London Carpet Cleaning cleans across Lewisham, from Deptford and New Cross to Catford and Forest Hill (SE8, SE14, SE4, SE6, SE13, SE23), from £36 a room and carpets dry within 6 to 7 hours. Lewisham covers Deptford, New Cross, Catford, Forest Hill and Blackheath borders. Victorian terraces and conversions, with hilly streets towards Honor Oak and Forest Hill.
Forest Hill and Honor Oak homes are full of stairs, where carpet wears fastest and a proper clean makes the biggest difference. Every clean is guaranteed, most carpets are dry within 6 to 7 hours, and there is no call-out fee anywhere in Lewisham.
A borough that runs uphill, with the carpets to match
Lewisham streets climb. Honor Oak, Forest Hill and the back roads above Brockley (SE4, SE23) sit on proper hills, and rain washes grit and clay straight down onto doormats and bottom-of-stair carpet. Deptford and New Cross (SE8, SE14) are flatter but older: subdivided Victorian terraces and ex-council blocks where the same carpet has taken years of foot traffic through a narrow hall. We see a lot of cheap landlord-grade fitted carpet here, the sort that mats flat in the doorways and greys along the main walking line long before the rest of the room shows any wear.
A big share of our local work is end-of-tenancy. Goldsmiths is on the doorstep, so New Cross and Brockley turn over hard every summer, and we get booked by students, by the people clearing up after them, and by landlords who want a dated receipt for the deposit. The creative crowd around Deptford and Forest Hill tends to keep rugs over bare boards rather than fitted carpet, so we clean a fair few wool and cotton rugs as well. Catford and Hither Green (SE6, SE13) lean more family, where the regular job is the lounge and stairs once a year before Christmas.
One thing we will not pretend to fix: benzoyl peroxide acne cream and splashed bathroom bleach do not stain a carpet, they strip the colour out of it. That is dye loss, the fibre is now its natural pale shade, and no clean on earth puts colour back. The honest options are a colour patch or a re-dye, and we will tell you which is worth doing. Parking is mostly on-street and the hill roads can be tight, so a residents bay or a clear spot near the door helps us run the hose in.
How much does carpet cleaning cost in Lewisham?
- Carpet, per bedroom, from £36
- Carpet, living room, from £43
- Two-seater sofa, from £57
- Rug, up to 3m², from £35
Minimum charge £67 per visit.
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Areas we cover in Lewisham
Carpet and upholstery cleaning in Lewisham
Carpet cleaning is the bulk of what we do in Lewisham, but the same visit can also cover sofa and upholstery cleaning, rug cleaning in your home, mattress cleaning, hard-floor cleaning and curtain cleaning. For wool and other delicate fibres we switch to low-moisture cleaning.
Get a free quote for your home, or call 020 8077 8090.
Getting rid of the old carpet or sofa? Lewisham Council runs a bulky-waste collection service for Lewisham residents.
Lewisham questions, answered
Can you get bleach or acne-cream marks out of my carpet?
No, and any cleaner who says yes is guessing. Benzoyl peroxide and bleach remove the dye rather than deposit a stain, so the pale patch is the carpet's bare colour showing through. Cleaning cannot return colour that is gone. A colour patch or a re-dye is the only real repair.
I am moving out of a New Cross flat-share, can you do an end-of-tenancy clean?
Yes, this is most of our Lewisham work in summer. We clean the carpets through, lift the traffic lanes, and give you a dated receipt that matches the inventory for your deposit. Hot-water extraction on synthetic carpet takes up to 6 to 7 hours to dry, so we book it in early enough for the carpet to be dry before the check-out.
Which parts of Lewisham do you cover?
All of it. Deptford and New Cross (SE8, SE14), Brockley (SE4), Catford (SE6), Forest Hill and Honor Oak (SE23), Lewisham and Hither Green (SE13), and Lee and Grove Park (SE12). The hilly side streets are no problem, we just need somewhere near the door to park the van.
How do you clean a wool rug versus a fitted synthetic carpet?
Different methods. Synthetic fitted carpet gets hot-water extraction, which flushes the soil out under pressure. Wool, viscose and the cotton rugs we see on Deptford floorboards get a low-moisture clean instead, because too much water can shrink wool or mark a delicate weave. We check the fibre before we pick.
The grit walks in off the hills here, how often should I clean?
For a busy Forest Hill or Honor Oak hall on a slope, once a year keeps the abrasive grit from grinding into the pile and wearing it early. Vacuuming lifts the loose surface dirt, but the gritty stuff settles deep where a vacuum cannot reach. A yearly deep clean is the cheap way to make a carpet last.
