London Carpet Cleaning cleans carpets, sofas and rugs across Aldwych, WC2, from £36 a room and touch-dry in 1 to 2 hours, on a crescent that meets the Strand at both ends. Fixed prices, no call-out fee, and a re-clean guarantee. We have worked these streets since 2009.
What Aldwych homes are like
Aldwych is a great curved street built through slum clearance in the early 1900s, and its frontage is monumental rather than domestic: Bush House at the foot of Kingsway, once the BBC World Service home until 2012 and now part of King’s College, flanked by India House and Australia House, the high commissions of both countries. Nobody lives in those. The homes sit in the streets that feed the crescent. Along Drury Lane, Catherine Street, Wellington Street and Bow Street, mansion flats and conversions stack above the restaurants and stage doors, and the whole pocket is wrapped around the West End theatres, with the Novello standing on the Aldwych curve itself.
Kingsway runs north from the crescent towards Holborn with flats above its ground-floor offices, and the turnings off it hold Edwardian blocks carved into apartments. Almost everyone here lives above the street, up a communal stair or a lift, with no drive. The nearest working Underground is Temple on the Circle and District lines, a couple of minutes down Surrey Street, with Covent Garden on the Piccadilly line and Holborn on the Central and Piccadilly lines each a short walk north. Aldwych had its own tube station on Surrey Street, but that branch shut in 1994 and the platforms are used for filming now, not travel.
What we see across Aldwych
The work here is flat work in small, hard-used rooms. Tenants entertain at home in spaces the size of a dressing room, so we lift a lot of red wine from beside a two-seater and coffee rings off pale seat cushions. Living-room carpets in one-beds above restaurants walk grey inside a couple of years, and the communal stairs and landings carry the street dirt straight in off the pavement, wearing a shiny tread line up the middle. Wool runners come in with the odd stain caught by a doorway, and mattresses need rescuing after a knocked-over glass.
One honest limit. On a wool runner or a carpet where a drink has sat long enough to dye the fibre, a deep clean lifts the soil and fades the mark, but the very faintest shadow can remain if you go looking for it, and crushed pile in a traffic lane will not stand back up. We tell you which is which at the door, before any machine comes up the stairs.
How much does carpet cleaning cost in Aldwych?
Prices are fixed, with no call-out fee, and the same across Camden and every London borough, so a WC2 address costs no more than a suburban one.
- Carpet cleaning per bedroom from £36
- Living room from £43
- Through-lounge from £61
- Stairs, one flight, from £41
- Two-seater sofa from £57
- Rug up to 2m² from £35, with free collection
Get a free quote, or call us on 020 8077 8090.
Carpet, upholstery and rug cleaning in Aldwych
For the fitted carpet in these flats and on the stairs we use hot-water extraction, our steam carpet cleaning, which rinses the pile and leaves it touch-dry in an hour or two. Settees, armchairs and dining chairs, including the light covers that mark so easily, come under upholstery cleaning, and loose rugs, especially wool runners we would rather not work on a lift landing, go through our off-site rug cleaning with free collection and return. We cover the rest of Camden on the same runs, along with neighbouring Covent Garden and Temple at the eastern end of the crescent.
Aldwych questions, answered
Which streets and postcodes do you cover around Aldwych?
The whole WC2 pocket: the crescent itself and the residential turnings off it, including Drury Lane, Catherine Street, Wellington Street, Bow Street and the flats along Kingsway. If you are above a restaurant near the theatres or in a block towards Holborn, you are on our regular round, and the Camden boundary that threads through here makes no difference to your price.
Where does your van park on Aldwych?
This sits in a controlled parking zone enforced Monday to Saturday, inside the congestion charge zone, with no resident drives, so we use a pay-by-phone bay or a permitted space nearby and bring the kit in on foot. Where your block has a porter and a loading bay, we book through them. You take a time slot, we handle the kerbside side of it.
Do you do end of tenancy carpet cleaning in WC2?
Regularly. Many Aldwych flats are rented and turn over between short lets, so we clean carpets to the standard letting agents check against and give you a receipt for the inventory clerk. Book a day or two before the final inspection so there is margin.
How long will a carpet take to dry in a flat here?
Touch-dry in 1 to 2 hours for most synthetic carpets, because the extraction stage pulls the bulk of the water straight back out. These central blocks hold their warmth, which helps. Wool carpet and a lower-floor flat near the river sit at the longer end, so we ventilate the room and leave it airing rather than shut up tight.
Every clean comes with our re-clean guarantee: if a treated area is not right once it dries, we come back and put it straight at no charge. Our technicians are fully insured and DBS-checked, and we have cleaned carpets, upholstery and rugs across Aldwych and the rest of Camden since 2009.
