London Carpet Cleaning cleans carpets, sofas and rugs across Mortlake and Barnes Common, SW14, 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 terraces off Sheen Lane down to the towpath by the old Stag Brewery.
What Mortlake and Barnes Common homes are like
Most of Mortlake is small Victorian terraces and period conversions, the kind with a narrow hall, a front room and a steep flight of stairs, often reached by the little alleyways that run back from the Thames towpath. Sought-after roads near Parkside, such as Victoria Road and Shalstone Road, hold some of the larger houses, while the SW14 postcode also covers East Sheen, where the stock shifts to wider Edwardian and 1930s family homes. Mortlake station sits on the South Western Railway line in Zone 3, about eight miles from Waterloo, with trains running one way through Barnes and Putney and the other through Richmond. Barnes Common itself, a statutory local nature reserve of acid grassland and woodland off Vine Road, straddles the SW13 and SW14 line and feeds a steady amount of mud onto local floors. The Stag Brewery on Lower Richmond Road, by the Boat Race finish at Chiswick Bridge, is now being rebuilt into more than a thousand new homes, so the area carries both century-old carpet and brand-new flooring at the same time.
What we see across Mortlake and Barnes Common
Two jobs come up again and again here. The first is the long, dark hallway in the Victorian terraces, where years of London grime work into a runner or fitted carpet between the front door and the kitchen. The second is whatever the Common and the towpath drag in: wet grass, river silt and dog mud through the lounge, which is exactly what hot-water extraction is built to lift. We also clean a fair number of wool carpets in the older houses, which we treat at a lower moisture level so they do not shrink. One honest limitation: an old greasy or oily mark right by a front door, where it has been ground in over many wet winters, will usually improve a great deal but may not lift to nothing, and we will tell you that before we start rather than promise a miracle.
How much does carpet cleaning cost in Mortlake and Barnes Common?
Prices are fixed, with no call-out fee, and they are the same across Richmond upon Thames and every London borough we cover.
- Carpet 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 Mortlake and Barnes Common
Our main work is hot-water extraction carpet cleaning, the deep method that flushes out the ground-in dirt and leaves the pile touch-dry in an hour or two. We also handle sofa and upholstery cleaning, including the leather feed and the wine-spill rescue that book-club evenings tend to need, and specialist rug cleaning with free collection and delivery for anything that cleans better off the floor. If you are elsewhere in the borough, from East Sheen across to Twickenham and Teddington, see our work across the rest of Richmond upon Thames, or our nearby coverage in Kingston Vale.
Mortlake and Barnes Common questions, answered
Which streets and postcodes do you cover?
We cover all of SW14, which takes in Mortlake, East Sheen and the SW14 side of Barnes Common, plus the SW13 streets around Church Road, Castelnau and White Hart Lane. Sheen Lane, Mortlake High Street, Lower Richmond Road and the roads off them are all on our regular run, and there is no extra charge for any of them.
Is the Sheen Lane level crossing a problem for parking?
It can be, so we plan around it. The barriers by Mortlake station are down for a large part of each hour at peak times, and the queues back along Sheen Lane, so we usually arrive outside those windows and load close to your door. East Sheen has a controlled parking zone that only runs late morning on weekdays, which leaves us plenty of room the rest of the day.
Do you handle end-of-tenancy carpet cleans for letting agents?
Yes, and they are common in the Mortlake and Barnes rentals. We clean the stairs, bedrooms and reception carpets to the standard agents inspect against, and we can supply a dated receipt for your check-out and deposit return. Book a day or two before the inventory so everything is dry for the walk-round.
How long do the carpets take to dry?
Usually one to two hours for a normal lounge or bedroom, a little longer for a dense wool carpet or a ground-floor room in damp weather near the river. We extract as much moisture as the machine can pull, so you are walking on the carpet in socks the same day, not waiting overnight.
Every clean comes with our re-clean guarantee: if a spot we treated comes back, we return and put it right at no charge. We are fully insured and DBS-checked, and we have been cleaning carpets and upholstery across Mortlake, Barnes and the rest of Richmond since 2009.
