Carpet Cleaning in Sonning
Merlin's Carpet Cleaning covers Sonning and the villages around it — period village property, brick and flint cottages and narrow staircases. We are family run with over ten years behind us, our prices are the ones on the list with nothing added afterwards, and every quote is free.
Cleaning carpets in Sonning
Sonning is one of the oldest settlements on this stretch of the Thames and the housing makes no secret of it. Brick and flint, old timber, small deep rooms, and staircases that were built a very long time before anybody thought about getting a cleaning machine up them. Winders, turns, half-landings and treads of three different depths in the same flight are all normal here.
Stairs are hand work in any house - tread by tread with a small tool, into the nose and down the riser, rather than a wand run down the middle and back. An awkward old flight simply takes longer to do properly. That time is already accounted for in the £35 we charge for a staircase, and there is no surcharge for a difficult one, whatever shape it happens to be.
Adding the hall at £20 and the landing at £20 makes the whole run £75, and in a period house that is genuinely the part worth doing first. It is the route every visitor walks and the part that has had the most feet on it since the carpet went down. Bedrooms off the landing can usually wait another year without anybody noticing the difference.
Areas and villages we cover from Sonning
What it costs in Sonning
The same list everywhere we work. No call-out fee, no travel charge and no extras added at the end.
Carpet cleaning
- Loungefrom £40
- Dining roomfrom £35
- Bedroomsfrom £30
- Hall£20
- Stairs£35
- Landing£20
- Other roomsPrice on request
Upholstery
- Dining chair, seat only£10 each
- Dining chair, seat and back£15 each
- Footstool£25
- Armchair£35
- Cuddle chair£45
- 2 seater sofa£50
- 3 seater sofa£80
- 4 seater sofa£105
- 5 seater sofa£130
- 6 seater sofa£150
Our services in Sonning
Carpet Cleaning in Sonning
Lounges, dining rooms, bedrooms, halls, stairs and landings.
See carpet & pricesUpholstery Cleaning in Sonning
Sofas, armchairs, cuddle chairs, footstools and dining chairs.
See upholstery & pricesMattress Cleaning in Sonning
A deep sanitising clean that lifts stains, dust and odours.
See mattress & pricesRug Cleaning in Sonning
Wool, synthetic, hand-made and antique rugs, cleaned to suit the fibre.
See rug & pricesSonning and the area around it
We cover RG4 and every village on this map, at the same prices, with no charge for the travel.
Check out our work
Real jobs in real customers' homes. Click any photo to enlarge it.
Sonning questions
The things people in Sonning ask us most often.
Can you clean a staircase with winders and turns?
Yes. Stairs are done by hand with a small tool, tread by tread, into the nose and the riser. A flight with winders takes longer but the price stays £35 - there is no surcharge for an awkward staircase.
Do you cover Sonning and Sonning Eye?
Both, along with Charvil, Playhatch, Dunsden Green, Woodley and Caversham. The river makes no difference to us and there is no travel charge on either bank. The narrow lanes through the village are worth a word when you book so we park sensibly.
Will cleaning the stairs wet the floorboards underneath?
No. Moisture is controlled and drawn straight back out as we go, and on a runner we work right up to the edge without soaking the boards either side. Old timber staircases are something we deal with regularly.
Is it worth doing only the hall and stairs?
In a period house it usually is. Hall, stairs and landing comes to £75 and it is the route everybody walks. The rooms off the landing can often wait another year.
We also cover these towns
Carpet cleaning in Charvil
RG10 — modern estate housing on the gravel between the Loddon and the Thames
Visit the Charvil pageCarpet cleaning in Woodley
RG5 — post-war and 1960s suburban estates east of Reading
Visit the Woodley pageCarpet cleaning in Caversham
RG4 — period villas north of the Thames, wool carpet and rugs on boards
Visit the Caversham pageReady when you are, Sonning
Tell us your rooms 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.