Bergen County · town

Edgewater, New Jersey

Updated August 14, 2026

Carpet cleaning in Edgewater, NJ

We clean carpet, upholstery, rugs, mattresses and tile throughout Edgewater, and across the rest of Bergen County. 14,336 residents across 0.97 square miles, which in practice means a mix of housing rather than one kind — so the useful question when you call is what is actually on your floor, not what the town is like. Condominiums, rental apartments and town houses built on former industrial waterfront land, beginning in the 1960s and expanding sharply in the early 1980s. Population sat between 4,000 and 5,000 from 1930 to 1990, then rose 50% to 7,677 in 2000 and 50% again to 11,513 in 2010. Nothing is taken away to be cleaned. The work happens in the property, by appointment, at any hour of the day.

Edgewater is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, incorporated in 1894, with 14,336 residents at the 2020 census. Condominiums, rental apartments and town houses built on former industrial waterfront land, beginning in the 1960s and expanding sharply in the early 1980s. Population sat between 4,000 and 5,000 from 1930 to 1990, then rose 50% to 7,677 in 2000 and 50% again to 11,513 in 2010. A narrow strip along the Hudson River with 3.5 miles of waterfront. The Palisades cliff forms the natural western boundary, with Fort Lee and Cliffside Park on top of it. Veterans' Field and Mitsuwa Marketplace are here. Locally it is read by its sections — Undercliff, Edgewater Colony — and a job is quoted on the one you are in rather than on the town line. Incorporated on December 7, 1894 as the Borough of Undercliff, from portions of Ridgefield Township, and renamed Edgewater on November 8, 1899. Its 20th-century industrial shoreline held a Ford assembly plant, Alcoa, Valvoline and the American Can Company; conversion of the 1916 Alcoa site to condominiums was halted for cleanup of PCB contamination, and a Superfund site remains in the south of the borough. It borders Fort Lee, Cliffside Park, North Bergen.

The housing in Edgewater

Condominiums, rental apartments and town houses built on former industrial waterfront land, beginning in the 1960s and expanding sharply in the early 1980s. Population sat between 4,000 and 5,000 from 1930 to 1990, then rose 50% to 7,677 in 2000 and 50% again to 11,513 in 2010. The age of a stock decides the method before anything else does: wool and fitted runners want controlled moisture and a dye test, synthetic pile over a pad takes a straight extraction.

Water, and what it does to a floor here

A narrow strip along the Hudson River with 3.5 miles of waterfront. The Palisades cliff forms the natural western boundary, with Fort Lee and Cliffside Park on top of it. Carpet that has been wet has a clock on it: caught early most of it returns with a new pad, left standing it becomes a question about mold instead.

The work

Photographed on the job. Nothing on this site is stock.

An ornate burgundy and cream wool rug on a tile floor after cleaning
A wool rug with a cream ground and deep red border — the combination that most often bleeds, cleaned after a dye test.

The visit

How a visit works in Edgewater

  1. 01

    You tell us what is on the floor

    Call, or send a photograph of the worst patch. It is the fastest way to a straight answer about what will lift and what will not — and if something is not coming out, we would rather say so now than at the door.

  2. 02

    We test before we clean

    Fabric and rug dyes get tested somewhere nobody looks, and the fiber decides the method. This is the step that prevents the two things people actually fear: shrinkage and color bleeding.

  3. 03

    Extraction, then the parts a machine cannot reach

    Heated solution goes into the pile and comes straight back out with the soil. Stairs, edges and corners are worked by hand afterwards, because no machine head sits flat on a stair tread.

Districts

Measured, not recalled.

Where in Edgewater

Edgewater is read locally by its sections — Undercliff, Edgewater Colony — and we work all of them. No district-level search demand is published for a municipality this size, so this page names its places in prose rather than dressing estimates up as measurements.

Questions

Asked in Edgewater

Do you cover Edgewater?

Yes. A borough of 14,336 is a normal stop rather than a special trip, and we take bookings at any hour of the day for it.

How long before we can walk on the carpet?

About two hours before carpet is walkable, and dry the same day. A fabric sofa takes four to eight hours; leather is quicker. Say when the room has to be back in use and we sequence the job around that rather than hoping.

Does the age of the houses in Edgewater change anything?

It changes the method. condominiums, rental apartments and town houses built on former industrial waterfront land, beginning in the 1960s and expanding sharply in the early 1980s — and a stock of that kind decides whether a floor wants controlled moisture and a dye test or a straightforward hot-water extraction. We identify the fibre before anything gets wet, every time.

Our basement took water. Is the carpet worth saving?

Sometimes, and what decides it is how long it sat and what was in the water rather than how bad it looks. a narrow strip along the Hudson River with 3.5 miles of waterfront — so this is a question we get here. We read the pad and subfloor with a meter and say which case you are in before starting.

From the listing

Verbatim from the Google listing, read 13 August 2026.

What customers wrote

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  • David Farley5 reviews · 3 photosGoogle

    Jacob was the best. We had a pet accident that he took care of. He was quickly able to clean an area rug and honestly saved the day. Great work, will call again.

    Area rug, pet accident

  • Christine Kromphold4 reviewsGoogle

    I had a move out carpet cleaning done. The team is very professional from my first contact to the actual cleaning by Jacob. He was very thorough, efficient and kind. Would definitely recommend.

    Move-out carpet clean

  • Anna Corin14 reviews · 3 photosGoogle

    We used Carpet Cleaning Wizards to remove dog urine from a large area carpet. Jacob was timely in arrival, professional and friendly. He was efficient in taking care of the job and very pleasant while doing it. Would recommend this business.

    Area carpet, dog urine

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