Carpet cleaning in Bromley
18.1% of Bromley households live in a detached house and 68.5% own their home, so most homes here are houses: a four-bed house with a through lounge, hall, stairs and landing is £277 on our list.
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Bromley, from the council's own pages
| Detached houses | 18.1% of households (semis 29.9%) nomisweb.co.uk |
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| Owners | 68.5% of households nomisweb.co.uk |
| Council charge to remove a room's carpet | £45.69 under 16 m², £77.82 for a through room bromley.gov.uk |
| Council charge to remove a mattress | £13.67 bromley.gov.uk |
| Visitor parking, book of 15 | £45 where controls are brief, £55 in all-day zones bromley.gov.uk |
| Waldo Road recycling centre | Shut for an upgrade, due back in November bromley.gov.uk |
| Conservation areas | 47 bromley.gov.uk |
A whole house in one visit
Census 2021 put 18.1% of Bromley households in a detached house and another 29.9% in a semi; 68.5% owned their home. A house booking can cover the lot in one go: bedrooms, the through lounge, the hall, stairs and landing.
Chairs and side tables get moved; the beds, the wardrobes and the piano stay put and get cleaned round. Clear the small things and anything breakable before the day. Start early. Drying takes 5 to 7 hours as a rule, so the rooms done first are dry first, and with the heating on and a window open, most of the house should be walkable by the evening. You can add the house up yourself from the price list, and carpets cleaned room by room explains the steps.
Beckenham, Orpington, Chislehurst: carpet cleaning across Bromley
Bromley's homes change a lot from one end of the borough to the other. In Crystal Palace 39.8% of homes were built before 1900; in West Wickham, 1.2%.
Bromley BR1 · BR2
Around the Glades, which opened in 1991, and the Churchill Theatre (1977), Bromley town has some of every kind of home. Flats, terraces, semis and detached houses each hold between 18% and 35% of households. Renting is more common here than in the borough at large: 20.7% of households rent privately, against 17.4% across Bromley. When a tenancy ends, the invoice can be split room by room, so the landlord and the outgoing tenant each pay for their own share.
- households
- 26,950
- live in a flat
- 35%
- of homes built before 1919
- 23%
- rent privately
- 21%
A three-bed house with the living room, hall, stairs and landing £223 Price yours
Wards: Bromley Town, Bickley & Sundridge, Plaistow, Bromley Common & Holwood
Beckenham BR3 · BR2
Beckenham was a small village until the railway came in 1857. Then the Cator family and others sold land and villas went up; the Kelsey estate's mansion was pulled down in 1921 and its grounds became Kelsey Park. Today 44.5% of Beckenham households live in a flat, well above Bromley's 31.3%, and most of those flats are in purpose-built blocks. No lift and a flat above the first floor? Carrying the machine up adds £10 a floor.
- households
- 28,182
- live in a flat
- 45%
- of homes built before 1919
- 22%
- rent privately
- 23%
A three-bed house with the living room, hall, stairs and landing £223 Price yours
Wards: Beckenham Town & Copers Cope, Clock House, Kelsey & Eden Park, Shortlands & Park Langley
Orpington BR6
Orpington station opened in 1868. Once it was enlarged in 1904 the house building took off, peaking in the 1920s and 1930s, and today 72.7% of households here live in a semi or a detached house (across Bromley it's 48.0%). A staircase comes with most jobs. If you have a driveway, the cleaner can park on it and skip the search for a space. Without the rooms, £72 covers the hallway, stairs and landing.
- households
- 16,169
- live in a flat
- 13%
- of homes built before 1919
- 5%
- rent privately
- 10%
A three-bed house with the living room, hall, stairs and landing £223 Price yours
Wards: Orpington, Farnborough & Crofton, Chelsfield
Petts Wood BR5 · BR6
Petts Wood is a planned suburb. The developer Basil Scruby began it in the late 1920s, on a road layout by the architect Leonard Culliford, and two in three homes (66.4%) were built between 1919 and 1939. Owners hold 83.8% of households and 38.7% have four bedrooms or more, so it usually makes sense to book the whole house at once: the bedrooms, then the hall, stairs and landing. Weekends go first, so give the office a week or so.
- households
- 6,912
- live in a flat
- 14%
- of homes built before 1919
- 5%
- rent privately
- 12%
A three-bed house with the living room, hall, stairs and landing £223 Price yours
Ward: Petts Wood & Knoll
Penge SE20 · SE26 · BR3
Penge New Road became Penge High Street in 1900, when Penge Urban District was created, and plenty of the homes are older still: 37.8% went up before 1900. Many of those houses have since been divided, and 18.4% of households live in flats made from converted or shared houses, more than anywhere on this page except Crystal Palace. Converted houses rarely have a lift, so say which floor you're on when the office calls; each storey past the first adds £10.
- households
- 8,409
- live in a flat
- 59%
- of homes built before 1919
- 47%
- rent privately
- 24%
A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours
Ward: Penge & Cator
Crystal Palace SE20 · SE19
Only after the Palace burned down, on 30 November 1936, did the homes around it come to be called Crystal Palace; before that they were Sydenham Hill. On the Bromley side, in Crystal Palace and Anerley ward, 82.8% of households live in a flat and 36.4% have one bedroom, so a job here is often small. A studio's carpets are £35 and the smallest booking is £67, so you might as well add the sofa or a rug. The neighbourhood carries on into Croydon, Lambeth and Southwark.
- households
- 5,682
- live in a flat
- 83%
- of homes built before 1919
- 41%
- rent privately
- 32%
A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours
Ward: Crystal Palace & Anerley
Chislehurst BR7
Chislehurst has more detached houses than any other neighbourhood here, 34.1% of households against 18.1% for Bromley, and 37.5% of households have four bedrooms or more. Conservation areas have covered 596.4 hectares of it since 1971, and local campaigners saved Chislehurst Common from development in 1888. A big house makes for a long visit, so book a morning start: the stairs and landing alone can take an hour, and carpets usually need 5 to 7 hours to dry.
- households
- 6,269
- live in a flat
- 25%
- of homes built before 1919
- 16%
- rent privately
- 15%
A four-bed house with a through lounge, hall, stairs and landing £277 Price yours
Ward: Chislehurst
West Wickham BR4
West Wickham is mostly 1930s housing, put up fast between the wars: 75.2% of its homes date from 1919 to 1939, ahead of Petts Wood's 66.4%, and 47.3% of households live in a semi. Wickham Court is the old exception, built by Sir Henry Heydon in 1469 and Grade I listed. Where the front and back rooms of a semi have been knocked through, that through lounge is £61 on our list.
- households
- 5,704
- live in a flat
- 17%
- of homes built before 1919
- 2%
- rent privately
- 11%
A three-bed house with the living room, hall, stairs and landing £223 Price yours
Ward: West Wickham
The figures cover the wards named under each neighbourhood. Sources: Census 2021 (ONS, via Nomis): TS044 accommodation type, TS054 tenure, TS050 bedrooms, by 2022 ward; VOA Council Tax stock of properties by build period (CTSOP 4.1, 31 March 2025), LSOAs to 2022 wards (ONS best fit); postcode districts from the ONS Postcode Directory (latest), live residential postcodes.
The council charges £45.69 to take a room's carpet away
Bromley's bulky price list charges by size to remove carpet: £19.80 for a hall, £38.34 for hall, landing and stairs, £45.69 for an average room under 16 m² and £77.82 for a through room, with underlay another £21.00. There's a £43 minimum, and the contractor collects from the front of the property, from 7am, within 10 working days. People on Universal Credit or Housing Benefit get one collection worth up to £43 every 12 months without charge.
Some carpets do need to go. A burn, a bleach mark or dye loss is there for good, and wear is wear. If yours is only dirty, though, a bedroom is £36 and a through lounge £61 on our list, and a filthy carpet costs the same as a tidy one; it just takes the cleaner longer. The exception is pet urine that has reached the underlay. The smell can return as the carpet dries, so replace the underlay first and book the clean after.
A mattress costs £13.67 to collect
That's the council's price to take a single, double or king mattress away. Before you put yours out, it may be worth a wash. The cleaner does the top, and both sides if it turns, right there on the bed, for £35 each; two mattresses are £70. It takes about half an hour, and drying can take up to a day, so have somewhere else to sleep that night.
Memory foam isn't cleaned at all, and bed bugs mean pest control first, then us. See mattresses cleaned on the bed for the rest.
What we clean in Bromley
- Carpet cleaningRooms, stairs and landings, priced room by room.
Upholstery and sofasSofas, armchairs and fabric dining chairs, by the seat.- Rug cleaningRugs washed where they lie, priced by size.
Hard floorsTiles, vinyl, stone and sealed wood, by the square metre.
MattressesMattresses cleaned on the bed, both sides where they turn.
CurtainsCurtains cleaned on the rail, priced by the pair.
Parking in Beckenham and Bromley North
Bromley sells visitor parking in books of 15. A book is £45 in zones controlled for a short window, such as Bromley North and Penge (noon to 2pm, Monday to Saturday), and £55 in all-day zones such as Beckenham, controlled 8.30am to 8pm every day. In a noon-to-2pm zone a small morning job may be done before the controls start; in Beckenham, have a visitor permit ready.
Where there's nothing but yellow lines, the council sells a dispensation to park while loading for a job (£40 per vehicle per week, one working day's notice), or will suspend a bay for £40 a day plus a £30 fee with three working days' notice. Neither works on a red route. The office talks parking through with you when it calls, and any paid parking goes on the bill at cost.
How booking works
- Price it herePick the rooms and the furniture. The price adds up as you go.
- The office calls youBetween 8am and 7pm, about access, parking and stains, and to agree a day. A 50% deposit holds it.
- The cleaner comes overCarpets, rugs, sofas and mattresses are cleaned in your home. Nothing is taken away.
Bromley questions
- Where can I take an old carpet while Waldo Road is shut?
Churchfields Road in Beckenham, booked ahead (one visit a day and two a week per household). It takes carpets, subject to limits and charges, as well as mattresses and furniture, with a separate container for soft furnishings. There's also a bookable weekend site off Baths Road (BR2 9RB) for a limited range of bulky items. Waldo Road is due to reopen in November.
- Our Chislehurst house has its original wool carpets. Can you clean them?
Usually, yes. Bromley has 47 conservation areas, and older houses in them often keep older carpets. Say it's wool when you book; the cleaner looks at the fibre and backing first and uses less water on it.
- Do you come out to Orpington and Biggin Hill?
Both, and everywhere between. We also go into Croydon and Lewisham. Put your postcode on the card and it prices the job for your address.
- Can I book just the stairs?
Yes. On our list the hallway, stairs and landing is £72, and the stairs and landing take up to an hour. Anything priced under £67 comes to £67, our smallest job.
Where these facts come from
- 18.1% of Bromley households live in a detached house and 29.9% in a semi (Census 2021). nomisweb.co.uk
- 68.5% of Bromley households own their home (Census 2021). nomisweb.co.uk
- Carpet removal on Bromley's bulky price list: £19.80 hall, £38.34 hall, landing and stairs, £45.69 average room under 16 square metres, £77.82 through room, underlay £21.00; a single, double or king mattress £13.67. bromley.gov.uk
- Bulky collection minimum charge £43; Universal Credit or Housing Benefit claimants get one collection worth up to £43 every 12 months without charge; the contractor collects within 10 working days from the front of the property from 7am. bromley.gov.uk
- Churchfields Road Reuse and Recycling Centre in Beckenham needs a booking (one a day, two a week per household) and accepts mattresses, furniture with a separate container for soft furnishings, and carpets subject to limits and charges. bromley.gov.uk
- Waldo Road recycling centre is temporarily closed for an upgrade and due to reopen in November; a bookable weekend site off Baths Road (BR2 9RB) takes a limited range of bulky items. bromley.gov.uk
- Visitor parking books of 15: £45 in short-window zones such as Bromley North and Penge (noon to 2pm, Monday to Saturday), £55 in all-day zones such as Beckenham (8.30am to 8pm every day). bromley.gov.uk
- A dispensation to park on yellow lines while loading for a job costs £40 per vehicle per week with one working day's notice; suspending a bay costs £40 per bay per day plus a £30 fee with three working days' notice; neither on red routes. bromley.gov.uk
- Bromley has 47 conservation areas. bromley.gov.uk
- Census 2021: 31.3% of Bromley households live in a flat. nomisweb.co.uk
- Census 2021: 17.4% of Bromley households rent privately. nomisweb.co.uk
- The Glades shopping centre in Bromley opened in 1991, and the Churchill Theatre in 1977. en.wikipedia.org
- Beckenham was a small village until the railway came in 1857, after which land sold by the Cator family and others was built up with villas; the Kelsey estate's mansion was demolished in 1921 and its grounds became Kelsey Park. en.wikipedia.org
- Orpington station opened in 1868 and was enlarged in 1904, starting a wave of house building that peaked in the 1920s and 1930s. en.wikipedia.org
- Petts Wood was built in the late 1920s by the developer Basil Scruby, with a road layout by architect Leonard Culliford. en.wikipedia.org
- Penge New Road was renamed Penge High Street when Penge Urban District was created in 1900. en.wikipedia.org
- After the Palace burned down on 30 November 1936, the homes around it came to be known as Crystal Palace instead of Sydenham Hill; the neighbourhood straddles Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth and Southwark. en.wikipedia.org
- 596.4 hectares of Chislehurst have been designated as conservation areas since 1971; local campaigns saved Chislehurst Common from development in 1888. en.wikipedia.org
- West Wickham is mostly 1930s housing, built during rapid inter-war development; Wickham Court, Grade I listed, was built by Sir Henry Heydon in 1469. en.wikipedia.org
See your price in Bromley
Pick your rooms and furniture and the card adds it up, or call the office on 020 3129 1949.