Most Paddington carpets we lift have taken years of hard wear that no hoover reaches: the runner up a shared stucco-house staircase, the grit walked in from Praed Street, the wine a departing tenant left in the bedroom of a furnished let. We pull that dirt out with hot-water extraction, at a fixed price you hear before we start.
Last updated July 2026. Prices and the areas we cover are checked each season, so what you read here is what you pay.
We clean carpets right across Paddington and the wider W2 postcode using hot-water extraction, with a single bedroom from £36 and the whole carpeted area of a two-bed flat for £115, fixed price, told to you before we lift a thing.
What carpet cleaning costs in Paddington
Here are the real numbers. A bedroom carpet is £36. A living room is £43. A through-lounge, the long front-to-back room you find where an old reception in a Sussex Gardens conversion had its dividing wall taken out, is £61, because it is really two rooms of pile in one. A single flight of stairs is £41, and stairs are slow, hand-detailed work, so that price covers the time they eat. Want the whole carpeted area of a two-bed flat done in one visit? That is £115.
Rugs go on size. Up to two square metres is £35. Anything larger is £51. We clean a rug flat and all the way through, not a quick pass while it stays on the floor with the sofa still sitting on it.
No discount codes, because the figure is already the honest one. What we quote is what lands on the invoice. We would rather say £43 and stick to it than wave a made-up “was £60” at you.
Why we use hot-water extraction
Hot-water extraction is the method most people still call steam cleaning, and it is the one we reach for on nearly every carpet. The machine drives hot water and a cleaning solution down into the pile, then sucks almost all of it back out, dragging the loosened dirt with it. A dry powder is left to lift off with the vacuum. Extraction gets at the dirt that has worked its way to the base of the fibres, the ground-in grit that thins a carpet out over the years.
Drying is the trade-off, and it is honest to say so. A carpet cleaned this way is damp for a few hours afterwards. In a top-floor conversion flat with the windows open in summer that is nothing; in a basement flat below street level off Norfolk Square, where the air sits still, we bring air movers so you are not left with a carpet that stays wet into a second day.
Extraction gets at the dirt that has worked its way to the base of the fibres, the ground-in grit that thins a carpet out over the years.
One thing we are plain about: a clean carpet is not a new carpet. If the pile is already crushed flat in the doorways of a heavily let flat, we lift the dirt and the colour comes back, but the wear stays where it is. We tell you what a clean will and will not fix before you commit a penny to it.
What Paddington carpets are actually like
Paddington is mostly a district of tall stucco-fronted terraces, four storeys of them lining Westbourne Terrace and Sussex Gardens, built from the late 1830s onward and long since carved into flats. That history sits under your feet. Steep original staircases with awkward winders. Wool and wool-mix carpets in the older conversions that you cannot simply hit with hot water and a strong solution, or they shrink on you. Then, a short walk east, the new-build waterside blocks of Merchant Square and Paddington Basin, where the carpet is a modern synthetic that takes a hotter, firmer clean.
So we adjust to the carpet in front of us. On a synthetic in a fifteenth-floor flat over the basin we run hot and confident. On a wool carpet in a converted terrace near Norfolk Square we drop the temperature, test a hidden corner first, and go gently. The method bends to the carpet, never the other way round.
Then there is the churn. A lot of W2 near the station is furnished lettings and short stays, and furnished flats see their carpets change hands hard: one tenant out, a rushed clean, the next tenant in, and the marks build up in the meantime. Red wine in the bedroom, coffee by the sofa, foundation trodden into a hall runner. We see all of it. Much of it lifts if we get to it before it has set for good, and we will be straight about the bits that have.
Communal stairs and the runner problem
Half of Paddington lives up a shared staircase. When a big stucco house is split into four or five flats, the stairs between the front door and your landing belong to everyone and get cleaned by no one in particular. A carpet runner pinned down the middle of those stairs takes every wet shoe in the building, and it goes grey and greasy long before anything inside the individual flats does.
We clean communal runners and the landings that go with them, and we are used to the awkward bits: the turn in the stair, the strip of bare board either side of the runner, the spindles you have to work the wand around. If a freeholder or a group of leaseholders wants the whole common stair done in one go, that is a job we quote as a single visit rather than flat by flat.
A runner pinned down the middle of shared stairs takes every wet shoe in the building, and it goes grey long before anything inside the flats does.
Access is the thing to sort in advance. Someone needs to let us into the entrance hall and, if the stair power point is dead or missing, we need to run a lead from a flat. Tell us how the building works when you call and we plan around it, so nobody is standing on the step waiting.
How a clean works on the day
We turn up when we said we would. First we shift the light furniture, the sofas, chairs and coffee tables, and clean underneath; we leave wardrobes, beds with storage drawers and anything heavy or fragile exactly where it stands. If you can clear the small clutter off the floor before we arrive, the job runs quicker and you are paying us to clean, not to tidy around your things.
Then parking, which in W2 is its own small battle. Paddington sits inside a Westminster controlled parking zone, the permits are all virtual now, and a resident permit has never once guaranteed anyone an actual space near their own front door. We deal with the meter bay or a bay suspension ourselves and we build that faff into the plan, so it never shows up as a mystery line on your bill.
After that it is the clean: pre-treat the marks, work the solution in, run the extraction, then a slow last pass to pull out as much water as the machine will take. We tell you which rooms to keep off while they dry, usually four to six hours. If a room does not come up the way you hoped, say so, and we come back and do it again. That is the re-clean guarantee, and it is not a slogan, it is just what we do.
Who we are
Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House number 9919639, cleaning across London since 2014. We are based at 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS, and we have been sending cleaners and carpet machines into W2 flats for years.
Our Trustpilot sits at 3.1 out of 5 across 128 reviews. We are not going to dress that up. Some of those are people we got something wrong for, and we would rather you saw the real number, and our replies underneath it, than a polished five-star fiction. When a job is not right we come back, which is the whole reason the re-clean guarantee exists.
If you are sorting more than carpets, we also do oven cleaning in Paddington and regular domestic cleaning in Paddington, so the same firm can handle the lot. You can also read the wider carpet cleaning service page for the full picture of how we work.
How to book
Ring us. The number is 0333 555 2076, or email [email protected] with your postcode, the rooms you want done and rough carpet sizes. We come back with a fixed price, the real one, not an estimate that swells on the day once the machine is through your door.
We cover the whole of Paddington: Westbourne Terrace and Sussex Gardens, Norfolk Square and Praed Street, the mansion blocks toward Little Venice and the new waterside flats at Merchant Square and Paddington Basin, roughly the W2 postcode. Not sure you are in our patch? Call and ask. We will tell you straight either way, and if you are moving out our end of tenancy cleaning in Paddington can quote the carpets and the whole flat together.
Frequently asked questions
How much does carpet cleaning cost in Paddington?
A bedroom carpet is £36 and a living room is £43. A through-lounge, the long front-to-back room you get where a Sussex Gardens conversion lost its dividing wall, is £61. A flight of stairs is £41. The whole carpeted area of a two-bed in one visit is £115. Rugs go on size: £35 up to 2 square metres, £51 over that.
What method do you use to clean carpets?
Hot-water extraction, which most people still call steam cleaning. We work a cleaning solution into the pile, then a machine pushes hot water through the fibres and pulls nearly all of it straight back out with the dirt. It rinses deeper than a dry powder and leaves very little behind, which matters on a carpet that gets a lot of traffic.
How long does a carpet take to dry afterwards?
Usually four to six hours, longer in winter when you cannot throw the windows open. A top-floor conversion flat dries fast. A basement flat below street level off Norfolk Square holds still air, so we bring air movers to those and tell you which rooms to keep clear while they dry.
Can you clean the communal stairs in a converted house?
Yes, and we do it often. When a big stucco house is split into flats, the shared runner takes every wet shoe in the building and goes grey fast. We clean the runner, the landings and the fiddly edges. If the freeholder or the leaseholders want the whole common stair done at once, we quote it as a single visit.
Can you get pet stains and old spills out of a furnished let?
Most of them, yes. Fresh coffee and wine usually lift well. Old urine that has soaked through to the underlay is the hard one, because the smell lives below the carpet rather than in it. We treat from the top with an enzyme product and lift what we can, and we will say so honestly if a mark has set for good.
Will the parking in W2 cost me extra?
No. The price we quote is the price. Paddington sits in a Westminster controlled parking zone, the permits are virtual, and a resident permit never guarantees a space. We sort the meter bay or a bay suspension ourselves and build that hassle into the plan, so there is no surprise parking line on your bill.
Can you clean carpets at the end of a tenancy?
Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons people call us in furnished-let country like this. A professional carpet clean is often written into the tenancy, and a receipt for it keeps the conversation with the agent short when the deposit is worked out. If you are moving out we can do the whole flat and the carpets in one visit.
Do you clean wool and other delicate carpets?
We do, and we treat them differently from a synthetic. Older Paddington conversions still have wool and wool-mix carpets, and a few flats have antique rugs that need a gentle hand. We test a hidden corner first, drop the water temperature and use a milder solution so nothing shrinks or runs. If a rug is genuinely valuable we will be honest about whether it is a job for us.
What areas of Paddington do you cover?
All of it. Westbourne Terrace and Sussex Gardens, Norfolk Square and Praed Street, the mansion blocks toward Little Venice and the new waterside flats at Merchant Square and Paddington Basin. If you are roughly in the W2 postcode we cover you. Ring us if you are not sure and we will check.
How do I book and what happens next?
Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with your postcode, the rooms you want done and rough carpet sizes. We give you a fixed price, not an estimate that creeps up on the day. We confirm a slot, turn up when we say, and if you are not happy with a room we come back and re-do it.