Cleaning every carpet and rug in a home takes one visit, priced item by item: £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, £41 a flight of stairs and £35 or £51 a rug, all on one booking.
Doing the lot together means you clear the floors once, the furniture is shifted once and the whole home dries over the same afternoon. The cleaner sets the machine up a single time and moves through every room on the list, fitting the rugs in as they come.
How a combined booking is priced
Each item keeps its own price, and the quote is built from the full list. Take a three-bed Victorian terrace whose ground floor is one long through lounge, with one flight of stairs, a landing, a hallway and a large wool rug in front of the fireplace. Its list reads like this:
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Bedrooms (three) | £36 each |
| Through lounge | £61 |
| Stairs, one flight | £41 |
| Landing | £9 |
| Hallway | £22 |
| Rug over 3 square metres | £51 |
A list like that sits well above £67, the floor for any one-off job. Parking is charged once for the whole visit at whatever the bay costs, up to £40, and the 50% deposit is worked out on the full total.
Order of work through the home
In a house the cleaner starts upstairs, in the room furthest from the stairs, and works back toward the front door so no one has to cross a carpet that is freshly done. Bedrooms go first and the landing next. The stairs are worked from the top step downward, with the hallway left until last. A flat follows the same logic from the far bedroom to the entrance. Rugs lying on wood or tiles are cleaned in place. Where a rug sits on a fitted carpet, it is cleaned on the spot and then carried to the kitchen or another hard floor to dry. The carpet it was covering is done straight after. The two go back together once both are dry. Leave a free socket on each floor so the machine can be plugged in close to the work.
Adding carpets to an end of tenancy or deep clean
Moving out is when most people want every carpet done at once. Carpets added to our end of tenancy cleaning cost less than they do on their own (a bedroom comes to £29, the living room to £36), and they are cleaned after the rest of the flat so the agent sees them freshly done. Allow a few hours of drying before the check-out inspection, because a carpet that is still damp can look patchy. A deep clean of a home left for a long while follows the same pattern: kitchen, bathrooms and dusting first, carpets last, once nobody needs to walk through with buckets and bags. Ask for both on one call so the two jobs are timed together.
What to tell us when booking
A whole-home quote is only as accurate as the list behind it, so have these details to hand when you ring.
- How many bedrooms are carpeted, and whether the living room is one room or a through lounge
- Flights of stairs, landings and hallways
- Each rug with its rough length and width
- Any wool, silk or viscose, plus marks you want looked at
- Where the cleaner can park, and whether the building has a lift
- Which rooms will be empty and which will still be furnished
If you are moving, say which day the furniture leaves. Carpets come out best in empty rooms, so the clean is best booked for after the removal van has gone.
Questions about carpet and rug cleaning
Is booking everything together cheaper?
On a carpet-only visit, each room and rug keeps its own price however many you book. Putting them on one visit means paying for parking once, clearing the £67 minimum easily and losing one afternoon to drying.
Can I leave some rooms out?
Yes. The quote is built only from the rooms and rugs you list, so leave out anything that does not need cleaning this time.
Do all the rooms dry at the same time?
Nearly. The rooms done first have had longest, so the upstairs bedrooms are usually well ahead by the time the hallway is finished. Open windows on every floor or run the heating, and keep the household in socks until evening.
Where are the single-room and rug details?
Room prices, stains and drying are covered on the carpet cleaning page. Rug sizes, fibres and fringes are under rug cleaning.