Carpet cleaning in Tower Hamlets
Tell us the floor and whether the lift works. 87.8% of Tower Hamlets households live in a flat (Census 2021), and a two-bed flat with the living room and hallway is £137, plus £10 a floor above the first if there's no lift.
- Price on screen before you book
- Cleaned in your home
- Office open 8am to 7pm, every day
Price your clean

Before the cleaner comes
| Households in a flat | 87.8%, with 80.7% in purpose-built blocks nomisweb.co.uk |
|---|---|
| Renting privately | 38.2% of households (35.9% rent socially) nomisweb.co.uk |
| Visitor vouchers | £3.90 a day (2026/27), bought by the resident towerhamlets.gov.uk |
| Resident bays west of Brick Lane | Enforced 8.30am to 10pm, every day towerhamlets.gov.uk |
| Bulky waste | Two free collections a year, five items each; rugs rolled, tied, under 2 m towerhamlets.gov.uk |
| Landlord licensing | Additional licensing borough-wide to 31 March 2029; selective licensing ended 30 September 2026 towerhamlets.gov.uk |
| Water | Thames Water, which calls all its water hard thameswater.co.uk |
| Conservation areas | 58, each with its own appraisal towerhamlets.gov.uk |
Up the stairs with the machine
80.7% of households here live in a purpose-built block. Some of those blocks are old: the London County Council built the Boundary Estate near Shoreditch between 1894 and 1900, 20 blocks of flats five storeys high. Others are the newer blocks around Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs.
The cleaner carries a portable machine in, so the lift matters. A working lift costs you nothing. Above the first floor with no lift (or a broken one), it's £10 a floor, and the office checks access when they ring, so it's in the price before the day. Mention door codes, a fob or a concierge at the same time.
Our carpet cleaning is priced by the room. A studio's carpets are £35, a bedroom £36 and a living room £43, and the smallest job is £67; every room's price is on one page. One or two rooms usually take between half an hour and an hour and a half.
Carpet cleaning in Bethnal Green, Bow, Wapping and the rest of Tower Hamlets
Limehouse, Shadwell and Spitalfields aren't among the eight below. Put any Tower Hamlets postcode in the card and it prices the job.
Bethnal Green E2 · E1
Bethnal Green's old Town Hall (1909) and its museum face the public gardens, a conservation area since 1969. Away from the gardens it's mostly blocks: 80.0% of households are in a purpose-built one, and 42.0% are social tenants, above the borough's 35.9%. Walk-up or lift? Say which when the office rings. The machine is carried in by hand, and a flat on the second floor or higher with no lift adds £10 for every floor past the first.
- households
- 14,660
- live in a flat
- 89%
- of homes built before 1919
- 18%
- rent privately
- 33%
A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours
Wards: Bethnal Green, St Peter's (Tower Hamlets)
Stepney E1 · E14
No. 37 Stepney Green was built in 1694, inside what has been the Stepney Green conservation area since January 1973. Stepney has more terraced houses than Bethnal Green (14.9% of households live in one, against 8.1%), and almost half of households (49.5%) rent socially. A terrace comes with a staircase. Stairs go on the card at £41 a flight, plus £9 for the landing at the top, and together they can take an hour.
- households
- 9,096
- live in a flat
- 80%
- of homes built before 1919
- 15%
- rent privately
- 28%
A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours
Wards: St Dunstan's, Stepney Green
Poplar E14
Poplar's Lansbury Estate was begun just before 1951 as the Live Architecture Exhibition of the Festival of Britain, and Frederick Gibberd's Chrisp Street Market was part of it. Much of Poplar is newer: 52.7% of homes date from 2000 or later. Parking here is zone D, and sub-zones D1 and D2 are controlled Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5.30pm, so the day you pick decides whether the cleaner needs a visitor voucher. Weekends go first, though.
- households
- 10,386
- live in a flat
- 88%
- of homes built before 1919
- 5%
- rent privately
- 32%
A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours
Wards: Poplar (Tower Hamlets), Lansbury
Canary Wharf and Isle of Dogs E14
The last dock on the Isle of Dogs closed in 1980, and Canary Wharf was built from 1987 to 1991. Most of the homes came later still: 68.5% in Canary Wharf and Isle of Dogs date from 2000 or later, and 50.2% of households rent privately, so a lot of tenancies end here. Big blocks have their own rules. If yours wants the cleaner's name at the front desk or a goods lift booked, tell the office when they ring.
- households
- 24,209
- live in a flat
- 90%
- of homes built before 1919
- 2%
- rent privately
- 50%
A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours
Wards: Canary Wharf, Island Gardens, Blackwall & Cubitt Town
Bow E3
The Bow Quarter flats were the Bryant & May match factory until match production stopped in 1979. Now the matches that matter are at the London Stadium: in parking sub-zone B4, event days bring Sunday controls too, so look up what's on before you book a Sunday. Bow's housing is older than Bethnal Green's, with 21.5% of homes built before 1900 (against 15.4%) and 16.3% of households in a terrace. Add the stairs on the card, £41 a flight.
- households
- 13,687
- live in a flat
- 80%
- of homes built before 1919
- 23%
- rent privately
- 31%
A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours
Wards: Bow East, Bow West
Whitechapel E1
The Royal London Hospital has been on Whitechapel Road since 1757, and its old building became Tower Hamlets Town Hall in 2023. Homes are smaller here: 38.6% of households have one bedroom, and private renting runs well above the borough's 38.2%. A single room or a studio can be the whole booking. A studio's carpets are £35 and a bedroom £36, with £67 as the smallest job.
- households
- 7,378
- live in a flat
- 94%
- of homes built before 1919
- 18%
- rent privately
- 54%
A one-bed flat with the living room and hallway £101 Price yours
Ward: Whitechapel
Wapping E1W
Wapping's riverside warehouses started turning into flats in the 1980s, and Tobacco Dock, a Grade I listed warehouse by The Highway, dates from around 1811. Owners are a bigger group here than across the borough: 35.1% of households against 23.1%. If your warehouse flat has bare boards and one big rug, a rug over 3 m² is £51, washed where it lies with room cleared round it, and sealed boards get a clean and polish at £8 a m²; oiled or waxed wood isn't on the list.
- households
- 5,797
- live in a flat
- 89%
- of homes built before 1919
- 13%
- rent privately
- 48%
A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours
Ward: St Katharine's & Wapping
Mile End E14 · E3
Mile End Park, a long strip east of the Regent's Canal, was made on industrial land bombed in the Second World War, and its Green Bridge has crossed Mile End Road since July 1999. In the ward, 85.5% of households live in a purpose-built block and only 0.8% of homes date from 1919 to 1939. Carpeted bedrooms and a tiled or vinyl kitchen can go in one visit: a bedroom is £36, a hard floor deep clean £6 a m². Laminate we leave alone.
- households
- 7,804
- live in a flat
- 91%
- of homes built before 1919
- 9%
- rent privately
- 33%
A two-bed flat with the living room and hallway £137 Price yours
Ward: Mile End (Tower Hamlets)
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.
Parking near Brick Lane, Bow or Poplar
Parking is split into four parent zones: A (Bethnal Green), B (Bow), C (Shadwell and Stepney) and D (Poplar and Crossharbour). Most bays are controlled 8.30am to 5.30pm on weekdays. West of Brick Lane, resident bays are enforced until 10pm every day of the week.
The easy answer is visitor vouchers, £3.90 a day under the 2026/27 charges, which the resident buys through their council account. Two catches. Landlords who let the flat and owners who live elsewhere can't buy them, and the council's contractor permit is meant for building work, repairs and maintenance, with a job sheet to show for it. So if you're a landlord booking between tenants, ask the outgoing tenant to buy a day's vouchers before they hand the keys back.
With no vouchers and no space, a cashless bay is £5.50 to £6.80 an hour, depending where you are, and it goes on the bill at cost.
When the tenancy ends
Only 23.1% of Tower Hamlets households own their home outright or with a mortgage. 38.2% rent privately and 35.9% rent from the council or a housing association. The whole borough has been under additional licensing since 1 April 2024: any privately let home where three or more people from more than one household share, flats included, needs a licence, and the scheme runs to 31 March 2029. The selective scheme, which covered the Weavers, Whitechapel, and Banglatown and Spitalfields wards, finished on 30 September 2026; licences already issued stay valid until they run out.
Sharing makes the bill the awkward part, so the invoice can be split room by room, between flatmates or between tenant and landlord. Then there's timing. Carpets usually need 5 to 7 hours to dry, so a clean on the morning of your last full day leaves them dry by the evening, well before the check-out.
What we clean in Tower Hamlets
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.
Rugs and the council's free collections

Each household gets two free bulky collections a year, up to five items each, for the home you live in. Rugs, carpets and other floor coverings go if they're rolled and tied, under two metres long and light enough for two people to carry, and they need to be at ground level by 7am. Landlords, managing agents and fitters can't use it, and it won't clear a flat. Residents can also take furniture and textiles to the Yabsley Street centre in E14, open 8am to 8pm on weekdays.
If the rug is only grubby, wash it first and decide after. Rug cleaning happens on your floor with some space cleared round it, and the fringes are done by hand. It's £35 for a rug up to 3 m² and £51 above that, about half an hour each, then 4 to 7 hours to dry. Silk, viscose and antique hand-knotted rugs need a specialist, so tell the office if yours is one.
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.
Tower Hamlets questions
- Do you clean flats in Canary Wharf and on the Isle of Dogs?
Yes. Put your postcode in the card and it prices the job. Crossharbour is in parking zone D, so the advice on visitor vouchers above applies; if your building has visitor bays or its own car park, tell the office and the cleaner will use that.
- What does a one-bed in Bethnal Green cost?
It's £101 for a one-bed flat with the living room and hallway. A two-seat sofa adds £57 if you want it done on the same visit. If you're on the edge of the borough, the Hackney and City of London pages have their own local notes.
- Thames Water is digging up Burdett Road. Does that affect my booking?
Only if your water is off on the day. Thames Water, which supplies the borough, is renewing trunk mains around the Isle of Dogs and Mile End in stages until 2027, with Burdett Road from 21 September 2026 to summer 2027. The machine needs running water and power, so if a notice about an interruption comes through the door, ring 020 3129 1949 and move the day.
- Who needs to be in?
An adult over 18 to let the cleaner in and point out the rooms. After that you can get on with your day in another room. For an empty flat between tenants, the landlord or agent can open up, but sort the parking first: landlords can't buy Tower Hamlets visitor vouchers.
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Where these facts come from
- 87.8% of Tower Hamlets households live in a flat, 80.7% in a purpose-built block (Census 2021) nomisweb.co.uk
- 38.2% of households rent privately, 35.9% rent socially, 23.1% own outright or with a mortgage (Census 2021) nomisweb.co.uk
- Boundary Estate, built by the London County Council 1894 to 1900, 20 blocks of five-storey flats towerhamlets.gov.uk
- Four parent parking zones (A Bethnal Green, B Bow, C Shadwell and Stepney, D Poplar and Crossharbour); most controlled 8.30am to 5.30pm weekdays; resident bays west of Brick Lane enforced 8.30am to 10pm every day towerhamlets.gov.uk
- Resident visitor vouchers £3.90 for one day and cashless parking £5.50 to £6.80 an hour by zone, 2026/27 charges towerhamlets.gov.uk
- Visitor vouchers are bought by residents through an online account; non-resident owners and landlords who let the property cannot get them towerhamlets.gov.uk
- Contractor permits are for building work, repairs or maintenance, with a contract, quote or job sheet as evidence towerhamlets.gov.uk
- Additional licensing borough-wide from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2029 for homes, including flats, shared by three or more people from two or more households towerhamlets.gov.uk
- Selective licensing in Weavers, Whitechapel, and Banglatown and Spitalfields ended 30 September 2026; existing licences stay in force until they expire towerhamlets.gov.uk
- Two free bulky collections a year, up to five items each, for the home you live in; items at ground level by 7am towerhamlets.gov.uk
- Carpets, floor coverings and rugs taken if rolled and tied, under two metres and carriable by two people; not for landlords, managing agents, tradesmen or fitters; no house clearances towerhamlets.gov.uk
- Yabsley Street E14 reuse and recycling centre, residents only, takes furniture and textiles, open 8am to 8pm weekdays towerhamlets.gov.uk
- Thames Water replacing trunk mains at the Isle of Dogs and Mile End in phases to 2027; Burdett Road from 21 September 2026 until summer 2027 thameswater.co.uk
- Thames Water says all the water in its region is hard thameswater.co.uk
- Tower Hamlets has 58 conservation areas, each with an adopted character appraisal towerhamlets.gov.uk
- Bethnal Green Gardens conservation area, designated 1969, groups the old Town Hall (1909) and the Bethnal Green Museum around the public gardens towerhamlets.gov.uk
- Stepney Green conservation area designated January 1973; No. 37 Stepney Green built in 1694 towerhamlets.gov.uk
- The Lansbury Estate in Poplar was begun shortly before 1951 as the Festival of Britain's Live Architecture Exhibition, including Frederick Gibberd's Chrisp Street Market en.wikipedia.org
- Parking zone D covers Poplar and Crossharbour; sub-zones D1 and D2 run Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5.30pm; sub-zone B4 (Bow) also has Sunday controls on London Stadium event days towerhamlets.gov.uk
- Canary Wharf was built 1987 to 1991 on the Isle of Dogs after the last docks there closed in 1980 en.wikipedia.org
- The Bow Quarter flats are the former Bryant & May match factory, where match production stopped in 1979 en.wikipedia.org
- The Royal London Hospital has been on Whitechapel Road since 1757; its old building became Tower Hamlets Town Hall in 2023 en.wikipedia.org
- Wapping's riverside warehouses began to be converted into flats in the 1980s; Tobacco Dock, a Grade I listed warehouse next to The Highway, was built around 1811 en.wikipedia.org
- Mile End Park is a linear park east of the Regent's Canal on industrial land bombed in the Second World War; the Green Bridge over Mile End Road opened in July 1999 en.wikipedia.org
See your price in Tower Hamlets
Pick your rooms and furniture and the card adds it up, or call the office on 020 3129 1949.
