Rug cleaning in Rixensart
We wash rugs from Rixensart (1330) flat, at the workshop: mechanical dusting, a neutral soap bath below 30 °C, rinsing until the water runs clear, controlled drying. Collection and return included.
- Postcode
- 1330 · 1331 · 1332
- From the workshop
- 26 km
- Residents
- 23,096
- Sector
- The Lasne valley, the line 161 axis and the lac de Genval
What the ground changes
Rug cleaning in Rixensart
We dust before wetting, wash below 30 °C between pH 5 and 7, and dry flat within 24 hours.
The rug market
The lac de Genval, 18 hectares, was filled in 1903-1904 and its district is lined with opulent Belle Époque houses: the chalet Rütli, a reconstruction of the Hameau du Petit Trianon, the chapelle de Tell, the Villa Rossel. The Château du Lac is today a five-star hotel there. The lake straddles Rixensart and Overijse.
A rug bought second-hand rarely arrives clean: mechanical dusting draws out of it what no domestic vacuum cleaner will go and find.
Collection
The GSK campus at Rixensart covers 32 hectares crossed by the Lasne, employs around 2,000 people and has been running since 1958. Together with Wavre (8 km away) and Gembloux, GSK's vaccine hub accounts for 9,000 employees, the largest private employer in the south of the country.
We collect and we bring back: the washing is done flat at the workshop, never with a hose in your living room.
The building stock
53% of Rixensart's building stock consists of detached houses (2023 data) — the highest proportion recorded by the Maison de l'urbanisme du Brabant wallon, while the town is at the same time one of the densest in the province (1,315 inhabitants/km²).
The type of floor changes everything: on an old parquet, a rug traps mineral dust; on cold tiles, it takes up damp from underneath.
A living-room rug can give up as much as a kilo and a half of mineral dust, settled at the base of the pile, against the foundation, where no domestic vacuum cleaner will go and find it. It is not fluff: it is sand, angular grains that saw at the wool with every step.
Hence the first rule: nothing goes into water before it has been dusted. Mechanical dusting works by vibration and powerful suction, on both faces; beating does the same work by percussion. Wetting a dusty rug turns that sand into mud and fixes it at the bottom of the pile.
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
I have to clear a villa in the lac de Genval district after a death: what should I do with the rugs?
Many of the houses in the district around the lake date from the Belle Époque — the lake was filled in 1903-1904 — and often contain oriental rugs bought between 1900 and 1950, sometimes rolled up for decades. We come out on site for a free valuation, including for pieces that are dusty, faded or attacked by moths: condition does not rule out value. We buy for cash and take the rugs away the same day, which saves you storing them while the estate is being settled.
Can I wash my rug with a hired shampooer?
It is the best way to ruin it. These machines inject hot water and an alkaline detergent without ever rinsing with clean water or spinning. On wool, that gives at best a sticky residue that calls the dust back, at worst a dye bleed and the beginnings of felting.
How do I know whether my rug needs washing?
Lift a corner and tap the back with the flat of your hand, over a light-coloured floor. If a grey cloud settles, the mineral dust has already reached the base of the pile. A second sign: colours that look veiled. That is almost never fading, it is a grey film sitting on the pile.
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