A flight of stairs in a Brixton Hill conversion is £41, and a bedroom is £36, so you can add up your own quote before you ring us. We clean carpets across Lambeth with hot-water extraction, the deep-rinse method, and we have been doing it from our southwest London base since 2014.
Monster Cleaning provides carpet cleaning in Lambeth from £36 a room, using hot-water extraction across Brixton, Streatham, Clapham and the rest of the borough, with a re-clean guarantee.
Last updated April 2026. Prices below are the full rates we quote in Lambeth; we do not run bait-and-switch discounts.
What carpet cleaning costs in Lambeth
Here is the price list, in full, with nothing held back for the phone call. A bedroom is £36. A living room is £43. A through-lounge, the knocked-through front-to-back room you find in half the terraces off Acre Lane, is £61 because it is effectively two rooms of carpet. A single flight of stairs is £41. A rug up to 2m2 is £35, and a rug over 2m2 is £51. If you want the lot done in a typical two-bed flat, the whole carpeted area is £115.
That last figure is the one most tenants and landlords ask about, so to be plain about it: £115 covers the carpeted rooms in a standard 2-bed, not a five-bedroom house dressed up as a flat. If your place is bigger or the layout is unusual, we will price it room by room off the list above, and the sum will always match what we said on the phone.
No call-out fee. No sneaky extras.
Why flat per-room pricing instead of a vague hourly rate? Because when you are moving house or trying to claw back a deposit, the last thing you want is a cleaner watching the clock while you wonder what the bill is going to be, so we would rather you knew the total before anyone unrolls a hose in your hallway.
The carpets we clean around Brixton and Streatham
Lambeth carpet is not one thing, and the borough makes that obvious within a few streets. Up around Brixton, Stockwell and Tulse Hill you get period terraces, two and three storeys with deep stair runs and bedrooms carpeted wall to wall. Cross onto one of the big ex-council estates, the Loughborough or the Moorlands off Coldharbour Lane, or Cressingham Gardens down by Brockwell Park, and you are into hard-wearing flat carpet that has taken years of foot traffic. Both want the same deep rinse; they just hide different amounts of grit in the pile.
We see a lot of Victorian conversion flats too, where a single old house has been split into two or three. Those tend to have one good carpeted reception room and a hallway that has seen every delivery driver in SW2. The traffic lane down the middle of a hall is the classic Lambeth job, and extraction is exactly what lifts it.
One borough quirk worth a mention. A fair number of Lambeth flats are above shops or on the upper floors of a converted terrace, which means stairs, and stairs are where carpet wear shows first. A clean stair run at £41 a flight often does more for how a flat looks than anything else we touch.
How hot-water extraction actually works
Hot-water extraction is the method people loosely call steam cleaning, and it is what we use on nearly every carpet in the borough. We work a cleaning solution into the pile, then the machine forces heated water in under pressure and a strong vacuum drags the dirt and most of the water straight back out in the same stroke. The carpet gets a real rinse. A cheap pass just wets it and leaves the grit behind.
Before any of that, we vacuum properly and look at the carpet in daylight. Stains get pre-treated by hand. Where there is a wool rug or an older weave we test a hidden corner first, because what is safe on a tough synthetic stair carpet is not always safe on something delicate.
The carpet gets a real rinse.
The payoff is the drying. Because the vacuum pulls the moisture back, carpets come up damp rather than soaked, and most are walkable in a few hours. We leave foam pads under furniture legs so nothing marks the pile while it dries, and we tell you which rooms to keep clear for an hour or two.
Booking, parking and getting to you
Booking is a phone call or an email, and that is deliberately the whole of it. Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected], tell us the rooms and the rough postcode, and we will give you the total and a slot. A few days notice is usually plenty for a room or two.
Parking in Lambeth is the bit worth planning. Much of Brixton, Stockwell and Clapham sits under controlled parking zones that run through the working day, so if your street is permit-only we will ask you to sort a visitor permit or a bay for the van. It is not a problem when we know in advance; it is only a problem when we turn up and there is nowhere to put the machine.
We do not need a tube to reach you, but for context our patch sits right where the Victoria line ends. Brixton is the southern terminus, and most of our regular Lambeth work fans out from there, which is part of why we know the borough rather than just servicing it from a call centre.
End of the month gets busy. Tenancies in Brixton and Streatham mostly turn over then, so the diary fills with move-out carpet jobs, and a move-out date you cannot shift is exactly the time to book early.
Our guarantee and who we are
We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House number 9919639, and we have been cleaning in this part of London since 2014. Our head office is at 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS, a straight run across to Lambeth. We are a working cleaning firm, not a booking app that subcontracts to whoever is free.
An honest word on reviews. Our Trustpilot sits at 3.1 out of 5 across 128 reviews, which we are not going to dress up as five stars. We have had off days over the years and people have told us about them. What we have also done is go back and fix them, and that is the whole point of the guarantee.
If a patch has not come up right, we come back and do it again, and you pay nothing more.
The re-clean guarantee is simple. If a patch has not come up right, we come back and do it again, and you pay nothing more. We would far rather drive back to SW2 and sort a stubborn traffic lane than have you tell the neighbours we left it half done.
A lot of our Lambeth carpet work is tied to people moving. If you are at the end of a tenancy, getting the carpets done is often the difference between a full deposit and a deduction, because the check-out inventory is where worn flooring gets flagged. We can do the carpets on their own, or fold them into a full end of tenancy cleaning in Lambeth so the floors match the standard of the rest of the flat.
Want the whole place sorted in one go? We also handle oven cleaning in Lambeth and regular domestic cleaning in Lambeth, and there is more on the method itself on our carpet cleaning service overview.
Frequently asked questions
How much does carpet cleaning cost in Lambeth?
Prices start from £36 for a bedroom and £43 for a living room. A through-lounge is £61, a flight of stairs is £41, and a whole 2-bed carpeted area is £115. Rugs are £35 up to 2m2 and £51 over 2m2. Those are the figures we quote across SW2 and the rest of the borough.
Do you charge by the room or by the hour?
By the room, almost always. A bedroom is £36 and a living room is £43, so you know the total before we turn up. We only switch to an hourly arrangement for odd commercial jobs, and we will say so on the phone rather than spring it on you.
What is hot-water extraction, and is it the same as steam cleaning?
Hot-water extraction is the method most people loosely call steam cleaning. We push heated water and a cleaning solution into the pile under pressure, then a powerful vacuum pulls the dirt and most of the moisture straight back out. It rinses deep without soaking the carpet through.
How long will my carpets take to dry?
Usually three to six hours, sometimes a bit longer in a cold ground-floor flat with the windows shut. Extraction pulls most of the water back out, so carpets come up damp rather than wet. Crack a window or put the heating on low and you will speed it up.
Can you get out old stains and pet smells?
Often, yes, though no honest cleaner will promise every stain. Old coffee, wine and traffic lanes usually lift well. Pet accidents that have soaked into the underlay are harder, and we will tell you straight on the day what we think will shift and what probably will not.
Do I need to move the furniture first?
Move what you easily can, like dining chairs, side tables and anything with stuff on it. Leave the heavy pieces to us. We will shift a sofa or a bed to reach the carpet under it, then put it back, and we pop foam pads under wooden legs while things dry.
Which parts of Lambeth do you cover?
All of it. Brixton, Brixton Hill, Streatham, Clapham, Stockwell, Kennington, Herne Hill, Tulse Hill, West Norwood and the streets in between. If you are inside the borough boundary we will come to you, whether you are in a Victorian conversion or a flat on one of the estates off Coldharbour Lane.
Is the cleaning safe for children and pets?
Yes. The solutions we use for general carpet work are low-odour and rinse out in the extraction pass, so there is no sticky residue left behind for a crawling baby or a dog to pick up. Once the carpet is dry it is fine to use as normal.
Can you clean rugs as well as fitted carpets?
We can. A rug up to 2m2 is £35 and a rug over 2m2 is £51, cleaned in place in the same visit. For wool or silk rugs we check the label and test a corner first, because some delicate weaves want a gentler approach than a synthetic carpet.
What if I am not happy with the result?
Tell us and we will come back. We run a re-clean guarantee, so if a patch has not come up the way it should we will return and go over it again at no extra charge. We would rather sort it than leave you unhappy with the carpet you paid to have done.
How far ahead do I need to book?
A few days is usually plenty, and we can often fit in a single room sooner. End-of-month gets busy when tenancies turn over around Brixton and Streatham, so if you are tied to a move-out date give us as much notice as you can and we will hold the slot.
Do you do end-of-tenancy carpet cleaning for deposits?
We do, and it is one of our most common Lambeth jobs. We can clean the carpets on their own, or as part of a full move-out clean, so the floors match the rest of the flat when the check-out inventory is done. Worn or stained carpet is one of the things landlords flag most, so it is worth doing before you hand the keys back.