Fitted carpets in London are priced one room at a time, so a bedroom comes to £36, a lounge to £43 and a whole staircase to £41. Open-plan and very large floors go by the square metre at £3, and one-off visits start at £67.
Each price covers that room: pre-treatment of everyday marks, the hot water extraction clean and a final brush of the pile. Add up the rooms on your list for a starting figure, then confirm the details on the call.
Carpet prices for every room
| Carpeted area | Price |
|---|---|
| Hallway | £22 |
| Landing | £9 |
| Staircase, full flight | £41 |
| Staircase, short flight | £29 |
| One step on its own | £4 |
| Bedroom | £36 |
| Small room, box room or study | £29 |
| Living room | £43 |
| Through lounge | £61 |
| Small lounge | £55 |
| Kitchen-diner | £29 |
| Conservatory | £29 |
| Open-plan or very large floor, each square metre | £3 |
A through lounge is the front and back reception rooms of a terraced house opened into one long room. A study or home office counts as a small room as well. Where a floor has no walls to make it a room (a loft conversion, say, or a big open-plan ground floor), measure the length and the width in metres and multiply them; the square-metre rate applies to that figure. If one bedroom is far bigger than the rest, mention it and we will work that room out by area too.
Stairs, landings and halls in terraced houses
In a Victorian or Edwardian terrace the stair carpet gets more feet on it than any room in the house, and grey dirt builds up along the front lip of every tread. The cleaner goes down the staircase step by step with a hand tool, doing treads and risers alike. A full flight from the hall to the first floor is £41. Plenty of terraces also have a few steps up to a bathroom on a half-landing, or up to a loft room; a short run like that is £29, and a lone step down into a kitchen extension is £4. The narrow passage from the front door is priced as a hallway at £22, and the strip at the top of the stairs as a landing at £9. So on a two-storey terrace, expect hall, stairs and landing on the list next to the bedrooms and lounge.
Moving furniture on the day
Anything one person can lift easily gets moved: dining chairs, side tables, a coffee table, a desk chair, standing lamps. Beds, wardrobes, chests of drawers, full bookcases and pianos are left in place; the cleaner works round them and reaches underneath as far as the wand allows. Before the cleaner arrives, pick toys, shoes and cables up off the floor, empty the space under the beds and put away ornaments on low tables. When furniture goes back, small plastic tabs or squares of foil are slipped under the legs. Leave them in until the carpet is properly dry, since damp pile can take rust from metal feet and dye from dark wooden ones.
Which carpet marks lift and which are permanent
Ordinary soiling comes out with the clean: the grey track along a hallway, mud, tea and coffee, food, most spilt drinks. Red wine and curry often lift as well, although an older mark can leave a faint shadow; a pet accident sometimes lifts and sometimes leaves the dye changed for good. Some marks are permanent because the fibre has lost or changed its colour. That covers bleach and harsh spot-remover damage, dye bleeding from a rug or a wet shoe, stains left to set for months and burns from an iron or hair straighteners. Nobody can say for certain that a given stain will go, so the cleaner looks at each one and tells you what to expect before working on it. After the clean, carpet stain protection at £33 a room buys you time to blot the next spill.
Booking a fitted carpet clean
When you get in touch, have the postcode, the rooms from the table above and a date in mind. The fibre helps too: wool and wool mixes take a cooler, gentler rinse than nylon or polypropylene, and the guide to steam carpet cleaning explains why. Name any loose rugs you would like done in the same visit, because rug cleaning is priced on its own by size. Half the total is taken as a deposit to fix the date, by card or by bank transfer. If the cleaner has to feed a meter or buy a visitor permit, you pay that amount, and never more than £40. Upholstery, mattresses and home cleaning are all on the London price list.
Questions about fitted carpet cleaning
How long does a fitted carpet take to dry?
Expect a few hours, provided the air can circulate: radiators on in winter, windows open in summer. Wool, a deep pile and rooms with little air movement are slower, so a basement bedroom in January will lag behind a sunny first-floor lounge in June.
Do I need to vacuum before the cleaner arrives?
Yes, if you can. Dry grit and hair come away far more easily before any water goes down, so a thorough vacuum the day before helps the clean. Clearing small things off the floor is the useful preparation.
How often should carpets be cleaned?
Most households book once or twice a year. Halls and stairs in a family house soil faster than bedrooms, and many people have just those done in between. Landlords tend to book when one tenant moves out and before the next moves in.
Can you clean a carpet on the fourth floor with no lift?
Yes. Everything the cleaner uses is carried in by hand, so a long climb only slows the start of the job. Mention the storey while booking and we will allow extra time for the trips up and down.