Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning in Old Basford

Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning for Old Basford homes

Terrace staircases here turn at the top on winder treads, which are wedge shaped and cannot be cleaned with a wand at all. Those go tread by tread with a hand tool, which is slow and is why stairs are quoted apart.

Stairs are the job here more often than rooms are. A terrace staircase runs straight up from the living room and then turns at the top on winder treads, which are wedge shaped, narrower at one end than a hand tool is wide, and impossible to reach with a wand. It is slow work and it is where the dirt is, because there is no hall to catch anything: the front door opens into the room the stairs come out of, so street grit goes onto the bottom treads within a step or two of arriving. The semis are more conventional, with a hall carpet and a straight flight, and they clean the way any postwar house does.

Old Basford sits in NG6, under Nottingham City Council. The housing here is mostly nineteenth century terraces built for the hosiery and lace trades, with postwar council semis filling the gaps left by clearance, and small modern closes on former factory land, and that is what shapes this job more than the floor area does.

What we run into on Old Basford carpet & upholstery cleaning jobs

Drying is the constraint in a terrace rather than the cleaning. There is one door front and back, the rooms are small, and the staircase in the middle of the house pulls damp air upstairs rather than out of it. So we work at lower moisture than the same carpet would get in a bigger house, extract twice on the traffic lane, and put an air mover at the foot of the stairs facing up the flight. The other thing worth knowing is that the underlay in front of where a fire used to be is often thinner and older than the rest, because it was cut round a hearth, and it wets through faster.

How an Old Basford carpet & upholstery cleaning job actually runs

Upholstery in these front rooms usually has to be cleaned where it stands. A three piece suite in a terrace living room went in through the front door with the feet off, and it is not coming out again for a cleaning visit, so we work round it: pull it forward off the wall, clean it in place, and put it back once it is dry rather than while it is damp. That last part matters here because so many of these sofas sit against an outside wall, which is the coldest surface in the room and the slowest place for anything to dry. The postwar houses give more room to move and the suites tend to be newer, so they behave more predictably. Whichever it is, we want to know before the visit what the suite is covered in and whether the covers come off, because a loose cover, a fixed back and a leather frame are three different jobs and only one of them can be decided on the doorstep.

Who books it here

Regular fortnightly work in the owner occupied semis, and a steady run of landlord turnarounds on the terraces, a lot of which are rented rather than lived in by their owners. Deep cleans come third and cluster after a sale, when the carpet has come up in an empty house and nobody expected what was under it.

We run Old Basford on the same round as New Basford, Bulwell and Bestwood.

What we check on every Old Basford job

The deck under the cushions is where the evidence is on any sofa that has lived in a house with no hall. Lift the seat cushions and there is grit in the crease at the back of the deck, brought in on shoes and worked down there by everybody who has sat on it. Vacuuming that out with a crevice tool comes first, because wetting grit just makes a paste that works into the fabric. The arms and the headrest area are the other half. Hair oils and hand contact leave a darker patch that reads as wear until it is cleaned, and on an older suite the fabric there has usually had more sun on it as well, so we test in a hidden place first and tell you what is soil and what has already faded. Airflow across the arms shortens the drying considerably.

What the carpet & upholstery cleaning covers

A sample of what is included

• Also covered: Mattresses, HEPA vacuumed with low-moisture spot treatment
• Upholstery: Embedded hair lifted with a rubber brush
• Carpets: Hot water extraction at pressure
• Also covered: Pet urine, with enzymatic pre-treatment and extra dwell time

That is a sample rather than the whole list. The full carpet & upholstery cleaning page sets out every section of the scope, what is deliberately excluded and why, how long it takes on each property size, and what tends to go wrong.

The cleaner who comes to your Old Basford property is directly employed and vetted by us rather than subcontracted, and the questions that come up before a first booking are answered on the FAQ page. If you are not certain this is the right service, the services hub compares all 14.