A good rug is worth fixing. Our rug plant repairs fringe, moth damage, worn edges, holes, curling corners and rugs that no longer lie flat, with free pickup and delivery across Nassau and Suffolk and a written price before any work starts.
Most rug damage falls into a handful of types, and each one has a proper fix. Here is what comes through our plant every week, and where to read more about each.
Fringe is the first thing to wear on any rug: it gets vacuumed, walked on and caught in doors. We secure loose warp ends, re-tie knots, or replace the fringe with new hand-sewn or machine-sewn fringe that matches the rug. Rug fringe repair.
Moths eat wool from the back of a rug, under furniture, where nobody looks. We treat the rug, remove the larvae and casings in the wash, and rebuild the eaten areas by reknotting or patching. Moth damage rug repair.
Holes from pets, burns, furniture legs or old moth damage are rewoven on the original foundation, matching the wool and the pattern. Rug reweaving.
Worn selvedges and unraveling sides are overcast or re-bound so the rug stops losing rows. Machine-made rugs are serged or bound with matching tape.
A rug that curls at the corners, ripples, or dried crooked after a flood is stretched and blocked square at the plant. Rug blocking and stretching.
The cheapest repair is prevention. A proper pad cut to the rug stops slipping, wear and the ripples that lead to every other repair on this page. Rug padding.
Repairs start the same way a rug pickup does. The technician looks at the rug with you, points out the damage and any wear you may not have noticed on the back, and writes a price for the repair and, almost always, for a wash at the same time. Rugs are washed before they are repaired: the wool has to be clean to match new wool to it, and a moth repair on a rug that still has larvae in it is wasted work.
At the plant the rug is dusted, washed, dried flat and then goes to the repair bench. Fringe, binding and padding are quick jobs, a few days on top of the wash. Reweaving and moth rebuilding are slower because they are done by hand, knot by knot, and we tell you the turnaround at pickup rather than guessing. When the rug is finished it is inspected, photographed, rolled and delivered back to your floor, free.
We only promise what the rug can take. Some rugs are too far gone to reweave at a sensible cost, and some machine-made rugs cost less to replace than to rebuild. The technician will say so at the door. Our job is to make a good rug last another generation, not to sell repairs.
A rug repair starts with a close look, and most of what we find is on the back. Before anything is rolled, the technician turns the rug over and checks the foundation for breaks, the ends for lost rows, the sides for worn selvedge, and the whole back for the grit and casings that mean moths. Then the front: pile height in the traffic lanes compared to the edges, dye bleed around old spills, stiffness that means an old glue repair, and whether the rug lies flat. All of it is written on the ticket with the price, so when the rug comes back you can see what was done against what was found.
You are welcome to ask for the inspection without committing to anything. Many customers want to know what a rug is worth repairing before deciding, and that conversation is free. If the honest answer is that a rug is not worth the work, you will hear it at the door.
A hand-knotted rug with a hole in it is still a hand-knotted rug. The wool, the dyes and the thousands of knots around the hole are intact; only the damaged area needs work. Replacing it with a new rug of the same quality costs many times more than the repair, and the new rug will not have the color and the feel that twenty years of foot traffic give wool. Our customers in Nassau and Suffolk repair rugs for the same reason they wash them at the plant instead of throwing them out: because the rug is worth it. The Oriental rug cleaning cost guide explains how washing and repair fit together on one ticket.
There is also the practical side. Fringe that keeps unraveling takes rows of the rug with it. A corner that curls is a trip hazard. A moth problem that is ignored spreads to every wool rug and sweater in the house. Fixing the rug early is always cheaper than fixing it late.
Repairs are done at the plant, so the service is the same in every town: we pick up, we fix, we deliver.
Our rug trucks are in Nassau every week: Garden City, Great Neck, Manhasset, Port Washington, Roslyn, Glen Cove, Locust Valley, Syosset, Jericho, Woodbury, Massapequa, Merrick, Rockville Centre, Long Beach, Hewlett, Valley Stream.
And across Suffolk, from the South Shore to the East End: Huntington, Dix Hills, Melville, Smithtown, Commack, Babylon, Bay Shore, Islip, Brentwood, Deer Park, Lindenhurst, Hampton Bays, Kings Park, Brookhaven.
You're not just hiring a cleaning company. You're letting someone into your home to work on furniture you spent real money on. That means trust matters more than anything else. We built Green Choice Carpet Cleaning Long Island on one simple promise — show up, do the job right, and leave your home better than we found it. No chemicals. No shortcuts. No surprises on the bill. Our team is trained, local, and accountable. Every job we do in Long Island is a job we stand behind. Call us at +1 (516) 894-2901 and let's get your rugs looking the way it should.
It depends on the type of damage and the size of the area. Fringe, binding and padding are the least expensive; reweaving and moth rebuilding are priced by the area and done by hand. The technician inspects the rug at pickup and writes the price before any work starts. Pickup and delivery are free.
Almost always, yes. New wool is matched to clean wool, not dirty wool, and moth repairs on an unwashed rug leave larvae behind. The wash and the repair are quoted together at pickup.
We bind, serge, replace fringe and pad machine-made rugs. We rarely reweave them because the repair can cost more than the rug, and we will tell you that at the door rather than take the job.
Fringe, binding and padding add a few days to the 7 to 10 day wash turnaround. Reweaving and moth rebuilding are hand work and take longer; we give you a real date at pickup.
A good reweave on a hand-knotted rug is very hard to find once the pile is groomed. Fringe and binding repairs match the original as closely as the materials allow. We show you photos of the finished work before delivery.
Yes. The rug is picked up at your door, repaired at the plant, and delivered back. For buildings that require it we send a certificate of insurance ahead of time.
Same-day appointments across Nassau and Suffolk. Carpet from $25 per room (3-room minimum), $20 off any service when you book online, and a written price before we start.
