Cleaning services for Streatham homes

Streatham St Leonard’s has the highest share of private renting of any Lambeth ward, 42.8% of households; a weekly cleaner for a rented or owned home in Streatham costs £23 an hour.

The same ward has the borough’s highest share of households in converted or shared houses, too (36.8%). Around it the district is more settled. Across the five Streatham wards 44.9% of households own their home, 35.3% rent privately and 18.3% rent from a social landlord, where Lambeth as a whole is 33.6% social rented.

Renting and licensing in Streatham

Streatham was licensed first. Lambeth’s phase 1 selective licensing took in Streatham Common & Vale, Streatham Hill East, Streatham St Leonard’s and Knights Hill from 2 September 2024, running to 1 September 2029, and Streatham Hill West & Thornton and Streatham Wells followed in phase 2 on 1 September 2025. The phase 1 notice requires a licence for any house let under a tenancy, apart from mandatory and additional HMOs and certain exemptions. Shared houses of three or more people fall under the borough-wide additional HMO scheme, which its notice ends on 8 December 2026 unless revoked earlier. The council sets both out on its selective licensing page.

Most private lets here are therefore licensed, and a tenancy usually ends with a check-out by the agent or an inventory clerk. The end of tenancy clean has a fixed price, £207 for a one-bed and £339 for three bedrooms. If the clerk or agent marks something we cleaned, you tell us within 48 hours and we come back to put it right at no charge.

Owners are the larger group, though, and more of them live in houses. In Streatham 18.4% of households live in terraced houses, 13.8% in semi-detached homes and 3.7% in detached houses, a far more house-heavy mix than Lambeth overall, where 75.2% of households live in flats and 7.8% in semi-detached homes. Streatham Common & Vale is 49.1% owner-occupied, with 32.4% terraced and 18.1% semi-detached homes.

Leigham Court, Telford Park and the High Road

Parts of Streatham were built as planned estates. The Artizans, Labourers and General Dwellings Company put up Leigham Court Estate between 1889 and 1928, long terraces of purpose-built flats and houses on a grid; it is now a conservation area with an Article 4 Direction. Telford Park was laid out between 1878 and 1882 around Criffel Avenue, Killieser Avenue and Telford Road, with Queen Anne style houses by EJ Tarver, no two identical. The Streatham Park Estate, in the Streatham Park and Garrads Road conservation area, has more Queen Anne style houses, with early 20th century homes looking over Tooting Bec Common. Along Streatham High Road and Streatham Hill the conservation area mixes shops, churches and entertainment buildings with residential mansion blocks.

A house over two or three floors needs more than the three-hour minimum, and when no two houses on a street are the same we ask: tell us the bedrooms, bathrooms and floors, and we agree the hours when we ring back.

Streatham is one of the districts of Lambeth, which the Lambeth page covers as a whole. SW16 also reaches wards in Croydon, Merton and Wandsworth, so an SW16 address may fall under another council’s parking and licensing rules. Balham and Tooting are covered on their own pages.

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Regular and deep cleaning in Streatham

A regular visit, weekly or fortnightly, covers the kitchen, the bathrooms, dusting, beds and the floors. Bathrooms take a good share of it. Thames Water’s own scale calls water of 200 to 300 mg/l hard and anything over 300 very hard, and it says all the water in its region is hard; the scale settles on shower heads, taps and glass, and wiping it off each week stops it hardening into a crust.

A deep clean is the longer one-off: inside cupboards and appliances, behind furniture that can be moved, skirting boards, door frames, radiators and grout. It suits a house before a regular rota begins, before a sale or after a long gap. The cleaners bring the equipment and products and you leave the water and electricity on. Building work leaves fine dust in every room, which is the job for an after builders clean at £30 per cleaner-hour plus £32 for equipment and detergents.

• 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.

Booking a Streatham clean

Streatham Common, a conservation area designated on 16 June 1994, grows wilder as it rises from the High Road and takes in the Rookery and Park Hall. Streatham, Streatham Hill and Streatham Common stations are all in Zone 3.

Booking takes one form or one call to 020 3734 1438, which you can ring any time. Someone rings back during working hours (8am to 7pm, seven days) to settle the date and the price for your home. Half is paid as a deposit to secure the date, and the other half once the clean is done.

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