Carpet cleaning in Richmond
Most of our work in Richmond is carpet cleaning. We also cover the other jobs listed below.
- Our own machines and materials, so there is nothing for you to supply
- Evenings and weekends at no extra charge
- If it is not clean when we leave, we come back
- Priced per room, agreed before we start
Rather talk? Ring 020 3129 3371, seven days.
Working in Richmond
Richmond's core is genuinely old for London: Georgian and earlier listed houses around Richmond Green, Maids of Honour Row, Ormond Road and the top of Richmond Hill, with lath and plaster, original wide boards and staircases that were never designed for machinery. Moving north the grain changes to late Victorian and Edwardian villas and terraces through Kew and North Sheen, much of it converted into upper and lower flats. South towards Ham and Petersham the stock becomes 1930s and postwar, including the Ham estates. Along the riverfront there are apartment schemes and converted houses with lower ground and basement rooms sitting close to the tide line.
Water Lane, Friars Lane and the Riverside frontage flood on high spring tides and after sustained rain, and lower ground flats there take both direct river ingress and backflow through compromised surface water drains, so carpets on that frontage carry repeat contamination rather than a single spill.
The listed Georgian houses around the Green and Richmond Hill have narrow winder staircases and original boards under the carpet, so machines come in as components and drying is managed with air movers rather than heat.
Richmond Park's gates close at dusk and the roads through it are shut for the deer cull periods, which removes the direct route between the town, Ham and Roehampton and adds real travel time to afternoon jobs.
The water here is hard, which makes no difference to the extraction rinse. What slows drying in these houses is closed trickle vents, so we open windows while we work.
What we get called out for
Rooms and hallways
Hot water extraction, walk-on dry in a couple of hours. Traffic lanes are the usual reason we are rung.
Stairs and landings
The hardest-worked carpet in the house, done tread by tread with a hand tool.
Rugs
Cleaned flat on a groundsheet, dyes tested first. Delicate fibres get a low-moisture clean.
Sofas and chairs
Upholstery tool at lower pressure, fabric code checked before anything gets wet.
Prices
Priced per room, agreed on the phone and not changed on the doorstep. A bedroom is £36, a living room £43. Rugs, sofas and mattresses can join the same visit, because the machine is already in the house.
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Bedroom | £36 |
| Living room | £43 |
| Through lounge | £61 |
| Stairs, per flight | £41 |
| Rug up to 2m² | £35 |
| Rug over 2m² | £51 |
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Two-seater sofa | £57 |
| Armchair | £33 |
| Mattress | £35 |
| Dining chair | £13 |
| Curtains, short drop | £35 |
| Curtains, long drop | £42 |
The minimum charge on one off work is £67, so a single bedroom carpet on its own is priced at the minimum. Two rooms and a flight of stairs is the commonest booking we take, at £120.
Areas we cover
We work across Richmond and the streets around it. These are the areas we get to most.
Kew
TW9. North of the town along the Kew Road, with Kew Green, the Botanic Gardens and largely late Victorian villas.
Petersham
TW10. South along the river below Richmond Hill, a small village of listed houses between the park and Petersham Meadows.
East Sheen
SW14. East across the park's Sheen Gate, a busy Upper Richmond Road shopping parade with 1930s stock behind it.
Mortlake
SW14. North-east along the towpath past the Old Deer Park, the finish of the Boat Race course.