⚠ Deep Carpet Soiling
Your Floors Look Clean.
They’re Not.
Years of tracked-in dirt, spilled drinks, and ground-in debris embed deep into carpet fibers where vacuuming can’t reach. Hot-water extraction flushes it out of the pile and pulls it back up.
What Vacuuming Leaves Behind
A vacuum removes loose surface debris. Anything that’s been ground in, soaked in, or trapped below the top of the pile stays exactly where it is.
Ground-In Dirt
Every time someone steps in the car with dirty shoes, fine particles get pressed deep into the carpet pile by foot traffic. They become mechanically embedded in the fibers and resist vacuuming.
Spill Residue
Coffee, juice, and food spills that reached the carpet leave sugars and proteins embedded in the fibers. Those are what keep producing a smell weeks later, and wiping the top of the carpet does nothing about them.
Damp That Never Dries
Car floors take wet shoes, spilled drinks, and fog damp, and they sit under mats where nothing dries properly. That is where a musty smell starts, and it is the hardest part of an interior to reach with a vacuum.
Carpet Is the Hardest Interior Surface to Keep Clean
It’s the first thing clients step on, the first thing a buyer examines, and the surface most likely to hold odor.
Odor Source
Most persistent vehicle odors come from carpet, not seats. Food and moisture sitting in the floor fibers keep producing it, and an air freshener only covers it for a few days.
Under the Mats
Floor mats hide the worst of it. We pull them, treat the carpet underneath, and treat the mats separately, which is the part that gets skipped in a normal vacuum pass.
First Impression
Buyers open the door and look at the floors first. Stained or dirty carpet is one of the most common reasons buyers discount an otherwise solid vehicle.
How Carpet Extraction Works
The same hot-water extraction used on house carpet, worked area by area across the vehicle floor.
Vacuum First
We vacuum the carpet thoroughly to remove all loose surface debris before the extraction begins. Starting with wet extraction on an unvacuumed carpet creates mud.
Pre-Treat Stains
Visible stains and high-traffic areas get a pre-treatment application and agitation with a carpet brush to loosen bonded debris before extraction begins.
Hot-Water Extraction
Heated water and cleaning solution inject deep into the carpet pile, dissolving embedded soiling, then extract it back out with strong suction. Multiple overlapping passes per area.
Inspect & Groom
We inspect every area for remaining stains and groom the carpet pile to restore its texture and speed up drying. Heavy staining gets a repeat pass.
Carpet Extraction Add-On
Added to any Interior Services or Full Package booking. Priced per carpet area (front driver, front passenger, rear, trunk/cargo) with caps by vehicle size.
- Pre-vacuum before extraction
- Stain pre-treatment and brush agitation
- Full hot-water extraction per area
- Post-extraction pile grooming
- Repeat passes on heavily soiled areas
| Pricing | Rate |
|---|---|
| Per Carpet Area | $25 |
| Sedan / Coupe cap | $125 |
| Midsize SUV / Crossover cap | $125 |
| Large SUV / Truck / Minivan cap | $175 |
Add-on to Interior Services or Full Package. Treat only the areas that need it or all areas for a full reset.
Clean Floors Change the Whole Interior
Add carpet extraction to your next detail. We come to you anywhere in San Francisco.