Cleaners in Swiss Cottage, NW3

Swiss Cottage turns over faster than anywhere else in NW3. It is purpose-built blocks along the Finchley Road and Adelaide Road, a lot of one and two-bedroom flats, and tenancies that end and begin in the same week. That means check-outs on tight dates and agents who need a clean done between one set of keys going back and another going out.

What we price, and what it costs

These are our fixed end of tenancy cleaning prices for an empty property in Swiss Cottage. 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.

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 Swiss Cottage

Same-day and next-day turnarounds

The last three working days of the month are when most tenancies here end, and that is when the diary fills. If you are working to a date an agent has given you, book early rather than hoping. Outside those days we can usually cover Swiss Cottage next day, and often the same day for a one-bedroom flat.

Purpose-built flats, not period houses

Much of the housing here is post-war and modern rather than Victorian, which changes what gets flagged at check-out. Less cornicing and original timber; far more uPVC window tracks, fitted kitchen units with tops that collect grease, and shower screens on sliding runners. Those are the three we go at hardest here.

Parking on the Finchley Road side

The roads off Finchley Road and around College Crescent are controlled, and some of the blocks have no visitor bays at all. If you can leave a permit we will use it; if not we pay and add it at cost, and we tell you the amount before we come rather than putting it on the invoice afterwards.

Eton Avenue to Finchley Road: what changes street by street

Swiss Cottage sits on a join. Walk five minutes uphill and you are in Belsize Park; five minutes the other way and you are in South Hampstead. The buildings change with it, and so does the work.

Eton Avenue and the red-brick mansion blocks. Tall, handsome, and built before anyone thought about getting a vacuum up four floors. Communal stairs, a lift in some and not others, and flats with proportions that make a two-bed feel like a three. We allow for the stairs when we quote rather than discovering them on the morning.

Fitzjohn's Avenue. Large period houses, many divided into generous flats. Original cornicing, picture rails, and the kind of tall sash windows that need a proper ladder and two people, not a cloth on a pole.

The Finchley Road corridor. Purpose-built blocks and newer developments between the station and Swiss Cottage. Modern surfaces, fitted kitchens, and far quicker to clean than anything up the hill — which is reflected in how long we book, not in a different price.

Around the Theatre and the Library. The streets behind Hampstead Theatre and Swiss Cottage Library are a mix of short-let flats and long-term family homes. We do a lot of regular cleaning here on a weekly slot, and a steady run of end of tenancy work, because the rental churn around a Jubilee line station is faster than the rest of NW3.

Parking is metered on most of it and controlled on the rest. If you have a visitor permit we will use it; if not we pay, we add it at cost, and we tell you the figure before the day.

Regular cleaning in Swiss Cottage — weekly and fortnightly

Swiss Cottage is mostly purpose-built flats and mostly rented, which makes regular housekeeping a different proposition from a family house. £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.

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.

Two hours, done properly, every week

A one- or two-bedroom flat in one of the Adelaide Road or Winchester Road blocks is a genuine two- to three-hour visit and does not need more. What it needs is that the two hours are actually two hours — not an hour and ten with the travel counted in. Our visits are timed from arrival and the round is built so Swiss Cottage jobs sit together, which is only possible because the work is regular.

Tenants, landlords, and who is actually paying

A good share of the regular cleaning here is arranged by a landlord or included in the rent, and that works badly when nobody says so. We are happy to invoice the landlord and take instructions from the tenant, or the reverse — but it is agreed once, in writing, at the start, because the alternative is a cleaner standing in a hallway while two people argue about whether the oven is included.

A block with a porter, and the same face each week

Several of the blocks sign visitors in and some will not admit an unknown person. Sending the same named cleaner is what makes a weekly visit workable here, and it is why we employ our cleaners rather than sending whoever is free that morning.

Office and commercial cleaning in Swiss Cottage

The Finchley Road corridor between the station and College Crescent is serviced office suites, clinics, language and music schools and small studios — premises of four to thirty people where the building has its own access rules and the cleaning has to fit round them.

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.

Out of hours is the default, not a surcharge. Almost all of our commercial work is done before eight in the morning or after six in the evening, because an office cleaned around people is an office half cleaned: the desks never get done and the bins get missed. Where a serviced building limits access to particular hours, we work to those hours and the monthly figure reflects them — it does not change afterwards.

Oven cleaning in Swiss Cottage

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.

The blocks here were built from the 1930s through to the 1970s and a lot of them still have the original kitchen layout with a freestanding cooker rather than an integrated oven. That is good news: a freestanding cooker can be pulled forward, which means the sides, the back of the splashback and the floor underneath get done as well — and the floor underneath a cooker is exactly where a check-out clerk shines a torch. A single oven is £69, a double £89, a range £129. Inside an end of tenancy or a deep clean it is free, which on a Swiss Cottage two-bedroom is £69 of the £259.

Where we work in Swiss Cottage NW3

We cover Swiss Cottage and the streets around:

• Finchley Road
• Adelaide Road
• College Crescent
• Eton Avenue
• Fitzjohn's Avenue
• Winchester Road
• Belsize Road
• Avenue 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.

Swiss Cottage has offices along the Finchley Road corridor as well as therapy rooms tucked into the side streets. See office cleaning in Swiss Cottage.