One off deep cleaning in Southfields

A one off deep clean in Southfields starts at £186. That is two cleaners for three hours at £26 per cleaner per hour, plus £30 for the equipment and detergents we bring with us. It is a team job. There is a start and a finish rather than an ongoing arrangement, and it is what to book when a house has got ahead of you.

How the price works

The £30 kit charge comes off if you would rather we used your own machine and materials, which some people do for allergy reasons. Every figure above is for one visit. Nothing recurs and there is nothing to cancel afterwards.

Scale is the biggest single job in this postcode

Thames Water is hard here and it shows on glass first. We budget a solid half hour for the shower screen alone, longer where it has never had acid on it, and the kitchen glass, the kettle and the taps go the same way. Softened water is no help to a screen that already looks frosted. Acid gel and a plastic blade, plus time. We flag it on every deep clean quote in SW18, because it is the item most likely to turn a three hour job into a four hour one.

After the builders

Loft conversions and side return extensions are close to universal on the Grid now, and the clean that follows one is its own kind of work. Plaster dust keeps settling for a fortnight after the last trade has driven off, so a deep clean booked for the day the scaffold comes down will need doing again. Give it a week. We take dust off the tops of the doors, out of the window runners and off every radiator fin, and we bring a vacuum with a proper filter, since a domestic hoover puts fine plaster dust straight back into the room. Paint spots come off glass with a blade. Silicone smears usually do not.

The other reasons people book one

Before a valuation. After a long tenancy where the tenant stayed put and the place got tired. Before family arrive for a fortnight. After illness, which is far more common than people admit and needs no explaining to us. Around the Championships we also get owners of short lets who want the house turned round between two sets of guests, and those want booking weeks ahead because the whole fortnight fills.

Landlords use it between tenancies where the property is staying let rather than going back on the market, since there is no inventory clerk to satisfy and no fixed standard to hit, only a list of what actually bothers them. Usually the oven. Then the bathroom, and whatever has been living behind the washing machine.

How long two cleaners actually need

Three hours does a flat. It also does a tired two bedroom that has been kept reasonably. A three storey Grid house with a converted loft is realistically two cleaners for five hours, or three cleaners for three and a half if it has to be finished in a morning. We would rather quote the honest number on the phone and hear you say no than turn up, run out of time and leave a bathroom half done.

What cleaning will not fix

Etched shower glass. Scorch marks on a worktop. Dye transfer in a pale carpet under a rug that was never colourfast. Damp behind a wardrobe on a north wall, which returns because it is a ventilation problem rather than a dirt problem. We say which of these we can improve and which we cannot, and we say it before you have paid anything. We also do not clear rubbish, move furniture out of a property, or go up ladders outside, so a deep clean on a house that still needs emptying wants the house emptying first.

Where it sits against the other services

The regular service at £22 per cleaner per hour keeps a clean house clean. This one resets a house that has slipped. If you are moving out and the landlord wants a check-out standard then the fixed price end of tenancy clean is the right job instead, since it is priced on bedrooms and has an oven in it. Carpets can be added to any of them, priced per room on the carpet page. We take deep cleans across the borough at the same hourly rate, including the riverside flats at Wandsworth Town and the conversions in Putney. The rest of what we do is on the Southfields price list.

Questions we get asked

What does a one off deep clean cost in Southfields?

From £186, which is two cleaners for three hours at £26 per cleaner per hour plus £30 for kit and detergents. Two cleaners for four hours is £238 and three cleaners for three hours is £264. The £30 comes off if we use your own materials.

How is a deep clean different from regular cleaning?

A deep clean is a one off team visit that resets a property, charged at £26 per cleaner per hour with a two cleaner, three hour minimum. Regular cleaning is one cleaner on a rota at £22 an hour weekly. People ring asking for one and describing the other most weeks.

Do you clean after building work?

Yes, and loft conversions and side returns keep us in that work all year round here. Leave it a week after the last trade has gone, because plaster dust carries on settling and a clean done too early has to be repeated.

How long does a three storey Grid house take?

Two cleaners for about five hours, so £290 including the kit charge. Three cleaners get it done in three and a half if you need the house back by lunchtime. We quote the honest hours on the phone rather than starting low and adding later.

Do I need to be there?

Only to let us in and to lock up, and plenty of people leave a key instead. It helps if somebody walks round with us for five minutes at the start, because a deep clean is worth aiming at the things that actually bother you.