Garden City, Mineola, Williston Park, Westbury, Carle Place, New Hyde Park and Floral Park
Central Nassau is where Green Choice Oriental Rug Cleaning Long Island collects the classic mid‑century Long Island rug: the Kashan in the Garden City dining room, the Sarouk in the Mineola living room, the Bokhara and the Heriz that came with the house, alongside the tufted and machine‑made rugs of everyday family life. They are collected weekly on the mid‑island route, twenty minutes from the plant, and washed, rinsed clear and dried flat at 44 Executive Blvd. Pickup and delivery are free.
Book a pickupGarden City is the center of gravity here: large Tudor, colonial and center‑hall houses built between the 1910s and 1950s, many still in the families that furnished them, and rugs to match. Kashans and Sarouks from the 1950s and 60s, Kermans in the formal rooms, Herizes in the family rooms and halls, Pakistani Bokharas and Indo‑Persians from the 1970s and 80s, Chinese 90‑line rugs, and a scattering of antiques from grandparents' Manhattan apartments. The Cathedral area, the Estates section and Garden City South each have their own share.
Mineola, Williston Park, East Williston, Westbury, Carle Place, New Hyde Park, Floral Park and Herricks are a mix of the same established homes on a smaller scale and younger families in renovated capes and splits, which means everything from an inherited Persian to the tufted wool and polypropylene of a house with three children and a dog. Multi‑rug pickups, living room plus dining room plus runners, are the norm on this route.
Because the rugs here are often decades old and have never been to a plant, the dusting stage is dramatic: a 9×12 Kashan from a Garden City dining room that has been vacuumed faithfully for forty years still gives up several pounds of dry soil from the foundation.
Rugs are rolled pile‑out on a tube and wrapped for the route to Farmingdale.
Forty years of foundation soil. Rugs that have only ever been vacuumed or floor‑cleaned. The pile looks acceptable; the foundation is full of grit that is wearing the knots from underneath. Dusting from the back is the fix and the reason plant washing extends a rug's life.
Painted Sarouks and bleeding Kashans. The two most common inherited rugs in Garden City, and the two most likely to bleed when someone wet‑cleans them without a test. Tested first, washed cold with a stabilizer.
Traffic wear at the dining‑room door. Worn paths and ends on rugs that have hosted every Thanksgiving since 1965. End stopping and reweaving quoted at inspection.
Latex failing on tufted rugs. White powder under the family‑room rug from the big‑box store. The rug can still be washed cool and dried face‑up; the backing keeps aging.
Urine at the bottom of the stairs. Dogs, runners, landings. Decontamination soak, and replace the pad.
Moth damage under sofas and in attics. Wool rugs stored during renovations in dark attics and basements. Washed out and rewoven.
Rugs from Nassau homes hanging in the plant before dusting and washing.
Same five steps as every pickup; the only local variables are the route day and the drive to Farmingdale.
Phone or form with rug size, type, any problems, and your town. You are scheduled on the next route through Garden City, Mineola and Westbury.
We call ahead, move the furniture, roll and wrap the rug, and drive it to the plant, about 20 to 25 minutes from here.
At 44 Executive Blvd the rug is measured, identified and dye‑tested; you get the price by phone and approve it before work starts.
The full plant process for the fiber: dusting, wash, clear rinse, centrifuge, flat dry, plus any repairs you approved.
Seven to ten days later the rug comes home on the route, unrolled onto new padding if ordered, furniture put back. Payment on delivery.
Garden City, Mineola and Westbury are the first stops on the mid‑island route from Farmingdale, straight out along Old Country Road or the Northern State, about 20 to 25 minutes. Pickups here are usually two or three rugs at a time; we measure and price them together. Drop‑offs at the plant are easy from here and welcome any day (call ahead).
Drop‑offs welcome any day; call ahead and you can watch the dye test.
Yes. Vacuuming reaches the top of the pile; the foundation underneath holds years of grit. Fold a corner and tap the back: if dust comes out, it is time.
Yes; whole‑house pickups are the most common pickup on this route and rugs are priced and returned together.
Recent bleeds usually improve a great deal with a stabilizing wash and bleed correction; old set bleeds improve less. We test first.
If the latex is intact, yes; it comes back clean underneath and lasts years longer. If the backing has failed, we tell you.
About 20 to 25 minutes east on Old Country Road; drop‑offs are welcome.