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 Sandwich.
Two things drive carpet and upholstery cleaning in Sandwich: old houses and unpaved roads. The village and the farms around it are full of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century homes with wide-board floors and area rugs laid over them — wool, braided, and oriental pieces that want a fiber test and a controlled, low-moisture method rather than a heavy soak that leaves a wet rug sitting on old pine. Sandwich Notch Road and the gravel roads out toward North Sandwich put a fine grit into everything that a household vacuum leaves behind in the traffic lanes, and mud season turns that same grit into something considerably worse from March into May. Most houses in town still burn wood, and a full winter of it settles a gray film into light carpet and into the upholstery sitting nearest the stove. Then there is Fair weekend — the Sandwich Fair has run on Columbus Day weekend since 1886, and for four days it fills houses all over this town with family, visitors, and wet October boots.
Hosting for Fair weekend? Book the carpet and upholstery for the week before, not after. And if you’re coming out of mud season, that’s the other cleaning worth putting on the calendar — while the grit off the notch road is still sitting on top of the pile instead of ground down into 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.