London Carpet Cleaning cleans carpets, sofas and rugs across Borough, SE1, from £36 a room and touch-dry in 1 to 2 hours. Fixed prices, no call-out fee, and a re-clean guarantee. We have worked these streets since 2009, from the warehouse flats off Bermondsey Street to the Georgian terraces around Trinity Church Square.
What Borough homes are like
Borough sits at the southern foot of London Bridge, wrapped around Borough Market and Southwark Cathedral, with Borough station on the Northern line (the Bank branch) and London Bridge a few minutes north. The housing splits three ways. There are the Victorian warehouse conversions, many of them Grade II listed, with exposed brick, cast-iron columns and big factory windows, the Jam Factory and the blocks along Bermondsey Street being the best known. There are the genuine Georgian terraces and garden squares, Trinity Church Square and Merrick Square chief among them, laid out between the 1820s and 1850s and still some of the quietest addresses in the postcode. And there is a large amount of ex-local-authority housing on streets like Tabard Street and Snowsfields, much of it now privately owned. So one week we are on a loft floor near the Market, the next in a 1850s townhouse on Trinity Street, and the week after in a council-built maisonette off Long Lane.
What we see across Borough
The job that comes up most here is the warehouse flat with a hard-living open-plan layout: fabric sofas that have taken a wine ring or picked up a dog smell, and carpet or rug runs in spaces that double as kitchen, lounge and dining room. We clean a lot of fabric and leather upholstery in SE1, conditioning tan leather that has dried out as much as lifting the actual marks. The other steady stream is end-of-tenancy work, where the carpet has to pass an inventory and protect a deposit, which we are used to turning around to a checklist. One honest limitation: many of these conversions and lower-ground flats have thick brick walls, limited airflow and original or wool carpet, so an old set-in stain does not always lift completely, and drying runs slower than in a draughty house. We will tell you on the day what we expect to shift and what we do not, rather than promising a miracle.
How much does carpet cleaning cost in Borough?
Prices are fixed, with no call-out fee, and they are the same across Southwark and every London borough.
- Carpet cleaning, per bedroom, from £36
- Living room carpet 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 and return
Get a free quote, or call us on 020 8077 8090.
Carpet, upholstery and rug cleaning in Borough
Carpets get our hot-water extraction method, the steam carpet cleaning that rinses detergent and soil back out so the pile is not left sticky and quick to re-soil. Sofas and armchairs, fabric or leather, go through our upholstery cleaning service, including the leather clean-and-condition that suits the dried-out tan suites we often find here. Loose rugs we usually take away for rug cleaning at the workshop, where a curry or wine stain can be flushed properly and dried flat, then returned to you. We cover the rest of Southwark on the same fixed prices, and reach further south to areas such as Crystal Palace too.
Borough questions, answered
Which streets and postcodes do you cover in Borough?
We cover the whole of SE1 around Borough and Bankside, including Borough High Street, Bermondsey Street, Long Lane, Tabard Street, Union Street, Snowsfields and the squares off Trinity Street. If you are near London Bridge, the Market or the riverside towards Bankside, you are well inside our patch and there is no extra charge for the central location.
Where will the cleaner park, given the parking around the Market?
Most of Borough falls in Southwark’s C2 controlled parking zone, which runs Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 6.30pm, so a paid bay or visitor permit usually sorts it on weekdays. Tell us the building when you book, especially for the warehouse blocks and estates with gated access or loading restrictions, and we will plan the kit run and timing around it.
Can you handle an end-of-tenancy carpet clean for a deposit?
Yes, end-of-tenancy cleans are a regular part of the work here, on flats near the Market and across the Borough estates. We clean to the standard a letting inventory expects and can fit the slot around your check-out and key handover. If a single mark needs a second pass before the inspection, the re-clean guarantee covers it.
How long will the carpet take to dry in a warehouse or lower-ground flat?
Most carpets are touch-dry in 1 to 2 hours, but a converted warehouse or basement flat with thick walls and little through-draught can take longer, sometimes a fair bit. We extract as much moisture as the machine will pull, and if you can open a window or run the heating for a while it speeds things up. We will give you a realistic estimate for your room before we start.
Every clean comes with our re-clean guarantee: if a spot we treated comes back, we return and re-do it. We are fully insured and DBS-checked, and have cleaned carpets and upholstery across Borough and the rest of SE1 since 2009.
