TL;DR: Carpet cleaning in Point Cook costs $45 per standard room, $90 for a master bedroom or living room, $25 per hallway and $60 per staircase, with a $150 minimum per visit. A three-bedroom home with a lounge and hallway comes to about $295. Pet urine treatment adds $40 per affected room. Every job is quoted up front, and we honour that quote on the day.
Ask three carpet cleaners how much carpet cleaning costs and you’ll get three answers — none of which is really a price. You’ll get “depends on the rooms,” or a number so low you know something’s coming later. It’s the most common frustration people tell us about before they book.
So we’re going to do the thing most cleaners won’t, and put our actual prices on the page.
We’re a small family business in Point Cook, and we’ve been cleaning carpets across Melbourne’s west for years. Our pricing is simple enough to explain in one paragraph — which is deliberate. If a price list needs a sales conversation to make sense, it isn’t a price list.
Below you’ll find exactly what we charge, worked examples for real Point Cook homes, what makes a job cost more, and an honest note on why the cheapest quote in your inbox often isn’t the cheapest job.
How much does carpet cleaning cost in Point Cook?
Carpet cleaning with Green Lion costs $45 per standard room, $90 for a master bedroom or living room, $25 per hallway and $60 per staircase. There’s a $150 minimum for any visit. Pet stain and odour treatment is $40 extra per affected room. That’s the whole list.
A few notes on how those rates work.
A “standard room” is a normal bedroom, study or similar. A master bedroom is charged at $90 because it’s usually close to double the floor area of a spare room — and it takes about twice as long to do properly.
Living room covers your lounge, family room or rumpus. It’s the same $90 rate for the same reason. If your home has both a lounge and a separate family room, that’s two rooms at $90 each.
Hallways are $25. They’re small in area — but they take the heaviest foot traffic in the house, so they almost always need doing.
Staircases are $60. A staircase is slower than its floor area suggests: every tread and riser has to be done by hand, and the edges where the carpet meets the nosing collect the worst of the grime. Plenty of the newer double-storey homes around Point Cook and Tarneit have one, so it’s worth factoring in.
For context, most Melbourne carpet cleaners charge somewhere between $26 and $52 per room, averaging around $37. We sit toward the upper end of that band — and we’d rather say so plainly than pretend otherwise. What you get for it is a proper hot-water extraction clean, eco-friendly and pet-safe products, and a quote that doesn’t move once we’re in your driveway.
What does the $150 minimum actually cover?
The $150 minimum is the smallest amount we charge for a visit, and it’s inclusive. Every line on your job counts toward it, including pet treatment. So if your rooms add up to less than $150, you pay $150. If they add up to more, you just pay the total.
Here’s why that matters in practice. Three standard bedrooms come to $135, which is under the minimum, so that job costs $150 rather than $135.
The reason is simple. Whether we’re cleaning two rooms or eight, the visit involves the same drive, the same setup, the same equipment and the same pack-down — every time. Below a certain size, a job costs us the same to turn up to.
Most Melbourne cleaners work the same way, with minimum call-out fees typically landing between $80 and $120. Ours is higher — and that’s a deliberate choice: we’d rather do fewer jobs properly than rush through more of them.
The practical upshot is that larger jobs get better value. Once you’re past the minimum, every extra room is charged at its plain rate with nothing added on top.
What a typical Point Cook home costs
Here’s the maths for the homes we clean most often around Point Cook, Werribee and Tarneit.
| Home | How it adds up | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2 bedrooms | $45 + $45 = $90, under minimum | $150 |
| 3 bedrooms (one master) | $90 + $45 + $45 | $180 |
| 2 bedrooms + lounge + hallway | $45 + $45 + $90 + $25 | $205 |
| 3 bedrooms (one master) + lounge + hallway | $90 + $45 + $45 + $90 + $25 | $295 |
| 4 bedrooms (one master) + lounge + hallway | $90 + $45 + $45 + $45 + $90 + $25 | $340 |
| Double-storey: 4 bedrooms (one master) + lounge + hallway + staircase | $90 + $45 + $45 + $45 + $90 + $25 + $60 | $400 |
A standard three-bedroom home with a lounge and hallway, which is the most common job we quote in Point Cook, lands at $295.
If one of those rooms needs pet urine treatment, add $40 for that room. So the same home with one affected bedroom comes to $335.
These are real totals — not “from” prices. There’s no travel surcharge inside our service area, no weekend loading, and no equipment fee.
Why is pet urine treatment charged separately?
Pet urine treatment is $40 per affected room because it’s a genuinely different job from cleaning. It uses an enzyme product that breaks urine down at the source, it needs more dwell time, and it often means treating the underlay rather than just the surface fibres.
We’re upfront that this one is an extra, because plenty of cleaners quote a low base rate and then add pet treatment on the day — when you’re least able to say no.
General sanitising and deodorising is included in every clean at no extra cost, as is treating common organic stains like coffee, wine and food. It’s specifically urine that’s charged separately.
The reason is what urine does. It soaks through the carpet into the underlay and sometimes the subfloor — so surface cleaning simply moves the smell around. Enzyme treatments work by breaking down the compounds causing the odour rather than masking them, and they keep working for a day or two after we leave.
If you’ve got a pet that’s had repeat accidents in one spot, our pet stain and odour treatment is what actually fixes it. We’ve rescued a lot of carpets that owners had already written off.
Why the cheapest quote often isn’t
A $99 whole-house special is not the same product as a proper clean, and the difference usually shows up in one of three ways.
Over-wetting. Cheap or rushed cleaning pumps water in without extracting it properly. The carpet looks fine on the day — then a musty smell appears a week later because the underlay never dried. It’s one of the most common reasons people call us, and we wrote a whole post on why carpets start smelling damp.
Add-ons on the day. The quote covers “cleaning,” then stain treatment, deodorising and pet treatment each appear as line items once the machine is already running.
Drying time. Our carpets are touch-dry in 4 to 6 hours. If you need a room back faster, our low-moisture dry cleaning gets it usable within the hour, which suits offices and busy households.
We’re not the cheapest quote you’ll get — and we don’t try to be. What we do is tell you the number before we start and stick to it.
How often should you get carpets professionally cleaned?
For most homes, every 6 to 12 months. Go toward the shorter end if you have pets, young kids, or high-traffic areas, and at least once a year regardless. Regular cleaning lifts out the grit that grinds down carpet fibres — which is what actually wears a carpet out.
There’s a warranty angle worth knowing too. Many carpet manufacturers require documented professional cleaning at set intervals to keep a warranty valid, and claims can be refused without proof of service. Worth checking your own paperwork — terms vary by brand.
We provide a receipt for every job, which covers you for warranty claims and for your property manager at the end of a lease.
Getting a price for your home
If your place matches one of the rows in the table above, that’s your price. If it doesn’t, the quickest way to get a real number is to call and tell us your rooms.
Ring 03 4328 5637 for a free phone quote, or send your details through the online booking form. We’ll give you a total before we start — and that’s the total you’ll pay.
One last thing that saves everyone time on the day: we clean around whatever furniture is in place — and we don’t move it ourselves. If you’d like the carpet under a bed, lounge or dining table done, move those pieces before we arrive. Everything else we’ll work around.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does carpet cleaning cost for a 3-bedroom house in Point Cook?
A three-bedroom home where one room is a master costs $180 for the bedrooms alone. Add a lounge and hallway and it comes to $295. If any room needs pet urine treatment, add $40 for that room.
Is there a minimum charge for carpet cleaning?
Yes, $150 per visit. It’s inclusive, so everything on your job counts toward reaching it. Three standard bedrooms come to $135, so that job is charged at the $150 minimum.
Do you charge extra for stain removal?
Common organic stains like coffee, wine and food are treated as part of the standard clean at no extra charge, along with general sanitising and deodorising. Pet urine is the exception, at $40 per affected room, because it needs enzyme treatment and extra dwell time.
How much does end-of-lease carpet cleaning cost?
The same per-room rates apply, so a three-bedroom home with a lounge and hallway is $295. We clean carpets and upholstery only, not the rest of the property, so you’ll need a separate cleaner for kitchens, bathrooms and windows. We provide a receipt for your property manager. Note that under Victorian rental rules, a lease clause demanding professional carpet cleaning is generally only enforceable if the carpets were professionally cleaned before you moved in.
How long does carpet take to dry after cleaning?
Most carpets are touch-dry within 4 to 6 hours. Our low-moisture dry cleaning option brings that down to about an hour, which is useful if you need the room back quickly or you’re cleaning a workspace.