Kensington and Chelsea’s 66,884 households live mostly in flats, and a regular cleaner for one costs £23 an hour weekly or £24 an hour fortnightly, with a three-hour minimum visit.

A deep clean is £26 per cleaner-hour plus £30 for equipment and detergents. The minimum is two cleaners for three hours, which comes to £186, and any one-off job starts at £67. Moving out is a fixed price by size, from £156 for a studio to £425 for four bedrooms, and every figure sits on the price list. On one-off cleans, street parking is added at whatever the bay costs on the day and never more than £40; in this borough that always means a pay-by-phone bay or a car park, because the council issues no visitor vouchers and no trade permits.

Homes in the Royal Borough

At the 2021 Census 82.9% of households here lived in flats: 56.7% in purpose-built blocks and 23.5% in houses that have been converted or are shared. Terraced houses made up 12.8% and semi-detached homes just 3.1%. For a cleaner, lifts, communal stairs, porters and entry codes matter far more than gardens or driveways, so put anything like that on the form (a lift that has to be booked, a concierge who signs people in).

Age is the other thing. The council counts over 3,800 listed buildings, and its 38 conservation areas cover nearly three quarters of the borough. In a listed building even small works, such as taking up floorboards or changing a cornice, skirting or fireplace, need listed building consent. The cleaner moves nothing fixed: cornices get a soft brush, fireplace surrounds a damp cloth, and anything loose or cracked is left alone and pointed out to you.

The district pages go further into each part of the borough. Chelsea, Notting Hill and Earl’s Court each have their own page on the homes, the parking and the council rules there.

A regular clean, room by room

The kitchen comes first: worktops, the hob, the outside of the oven, fridge and microwave, the sink and taps, cupboard fronts and then the floor. Thames Water says all the water in its region is hard, and limescale is what hard water leaves, so in the bathroom the cleaner gives the taps, the shower screen and the base of the toilet longer than a new customer tends to expect.

Living rooms and bedrooms are dusted from the top down, cornice and high shelves before tables and skirting, so nothing falls on a surface already done. Beds get changed if you leave clean linen out. Hoovering and mopping come last, working back towards the front door. In a converted house the cleaner does the stairs inside your flat; the communal hall is normally the managing agent’s job, so say on the form if you want it included.

We try to send the same cleaner each week or fortnight. That way they learn the flat, where things live and which jobs you care about most.

Deep cleans, moving out, carpets and ovens

A deep clean suits the visit before a regular rota starts, or a home that has gone a long time without one. Two or more cleaners spend the time on what a weekly visit skips: inside cupboards and drawers, behind furniture that can be moved, door frames, radiators, extractor grilles and the scale built up on glass. We bring the equipment and the products; you keep the water and electricity on.

Close to four in ten households in the borough rent privately (39.6% at the Census), and shared houses with three or more people from two or more households need the council’s additional HMO licence, which covers the whole borough from 1 June 2023 to 31 May 2028. When a tenancy ends, the end of tenancy clean is fixed by size, £207 for one bedroom and £243 for two. If the inventory clerk or letting agent marks something we cleaned, tell us within 48 hours and we come back to put it right at no charge.

Carpet cleaning is hot water extraction, priced by the room from £36 for a bedroom; rugs are cleaned where they lie, and drying usually takes a few hours depending on ventilation. An oven clean is £77 for a single oven, or £31 added to a moving-out clean: racks, trays and shelf supports soak while the cavity, glass and seals are cleaned by hand in your kitchen, and the oven is usable the same evening.

Furniture left behind after a move is a council matter here. Its Too Big for the Bin service collects up to 10 bulky items from a residential property for £44, while private landlords and managing agents are sent to the commercial waste service, and anything left on the pavement can be treated as fly-tipping.

Booking and parking in W8, SW7 and the rest of the borough

Send the form or ring 020 3734 1438; you can ring any time, and we work from 8am to 7pm, seven days. We ring back to agree the date and check the price against the home itself. A 50% deposit secures the date and the rest is paid once the clean is done.

Parking is the part people forget. During controlled hours a visitor here has a pay-by-phone bay or an off-street car park and nothing else, since the council says no part of the borough is uncontrolled. Bays cost from £1.90 to £8.40 an hour depending on the tariff zone and the vehicle’s fuel, plus 10p a session. For a long job in W8 there is the public car park under Kensington Town Hall in Hornton Street (W8 7NX), open 24 hours. Outside controlled hours anyone may park free in resident bays, pay-by-phone bays and on single yellow lines, so a clean that runs into the evening needs less paid time.

Questions about cleaning in Kensington and Chelsea

How much is a weekly cleaner in Kensington?

£23 an hour for a weekly visit and £24 for fortnightly, with a three-hour minimum, so a weekly visit starts at £69. The £67 starting charge applies to one-off work, not to a regular rota.

Do you clean in listed buildings?

Yes. The council says works as small as removing floorboards or changing a cornice need listed building consent, so the cleaner keeps to dusting, wiping, hoovering and mopping and never lifts, unscrews or alters anything fixed. Mention delicate finishes when you book.

Can the cleaner use my visitor permit?

There is nothing to use. Kensington and Chelsea issues no visitor vouchers and cannot offer permits to businesses or visitors, so during controlled hours the cleaner pays by phone or uses a car park, and on one-off cleans that cost is passed on as set out above.

Which postcodes does the Royal Borough cover?

Mainly W8, SW5, SW7, SW3 and W11, with parts of W10, W14, SW10, W2, SW1W and W9. We clean in every London borough, so an address on the edge is covered whichever council it falls under.

Should the first visit be a deep clean?

Usually, if the flat has not had a thorough clean for months. Two cleaners clear the backlog from £186, and the regular cleaner then keeps it at that level in three hours a visit.

Ring 020 3734 1438 or send the form, and we will call back with a price for your Kensington home.

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Cleaning services for homes in Kensington and Chelsea