Morris County · town

Mountain Lakes, New Jersey

Updated August 14, 2026

Carpet cleaning in Mountain Lakes, NJ

Carpet, sofas, area rugs, mattresses and tile floors in Mountain Lakes — and everywhere else in Morris County. 4,472 residents across 2.64 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. Originally a planned community founded in 1910 by developer Herbert Hapgood on former Dutch and English farmland. Distinctive Arts and Crafts-influenced stucco houses, locally known as 'Hapgoods'. It is a service-area business, so the van comes to you and the phone is answered at any hour.

Mountain Lakes is a borough in Morris County, New Jersey, incorporated in 1924, with 4,472 residents at the 2020 census. Originally a planned community founded in 1910 by developer Herbert Hapgood on former Dutch and English farmland. Distinctive Arts and Crafts-influenced stucco houses, locally known as 'Hapgoods'. Seven man-made lakes: Birchwood, Crystal, Mountain, Shadow, Sunset, Wildwood, and Cove Lake. Part of The Tourne county park lies within the borough. Mountain Lakes Historic District and Mountain Lakes train station are here. One of New Jersey's highest-income communities, with a median household income of $175,556 (2013-2017, ranked 12th statewide); had the highest average property tax bill in Morris County in 2018 ($20,471). Served by NJ Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line. It borders Parsippany-Troy Hills, Boonton, Boonton Township, Denville.

The housing in Mountain Lakes

Originally a planned community founded in 1910 by developer Herbert Hapgood on former Dutch and English farmland. Distinctive Arts and Crafts-influenced stucco houses, locally known as 'Hapgoods'. A building with its own rules is a different appointment from a house with a driveway, and both are ordinary once they are known in advance.

Water, and what it does to a floor here

Seven man-made lakes: Birchwood, Crystal, Mountain, Shadow, Sunset, Wildwood, and Cove Lake. Part of The Tourne county park lies within the borough. After any water event the honest test is a meter, not a palm — drying stops when the materials read dry, not when the room looks finished.

The work

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

A grey fabric sectional sofa and tan carpet in a lived-in living room after cleaning
A sectional and the carpet under it, cleaned in the same visit. Doing one without the other rarely looks right.

The visit

How a visit works in Mountain Lakes

  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 Mountain Lakes

Mountain Lakes has no named districts that anyone searches for separately, which is ordinary for a municipality of its size. Rather than invent a list to fill the space, this page says plainly that the whole borough is covered — and it is.

Questions

Asked in Mountain Lakes

Do you cover Mountain Lakes?

Yes. Mountain Lakes is inside the normal Morris County round, along with Parsippany-Troy Hills, Boonton, Boonton Township. There is no shop and nothing to drop off — the van carries the machine to the property, and bookings are taken at any hour.

How long before we can walk on the carpet?

Carpet is normally walkable in a couple of hours and dry by the evening. If you need a particular room sooner — a nursery, a rented flat on handover day — tell us at booking and air movers come along.

Does the age of the houses in Mountain Lakes change anything?

It changes the method. Originally a planned community founded in 1910 by developer Herbert Hapgood on former Dutch and English farmland — 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. Seven man-made lakes: Birchwood, Crystal, Mountain, Shadow, Sunset, Wildwood, and Cove Lake — 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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  • Rachel Mitchell1 reviewGoogle

    There was a big difference in the living room rugs. Extraction brought out layers of dirt. Nearly invisible stains remain. Completely happy.

    Living room rugs

  • 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

  • Marian Passannante15 reviewsGoogle

    Jacob was pleasant, professional and eager to do an excellent job. I will definitely use carpet cleaning wizards again!

    Carpet

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