Peak has about fifty residents and a view that draws people out on weekends: the 1904 railroad trestle over the Broad River, now part of the Palmetto Trail. The town started in 1853 as Peak's Station, a camp for the crews building the Greenville and Columbia Railroad, and a lot of what's standing today is old.
Old houses in this part of the state usually mean wood floors. Heart pine, oak, sometimes floors that have been refinished three times since the Depression and covered with rugs for most of their lives. That's what we clean most often in Peak, and it's a different job from wall-to-wall carpet.
Hardwood that's been around a while
Finished wood floors don't want water. A wet mop left sitting, or a steam mop pushed back and forth, works its way into the seams and the edges of the boards, and older floors with wider gaps take it worst. The hardwood service we do out here is a pH-neutral clean with very little moisture, safe on finished, engineered and prefinished wood. It gets the grime out of the grain and the gaps without soaking anything.
This is cleaning, though. We don't sand and we don't refinish. If the finish is worn through to bare wood in the doorways, cleaning will make it look better, but those spots need a refinisher, and the tech will tell you so before you pay for anything.
The rugs on top
Those floors almost always have rugs on them, and some of those rugs have family history. We clean area rugs and oriental rugs right in your house. Nothing gets rolled up and hauled to a plant in Columbia and back. A rug that has been in the same front room for forty years has usually collected fine grit down near the knots, and getting that out is half the reason older wool starts looking brighter again.
Wool and silk get a gentler approach than synthetic. The tech checks the fibers and the dyes before starting, tests a corner if anything looks like it might bleed, and quotes the job up front.
Finding Peak
The town sits just off SC-213, with US-176 a short way to the west. We come up from Chapin regularly. If you're out past the town limits on a farm road, tell us the nearest crossroad when you call.
Call 803-310-3848, or check the current coupons. The hardwood coupon is $50 off, and the rug one is $25.