Walk the carpet in any house off Bexley High Street and you are walking on grit. It comes in off the pavement, off the platform at Bexley station, off the towpath by the River Cray, and it works its way down past the tips of the fibres to the backing, where no hoover reaches. That ground-in grit is what wears a carpet out, and getting it back out is the whole job.
Last updated April 2026. Written by the owners of Monster Cleaning Ltd, who have cleaned carpets across Old Bexley and the wider DA5 streets since 2014.
Carpet cleaning in Bexley starts at £36 a bedroom, by hot-water extraction, with a whole carpeted two-bed home at £115. That is the short answer near the top, the way it should be. Everything below is the detail: how we actually do it, the carpets we keep meeting around here, the honest bit about stains, and what the local hard water does and does not change.
We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, a domestic and commercial cleaning firm registered at Companies House under number 9919639 and trading since 2014. Our Trustpilot score is 3.1 out of 5 across 128 reviews, which we would rather quote you honestly than dress up. Every clean is backed by a re-clean guarantee: if a room is not right, we come back.
What carpet cleaning costs in Bexley
Here are the real numbers, no quote form needed for the usual rooms. We price per room or per area, and we work on whole rooms, because part-cleaning a carpet leaves a tide line you will stare at for weeks.
- A single bedroom is £36.
- A living room is £43. A through-lounge, the knocked-through front-and-back reception in a lot of the older Bexley terraces, is £61, because it is really two rooms.
- A flight of stairs is £41, cleaned by hand, tread by tread.
- A rug up to 2m2 is £35; a larger rug over 2m2 is £51.
- A whole carpeted two-bed home, our most common Bexley booking, is £115.
If your job is an awkward shape, a landing here, a box room there, one set of stairs on its own, we can work by the hour instead at £30 per cleaner, which sometimes beats adding up small rooms. Tell us what you have got on the phone and we will say which way is cheaper. We would rather quote you the lower price and keep you for next time than squeeze one job.
That is the full price. No fake high figure with a discount stuck on, no surcharge for the drive out to DA5. What we say on the phone is what you pay at the door.
Carpet cleaning sits alongside the other work we do in the borough. If you are moving out and the whole place needs turning round for the inventory check, our end of tenancy cleaning in Bexley folds the carpets in with everything else. People often add an oven deep clean in Bexley to a carpet visit, and for regular upkeep there is our domestic cleaning in Bexley service. You can read more about the method and the machines on our main carpet cleaning service page.
How we actually clean a carpet
The method is hot-water extraction. Loads of people call it steam cleaning, though there is barely any steam in it, which always disappoints anyone picturing a kettle on wheels. Here is what really happens on the day.
First we vacuum, slowly and properly, because dry grit lifts out far more easily before it gets wet. Skip that step and you are turning dust into mud. Then we lay down a pre-spray matched to the fibre and how dirty the carpet is, and we let it sit for a few minutes. That dwell time is where the soil actually loosens its grip. Rush it and all you have done is wet the floor.
Then the machine. Hot water goes in under pressure and comes straight back out carrying the loosened soil, while a strong vacuum drags most of the moisture back so the pile is left damp rather than swimming. On the worn channels, the grey lanes a hundred trips to the front door grind into a hallway, we go over them twice and groom the pile so it dries standing up instead of flattened.
We will not soak your floor.
We carry £5 million of public liability cover and £10 million of employer’s liability cover, so on the rare day something goes wrong in your home you are not out of pocket. It almost never does. But you should never let anyone move your furniture and run water through your floors without it.
That ground-in grit is what wears a carpet out, and getting it back out is the whole job.
The carpets we meet around Bexley
Bexley is not one kind of home, and the carpets show it. Three jobs come up again and again here, and each wants handling a little differently.
The first is the period cottage in Old Bexley itself. The lanes off the winding High Street, the streets near Bourne Road and down toward St Mary the Virgin and the River Cray hold some of the oldest houses in the borough, a lot of them solid lime-mortar Victorian brick with original timber floorboards underneath the carpet. We extract harder in these and leave less water behind, because soaking a floor that sits straight on old joists is asking for trouble. Stairs and landings are where the carpet usually is, and stairs are the fussiest thing to clean well, since the dirt gathers on the front edge of each tread where feet land.
The second is the Edwardian and 1930s semi that fills out most of the wider DA5 streets. Bigger rooms, often a long through-lounge, frequently a hall runner that has taken the brunt of muddy school shoes for a decade. These respond well to a hot rinse, and the before-and-after on a tired hall runner is one of the more satisfying jobs we do.
The third is the newer flat, the blocks that have gone up around Bexleyheath and the Broadway end and over toward Crayford. Lighter, shorter pile, owners who want it kept looking new. Light wool-mix carpet shows every coffee ring, so these visits are usually about staying ahead of the wear rather than rescuing a disaster.
One local thing worth a word. A fair few of our Bexley jobs are within a short walk of the station and the Sidcup line that runs up to London Charing Cross via Lewisham, and commuter halls take a hammering, the first metre of carpet inside the front door wears twice as fast as the rest of the room. We see it constantly and a hot extraction lifts it well.
Hard water, and why it does not spoil the result
Bexley has the softest mains water of any London borough, and it is still hard. DA5 comes out at around 219 parts per million, which sits inside the hard band, the chalk and limestone under the south-east doing what it always does. You will know it from the kettle.
Here is why that does not change your carpet clean. We do not just push tap water through the pile and hope. We control the solution in the machine, dose the rinse to match, and then extract hard, so nothing is left sitting in the fibres to attract dirt back. A cheap clean that leaves a wet, mineral-laden residue is exactly how a carpet ends up grubbier a fortnight later than it was before. We rinse clean and pull the water out, and that is the difference.
So the hard water is real, and on your carpet it is our problem to manage, not yours to worry about.
Stains, and what we will not promise
This is where most carpet cleaners oversell and we try hard not to. A stain and general dirt are two different problems. Soiling, traffic lanes, a grubby cast over the whole floor: that comes up well nearly every time. A single stain is a gamble that turns entirely on what it is and how long it has been there.
Some things we shift most of the time, like mud, tea, food and washable drinks. Some things fight back, like dried red wine, old pet accidents that have gone through to the underlay, dye bleeding out of a cheap rug, or anything with bleach in it that has already taken the colour clean out. Bleach is not really a stain by then. It is missing carpet, and no machine puts the colour back.
So we give you a straight range. On arrival we will tell you what we expect to clear and what we expect to only improve. We get it wrong in both directions often enough that we will not sell you a miracle. If a mark is going to be a problem, you hear it from us before the machine comes out, not after.
If a mark is going to be a problem, you hear it from us before the machine comes out, not after.
Behind all of it is one simple promise, our re-clean guarantee. Look at a room we have done, and if you are not happy with it, tell us and we come back and put it right. We would rather sort it than argue, because Old Bexley is a village at heart and word gets round either way.
Drying times and the hours after
A well-extracted carpet is damp, not wet, and most rooms are dry enough to walk on within a few hours and properly dry inside about half a day. Wool and thick pile hold more water and take longer. A cold front room with the windows shut in February takes longer than the same room in June with a window cracked open.
Open a window if you can. A fan pointed across the floor helps a lot. Keep shoes off until it is dry, and if you have to cross a damp carpet, clean socks beat bare feet, because feet leave oils that show up as fresh marks. We slip little foam blocks under furniture legs so a damp carpet does not pick up rust or a wood stain off the feet while it dries.
Done properly, the floor is back in use the same day. That matters in a small terrace where there is nowhere else to shove the sofa.
Booking us in
Ring us. The number is 0333 555 2076, or email [email protected] with your postcode, the rooms you want done, and a line about any stain you are worried about. A photo of a bad patch lets us tell you on the spot whether it is worth trying.
You get a price on the call, not a vague band, because the prices are already up there on this page and we stick to them. We cover the whole borough, from Old Bexley and the DA5 streets out to Bexleyheath, Crayford and Sidcup. Most weeks we have a slot within a few days, and we can usually fit in a moving-out carpet at short notice when an agent has sprung an inventory check on you.
Monster Cleaning Ltd is based at 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS, and we have been at this since 2014. The van comes to you.
Frequently asked questions
How much is carpet cleaning in Bexley?
A single bedroom is £36, a living room is £43, and a whole carpeted two-bed home is £115. A flight of stairs is £41, and a through-lounge is £61. Odd jobs can be done by the hour at £30 per cleaner. Those are full prices with nothing added on top.
Is this steam cleaning or hot-water extraction?
It is hot-water extraction. Most people say steam cleaning, though there is barely any steam in it. Hot water and a pre-spray go into the pile under pressure, then a strong vacuum pulls the loosened soil and most of the water straight back out so the carpet is left damp, not soaked.
How long will the carpet take to dry?
Most rooms are walkable in a few hours and properly dry in roughly half a day. Thick or wool pile holds more water and takes longer. A cold front room in February with the windows shut dries slower than the same room in June. Open a window and aim a fan across the floor and it speeds up a lot.
Does Bexley’s hard water affect the clean?
It does not affect the result, because we control the water in our machine rather than relying on what comes out of your tap. DA5 sits in the hard band even though Bexley has the softest mains water of any London borough. We rinse with the right solution and extract hard, so no sticky residue is left to pull dirt back.
Will you get every stain out?
No, and anyone who promises that is guessing. General soiling and worn traffic lanes come up well almost every time. Single stains are a coin toss that depends on what they are and how long they have sat. We tell you on arrival what we expect to clear and what we expect to only improve, before the machine comes out.
Can you clean carpets in an older Old Bexley cottage?
Yes, and we take a bit more care in the period houses off the High Street and Bourne Road. Many have original timber floorboards under the carpet, so we extract harder and leave less moisture behind to protect the boards. We groom the pile afterwards so it dries standing up rather than matted flat.
Do I need to move the furniture first?
Move the small and breakable things and lift what you can off the floor. We will shift sofas and chairs to clean under them and slip foam blocks under the legs while the carpet dries. We do not move beds, full wardrobes, or anything heavy you would not want us lifting.
Do you clean rugs as well as fitted carpets?
Yes. A rug up to 2m2 is £35 and a larger rug over 2m2 is £51. We clean most rugs in place in your home. Tell us the type when you book, because a few delicate or antique rugs are safer cleaned off-site, and we will say so if yours is one.
Can you get rid of old pet stains and smells?
Sometimes. If the mark sits in the carpet pile we can often clear it and treat the smell with it. If it has soaked through into the underlay and the boards below, a surface clean will not reach that far down and we will tell you straight rather than take your money for half a job.
Is the cleaning safe for children and pets?
Yes. The products we use are fine once the carpet is dry, which is the main reason we pull out as much water as we can rather than leaving the floor wet. Keep little ones and pets off until it has dried, mostly so nobody tracks fresh marks across a damp carpet.
Which parts of Bexley do you cover?
All of it. Old Bexley village and the DA5 streets, plus Bexleyheath, Crayford, Sidcup and the roads in between. We are a van service, so we come to you wherever you are in the borough. Tell us your postcode when you call and we will give you a day.
What if I am not happy with the result?
Tell us and we come back and put it right under our re-clean guarantee. We would rather sort a problem than argue about it, because Old Bexley is a small place and word travels. We also carry £5 million of public liability cover, so on the rare day something goes wrong in your home you are protected.