2202-03 Carpet, rug, and upholstery cleaning
Applies to:
Businesses cleaning rugs, carpets, or upholstery for commercial, institutional, or residential customers. This classification includes work done either at the customer's location or in their own shop or plant. Services at customers' location may use truck-mounted or portable cleaning equipment.
Work activities include, but are not limited to:
• Picking up customers' items or receiving them at the shop from drop-off customers;
• Inspecting for stains, tears, worn areas, or other damage;
• Measuring the items;
• Cleaning with shampooing machines, vacuum cleaners, or vibrating machines;
• Drying by suspending rugs from poles and conveying into the drying room where large fans propel heated air to dry them;
• Inspecting the clean and dry items;
• Rolling and wrapping;
• Returning the item to the customer or storing them until the customer requests delivery.
Carpet and upholstery cleaning services may offer incidental related services such as, but not limited to, carpet dyeing and tinting, carpet maintenance consultations, floor or wall cleaning, on-site dry cleaning of draperies, rental of cleaning equipment, repairs, rug decontamination, or the sale of cleaning solutions. These incidental activities are included in this classification when done by employees of employers subject to this classification.
Exclusions:
• Janitorial businesses that provide general interior cleaning services to the public are classified in 6602.
• Laundry and dry cleaning businesses providing services primarily to retail walk-in customers are classified in 2201.
Special note: Restoration work (as a result of smoke or water damage) such as drying and/or cleaning carpets and upholstered furniture, washing and polishing furniture, washing walls, washing and waxing floors, and cleaning the personal contents of a home is included in classification 6602-03. Refer to classification 6602-03 for more detailed information on restorations.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 51.04.020 and 51.16.035. WSR 25-23-070, s 296-17A-2202, filed 11/18/25, effective 1/1/26. WSR 07-01-014, recodified as § 296-17A-2202, filed 12/8/06, effective 12/8/06. Statutory Authority: RCW 51.16.035. WSR 98-18-042, § 296-17-566, filed 8/28/98, effective 10/1/98; WSR 87-12-032 (Order 87-12), § 296-17-566, filed 5/29/87, effective 7/1/87; WSR 85-24-032 (Order 85-33), § 296-17-566, filed 11/27/85, effective 1/1/86; WSR 83-24-017 (Order 83-36), § 296-17-566, filed 11/30/83, effective 1/1/84; Order 73-22, § 296-17-566, filed 11/9/73, effective 1/1/74.]