London Carpet Cleaning cleans carpets, sofas and rugs across Southborough, BR2, 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 shops and library on Southborough Lane out to the quieter roads towards Jubilee Country Park.
What Southborough homes are like
Southborough sits south of Bickley and Bromley, east of Bromley Common and west of Petts Wood, and most of it went up between about 1912 and 1935. The housing is largely detached and semi-detached, owner-occupied, and roomy, so a typical job here is a family home with a proper hall, a turned staircase and carpet through the reception rooms, not a compact flat. The commercial spine is Southborough Lane, with its parade of shops, the library and two old pubs: The Chequers, a Grade II listed former pair of weatherboarded cottages, and The Crooked Billet, rebuilt in 1957 after a V2 rocket destroyed the earlier pub in 1944. The nearest station is Bickley, which opened in 1856 as Southborough Road and now runs Southeastern and Thameslink services to Victoria on the Chatham Main Line. Roads such as Pinewood Road and the streets off Southborough Lane are the sort we know well.
What we see across Southborough
The common job here is a settled family house that has taken a knock: mud walked up the stairs and landing after a move or a wet weekend, a lounge and bedrooms that need lifting, and the odd pet smell in a room the dog has claimed. Being close to Jubilee Country Park and the green by the Crooked Billet, we see plenty of trodden-in mud on hall runners and stair carpet, especially in autumn and after school-run weather. Original wool carpet in the older reception rooms comes up beautifully with hot-water extraction, and we work the traffic lanes and the pivot at the top of the stairs by hand. One honest note: an old red-wine shadow or a long-set mark that has been in a light carpet for years will usually lighten a lot but may not vanish completely, and we will tell you that on the doorstep before we start instead of promising a miracle.
How much does carpet cleaning cost in Southborough?
Prices are fixed, with no call-out fee, and they are the same across Bromley and every London borough we cover.
- 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 Southborough
Most of our Southborough work is hot-water extraction carpet cleaning, which rinses out the detergent and lifts the pile so rooms dry in a couple of hours rather than staying damp all day. We also clean sofas and armchairs with our upholstery cleaning service, matched to the fabric, and we take rugs away for proper rug cleaning off the floor, with free collection and return across BR2. The same team covers the rest of Bromley, and we regularly work the nearby roads in Hayes and Shortlands on the same run.
Southborough questions, answered
Which streets and postcodes do you cover in Southborough?
We cover the whole of Southborough in BR2, from Southborough Lane and Pinewood Road across to the roads bordering Bickley, Bromley Common and Petts Wood. If you are on the boundary and not sure which side you fall, give us the postcode and we will confirm it and quote a fixed price on the spot, with no travel charge either way.
Is parking a problem for the van on Southborough Lane?
For most Southborough homes it is not, because the side roads off Southborough Lane are residential with driveways and free kerbside space, so we park close and run the hose straight in. Southborough Lane itself is busier by the shops, so if you live on the parade we will just ask where is easiest to pull up when we book.
Do you get the mud out of stair carpet after a move?
Yes, that is one of our most common Southborough jobs, especially the stairs and landing after removal men have tramped through on moving day. We pre-treat the traffic marks, agitate the pile by hand on each tread and the turn, then hot-rinse, which pulls the ground-in soil out rather than just wetting the surface. A hall runner done at the same time is easy to add.
How long will the carpets take to dry?
Usually one to two hours to touch-dry, and fully dry the same day if the room has a little airflow. We extract on a strong vacuum pass at the end so the carpet leaves damp, not soaked, which matters in the older Southborough houses where a north-facing reception room or a deep bay can hold moisture. Open a window or leave the heating ticking over and you can walk on it soon after we leave.
Every clean is backed by our re-clean guarantee: if a spot you are unhappy with does not come up, tell us and we will come back and re-do it at no charge. We are fully insured and DBS-checked, and we have cleaned carpets, upholstery and rugs across Bromley since 2009.
