London Carpet Cleaning cleans carpets, sofas and rugs across St James’s, SW1, 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 mansion flats off St James’s Street to the apartments overlooking Green Park.
What St James’s homes are like
St James’s is one of the few corners of central London that still has a real residential life under all the clubs, galleries and tailors. Most of the homes here are mansion flats and apartments set inside period buildings, often with a day porter or concierge on the door and a lift to the upper floors. King Street keeps a run of mid-Victorian stucco terraces, four storeys over a basement, and the side streets off St James’s Street and Jermyn Street hold the bulk of the flats. The nearest Underground is St James’s Park on the Circle and District lines, with Green Park a short walk north, and St James’s Palace, Pall Mall and St James’s Square all within a few minutes on foot. It is a small, very built-up patch, so almost every job here is a flat rather than a house with its own front door.
What we see across St James’s
The carpets and furniture in St James’s tend to be good ones, and they get looked after for a long time. We clean a lot of wool sitting-room carpets, silk and Persian rugs in drawing rooms, and antique upholstery, the sort of leather club chairs and large fabric sofas that have been in the family for years. Drinks-party marks are the classic local job, a wine spill by the fireplace or a sherry stain on a rug, and most of those lift cleanly when they are dealt with promptly. The honest limitation is age: a wool carpet or a silk rug that has spent twenty years in the sun by a south-facing window may have faded unevenly in the pile, and cleaning lifts the dirt and brightens the colour, but it will not undo light damage that has bleached the fibres. We will always tell you which it is before we start.
Around St James’s: the local areas we cover
We also cover the residential pocket around St James’s Park, between Birdcage Walk and Victoria Street. This is mansion-flat and apartment territory too, with Queen Anne’s Gate keeping its early-eighteenth-century houses, and Petty France and Broadway lined with larger blocks. The flats here are often behind a porter or a managed entrance, so we book a time, sign in, and bring the kit up in the lift the same as we would anywhere in SW1. The carpets and rugs are much the same as the rest of St James’s, good wool and the occasional silk piece, so the cleaning approach does not change across the park.
How much does carpet cleaning cost in St James’s?
Prices are fixed, with no call-out fee, and they are the same across Westminster and every London borough.
- 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 St James’s
For carpets we use hot-water extraction, the steam carpet cleaning method that rinses the pile and leaves it touch-dry in an hour or two. We clean leather and fabric furniture through our upholstery cleaning service, including the antique leather chairs and large sofas this area is full of. Delicate and antique rugs go through our rug cleaning workshop, where silk and wool are washed by hand and collected and returned free. We cover the rest of Westminster on the same fixed prices, and the same team also works further out across southwest London, including Earls Court.
St James’s questions, answered
Which postcodes around St James’s do you cover?
We cover all of SW1, which takes in St James’s itself, the streets off St James’s Street and Jermyn Street, and the St James’s Park pocket down towards Victoria. If you are just over the line in Mayfair or Westminster proper, that is no problem either, as we work right across the borough on the same fixed prices.
Can you get parked, with the controlled parking zone here?
St James’s sits in Westminster’s controlled parking zone, so there is no free roadside parking on the street during the day. In practice we plan for it, use a meter or pay-by-phone bay nearby, and carry the equipment in. Many of the mansion blocks have a porter who can point us to the loading point, which makes it straightforward.
Do you clean silk and antique rugs as well as carpets?
Yes. Silk, viscose and old wool rugs are too delicate for the machine we use on fitted carpets, so they go to the workshop and are washed gently by hand. We collect from your flat and return the rug clean and dry, which suits the drawing-room rugs and Persian pieces we see a lot of in St James’s.
How long will a sitting-room carpet take to dry?
A wool sitting-room carpet is usually touch-dry within one to two hours, because the extraction machine pulls most of the moisture back out as it rinses. Upper-floor flats with good airflow dry fastest. If you have guests coming, book the clean for the morning and the carpet will be ready well before the evening.
Every clean comes with our re-clean guarantee: if a spot you pointed out comes back, we return and put it right at no charge. We are fully insured and DBS-checked, and we have cleaned carpets, upholstery and rugs across St James’s and the rest of London since 2009.
