Cleaning services for flats and homes in Shoreditch

Nearly every Shoreditch home is a flat (95.9% in Hoxton East & Shoreditch ward), some inside converted warehouses, and a weekly cleaner for one costs £23 an hour with three hours as the shortest visit.

Homes in Hoxton East & Shoreditch ward

The ward had 5,382 households at the 2021 Census. 83.5% of them live in purpose-built blocks. Another 6.7% live in a converted building such as an old warehouse, church or school, about double the Hackney figure of 3.4%, and 3.7% have a flat inside a commercial building. Terraced houses are rare at 2.4%. Private renting (40.6%) and social renting (40.0%) are almost level, and only 16.5% of households own their home.

The conservation areas explain the mix. South Shoreditch, first designated in 1991 and extended in 2019 and 2021, takes its character from the 19th-century furniture and printing trades, whose workshops and warehouses still line its streets. Hoxton Street, designated in 1983, keeps a market street with some 18th-century houses and terraces of three and four storeys with old shopfronts, surrounded by much larger council estates. Hoxton Square, Charles Square and Windsor Terrace are protected London Squares. The council also notes how quickly the area has changed, with schemes such as Principal Place built at a City scale beside the older streets.

A warehouse flat puts the cleaning time in different places from a block flat. Exposed brick sheds dust onto the surfaces below it, timber floors run the length of the room and the ceilings are high. Tell us about a mezzanine or an open stair when you book, so the hours are right from the start.

Inside a regular visit and a deep clean

A regular visit works through the kitchen, the bathroom, the bedrooms and the living space in that order, so finished floors stay clean: surfaces and appliance fronts wiped, the hob and sink cleaned, dusting from shelf height down, beds made and the floors vacuumed and mopped. The water here is hard. Thames Water’s 2025 reports for its Hackney South, Bethnal Green and City supply zones give mean hardness of 278, 276 and 266 mg/l, and one Hackney South sample reached 309 mg/l, just past the 300 mg/l line the company calls very hard. Taps, shower screens and kettles get descaled on every visit for that reason.

A deep clean is the one-off version with nothing left out: the insides of cupboards, the fridge and the oven hood, skirting boards, door frames, window frames and their tracks, grout, and the dust that settles on high shelves and ledges. The team brings the equipment and products; you keep the water and electricity on.

Tenants leaving a flat can book an end of tenancy clean in the borough, and if the inventory clerk or agent marks something we cleaned, tell us within 48 hours and we return to put it right at no charge. Carpets are washed by hot water extraction from £36 a bedroom through carpet cleaning in Hackney, with rugs cleaned where they lie. Oven cleaning starts at £77 for a single oven, done by hand in your kitchen and ready to use that evening.

• End of tenancy cleaningfrom £156A fixed price by the size of the home, with a 48-hour re-clean if the inventory clerk marks something we cleaned.
• Deep cleaningfrom £186A team of two or more for a day of the jobs a weekly clean never reaches.
• Domestic cleaningfrom £69 a visitA weekly or fortnightly cleaner, the same person where we can manage it.
• After builders cleaningfrom £212Dust, paint spots and grout film cleared once the trades have gone.
• Carpet cleaningfrom £67Hot water extraction priced by the room, rugs cleaned where they lie.
• Upholstery cleaningfrom £67Sofas, armchairs, mattresses and curtains, priced by the piece.
• Oven cleaningfrom £67Racks and trays soaked, glass and seals cleaned by hand in your kitchen, priced by oven type.

Parking zones, licences and the borough line

Shoreditch is covered on the wider Hackney page, but its parking runs later and costs more than in most of the borough. Zone B North is controlled Monday to Saturday from 8.30am to midnight, so an evening visit pays for the bay as well. Zone B South runs Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6.30pm and Saturday 8.30am to 1.30pm, and Zone F in Hoxton keeps the same hours as B South. Short stays in Zones A and B cost £4.65 to £7.90 an hour, the top band in Hackney, against £3.65 to £6.75 in Zone F, with a one-hour minimum. New homes and redevelopments in Hackney are car free, so a resident of a new block cannot buy an on-street permit.

For landlords, Hoxton East & Shoreditch, Hoxton West and Haggerston are outside the 17 wards in Hackney’s selective licensing scheme (1 May 2026 to 30 April 2031), so an ordinary single-household let here needs no selective licence, though HMO licensing still applies. The Boundary Estate, just east of Shoreditch High Street, sits in Tower Hamlets, where that council’s licensing and parking rules apply; the Bethnal Green page covers it.

• End of tenancy cleaning in Hackney
• Carpet cleaning in Hackney
• Oven cleaning in Hackney

Hoxton, Haggerston and the stations

Shoreditch High Street station, on the Windrush line, is in fare zone 1; Hoxton is in zones 1 and 2 and Haggerston in zone 2. The neighbouring wards lean further towards social renting, at 43.8% in Hoxton West and 47.2% in Haggerston, with private renting at 33.5% and 31.1%. Dalston and Angel, both close by, have pages of their own.

• City of LondonEC2V
• AngelN1
• Tower HamletsE1
• Bethnal GreenE2
• DalstonE8
• IslingtonN1
• HackneyE8