Carpet cleaning in Dārziņi - for detached houses and family garden plots

From garden allotments to detached houses

Extensive change in Dārziņi began in the 1960s, when enterprises allotted garden plot areas to their employees, and the neighbourhood is still mostly made up of detached houses and family garden plots. The development also includes seasonal buildings and low-rise residential houses. This means that one neighbourhood can have both houses lived in all year round and buildings used only in the warm season.

If the house is occupied all year, the rug is used every day, and the need for cleaning comes from how and how often it is walked on. If the building is a seasonal one, the rug may stand unused for several months, and then storage matters more. In the request, write which case is yours, because a rug that is stored for months also needs to be fully dry before storage.

If the house has a rug that was moved from a flat or inherited, it is worth finding out the fibre. For a wool or hand-made rug, colourfastness must be tested in an inconspicuous spot before it is wetted, because the dye may bleed. That is why such rugs are better cleaned with pick-up. A short-pile synthetic rug can be cleaned on site, in a room of the house.

The way to Dārziņi and what to write in the request

The main access is provided by Maskavas iela and the local street network. Dārziņi is a remote south-eastern neighbourhood and the distance to the centre is significant, but travel in Dārziņi is included in the price, and pick-up and return costs the same as elsewhere in Riga.

In the request, write where a car can stop by the house or the gate, whether the house has stairs and which floor the room is on. If the building has no heating in summer or winter, mention it: it helps a specialist choose between at home and pick-up. State the size of the rug in m², the fibre if you know it, and whether the rug is fitted or lies loose. If the rug is too large or heavy to move, write that in the request. The nearest neighbourhoods you can look at alongside: Rumbula, Ķengarags, Šķirotava and Krasta rajons.

A rug in a seasonal house in winter

If a seasonal building stands unheated in winter, it is better to dry the rug before autumn and store it in a dry place. The Canadian Conservation Institute advises not to fold a rug, to roll it with the pile direction onto a wide tube and not to place it in a cellar or attic. The Health Inspectorate (Veselības inspekcija) writes that relative air humidity above 80% creates a high risk of mould.

Mould in a porous material often cannot be cleaned out completely, so store a rug only when it is fully dry. Moth larvae eat wool and avoid light; if there are already live larvae in the rug, that is a pest control job. More: rug cleaning in a private house and how to store a rug.

A large rug in the main room of a house

In detached houses the rooms can be larger than in apartment buildings, and the rug may cover almost the whole floor. If the rug is synthetic with a short pile, cleaning at home is simpler than taking it away. Before cleaning, remove chairs, small tables and plant pots from the rug; write about heavy furniture in the request. If the rug has fringe, photograph that too, and add photos of the underside, because from it you can see whether the rug is woven, knotted or tufted.

For example, a 2.5 × 3.5 m synthetic rug is 8.75 m², and 8.75 m² × €6 = from €52.50. If the room has a fixed fitted carpet, the price is from €4/m²: 40 m² × €4 = from €160. In more detail: large rug cleaning.

Snow in the yard and winter cleaning

In winter many people clean rugs with dry snow. In the yard it can be done, but there are risks: moisture and dye bleeding for a wool rug, and wool can felt if it gets wet and is rubbed. Before rolling up, the rug must be completely dry, otherwise moisture stays inside the roll. Street snow can carry sand and road salt, and wet snow soaks in deeper. If the rug is valuable, in winter you can choose cleaning with pick-up instead. We write about this on the page cleaning a rug with snow.

Prices in Dārziņi

A synthetic rug at home from €6/m², fitted carpet up to 100 m² from €4/m², a wool or cotton rug with pick-up from €10/m². The minimum order is €45: if the total is lower, you pay €45. A 2 × 3 m wool rug: 6 m² × €10 = €60, plus pick-up and return €10, from €70 in total.

Travel in Dārziņi is included in the price. Pick-up and return costs €10 (both ways together). For long-pile (shaggy) or thick rugs the price is from €10/m², and whether it is cleaned at home or with pick-up depends on the rug’s size and fibre. For silk, hand-made and antique rugs, the price is given from a photo. If a rug has mould, it often cannot be cleaned out completely, and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) writes that a mouldy porous material may have to be thrown away.

Services in Dārziņi

Depending on the fibre and the size of the rug, you can request rug cleaning with pick-up, rug cleaning at home, wool rug cleaning and curtain cleaning. The last one is useful if the garden house also has curtains you want cleaned before the season. Prices: prices. If the rug goes with pick-up and curtains also need cleaning in the same request, write both together.