Most of the carpets we clean in Tooting live in shared houses, and it shows. Five pairs of shoes, one hallway, mud off two commons, and a landlord twist pile that has not had a proper wash since it was fitted. We pull out what the hoover leaves behind, by hot-water extraction, at a fixed price agreed 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.
Carpet cleaning across Tooting and the rest of SW17: bedrooms are £36, living rooms £43, and the whole carpeted area of a two-bed flat is £115. The number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice.
What carpet cleaning costs in Tooting
A bedroom carpet is £36. A living room is £43. The through-lounge, that double-length room you get when a Victorian terrace loses the wall between its two front parlours, is £61, because it holds two rooms’ worth of pile. Stairs are £41 a flight, and stairs are honestly the slowest work of the lot, all hand tools and awkward angles. The whole carpeted area of a two-bed flat is £115 in a single visit.
Rugs go by size. £35 up to two square metres, £51 above that. We clean them flat and properly rather than giving them a quick once-over where they lie.
Hallways and landings get quoted with the rooms when you ring, because no two Tooting hallways are the same shape.
There is no discount ladder here and no invented ‘was’ price. £43 means £43, and the figure you agree on the phone is the figure on the invoice.
Tooting’s carpets, street by street
Tooting’s housing comes in layers, and each layer wears its floors differently. South of the common sits the Totterdown estate, the first cottage estate the London County Council ever built, 1,244 houses put up between 1901 and 1911 and a conservation area since 1978. Terraces on Ruislip Street, semis on Lessingham Avenue, compact rooms, original staircases. Owners who have done these cottages up tend to fit decent wool or wool-mix carpet, and wool wants a cooler, gentler wash unless you fancy watching it shrink.
Off Mitcham Road and behind the Broadway, the Victorian terraces have mostly been carved into flats and shared houses, and those wear landlord twist pile. Hard, synthetic, chosen to survive rather than to please. It takes heat and a firm clean without complaint, which is lucky, because between tenancies it gets neither mercy nor maintenance.
Up towards Tooting Bec and the Trinity Road side you find Edwardian conversions and mansion-block flats, where carpets are older, fibres are finer, and we test a hidden corner before committing the machine to anything.
Then there is the mud. Two commons bracket the neighbourhood, and the Lido has been pulling people across the grass since 1906, 91 metres of open water with a car park nowhere near big enough. Dog walkers, runners and swimmers all funnel back down the same pavements, and every one of those journeys ends on somebody’s hallway carpet.
Every walk on the common ends on somebody’s hallway carpet.
Shared houses, stairs and five sets of feet
A family home spreads its wear around. A shared house concentrates it. In an HMO off the Broadway, the hallway and staircase carry everything: five tenants, their guests, their bikes, their food deliveries, all crossing the same few square metres of carpet every day of the tenancy. The middle of each stair tread goes grey and flat while the edges stay new, and that two-tone look is what a check-out report politely calls heavy soiling.
Nobody owns the hallway in a flatshare, which is exactly why it never gets cleaned.
We are the fix for that. One booking covers the shared spaces and any bedrooms that want doing, one fixed price, no rota argument. Split the £115 whole-flat rate between housemates and it costs each person less than a takeaway.
Drying is the other shared-house problem, because you cannot shut five people off the only staircase for a day. So we sequence the work. Stairs and hallway go first so they are walkable by evening, bedrooms get done while their owners are out, and windows are opened wherever the sash still moves. Four to six hours is the usual drying time, a little longer in a damp January.
How hot-water extraction works
Hot-water extraction is the method most people call steam cleaning. We pre-spray the pile, work the solution into the fibres, then the machine drives hot water through the carpet and pulls it straight back out, with the dirt riding along. It reaches the grit at the base of the pile, and that layer is the one that actually kills carpet, sawing away at the fibres every time they flex underfoot.
A rented supermarket machine wets a carpet perfectly well. Getting the water back out is the part it does badly, and soggy underlay in a Victorian terrace with tired airflow is how you end up with that sour smell on day three.
The grit at the base of the pile is the layer that actually kills a carpet.
We are straight about limits. Extraction removes dirt, most stains and most smells. It does not un-crush pile that ten years of feet have flattened in a doorway, and an old bleach mark is a dye problem rather than a dirt problem. We tell you which is which before you spend a penny. The main carpet cleaning service page covers the machines, the solutions and the method in more detail if you want the long version.
What happens on the day
We arrive in the slot we agreed, with everything on the van: machine, solutions, and hoses long enough to reach a top-floor conversion without drama.
Light furniture gets moved and cleaned under. Sofas, armchairs, coffee tables. Wardrobes, storage beds and anything fragile stay put. Clear the floor of shoes, cables and clutter before we knock and you are paying for cleaning rather than tidying.
Parking around the Broadway and St George’s is permit-controlled for most of the working day, and Wandsworth’s zones make no allowance for a forty-kilo extraction machine. We sort the bay or feed the meter ourselves, and that hassle is built into the quote, never added to your bill afterwards.
The clean itself runs pre-treatment first, then extraction, then a slow drying pass to pull the last of the water back out. Before we leave you get told, room by room, what to keep off and for how long. And if a room has not come up the way you hoped, say so. We come back and re-do it. That guarantee has outlived every slogan we have tried.
How to book a carpet clean
Ring 0333 555 2076, or email [email protected] with your postcode, which rooms you want doing and roughly how big they are. A fixed price comes back, not an estimate with room to grow once the machine is through your door.
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Coverage is the whole of SW17: the Broadway grid, the Totterdown estate, Tooting Bec up to the common, the streets around the hospital and the Furzedown side. If you are not sure whether your street counts as Tooting, ring anyway. Half the neighbourhood is not sure either.
Sorting more than the floors? We also do oven cleaning in Tooting and regular domestic cleaning in Tooting from the same office, and if you are leaving a rental there is end of tenancy cleaning in Tooting as well.
Frequently asked questions
How much does carpet cleaning cost in Tooting?
A bedroom is £36, a living room £43 and a knocked-through through-lounge £61. Stairs are £41 a flight, and the whole carpeted area of a two-bed flat is £115 in one visit. Rugs are £35 up to two square metres and £51 over that. The price is fixed when you book and it does not move on the day.
What method do you use to clean carpets?
Hot-water extraction, the one most people call steam cleaning. We pre-treat the pile, push hot water and cleaning solution through it, then pull the water straight back out with the dirt in it. Run hot on the tough synthetic piles in Tooting’s rented flats, and cooler on wool in the older houses, it lifts the grit a hoover never touches.
How long does the carpet take to dry?
Four to six hours for most rooms, a little longer in winter or in a ground-floor conversion with poor airflow. Every room gets a slow final pass to pull out as much water as the machine can manage, and we tell you which rooms to keep off, and for how long, before we go.
Can you clean the stairs and hallway in a shared house?
Yes, and they usually need it most, because a shared house funnels every journey over the same strip of carpet. A flight of stairs is £41, and hallways are quoted with the rooms when you call. We do the stairs early in the visit so they are walkable again by the evening.
Do you move furniture before cleaning?
The light pieces, yes. Sofas, chairs and coffee tables get shifted, cleaned under and put back. Wardrobes, storage beds and anything heavy or fragile stay where they are. If the floor is clear of shoes, toys and cables when we arrive, you get more cleaning for the same money.
Can you get pet, food and wine stains out?
Most of them. Fresh marks nearly always come out, and older ones get pre-treated before extraction. The stubborn cases are old pet urine that has soaked into the underlay, and anything that has bleached the dye, because that is colour loss rather than dirt. We tell you honestly what will shift before we start.
Do tenants and landlords book carpet cleaning at the end of a tenancy?
Constantly. A receipt for a professional carpet clean settles most check-out conversations before they start, and Tooting agents see enough tired hallway carpet to notice a fresh one. We clean to the standard an inventory clerk expects, and we can do the place while it stands empty if you have already moved.