London Carpet Cleaning cleans carpets, sofas and rugs across Lime Street, EC3, 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 Lloyd’s building at number 1 down to the Fenchurch Street end.
What Lime Street homes are like
Lime Street is a short, narrow road at the centre of the City’s insurance district, running north from Fenchurch Street up to Leadenhall Street. There are almost no houses on it. What we clean here is workplace carpet: underwriting floors, broker offices, law-firm suites and the client-facing rooms that fill the towers around the market. The address that defines the street is 1 Lime Street, the Grade I listed Lloyd’s building by Richard Rogers, opened in 1986 with its lifts and ducts hung on the outside. Directly opposite sit the Willis Building and, on the corner, the 38-storey Scalpel at 52 Lime Street, finished in 2018. Leadenhall Market, Sir Horace Jones’s cobbled 1881 arcade, runs along the western edge a few steps from Lloyd’s. The nearest stations are Monument and Bank, a short walk down Gracechurch Street, with Aldgate and Fenchurch Street close on the eastern side.
The carpet reflects the building rather than the postcode. Newer towers like the Scalpel lay dense loop-pile tiles in mid-greys that show every coffee ring; the older 1980s and 1990s floors around Lloyd’s tend to run to heavier cut-pile in corporate blues and charcoals that hide marks but hold traffic lines. Either way it is contract carpet taking hundreds of feet a day, not a wool twist in a front room.
What we see across Lime Street
The job here is nearly always high-traffic commercial. The route from the lift lobby to the desks greys off first, and the strip by the tea point picks up tea and coffee splashes from the queue at the machine. We get called for ink from a leaked biro on a light meeting-room chair, for the dull film that builds on stone reception floors, and for the tired lane down the middle of an open-plan floor before a big client visit. Most of it lifts cleanly with hot-water extraction and a proper pre-spray. The honest limitation is old set-in stains on pale contract fabric. A curry or turmeric mark that has been through a warm office for weeks can leave a faint shadow after cleaning, and we will tell you that on the spot rather than promise it away. On grey and light chairs especially, better than it was is sometimes the true result, not perfect.
How much does carpet cleaning cost in Lime Street?
Prices are fixed, with no call-out fee, and they are the same across the City of London and every London borough.
- Carpet cleaning per bedroom or small office from £36
- Living room or reception area from £43
- Through-lounge or larger open floor 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 Lime Street
Most Lime Street floors get our hot-water carpet cleaning, which rinses the detergent back out so the pile dries in an hour or two and the traffic lanes stay clean longer. For sofas and the fabric chairs in breakout and waiting areas we use upholstery cleaning matched to the fabric, and delicate rugs go back to our workshop for specialist rug cleaning with free collection and return. We cover the rest of the City of London too, and neighbouring EC3 streets around Fenchurch Street and Monument.
Lime Street questions, answered
Which streets around Lime Street do you cover?
All of the EC3M and EC3A block: Leadenhall Street, Fenchurch Avenue, Cullum Street, Billiter Street, Lime Street Passage and Lloyd’s Avenue over in EC3N. If your office sits anywhere in the Lloyd’s and Leadenhall Market cluster we can reach it, and the price is the same across the City.
Can you work around City access and the pedestrianised part of the street?
Yes. The northern end of Lime Street is pedestrianised and the firegate stops cars running through to Leadenhall Street, so vehicles bear round by Fenchurch Avenue and Billiter Street. We know the loading routes, unload quickly and carry kit in, so building access and the Congestion Charge zone are not a problem.
Can you clean early, at weekends or out of trading hours?
That is when we do most Lime Street work. We come in before the market gets going, at weekends, or after the floor clears in the evening, so the underwriting room and the desks are ready by the time people arrive. Carpet is touch-dry in one to two hours, so an early slot means no wet floor at nine.
Do you clean the stone reception floors as well as carpet?
Yes. Alongside carpet and upholstery we clean and buff hard floors, which is a common ask on Lime Street where grand stone receptions pick up a dull grimy film underfoot. We lift that film and bring the shine back, and can do the entrance and the carpeted areas in one visit.
Every clean comes with our re-clean guarantee: if a treated area is not right, we come back and put it right at no charge. We are fully insured and DBS-checked, which matters in secure City buildings, and we have cleaned across the Square Mile since 2009.
