Carpet Cleaning Cashmere

Cashmere’s housing is documented in unusual detail. The City Council’s character area guidance describes a high proportion of houses from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth, mixing English Domestic Revival and Arts and Crafts styles — often two storeys, with large footprints and substantial gardens around them, timber weatherboard, steeply pitched roofs and bay windows. Building began in the closing years of the 1890s and picked up sharply when the tramline was extended in 1912.

How should carpet in a hundred-year-old house be cleaned?

Carefully, and room by room. Large-footprint two-storey houses run long stretches of carpet over old timber, and old timber does not take kindly to excess water. Controlled hot water extraction with thorough dry passes suits most of it; where a floor or a rug warrants gentler handling, low-moisture cleaning is the better answer.

Those substantial gardens are the other half of the equation. Five kilometres south of the Square on the north face of the Port Hills, with the Ōpāwaho/Heathcote marking the suburb’s northern edge, Cashmere homes take in a steady load of soil, leaf litter and grit from outside. The earthquake picture here is a hill picture: seventeen properties were zoned red because of rock fall, landslip and cliff collapse risk, with CERA zoning otherwise predominantly green, and the Council states plainly that the technical land categories applying to the rest of the city do not apply to the Port Hills. Separately, and unrelated to the earthquakes, the Ōpāwaho/Heathcote flooded significantly in March 2014.

Older rooms, bigger floor areas

Character houses tend to combine surfaces rather than choose between them, so a single visit often takes in carpet cleaning through the bedrooms and stairs, hard floor care on timber, and tile and grout cleaning in kitchens and bathrooms. Wool and older weaves respond well to truck-mounted hot water extraction done at the right temperature and pressure, and low-moisture carpet cleaning is the option when the floor beneath is the thing you are protecting.

Rug cleaning is a regular request in a suburb where rugs are laid over floorboards rather than fitted wall to wall. Upholstery and mattress cleaning usually come along with a whole-house deep clean rather than a single room. Where animals share the house, pet stain and odour removal and odour elimination address what a general clean will not, and flood restoration and water extraction is available at any hour.

Arrange a visit in Cashmere

Call FibrePro on 022 159 8877 for a free quote. No call-out fee, and the products used on old wool and timber are non-toxic and safe around children and pets.