Carpet cleaning prices in Canada.

The short answer: Canadian carpet cleaners charge roughly $40 to $100 per room in 2026 (less per room in multi-room packages), or $0.20 to $0.50 per square foot. A typical three-to-four-room home lands around $150 to $300, and most established cleaners won't roll the truck for less than a minimum of about $150. Stairs, upholstery and pet treatments are priced on top. Here's what the market charges — and how to set your numbers.

Carpet cleaning prices across Canada (2026)

Per-room prices assume a normal residential room (most companies cap a "room" at about 200 square feet) and standard hot-water extraction:

Ranges compiled September 2026 from published prices, including Leronzo and Sam Carpet Cleaning (Toronto), Home Depot's Vancouver carpet cleaning service, Krystal Cleaning (Calgary) and Ménage NRJ (Montreal). Vancouver and Calgary per-room figures are package prices divided by rooms; Montreal's are converted from per-square-foot rates for a room of about 150 sq ft.

Per room, per square foot, or packages?

• Per room ($39–$100): what homeowners search for and understand. Put a size cap on a "room" — 200 square feet is common — and price living rooms, basements and open-concept spaces as larger rooms or two rooms. Without a cap, a 400-square-foot great room gets the bedroom price.
• Per square foot ($0.20–$0.50): fairer, and the norm for commercial and office carpet. Measure once, keep it on the client record, and every repeat quote takes seconds.
• Room bundles: "3 rooms for $99" (Calgary) or "2 rooms for $149" (Vancouver) style packages move volume and make the minimum feel like a deal. Bundle pricing only works if your per-room time is tight — make sure the third room still pays.
• Repeat-client discounts: Toronto's Leronzo publishes 5% off for six-monthly cleans, 10% quarterly and 15% monthly. Commercial and rental-property clients on a schedule are worth a discount; one-off homeowners aren't.

Stairs, upholstery, pet stains and the minimum

• Stairs: about $3 a step in package pricing, or roughly $50 to $85 a flight ($30 to $60 in Montreal). It's slow hand-tool work — charge for it every time.
• Upholstery: one Toronto price list puts a three-seat sofa at $110–$130, a loveseat at $69–$89, an armchair at $39–$49, a sectional at $240–$290 and a mattress at $79–$99. You're already set up in the house, so this is the easiest upsell in the trade.
• Pet stains and odour: enzyme spot and odour treatment commonly adds $25–$50. Saturated urine damage — through the carpet into the pad — is a separate, quoted job, not a line item.
• Minimum charge: Toronto companies publish $149–$150. Set yours at what a short job costs you door to door; a one-room call below that is paying you to drive.

Truck-mount vs portable: what it does to your price

Equipment is the biggest decision in this business, and it shows up in your rates. A portable extractor is the low-cost way in — US supplier DryMaster lists portables from about US$1,400 to over US$12,000, against US$10,000 to $30,000+ for a truck-mount system before the vehicle (expect higher prices in Canadian dollars). Truck-mounts bring more heat and suction, faster drying and faster jobs — but also engine servicing (DryMaster estimates about US$1.50 per production hour) and hose runs limited by parking access, which rules out many upper floors. Portables go through doors, hallways and elevators, including in condos, and need little more than filter cleaning and tank rinsing.

In practice: truck-mount operators tend to charge toward the top of the range and sell speed and dry time; portable operators compete in the middle and win on condo and apartment work. Either way, build the equipment payment into your per-room price rather than hoping volume covers it.

Setting your own rate

1. Time a real job, door to door. Setup, pre-spray, extraction, grooming, teardown and drive. If a three-room home takes two and a half hours all-in at $150, that's $60 an hour before chemicals, fuel and equipment.
2. Add your costs per job. Chemicals and pre-sprays, fuel, equipment payments and maintenance, and liability insurance. Over-wetting and colour bleed are the claims that happen in this trade, and damage to a client's property you're working on can fall under a care, custody and control exclusion — ask your broker, and see our small business insurance guide.
3. Set your floor and minimum. Your minimum is your floor for any visit. Your per-room price is what keeps a whole-home job above your target hourly rate.

Then position inside your city's range. Reviews, insurance, clear written pricing and a professional booking-and-invoice flow let you charge in the top third. If most quotes turn into bookings, you're too cheap.

When GST/HST starts to apply

Carpet and upholstery cleaning are taxable services, but you don't have to charge GST/HST until your revenue crosses $30,000 in a single calendar quarter or over four consecutive calendar quarters — the CRA's small-supplier threshold. A full-time cleaner doing five whole-home jobs a week at $200 is past it in well under a year, and commercial contracts get there faster. Once you're over, you register, add tax to every invoice, and remit it. Our plain-English GST/HST guide explains the rest.

Common questions

How much does carpet cleaning cost per room in Canada?

Most Canadian carpet cleaners charge roughly $40 to $100 per room in 2026, less per room in multi-room packages. Small bedrooms sit at the bottom of that range and large living rooms at the top. Toronto companies publish standard rooms from about $39 to $60 and living rooms from about $48 to $100; a Calgary operator advertises $39 for one room and $99 for three.

Should I charge per room or per square foot?

Per room is easier to sell to homeowners; per square foot is fairer and standard for commercial work. Many cleaners do both — a per-room price with a size cap (for example, rooms up to 200 square feet) and a per-square-foot rate for anything bigger. Toronto pricing of $0.39 per square foot and Montreal ranges of $0.20 to $0.50 give you a benchmark.

How much should I charge to clean stairs?

Canadian cleaners charge either per step (Home Depot's Vancouver service lists $3 a step) or per flight — $50 at one Calgary company and $65 to $85 at one Toronto company. Stairs are slow, hand-tool work, so don't let them become a free extra on a whole-home job.

What is a normal minimum charge for carpet cleaning?

Toronto companies publish minimums of about $149 to $150. A minimum exists because setup, travel and teardown cost the same whether you clean one room or five. Set yours at what one short job costs you in time, then price single-room calls up to it.

How much should I charge for pet stain and odour treatment?

Enzyme spot and odour treatment is commonly $25 to $50 as an add-on. Heavy urine contamination is a different job — sub-surface extraction, sometimes treating the pad — and should be quoted after inspection rather than added at a flat rate.

How much should I charge for upholstery cleaning?

One Toronto price list puts a three-seat sofa at $110 to $130, a loveseat at $69 to $89, an armchair at $39 to $49 and a sectional at $240 to $290. Upholstery is a strong add-on to a carpet job because you're already set up in the house.

Do I need to charge GST/HST on carpet cleaning?

Not until your business revenue passes $30,000 over four consecutive calendar quarters — the CRA small-supplier threshold. A cleaner doing five or six whole-home jobs a week at $200 crosses it within the year.

Carpet cleaning pairs naturally with regular cleaning work — see our house cleaning rates guide for what to charge for recurring cleans, and our guide to starting a cleaning business in Canada if you're just getting set up. Exterior add-ons for the same clients are covered in the window cleaning and pressure washing guides.