Belsize Park is mansion-block country, and a mansion flat is a different job from a house. High ceilings put the tops of doors and picture rails out of reach without a ladder, the windows are tall sashes with deep glazing bars, and the kitchen is usually the smallest room with the most in it. We price on the flat, not the hour, so a set of fourteen-foot ceilings costs you nothing extra.
What we price, and what it costs
These are our fixed end of tenancy cleaning prices for an empty property in Belsize Park. They include a full oven deep clean, everything needed to clean an empty home, and the seven-day re-clean guarantee. No survey, no callback, and no “from” price that changes on the day.
| Property | Fixed price |
|---|---|
| Studio flat | £149 |
| 1 bedroom | £199 |
| 2 bedrooms | £259 |
| 3 bedrooms | £319 |
| 4 bedrooms | £409 |
| 5 bedrooms | £509 |
Extra bathrooms £25 each. Deep cleans from £139, regular housekeeping from £26 an hour with a two-hour minimum. See your own figure on the price calculator.
What’s different about cleaning in Belsize Park
Porters, lifts and loading
Most of the blocks here have a porter and a signing-in book, and several have no lift or a lift too small for the kit. Tell us the block when you book and we will bring the kit up the stairs and allow the time for it. We are used to Haverstock Hill and the Belsize Park Gardens blocks and we know which ones need two trips.
Period conversions, original surfaces
A great deal of NW3's housing stock is one large Victorian house divided into three or four flats, which means original floorboards, marble fireplaces and cornicing in rooms that are now someone's kitchen. Those take pH-neutral products and patience rather than bleach and a steam cleaner, and we will tell you when something needs a specialist instead.
Communal areas are not yours to clean
Worth knowing before a check-out: the hallway, the stairs and the bin store in a managed block are the freeholder's responsibility, not the tenant's. If an agent tries to deduct for them, that is not a cleaning charge you owe. What is yours is everything inside your front door, and that is what we do.
Belsize Village, Haverstock Hill and the mansion blocks
Belsize Park is mansion blocks and period conversions, and those are two quite different cleaning jobs sharing one postcode.
The mansion blocks. Grand Victorian and Edwardian buildings with high ceilings, deep skirtings and long communal hallways. High ceilings mean the tops of doors, picture rails and the cornice line are all out of reach from the floor, and they are exactly where an inventory clerk looks first. We bring the steps. Several blocks want contractors signed in at a porter's desk, so we send the name of whoever is coming the day before.
Period conversions off Belsize Lane and England's Lane. Handsome houses split into flats, usually with original floors, often with a bathroom squeezed into what was a bedroom, and frequently with a shared entrance hall that nobody is contractually responsible for. We clean what is yours and we say plainly what is not.
Haverstock Hill and towards Chalk Farm. Flats above the parade of shops and restaurants. Extraction from the kitchens below carries grease upwards — it settles on the tops of wall units and on the window frames at the front, and it is the single most common thing flagged at check-out on this stretch.
The family houses on the tree-lined avenues. Spacious, well kept, and the natural home for regular cleaning rather than one-off work. Most households here book a weekly or fortnightly housekeeping visit with the same named cleaner, and add a deep clean once a year.
Regular cleaning in Belsize Park — weekly and fortnightly
Regular housekeeping in a mansion block is a different arrangement from a house, and most of it is about access rather than cleaning. £26 an hour weekly, £28 fortnightly, two-hour minimum, the same named cleaner every visit, and no contract and no exit fee — if it stops working you tell us and it stops. Every cleaner is employed by us on PAYE, right-to-work verified and DBS checked, and we carry £5,000,000 cover.
| Housekeeping | Rate | Minimum |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly | £26/hr | 2 hours |
| Fortnightly | £28/hr | 3 hours |
| One-off | £30/hr | 2 hours |
A typical visit: studio 2 hours · one bed 2½ · two bed 3 · three bed 3½ · four bed 4½. Ten per cent off the first clean, and no contract or exit fee — if it stops working you tell us and it stops. £26 an hour is the rate with your own products and equipment — your hoover, your surfaces, your choice of product, which matters on marble, natural stone and hand-painted joinery. If you would rather we brought everything we can, and it is charged as an extra shown on your quote.
Porters, sign-in books and the same face
Half the blocks here have a porter and a book, and several will not let an unknown person up at all. Sending the same named cleaner every week is not a nicety in NW3, it is what makes the visit possible — the porter knows them, they are on the list, and nobody is standing in the lobby at nine o’clock waiting to be let in. A firm that sends whoever is free cannot do this.
A single-aspect flat needs a different order of work
Many Belsize Park flats have windows on one side only, so they hold moisture and the bathroom is the room that suffers. In a weekly visit the bathroom goes first, not last, and the window goes open while the rest is done. Small thing, and it is the difference between a flat that stays fresh and one that develops a smell the tenant blames on the building.
What is yours and what is the freeholder’s
The communal stairs, the hall and the bin store belong to the managing agent, not to you, and you should not be paying to have them cleaned. Your visit starts at your own front door. If the block wants the common parts done we are happy to quote the agent directly — and that is a commercial contract, on a rolling monthly basis.
Office and clinic cleaning in Belsize Park
Haverstock Hill and England’s Lane carry a run of small professional premises — clinics, dental and osteopathy practices, therapy rooms, salons and studios — and they have a requirement an office does not: the room has to be right for the first client of the day, not merely clean by lunchtime.
From £30 an hour, quoted as a fixed monthly figure once we have walked the space, on a rolling monthly contract with thirty days’ notice on either side. No twelve-month tie-in. Every cleaner is directly employed by us, right-to-work verified and DBS checked, and signs an NDA as standard. We carry £5,000,000 public liability cover and the certificate goes out with the quotation rather than on request. The site visit is free.
Porters, lifts and loading are part of the schedule here, not an obstacle to it. In the mansion blocks and the serviced suites we sign in, use the service lift where there is one, and work to whatever the building’s rules are about hours and noise — the same discipline we apply to the residential work on the same streets. Out of hours is the default: before eight, or after six.
Oven cleaning in Belsize Park
On an end of tenancy or deep clean the oven is included free — racks, trays, door glass, the seal and the fan housing. On its own it is £69 for a single, £89 for a double and £129 for a range, and we take the door glass apart rather than wiping between the panes and calling it done.
Belsize Park kitchens are mostly integrated single ovens in fitted units — a galley off a reception room, often with the oven at eye level in a housing unit. Two consequences. The oven cannot be pulled out, so everything is done in place and the protection of the units either side is part of the job rather than an afterthought. And the door glass on a modern integrated oven comes apart in three panes rather than two, which is where the brown film people cannot shift actually lives. A single is £69, a double £89. Booked inside an end of tenancy or a deep clean it costs nothing.
Where we work in Belsize Park NW3
We cover Belsize Park and the streets around:
- Haverstock Hill
- Belsize Park Gardens
- England's Lane
- Belsize Avenue
- Lancaster Grove
- Ornan Road
- Belsize Lane
- Glenloch Road
Not on the list? We cover all of NW1–NW11 and the surrounding areas — put your postcode into the price calculator and it will tell you straight away.
A lot of the commercial work in Belsize Park is communal rather than corporate — entrance halls, stairs and bin stores in the mansion blocks, for managing agents. That sits under office cleaning and communal areas.
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