If you can, book the cleaning for after the furniture leaves. Empty rooms go faster and look better at the final walkthrough.
For everybody else, once or twice a year is about right. Dogs and toddlers push you toward twice.
The three-room price and our other discounts are on the coupons page. You can pick a time online, or call 803-393-7625 if you'd like to ask a few questions first.