London Carpet Cleaning cleans carpets, sofas and rugs across Old Artillery Ground, E1, 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 Georgian flats off Artillery Passage to the newer apartments along Bishopsgate.
What Old Artillery Ground homes are like
Old Artillery Ground is a tight grid of Spitalfields streets named for the gunnery practice Henry VIII’s company once held here: Fort Street, Gun Street, Artillery Lane and the narrow pedestrian cut of Artillery Passage. It sits in Tower Hamlets but presses right up against the City of London, with Liverpool Street and its Elizabeth line platforms about 250 metres west on Bishopsgate. The dominant stock is narrow-fronted Georgian terrace, two to four storeys with mansard roofs and a shop or unit on the ground floor, much of it inside a conservation area. 56 Artillery Lane, a Grade I listed former Huguenot silk shop, has one of the oldest shopfronts in London. Behind those facades, most homes here are flats: a weaver’s upper floor split into one or two bedrooms, or a recent conversion near Old Spitalfields Market and Steward Street.
What we see across Old Artillery Ground
The pattern here is upstairs living. Carpet runs through bedrooms, a small lounge and a steep flight of stairs, and the floors that take the punishment are the ones nearest the front door and the market footfall. We lift a lot of red wine and party spills from bedroom carpet, curry and takeaway marks off seat cushions, and coffee rings out of wool rugs that have come down from a lounge. Leather corner sofas in the converted flats get a clean and condition when they turn sticky. One honest limit: on an old wool carpet that has been walked flat in a hallway for years, we will lift the dirt and brighten it, but crushed, worn pile does not always plump fully back up, and a heat-set red wine stain that has been scrubbed in can leave a faint shadow. We tell you what is dirt and what is wear before we start.
How much does carpet cleaning cost in Old Artillery Ground?
Prices are fixed, with no call-out fee, and the same across Tower Hamlets and every London borough.
- Carpet cleaning 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 and return
Get a free quote, or call us on 020 8077 8090.
Carpet, upholstery and rug cleaning in Old Artillery Ground
For carpets and stairs we use hot-water extraction, our steam carpet cleaning, which rinses the wine, curry and traffic grime out of the pile rather than leaving residue behind to attract more dirt. Sofas and the cream leather corner units get our upholstery and leather cleaning, matched to the fabric so wool, cotton and hide are each treated correctly. Wool and patterned rugs are best taken away for a full submersion wash, which is what our rug cleaning service does, with free collection and return to your door. If you have a place elsewhere in the borough, we cover the rest of Tower Hamlets on the same fixed prices.
Old Artillery Ground questions, answered
Do you cover the whole of Old Artillery Ground and the E1 streets around it?
Yes. We clean across the conservation area and the streets that border it, including Gun Street, Steward Street, Brushfield Street, Crispin Street and Artillery Lane, and on toward Bishopsgate, Commercial Street and Old Spitalfields Market. If your postcode starts E1 and you are near the market, you are in our patch.
Where does the van park when the lanes are pedestrian-only?
Artillery Passage and parts of the lane are foot traffic only, and the surrounding bays are permit-holder parking, so we usually set up on Bishopsgate, Commercial Street or a loading bay nearby and carry the kit in. Our hoses reach a fair way, so an upper-floor flat off a narrow passage is no problem. Just let us know the door.
Can you still reach me when the market is busy?
Yes, with a bit of planning. Traffic around Old Spitalfields Market and Brushfield Street is heaviest at weekends and lunchtimes, so we time arrivals around it and text you when we are close. If a market day is awkward, an early morning or a weekday slot is often the smoother run for everyone.
How long will the carpet take to dry in a small period flat?
Most carpets are touch-dry in one to two hours. We extract on a strong vacuum pass so the pile is left damp, not wet, which matters in a compact Georgian flat with limited airflow. Opening a window and letting us crack the doors helps it along, and stair carpet is usually walkable in socks the same afternoon.
Every clean comes with our re-clean guarantee: if a spot you pointed out comes back, we return and re-treat it free. We are fully insured and DBS-checked, careful in listed and period buildings, and we have cleaned for Spitalfields households since 2009.
