Professional cleaning in Hammersmith and Fulham

In 2021 the borough’s households split almost evenly three ways: private tenants 36.4 per cent, owners 32.1 per cent and social tenants 29.8 per cent, plus 1.5 per cent in shared ownership. The council renewed both of its discretionary licensing schemes for five years from 5 June 2022. Additional HMO licensing applies on every street, to any home shared by three people or more who are not all one household. Selective licensing, which catches ordinary lets to one household, was cut back at the renewal from 128 streets to 24.

Wood Lane and Wandsworth Bridge Road are on that list of 24, as are Uxbridge Road, King Street, New King’s Road and North End Road. By the council’s account both schemes run until 4 June 2027.

When a let ends, an end of tenancy clean follows the inventory one room after another. It is priced on bedrooms: a studio starts at £156 and a four-bedroom home at £425. A shared house whose lounge has become a bedroom is priced room by room on a call. The oven (£31) and the carpets (£29 a bedroom) can go on the same booking.

Hammersmith centre and its edges take in several conservation areas, among them Hammersmith Grove, St Peter’s Square, Westcroft Square, The Mall, Ravenscourt & Starch Green and Hammersmith Town Hall, which used to be called King Street East. In Hammersmith Broadway, Grove and Ravenscourt wards, roughly one household in five (19.7 per cent) has a terraced house.

Landlords should check the street name. King Street, Dalling Road, Talgarth Road, Goldhawk Road and Shepherd’s Bush Road are selective licensing streets, and every private let on those roads must be licensed until 4 June 2027. Some W6 addresses are outside the borough altogether: part of the district lies in Chiswick Homefields, a Hounslow ward, and Hounslow’s parking and licensing rules govern it.

Hammersmith Bridge, the Grade II* listed suspension bridge of 1887, shut completely in 2020 when micro-fractures were found. Its main carriageway reopened in April 2025 for people walking, cycling or using a wheelchair or e-scooter, so a cleaner arriving by car from the south uses a different bridge.

For a terrace or a flat on a regular domestic clean, professional cleaning is £23 an hour each week, with every visit 3 hours or longer.

West of Shepherd’s Bush Green the terraces are mostly three and four storeys high, built late in the 19th century, and many have been split into small flats. Converted-house flats account for 30.0 per cent of households across Shepherd’s Bush Green, Coningham and Wendell Park wards, and social renting for 35.1 per cent.

Parking near the Green is tightly controlled. Zone G is controlled seven days a week, 9am to 10pm, including bank holidays other than Christmas Day and Easter Sunday. Nobody may pay and display for longer than two hours, and from 6.30pm to 8pm all bays are reserved for permit holders. Any clean longer than two hours there needs your visitor session.

Lime Grove, Woodstock Grove, Bloemfontein Road, Coningham Road, Askew Road, Goldhawk Road and Uxbridge Road are all selective licensing streets. When a small flat let furnished changes tenant, professional cleaning of a studio starts at £156, and an oven clean on that visit adds £31. Booked separately, a single oven starts at £77; the shelves soak in a tub while the cleaner works on the oven’s inside by hand.

An Irish builder, James Nichols, put up most of the Studdridge Street terraces from 1888, on wide streets with front gardens bigger than usual. Look up and many have terracotta lion finials, a good number of them painted white since. The cottages on Sandilands Road, also 1880s, are plainer artisan houses. Terraced houses are home to 43.6 per cent of households in Parsons Green & Sandford, the top figure for any ward in the borough (18.8 per cent borough-wide), and owners are 49.3 per cent.

A family terrace that its owners live in suits a regular cleaner, and the front garden can join in now and then: a paved or tiled path is jet washed at £4 a square metre.

Selling works a little differently here, because part of the Parsons Green conservation area bans estate agent boards under a Regulation 7 direction. Before the first viewing, a one-off clean is booked by the hour, and professional cleaners can do the carpets on that visit too.

Brook Green’s housing is mostly Victorian townhouses, its streets are lined with trees, and Blythe Road and Shepherd’s Bush Road have the shops. The green itself is ringed mostly by three-storey buildings, and the council’s profile picks out two red brick mansion blocks from the late Victorian years: four-storey Phoenix Lodge Mansions, and Queen’s Mansions at No. 12, from 1896, which adds an attic to its four storeys and is locally listed.

Nearly a third of households in Brook Green ward (31.9 per cent) have a flat within a converted house, and 43.7 per cent rent privately. Both shopping streets appear on the selective licensing list until 4 June 2027, so a private let on either needs a licence.

At the end of a let in a one-bedroom conversion, professional cleaners charge from £207, and the living room carpet adds £36. In a four-storey mansion block, say which floor the flat is on and if a lift serves it, as the machines and cleaning kit go up with the cleaner.