Question 1

My carpet is the thin builder-grade stuff over a cheap pad. Is it worth cleaning, or should I just replace it?

Accepted Answer

Usually worth cleaning, and we'll tell you straight when it isn't. Most Hawthorne units have low-pile carpet over thin pad, and that combination hides less than plush does, so traffic lanes and hallway wear show early. If the pile is soiled and flattened but the backing is intact and the seams are holding, extraction brings back a lot of it. If the fibers are worn through to the backing in the doorways and living-room lanes, or the pad has broken down and the carpet ripples underfoot, cleaning won't fix that and we'll say so rather than take the job. Carpet in these buildings tends to get replaced instead of maintained mainly because it goes years between cleanings, so a unit that's been on a regular schedule usually has more life left than the owner expects.

Question 2

How soon can you get out here after I call?

Accepted Answer

For most Hawthorne addresses we're scheduling within a few days, and we hold openings for turnover work because make-ready timelines don't wait. If you tell us the unit needs to show or a new tenant is moving in on a set date, say so when you call and we'll fit it around that rather than the other way around. Same-day is sometimes possible depending on where our crew already is that day.

Question 3

What's the most common problem you see in Hawthorne homes and apartments?

Accepted Answer

Two things. First, traffic-lane soil in living rooms and hallways from high occupancy density. Several people using the same narrow path all day grinds grit into low-pile carpet fast. Second, food and drink staining in the living room, which is where most of it happens in these floor plans since there's no separate dining space in a lot of the older ranch houses and fourplexes. We also deal with fine airborne particulate from the flight path and the freeway that settles into the pile and dulls the color evenly, so people think the carpet is just old when it's actually loaded with dust.

Question 4

Can you handle a tenant turnover on short notice, and do you work in occupied units?

Accepted Answer

Yes to both. Turnover extraction is a large part of what we do here given how many 1960s–80s stucco apartment and fourplex rentals are in the city. Empty units are quick because there's nothing to move. For occupied homes we work around furniture, and in the smaller bedrooms of the postwar ranch houses we usually clean the open floor and around the bed rather than emptying the room, unless you want it moved. The narrow doorways in those houses mean we run hose from the truck through the front door, so we ask for a clear path and a parking spot near the curb.

Question 5

What does it cost, and what changes the price?

Accepted Answer

We give a free estimate and a firm quote before anything gets cleaned, with no adjusting it partway through. What moves the number is total square footage, how many rooms and hallways, how long it's been since the last cleaning, and whether there are set-in stains or pet issues that need separate treatment. A vacant unit being turned over usually comes in lower than the same square footage furnished, since there's no moving or working around belongings. Buildings where we clean between every tenancy generally cost less per visit than one that's gone years, because the soil hasn't had time to bond into the fibers.

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