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 Tamworth.
Two kinds of sand come into Tamworth carpets, and they arrive at different doors. White Lake State Park, just off Route 16, has a broad sandy beach and a campground, and families rent nearby houses and cottages by the week all summer to be near it — the beach comes home on towels, sandals, and dogs and works down into traffic lanes and stair treads where a household vacuum never reaches. A few miles north, the houses around Chocorua Lake are older, quieter, and owned more than rented, with the view of Mount Chocorua that everyone photographs; those places tend to hold wool and oriental rugs over wide-board floors, and a rug like that wants a fiber test and a controlled, low-moisture method rather than a heavy soak, especially in a camp that isn’t heated between visits. Then there is the July and August rush around the Barnstormers Theatre in Tamworth village — the oldest continuously running professional summer theater in the country — which fills the rentals and the inns nearby with a fresh set of guests every few days. Out in South Tamworth, Whittier, and Wonalancet it’s a different job entirely: year-round farmhouses on wood and pellet heat, dirt-road mud in April, and a full winter of Route 16 and Route 25 sand-and-salt riding in on boots, which leaves a fine gray film in light carpet and a stiff white bloom in the entry rugs that doesn’t vacuum out.
If you rent near White Lake or the theater, book a mid-season cleaning rather than waiting for fall — beach sand is sharp, and every week it sits in the pile it’s cutting fibers. If you’re out in Wonalancet or Whittier heating with wood, wait for the last fire, usually April, and get the winter’s soot and road salt out in one pass.
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.