London Carpet Cleaning cleans carpets, sofas and rugs across Streatham Wells, SW16, from £36 a room and touch-dry in 1 to 2 hours. Fixed prices, no call-out fee, and a re-clean guarantee. The ward takes its name from the old mineral wells off Valley Road, and we have worked these streets since 2009.
What Streatham Wells homes are like
Streatham Wells sits on the slope between Streatham High Road and the wooded ridge of Leigham Court Road, in the SW16 and SW2 corner of Lambeth. The defining stock is the run of large Victorian houses along Leigham Court Road, built on the old Leigham estate from the 1830s, most of them long since split into garden flats and maisonettes. Behind them the avenues fill in the picture: Sternhold Avenue, Drewstead Road and Hailsham Avenue carry rows of bay-fronted terraces and semis, with the occasional 1930s block and a newer infill development. Two conservation areas cover the north and south ends of Leigham Court Road, so a lot of the original detail has survived, and under the carpet you will often find the boards those houses were built with.
Streatham Hill station anchors the top of the area, with four Southern trains an hour up to Victoria by way of Balham and Clapham Junction. Streatham Common and the Rookery, the spa garden where those mineral wells once ran, are a short way south. It is a hilly, leafy pocket. Most homes here are flats, not whole houses.
What we see across Streatham Wells
The job we are called to most here is the period conversion flat: wool or wool-blend carpet over old floorboards, often in a first-floor lounge with high ceilings, going flat and grey in the doorway and the bay. Pets feature heavily, and the reviews on this page bear that out, with puppy accidents on Leigham Court Road and tired family settees up on Streatham Hill. We lift the soil, treat the traffic lanes, and deal with odour at the source instead of masking it. The honest limitation is the old boards underneath. Where a pet accident has gone through the carpet and backing into the floor below, a top-side clean takes the smell out of the carpet but cannot always reach what has soaked into the timber, and that sometimes needs a separate sub-floor treatment we will tell you about on the day.
How much does carpet cleaning cost in Streatham Wells?
Prices are fixed, with no call-out fee, and they are the same across Lambeth and every London borough we cover.
- Carpet cleaning, per bedroom, from £36
- 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 and return
Get a free quote, or call us on 020 8077 8090.
Carpet, upholstery and rug cleaning in Streatham Wells
Most bookings here are hot-water extraction, the deep steam carpet cleaning that suits wool and wool-blend pile in the older flats. We also clean sofas, armchairs and curtains in place through our upholstery cleaning service, which is what those Streatham Hill settees needed. Patterned wool rugs, like the hall rug taken off Sternhold Avenue, go back to our workshop for rug cleaning and come home wrapped. We cover the rest of Lambeth on the same terms, along with neighbouring Norbury and Pollards Hill further down SW16.
Streatham Wells questions, answered
Which streets and postcodes do you cover in Streatham Wells?
We work the whole ward across SW16 and the SW2 side, from Leigham Court Road and Leigham Avenue down to Streatham High Road, taking in Drewstead Road, Sternhold Avenue, Hailsham Avenue and the streets around Streatham Hill station. If you are just outside that line in central Streatham or Streatham Hill proper, we still cover you on the same fixed prices.
Where will the cleaner park on Leigham Court Road?
The Streatham Wells parking zone runs weekday daytimes, roughly 10am to 4pm, across the streets between Leigham Court Road, Valley Road and the High Road. Outside those hours and at weekends most kerbside spaces are free, and within them we use pay-by-phone bays. We carry our gear in, so a space near the door helps. Just let us know the kerb situation when you book.
Does the water hardness in SW16 affect the carpet clean?
Streatham is a hard-water area, near 290 parts per million on the Thames Water supply, which leaves scale on kettles but does not change how your carpet comes up. Our machines heat and soften the water in the van, and we extract it back out under suction, so there is no chalky residue left in the pile after we have finished.
How long do the carpets take to dry afterwards?
Touch-dry is usually 1 to 2 hours, and a light carpet on a warm day can be quicker. A dense wool pile in a ground-floor or garden flat, where the air moves less, can take most of the day with a window cropped open. We extract as much moisture as the machine will pull so you are left damp rather than wet, and we will tell you what to expect for your rooms.
Every clean comes with our re-clean guarantee: if a mark lifts back or a patch is not right, we come back and put it straight at no charge. We are fully insured and DBS-checked, and we have cleaned carpets, sofas and rugs around Streatham Wells since 2009.
