A deep clean is the heavy first clean for a London home that has gone a long while without one. Two or more cleaners work by the hour at £26 each, plus £30 for machines and products, from £186.
Book a deep clean when a regular cleaner would spend the first month only catching up: a flat bought from a long-term tenant, a family home after a year of night feeds and school runs or a relative’s house you are about to take over. The aim is to bring every surface back to a level that a weekly or fortnightly visit can then hold.
Price per cleaner per hour, plus kit
A deep clean is priced on how many cleaners come, how long they stay and one fixed charge for the kit they bring.
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Rate for each cleaner, by the hour | £26 |
| Kit charge, one per booking | £30 |
| Smallest deep clean: 2 cleaners, 3 hours | £186 |
As an example, two cleaners for five hours is ten cleaner-hours at £26, with £30 added once. The booking form has steppers for the team (two to four cleaners) and the hours (three to eight), and the total updates as you change them. We ring to agree the figures before anything is fixed; the date is then held with a 50% deposit, paid by card or bank transfer. If the team has to pay to park near you, the parking is added at cost up to £40.
Work a regular clean leaves behind
On a deep clean the team goes after the build-up a routine visit has no time for.
- Grease on cupboard doors and handles, on the tiles behind the hob and on the extractor hood
- Limescale on taps, plugholes, shower screens, shower heads and toilet bowls
- Inside kitchen cupboards and drawers, once you have emptied them
- Behind and under the fridge and cooker where they slide out
- Skirting boards, door frames, radiators and switch plates washed down
- Tile grout scrubbed in the kitchen and bathroom
- Window sills, frames and the inside of the glass
The inside of the oven needs its own tools and time, so it is booked as oven cleaning, either on the deep clean visit or another day.
How long a deep clean takes
| Home | Team | Hours on site |
|---|---|---|
| Studio flat | Two cleaners | 3 |
| One-bedroom flat | Two cleaners | 4 |
| Two-bedroom flat | Two cleaners | 5 to 6 |
| Three-bedroom house | Three cleaners | 6 |
| Four-bedroom house | Four cleaners | 6 to 8 |
These figures assume a home last cleaned thoroughly a long time ago. Thick grease, a lot of pet hair or rooms crowded with belongings push the hours up, and a kitchen in fair condition brings them down. On the call, tell us when the place last had a proper clean and which room bothers you most, and we size the team from that. If the hours run out before the list does, the team tells you what is left before anyone stays on.
Getting the home ready
Clear what you can from worktops, floors and the tops of units, since the team’s hours go further on cleaning than on moving belongings. Empty any kitchen cupboards you want cleaned inside and put the contents in another room. Defrost the freezer the night before if it is on the list. Water, power and heating must be on, and plenty of hot water helps most of all. Point out anything fragile and any surface that needs a particular product, such as limestone or unsealed wood.
Some marks will not shift on any deep clean. Limescale left on shower glass for years can etch it, grout can stay discoloured and burns on a worktop are permanent. The team will tell you when a mark is staying put, so you can decide whether to replace the part.
Questions about deep cleaning
Do I need to be in during a deep clean?
Being home for the first quarter of an hour of a deep clean lets you walk the team round and point out priorities. After that you can go out, as long as someone can lock up or the team knows how to leave the keys.
How often should a home have a deep clean?
Most homes need a deep clean once, to reset them, and after that a seasonal clean once a year is enough if a regular cleaner keeps on top of things. Spring cleaning covers that yearly visit, and one-off cleaning covers lighter single visits such as getting ready for guests. Both are priced the same way as a deep clean.
Is a deep clean the right booking after building work?
Fine dust from sanding and plastering settles on every ledge and needs repeated passes, so it has a separate rate of £30 per cleaner per hour plus £32. Book after builders cleaning after the last trade has left the house.