Ghorban Ahmadi has performed conservation work for the State Hermitage Museum, the Musée du Louvre, and the British Museum— the same methodology is available to every Wheaton homeowner who sends us a rug. Free insured pickup, cold water hand wash only, and a written estimate before any work begins. No steam, no carpet-rated chemistry, no shortcuts on a rug that’s been in the family for generations.
Wheaton is one of DuPage County’s oldest cities, and its housing stock shows it. The downtown historic district around Wheaton College and Front Street, and the established neighborhoods radiating out from it, are full of homes built across the early-to-mid 20th century — exactly the kind of houses where a hand-knotted Persian or Oriental rug has been passed down through two or three generations rather than bought off a showroom floor. If you searched “rug cleaning Wheaton,” there’s a good chance that’s the rug you’re trying to protect.
Why Wheaton rugs need specialist care
An inherited rug carries more than replacement value — it carries a family’s history, and it’s frequently irreplaceable at any price. Older Wheaton homes tend to hold large-format wool rugs in formal living and dining rooms, silk or wool-silk pieces used as entry-hall focal points, and antique Persian and Oriental rugs bought decades ago and never reappraised. None of these respond well to the hot-water extraction and alkaline detergents built for wall-to-wall carpet. Hot water opens wool’s cuticle, accelerates dye migration, and can saturate a foundation that’s already fragile with age. A rug that’s survived three generations deserves a cleaning method built for its fiber, not for a carpeted floor.
What we clean
We clean and restore Persian, Oriental, silk, wool, antique, and custom hand-knotted rugs, along with kilim, tribal, and machine-made area rugs. Every rug is dye-tested before washing so we know exactly how its colors will respond — a step that matters most on the older, more valuable pieces common in Wheaton’s historic homes. For rugs that need more than a wash — moth damage, worn fringe, unraveled foundation — our restoration service brings antique and heirloom pieces back to a condition worthy of what they mean to the family that owns them.
Wheaton rug owners: what we see most often
Wheaton’s housing stock is older than much of the western suburbs — homes built from the 1900s through the 1950s around Wheaton College, the Adams Park neighborhood, and the streets branching off Naperville Road and Roosevelt Road. The rugs we pick up in these houses fall into a handful of recurring categories: inherited Persian and Oriental rugs passed down through two or three generations, often carrying more sentimental value than replacement cost; large-format wool rugs sized for the formal living and dining rooms common in pre-war Wheaton floor plans; silk and wool-silk pieces used as entry-hall and stair-landing focal points; and antique Persian and Oriental rugs bought decades ago and never reappraised. Whichever category your rug falls into, hand washing that respects fiber, dye, and foundation is the right approach — not the alkaline chemistry built for wall-to-wall carpet.
We also work with the interior designers and rug dealers serving Wheaton’s historic homes, coordinating cleaning and restoration on a schedule that fits a renovation or resale timeline rather than a standard walk-in queue. If you’re managing a full-house project with multiple rugs across formal and informal spaces, we can coordinate a single pickup for the entire collection and return everything together.
How it works: pickup to delivery
We collect your rug directly from your Wheaton address, free and fully insured. It travels to our 10,000 sq ft Skokie workshop, where it’s dry-dusted, dye-tested, hand washed in cold water, and dried flat under controlled conditions — never a heated dryer, never the alkaline chemistry a typical carpet-cleaning crew would bring. A final quality inspection happens before your rug is returned, cleaner and better-conditioned than when it left. Most cleaning jobs are back in 5–7 business days; repair and restoration timelines are set at intake, in writing, before any work begins.
Why Wheaton homeowners choose Ahmadi Rug
Between 1984 and 1993, Ghorban Ahmadi performed conservation work for the State Hermitage Museum, the Musée du Louvre, and the British Museum. That conservation work is the foundation of every cleaning that leaves our Skokie workshop, whether the rug is a $50,000 antique or a wool area rug from a family room — the same standard that has earned us a 5.0 rating across 84+ Google reviews.
Our Skokie workshop is a manageable drive from Wheaton, which makes doorstep pickup practical rather than a logistics project. Every rug gets a dry-dusting pass before it gets wet, a dye stability test before washing, and a controlled flat dry after — never a heated dryer, never the alkaline carpet chemistry that a typical “rug cleaning Wheaton” search might turn up from a general carpet cleaner. Wool, silk, and hand-knotted rugs need a specialist, not a carpet crew — that’s the customer this page is built for.
Services available with pricing
Rug cleaning starts at $250, priced by square footage and fiber type. Repair and reweaving are quoted after inspection. Restoration for significant antique or heirloom damage is also quoted after inspection. Every price is confirmed in a written estimate before any work begins — you know the cost up front, not after the rug is already wet.
We serve DuPage County beyond Wheaton, too — including Naperville and Downers Grove — with the same free pickup and museum-grade hand washing.