Carpet cleaning in Ealing Common

Ealing Common is the open grass east of the Broadway, with Ealing Common station on the District and Piccadilly lines, and the roads off it are lined with large Edwardian houses. Inside they tend to share a pattern: a wide entrance hall, high ceilings, a basement or a half-landing, and stairs that climb to a third floor once the loft has been converted.

Hall carpets near the common

If you walk a dog on the common twice a day, you will know what November does to a hall carpet. A dark band runs from the front door to the kitchen, heaviest just inside the door. We break that band down with a pre-spray and leave it to soak while we work through the rooms upstairs, then extract it with slow overlapping passes on the way out. The stair runners in these houses are often wool, held by rods or tacks over painted or varnished treads, and we clean the runner without soaking the wood that shows at each side.

Setting up in a big house

The machine stays in the hall or on the front path, and we carry hose up through the house. Over four floors counting the basement, that is a long run and it takes a few minutes more to set up, but it keeps the heavy kit off your staircase. Parking changes from one road to the next around the common, so we ask about it when you book. Upstairs we start in the room at the very top and work down, so nobody has to cross a damp landing to reach the stairs.

What a house here tends to cost

Nothing costs more here than anywhere else in W5. A hall, two flights of stairs and two landings come to £122: £22 for the hall, £41 per flight and £9 per landing. Add a through lounge at £61 and the total is £183, and each bedroom on top is £36. If the front room has a rug on the parquet, that is priced separately at £35 or £51 depending on its size.

For what happens on the day, read how a carpet clean runs. The rug in the front room is covered on our rug page, and if you live further north, Pitshanger has a page of its own.