Carpet cleaning from £36 a bedroom
Monster Cleaning cleans carpets in London, Liverpool and Manchester at £36 a bedroom and £43 a living room (a visit starts at £67), using hot water extraction. Most rooms are dry enough to walk on in socks after a few hours and fully dry in about six to seven. Before the machine goes on, the cleaner looks at your stains and tells you which should come out and which probably won’t.
We move the light furniture ourselves and set it back on glides, so the legs don’t mark the damp pile. If the carpets are part of an end of tenancy clean, the cheaper tenancy prices apply: £29 a bedroom and £36 a living room.
What the carpet clean includes
One bedroom or a whole house, every booking gets the same process.
- A walk round the room first. The cleaner checks the fibre (wool, nylon, polyester and polypropylene all react differently to heat and chemistry) and the backing, and points out old stains, worn patches and any earlier cleaning attempt that went wrong.
- A dry vacuum with a commercial machine. Grit has to come out dry; left in, it turns to mud under the wand, and the carpet can look worse a week later.
- A pre-spray matched to the fibre and the mark: neutral on wool, alkaline on synthetics, a solvent spotter on grease, an enzyme treatment on food and pet accidents. It sits for ten to fifteen minutes to loosen the dirt before extraction.
- A rotary brush or pile lifter over the walkways, to loosen the flattened pile and work the pre-spray down to the base.
- Hot water extraction: two passes on a moderately dirty carpet, three on a problem patch.
- Spot treatment for anything the main pass leaves behind.
- The pile brushed in one direction so it dries without wand marks.
- Fans left running in rooms with poor airflow. Slow drying is what causes the musty smell after a bad carpet clean.
Prices last updated September 2026
Carpet cleaning prices
Carpets are priced by the room or area, so you know the figure before anyone arrives. The second column is the price for carpets booked on their own. The third applies when you book them with an end of tenancy clean.
| Room or area | On its own | With an end of tenancy clean |
|---|---|---|
| Bedroom | £36 | £29 |
| Living room | £43 | £36 |
| Through lounge | £61 | £47 |
| Small lounge | £55 | £37 |
| Kitchen or kitchen diner | £29 | £26 |
| Small room or study | £29 | £23 |
| Conservatory | £29 | £24 |
| Stairs, one flight | £41 | £35 |
| Small staircase | £29 | £24 |
| Stairs, per step | £4 | £3 |
| Hallway | £22 | £20 |
| Landing (on top of a stair flight) | £9 | £8 |
| Rug up to 3 m² | £35 | £29 |
| Rug over 3 m² | £51 | £42 |
Bathroom
£10
Toilet or WC
£10
Scotchgard stain protection
per room
£33
Scotchgard on upholstery
per seat
£13
Both bedrooms and the living room in a two-bed flat come to £115. A hallway, one flight of stairs and the landing come to £72. A carpet visit starts at £67, which a bedroom and a living room together already cover. Where there’s no free parking, we add just what parking costs us. Put your postcode in the calculator for the price at your address.
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Carpet drying time
About six to seven hours to dry fully, depending on airflow and the weather. You can walk on the carpet in socks after a few hours. Deep wool pile and rooms with little airflow take longer, and an open window helps.
The drying time is short because extraction uses less water than it looks like. The machine pulls most of it straight back out on the same pass. Where a room is short of air, we leave fans running before we go.
Wait until the carpet is fully dry before heavy furniture goes back down. A wooden leg on a damp carpet can leave a brown ring, which is why anything we move goes back on glides or plastic coasters. If you’re planning the day, a morning clean usually means the rooms are back in use by the evening.
Stains: what will come out and what won’t
These are the results we see most often on carpet jobs since 2014. Treat them as a guide.
| Stain | Likely result | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Red wine, treated within 48 hours | Usually out | Lifts completely in most cases |
| Red wine, set for months | Reduced | Sometimes lifts fully, often only fades |
| Coffee or tea | Usually out | Old marks usually lift too |
| Pet urine, fresh | Usually out | Enzyme treatment plus an odour neutraliser |
| Pet urine in the underlay | Carpet only | The carpet cleans up; the underlay often needs replacing |
| Blood | Usually out | Enzyme treatment, best within a week |
| Oil, grease, make-up | Usually out | Solvent pre-treatment |
| Curry or turmeric | Reduced | Turmeric behaves like a dye |
| Chewing gum | Out | Frozen, lifted, then the residue treated |
| Candle wax | Out | Heated, blotted, then treated |
| Ink, biro, marker | Depends | Some inks come out, some never do |
| Browning from an old spill | Usually fixed | An acid rinse usually reverses it |
| Bleach marks | Stays | Bleach removes the dye, so the only fix is to dye or replace that section |
We won’t promise a result on a mark nobody has seen. The cleaner checks it before starting and gives you a realistic range, and we’re wrong in both directions now and then: a stain we expected to shift sometimes holds on, and one we’d written off sometimes disappears. Send a photo on WhatsApp when you book and we’ll tell you what to expect.
If you’ve already tried a shop-bought product, tell us which one. The wrong spotter on the wrong fibre can bleach or brown the pile, and we’re often called in after exactly that.
Carpets in homes with pets
Fresh accidents are the easy part. An enzyme treatment breaks down the uric acid crystals that cause the lingering smell, and on a recent patch the smell usually goes for good.
Old urine is different. Once it has soaked through to the underlay or the floor below, cleaning the top of the carpet won’t fix it, and the smell comes back whenever the air turns humid. Replacing the underlay is usually the only lasting fix. Be wary of anyone who says chemistry alone can sort it without lifting the carpet.
With a dog or cat in the house, book a clean every nine to twelve months. Scotchgard on the busiest walkways (£33 a room) gives you a few extra minutes to reach a fresh accident before it sets.
Rug cleaning
Machine-made synthetic rugs in good condition, with no risk of the colours running, can be cleaned where they lie, much like a carpet, with extra care around the edges and fringes. That costs £35 for a rug up to 3 m² and £51 for anything bigger.
Wool, silk, antique and hand-knotted rugs, and any rug whose dyes might bleed, need checking before anyone cleans them, because a wand on the floor can make the dyes run. Ring us about those before booking. If a rug is old or valuable, we may point you to a specialist textile restorer instead of us.
Booking a carpet clean
Get your price. Put your postcode and rooms into the calculator at the top of this page, or ring 0333 555 2076, 8am to 7pm, seven days a week.
Tell us about the carpet. Mention pets, known stains, anything you’ve already tried on them, and the fibre if you know it. No problem if you don’t.
Pick a slot. Most carpet jobs go in within a week, and same-day or next-day slots come up regularly.
Clear the small things. Put away ornaments and anything fragile. We move the light furniture and clean around wardrobes, sideboards and pianos.
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Told the likely result first. The cleaner checks each stain and the fibre before starting, so you know what to expect.
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Is steam cleaning the same as hot water extraction?
Yes. Hot water extraction is the carpet cleaning method most people call steam cleaning. Hot water and a cleaning solution go into the pile under pressure and come straight back out under strong suction, carrying the loosened dirt with them. There is no real steam in it.
Dry methods (bonnet buffing, encapsulation and the absorbent powders sold in supermarkets) have their place: office floors that can’t be out of use while they dry, some natural fibres and old backings that can’t take water, and upkeep between full cleans. In a home, extraction does more. It takes the dirt out of the carpet, where a dry method leaves much of it for the next vacuum, and it lifts flattened pile back up. A supermarket hire machine works on the same idea as ours, but it tends to leave the carpet damp for a long time, and a damp carpet is where the musty smell starts.
Carpet cleaning questions
Will you move my furniture?
Light pieces, yes: sofas, armchairs, coffee tables and dining chairs. They go back on glides so the legs don’t mark the damp carpet. Heavy pieces such as wardrobes, sideboards and upright pianos we clean around. If you want every corner done, move those before we arrive, and move anything fragile yourself or point it out at the door.
How often should carpets be cleaned?
Once a year suits most households. With pets or young children, every nine months is better; a smaller household with no pets can leave it 18 to 24 months. Grit sinks below the reach of a household vacuum and wears the fibres from underneath, which is why an old carpet looks tired even when the surface is clean. A new carpet can wait 12 to 18 months for its first clean.
Can cleaning shrink or damage my carpet?
Not when the method suits the fibre. Shrinking, browning, dye bleed and a distorted pile come from the wrong chemistry for the fibre, or from water that is too hot or left in the carpet too long. We check the fibre and test the colours first, and we never soak the carpet.
Do you clean wool carpets?
Yes. Wool needs neutral to slightly acidic products and cooler water, and it should dry quickly. Cleaners who use one product on every carpet are how wool ends up with colour bleed or a felted pile, so the cleaner checks the fibre before choosing what goes on it.
How long should kids and pets stay off it?
Until it’s dry to the touch, usually a few hours, so keep the kids and any pets in another room till then. If anyone at home reacts to cleaning products, tell us when you book and we’ll leave out the Scotchgard.
Is Scotchgard worth adding?
On a new carpet in a busy room with children or pets, usually yes. It gives you time to reach a spill before it sets, and the carpet cleans more easily next time. On an older carpet or a quiet bedroom, often not. It costs £33 a room, and the cleaner will tell you on the day whether it’s worth it.
Do I need my carpets cleaned when I move out?
Check your tenancy agreement. The landlord can take money from your deposit if the carpets are dirtier than at check-in, allowing for normal wear. Book the carpets with your end of tenancy clean and they cost less (£29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £35 a flight of stairs), and the work is done on the same visit. Aim for the day before check-out or the morning of it, and keep the dated receipt for the agent.
Tell the calculator which rooms you’d like done and you’ll see the price straight away. Sofas and armchairs can go on the same visit: see upholstery cleaning, or every price on one page at our prices.