Drag your feet from the front door to the sofa a few thousand times and you grind a dull grey channel into the carpet that no Sunday-morning hoover ever brings back. That grey is grit, walked in off the pavements along the Broadway, off the platforms at Ealing Broadway, off your shoes after a loop of Walpole Park, and it has settled down at the backing where a vacuum cannot reach. A hoover lifts the loose stuff on top. The gritty material that does the real damage sits well below it, and dragging that out is the whole job.
Last updated April 2026. Written by the owners of Monster Cleaning Ltd, who have been cleaning carpets across W5, W13 and the rest of Ealing since 2014.
We are a domestic and commercial cleaning firm, Monster Cleaning Ltd, registered at Companies House under number 9919639 and trading since 2014. Carpet cleaning in Ealing starts from £36 a bedroom by hot-water extraction, a living room is £43, and a whole carpeted two-bed flat is £115. That is the short answer. The rest of this page is the detail and the honest bit about stains.
How we actually clean a carpet
The method is hot-water extraction. Most people call it steam cleaning, though there is barely any steam involved. Here is how a job runs, in order.
We vacuum first, slowly and properly, because dry grit lifts out far more easily before it gets wet. Skip that step and you smear mud about, which is one reason a cheap clean can leave a carpet worse. Next comes a pre-spray, picked to suit the fibre and how grubby the carpet really is, and we leave it a few minutes to work. That short wait is when the soil lets go. Rush it and you are only wetting the floor.
Then the machine goes on. Hot water is pushed into the pile under pressure and drawn straight back out, carrying the loosened dirt with it, while a powerful vacuum hauls most of the moisture away so the carpet is left damp rather than swimming. On the worn lanes, the grey tracks that a thousand trips to the kitchen wear into a hall, we go over them twice and groom the pile afterwards so it dries standing up, not flat and shiny.
We will not flood your floor.
We are fully insured for the work too, which matters when a stranger is running water through the floors of your home. It almost never goes wrong, but you are not left out of pocket on the rare day it does.
A hoover lifts the loose stuff on top. The gritty material that does the real damage sits well below it, and dragging that out is the whole job.
The carpets we meet around Ealing
Ealing earned the old nickname Queen of the Suburbs honestly, and the housing shows why. When the railway reached the Broadway in 1879 the fields behind it were built over within a couple of decades, mostly with roomy semi-detached houses for the new middle classes. A great deal of that stock is still standing and still carpeted. Three jobs come up again and again, and each wants handling a bit differently.
First is the Edwardian and late-Victorian house. The wide, set-back streets around Pitshanger Lane, up through Montpelier and along Argyle Road, are full of them, many long ago split into upper and lower flats. They tend to have generous halls and a staircase carpeted in something that has seen decades of family traffic. Stairs are the hardest thing to clean well, because the dirt piles on the front lip of every tread where feet land, so we do each one by hand with a stair tool rather than waving a big wand over them.
Second is the between-the-wars semi out toward Hanger Hill and the Brentham streets, the kind with a long hall and a front-and-back reception often knocked into one. These usually have a decent depth of carpet that has drunk in years of muddy boots and school shoes, and they reward the effort. The fibre is generally tough, it takes a good hot rinse, and the before-and-after on one of those is about the most satisfying we get.
Third is the new-build flat. The blocks around the station, Dickens Yard off New Broadway chief among them, are full of newer, paler carpets and owners keen to keep them that way. A light wool-mix shows every coffee ring, so those jobs are about staying ahead of the wear rather than rescuing a wreck.
One genuinely local thing is worth a word. A lot of Ealing sits inside a controlled parking zone, and Northfields Zone N runs its restrictions in two short bands, roughly nine to ten in the morning and three to four in the afternoon. We plan the heavier kit-hauling jobs around those windows so the van is not playing musical chairs with a warden mid-job. Tell us your street when you book.
Hard water, and why it matters here
Ealing is supplied by Affinity Water, not Thames, and it is hard chalk-fed water that runs somewhere around 280 to 330 parts per million, off the chalk aquifer under this stretch of west London. You will know it already from the scale on the kettle and the film on the shower screen.
It matters for carpets more than you would guess. If a cleaner mixes a strong solution into hard water and fails to rinse it out of the pile, the minerals and leftover detergent dry into a stiff, chalky film near the backing. That film feels faintly crunchy underfoot, and worse, it stays slightly sticky, so the carpet grabs fresh dirt and looks grubby again within weeks. A clean that goes off fast is nearly always a rinsing fault, not a dirt problem.
So we mix to suit the water and we rinse hard. The last passes are clear water under pressure, pulling the solution back out instead of letting it set. It is the dull part of the job and the part that keeps an Ealing carpet clean longer.
What it costs
Here are the actual numbers, no quote form needed for the usual rooms. We work in whole rooms, because part-cleaning a carpet leaves a tide line straight across the middle.
- A single bedroom is £36.
- A living room is £43, and a through-lounge, the knocked-through front-and-back reception you find in half the Hanger Hill semis, is £61, because it really is 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 flat, the booking we get most around W5 and W13, is £115.
If the job is an awkward shape, a landing here, a box room there, one flight of stairs on its own, we can work by the hour at £30 per cleaner, which now and then comes out cheaper than adding up little rooms one by one. Tell us what you have got when you ring and we will say which way works out better. We would sooner win the smaller job and have you call again than wring a few extra pounds out of one visit.
That is the full price. We do not stick up a fake high number and slap a discount on it, and we do not add a penny for coming out to Ealing.
Carpet cleaning sits alongside the other work we do round here. If you are moving out and the whole place needs turning around for the inventory check, our end of tenancy cleaning in Ealing folds the carpets in with everything else. People often add an oven deep clean in Ealing onto a carpet booking, and for regular upkeep there is our domestic cleaning in Ealing service. There is more on the method and the machines on our main carpet cleaning service page.
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. Overall soiling, worn traffic lanes, the tired grey look across a whole floor, that lifts well nearly every time. A single set-in stain is a coin toss that hangs entirely on what it is and how long it has had to settle.
Plenty of the everyday stuff comes up without much fuss. Mud off the common, tea, food, washable drinks, the grime of a busy hall. Some things fight back: red wine left to dry over a weekend, old pet accidents soaked into the underlay, dye bled from a cheap rug, anything with bleach that has already taken the colour out. Bleach is not really a stain by then. It is missing carpet, and no machine puts the colour back.
So you get a straight answer, not a sales pitch. When we arrive we walk the rooms and tell you which marks should clear and which will only fade. We get it wrong in both directions often enough that we will not promise a miracle. If a mark is going to be trouble, you hear it from us before the machine comes out, not after.
If a mark is going to be trouble, you hear it from us before the machine comes out, not after.
Behind all of it is a plain promise. Look at a room we have finished, and if it is not right, say so and we are back to redo it. That is our satisfaction and re-clean guarantee, and we mean it, because Ealing is a small world and word gets round fast.
Drying times and what to do after
A carpet we have extracted properly comes up damp, not wet. You can walk on most rooms within a couple of hours, and they are fully dry inside half a day or so. Wool and thick pile hold more water and take longer. A cold flat with the windows shut in February takes longer than the same flat in June with one cracked open.
Open a window if the weather lets you. A fan aimed low across the carpet hurries it along. Keep shoes off until it is dry, and if you must cross a damp carpet, do it in clean socks rather than bare feet, because feet leave oils that turn into fresh marks. We slip foam blocks under furniture legs so a drying carpet does not pick up rust or a wood stain off them.
Done right, the floor is back in use the same day. In a one-bed flat near the Broadway, where the sofa has nowhere to go, that is rather the point.
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 stains you are worried about. A photo of a bad patch helps, because we can usually tell you on the spot whether it is worth a go.
We give you a price on the call, not a vague band, because we have listed the prices above and we hold to them. We cover all the Ealing postcodes, the W5 streets around the Broadway and Ealing Common, W13 through West Ealing and Northfields, and the W3 and UB edges of the borough. 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 springs a last-minute inventory check.
Monster Cleaning Ltd is based at 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS, and we have been at this since 2014. The vans come to you.
Frequently asked questions
How much is carpet cleaning in Ealing?
A single bedroom is £36, a living room is £43, and a whole carpeted two-bed flat is £115. A flight of stairs is £41 and a through-lounge is £61. Odd little jobs we do by the hour at £30 per cleaner. Those are full prices, nothing added at the door for coming out to W5.
Is this steam cleaning or hot-water extraction?
It is hot-water extraction, which is what most people mean by steam cleaning even though you see very little steam. Hot water and a pre-spray go into the pile under pressure, then a strong vacuum pulls the dirt and most of the water straight back out, so the carpet is left damp rather than soaked.
Does Ealing have hard water, and does it change how you clean?
Yes to both. Ealing is on Affinity Water, hard chalk-fed supply running roughly 280 to 330 parts per million, which is why your kettle furs up so fast. Mixed too strong and rinsed badly, a clean dries to a chalky film in the pile. We mix to suit the water and rinse hard on the final passes.
How long will the carpet take to dry?
Most rooms are walkable in a couple of hours and properly dry within about half a day. Wool and thick pile take longer. A north-facing flat off Haven Green in February with the windows shut dries slower than the same room in June. Crack a window and aim a fan low across the floor.
Will you get every stain out?
No, and anyone who promises that is guessing. General grime and the worn grey paths through a hall lift well nearly every time. A single set-in stain is a gamble that turns on what it is and how long it has sat there. We tell you straight which marks should clear and which will only fade.
Can you clean the original carpets in the Edwardian houses around Ealing?
Yes, the streets off Pitshanger Lane and up toward Montpelier are full of them and they are regular work for us. Older wool carpets on stairs and landings want a gentler pre-spray and a careful rinse so the colours hold. We test a hidden corner first and do stairs by hand, tread by tread.
Do I need to move the furniture before you arrive?
Clear the small and breakable bits and lift what you can off the floor. We slide sofas and chairs aside to do underneath and slip foam blocks under the legs while the carpet dries. We will not shift beds, full wardrobes or anything heavy, so empty those first if you want the carpet under them done.
Do you clean rugs as well as fitted carpets?
We do. A rug up to 2m2 is £35 and a larger rug over 2m2 is £51. Most we clean where they lie. A few older or delicate rugs, the sort that turn up in the period houses near Walpole Park, are safer cleaned off-site, and we will tell you on the spot if yours is one.
Which parts of Ealing do you cover?
All of the W5 and W13 streets and the bits of W3 and UB that fall in the borough. Ealing Broadway and Haven Green, Northfields and Ealing Common, West Ealing along the Uxbridge Road, Pitshanger and Hanger Hill, out to Montpelier and Argyle Road. The vans come to you.
Can you get to the new flats at Dickens Yard and the blocks near the station?
Yes, those newer blocks off New Broadway are a steady part of our week. We carry the machine up, run the hoses from the corridor and keep water off the communal carpet. Tell us the floor and whether the lift is working when you book, because hauling kit up several flights changes the morning.
Is the cleaning safe with kids and pets in the flat?
Yes. The products are fine once the carpet has dried, which is the whole reason we pull back as much water as we can rather than leaving the floor wet. Keep little ones and pets off until it is dry, mainly so nobody treads fresh marks across a damp carpet before it sets.
What happens if I am not happy with the result?
Tell us and we come back to put it right, no argument. That is our re-clean guarantee and we mean it. We would far sooner redo a room than fall out over it, because Ealing is a small place and word gets round the school gates fast.