Our shop is at 3827 Broad River Rd, in the St. Andrews stretch just off I-26, and on most mornings every van we have pulls out of that lot. Carpet, rugs, furniture, and hard floors in the capital city are the whole business. We're a locally owned Safe-Dry® franchise, and the system behind us has been cleaning carpet for more than 30 years.
Humidity is the local problem
The city calls itself Famously Hot. Fair enough, but anyone who has sat through a Columbia August will tell you the heat is the easy part. It's the wet air. Carpet that gets soaked by an old steam machine can hold that water for a day or longer, and a back bedroom that stays damp that long starts to smell like it.
So we keep water out of the carpet as much as we can. The cleaning solution is carbonated, and the fizz does the loosening that hot water and hard scrubbing would otherwise have to do. There's no soap in it either. I'd argue that's the bigger deal of the two. Shampoo left in carpet stays tacky, tacky fibers grab dirt, and that's why so many carpets look worse three weeks after a cleaning than they did the day before it.
Spring adds pine pollen. It coats every windshield in town in April, and a fair share of it ends up on the entry rug.
What happens once we're inside
The tech goes room to room with you first, looks at the traffic lanes and the spots that bother you, and gives you a price before any equipment comes in. Stubborn spots get a pre-treatment. Each room then gets the main clean, and the machine pulls the solution back up along with the soil it loosened. Plan on being back on the carpet within the hour, or close to it.
Most first-time customers book plain carpet cleaning, and that's where I'd start too. If the couch looks rough next to a clean floor, upholstery cleaning fits on the same visit. And if you don't like the result, you don't pay. The guarantee is that simple: 100% satisfied or it's free.
Where the vans go
Every ZIP code on this page is ours, and somebody answers the phone at 2 a.m. for the red-wine-on-a-white-rug calls. That number is 803-310-3848.
Most weeks you'll find our trucks in driveways in Rosewood, Melrose Heights, Hollywood-Rose Hill, and around Lake Katherine, on the streets near Dreher High School, Hand Middle School, and Rosewood Elementary, up and down Devine Street, and back out Broad River Road into the rest of Richland County.
If you're looking for the best carpet cleaner near you, look no further than the local experts at Safe-Dry® Carpet Cleaning of Columbia.