Islington · EC1V · Upholstery cleaning
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Old Street fitters · Fixed written pricesUpholstery cleaning for Old Street (EC1V) households — 4,949 of them, 98% in flats. From £65 fixed, one technician with a portable extraction machine — the standard kit for London flats, where a truck-mount hose cannot reach a fourth floor Insured cleaners, fabric-matched products, and air movers left running until the piece is touch-dry.
Overview
This page prices upholstery cleaning for Old Street EC1V specifically: post-war stock, 28% privately rented and 4,949 households in total. Work starts at £65, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Islington 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
We expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — the pattern behind 4,949 households inside the EC1V neighbourhood in EC1V, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in EC1V, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — with 52% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first.
£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. Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards.
Next-day availability in most postcodes; end-of-tenancy jobs prioritised around check-out dates. Old Street (Northern, Great Northern) is the nearest station, so a EC1V visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
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 Old Street
Walk Old Street from Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground outwards and the post-war pattern is obvious: 98% of the 4,949 households in EC1V live in flats, 2% in houses.
28% of households rent privately and 19% own, which is why upholstery cleaning demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — the pattern behind 4,949 households inside the EC1V neighbourhood behind the plaster in EC1V. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in EC1V, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — with 52% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Old Street: the roundabout, tech offices and warehouse conversions on the City fringe. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Old Street 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: red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards. Old Street (Northern, Great 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 Old Street 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 Old Street & St Luke's neighbourhood itself — not Islington-wide averages, and not estimates.
10,675
Residents
Old Street & St Luke's neighbourhood, Census 2021
4,949
Households
Median age 31.5
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
38.9%
Privately rented
28.3%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Old Street & St Luke's (E02000576) — the published geography that covers Old Street, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the EC1V district: 51.5268, -0.0978 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Two-seat sofa starts at £65 in Old Street across EC1V, with 4,949 households on this patch, 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 EC1V jobs, with this being London Borough of Islington territory, which takes longer than extraction on a synthetic weave.
Yes — corner and L-shape sofas near Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground are priced per seat from £130, since a five-seat corner is genuinely two sofas' worth of fabric across EC1V — and 98% of homes here being flats, with 2% of Old Street homes being houses. With 98% of Old Street homes being flats, access through the doorway is checked before the appointment, not on the day on the Old Street rounds, with Islington parking rules in play.
We test a hidden seam first. Velvet, viscose and some linens can't take wet extraction for Old Street (EC1V) addresses, with this being London Borough of Islington territory, 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 EC1V tenancy check-out across EC1V — and this being a short walk from Old Street (Northern, Great Northern), with 2% of Old Street homes being houses, which most London Borough of Islington inventory clerks look at closely.
£5m public liability, WoolSafe-approved chemistry on natural fibres and COSHH sheets on the van for everything else on the streets near Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground, with 2% of Old Street homes being houses. That paperwork is what most Islington letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat on EC1V jobs, with 52% 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 in Old Street — and 28% of EC1V homes being privately rented, with this being London Borough of Islington territory. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Old Street EC1V price you agree is the price you pay on this side of Islington, with a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood.
All three. With 28% of Old Street privately rented and 19% owner-occupied, roughly half the EC1V diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door for Old Street (EC1V) addresses — and this being London Borough of Islington territory, with a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Old Street EC1V jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of islington.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
