Carpet cleaning in Horsham

A bedroom carpet in Horsham is £36 and a living room £43. Monster Cleaning Horsham works by hot water extraction, so heated solution goes down under pressure and comes back up the same wand with the soil in it. Where a wall has come out between two receptions, that counts once as a through lounge at £61. A stair flight is £41.

One off work meets a £67 minimum, so a single bedroom at £36 still bills at £67. Two rooms clear it without anybody thinking about it. Halls and landings each count as a room where they are carpeted, because both are small tool work instead of long straight passes.

Why we run extraction and not the cheaper alternatives

A rotary pad wipes the crown of the pile, which looks excellent for about a fortnight and then greys back. A dry compound gets brushed in and vacuumed out, reaching partway down the tuft before it gives up. What neither reaches is the grit sitting right at the bottom, and that grit is what saws through the fibre each time somebody crosses the room. Extraction is slower, wetter and a good deal noisier. It is also the only one of the three that removes the dirt from the house rather than moving it about.

Chipboard decks on the newer estates change how we run the machine

Broadbridge Heath, Wickhurst Green and the bigger Southwater developments went up from the 2000s with wall to wall carpet laid on underlay over a chipboard deck. Chipboard swells if you soak it, and it does not go back down. So upstairs in those houses we run less solution and more vacuum passes, which is slower for us and makes no difference to the £36. If your house went up after about 2005 we assume the deck is chipboard unless you tell us otherwise. On a solid ground floor in the old part of town none of that applies and the wand moves at a normal pace.

Wool in town, polypropylene on the estates

The older houses around The Causeway and Carfax tend to hold wool or a wool-rich blend. It cleans beautifully and it dries slowly. Estate carpet is usually polypropylene, which shrugs water off and takes bleach without staining, but holds oily soil in the traffic lanes and wants a pre-spray with real dwell time before the wand goes near it. We work out which one is under our feet before starting, because it changes the chemistry, the pressure and how long you wait to walk on it.

Stairs are priced by the flight for a reason

£41 a flight. Nearly every interwar semi at Roffey and around Littlehaven has a half landing with winder treads in the turn, and a full wand will not sit flat on a wedge-shaped tread, so those get worked by hand with a small tool one tread at a time. A flight takes about as long as a bedroom. A straight run in a newer house is quicker and bills the same, because pricing a staircase by the tread would be a nonsense. Where a house has been divided into two flats, each staircase carries its own £41.

Mud, leaves and the Downs Link

Out west at Slinfold the Downs Link runs along the old railway line, and a house within a few hundred yards of it takes field mud in on boots and dogs from October through to March. It goes straight down the hall and into the first room off it. Dried mud lifts well, because it is dry soil sitting in the pile rather than a stain bonded to the fibre, and a fair share of it comes away before the wand arrives. Wet mud ground in and dried on top of itself is harder. The honest advice is to let it dry and hoover it first, which sometimes means you do not need us at all. Over at Mannings Heath the problem is wet leaf litter instead, which leaves a brown tannin mark a vacuum will not shift and which sets if it sits over the winter.

Drying, and why we soften the rinse here

Give it two hours in socks and the better part of a day before the sofa returns to its corner. A window open helps where the weather permits. Because the water comes off the chalk at around 225 ppm, a hard rinse dries to a faint chalky bloom in wool pile and makes a freshly cleaned carpet look like nothing happened, so we soften what goes through the machine. On a wet February afternoon with the windows shut it takes longer than two hours and there is nothing wrong.

Rugs stay on the floor they are lying on

£35 up to 2m² and £51 over it, cleaned where they lie provided the floor underneath can take it. Anything with a natural backing wants care, because jute and hessian shrink and the backing can bleed into a pale pile, so we test a corner and wait before committing to the whole thing. Where it looks like a genuine risk we say so and leave it alone rather than take the money and hope.

What will not come out

Dye lifted out of a rubber-backed bath mat and into the pile beneath it. Bleach spotting, where the colour has gone and there is nothing left in the fibre for cleaning to reach. Pet damage that soaked through the underlay to the boards, which needs the carpet lifting and a fitter rather than us. Filtration soiling, the grey lines that build along skirtings and under doors where air has been pulled through the pile for years, will lighten and seldom vanishes. All of them get a genuine go, and you get told what held while we are still standing on it.

Booking it with something else

For a check-out, put the carpets in alongside the move-out clean and we do both in one visit with the carpets last, once the rest of the property is finished. The other way round means walking wet pile all afternoon. For a house that has gone several tenancies without anything thorough, a team deep clean at £186 upwards usually gets you further than booking carpets one room at a time. The machine goes anywhere in RH12 and RH13 with nothing added for the miles. Ring 020 8077 6947, 8am to 8pm any day, or send your postcode through the form and a callback follows inside the hour.

Questions we get asked

How long do carpets take to dry in Horsham?

Two hours in socks, and the better part of a day before heavy furniture goes back. Extraction takes most of the water up on the same pass, so what you are drying is a damp carpet and not a wet one. Cold weather with the windows shut stretches it.

Is there a minimum charge for one carpet?

One off work carries a £67 minimum, so a lone bedroom at £36 still bills at £67. Put the stairs at £41 or a living room at £43 with it and you clear the minimum, which is why two rooms is the usual booking.

Will extraction damage a carpet laid over chipboard?

Not when it is done properly. Chipboard swells with standing water, so upstairs on the newer estates we run less solution and extra vacuum passes. The pile comes back damp to the touch and never wet underfoot. It costs you nothing extra, only a slower pass for us.

How much is a rug?

£35 up to 2m² and £51 over it, cleaned where it lies. Natural backings such as jute and hessian can shrink or bleed into a pale pile, so we test a corner first and say plainly if we would rather leave it alone.

Do you move the furniture?

Sofas, beds and chairs get moved and set back down on protectors. Emptying a wardrobe, dismantling a bed or unplugging a home office is not something we take on, so clear that sort of thing beforehand. Anything breakable is safer in another room.

Can you get out a red wine stain?

Often on synthetic pile, less reliably on wool, where the dye takes hold quickly. The hardest kind is an old stain somebody has already attacked with a supermarket spot remover, because the remover can set it. Tell us what has been used on it before we start.