Hertfordshire · SG13, SG14
Carpet cleaning in Hertford
Most carpets in Hertford lie over old floors: elm and oak in the listed centre, Victorian boards in Port Vale and Cowbridge.
- Price fixed on the phone before we come
- Dye test on wool, every time
- Brass stair rods lifted and refitted
Prefer the phone? 020 8077 6653, 8am to 7pm.
Evenings and weekends Insured for your home Fixed price before we start Cleaners we have vetted
Prices by the room
Each room has its own price, so you can add up the job before you pick up the phone. Bedrooms are £36, living rooms £43, each flight of stairs £41, and a listed cottage pays the same as a new flat.
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Bedroom | £36 |
| Living room | £43 |
| Through lounge | £61 |
| Stairs, per flight | £41 |
| Rug up to 3m² | £35 |
| Rug over 3m² | £51 |
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Two-seater sofa | £57 |
| Armchair | £33 |
| Mattress | £35 |
| Dining chair | £13 |
| Curtains, short drop | £35 |
| Curtains, long drop | £42 |
The landing is £9 on top of the stairs, so hall, stairs and landing come to £72 between them. Below £67 in total, a job is charged at that minimum.
Working in an old county town
Hertford's centre is timber frames and Georgian fronts along Fore Street, Castle Street and Bull Plain, and a good many of those houses are listed. Under the carpet there is often elm or oak, laid with gaps that a wet machine would find. In those houses we run a drier pass and keep water away from the edges. The stairs tend to be steep and narrow; the machine waits in the hall and the hand tool does the climbing.
Getting there takes some planning. The Saturday charter market fills Salisbury Square, Maidenhead Street, Railway Street and Bircherley Green, so addresses in the middle of town get a weekday slot. Bull Plain and Castle Street are one-way with nowhere to stop, which means we park at Gascoyne Way or St Andrew Street and carry the kit in.
Tap water here comes off the chalk at around 300 ppm, hard enough to leave wool feeling stiff once it dries. Wool gets a mild acid in the final rinse to keep it soft. Down by Hartham and in the converted maltings along the Lea, ground floors sit on the flood plain, so we look at the carpet edges for old damp before we say anything about stains. The rest is on the carpet cleaning page.
- Council
- East Herts District Council, with Hertfordshire County Council as highway authority and Hertford Town Council for the town itself
- Postcodes
- SG13, SG14
- Landmarks
- Hertford Theatre on The Wash
- Hours
- Seven days, 8am to 7pm
Most of our Hertford bookings
We clean them by hot water extraction and find out what is underneath before any water goes down.
- 01Bedrooms £36
Rooms and hallways
Fitted carpet cleaned by extraction, with the edges worked by hand along skirtings that were never quite straight. Hallways take the most grit, so they get the most passes.
- 02Stairs £41 a flight
Stairs and landings
Steep cottage flights and runners held down by brass rods, each tread done with a hand tool. A landing costs £9 on top of the flight.
- 03Rugs from £35
Rugs
Wool and hand-knotted rugs cleaned flat on a groundsheet in the room they live in, once a damp cloth has shown the dyes will stay put.
- 04Two-seater £57
Sofas and chairs
Fabric sofas, armchairs and dining chairs, checked for the cleaning code under the cushions before anything gets wet. Antique horsehair seats we pass to an upholsterer.
Places nearby we cover
Beyond the town we go north up the Beane to Waterford, east along the Lea to Ware and south to the lanes around Brickendon and Bayford.