Published 2026-02-11 · updated 2026-11-07 · Carpet Cleaning Glasgow, Glasgow
The short answer
Professional carpet cleaning in Glasgow costs £30–£45 for a single bedroom, £35–£55 for a double and £40–£65 for a living room. Hall, stairs and landing together are £60–£90, and a whole three-bedroom home is £140–£200. There is a £60 minimum call-out, every figure includes VAT and travel, and the exact price is confirmed free before anything is booked. Across the Glasgow market as a whole, most firms charge somewhere between £25 and £75 a room with a minimum call-out of £50 to £80.
Carpet cleaning prices in Glasgow, room by room
| Room or job | What it covers | Guide price |
|---|---|---|
| Single bedroom | Up to 12m² | £30–£45 |
| Double bedroom | Up to 16m² | £35–£55 |
| Living or dining room | Up to 20m², spot treatment included | £40–£65 |
| Large lounge | Over 20m² | £55–£85 |
| Hall, stairs & landing | One flight, treads hand-detailed | £60–£90 |
| Landing only | Single landing area | £20–£30 |
| Whole 3-bed home | 3 bedrooms, lounge, hall/stairs/landing | £140–£200 |
| Whole 4-bed home | 4 bedrooms, lounge, hall/stairs/landing | £180–£260 |
These are the ranges we genuinely work within, not a 'from' price that only applies to a cupboard. Where a job lands inside its range depends on the size of the room and how much soiling is in the carpet — the things covered further down. The same figures are on our full price list, which also covers rugs, sofas and mattresses.
How much to clean stairs and a hallway
Stairs are priced per flight, never per step. Hall, stairs and landing together are £60–£90 for one flight, and a landing on its own is £20–£30. The reason a staircase costs more than its floor area suggests is the work: every tread, riser and nosing is detailed with a hand tool, because a wand dragged down a staircase cleans the flat of each step and misses the nosing — exactly the part you see from the bottom of the stairs. In a Glasgow tenement the hall is usually the dirtiest carpet in the flat, because everything from the close comes straight through it, so it is worth including even when the bedrooms are fine.
Whole-house carpet cleaning prices
A whole three-bedroom home — three bedrooms, the living room and hall, stairs and landing — is £140–£200, and a four-bedroom home is £180–£260. Booked as one job it costs noticeably less than the same rooms booked one at a time, because there is one call-out, one set-up and one pack-down instead of several. If you are weighing up doing two rooms now and the rest later, it is almost always cheaper to do it in one visit.
Sofas, rugs and mattresses in the same visit
Most people who book a carpet clean add something else once the van is outside. Typical figures:
| Item | Guide price |
|---|---|
| Two-seat fabric sofa | £45–£70 |
| Three-seat fabric sofa | £70–£95 |
| Armchair | £25–£40 |
| Rug — small / medium | £25–£40 / £45–£70 |
| Double mattress | £45–£60 |
Booking a sofa alongside a carpet clean takes 10% off the upholstery. The full breakdown by sofa size, leather and corner suites is in our guide to sofa cleaning prices in Glasgow, and rugs are covered on the rug cleaning page.
Add-ons, and what they cost
| Add-on | When it is worth it | Guide price |
|---|---|---|
| Fibre-safe stain protector | Light carpets, children, pets | £8–£12 a room |
| Pet odour enzyme treatment | A smell that returns when the room is warm or damp | £12–£20 an area |
| Chewing gum or wax removal | Per spot | £8–£12 |
| Emergency same-day call-out | Subject to availability | £20 |
Spot treatment on ordinary stains, moving light furniture and travel are included as standard. Nothing on that list is added without you agreeing to it first.
What changes the price of a carpet clean
Five things move a job up or down its range. Room size, obviously — a box room and a through-lounge are not the same job. How long the soiling has been there, because a carpet last cleaned five years ago needs more pre-spray dwell time and more agitation than one done last spring. The fibre: wool is cleaned at controlled moisture with a wool-safe product, which takes longer than a polypropylene twist. Stairs, which take longer than their floor area suggests. And pets, where odour needs an enzyme stage rather than a standard clean. What does not change the price with us: the floor you live on, the postcode within our coverage area, or the day of the week.
Why the cheapest quote usually costs more
A proper clean means a pre-spray that sits on the soil long enough to break it down, mechanical agitation, hot water extraction, and a neutralising rinse so no detergent is left behind. Skip the rinse and the residue turns the pile sticky — it grabs soil faster than before and you are rebooking within weeks. Anyone quoting £15 a room is either using a domestic machine, cleaning three rooms in twenty minutes, or planning to find extras once they are inside the house. All three end the same way: a wet carpet that looks worse in a fortnight. That is why the cheap job needs doing three times a year and a proper one lasts twelve months.
Is there a minimum charge?
Yes — £60, and almost every firm in Glasgow has one somewhere between £50 and £80. It exists because the journey, set-up and pack-down cost the same whether we clean one room or four. So a single bedroom on its own comes to £60, and most people add a second room once they know that, because the second room costs its own rate rather than another call-out.
Hiring a machine instead
A day's machine hire, solution and pre-spray usually adds up to £45–£75 once everything is counted, which for one room is close to the cost of having it done properly. The saving only becomes real on a whole house, and that is where a hired machine's water problem does the most damage. The full comparison is in carpet machine hire vs a professional clean.
Questions worth asking before you book
Is the price fixed once agreed, or an estimate? Is there a travel charge to my postcode? What is the dry time? Are you insured for treatment risk as well as public liability? What happens if I am not happy? If a firm cannot answer those five questions in one phone call, keep dialling. Our answers: fixed once you accept it, no travel charge, two to four hours, yes, and we come back and re-clean free within 48 hours.
How much is it to get a carpet cleaned? Three typical jobs
- One-bed flat — bedroom, living room and hall: typically £80–£120.
- Two-bed flat — two bedrooms, living room and hall: typically £110–£160.
- Three-bed house — three bedrooms, lounge, hall, stairs and landing: typically £140–£200.
- Just the hall, stairs and landing — the most common single job in a Glasgow house: £60–£90.
Those are the figures people most often ask about on the phone. Add a sofa, a rug or a mattress at the rates further down, and the minimum call-out only applies once per visit.
Tenement flat or house — does it change the price?
Not the price, but it does change the method. A tenement flat on the second or third floor costs the same as a ground-floor one: portable extraction units come up the stair in two parts, and there is no surcharge for floors or for parking a street away. What changes is how the carpet is cleaned. Tenement carpet usually sits on floorboards over a void, so it is cleaned at controlled moisture with more extraction passes, rather than the full-strength wet clean a concrete-floored semi can take. A new-build house with driveway parking is the simplest job of all, which is part of why whole-house prices come down per room.
Wool carpet: does it cost more?
Sometimes a little, within the same range. Wool is cleaned with a pH-balanced, wool-safe product at controlled moisture, because over-wetting browns it and heat with lingering damp shrinks it. That takes longer than a polypropylene twist, so a wool living room tends to sit towards the top of its range rather than the bottom. It is still the right call: wool cleaned properly comes up better than almost any synthetic, and wool cleaned wrongly is damaged for good.
Is stain protector worth paying for?
On a light-coloured carpet, in a home with children or pets, usually yes — at £8–£12 a room it is applied straight after cleaning, while the fibre is clean, and it buys you time to blot a spill before it soaks in. On a dark, patterned carpet in a quiet adult home it adds little. It is never added without you agreeing to it, and it is not a substitute for blotting a spill quickly.
How to get an exact price
Send a WhatsApp photo of each room — plus a close-up of any stain or traffic lane — and tell us the number of rooms, whether there are stairs and whether there are pets. That is enough for a fixed figure in most cases, and once you accept it, it does not change on the day. You can also book online or read how the clean itself works on our carpet deep cleaning page.
Need it done properly?
We clean carpets, rugs, sofas and mattresses right across Glasgow and Greater Glasgow — fixed prices, IICRC-trained technicians, dry in two to four hours. Call 07776 464652, WhatsApp us a photo, or use the form on this page.
Carpet Cleaning Glasgow
IICRC-trained carpet and upholstery technicians · Glasgow
Written by the people who do the work — trained in carpet, upholstery and odour control. Everything here is what we would tell a customer standing in their own living room.