Rug cleaning with pick-up in Mežciems - for apartment buildings by the Biķernieki forest

Apartment-block estates by the forest: what rug and where to clean it

The Mežciems residential estate consists of two housing estate districts and a public and retail centre. The buildings are mostly apartment buildings, with some detached houses and large institutional areas.

If the rooms in your flat are small, a large rug can take up most of the floor. Such a rug is hard to carry out through the door and down the stairs, so it can be cleaned on site if it is synthetic. If the rug is wool or cotton, it is better to choose pick-up and cleaning in the workshop: hot water together with rubbing can make wool felt, and the rug can shrink.

If the flat has a fitted carpet, it is on-site work: fitted carpet cleaning. If you do not know which option to choose, choose “Not sure, please advise” in the form.

Biķernieku iela, Hipokrāta iela and the links to Jugla and Dreiliņi

Access to the neighbourhood is formed by Biķernieku iela, Hipokrāta iela and the links towards Jugla and Dreiliņi. Travel to Mežciems is included in the price, but in the request write where a car can stop by the building and whether the entrance is from the street or the courtyard.

For an apartment building, this information matters:

• the floor, the lift or stairs and the width of the door;
• the length and width of the rug in metres, or the room area if the rug is fitted;
• where a car can stop, if the job is done on site;
• whether there is heavy furniture on the rug that cannot be removed;
• stains, smell and whether there is an animal or a child at home;
• photos of the top and of the underside.

Before cleaning at home, take small tables, chairs and plant pots off the rug.

A large rug in a small room

A large short-pile synthetic rug is cleaned on site from €6/m². Example: a 3 × 4 m rug is 12 m² × €6 = from €72, travel included. For a long-pile (shaggy) or thick-pile rug 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 long-pile rugs a close-up photo matters.

How long a rug takes to dry depends on the fibre, the thickness of the pile, the humidity of the room air and the ventilation. If the room is small, ventilation is especially important: a window and a door to the hallway help the air flow. See large rug cleaning and long-pile rug cleaning.

A child’s room rug

If a child’s room has a rug on the floor, food, drinks, paints and other stains can get into it. A fresh stain usually comes out better than an old one. At first, blot the liquid with a clean absorbent material and do not rub, because rubbing pushes the stain deeper. Blood should be rinsed in cold water, never hot, because heat sets it.

If a child has an allergy, remember: cleaning reduces dust and allergens in the rug, but it is not treatment. Mites come back as long as the air humidity is high; the Health Inspectorate (Veselības inspekcija) recommends a comfortable humidity of 40–60% and airing every day. Read children’s rug cleaning. A small 1.2 × 1.8 m children’s rug is 2.16 m², and 2.16 × €6 = €12.96, so you pay €45.

Healthcare complexes and other rooms with carpets

Mežciems has healthcare complexes. If a room in a healthcare complex, for example a waiting area, has a carpet, cleaning it is a business service: the price depends on the area and the volume, and the unit prices are the same “from” prices. Carpet cleaning is not disinfection.

See carpet cleaning for a clinic and carpet cleaning for businesses. If the institution has its own internal rules, mention them in the request.

A flat before sale or letting

If a flat is being prepared for letting or sale, the carpet is one of the things to sort out. Cleaning can reduce dust and fresh stains, but it may not remove old stains and smell. If people have smoked in a flat for years, the smoke smell can stay in the fabrics, and cleaning can only reduce it; the smell can return from the room.

If the flat must be ready by a certain date, say so in the request. Also say which rugs are fitted and which loose. Read carpet cleaning in a rental flat.

Curtains and sheers in a flat by the forest

The flat’s windows may have sheers or thin day curtains, as well as heavy curtains in the bedroom. Light fades the fibres, and sheers can turn yellowish from sun, smoke or kitchen steam. The coating of blackout curtains can crack from heat, so check the label.

For thin curtains the price is from €2.30/m² of fabric, for heavy ones from €3.70/m². Example: one night curtain of 2.4 × 2.6 m of fabric is 6.24 m² × €3.70 = €23.09, so you pay €45. Read sheer curtain cleaning and curtain cleaning.

Prices in Mežciems

The minimum order is €45: if the total is lower, you pay €45. This applies to cleaning only. Travel to Mežciems is included in the price. Pick-up and return costs €10 both ways together and is added. Example: a 1.5 × 2 m wool rug is 3 m² × €10 = €30, so you pay €45, and with pick-up together €55. Old urine and dye bleeding in wool may stay.