Carpet and curtain cleaning in Baldone - for detached houses and rural properties

Detached houses with several rugs and buildings from the resort era

Baldone is a small town with detached-house development and a historic resort heritage. In Soviet times the Baldone resort was a popular place for rest and treatment. If your house has older rugs or curtains, for example wool ones that have survived from the resort era, it is worth first finding out what they are made of, because this decides whether they may be cleaned at home.

A detached house may have rugs in several rooms, for example a synthetic one in the living room, a wool rug in the bedroom, a runner in the hallway. A synthetic rug with a short pile is cleaned at home, but wool and cotton rugs only with pick-up. The reason is the fibre: hot water together with rubbing can felt wool, and the rug can shrink; usually this cannot be reversed.

If you do not know the fibre, look at the underside of the rug and at the care label. Many rugs have no label; then a photo of the underside helps to see whether it is tufted, woven or hand-made. In the form field “Where to clean?” you can choose “Not sure”.

Scattered development: what to say about access

In Baldone the development is scattered, and the roads between the centre and the rural areas differ. Connections towards Ķekava, Iecava, Vecumnieki and the Riga bypass rely on regional roads.

So in your request, write the full address and whether a car can drive up to the house. If the house is on a rural property and the access road is gravel or narrow, mention that too. The floor, whether there are stairs, and which room the rug is in also matter. If the rug has to go to the workshop, the access road matters as much as the floor. State:

• the size of the rug in m² and its shape (for round rugs the price is calculated by the rectangle around them);
• photos of the top, the underside and a close-up of the stain;
• whether there is a cat or a dog in the house and whether the rug has a smell;
• whether the rug has gone uncleaned for years, and where it has been stored.

Stairs, hallway and runners in a private house

In a private house with stairs to the first floor, the carpet on the steps and the hallway runner wear more than a room rug, because people walk on them every day. If they are fitted or glued down, they cannot be lifted and have to be cleaned on site. Send a photo of the start and the end of the stairs and write how many steps there are.

The price of fitted carpet is from €4/m² when the area is up to 100 m². More: stairs and hallway carpet cleaning and carpet cleaning in a private house.

A wool rug that has lain in a room for years, and storage

Conservators advise turning wool rugs from time to time so that they wear evenly, and not storing them in cellars or attics. If you take a rug up for the season, do not fold it: roll it in the direction of the pile onto a wide tube and wrap it in a cotton cloth. A rug must be cleaned before storage: moth larvae feed on wool and other materials of animal origin. If the rug already has live larvae, that is pest control work, not cleaning.

More on storage: how to store a rug. For a wool rug: wool rug cleaning.

Curtains on large windows: sheers, light and heavy

In a detached house the windows tend to be large and there are many curtains. For thin and day curtains and sheers the price is from €2.30/m² of fabric, for heavy, night and double curtains from €3.70/m². The fabric area is calculated from the width and length of the curtain itself, not of the window.

Natural fibres move when damp, and some curtains can change length by up to 3%. If a curtain has a lining, read the labels of both fabrics, because the outer fabric and the lining may be different fibres. In blackout curtains the coating can crack from heat, so they must not be put in a tumble dryer or ironed from the coated side. Sunlight fades fibres, so a curtain that hangs on a sunny side may fade more on the side facing the window than on the inside. More: curtain dry cleaning and sheer curtain cleaning.

Prices in Baldone and what may stay

A synthetic rug at home costs from €6/m², a wool or cotton rug with pick-up from €10/m², light curtains from €2.30/m², heavy ones from €3.70/m² of fabric. The minimum order is €45: if the total is lower, you pay €45. Travel to Baldone is from €10, because Baldone is further than about 15 km from the Riga boundary. Pick-up and return costs €10 and another €10 (distance over about 15 km from the Riga boundary).

Example: a 2 × 3 m wool rug is 6 m² × €10 = from €60, plus €10 and another €10 for pick-up and return, from €80 in total. A small 1 × 1.5 m rug comes to €15, so cleaning is €45, and pick-up is added, €65 in total. The smell of old urine in wool may stay: it comes back if the urine has reached the backing.

Services in Baldone

With pick-up: rug cleaning with pick-up. At home: carpet cleaning at home, fitted carpet cleaning and curtain cleaning. See the full price list on the prices page.