London Carpet Cleaning cleans carpets, sofas and rugs across Childs Hill, NW2, from £36 a room, touch-dry in 1 to 2 hours, on fixed prices with no call-out fee and a re-clean guarantee. Cleaning is an old trade on this hill: by the 1870s laundries were the area’s main industry, and the last of them, on Granville Road, only closed in 2006. We have carried the trade on here since 2009.
What Childs Hill homes are like
Childs Hill is the southernmost ward of Barnet, wedged against Camden and Brent around the junction of Cricklewood Lane and Finchley Road. The name is honest. The ground climbs east towards Hampstead and tops 79 metres near Platts Lane. The housing splits four ways: plain Victorian terraces around Granville Road, a street laid out in the 1850s as The Mead over the old brickfields; leafy Edwardian semis between the lane and Childs Hill Park; four high-rise blocks, the first built for the Metropolitan Police around 1956 and two more added on Granville Road around 1960; and the Hocroft Estate on the West Hampstead side, tree-lined avenues of large detached and semi-detached houses from the 1920s and 1930s.
The area has no station of its own, though it once held naming rights: Cricklewood station opened in 1870 as Childs Hill and Cricklewood and only dropped the first half in 1903. Residents walk down the lane for Thameslink or up to Golders Green for the Northern line. The Castle, the Finchley Road pub first recorded in 1751 that once worked as a tollgate, is demolished now, yet customers still tell us they live “near the Castle” and we know exactly where they mean.
What we see across Childs Hill
Stairs, mostly. The Victorian terraces have narrow, single-file staircases, and every trip up or down lands on the same centre line, so the middle goes grey while the edges keep their bought colour. Lounge-and-stairs bookings off Cricklewood Lane and Granville Road are our standard local job. The Hocroft houses give us wool twist across big footages and rugs we collect for a bench clean, and the flats and blocks nearer the lane bring sofas, mattresses and whole-flat carpet work.
One thing said straight: where a stair carpet has gone flat as well as grey, cleaning removes the soil but not the wear. Abraded pile catches light differently and will still read a shade darker down the centre. Wear is not dirt. We check on the doorstep and tell you which you have before any machine comes out of the van.
How much does carpet cleaning cost in Childs Hill?
Prices are fixed, there is no call-out fee, and the figures are the same across Barnet, Brent and every other London borough.
- Carpet cleaning from £36 per bedroom
- Living room carpet from £43
- Through-lounge carpet 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 Childs Hill
Our steam carpet cleaning uses hot water extraction, the method carpet makers recommend, and suits both the terraces’ synthetic twists and the Hocrofts’ wool. Upholstery cleaning covers fabric sofas, armchairs, dining chairs and mattresses, a steady request from the flats around the lane. For anything loose there is rug cleaning with free collection and delivery, the sensible route for larger wool and Persian pieces. The same crews work Cricklewood at the bottom of the lane, Fortune Green just to the south, and the rest of Brent.
Childs Hill questions, answered
Which parts of Childs Hill do you cover?
All of it. That means the terraces off Granville Road and Cricklewood Lane, the estate blocks, the Hocroft avenues, the flats over the Finchley Road parades and the streets climbing towards Platts Lane. Bookings that sit on the NW11 or NW3 border are no problem; the van does not check boundary signs.
What is parking like for your van?
A patchwork. Some streets sit in Barnet zones controlled for a single mid-morning hour, others run 9am to 10pm, and fresh zones arrived in late 2025 with the Brent Cross scheme. Give us the road name when you book and we will plan around it before we set out.
Do you handle end of tenancy carpet cleans?
Yes. Flats around Cricklewood Lane and the Finchley Road parades change hands often, and inventory clerks want to see carpets professionally done. We schedule the clean for after the removals van leaves, work to deposit standard and send a dated receipt for the checkout file the same day.
How long will carpets take to dry?
Touch-dry in 1 to 2 hours in most Childs Hill homes. The exceptions are rear ground-floor rooms with a single window on damp days; there we run extra dry passes and set up airflow before leaving, and we will say plainly if a room needs the heating on that evening.
Every job carries the same cover: a re-clean guarantee if a mark returns once the carpet is dry, full insurance, DBS-checked technicians, and a firm that has worked this side of NW2 since 2009.
