A carpet cleaner gets searched for after something has happened. A party, a puppy, a glass of red, a tenant moving out, or Christmas visitors due in a fortnight. The person typing “carpet cleaning Dublin” wants to know what a room costs, whether the stain will actually come out, how long until they can walk on it, and whether you can come Saturday. Websites for carpet cleaners in Dublin tend to show a stock photo of a machine and a phone number, and the customer who wanted a price at half ten at night has already texted someone else.
Price per room, and what changes it
Carpet cleaning is one of the few trades where you can put real prices on the page. A standard room, a living room, stairs and landing, a hall, a rug by size, a three-seater sofa, an armchair, a mattress. Customers understand per-room pricing and they add it up themselves. Say what changes the number: heavy soiling, pet odour treatment, stain protection, moving heavy furniture, a house that has to be done in one day for a handover.
A minimum charge is worth stating too. A single small bedroom across the city does not pay for the diesel and the hour, and the page can say so politely before the phone rings.
Say what will come out and what will not
Every carpet cleaner has stood in a sitting room explaining that a bleach mark is not a stain. The website can do that for you. A short section on what hot water extraction lifts well (general soiling, most food and drink, pet accidents caught early) and what it cannot fix (bleach, dye transfer, burns, wear in a hallway that has been walked on for twelve years) sets expectations before you arrive. Honest pages get better reviews, because nobody feels misled.
Drying time belongs here as well. People want to know whether they can walk on it tonight and when the furniture can go back. Give the range you usually see and what helps: heating on, windows open, your own air movers if you bring them.
The photo that does the selling
One picture matters more than any paragraph on a carpet cleaning site: the half-done shot. The room with a clean stripe through a grimy carpet, or the stairs with the top half done. Take it on every job you can, in the room’s own light, and ask the customer if you can use it (no address, no faces). Eight of those on the page and the stain question half answers itself. Upholstery before and afters work the same way, one sofa arm done and the other not.
If you run general house cleaning as well, the cleaners page covers how that sits alongside the carpet work without muddling the two.
Booked, deposited and reviewed
This is a trade where online booking earns its keep. A customer picks the rooms, the date and a morning or afternoon slot, and gets a text reminder the day before. For end-of-tenancy and whole-house jobs you take a deposit at booking, because a cancelled Saturday with the machine already in the van is a day gone.
After the job, a short text with a direct link to your Google review page, while the carpet is still damp and the customer is still delighted. There is a guide on taking deposits online in Ireland that covers the fair wording.
Landlords, agents and the end-of-August rush
Letting agents and landlords are the repeat customers in this trade. They want a receipt for the tenant file, a fixed price per property type, keys collected from the office, and the job done between one tenancy and the next. Late August and September are the heavy weeks, and a line on the page for agents, with a from price per apartment and house, brings in the contracts that keep the van moving in January.
The rest of the year has its own rhythm: a spring run as the light shows the carpets up, the pre-Christmas fortnight, and the first week of January for whatever happened over Christmas. The site carries a line for each, changed from your phone.
What we need from you
Your price list per room and per piece of furniture, your minimum charge, your drying time range, the areas you cover, and as many before and after photos as you have. If you offer stain protection or odour treatment, tell us what they are so we can explain them plainly. Ten minutes and we draft the rest.
Plan and cost
Complete fits a carpet cleaner with a full week: €1,499 to set up and €100 a month for bookings, deposits, card payment and review follow-up on top of the site and Google listing. A one-person operation that would rather take every job by phone is fine on Essentials at €499 and €50. The full comparison is on the pricing page.