Old Moulsham’s bay-fronted terraces hide a lot of original floorboards, but the rooms that still hold carpet take a real beating off the CM2 streets, and that grit grinds into the pile long before you can see it.
We clean carpets across Chelmsford and the CM postcodes using hot-water extraction, from £36 a room.
Last updated April 2026. Written by the team at Monster Cleaning Ltd, a domestic cleaning firm working across Essex and Greater London since 2014.
Here is what we charge and how we work.
What we charge in Chelmsford
Carpet cleaning
from £87
A visit, priced room by room, agreed before we start.
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We price by the room, not by the hour. You know the cost before we knock, and a slow patch of stubborn dirt is our problem to solve, not an excuse to run the clock up.
Every figure below is the full price for a Chelmsford home. No survey fee, no call-out charge tacked on at the end.
- A single bedroom
- £36
- A living room
- £43
- A through-lounge
- £61. It is the knocked-through front-to-back room you find in a lot of the older Moulsham terraces.
- A flight of stairs
- £41
- A rug up to 3m2
- £35
- A rug over 3m2
- £51
- The whole carpeted area of a typical 2-bed
- £135
That £135 is the one most tenants and landlords ask about, because a two-bed flat near the station is the standard rental round here. It bundles into one price:
- the two bedrooms;
- the lounge;
- the landing and the stairs.
It works out cheaper than booking each room on its own. If your place has an extra reception or a converted loft room, we add it on at the room rate and tell you the total before we begin.
We price by the room, not by the hour.
Prices hold across the CM postcodes near the city. We are not the cheapest carpet cleaner in Chelmsford and we have never pretended to be. What you are paying for is a proper machine and a person who has done thousands of these.
How hot-water extraction works
Hot-water extraction is the method most carpet manufacturers ask for in their own care guides, and it is what we use on nearly every job. The shorthand name people use is steam cleaning, though it is not really steam.
It runs in three steps.
- First we spray a pre-treatment over the carpet and let it sit for a few minutes, which breaks down the oily film that holds dirt to the fibre.
- Then the machine does the work. It injects heated water deep into the pile under pressure and, in the very same stroke, sucks that water back out along with the loosened soil, repeating the pass until what comes up runs clear.
- Last comes a mild acidic rinse that drops the pile back to roughly neutral, so there is nothing sticky left to grab dust next week.
That last step is the one cheaper outfits skip. Leave detergent in a carpet and it turns into a magnet, so the carpet looks filthy again within a fortnight and you blame the cleaner. We would rather spend the extra ten minutes rinsing.
- Drying time
- Three to six hours in most rooms.
- What speeds it up
- Warmth and moving air, so we will often crack a window and suggest you leave the heating on low.
Chelmsford carpets and very hard water
Chelmsford has some of the hardest water in the country, and it matters for carpets more than you would think.
- Who supplies it
- Essex and Suffolk Water supply the city.
- How hard it is
- The figure people quote sits around 327 parts per million, which is well into the very hard band.
- Where you see it
- The chalky scale on your kettle and the cloudy film on the shower screen.
When tap water that loaded with calcium dries inside a carpet, it can leave a fine mineral residue that stiffens the pile and dulls the colour. A cheap wet-and-leave clean makes that worse by soaking the carpet and walking away.
We work around it two ways:
- we heat and control the water going in;
- we extract hard, so very little is left sitting in the fibre to dry out and crust.
The acidic rinse helps here as well, because it deals with mineral film better than plain water does.
This is also why the through-lounge in an older terrace is often the dirtiest room in the house. South-facing front rooms off the street pull in grit, the hard water blooms it, and a decade of feet presses it flat. They come up better than owners expect.
Rugs, stairs and the awkward jobs
Stairs are fiddly and we have priced them honestly. Rugs we price by size, not by guesswork.
- A single flight of stairs
- £41, because edging each tread and getting the machine into the corners takes time a flat floor does not.
- A rug up to 2m2
- £35
- A rug over 2m2
- £51
The Victorian terraces around Grove Road and Hamlet Road tend to have one steep straight flight. The newer houses out at Chelmer Village often have a turn and a half-landing, which we still count as one flight unless it is unusually long.
Most rugs we can clean where they lie or out in the hall. A few we cannot, and we will say so on sight.
Tell us in advance if a rug is silk, antique, or hand-knotted. Those need a gentler hand, and the worst thing we could do is treat a hand-knotted wool rug like a synthetic stair runner.
We would rather slow down and get it right than wreck something you cannot replace, which is the sort of judgement call that only comes from having done a lot of them.
Most of the usual marks shift:
- pet accidents;
- wine;
- the muddy patch by the back door.
Some old stains are dye, not dirt, and dye is in the fibre for keeps. We will point at the marks we expect to clear and the ones we do not, before we start, so nobody is surprised at the end.
Who we are
Monster Cleaning
- Since 2014 cleaning homes
- 4.7 on Google
- Vetted, insured cleaners
- 300+ letting agents use us
- London, Manchester and Liverpool
Monster Cleaning Ltd has been going since 2014. We’re rated 4.7 on Google.
- The company
- A registered company, run from 75 Shakespeare Avenue, Feltham, TW14 9HU.
- Where we work
- We send carpet teams out across Essex, including Chelmsford.
- What we are not
- A lead-selling app or a one-man van with a hired machine.
We are not going to dress that up.
If you want the rest of what we do, these run out of the same diary, and people often book a carpet clean alongside one of them:
- our oven cleaning in Chelmsford;
- our regular domestic cleaning in Chelmsford.
Landlords and tenants between lets usually want the carpets done as part of our end of tenancy cleaning in Chelmsford, booked as one job. You can also read our wider carpet cleaning service for how we handle upholstery and larger floors.
Booking a clean
Booking is plain. Call 0333 555 2076 or email office@monstercleaning.com with your Chelmsford postcode and a list of the rooms you want done.
- Tell us if there are stairs, rugs, or a stain you are worried about, and roughly when suits you.
- We come back with a fixed price, not a vague range.
- If you are happy, we book a slot, usually within a few days.
- On the day we turn up in the window we gave you, do the work and walk the rooms with you.
- Payment is by card or bank transfer.
One last thing for the commuters. The station runs five trains an hour off-peak to Liverpool Street in about thirty-five minutes, so a lot of our Chelmsford customers are out all day.
We are used to working around a key safe or a neighbour letting us in, and we will text you when we are done. Ring us. We will sort it.
Frequently asked questions
How much does carpet cleaning cost in Chelmsford?
Prices start from £36 for a single bedroom. A living room is £43, a through-lounge £61, a flight of stairs £41, and a whole 2-bed carpeted area is £135. We quote the room, not the hour, so the figure we give you is the figure you pay.
Do you charge extra to clean rugs?
Rugs are priced by size. A rug up to 3m2 is £35 and a rug over 3m2 is £51. We clean them in your home in most cases. If a rug is silk, very old, or hand-knotted, tell us first so we can pick the right method.
What is hot-water extraction?
It is the method most carpet makers actually recommend. We spray a pre-treatment into the pile, then a machine pushes heated water through the fibres and pulls it straight back out in the same pass, lifting the dirt with it. We finish with a mild acidic rinse so no sticky residue is left behind.
How long will my carpet take to dry?
Usually three to six hours. It depends on the pile, the room temperature, and how much airflow you give it. Chelmsford tap water is very hard, so we extract thoroughly rather than over-wet the carpet, which keeps drying times down. Open a window and the job dries faster.
Can you get old stains out?
Often, yes. Coffee, tea, mud off the Chelmer towpath, and most food spills lift well. Some marks are dye stains rather than dirt, and a few are permanent. We will tell you honestly on the day which ones we expect to shift and which we do not, before we start.
Do I need to move the furniture first?
Move the small bits if you can. Lamps, dining chairs, toys, anything light. We will shift sofas and beds within reason and clean what we can reach around heavy or fragile pieces. We do not move pianos, fish tanks, or wardrobes full of clothes.
Is the carpet ready for normal use once it has dried?
Yes. The products we use are standard professional carpet solutions, and the acidic rinse leaves the pile close to a neutral pH. Keep little ones and animals off the carpet until it is dry, mainly so nobody slips, then it is back to normal.
Do you cover the villages around Chelmsford?
We do. Old Moulsham, Springfield, Great Baddow, Galleywood, Writtle, Broomfield, and out to Chelmer Village and Beaulieu. If you are inside the CM postcodes near the city, ring us with your postcode and we will tell you the soonest slot.
Can you clean carpets for a landlord or letting agent between tenancies?
Yes, this is a big part of our week. If you are moving out and need the deposit clean done properly, the carpets can be added to a full move-out clean as one booked job rather than two separate visits.
How do I book and how do you take payment?
Call 0333 555 2076 or email office@monstercleaning.com with your postcode and the rooms you want done. We give you a fixed price up front. You can pay by card or bank transfer.
Do you offer a re-clean guarantee?
Our 48-hour re-clean guarantee covers end of tenancy cleans. For carpet cleaning, talk to us on 0333 555 2076 if anything concerns you.