Professional cleaners in Bexley charge £23 an hour for a weekly clean, and an end of tenancy clean of a three-bedroom house starts at £339, with the cleaner bringing the products and machines to every part of the borough.
Houses dominate Bexley. Of its 95,300 households in 2021, 44.2 per cent lived in a semi, 23.6 per cent in a terrace and 7.4 per cent in a detached house, so fewer than one in four had a flat. The council’s Local Character Study finds most of the borough two storeys high, with the taller buildings mainly strung along the corridors that run through Erith, Crayford, Bexleyheath, Welling and Sidcup. A lot of it was put up in a single interwar rush: the number of residents went from 100,000 in 1931 to twice that a decade on.
For the cleaner, that means stairs on most visits. In a two-storey house the kitchen and the bathroom take the bulk of the hours, and the stair carpet and the landing are worth adding to the same booking.
Parking for a cleaner in Bexley’s two-hour zones
- of homes are flats
- 25%
- of households rent privately
- 15%
- own their home
- 69%
Census 2021
Bexley keeps commuters out of many residential streets by enforcing its parking zones for a two-hour stretch of the day, such as 10am until noon. Once that stretch is over, anybody can leave a car in the zone without paying, double yellow lines apart. Town centres work differently, with controls that last the whole day.
So the start time decides whether the cleaner needs a permit at all. A five-hour visit that begins at noon in a 10am to 12pm zone needs nothing. Start earlier and a visitor scratch card covers the day. Residents of a permit zone can buy those, ten to a book, and a firm is not allowed to, so it is you who buys the cleaner’s card. If neither works and the cleaner pays for a bay, we pass on exactly what was paid, capped at £40.
Very hard water and limescale in Bexley
Thames Water, the supplier here, blames the chalk and limestone its sources pass through and says nowhere in its region escapes hard water. Above 300 mg/l, measured as calcium carbonate, its label is very hard. Every Bexley postcode we put through its lookup came out above that line, from a 2025 mean of 304 mg/l in the Bexley and Blackfen zone to 355 mg/l in the Bexleyheath and Thamesmead zones.
Water that hard leaves a white crust round taps and plugholes and a haze on shower glass within a week or two. A regular cleaner takes it off on each visit, while it is still thin. Where it has built up for months, start with a deep clean. Each cleaner is £26 an hour and the machines and products £30 more; two cleaners for three hours is the least we book, from £186. The weekly or fortnightly visits then keep it down.
Letting a home in Belvedere and the rest of Bexley
Belvedere ward alone sits under selective licensing in Bexley, in a scheme that started on 13 January 2025 and ends on 12 January 2030. A landlord letting a house or flat there needs the licence and has twelve months from getting it to become an accredited landlord. Everywhere else, the council’s licensing page mentions only the mandatory HMO kind, for a home shared by five people or more, from two households or more.
Licence or no licence, the flat still has to be handed to the next tenant clean. Move-out cleans are priced on bedrooms, a studio from £156 and four bedrooms from £425, and the end of tenancy cleaning page lists what each covers. A single oven adds £31. Booked alongside, carpets cost £29 per bedroom and £36 for a living room.
Professional cleaning in Bexleyheath
- of homes are flats
- 22%
- of households rent privately
- 13%
- own their home
- 80%
Census 2021 · DA6, DA7
The old Roman road through Bexleyheath turned into a stretched-out, linear town centre, and the side streets leading off it run straight into interwar estates. Those estates appeared in the 1930s after big landholdings like the Danson Estate came up for sale, when volume builders planned entire neighbourhoods in one go and the newly electrified railway carried the buyers in. Most of those houses are lived in by their owners: 79.6 per cent of households in Bexleyheath ward owned their home in 2021.
A house you own and live in suits a fixed slot with the same cleaner each time. Regular domestic cleaning is £23 per hour if the cleaner comes every week and £24 per hour every two weeks, and no visit is shorter than 3 hours. A fixed day also makes the parking easy to plan. Zone A, the town centre, is enforced from 8.30am until 5.30pm on every day but Sunday, so professional cleaning there needs one of your visitor cards or a paid bay. By the station, zone G enforces just two weekday hours, 10am till noon, and a visit starting at twelve needs no card.
Professional cleaning in Sidcup
- of homes are flats
- 43%
- of households rent privately
- 19%
- own their home
- 63%
Census 2021 · DA14, DA15
Flats are much more common in Sidcup ward than in the borough at large, 42.7 per cent of households here against 24.7 per cent for Bexley. Around them stand large Victorian and Edwardian houses and the familiar 1930s suburbs, and the council files eight conservation areas under Sidcup, The Oval, Longlands Road, Christ Church and The Green among them. Once the railway reached Sidcup in 1866, late Victorian houses went up near The Green in small groups, each on roughly a quarter of an acre.
A plot that size can mean a lot of paving. Measure the patio and the paths before you ring: jet washing costs £4 per square metre and runs off your outside tap. Indoors, a one-off clean of a big period house is priced for at least two professional cleaners working together, at £26 each per hour.
Check your zone before picking a time. Near the station (zone B) and in West Sidcup (WS) the restrictions apply between 1pm and 3pm on weekdays, which suits a morning visit finished by one o’clock. In the town centre, zone S runs 9am to half past five, Mondays through Saturdays.
Professional cleaning in Erith
- of homes are flats
- 35%
- of households rent privately
- 17%
- own their home
- 56%
Census 2021 · DA8, DA17
Erith’s homes come from very different periods. The old town came down in stages from 1966 to 1980 while the centre was rebuilt, and the seven tower blocks of the old Larner Road estate made way for Erith Park, a mix of 587 houses and mid-rise flats completed in 2019, four-fifths of them affordable rent or shared ownership homes. The older Erith survives in the Lesney Park Road conservation area: what is left of the suburb Erith gained from the 1860s to the 1920s, Victorian and Edwardian, its big detached houses and semis on wide plots and its roads lined with grass verges and trees.
Those bigger houses carry a lot of floor. Carpet cleaning is priced room by room, £36 a bedroom and £61 for a through lounge, with hot water extraction from portable machines. Every Erith postcode we checked sits in a very hard Thames Water zone, the Thamesmead one averaging 355 mg/l in 2025, so professional cleaners working here descale taps and shower screens each time they come. In the Erith permit zone (ER), restrictions last two hours, from ten until twelve, Monday to Friday.
Professional cleaning in Welling
- of homes are flats
- 14%
- of households rent privately
- 15%
- own their home
- 79%
Census 2021 · DA16
Most of Welling’s houses came after the railway. North of the line, Bexley Urban District Council put up over 400 houses once the First World War was over, and when the Danson estate was later sold to developers the land south of the line filled with private suburbs. Flats are scarce: 14.1 per cent of households in Falconwood & Welling ward, the lowest of the six places on this page, and nearly four households in five are owner-occupied (79.3 per cent).
A family house with years of use behind it collects the jobs a weekly clean leaves alone, chiefly the sofa and the armchairs. Upholstery cleaning happens in the room where the furniture stands, once the care label has been read: a two-seater is £57, armchairs £33 apiece. Professional cleaning on a Saturday is harder to park for along the main road, because the Welling Town Centre zone (W) is enforced from nine till half past five through Saturday. Sunday has no controls there, and our phones and bookings run 8am to 7pm on Sundays too.
Professional cleaning in Crayford
- of homes are flats
- 28%
- of households rent privately
- 15%
- own their home
- 62%
Census 2021 · DA1
Crayford’s Vickers armaments works grew during the First World War from roughly 300 workers to 14,000. For them the firm put up the Crayford Garden Suburb on the east side of town, around Barnes Cray, and those houses are still lived in. Above the town centre on the hill is the Iron Mill Lane conservation area, with two sets of almshouses (1866 and 1910) and 19th-century semis and terraces sitting up on brick retaining walls over the cutting that carries the High Street.
A house set up above the road means the vacuum, the mop bucket and any carpet machine go up to the front door by hand, so mention steps when you book and the professional cleaners will allow for them. Crayford’s residents’ zone (E) is enforced for just two weekday morning hours, nine to eleven, so an 11 o’clock start needs no visitor card. If the kitchen has gone a while without attention, a single oven starts at £77 as an oven clean on its own. Racks, trays and other loose parts sit soaking in a tub in your kitchen, and meanwhile the inside walls, the door glass and the rubber seal are done by hand.
Professional cleaning in Bexley Village
- of homes are flats
- 20%
- of households rent privately
- 12%
- own their home
- 76%
Census 2021 · DA5, DA14
Old Bexley began at a crossing of the River Cray, where old routes met, and the council made it a conservation area in February 1971. Timber-framed buildings survive on the High Street, the King’s Head among them. When the railway cut through the village in 1866, smaller houses followed on new Victorian streets, Albert Road and Salisbury Road for example. On the terraces east of the line, Article 4 directions mean changes to windows, doors and wall and roof materials need the council’s say-so, so the frames there are worth protecting: the cleaner wipes painted frames and sills with a damp cloth and keeps scrapers off them.
Across the village, Parkhurst is one of the early commuter estates, laid out from 1869 until around 1885 with curving roads, broad plots and big front gardens. A front garden of that size is a job in itself, and garden tidy-ups are priced on a call. For professional cleaning indoors, parking is simple here: the Bexley Village zone (H) is controlled for a single hour, ten to eleven on weekday mornings.
Questions about professional cleaning in Bexley
Can the cleaner park on the yellow lines outside a Bexley house?
Only with a parking dispensation, unless it is a single yellow line outside the zone’s controlled hours. Bexley accepts applications from anyone whose work needs continuous access to a building, charges per vehicle by the day or by the week and wants a working day’s notice as a minimum. The dispensation is for single and double yellow lines; it does not stretch to pay and display, disabled or permit bays, and on red routes TfL makes the call. For an ordinary clean it is simpler to start outside your zone’s controlled hours or leave a visitor scratch card.
Can I buy visitor scratch cards for the cleaner in a Bexley town centre zone?
Yes, if you live in the zone. The town centre zones in Welling, Sidcup and Bexleyheath are enforced all day, Monday to Saturday, and a book of ten cards for them costs more than a book for one of the two-hour zones. No business can buy the cards, so the cleaner cannot turn up with one. Without a card, what the cleaner spends on parking appears on your bill as spent, never more than £40.
Do listed and conservation-area houses in Bexley need a different kind of clean?
The housework is the same, done with more care where the house is older. Bexley has 23 conservation areas. Its listed buildings and structures number more than 150, and around 400 more are on the local list. Tell us on the call about anything delicate, such as a waxed floor, old timber or a painted surface that marks easily, and the cleaner keeps to a dry or barely damp cloth there and steers clear of anything you want left untouched.