Rug and Carpet Cleaning Companies in New Dorp, Staten Island

Staten Island rates. Area rugs, taken away and washed in-plant:

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• Decide the order now, not on the day

  The reason rugs get lost is not that they are hard to move. It is that nobody decided in advance that they were worth moving, so on the day they are still on the floor while everyone is doing more urgent things.

  Fix that once, calmly, when nothing is happening. Walk the ground floor and put every rug into one of three groups

  • Group 1 — move it, every time

    Anything hand-knotted, wool, silk, antique or inherited. Anything you would be genuinely upset to lose. These are the ones where ten minutes of work protects something worth hundreds or thousands of dollars, and they are usually the lightest to carry, because a fine hand-knotted rug is thinner than a thick synthetic one.

  • Group 2 — move it if there is time

    Good synthetic rugs, newer wool rugs in heavy-use rooms, anything replaceable but not cheap.

  • Group 3 — leave it

    Cheap synthetics, entry rugs, anything already at the end of its life. These are consumables. Trying to save them on the day is how Group 1 gets left behind.

  Write the list down and put it where the rest of the household can see it. Three lines on a piece of paper in a kitchen drawer. The value is not the paper; it is that the decision was made once, in advance, by someone with time to think.

• How to move a rug quickly without wrecking it

  • Roll, never fold

    Folding creases the foundation permanently and those creases do not relax back out. Roll from one end, keeping it reasonably tight.

  • Roll it with the pile facing inward where you…

    Roll it with the pile facing inward where you can, which protects the face.

  • Two people for anything 8×10 or larger

    A dry 9×12 wool rug is 60 to 80 pounds and it is floppy, which makes it much more awkward than the weight suggests. Trying it alone is how people hurt their backs on a day when a hospital trip is the last thing anyone needs.

  • Tie it in two or three places with anything …

    Tie it in two or three places with anything — cord, tape, a belt. An untied roll unrolls on a staircase.

  • Do not wrap it in plastic and leave it wrapped

    Plastic traps moisture against the fibre. It is fine for a few hours in transit and it is a mildew problem within a week.

• Up is better than covered

  Where the rug goes matters more than what you do to it.

  • First choice

    Upstairs, or the highest floor there is. Simple, free, and it puts the rug above the problem.

  • Second choice

    Raised on something solid — a table, a bed, a sturdy shelf — well above floor level, in a room with a door that can stay open for air.

  • Third choice

    Out of the house, whether that is a relative on higher ground or paid storage at $20–60 a month.

  • Not a choice

    The basement. Which is the next section, and there are two separate reasons for it.

• The first reason is mildew

  A basement is humid, dark, still and cool. A rolled wool rug left there is in near ideal conditions for mildew and for clothes-moth larvae, which prefer soiled wool and want exactly that lack of disturbance. The damage happens silently, inside the roll, and is usually found months or years later.

  This is true in any basement, in any neighborhood, with no weather involved at all. The full version — how to store a rug properly if you must use a basement — is on the Sunnyside page

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• The second reason is your policy

  This is general information, not insurance advice. Coverage depends on your specific policy and your insurer. Check with your agent, and see FEMA's flood insurance guidance at floodsmart.gov for how the National Flood Insurance Program works.

  Two things surprise a lot of homeowners, and both are worth knowing before you decide where a valuable rug lives:

  A standard homeowner's policy generally does not cover flood damage at all.: Flood is normally excluded and covered separately — in most of the United States through the National Flood Insurance Program, or through a private flood policy. Water backing up from a sewer or drain is different again and is usually its own endorsement.

  • Flood policies typically treat basements very restrictively

    Under the NFIP, personal property stored in a basement is largely not covered, even when the building coverage pays for structural elements. A rug in a basement can therefore be uninsured in a way that the same rug upstairs is not.

  • The conclusion is simple and it costs nothing

    If a rug matters and there is a choice, it does not live in the basement. Not because of the water, particularly. Because of the water and the mildew and the policy, which is three reasons for one small decision.

  • Confirm the specifics with your own insurer

    Policies vary, and this is exactly the kind of question an agent will answer in five minutes.