Deep hot-water extraction for year-round homes, lake houses, and rentals — the fix for sand-ground traffic lanes and that flat, dingy look in Campton.
Campton’s carpet problem is a winter problem first. Route 49 is the only road to Waterville Valley, and it starts here at Exit 28 — which means from December into April this town gets the full traffic of a ski season, along with the treated sand-and-salt mix that comes off I-93 and NH 175 on every boot and floor mat. Salt is worse than dirt in a carpet: it stays hygroscopic in the pile, pulls damp back out of the air, and leaves a stiff white bloom in the traffic lanes and stair treads long after the mud has dried. Houses along the corridor that get rented by the week or the weekend take that in concentrated doses, with a fresh set of guests and a fresh set of boots every few days and no real chance to dry out in between. Then the seasons turn over: mud season on the dirt roads out toward Blair and Beebe River, and a summer of river sand tracked up from the Pemigewasset, from Livermore Falls, and out of the campgrounds off Route 49 and US 3. The older houses in the Lower and Upper Villages add their own wrinkle — wide-board floors with wool or braided rugs laid over them, which want a fiber test and a controlled, low-moisture method rather than a heavy soak, and most of them are heated with wood, which lays a gray film into light carpet and into the upholstery nearest the stove over a full winter of burning.
If your place is on the Route 49 corridor and it works through ski season, get the salt out in April rather than waiting for summer — it doesn’t vacuum out, and every damp day it sits there it draws moisture back into the pile. Renting the house by the weekend? Two cleanings a year, one after the last skier and one after Labor Day, will keep you ahead of it.
A proper cleaning is not a rental-machine skim over the surface. Every job starts with a thorough pre-vacuum to pull out the dry grit that actually grinds carpet down, then a pre-spray and hand-agitation of traffic lanes and spots so the soil is broken loose before we ever touch it with water. We finish with truck-mounted hot-water extraction — the method carpet makers recommend — which flushes the loosened soil and detergent back out of the pile at high heat, followed by grooming and high-airflow drying so the carpet is damp, not soaked.
You get a straight flat price before we start, and carpet that's back in service in hours, not days.
Most whole-home cleanings run $150–$350 depending on room count, stairs, and how heavily soiled the traffic lanes are. Single rooms start around $45. We quote the flat price before we arrive — no upsell at the door.
With truck-mounted extraction and high-airflow grooming, most carpet is dry in 4–6 hours. Good airflow and a fan or two speeds it up; humid lake-house summers slow it down a little.
Manufacturers and most warranties call for professional cleaning every 12–18 months. Homes with pets, kids, or heavy lake-season foot traffic do better every 6–12 months.
We move light furniture — sofas, chairs, tables — and clean under it, then set it back on protective tabs. We leave beds, dressers, and anything on electronics in place and clean around them.
Flexible scheduling, flat prices quoted up front, and a crew that knows the Lakes Region.
Tell us where the property is and what needs cleaning. We'll get right back to you with a straight, flat price.
We reply to every request within 1 business day.