Carpet cleaning in Catford
Carpet cleaning in Catford, priced before we start. We cover the surrounding streets too.
- Priced per room, agreed before we start
- Evenings and weekends at no extra charge
- If it is not clean when we leave, we come back
- Our own machines and materials, so there is nothing for you to supply
Rather talk? Ring 020 8077 8869, seven days.
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.
Working in Catford
Catford is dominated by the Corbett Estate, roughly 3,000 bay-fronted late-Victorian and Edwardian terraces built between 1896 and 1911 on 278 acres bought from North Park Farm, most with carved keystone faces above the doors, deep bays and original pine boards under the carpet. Around it sit the interwar London County Council cottage estates at Bellingham and Downham, brick semis and short terraces with long front paths and generous gardens. The town centre adds a very different layer: deck-access flats at Milford Towers above the shopping centre, post-war blocks along Rushey Green, and newer apartment schemes going up as part of the Catford regeneration programme.
Lewisham's zones bite at different times, so the parking plan changes street by street: Zone K (Catford West) runs Monday to Friday 9am to 7pm, Zone OB adds Saturdays, and over in Hither Green East the control is only 10am to 12 noon on weekdays, which is easy to get wrong when a job runs long.
Thames Water supplies SE6 with hard water; wool carpets and wool-rich Corbett-house stair runners need a softening or acidic final rinse or they dry crunchy and re-soil within weeks.
Almost every Corbett house has original pine floorboards directly under the fitted carpet with no ply or underlay board, so over-wetting soaks straight through to the ceiling below, and gaps between the boards pull moisture down.
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.
Areas we cover
We work across Catford and the streets around it. These are the areas we get to most.
Hither Green
SE13. North-east, sharing the northern half of the Corbett Estate and its own station on the Sidcup and Dartford lines.
Bellingham
SE6. South along the Ravensbourne, built around the London County Council cottage estate of the 1920s.
Forest Hill
SE23. West up the hill, with the Horniman Museum and steeply pitched streets.
Ladywell
SE13. North-west along the river, taking in Ladywell Fields and the Victorian terraces around the station.
Downham
BR1. South-east on the Bromley boundary, another interwar LCC cottage estate.
Sydenham
SE26. West beyond the Pool River, higher ground with larger Victorian villas.