Carpet cleaning in Hackney
Four in five Hackney households live in a flat (80.9%, Census 2021), so we start with the floor, the lift and the parking. Our price is £137 for a two-bed flat with the living room and hallway.
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- Office open 8am to 7pm, every day
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Hackney facts we check before a job
| Households in flats | 80.9% nomisweb.co.uk |
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| Renting privately | 32.2% of households, with 40.5% in social housing nomisweb.co.uk |
| Homes built before 1919 | 34.9% of 120,680 (March 2025) assets.publishing.service.gov.uk |
| Tap water | Thames Water, hard: 2025 zone averages of 260 to 278 mg/l thameswater.co.uk |
| Parking | Zone hours vary; an all-zone e-permit is on sale to anyone hackney.gov.uk |
| Bulky waste | £24 for 1 to 5 items; sofas on a separate collection hackney.gov.uk |
| Landlord licensing | Selective licence in 17 wards from 1 May 2026 hackney.gov.uk |
| Conservation areas | 35 hackney.gov.uk |
Zone hours change between Dalston and Hoxton
Most of Hackney sits inside controlled parking zones, and the hours shift as you cross the borough. Dalston (Zone C) is controlled from 8.30am to 6.30pm, Monday to Saturday. Hackney Central (Zone D) carries on until 11pm, and North Shoreditch until midnight. Stoke Newington (Zone E) and Hoxton (Zone F) finish at 1.30pm on a Saturday.
The cleaner carries the machine in from the car, so a space near your door helps. Visitor parking from your own allowance is the easy answer if you have it. Hackney also sells an all-zone e-permit to anyone who wants one, tradespeople included. If we end up in a paid bay, the parking goes on the bill at cost, and the office asks about it when they ring to check the job.
Live in one of the newer car-free blocks? Households there can't get street permits at all, so tell the office early and we'll plan for a paid bay.
Hackney's flats and houses in Shoreditch, Dalston and Stoke Newington
Shoreditch runs on into Tower Hamlets, Stamford Hill into Haringey, Clapton has never had fixed edges and the Hackney Central ward fits the place only roughly. So each set of figures belongs to the Hackney ward named with it.
Shoreditch EC2A · N1 · E2
On the Hackney side, Shoreditch is almost all flats (95.9% of households), and 48.8% of its homes were built from 2000 onwards. Many of the older buildings in the South Shoreditch conservation area come from the furniture and printing trades, which peaked there in the mid to late 19th century. Zone B (South Shoreditch) is controlled 8.30am to 6.30pm on weekdays and until 1.30pm on Saturdays, so a Saturday afternoon start falls outside the controls.
- households
- 5,382
- live in a flat
- 96%
- of homes built before 1919
- 17%
- rent privately
- 41%
A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours
Ward: Hoxton East & Shoreditch
Hoxton N1
Hoxton Street is a historic street market with several 18th-century houses, and it was made a conservation area in 1983. Otherwise Hoxton is mostly blocks: purpose-built flats account for 87.2% of households, and 43.8% are social tenants. Most blocks have an entry system, so when the office rings to check access, say how the cleaner gets in and which floor you're on.
- households
- 6,290
- live in a flat
- 96%
- of homes built before 1919
- 8%
- rent privately
- 34%
A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours
Ward: Hoxton West
Haggerston E2 · E8
Haggerston Baths, now Grade II listed, opened in 1904 and closed in 2000, and the station came back in 2010, a little north of the original. Nearly half of households (47.2%) rent socially, above Hackney's 40.5%, and 82.0% are in blocks built as flats. Three-bedroom homes are more common than in Shoreditch or Hoxton: 24.0% of households, against 18.1% and 19.6%. If a sofa or a mattress needs doing too, add it on the card and it's done on the same visit.
- households
- 6,253
- live in a flat
- 89%
- of homes built before 1919
- 7%
- rent privately
- 31%
A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours
Ward: Haggerston
Dalston E8
Dalston's conservation area was designated on 20 July 2016. It follows Kingsland High Street, where the buildings are mostly Victorian and Edwardian, with long rows of purpose-built terraces. Across the ward, a third of homes (33.9%) date from 2000 or later. More households rent privately here (43.0%) than across Hackney (32.2%), and one-bedroom homes are the commonest. If you're moving out, have the carpets done the day before the inventory check, which leaves the evening and the night for drying.
- households
- 3,998
- live in a flat
- 84%
- of homes built before 1919
- 43%
- rent privately
- 43%
A one-bed flat with the living room and hallway £101 Price yours
Ward: Dalston
Stoke Newington N16
Stoke Newington has much older housing than the borough as a whole: 58.4% of homes predate 1919, against 34.9% across Hackney. Its 1983 conservation area runs along Church Street and much of the High Street and takes in all of Abney Park Cemetery. One household in four is in a terraced house, and in a terrace the stairs see every trip up to bed. Booked by themselves, the hallway, stairs and landing come to £72.
- households
- 11,044
- live in a flat
- 72%
- of homes built before 1919
- 58%
- rent privately
- 31%
A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours
Wards: Stoke Newington, Clissold
Stamford Hill N16
Stamford Hill's two parking zones, W and T, are controlled only from 10am to midday on weekdays, so a booking that starts after twelve misses the controls. Homes run bigger here. Close to a quarter of households (23.5%) have four or more bedrooms, six times Shoreditch's 3.9%, and 27.4% live in a converted flat. A larger family home is priced room by room, at £36 a bedroom, so list every room you want done on the card and the total is there before you book.
- households
- 3,236
- live in a flat
- 77%
- of homes built before 1919
- 40%
- rent privately
- 39%
A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours
Ward: Stamford Hill West
Hackney Central E8 · E5
Mare Street and the Narrow Way are the middle of Hackney Central, and its landmarks include the Hackney Empire (1901) and the Town Hall, built from 1934 to 1937. Social renters make up 48.1% of households, and 61.9% are in purpose-built flats. Another 19.5% are in flats converted from older houses. Whatever the flat, light pieces such as chairs get moved, while beds, wardrobes and full bookcases stay put and are cleaned round. Clear the small things before the day.
- households
- 5,691
- live in a flat
- 87%
- of homes built before 1919
- 43%
- rent privately
- 28%
A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours
Ward: Hackney Central
Clapton N16 · E5
Springfield Park, in Upper Clapton, was made in 1905 out of the grounds of three private houses. The figures here are for Springfield ward, which takes in much of Upper Clapton, where 59.7% of households are in blocks of flats. Parking is split. Zone U runs Monday to Saturday, 8.30am to 6.30pm, and its northern section only from 10am to midday on weekdays. In the main part of the zone, a daytime clean means a visitor permit or a paid bay, charged at cost.
- households
- 5,211
- live in a flat
- 76%
- of homes built before 1919
- 38%
- rent privately
- 36%
A one-bed flat with the living room and hallway £101 Price yours
Ward: Springfield
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.
Flats up two or three flights
With that many flats, a Hackney job often begins at the bottom of a staircase. If your flat is above the first floor and there's no lift, we add £10 for each floor the machine goes up. Put the floor in the note on the card, or tell the office when they call, and it's in the price before the day.
A studio's carpets are £35, and we charge £101 for a one-bed flat with the living room and hallway. Anything else is priced room by room on our prices page, and the smallest job we take is £67.
A third of households here rent privately, and tenants about to hand back keys book us, as do landlords between lets. We can split the invoice room by room, which keeps the end-of-tenancy chat with the landlord short. Landlords in the 17 wards under Hackney's new selective licence have had enough council paperwork this year; ours is one invoice. We work in Tower Hamlets too, if the next flat is over the border.
Victorian Hackney and rugs on the boards
Just over a third of Hackney's homes (34.9%) went up before 1919, and the council looks after 35 conservation areas, Clapton Square and De Beauvoir among them. If yours is an old house where the carpet came up years ago and a rug went down on the floorboards, the cleaner washes that rug on the floor where it lies. Clear some room round it; the fringes are done by hand.
A rug up to 3 m² is £35 and a bigger one £51. Most dry in 4 to 7 hours. Silk, viscose and antique hand-knotted rugs need a specialist rug cleaner, and we'll tell you if that's what you've got. There's more about rugs cleaned at home on the rug page.
An old wool stair runner is fine too. Mention the wool when you book: the cleaner checks the fibre and the backing first and keeps the water low.
What we clean in Hackney
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.
Before the sofa goes out for the council
Hackney charges £24 to collect one to five bulky items. Sofas and other soft furnishings have to go on a separate collection by law, so a booking that mixes a sofa with a bed frame is charged as two collections. The crews won't take anything wet, either, and items go out by 6am, so a sofa on the pavement needs covering if it rains.
If the sofa is grubby more than broken, price a clean first. Cleaning a three-seat sofa costs £83, and £149 is the price for a three-seat sofa and two armchairs. The cleaner reads the care label before starting (a 'do not wash' or X label stops the job), cleans fabric sofas only (leather and velvet are left alone) and does removable covers on the sofa itself. Give it 12 to 15 hours to dry. The details are on the page for sofas and armchairs.
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.
Questions from Hackney
- Do I need to buy the cleaner a parking permit?
Not always. Your own visitor parking works, and Hackney's all-zone e-permit can be bought by anyone, including a visiting tradesperson. If neither suits, the cleaner uses a paid bay, added to the bill at cost. Households in car-free blocks can't get permits, so the office will ask.
- Can you take the old carpet away when you've finished?
No. The cleaner only cleans, and nothing leaves your home with us. Hackney has no tip of its own, so residents use the North London Waste Authority centres at Hornsey Street in Islington, South Access Road in Walthamstow and Western Road in Haringey. A car needs no booking; a van must be booked 24 hours ahead.
- I let a flat in Stamford Hill. Can you clean between tenants?
Yes. Stamford Hill West is one of the wards in Hackney's selective licensing scheme, and we clean between lets all over the borough. Someone over 18 needs to let the cleaner in, and the invoice can be split room by room if the outgoing tenant pays for part of it.
- How soon can I walk on the carpet?
Usually after 5 to 7 hours. Heating on and a window open speed it up. Book a morning start and the room is usually dry by the evening, which matters in a flat where the living room is also the way to the kitchen.
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Where these facts come from
- 80.9% of Hackney households live in flats; 32.2% rent privately and 40.5% rent socially (Census 2021) nomisweb.co.uk
- Zone hours: Dalston (C) 8.30am to 6.30pm Mon to Sat; Hackney Central (D) to 11pm; North Shoreditch to midnight; Stoke Newington (E) and Hoxton (F) until 1.30pm on Saturdays hackney.gov.uk
- Anyone, including a visiting tradesperson, can buy an all-zone e-permit or visitor parking; residents of car-free new homes cannot get street permits hackney.gov.uk
- 120,680 homes in Hackney at 31 March 2025, 34.9% built before 1919 (VOA) assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
- 35 conservation areas, including Clapton Square and De Beauvoir hackney.gov.uk
- Bulky collection £24 for 1 to 5 items; sofas and soft furnishings legally on a separate collection, so mixed bookings are charged as 2 collections; wet items refused; items out by 6am hackney.gov.uk
- Selective licensing in 17 wards including Stamford Hill West, in force from 1 May 2026 hackney.gov.uk
- No council tip; NLWA centres at Hornsey Street, South Access Road and Western Road; cars no booking, vans booked 24 hours ahead hackney.gov.uk
- Thames Water zones serving Hackney places averaged 260 to 278 mg/l in 2025 (Stamford Hill 260, Hackney South 278); Thames calls 200 to 300 mg/l hard thameswater.co.uk
- Hackney South zone 2025 mean hardness 278 mg/l water-quality-api.prod.p.webapp.thameswater.co.uk
- Shoreditch is in the London Borough of Hackney alongside neighbouring parts of Tower Hamlets. en.wikipedia.org
- Stamford Hill is mainly in Hackney, with its northern section extending into Haringey. en.wikipedia.org
- Many buildings in the South Shoreditch conservation area come from the furniture and printing trades, which peaked there in the mid to late 19th century. hackney.gov.uk
- Zone B (South Shoreditch) runs Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6.30pm and Saturday 8.30am to 1.30pm; Zones W (Stamford Hill West) and T (Stamford Hill) run Monday to Friday 10am to midday; Zone U (Upper Clapton) runs Monday to Saturday 8.30am to 6.30pm, its northern section Monday to Friday 10am to midday. hackney.gov.uk
- Hoxton Street, a historic street market, has been a conservation area since 1983 and still has several 18th-century houses. hackney.gov.uk
- Haggerston Baths, a Grade II listed building opened in 1904, closed in 2000; Haggerston station reopened in 2010, a little north of the original. en.wikipedia.org
- Dalston conservation area, designated on 20 July 2016, follows Kingsland High Street and is mostly Victorian and Edwardian buildings, including long rows of purpose-built terraces. hackney.gov.uk
- Stoke Newington conservation area, designated in 1983, runs along Church Street and much of the High Street and takes in all of Abney Park Cemetery. hackney.gov.uk
- Hackney Central is focused on Mare Street and the Narrow Way; its landmarks include the Hackney Empire (1901) and Hackney Town Hall (1934 to 1937). The ward corresponds only very roughly to the area. en.wikipedia.org
- Springfield Park in Upper Clapton was formed in 1905 from the grounds of three private houses; Clapton has never had any defined boundaries. en.wikipedia.org
- Springfield ward occupies much of Upper Clapton and some of Stamford Hill. en.wikipedia.org
See your price in Hackney
Pick your rooms and furniture and the card adds it up, or call the office on 020 3129 1949.