Rug Cleaning in North Augusta

There is a mark specific to houses that burn things indoors, and almost everybody reads it wrong. Around November the fireplace or the gas logs come on, the candles come out, and combustion puts an extremely fine carbon soot into the room — particles far smaller than anything you would call dust. Soot by itself would settle harmlessly. What turns it into a rug problem is that the house is pulling air through every gap it has at the same time, because the return side of a duct system is almost always leakier than the supply side and the room ends up slightly under pressure. Air moves toward those gaps, and the gaps nearest a rug are the crack under a closed door, the join at the baseboard, and the space beneath its own leading edge. The rug becomes the filter. What appears is a hard, dark grey line tracking the perimeter of the room, matching lines across every doorway, and a shadow around the feet of the furniture — crisp-edged and geometric, which is exactly why owners decide it must be a shadow rather than soil. It is soil, it is oily, it bonds into wool over a season or two, and every year it is left it comes out a little less completely.