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Carpet cleaning cost calculator
Work out what carpet cleaning will cost from the number of rooms and the per-room rate, before the truck arrives. It applies the minimum charge on a small job and leaves room for the stain and pet treatments that are the real upsell once the technician is standing on your carpet.
Typical range $128 – $203
- Rooms (count × per-room rate)$150
- Stain, pet & protector treatments$0
- Stairs$0
- Total$150
What this assumes, and where it could be wrong
Every one of these is a place the number could be off. They are here because you should be able to check our working, not because we are hedging.
THE PER-ROOM PRICE IS THE HOOK; THE TREATMENTS ARE THE BILL.
Watch the definition of a room. Cheap per-room rates usually come with a size cap, and a large living room or a combined living-dining space is charged as two. A quote of five rooms for a house with big open spaces can arrive as seven. Ask what counts as a room before you compare two quotes.
The minimum charge rules a one or two-room job. Sending a truck, a machine, and a technician out has a floor, so cleaning a single room often costs the same as two or three. If you only need one room done, it is worth adding others to reach the value the minimum already buys.
Method changes the price and the dry time. Hot-water extraction (steam) is the common deep clean and takes hours to dry; low-moisture or encapsulation cleaning is faster to dry and sometimes cheaper, but is a lighter clean. If a quote is unusually low, check which method it is.
The carpet-cleaning defaults here are ours and editable, and the estimate turns most on the stain and pet treatments quoted on the day. The rooms, the rate, and the minimum are yours, and the estimate is only as good as the room count once the cleaner's size cap is applied.