Merlins Carpet Cleaning

✦ Bedfordshire · LU1, LU2, LU3 and LU4

Rug Cleaning in Luton

Wool, synthetic, hand-made and antique rugs cleaned to suit the fibre, in your home in Luton. Family run, over ten years behind us, and a free quote before anything is touched. We cover LU1, LU2, LU3 and LU4 and the area around it.

LU1 · LU2 · LU3 · LU4Postcodes covered
10+ yrsFamily run business
£50Minimum charge, no call-out fee
FreeNo-obligation quotes
Rug Cleaning in Luton by Merlin's Carpet Cleaning
✦ Local knowledge

Rug Cleaning in Luton

Luton has a great many hand-made and hand-knotted rugs in it, and the first thing we test on one is the dye. Older vegetable dyes and some cheaper modern ones are not fully fixed, and warm water with the wrong chemistry will lift red out of a border and carry it across a cream field in a single pass. Once that has happened it is a specialist dye job and no longer a cleaning job.

The test takes a minute. A damp white cloth pressed onto each colour in turn, in a corner nobody looks at, shows whether anything comes away. If it does, the rug gets cool water, an acid rinse to hold the dye in place and a much faster drying regime, because bleed happens while a rug is sitting wet rather than while it is being worked on.

Drying flat and quickly matters just as much along the fringes and the selvedge, where water collects and then travels. We lift the rug clear of the floor so air can move underneath it, and where a rug is thick enough to hold water for a full day we say so before starting rather than leaving you to discover it.

Areas we cover from Luton

Bury ParkStopsleyLeagraveWigmoreFarley HillHigh TownRound GreenLimbury
✦ Straight prices

What it costs in Luton

The same list everywhere we work. No call-out fee, no travel charge and nothing added at the end.

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Rug Cleaning

  • Small rugfrom £25
  • Medium rugfrom £25
  • Large rugfrom £25
  • Runnerfrom £25
  • Wool or hand-made rugQuoted on inspection
  • Rug plus the carpet beneathQuoted together
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Carpet cleaning, same visit

  • Loungefrom £40
  • Dining roomfrom £35
  • Bedroomsfrom £30
  • Hall£20
  • Stairs£35
  • Landing£20
  • Other roomsPrice on request
✦Minimum charge £50. It applies to carpet cleaning, rug cleaning and upholstery. You can combine rooms, rugs and furniture in a single visit to make the most of it.
✦ What else we clean

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Three-piece suites cleaned seat by seat, with the arms and headrests given extra time.

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Mattress Cleaning in Luton

A mattress holds years of sweat and skin that washing the sheets never reaches.

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End of Tenancy Carpet Cleaning in Luton

Changeover carpet cleaning worked around the date the keys go back.

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✦ Where we work

Luton and the area around it

We cover LU1, LU2, LU3 and LU4 and every village on this map, at the same prices, with no charge for the travel.

✦ Our own work

Check out our work

Real jobs in real customers' homes. Click any photo to enlarge it.

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✦ Good to know

Luton questions

The things people in Luton ask us most often.

Will the colours in my rug run?

That is the first thing we check. A damp white cloth on each colour, in a corner out of the way, tells us whether the dye is fixed. If it moves we switch to cool water, an acid rinse and faster drying, and we explain the risk before anything starts.

Is a hand-knotted rug priced the same as a machine-made one?

No. Machine-made rugs start at £25 each. Hand-made, antique and silk rugs are quoted once we have seen them, because the fibre, the foundation and the dyes all change what is safe to do and how long the job takes.

Do you cover Bury Park, Stopsley and Leagrave?

Yes, all of LU1 to LU4, including Wigmore, Farley Hill, High Town, Round Green and Limbury. There is no travel charge in the town, and the £50 minimum covers the visit rather than a single rug.

Can a rug be cleaned while it stays in the room?

Usually. We would rather lift it onto a protected surface so air gets underneath, but a heavy rug can be done in place with absorbent protection beneath it. Furniture standing on it has to come off first so the pile dries evenly.

✦ Nearby

We also cover these towns

Carpet cleaning in Dunstable

LU5 and LU6 — homes under the Downs, chalk soil and busy family floors

Visit the Dunstable page

Carpet cleaning in Harpenden

AL5 — large commuter houses, good wool carpet and rugs worth taking seriously

Visit the Harpenden page

Ready when you are, Luton

Tell us what needs doing and we will give you a firm price on the spot. No call-out fee, no travel charge and no pressure — just an honest quote from a family firm that has been doing this for over ten years.