Regular domestic cleaning with Professional Cleaning London is £23 per hour for weekly visits and £24 per hour for fortnightly ones. We book 3 hours as the shortest visit, which puts a minimum weekly clean at £69.
Domestic cleaning is the routine kind of clean. One cleaner keeps a fixed weekday slot, every week or every other week, and keeps the home in order while you are out at work. You pay for the hours the cleaner spends in your home, and those hours are agreed with you before the first visit.
Weekly and fortnightly rates
The hourly rate depends on how often the cleaner comes. A home cleaned every seven days has less built-up dirt each time, so the weekly rate is the lower one.
| Regular visit | Price |
|---|---|
| Every week | £23 per hour |
| Every other week | £24 per hour |
| Shortest visit | 3 hours |
| Weekly visit of 3 hours | £69 |
Fortnightly homes often need an extra hour to catch up on two weeks of dust and limescale. Even so, four hours every other week adds up to fewer hours a month than three hours every week, which is why plenty of couples in one-bed flats choose fortnightly. When the cleaner has to pay for a meter bay or a parking app near you, we pass that cost on, capped at £40. Half the first booking is taken as a deposit by card or bank transfer to hold your start date. Every rate we charge is listed on the prices page.
Hours to book for a London flat
The 3-hour minimum is enough for a studio or one-bed flat on a weekly visit, with a little time left for an extra job. A two-bed flat with one bathroom usually needs three hours weekly or four fortnightly. Add roughly an hour for a second bathroom, a dog that sheds or a kitchen that cooks for a family every night.
Homes over two or three floors take longer because of the stairs and landings; the house cleaning page sets out hours for houses by size. If the first visit runs out of time, the cleaner will say which rooms were left, and the hours can go up from the following week. Where grease and limescale have been building since the last tenants left, start with a one-off deep clean, so the regular hours go on upkeep from week one.
Keeping the same cleaner
Each regular home is matched with one cleaner, and we keep that cleaner on your day wherever possible. After two or three visits the cleaner knows which tiles show water marks, how you like the beds made and which room to leave alone when someone works from home. Our cleaners are self-employed, and each one is vetted and trained before working in a customer’s home.
When your usual cleaner is ill or on holiday, the office rings you first. You can take a different cleaner on the usual day or move the visit to a day when your own cleaner is free. If the match does not suit you for any reason, ask for a change.
What a regular visit covers
Every visit works through the same core list, then one extra job from a short rota you agree with the cleaner.
- Kitchen worktops, splashback, hob top, sink and the outside of the appliances
- Bath, shower and screen, basin, toilet, taps and mirrors
- Shelves, sills, picture frames and switches dusted, plus skirting within reach
- Vacuuming through every carpeted room, then a mop over the hard floors
- Bins emptied; beds made up, or changed when clean sheets are left on top
Rota jobs are things like the inside of the microwave, the fridge shelves, the inside of the kitchen windows or the tops of the wardrobes, one each visit. Cleaning inside the oven is booked on its own. Ironing can be added to the visit as extra time, priced on a call; see ironing at home for how that works.
Products, keys and holidays
The cleaner brings the products and equipment. If a surface needs something particular, such as a marble worktop or an oiled wooden floor, leave that product out with a note. Please leave the water, electricity and heating switched on. Most people are in for the first visit to show the cleaner round, then sort out access for later weeks: a spare key left next door, the code for a lockbox or a word with the concierge. Keys are not kept at an office.
For a holiday or a change of day, regular visits follow the same terms as any booking. With 48 hours’ notice the deposit is refunded or moved to the new date; with less notice, £50 is kept. Switching between weekly and fortnightly, or adding an hour, starts from the next visit. The office phones are answered 8am to 7pm, Monday to Sunday.
Questions about domestic cleaning
Does someone have to stay in while the regular cleaner works?
Nobody has to stay in once the regular cleaner has been shown round. Most customers are there for the first visit and after that leave access through a neighbour, a lockbox or the building’s concierge.
Can I change what the cleaner does from week to week?
Yes. Leave a note with the one or two things that matter most that week, such as the spare room before guests arrive, and the cleaner will start there. Jobs that need more time than the visit allows can be covered by adding an hour.
Is weekly or fortnightly cleaning better for a one-bed flat?
For one person who is out all day, fortnightly cleaning is usually enough for a one-bed flat. Weekly suits a flat with a pet, young children or someone working from home, where the kitchen and floors get used all day.