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Carpet cleaning in Kensington and Chelsea

Kensington and Chelsea issues no visitor parking vouchers, so the cleaner pays at a pay-by-phone bay and it goes on your bill at cost; on Sundays most bays are free, Holland ward aside. £137 covers a two-bed flat with the living room and hallway.

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

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The borough, briefly

Households in a flat82.9% nomisweb.co.uk
Renting privately39.6% of households nomisweb.co.uk
Conservation areas38, covering nearly three quarters of the borough rbkc.gov.uk
Listed buildingsMore than 3,800 rbkc.gov.uk
Pay-by-phone parking£2.50 to £7.40 an hour (petrol); bays free on Sundays outside Holland ward rbkc.gov.uk
Water in Holland Park (W14)Thames Water, Knightsbridge zone, 273 mg/l on average water-quality-api.prod.p.webapp.thameswater.co.uk
Bulky wasteToo Big for the Bin: up to ten items for £44 rbkc.gov.uk

Parking with no visitor vouchers

There are no uncontrolled streets in Kensington and Chelsea, and the council doesn't issue visitor vouchers. In controlled hours, then, a visiting tradesperson either pays for a meter bay by app or heads for a public car park. Petrol vehicles pay between £2.50 and £7.40 an hour through PayByPhone and diesels £2.90 to £8.40; the street's tariff zone decides which end.

The cleaner pays, and we add exactly that to the bill. A room or two keeps the cleaner on site for half an hour to an hour and a half, so on a small job it is a small line. A whole flat takes longer, and the meter keeps pace.

There are two ways round it. Outside controlled hours anyone can park free in resident bays, pay-by-phone bays and on single yellow lines. And on Sundays the bays are free, apart from Holland Park car park and most of Holland ward. Weekends book up first, so ask early. Loading is allowed on a single yellow line for up to 40 minutes without a dispensation, long enough to get the machine through the door.

Kensington and Chelsea ward by ward: Chelsea, Notting Hill, Earl's Court and more

Knightsbridge is shared with Westminster, and Brompton & Hans Town and St Helen's have no note of their own; we clean there too.

Chelsea SW3 · SW10

From Sloane Square station, at the east end of the King's Road, out to the riverside, Chelsea is mostly flats in old buildings. 80.5% of households live in a flat and 57.8% in a purpose-built block, and 63.2% of homes predate 1900. Wren's Royal Hospital opened in 1694. For a flat, give the office the floor number and say whether there's a lift, or a porter who should expect the cleaner.

households
16,145
live in a flat
81%
of homes built before 1919
68%
rent privately
39%

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

Wards: Chelsea Riverside, Redcliffe, Royal Hospital, Stanley (Kensington and Chelsea)

Kensington W8

Either side of Kensington High Street, the housing is mostly Georgian and Victorian terraces of four to six floors, and many of them are split into flats. Nearly half of households rent privately here (48.7%, against 39.6% for the borough). A flat at the top of a six-floor terrace is a long way up with a machine. With no lift, each floor over the first adds £10, so mention the floor when you book.

households
7,727
live in a flat
77%
of homes built before 1919
69%
rent privately
49%

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

Wards: Abingdon, Campden

Holland Park W14 · W11

Holland Park is mostly large Victorian houses, a good part of them built between 1860 and 1880 by the master builders William and Francis Radford. Many now hold flats: 28.0% of households live in a conversion. It also has a bigger share of new homes than anywhere else on this page, 22.3% from 2000 on, where Earl's Court has 2.4%. Leighton House is here. If a big room has a big rug over the boards, anything over 3 m² is £51, cleaned on the floor.

households
3,840
live in a flat
83%
of homes built before 1919
51%
rent privately
43%

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

Ward: Holland

South Kensington SW7 · W8

South Kensington, home of the Natural History Museum, takes its ward name from Queen's Gate, called Albert's Road until 1859, which runs from Kensington Gardens down to Old Brompton Road. In that ward, 54.6% of households rent privately, the borough figure being 39.6%, and 79.7% of homes predate 1919. If the flat is let furnished, the sofa and the mattress can be cleaned on the same visit as the carpets; a two-seat sofa is £57.

households
3,640
live in a flat
82%
of homes built before 1919
80%
rent privately
55%

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

Ward: Queen's Gate

Earl's Court SW5 · SW7

Earl's Court has the oldest homes of the seven areas here: 87.3% of homes were built before 1919 and 87.0% before 1900. Building started in Earl's Court Square in 1873 and in Nevern Square in 1880, both lined with late-Victorian mansion flats. With 52.2% of households renting privately, a carpet may have seen several tenancies, and a spill that soaked into the underlay years ago can creep back up while the carpet dries. The cleaner will say if a mark looks like one of those.

households
8,837
live in a flat
91%
of homes built before 1919
87%
rent privately
52%

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

Wards: Courtfield, Earl's Court

Notting Hill W11

Portobello Road runs nearly the whole length of Notting Hill, north to south. Building on the Ladbroke Estate began in the 1820s and got going in the 1840s, and St John's church (1845) stands at the top of the hill. The old houses are mostly flats now, with 83.4% of households living in one. If the front room has long curtains that aren't lined, silk or velvet, send the office a photo; they can be cleaned on the rail, £42 a pair.

households
13,328
live in a flat
83%
of homes built before 1919
62%
rent privately
31%

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

Wards: Colville, Norland, Notting Dale, Pembridge

North Kensington W10

Trellick Tower on Golborne Road, Ernő Goldfinger's Brutalist block, opened on 28 June 1972 and has been Grade II* listed since 1998. North Kensington is the borough's most block-built end: 71.9% of households live in a purpose-built block and 65.8% rent from the council or a housing association. In a tall block the lift does the heavy work, so check it the evening before. If it's broken, ring the office; by the stairs it's £10 a floor above the first.

households
6,584
live in a flat
89%
of homes built before 1919
27%
rent privately
17%

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

Wards: Dalgarno, Golborne

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.

Old wool in listed houses

A large patterned wool rug in deep reds

The council has drawn 38 conservation areas, and together they take in nearly three quarters of the borough. Over 3,800 buildings here are listed, and inside those, listed building consent comes into it for small jobs too: lifting floorboards, re-plastering, changing a cornice, a skirting or a fireplace.

A carpet clean leaves all of that alone. The carpet or rug is washed where it lies, and the only things that move are light chairs and side tables. If the carpet is wool, say so when you book. The cleaner checks the pile, has a look at the back and uses less water.

Rugs are washed on the floor with a bit of space cleared round them, and the fringes are done by hand. Up to 3 m² a rug is £35, above that £51, and one small and one large rug come to £86. Silk, viscose and antique hand-knotted rugs belong with a specialist rug cleaner, and we'll tell you that on the phone, before anyone unpacks. More on washing a rug where it lies.

Between tenants

Four in ten households here rent privately (39.6%). On top of mandatory licensing, a borough-wide additional scheme has applied from 1 June 2023 wherever three or more tenants, in two or more households, share facilities.

Landlords and agents book us between lets, and tenants book before they move out. Empty or furnished, a room costs the same; each one is priced on the price page, and the invoice can be split room by room when a tenant pays for part of it.

If the let comes furnished, the mattress may want doing too. We clean one on the bed for £35, the top and both sides if it turns, and it can take up to a day to dry. Memory foam is not something we clean, and after bed bugs, pest control has to go first. The council won't help there either: its Too Big for the Bin service, which takes up to ten items for £44 from Monday to Saturday, refuses soiled mattresses and anything with bedbugs. Private landlords and managing agents are told to use the council's commercial waste service instead, and items booked wrongly as household waste are left behind with no refund. See mattresses cleaned on the bed.

What we clean in Kensington and Chelsea

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.

Kensington and Chelsea questions

Can the cleaner park on visitor vouchers?

There aren't any here. The council doesn't issue them, so the cleaner uses a pay-by-phone bay or a car park and the bill shows what it cost. Pick a time outside controlled hours, or a Sunday away from Holland ward, and the parking is free.

Do you clean velvet or leather sofas?

No, fabric only. A two-seat sofa is £57 plus £26 for each extra seat, and an armchair £33. The cleaner reads the care label first; an X means we leave it alone. Allow 12 to 15 hours for a sofa to dry.

Is the water hard in Chelsea?

Thames Water says the water across its region is naturally hard. Its Chelsea zone, serving SW3 5RJ, ranged from 240 to 269 mg/l as calcium carbonate in 2025 with an average of 259, and Holland Park (W14 8ER) sits in the Knightsbridge zone at 273 on average. It makes no difference to the price.

Will you take the old carpet away?

No. Everything is cleaned in place and nothing leaves with the cleaner. Residents take household waste to the Western Riverside sites, Smugglers Way in Wandsworth (car visits booked ahead) or Cringle Dock in Battersea (vans only); check what each accepts before you load up.

Do you cover Notting Hill and South Kensington?

Yes, the whole borough, and next door in Hammersmith and Fulham and Westminster. The card prices the job for your postcode.

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Where these facts come from

  1. Census 2021: 82.9% of Kensington and Chelsea households live in a flat nomisweb.co.uk
  2. Census 2021: 39.6% of Kensington and Chelsea households rent privately nomisweb.co.uk
  3. No uncontrolled streets and no visitor vouchers; in controlled hours visitors use pay-by-phone bays or car parks; outside controlled hours free parking in resident bays, pay-by-phone bays and single yellow lines; bays free on Sundays except Holland Park car park and most of Holland ward rbkc.gov.uk
  4. PayByPhone from £2.50 to £7.40 an hour (petrol) and £2.90 to £8.40 (diesel) by tariff zone rbkc.gov.uk
  5. Loading or unloading on a single yellow line allowed for up to 40 minutes without a dispensation rbkc.gov.uk
  6. 38 conservation areas cover nearly three quarters of the borough rbkc.gov.uk
  7. More than 3,800 listed buildings; listed building consent needed even for removing floorboards, re-plastering or altering cornices, skirtings and fireplaces rbkc.gov.uk
  8. Borough-wide additional HMO licensing from 1 June 2023 for homes shared by three or more people from two or more households rbkc.gov.uk
  9. Too Big for the Bin: up to ten bulky items for £44, Monday to Saturday from 7am; refuses soiled mattresses and bedbug items; private landlords and managing agents must use commercial waste; wrong bookings not collected or refunded rbkc.gov.uk
  10. Residents use the Western Riverside Waste Authority sites at Smugglers Way (car visits booked) and Cringle Dock (vans only) rbkc.gov.uk
  11. Thames Water Knightsbridge zone (W14 8ER): 2025 samples 266 to 281 mg/l, average 273; region naturally hard water-quality-api.prod.p.webapp.thameswater.co.uk
  12. Thames Water Chelsea zone (SW3 5RJ): 2025 samples 240 to 269 mg/l, average 259 water-quality-api.prod.p.webapp.thameswater.co.uk
  13. The King's Road is one of Chelsea's major thoroughfares, with Sloane Square station at its eastern end; the Royal Hospital Chelsea, by Christopher Wren, opened in 1694 en.wikipedia.org
  14. Much of Kensington's housing is Georgian and Victorian terraced houses of four to six floors, many subdivided into flats, either side of Kensington High Street en.wikipedia.org
  15. Holland Park is mainly large Victorian houses, much of it built between 1860 and 1880 by William and Francis Radford; Leighton House is in Holland Park en.wikipedia.org
  16. Queen's Gate, first called Albert's Road and renamed in 1859, runs from Kensington Gardens to Old Brompton Road en.wikipedia.org
  17. South Kensington has the Natural History Museum en.wikipedia.org
  18. Building began in Earl's Court Square in 1873 and Nevern Square in 1880, both with late-Victorian mansion flats en.wikipedia.org
  19. Portobello Road runs almost the whole length of Notting Hill; the Ladbroke Estate was begun in the 1820s and got going in the 1840s; St John's church (1845) is at the top of the hill en.wikipedia.org
  20. Trellick Tower on Golborne Road, by Erno Goldfinger, opened on 28 June 1972 and has been Grade II* listed since 1998 en.wikipedia.org

See your price in Kensington and Chelsea

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

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