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Carpet cleaning in Westminster

Westminster sells no visitor permits at all, so before we talk carpets we talk parking: a space at your building, a meter bay or a yellow line after hours. For a two-bed flat with the living room and hallway, the card shows £137.

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The smallest job is £67. Paid parking is added at cost.

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Westminster numbers we plan around

Homes that are flats89.7% of households nomisweb.co.uk
Flats in split-up houses16.1% of households nomisweb.co.uk
Renting privately43.3% of households nomisweb.co.uk
Visitor permitsNone sold; meter bays, usually four hours westminster.gov.uk
Trade permit, one day£21.60 (zone C) up to £68.30 (zones F and G) westminster.gov.uk
Conservation areas56 of them, over 78% of the land westminster.gov.uk
Selective licence15 of 18 wards, from 24 November 2025 westminster.gov.uk

A city with no visitor permits

Westminster sells residents no permits for their visitors, so there's nothing you can buy to put the cleaner in your bay. That leaves three ways for a cleaner to stop near you: a space at your building; a meter bay, paid through an app (the app firms add up to 30p a time); or a single yellow line once its controlled hours are over.

Four hours is the usual limit in a bay. The hourly rate depends on the zone and on the vehicle's emissions, and diesels can pay up to half as much again. There's also a day's trade permit for the zone of the job. It runs from £21.60 in zone C up to £68.30 in zones F (Hyde Park, Marylebone, Fitzrovia) and G (Soho, the West End, Covent Garden).

Whatever the parking comes to is added to your bill at the price paid. When the office rings, they'll ask about porters, residents' car parks and loading bays, because any of those beats a meter.

Carpet cleaning for Paddington, Mayfair, Pimlico and each Westminster parking zone

Parking rules change from one part of the city to the next, and so do the buildings. These notes take each part in turn, using the council's parking zones and the 2021 Census.

Paddington W2

Paddington takes in St Mary's Hospital and the Paddington Basin, where the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal comes to an end. 54.8% of households here rent privately, well above Westminster's 43.3%, and 28.5% of homes were built in 2000 or later. Moving out of one of the newer blocks? Tell the office about the lift and any loading bay. If landlord and tenant are sharing the bill, ask for it split room by room.

households
4,690
live in a flat
89%
of homes built before 1919
27%
rent privately
55%

A one-bed flat with the living room and hallway £101 Price yours

Ward: Hyde Park

Bayswater W2

Bayswater went up mostly in the 1800s, with Victorian stucco terraces along its streets and garden squares, and some of those houses have since been split into flats. The Census shows how many: 24.9% of households live in a converted house, against 16.1% for Westminster as a whole. That usually means a shared staircase, so give your floor when you price the job. Parking is Zone B, which the council calls Bayswater and Maida Vale (South); its sub-zones keep different hours, and the office checks yours.

households
11,729
live in a flat
91%
of homes built before 1919
65%
rent privately
55%

A one-bed flat with the living room and hallway £101 Price yours

Wards: Bayswater, Lancaster Gate

Maida Vale W9 · W2

Lauderdale Mansions on Lauderdale Road, finished in 1897, were Maida Vale's first mansion blocks, and 59.9% of homes here date from before 1919. 41.3% of households have two bedrooms. In a mansion block, tell the office whether there's a lift and how many floors up you are. The north of Maida Vale is in Zone C, where paid bays and single yellows are only controlled on weekdays, between 8.30am and 6.30pm, so a Saturday clean, if one is free, is easier to park for.

households
9,438
live in a flat
93%
of homes built before 1919
60%
rent privately
43%

A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours

Wards: Maida Vale, Little Venice

St John's Wood NW8

St John's Wood, the Eyre estate in the 19th century, was among the first London suburbs built with lower-density villas, and the Census still shows it: 5.7% of households live in a detached house, against under 1% in Paddington and Bayswater, and 16.9% have four or more bedrooms. Round Lord's Cricket Ground and Abbey Road Studios, that can mean more than one flight of stairs. Each full flight is £41 on the card, so count them before you send it.

households
6,089
live in a flat
82%
of homes built before 1919
39%
rent privately
50%

A one-bed flat with the living room and hallway £101 Price yours

Ward: Abbey Road

Marylebone W1U · W1H · W1G

The Howard de Walden Estate owns, leases and manages most of Marylebone's 92 acres of property, and 59.7% of households rent privately, against 43.3% across Westminster. That's a lot of tenancies starting and ending. In Zone F the paid bays and single yellows are enforced from 8.30am to 6.30pm, Saturdays included. On Sundays those controls lift, though weekends book up first, so ask early if that's the day you want.

households
6,182
live in a flat
90%
of homes built before 1919
55%
rent privately
60%

A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours

Ward: Marylebone

Mayfair and Soho W1K · W1F · W1J · W1W

Mayfair and Soho share Westminster's West End ward, where 94.7% of households live in a flat. Mayfair is mostly the old Grosvenor estate, and its parking Zone E controls resident bays 24 hours a day, every day, with paid bays and single yellows enforced from 8.30am to 6.30pm on every day but Sunday. Soho comes under Zone G. A building with parking of its own makes the day much easier, so tell the office if yours has some.

households
6,239
live in a flat
95%
of homes built before 1919
50%
rent privately
53%

A one-bed flat with the living room and hallway £101 Price yours

Ward: West End (Westminster)

Belgravia and Knightsbridge SW1W · SW1X · SW7

Belgravia was laid out for the Grosvenor family with Thomas Cubitt, and its white stucco terraces went up from about 1830 to 1847. Across Belgravia and Knightsbridge, 20.0% of households live in a terraced house; in the other seven parts of Westminster on this page the share runs from 3.7% to 8.7%. A terrace means stairs and landings, at £9 a landing on top of the flights. Zone A, which also covers Pimlico, is split into sub-zones with different hours, so the office checks yours when it rings.

households
4,940
live in a flat
75%
of homes built before 1919
58%
rent privately
42%

A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours

Ward: Knightsbridge & Belgravia

Pimlico SW1V

Churchill Gardens, built from 1946 to 1962 to designs by Powell and Moya, is one side of Pimlico, and 38.2% of households here rent from a social landlord. The other side is older: Thomas Cubitt began the grid of white stucco terraces in 1825, a conservation area since 1968, and 23.5% of households now live in a house that has been converted, well above the 16.1% for Westminster. Estate block or split-up stucco house, give the office your floor number and say if there's a lift.

households
10,243
live in a flat
93%
of homes built before 1919
49%
rent privately
35%

A one-bed flat with the living room and hallway £101 Price yours

Wards: Pimlico North, Pimlico South

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.

Split-up townhouses and the floors above

Nine Westminster households in ten live in a flat (89.7%). For 16.1% of households, that flat is inside an old house that has been divided up, which often means plenty of stairs. The machine goes up by hand. Above the first floor with no lift, there's £10 a floor for carrying it.

As a guide to the clock: a bedroom and a living room together can take up to ninety minutes. A flight and its landing, up to an hour. A sofa plus a couple of armchairs, anywhere from one hour to three. Add a whole flat to a three-piece suite and you can run past the four-hour bay limit, so put every room and every chair on the card when you price it. The office plans the visit from that list.

Old wool, good rugs and 11,000 listed buildings

A large patterned wool rug in deep reds

More than 78% of Westminster sits inside one of its 56 conservation areas, says the council's City Plan, and there are over 11,000 listed buildings and other listed structures. If you live in one, the carpet may well be wool, and it may be older than you are.

Wool can be washed. Mention it when you book: before starting, the cleaner looks at the pile and at the back of the carpet, and goes easy on the water. Natural plant floor coverings (jute, sisal, seagrass) are never wet-cleaned. Silk and viscose, and any old hand-knotted piece, belong with a rug specialist, and we'll tell you so before the machine is switched on.

Everything else comes under rugs cleaned at home, washed on your own floor with space cleared round the edges. Fringes are done by hand. Give a rug somewhere between four and seven hours to dry.

What we clean in Westminster

Landlords, short lets and the new licences

Landlords in 15 of Westminster's 18 wards have needed a selective licence for nearly every private let outside the HMO rules since 24 November 2025. The scheme stretches from Maida Vale and Little Venice through Marylebone and Bayswater to the West End. Three wards are left out: Vincent Square, St James's and Pimlico South. A licence costs £995, and this designation lasts until 23 November 2030. Shared homes have a scheme of their own, additional HMO licensing, which the council has renewed across the whole city for five years from the end of August 2026.

Private renters make up 43.3% of households here, which means a lot of tenancies ending and starting. For a landlord or agent we can split the invoice by room. The same City Plan records a sharp climb in short-term letting since 2015. If you turn a flat round between guests, book a morning slot; a carpet is normally dry five to seven hours after the clean.

Getting rid of an old sofa

A sofa, a bed, a mattress, a wardrobe: the council's bulky collection takes anything two people can carry, at £36 for as many as six items and £6.40 for each one after that. If you get Housing Benefit or Council Tax Support, one collection every 90 days is free. Clearing a let? The household service isn't open to landlords or businesses; the council points them to its commercial collection.

There's no reuse and recycling centre inside the city. The nearest one is Smugglers Way in Wandsworth, where drivers book a slot, and there's a Community Mobile Recycling Centre that moves round different sites.

A tired sofa might only need a wash. Our upholstery cleaning does a three-seat sofa and two armchairs for £149, on fabric only, after the cleaner has read the care label. Every room and item has its own line on the price list, and the smallest job we book is £67.

How booking works

  1. Price it herePick the rooms and the furniture. The price adds up as you go.
  2. The office calls youBetween 8am and 7pm, about access, parking and stains, and to agree a day. A 50% deposit holds it.
  3. The cleaner comes overCarpets, rugs, sofas and mattresses are cleaned in your home. Nothing is taken away.

Asked by Westminster customers

Should I get a permit so the cleaner can park?

There isn't one to get: Westminster has no visitor permit scheme. Tell the office about any space at your building. If the cleaner ends up in a meter bay, that cost appears on the bill exactly as paid.

Is my silk rug something you can wash?

We leave silk to a specialist, and the same goes for viscose and for antique hand-knotted pieces. Wool rugs and most modern ones are fine and get cleaned on your floor. Unsure what yours is made of? Send the office a photo.

Can a clean fit between short-let guests?

Often, with some notice. A week ahead usually works, and weekends fill first. A sofa usually needs 12 to 15 hours to dry, so a morning clean suits guests who arrive the following afternoon. Over the border in Kensington and Chelsea and the City of London, the parking rules change again.

Next door to Westminster

Where these facts come from

  1. 89.7% of Westminster households live in flats; 16.1% in flats in converted or shared houses (Census 2021). nomisweb.co.uk
  2. 43.3% of Westminster households rent privately (Census 2021). nomisweb.co.uk
  3. Westminster runs no visitor permit scheme; visitors use pay-to-park bays paid by app (operator fee up to 30p) or single yellow lines outside controlled hours; usual maximum stay four hours. westminster.gov.uk
  4. A daily trade permit costs from £21.60 in zone C to £68.30 in zones F and G. westminster.gov.uk
  5. Zone F covers Hyde Park, Marylebone and Fitzrovia and zone G Soho, the West End and Covent Garden; tariffs are emissions-based with a diesel surcharge of up to 50%. westminster.gov.uk
  6. The City Plan counts 56 conservation areas covering 78% of the city, more than 11,000 listed buildings and structures, and a sharp rise in short-term lets since 2015. westminster.gov.uk
  7. Since 24 November 2025 nearly all private lets that are not HMOs need a selective licence in 15 of 18 wards; Pimlico South, St James's and Vincent Square are outside the scheme. westminster.gov.uk
  8. The selective licensing designation runs from 24 November 2025 to 23 November 2030. westminster.gov.uk
  9. A selective licence costs £995. westminster.gov.uk
  10. Additional HMO licensing is renewed borough-wide from 31 August 2026 to 30 August 2031. westminster.gov.uk
  11. Bulky collection costs £36 for up to six items plus £6.40 per extra item, takes mattresses, beds, sofas and wardrobes, is free every 90 days for residents on Housing Benefit or Council Tax Support, and is not open to landlords and businesses. westminster.gov.uk
  12. Westminster has no reuse and recycling centre; residents use Smugglers Way in Wandsworth (book if by car) or the Community Mobile Recycling Centre. westminster.gov.uk
  13. The Paddington Basin was the terminus of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal; St Mary's Hospital is in Paddington. en.wikipedia.org
  14. Much of Bayswater was built in the 1800s; its streets and garden squares are lined with Victorian stucco terraces, some now split into flats. en.wikipedia.org
  15. Westminster puts Bayswater in parking Zone B, 'Bayswater and Maida Vale (South)', and Knightsbridge, Belgravia and Pimlico in Zone A. westminster.gov.uk
  16. Zones A and B are split into sub-zones (A1 to A4, B2 to B11) with different controlled hours; in Zone C, paid-for bays and single yellow lines are controlled 8.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday; in Zones E and F, 8.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Saturday; Zone E resident bays are controlled 24 hours every day. westminster.gov.uk
  17. Maida Vale's first mansion blocks, Lauderdale Mansions on Lauderdale Road, were completed in 1897. en.wikipedia.org
  18. St John's Wood, the Eyre estate in the 19th century, was among the first London suburbs built with lower-density villa housing; Lord's Cricket Ground and Abbey Road Studios are there. en.wikipedia.org
  19. The Howard de Walden Estate owns, leases and manages most of the 92 acres of property in Marylebone. en.wikipedia.org
  20. Mayfair mainly consists of the historical Grosvenor estate. en.wikipedia.org
  21. Belgravia was laid out for the Grosvenor family with Thomas Cubitt; its white stucco terraces went up from about 1830 to 1847. en.wikipedia.org
  22. Thomas Cubitt began Pimlico's grid of white stucco terraces in 1825; the Pimlico Conservation Area was designated in 1968; Churchill Gardens was built 1946 to 1962 to designs by Powell and Moya. en.wikipedia.org

See your price in Westminster

Pick your rooms and furniture and the card adds it up, or call the office on 020 3129 1949.

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