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Camden · NW5 · Upholstery cleaning
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Dartmouth Park fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide upholstery cleaning in Dartmouth Park NW5 for houses and flats around Highgate Cemetery and Parliament Hill Fields. From £65, quoted in writing before the visit, with one technician with a portable extraction machine — the standard kit for London flats, where a truck-mount hose cannot reach a fourth floor Every piece is fibre-tested and cleaned in the room it stands in, then dried with air movers before we leave.


Overview
This page prices upholstery cleaning for Dartmouth Park NW5 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 18% privately rented and 3,395 households in total. Work starts at £65, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Camden permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
How it works
Step 1
A hidden seam is tested for colour-fastness and shrinkage before the machine is switched on.
Step 2
Deep vacuum with an upholstery tool — most of what is in a London sofa is dry grit.
Step 3
Grease, food and body oils are treated individually and given dwell time.
Step 4
Hot-water extraction at controlled moisture, or a low-moisture pass on delicate fabrics.
Step 5
Pile groomed straight and air movers left running so nobody sits on a damp cushion.
Why choose us
£5m public liability, WoolSafe-approved chemistry on natural fibres and COSHH sheets on the van for everything else.
One technician with a portable extraction machine — the standard kit for London flats, where a truck-mount hose cannot reach a fourth floor. Steep gradients, resident permit bays and long communal stair runs in the conversions.
Next-day availability in most postcodes; end-of-tenancy jobs prioritised around check-out dates. Tufnell Park (Northern) is the nearest station, so a NW5 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in NW5, often with surface conduit, which is why London Borough of Camden kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded in NW5, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Dartmouth Park gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, where 45% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Two-seat sofa | £65 | 45–60 min | Hot-water extraction with a hand tool, both faces of every cushion, plus the frame and skirt. |
| Three-seat sofa | £85 | 60–90 min | More surface and usually more soiling at the arms and headrest, where hair products and hands land. |
| Corner or L-shape sofa | £130 | 2 hrs | Priced per seat rather than per item, because a five-seat corner is genuinely two sofas' worth of fabric. |
| Armchair or dining chair (each) | £25 | 15–25 min | Booked alongside a sofa; on their own they are quoted against the £65 minimum visit. |
| Mattress clean and sanitise, double | £55 | 40 min | Extraction plus a dust-mite treatment, which is the reason most London flats book it at all. |
Two-seat sofa
£65 · 45–60 min
Hot-water extraction with a hand tool, both faces of every cushion, plus the frame and skirt.
Three-seat sofa
£85 · 60–90 min
More surface and usually more soiling at the arms and headrest, where hair products and hands land.
Corner or L-shape sofa
£130 · 2 hrs
Priced per seat rather than per item, because a five-seat corner is genuinely two sofas' worth of fabric.
Armchair or dining chair (each)
£25 · 15–25 min
Booked alongside a sofa; on their own they are quoted against the £65 minimum visit.
Mattress clean and sanitise, double
£55 · 40 min
Extraction plus a dust-mite treatment, which is the reason most London flats book it at all.
Prices include VAT with a £65 minimum charge per visit. Fabric is tested in a hidden area first: velvet, viscose and some linens cannot take wet extraction, and where that is the case we say so and quote a low-moisture method instead of risking the piece.
Scope
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Coverage
Also in this area
Hot-water extraction for wool, synthetic and sisal, booked in the same visit as the sofa.
The whole-property clean most upholstery work is booked alongside at move-out.
Kitchen, bathrooms and every hard surface, top of the wardrobe to the skirting.
Sofas, beds and wardrobes taken away and reused or recycled wherever they still can be.
Working in Dartmouth Park
3,395 households sit inside the NW5 neighbourhood covering Dartmouth Park. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile social-housing-led, and 72% of those homes are flats.
The social-housing-led mix here (45% owned, 18% privately rented) means a NW5 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in NW5, often with surface conduit, which is why London Borough of Camden kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded behind the plaster in NW5. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Dartmouth Park gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, where 45% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the fault we are called back to undo.
Steep Victorian streets between Highgate Cemetery and the eastern edge of Hampstead Heath. That character decides the practical detail of upholstery cleaning here far more than the borough boundary does. Dartmouth Park sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: steep gradients, resident permit bays and long communal stair runs in the conversions. Tufnell Park (Northern) is the nearest station, and one technician with a portable extraction machine — the standard kit for London flats, where a truck-mount hose cannot reach a fourth floor.
Area at a glance
Who lives in Dartmouth Park and what they live in decides how upholstery cleaning is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Highgate West neighbourhood itself — not Camden-wide averages, and not estimates.
7,745
Residents
Highgate West neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,395
Households
Median age 41.9
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
35.3%
Privately rented
18.4%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Highgate West (E02000166) — the published geography that covers Dartmouth Park, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the NW5 district: 51.5517, -0.1451 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Two-seat sofa starts at £65 in Dartmouth Park on the Dartmouth Park rounds, with 72% of homes here being flats, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Seat count and fabric type set the price. Velvet, viscose and linen need the slower low-moisture method on the streets near Highgate Cemetery and Parliament Hill Fields, with this being a short walk from Tufnell Park (Northern), which takes longer than extraction on a synthetic weave.
Yes — corner and L-shape sofas near Highgate Cemetery and Parliament Hill Fields are priced per seat from £130, since a five-seat corner is genuinely two sofas' worth of fabric on this side of Camden — and this being London Borough of Camden territory, with 3,395 households on this patch. With 72% of Dartmouth Park homes being flats, access through the doorway is checked before the appointment, not on the day across NW5, with a median age of 42 in this neighbourhood.
We test a hidden seam first. Velvet, viscose and some linens can't take wet extraction on NW5 jobs, with a median age of 42 in this neighbourhood, so where that's the case we quote a low-moisture clean instead of risking the fabric.
Yes — a double mattress clean and sanitise is £55 and is often booked alongside the sofa for a NW5 tenancy check-out on Camden bookings, with 36% social-rented stock nearby — and Camden parking rules in play, which most London Borough of Camden inventory clerks look at closely.
Steep gradients, resident permit bays and long communal stair runs in the conversions on the Dartmouth Park rounds. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Camden it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards for Dartmouth Park (NW5) addresses — and 28% of Dartmouth Park homes being houses, with 72% of homes here being flats.
£5m public liability, WoolSafe-approved chemistry on natural fibres and COSHH sheets on the van for everything else on this side of Camden, with 28% of Dartmouth Park homes being houses. That paperwork is what most Camden letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat across NW5, with 36% social-rented stock nearby.
Guaranteed removal of dye stains, ink, bleach marks or old pet urine that has reached the foam; Leather restoration or re-colouring — we clean and condition, we do not re-dye; Re-upholstery, foam replacement or structural repair; Moving furniture between rooms or properties on this side of Camden, with this being a short walk from Tufnell Park (Northern). Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Dartmouth Park NW5 price you agree is the price you pay in this 72% flats neighbourhood, with 45% owner-occupation locally.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Dartmouth Park NW5 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of camden.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.