A spring clean is one long visit for the London household jobs that come round once a year. The team is charged at £26 per cleaner per hour plus £30 for kit, from £186, and carpets or the oven can be added to the visit.
Through winter the heating is on, the windows stay shut and dust settles on everything above eye level. A spring clean deals with that in one visit, often in March or April when low sunshine shows every smear on the glass. It is planned around a list you write with us, room by room, so the hours go on the things you notice every day.
Jobs that come round once a year
These are the jobs a weekly cleaner skips because they only need doing every twelve months or so.
- Windows cleaned on the inside, with frames, sills and the runners of sash or sliding windows
- Skirting boards, door tops, picture rails and the top edges of wardrobes
- Behind and under the sofa, beds and sideboards that can be moved safely
- Radiators, including the gap behind each one
- Light fittings, lampshades and cobwebs in the ceiling corners
- Kitchen cupboards inside, after you have taken everything out
- Bathroom tiles, grout and the sealant round the bath
Outside windows, gutters and anything needing a ladder above head height stay off the list.
Planning a spring clean as one visit
A week before, walk round the home and note what bothers you in each room. Then mark the four or five jobs you would most hate to see missed. Send the list with your booking or read it out on the call, and we turn it into cleaners and hours. A two-bed flat with a full list is often two cleaners for five hours; a three-bed house is often three cleaners for most of a day.
On the day the team works down each room in order: ceiling corners and light fittings, then high shelves and door tops, then surfaces, then skirting, with floors last. Rooms getting their carpets washed are finished first so the carpet machine can follow straight on. Clear the tops of wardrobes you want dusted and empty the kitchen cupboards on the list before the team arrives. Curtains that are being cleaned on the visit stay on their hooks.
Adding carpets, curtains or the oven
Some yearly jobs need machines or methods a cleaning team does not use with cloths and a vacuum. Each is priced on its own and can be booked for the spring clean visit, so the home is finished in one go.
| Add-on | Price |
|---|---|
| Bedroom carpet | £36 |
| Living room carpet | £43 |
| Short curtains, a pair | £35 |
| Long curtains, a pair | £42 |
| Single oven | £77 |
Carpets are washed by hot water extraction with portable machines and need a few hours to dry, faster with a window open or the radiators warm; carpet cleaning explains what usually comes out and what may not. Curtains are cleaned where they hang, and curtain cleaning lists the fabrics we check first. The oven is cleaned in your kitchen, with its shelves and trays put into a tub to soak and the cavity, glass and seals cleaned by hand.
What a spring clean costs
Cleaning time costs £26 an hour for each cleaner on the team, and a kit charge of £30 covers the machines and products for the whole visit. No booking is smaller than two cleaners for three hours, which starts from £186. A two-bed flat booked for two cleaners over five hours pays for ten hours of cleaning plus the kit charge, and any carpets, curtains or oven go on top at the prices above.
If the team pays for street parking near you, that cost is passed on, never more than £40. Paying half as a deposit secures your date. Give 48 hours’ notice to move it and the deposit transfers to the new date.
Questions about spring cleaning
Is a spring clean the same as a deep clean?
A spring clean suits a home that is cleaned regularly and needs its yearly jobs done. A deep clean is for a home nobody has cleaned properly for a long stretch, where grease and limescale have to be cut back first. Both are charged at the same hourly rate plus kit.
Does a spring clean have to happen in spring?
A spring clean can be booked in any month. Autumn, before the heating goes on, works just as well. For a single visit with a lighter list, such as getting the flat ready for visitors, see one-off cleaning.
Will the team move heavy furniture during a spring clean?
The team moves what two people can lift safely, such as a sofa or a chest of drawers, and cleans behind and under it. Wardrobes, pianos and anything fixed to the wall stay where they are.