Rug Cleaning in Amelia Island
Collection and delivery in Amelia Island are included. We take the rug back to the workshop, wash it properly, and bring it home.
What Amelia Island is built from
Nassau County, thirty miles north of the city, with a fifty-block downtown in Fernandina Beach holding one of the best-preserved Victorian streetscapes in the state — Queen Anne and Italianate houses from the 1880s and 1890s on Centre Street and the avenues behind it — plus later beach houses and the resort development at the south end.
Old houses with old contents, a strong antiques trade, and households that have furnished with period pieces on purpose. Rugs and furniture here have frequently been in the same rooms, in the same positions, for a very long time.
The Amelia Island problem
Furniture is what damages rugs on this island, and specifically the metal it stands on. Period furniture rests on brass or iron casters, cup castors and ferrules, and an antique caster is bare metal in contact with wool in a coastal house where the indoor humidity sits high for months at a stretch. Iron corrodes, and the rust does not stay on the caster: it transfers into the pile and then into the cotton foundation underneath as an orange-brown ring that looks like a spill and behaves nothing like one. Ordinary cleaning does not touch it, and bleaching it makes it worse, because the stain is iron oxide bound into the fibre and it has to be chemically reduced back to a soluble form and flushed out, carefully, with the surrounding dyes tested first. Brass is gentler but not innocent — it leaves a green-grey verdigris mark that behaves the same way. The second half of the problem is simply load. A loaded bookcase or a piano concentrates several hundred pounds onto four small points, and after twenty years in one position the pile under them is not compressed, it is dead: the yarn has been crushed past the point where damp and grooming bring it back, and the foundation is distorted around each foot. Some of it lifts in the wash and some of it does not. The prevention is trivial and almost never done — a proper cup or coaster between metal and wool, and moving the rug or the furniture occasionally.
If that sounds like your rug, send the form and describe what you are seeing. We will tell you whether it needs the full treatment or not.
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