Fitted carpet cleaning in Brussels centre

Collection

Since 16 August 2022, the "calmed neighbourhood" traffic plan for the Pentagon has removed through traffic (a third of the traffic was only passing through): reversed one-way streets, circulation loops, limited-access zones. You can no longer cross the centre from one side to the other, and a badly prepared collection can cost twenty minutes of detours.

We work at night or at the weekend so as not to interrupt business — and access for the equipment is arranged in advance.

Damp and water

The vaulting over of the Senne began in February 1867 and the central boulevards (Anspach, Lemonnier, Adolphe Max, Émile Jacqmain) were opened to traffic between 1871 and 1873, after the expropriation of some 1,100 houses. Before that, the whole western half of the Pentagon — the "lower town" — flooded periodically. The river still runs underfoot: the cellars of the lower town remain the dampest in the centre.

A fitted carpet that has taken in water has to be treated within forty-eight hours: beyond that, the mould starts from the substrate and not from the fibre.

Who lives here

38% of the residents of the City of Brussels are foreign nationals (2022) and the three largest groups are the French (13% of foreign nationals), the Romanians (11%) and the Moroccans (10%). It is the municipality of the Brussels Region where the North African presence is most marked — and therefore the one where the most Berber rugs and kilims brought back from home are found, alongside the Persians of the Sablon.

Offices, practices, waiting rooms: that kind of economic fabric calls for periodic maintenance rather than a catch-up clean.