Trusted Care for Your Valuable Rugs
Professional Afghan Rug Cleaning Services
Whether you have a Kazak, Arijana or Ziegler, if your Afghan rug has become a little bit dull and lifeless over the last few years, don’t panic. You don’t need to invest in replacing them! In one efficient service from the specialists at Ab Fab Rug Cleaning, your rugs will be completely revitalised.
- Over 30 Years of Rug Repair Experience
- Successfully Restored 5,000+ Handcrafted Rugs
- Expert Repair of Fringes, Holes, Tears & Worn Areas
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Professional Care for Your Valued Rugs
Timeless Beauty, Impeccable Care: Afghan Rug Cleaning
If your Afghan rugs have become a little bit dull and lifeless over the last few years, don’t panic. You don’t need to invest in replacing them! In one efficient service from the specialists at Ab Fab Rug Cleaning, your rugs will be completely revitalised.
We guarantee that our safe, thorough rug cleaning methods will completely restore the look, feel and smell of your Afghan rug. So, you won’t have to part ways with the rug and invest heavily in a replacement.
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If your Afghan rugs are looking a little less vibrant than they once were, don't worry. You don't need to replace them! In one thorough service from the team at Ab Fab Rug Cleaning, your rugs will be left looking new, smelling fresh and feeling full!
We offer standard rug washing services, as well as restorative rug washing services (including specialist stain removal, odour removal, and decontamination for rugs affected by fire (smoke) and flood).
We ensure our safe, thorough cleaning methods will restore the look, feel and smell of your Afghan rug to the point where the need for replacement is no longer required.
A considerable amount of care, time and effort have gone into making your rug and with regular professional cleaning, your favourite Afghan rugs will last beyond our lifetime and can be proudly passed from generation to generation.
Visibly stunning results... or your money back!
That's right. We're so confident that you'll be blown away by the results we provide, that we provide a 100% Money Back Guarantee on all of our rug cleaning services.
If you're in any way dissatisfied with the service we provide or the results we produce, just let us know! We will re-clean your rug completely free of charge as a matter of urgency.
If you're still not happy, we will provide you with a full refund - every penny - no questions asked! We couldn't be fairer than that, could we?
Revitalise Your Afghan Treasure with Gentle Cleaning Expertise
The recommended method for cleaning natural fibre rugs is professional full immersion rug cleaning. And that’s what we’ve been doing here for many years.
By carrying out a full and thorough cleaning process, we're able to not only leave your rugs looking new and smelling fresh, but also increase their longevity.
From the quotation, a full Afghan rug cleaning service includes a pre-clean survey and inspection, collection, colour fastness testing, dusting, vacuuming, cleaning, specialist stain/odour removal, rinsing, conditioning, drying, pile grooming, hand finishing and packing, right the way through to returning your rug back to your home, unpacking and repositioning your rug in a room of your choice.
If you’d prefer to unpack it yourself at a later date or leave it packed for storage, that’s fine, we will do whatever is the most convenient for you.
Highly Trusted By Local Homeowners and Businesses
When you choose Ab Fab as your local rug cleaning company, you can feel assured that your rugs are in the hands of experienced professionals.
Having cleaned thousands of Aghan rugs for people throughout Reading, London, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire, we've got lots of happy clients that are saying great things about our services!
As a family-run business established in 1989, we treat every precious hand-knotted rug entrusted to us as if it were our own.
A Local and Experienced Team You Can Trust
Call us old fashioned, but we believe that you should always meet the person who will be cleaning your Afghan rug and receive a written quotation to ensure you know the exact price you are going to pay.
That's why we will always arrange a convenient time to visit and carry out a pre-clean survey and full inspection of your Afghan rug, giving you the opportunity to meet us and discuss any marks/stains/odours which are of concern to you.
If you’re happy with our quotation, we can leave you with a receipt and take your rug away to be cleaned at our purpose-built rug cleaning facility.
Complete Removal of All Tough Stains and Odours
We understand any number of disasters can occur that can leave your rug in a bad state - no matter how careful you are. From red wine spills and food spillages to baby mess and pet stains - we've got you covered.
We can even remove tar, nail varnish, chewing gum, smoke, flood stains, moth infestation and more.
We’ve seen them all, so please don’t be worried about calling us to help you. Many of these stains can be complex to remove due to the nature of the variety of substances engrained in the rug fibres.
Their removal takes patience and knowledge to determine the fibre type, dye stability and finishing agents and which treatments are best suited to gain the optimum results for your cherished Afghan rug.
We can say with absolute conviction “If we can’t remove a stain or odour from your rug, then no-one can!”
Cleaning Process
Our full immersion rug cleaning process in 10 steps
- Step 1
Assessment & testing
Our rug cleaning process begins with a thorough assessment to determine the type of rug (hand-knotted or machine-made), fibre type (natural like wool, cotton, silk, jute viscose etc or man-made like nylon, polypropylene, etc), known stains or problem areas. We also test for dye stability to assess the risk of colour run. Based on all this information, we decide on the most appropriate rug cleaning method
- Step 2
Dye stability test
We carry out a dye stability test prior to cleaning, to determine whether any of the rug dyes will bleed during the cleaning process. This is a crucial step, as it helps us to determine if extra steps need to happen to fix the dyes prior to washing or whether we need to us a completely different cleaning and/or drying strategy to eliminate the risk of colour loss or colour migration
- Step 3
Rug dusting
Often overlooked, dusting is a vital step in the rug cleaning process. Natural rug fibres are great at hiding dirt, grit and dust particles. We remove them before starting the wet cleaning process by placing the rugs face down onto dusting grids and gently beating the back with a dedicated mechanical machine. This thorough dusting procedure removes all foreign particles from deep down the rug pile.
- Step 4
Rug washing
The dust-free rugs are taken to the wash floor where they are immersed in a rug cleaning solution and cleaned with a gentle brush on a rotary rug cleaning machine and then thoroughly flushed and rinsed.
- Step 5
Fringe cleaning
Often made of cotton, oriental rug fringes are in fact an integral part of the rug, a continuation of the rug warps.The rug cleaning process wouldn’t be complete without giving the fringes the much-needed attention. Often fragile, we clean them by hand with an individually tailored cleaning solution for the best results.
- Step 6
Advanced stain removal
While the wash floor provides the most comprehensive rug cleaning, some stains may require advanced stain removal techniques to maximize the likelihood of complete stain elimination.
- Step 7
Rug drying
All Persian and Oriental rugs are made of natural fibres like wool, cotton, or silk and very often a combination of them. Like for example wool piles on cotton warps.. Leaving a rug too wet for too long could lead to problems like cellulosic browning of the cotton warps and fringes, colour run or dye bleed, and so on.
We extract up to 95% of the water from rugs before hanging them in our dedicated drying room.
The rug drying room is equipped with industrial dehumidifiers and fans to continuously circulate dry air around the rugs to complete the drying process in just a few hours.
- Step 8
Moth treatment
Moths are one of the most fierce Oriental and Persian rug enemies, as the moths’ larvae feed on the wool rug pile permanently damaging the rugs. We now offer an optional mothproofing treatment for all hand-made rugs we clean.
- Step 9
Air dusting and grooming
By this stage, the rugs are clean and dry, but because we like to do things properly we put the rugs through an additional light air dusting process to remove any potential dust particles from the rugs and do a final pile grooming before packing them ready for delivery.
- Step 10
Rug packing and delivering
All rugs are inspected, rolled up and wrapped in a breathable rug sleeve, ready for transportation.
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No obligation. We'll visit in person, inspect your rug and provide a written quotation, with no hidden extras. Serving Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Surrey, London, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire
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We offer a Free collection and return and reinstall service to all our clients to ensure you have a clean rug and amazing service from us.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to clean a rug?
It depends on the type and size of the rug. Send us a message with the rug dimensions and a short description or a picture and we’ll give you a quote straight away.
How long does it take to clean a rug?
We usually allow 10-14 days for the rugs to be returned.
How to clean a rug at home?
We do not recommend DIY rug cleaning. If the colours are unstable they will run – usually the reds and the blues migrate into the light surrounding fibres. Rugs made from natural fibres also need to be dried very quickly. We use a centrifuge to extract the water and have a climate controlled drying room to dry all rugs within an optimal timeframe which cannot be done at home.
My rug fringes and edges are frying . Can you repair them ?
Yes, We can certainly fix them.
Our Promise
Visibly stunning results
If you're not completely satisfied with the results, we'll re-clean your rug at no charge. Still not happy? We'll issue a full refund, no questions asked. That's our commitment to you and we've stood behind it for over 30 years.
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