People outside the North West still call Salford a part of Manchester. It is its own city, with its own carpets to clean, and the two halves of it could hardly be more different underfoot. We clean carpets right across Salford with hot-water extraction, the deep-rinse method, working as Monster Cleaning Ltd from our southwest London base since 2014.
Monster Cleaning provides carpet cleaning in Salford from £36 a room, with hot-water extraction across the city and a satisfaction and re-clean guarantee.
Last updated April 2026. The prices below are the full rates we quote in Salford, the same figures you pay on the day, never marked up first so we can pretend to knock something off.
Salford carpet cleaning prices
Here is the full list, 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 round Ordsall, is £61, because it is really two rooms of carpet under one ceiling. A single flight of stairs is £41. A rug up to 2m2 is £35, and a rug over 2m2 is £51. Want the whole carpeted area of a standard two-bed done in one visit? That is £115.
No call-out fee. No doorstep surprises.
The £115 figure is the one most renters and landlords ask after, so to be plain about it: that covers the carpeted rooms in an ordinary two-bed flat, not a four-bed terrace being passed off as a two-bed. If your place is bigger, or the layout is odd, we price it room by room off the list above, and the number we give you on the phone is the number you pay once we have finished.
We are straight about that Trustpilot number. It sits at 3.1 out of 5 across 128 reviews, and we would rather put the real figure in front of you than bury it. Of everything we do, carpets are the corner we take most personally, and the re-clean guarantee exists for the rare day a job needs a second look.
The two kinds of carpet in Salford
Most cities have one type of carpet job. Salford has two, and they sit barely a mile apart. Down at Salford Quays and MediaCityUK the homes are high-rise apartments in blocks like Merchants Wharf and Bridgewater Wharf, thrown up along the River Irwell and the old Ship Canal over the last twenty years, and they are laid almost entirely with hard floors through the living space. The carpet in a Quays flat is usually a bedroom, sometimes two, and that is the whole of it.
Down at the Quays the carpet is a bedroom. Up in Ordsall it is the whole house.
Head north off the water, across the Chapel Street regeneration corridor that runs back toward the city, and Salford changes completely. The terraced streets of Ordsall, Langworthy, Pendleton and out to Eccles are carpeted the old way, hall to stairs to landing to back bedroom, the lot. These are the long Victorian and Edwardian rows that survived the slum clearances, and a house there can hold more carpet on its own than a dozen Quays flats put together. So the work splits cleanly. A waterfront apartment is a quick bedroom rinse around the furniture, while a terrace off Liverpool Street is a full day of hall runners, stair flights and bedrooms, and we price either one straight off the same list rather than guessing a round number for the lot.
Soft water and why your carpet dries faster here
Salford tap water is soft, and for washing a carpet that matters more than people think. United Utilities pipes most of the supply down from upland reservoirs out in the Pennines and the Lake District, water that never runs over chalk or limestone on the way, so it carries almost no dissolved mineral. That is the opposite of the hard, chalky supply we deal with on our London rounds, and it works in your favour every time we clean here.
Two things follow from it. First, the cleaning solution lifts dirt with less product and rinses away clean, so there is nothing chalky left behind to stiffen the pile or grey off the colour. Second, and this is the one that counts in a damp North West winter, soft water lets the carpet give up its moisture faster, so it dries quicker and there is less time for that just-cleaned dampness to hang about. A carpet that is dry in hours rather than days is worth having when the weather outside is rarely doing you any favours.
It dries soft, not crunchy.
Hot-water extraction, in plain terms
Hot-water extraction is the method the trade trusts for a deep clean, and it goes on nearly every Salford job we take. A heated mix of water and cleaning solution is forced down into the pile under pressure, which breaks the grip of the dirt that has settled at the root of the fibres. A strong vacuum head then chases the same line and lifts that water and the freed muck straight back out.
A rented machine wets the top and walks away. Ours rinses the pile and takes the dirt with it.
The rinsing is the whole point, and it is what the cheap option skips. A machine hired from the supermarket foyer dampens the surface, leaves the carpet wet through for the best part of two days, and as it slowly dries it wicks the old grime back up to eye level. Because our kit draws the moisture out hard, the carpet ends up damp instead of swimming, and the soft Salford water leaves no chalky film behind to flatten the colour. Walk back in a week later and the room has held its look.
Terrace stairs and why they wear first
The dirtiest carpet in most Salford terraces is the bottom of the stairs, where every wet, muddy shoe lands first off the street. It is the job we get called for more than any other up in Ordsall and Langworthy. A three-storey terrace can run two flights between the front door and a loft conversion, and the stair carpet on them takes more punishment than anything else in the house because the whole household tramps up and down it all day.
Stairs are fiddly to clean and easy to damage, which is why a lot of cheaper outfits quietly skip them. We carry the hose up to the carpet rather than hauling a heavy machine step by step, so nothing bangs the original spindles or scuffs the wall on the turn. A single flight is £41, and the tread edges and the nosings, the parts that go bald first, get the same rinse as the flat of each step.
Booking, parking and getting to you
Getting us out is easy. Phone 0333 555 2076 or drop a line to [email protected], give us your postcode and which rooms you want done, and we add it up against the price list while you are still on the call. Nobody has to come round to measure up first, and the figure does not creep once the work starts.
Parking is the one thing worth sorting in advance, because much of inner Salford is permit-only now and the council has been widening the schemes, with streets around Eccles and Claremont added after residents asked for them. Salford runs its permits through the MiPermit digital system, so if your road is a resident zone we line up a visitor permit or a bay with you before the day rather than circling the block while your time ticks. Down at the Quays the apartment blocks usually have a loading bay or a visitor space we can use, and plenty of our Quays and MediaCityUK customers never touch a car themselves, reaching their own front doors on the Metrolink trams or the 50 bus that links Salford Crescent station to the waterfront.
We book you a proper time slot, not a sit-in-all-day wait, and we phone ahead when we are nearly there.
Who we are and the guarantee
We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House number 9919639, cleaning since 2014 from our base at 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS. Cleaning is the only thing we do. The carpet jobs do not get passed to whichever pair of hands is spare, so whoever knocks on your door already knows to dial a machine down for a wool pile and up for a tough synthetic, rather than working it out on your living room.
The guarantee is just as plain. If an area dries out and it has not come up right, let us know inside the guarantee window and we are back to re-clean that patch for nothing. That is all there is to it, and it is why we would rather hand you the honest price at the start than land the booking on a figure we cannot stand behind.
Carpet cleaning sits alongside the rest of what we do here. If you are moving out, our end of tenancy cleaning in Salford page covers the full move-out clean, and a freshly rinsed carpet is often what tips a deposit back your way. We also handle oven cleaning in Salford and regular domestic cleaning in Salford across the same streets, and you can read more about the deep-rinse method on our main carpet cleaning service overview.
Frequently asked questions
How much is carpet cleaning in Salford?
A bedroom is £36 and a living room is £43. A through-lounge, the knocked-through front-to-back room you find in a lot of the Ordsall and Langworthy terraces, is £61. A single flight of stairs is £41. A rug up to 2m2 is £35 and a rug over 2m2 is £51. The whole carpeted area of a typical two-bed is £115.
Which parts of Salford do you cover?
All of it, from the high-rise flats down at Salford Quays and MediaCityUK to the terraces in Ordsall, Pendleton, Langworthy and Eccles. The Quays work tends to be bedroom carpets in apartments laid mostly with hard floors, while the terraces are carpeted hall to landing. Tell us your postcode and the rooms when you ring.
Do you clean carpets in the Salford Quays apartments?
Yes, often. The new blocks along the River Irwell, places like Merchants Wharf and Bridgewater Wharf, run hard floors through the living space, so the carpet is usually one or two bedrooms. We bring the hose up in the lift and work room by room off the same price list, so a single bedroom is still £36 whether it is on the ground floor or the ninth.
How long does a carpet take to dry?
Hours for most rooms, not days. The soft Salford water helps, and since our machine pulls the moisture out so hard the carpet is left damp rather than soaked. Put the heating on low or open a window and a bedroom is usually walkable by that afternoon and fully dry by the next morning.
Does Salford’s soft water make a difference?
It does. United Utilities pipes the supply down from upland reservoirs out in the Pennines and the Lake District, water that never crosses chalk on the way, so it runs soft. Soft water rinses out cleanly and leaves no chalky mineral sitting in the pile, so the carpet dries softer and brighter than it would in a hard-water town down south.
What method do you use?
Hot-water extraction, sometimes called steam cleaning. A heated mix of water and solution is forced down into the pile under pressure to break the grip of the grit sitting at the root of the fibres, then a strong vacuum chases the same line and lifts the water and freed dirt back out. The pile gets rinsed right through, rather than wetted on top and left.
Can you clean a stair carpet?
Yes, and it is one of our most-booked Salford jobs. The Victorian and Edwardian terraces around Ordsall and Langworthy run the stairs up two or sometimes three floors, and a stair carpet wears faster than anything else in the house because everyone uses it dozens of times a day. A single flight is £41, and we carry the hose up rather than dragging the machine, so nothing knocks the spindles.
Is it safe for wool carpets?
Yes. Plenty of the older Salford terraces have wool or wool-mix carpets, and we set the heat and the solution to suit the fibre. Wool wants a gentler touch than synthetic, so we test a hidden corner first and adjust before we clean the whole room.
Can you get old stains and pet smells out?
Often, though a stain ground in over years is not something we will swear to shift. Spills like red wine, coffee, mud and most food tend to lift well. With pet odours we treat the spot and flush it through, so the smell is dealt with down in the pile itself instead of being papered over with a fragrance.
Do you do carpet cleaning for landlords and letting agents?
Regularly. A clean carpet is often the difference between a returned deposit and a deduction, and the rental churn around MediaCityUK and the Quays keeps us busy through the summer. We can clean the carpets on their own or as part of a full move-out, and we hand over a receipt showing what was done if an agent asks for proof.
How do I book and where do you park?
Phone 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected], give us your postcode and the rooms you want done, and we total it off the price list there and then, with nobody coming to measure up first. Salford runs residents’ permit zones through the MiPermit system, so if your road is permit-only tell us and we arrange a visitor permit or a bay before the day.
What if I am not happy with a patch?
Every job carries our satisfaction and re-clean guarantee. If an area dries out and it has not come up right, let us know within the guarantee window and we are back to re-clean that part at no extra charge. We would far rather make a second trip than leave you staring at a mark you paid to be rid of.