London Carpet Cleaning cleans carpets, sofas and rugs across Old Bexley and Bexley Village, DA5, from £36 a room and touch-dry in 1 to 2 hours. Prices are fixed, there is no call-out fee, and every job carries a re-clean guarantee. We have worked the streets between St Mary’s Church and Hall Place since 2009.
What Old Bexley homes are like
Old Bexley is a real medieval village that the suburbs grew out to meet. Bexley appears in a charter of 814, and St Mary’s Church at the bottom of the village dates from the late 12th century. The core is a conservation area and looks it: the King’s Head is one of the oldest buildings on the street, the houses at 101 to 105 High Street are timber-framed behind their 18th century brick fronts, the former workhouse of 1787 stands at 34 to 36, and cottages open straight onto the pavement. The Old Mill sits where Bourne Road crosses the River Cray, and the railway of 1866 cuts across the middle of it all on a brick viaduct, with shops tucked into the arches at Mill Row.
Around that core the housing steps forward in time. Victorian terraces line the eastern end of the High Street and the streets around Parkhurst Road, which have a conservation area of their own, and after the line was electrified in 1926 the semis arrived, running out to the Green Belt fields that still hold the eastern and southern edges of the village along North Cray Road. Bexley station, on Southeastern’s Sidcup line, runs trains to Charing Cross via Lewisham. For carpets this mix matters. The centre means wool carpet laid over old, uneven timber boards; the interwar streets mean hard-worked family carpet on stairs and landings; and up Bourne Road the Tudor bulk of Hall Place, built in 1537, marks the top of our patch.
What we see across Old Bexley
Village work is period work. Through lounges just off the High Street that host every family occasion and get used hard between cleans, bedrooms and turning landings in older cottages, cream sofas that show every mark, lined curtains we clean hanging in place so nothing has to come down and nothing shrinks, and the odd mattress freshened up after guests. There is a lot of wool here, so we run wool-safe chemistry at a controlled moisture level. Water should never be left sitting on two-hundred-year-old floorboards, and we make sure it never is.
One thing we will say plainly. In the draughtier timber-floored cottages, the dark filtration lines along skirting boards and under doors fade well but rarely vanish altogether, because years of air movement have pulled that soiling right through the fibre. If a mark will only lighten, we tell you before we start, and we price the job the same either way.
How much does carpet cleaning cost in Old Bexley?
Prices are fixed before we arrive, there is no call-out fee, and the rate is the same across Bexley and every London borough.
- Carpet cleaning from £36 per bedroom
- Living room carpet 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 Old Bexley
Most village bookings pair hot water extraction carpet cleaning with sofa and upholstery cleaning, because the sitting room usually needs both at once. Wool and antique rugs go the other way: we collect them, clean them off site and return them at no extra cost, which suits pieces too delicate to clean on an old floor. The same crews cover the rest of Bexley, and Albany Park, one stop towards London on the same line, is part of the same daily round.
Old Bexley questions, answered
Which parts of Old Bexley do you cover?
All of DA5 around the village, on both sides of the railway: from Hurst Road in the west, along the High Street and Bourne Road up past Hall Place, and out to the Green Belt edge at North Cray Road. Vicarage Road, Parkhill Road and the station side are regular stops.
What about parking and the High Street traffic?
We plan around it. The village carries heavy through traffic and the High Street junction with Bourne Road jams at peak times, so we book centre-of-village jobs outside the rush where we can and use the car parks behind the High Street. You do not need to arrange anything for us.
Can you get Hall Place and riverside mud out of a carpet?
Yes, and it is some of our most regular work here. Dogs come back from the Cray and the Hall Place grounds carrying clay that grinds into hall runners and stair carpets. Pre-treatment and hot water extraction lift it cleanly from both wool and synthetic pile.
How long will my carpet take to dry?
Touch-dry in 1 to 2 hours is typical. Full drying takes longer in a thick-walled cottage room in winter, sometimes into the evening, and we say so on the day rather than promise otherwise. Low heating and a slightly open window shorten it a great deal.
Every clean comes with our re-clean guarantee: if anything bothers you afterwards, we come back and do it again at no charge. Our technicians are fully insured and DBS-checked, and we have been cleaning Bexley’s carpets and sofas since 2009.
