Persian, oriental, wool and silk — washed by hand, repaired by hand.
Naples sits about seven feet above the Gulf, and rugs here take damage that has almost nothing to do with anyone walking on them. Salt settles into the pile and holds damp against the fibre. Sand works down to the knots. Houses close in April and sit through the wet season with the air handler holding a setpoint and nothing drying out. Rugs are collected, washed off site by hand, dried flat, and brought back.
A hand-knotted Tabriz and a polypropylene flatweave off a shelf are not the same object, and they should never meet the same brush. Vegetable dyes bleed. Silk scorches under heat. Cotton foundations shrink if they are pulled out of the wash wet and dried under tension. Guessing is how rugs get ruined.
So nothing gets cleaned until it has been looked over: fibre content, dye stability, weave construction, backing, previous repairs, and whatever a run of Gulf Coast wet seasons has left in the foundation. Only then does the rug get a method. That inspection costs nothing, it happens before you commit to anything, and if a rug is not worth the cost of cleaning we will say so.
Wool, silk, cotton, jute and synthetics each get their own water temperature, pH and agitation.
Chewed corners, unravelling fringe, moth grazing and split foundations rebuilt by hand.
The smell that greets a seasonal owner in October is treated in the foundation, not perfumed over.
We collect and return across Collier and south Lee County. You never lift a roll.
Washing, structural repair, and getting water back out of a rug before it becomes a mould problem.
Full immersion hand-washing for Persian, oriental, wool, silk, cotton and modern synthetic rugs. Dry sand and grit come out before any water is introduced, then the rug is washed, flushed until the water runs clear, and dried flat under moving air.
Rug cleaning detailsFringe replacement, edge binding, moth damage, pet destruction, worn pile and missing corners. Reweaving is done with matched wool at matched knot density, so the repair settles into the field instead of announcing itself.
Repair servicesStorm surge on the islands, a failed supply line, or a lanai door that let a wet season in. Rugs in that state need flushing and controlled drying, not a fan pointed at them. We extract, decontaminate, dry flat, and document the condition throughout.
Water damage service
Rug care advice written for a dry inland climate does not transfer here. Naples sits at about seven feet above sea level on the edge of the Gulf. The year splits cleanly in two: a hot wet season from roughly June to October with summer highs near ninety degrees, and a dry, mild season from November to April. Just under fifty inches of rain falls in a year and something like two thirds of it comes down in those four wet months — which are, not coincidentally, the four months a large share of these houses stand empty.
Some of the soaked rugs on this coast met a storm. Most of them met a supply line behind a washing machine, a water heater at the end of its life, a slow leak under a dishwasher, or a lanai slider that was not quite closed when a wet-season squall came through sideways. Water that starts clean is rarely clean by the time it reaches the rug, because it has crossed a tile floor on the way.
Surge is its own category. It is salt water, it carries whatever it crossed getting to the house, and out on Marco Island and the barrier beaches it is a real exposure rather than a theoretical one. Either way, what matters is what happens next. A wet wool foundation is a growing medium and a warm room speeds that up, which here means every room. Drying the surface with a fan leaves the contamination in the base of the pile and produces a rug that seems fine for a few weeks and then does not. The rug has to be flushed, treated, and dried flat with the moisture content actually measured — and photographed before any of that, because that is what an insurer will ask for.
Off-site washing, hand finishing, and a route that runs from Marco Island up to Estero.
From Marco Island and East Naples up the coast through Park Shore and Pelican Bay to Bonita Springs and Estero, and inland to Golden Gate. Collection is included.
One hand-knotted Persian rug, photographed before and after cleaning.
Send the form and we will come back with a real number. Estimates are free and there is no obligation to book.
How rugs are actually built, how to tell hand-knotted from tufted in ten seconds, and what any of it means for a house on the Collier coast.
Free estimate, collection and delivery included — anywhere on the route.
