Chem-Dry Ireland, Dublin

Chem-Dry is the world’s leading upholstery and carpet cleaner, ranked by Entrepreneur Magazine over 32 years in a row as #1 in the category. Chem-Dry also earned an award from Franchise Direct as one of the top 100 global franchises, boasting over 3500 locations worldwide. Founded on the idea of using safer, more effective and more hygienic ways of keeping your home clean, Chem-Dry is now the world’s leading carpet cleaning franchise, with thousands of satisfied customers across the globe.

Chem-Dry was founded by Robert Harris, a young man who was working as a carpet cleaner for someone else. Unhappy with the performance of the cleaning products then available, he began looking for a better solution. His research stretched into years and years of studying the chemical properties of cleaning formulas and years of backbreaking experiments which required cleaning areas of dirty carpets with one formula and then another.