Wandsworth · SW12, SW17, SW4
Carpet cleaning in Balham
Hot water extraction for carpets and upholstery across SW12, rinsing out the fine dust a vacuum leaves at the base of the pile. Rooms are dry enough to walk on in a few hours if a window can stay open.
- Bedrooms £36, agreed before the hose goes in
- Dye tested first, on every rug and sofa
- Walk on it in socks within hours
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- Fully insured
- Seven days a week
- Checked, vetted cleaners
- Priced on the phone
Where the dust ends up in a Balham flat
- 01
Rooms and hallways
Fine dust sinks to the backing, and grey lines form along the skirting where air comes up through old floorboards. Extraction flushes out both.
Bedrooms £36 - 02
Stairs and landings
A shared Victorian stair takes every shoe that comes in off the front path. Each tread and riser gets worked by hand, nosings included.
Stairs £41 a flight - 03
Rugs
A rug on bare boards traps grit underneath as well as in its pile. The back gets vacuumed and the dyes tested before any water goes on.
Rugs from £35 - 04
Sofas and chairs
Seat cushions collect skin flakes, which is what dust mites live on. A low-moisture clean lifts them out and the sofa is dry by the evening.
Two-seaters £57
Priced by the room
A bedroom is £36, a living room £43 and a flight of stairs £41. You get the figure on the phone, and it is the figure on the day.
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Bedroom | £36 |
| Living room | £43 |
| Through lounge | £61 |
| Stairs, per flight | £41 |
| Rug up to 3m² | £35 |
| Rug over 3m² | £51 |
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Two-seater sofa | £57 |
| Armchair | £33 |
| Mattress | £35 |
| Dining chair | £13 |
| Curtains, short drop | £35 |
| Curtains, long drop | £42 |
One-off visits carry a £67 minimum. A bedroom with its mattress comes to £71, which clears it.
Balham flats, from the kerb to the back bedroom
Most of what we clean in SW12 is a late-Victorian or Edwardian terrace split into an upper and a lower flat. The two flats share a front path and often a hallway, so street dust climbs a narrow stair runner before it reaches anyone's living room. That runner is frequently the original one. There is no lift anywhere in this period stock, so the machine comes up by hand and the hoses follow the turn at the half-landing.
Under the carpet sit softwood boards with gaps between them. Air rising through those gaps leaves dark lines along the skirting and under doors, which people take for stains; they are dust, filtered out by the carpet edge, and most of it lifts. In the Heaver Estate and Hyde Farm many halls keep their encaustic tiles, one more reason we keep the moisture low.
Balham High Road is a red route, so the van cannot stop on it even to unload. We park on a side street in the H2 zone, where some bays (Granard Road among them) run one-hour limits, and Bedford Hill is slow from mid-morning, so early slots go quickest.
Thames Water supplies hard water here, around 300 ppm. The pile gets rinsed until nothing is left in it, then we prop a sash open while it dries. Every rate is published.
Neighbourhoods with their own page
Six parts of Balham and its edges, each with notes on its housing and where the van can stop.