Founder & Lead Cleaning Technician
Sergio founded Aclean Steamers in Kyiv in 2012. Over ten years it grew into one of the top three furniture-cleaning companies in the city, and in 2022 he brought the business, its methods and its standards to North Carolina.
Every job starts the same way: identify the fiber, read the manufacturer care code and run a hidden-spot test before any water touches the piece. The IICRC standard of care is the baseline, S100 for carpet and S300 for upholstery. When a piece is too high-risk to clean safely, the answer is an honest no.
Today Aclean Steamers serves Raleigh, Charlotte and the surrounding towns, founder-led and family-run. If a customer is not fully satisfied, the 14-day re-clean guarantee brings the crew back at no charge.
A big U-shaped sectional in a light oatmeal fabric, with nailhead trim along the arms and a long chaise at one end. The chaise is the favorite spot on any sectional, and this one showed it: a gray, cloudy patch spread across the middle of the cushion.
The carpet around a table works harder than the rest of the room: chairs slide over it, crumbs fall on it, and everyone walks the same path to sit down.
A two-seat loveseat with straight track arms, dark wooden legs and loose seat and back cushions, upholstered in a gray textured weave. The visit covered a full cleaning, an enzyme treatment for one spot, Fast Drying for both seats and a Scotchgard finish.
A cream sofa with one obvious problem: a large oval ring in the middle of the left seat. On a light, plain fabric, a mark like that is the first thing anyone sees.
Two armchairs from the same living room: a navy windowpane chair on a light wood frame, and a cream herringbone armchair with nailhead trim. On the navy one the problem was obvious from across the room: a seat that had gone dull and flat, with lint and loose...
This job for our team in Raleigh started with a familiar request: a carpeted staircase that had gone gray in the middle of every step. The rest of the carpet in the house still looked fine; the stairs didn't.
A brown sofa covered in dark marks from end to end: blotches across the seat and streaks running down the back. Our team in Raleigh was asked to even it out.
A whole-house carpet job in Charlotte: five rooms, two hallways and a loft. The sitting room showed the problem best. Its light beige carpet had a gray shadow across the middle and dozens of small dark spots scattered over it.
Here our team in Charlotte had a long cream sectional that still looked fine from a distance, until you looked at the seats. Up close, the cushions people use most had gone gray, and the chaise had a dull patch right in the middle.
A curved four-seat sectional in cream bouclé, the kind of sofa that is the centerpiece of the room. Its seats had slowly turned from cream to gray, and on a fabric this light, that shows.
White dining chairs look great until the first meal. This job for our team in Charlotte was a full set of white slipcovered dining chairs, and nearly every seat had collected its own scatter of small dark specks and smudges.
A hallway takes more steps than almost any room in the house. This one, a job for our team in Raleigh, had the proof: a dark brown lane running straight down the middle of a beige carpet.
A full row of tufted dining chairs, and every seat had its own collection of marks: rings, drips, scattered spots and, on one chair, a large dark stain right in the middle.
A living room area rug with a gray leaf pattern on a light field, about 88 square feet of synthetic pile under a sectional and a coffee-table ottoman.
This job for our team in Raleigh was a bare white mattress with yellow and brown stains scattered across the sleeping surface. Stains like these build up quietly under the sheets and only show once the bed is stripped.
White leather looks spotless in the showroom and shows every day of use at home. This six-seat reclining sectional had reached that point: the seats had turned a dingy gray-yellow, while the backs were still close to white.
A light beige staircase between white walls, with a gray band on the treads that got darker toward the bottom of the flight. Stairs like these are a regular request for our team in Charlotte.
A gray three-seat sofa greeted our team in Raleigh with two very visible problems: a dark band across the top of one back cushion, and seat cushions covered in streaks and dark marks.
