Carpet cleaning in Clapham Junction

Clapham Junction sits in Battersea, whatever the name suggests, and the streets around the station are mostly Victorian terraces split into an upper flat and a lower one. That split shapes a carpet clean in SW11. The upper flat often has its own street door and a straight flight up from it, and that staircase takes the grit from St John’s Road and Lavender Hill on every trip in.

Starting at the top of the stairs

We clean a flight from the top down, so nobody kneels on a wet tread. Dust packs into the angle at the back of each step and along the nosing, where an upright vacuum never quite reaches, so each tread gets the hand tool. A flight is £41, a carpeted landing at the top is £9 and a hallway at street level £22. For the usual upper flat, the stairs, the landing and two bedrooms come to £122.

The summer turnover

The rental market round the Junction is young, and a lot of sharer tenancies end in the summer. A bedroom that has had a year of somebody else’s dust in it is worth doing between occupants, while the room is empty and every inch of carpet is easy to reach. With nothing on the floor, a two-bedroom flat takes a morning.

Long corridors in converted schools

Some of SW11’s bigger flats are in converted Victorian schools and industrial buildings, with tall windows and long internal corridors. Those corridors carry the whole flat’s foot traffic and show a dark lane down the middle long before the rooms do. They get the same slow dry vacuum and extra pre-spray as a hallway.

Getting a flat dry

Most of these flats have windows front and back. Open one at each end and the through draught will usually have a bedroom carpet dry in a couple of hours; wool in winter takes longer. Flats above the shops face traffic and footfall all day, and it is the window side of those rooms where the carpet greys first.

On a Saturday the grid around the Northcote Road market has no kerb space until mid-afternoon, so for those streets a weekday or a later start works better.

The method is set out in full under carpet cleaning, and marks on the stairs are covered under stains. A mattress left by the last tenant can go on the same visit (see mattress cleaning), and the price list has everything else.