Rug restoration in Wemmel

Who lives here

Income declared in Wemmel for 2022: an average income of €42,480 per return and a median income of €30,104, over 9,751 returns, for a total taxable amount of €414,222,056. 30% of households are single-person.

Those are the households that keep a rug for thirty years and bring it to us when the weft begins to speak.

Collection

Wemmel adjoins Jette and Laeken directly; only the R0 ring road, opened in 1957, separates the south of the town from Brussels — the heritage inventory speaks of a "totally urbanised" fabric morphologically welded to the capital. Some ten kilometres and ~25 min from the Grand-Place. Works under way: "Herinrichting Ring Noord", which is rebuilding the R0 from the E40 at Grand-Bigard to the E40 at Woluwe-Saint-Étienne in four zones; the Zellik-Wemmel section comes after Vilvorde and Grimbergen.

We take the rug away to the workshop: restoration is not done in your home. Access therefore governs the date, not the quote.

The building stock

Wemmel grew from 1,285 inhabitants in 1846 to 12,533 in 1970. The Flemish inventory of built heritage reads clear layers there: Art Nouveau, Art Deco and cottage-style terraced houses from 1910-1930 — notably on de Limburg Stirumlaan, with its figurative and floral tile panels —, then uniform interwar housing estates, then post-war modernist and social housing blocks.

The building stock dictates the wear: a rug laid in the corridor of a Brussels house does not wear like one in the living room of a villa. The selvedges go first where people walk.