Deep cleaning in North West London

A deep clean is the one you book when the place is lived in and has got away from you — before guests, after a winter, at the start of a tenancy rather than the end of it, or simply because nobody has moved the sofa since you did. It is a fixed price from £139, the oven is included free, and we photograph every room when we finish.

What a deep clean costs

One bathroom is in the price; further bathrooms are £25 each. Carpet steam cleaning is £25 a room booked alongside, £39 on its own. Interior windows are £29, and inside the fridge and freezer, inside the kitchen cupboards or a balcony are £25 each. A full oven deep clean is included at no cost — most London companies charge £25 to £75 for it.

That is the whole price list for a deep clean. There is no survey, no callback and no “from” figure that grows once somebody has seen the kitchen.

Deep clean, regular clean, tenancy clean — which one you want

The three get used interchangeably and they are not the same job.

• A regular clean keeps a home level. Two or three hours, the same rooms every visit, surfaces and floors and bathrooms. It is £26 an hour weekly and it does not reach behind the fridge.
• A deep clean resets a home that is lived in. It is the one that moves what moves, takes the limescale off rather than wiping it, does inside the appliances, and gets the tops of things nobody has reached in a year.
• An end of tenancy clean is a deep clean of an empty property, judged by an inventory clerk against a check-in report. Different standard, different evidence, and it carries a seven-day re-clean guarantee that a deep clean does not need.

If you are deciding between the last two, we wrote the comparison out properly: deep clean or end of tenancy clean. The honest short answer is that if the place is empty and a deposit is involved, you want the tenancy clean.

What we actually do on a deep clean

Not a longer version of a regular clean. A different list:

• The oven, properly — racks and trays soaked, both panes of the door glass, the seal, the grill pan housing. Included, not an add-on
• The extractor filter, lifted out and degreased, which over a gas hob is a fire risk and is the single most skipped item in a kitchen
• Limescale taken off rather than wiped over — shower glass, taps, the head, the grout line. Central London water is hard and this is the difference people actually notice afterwards
• Behind and under what moves safely — fridge, freezer, washing machine, sofas, beds
• The high line: tops of doors and frames, picture rails, cornices, light fittings, the tops of wardrobes and kitchen units
• Skirtings, radiators and the backs of them, switches, handles and door edges
• Inside empty cupboards and wardrobes; windows from the inside where booked
• A photographic record of every room on completion, so you can see what was done without having to inspect it yourself

Anything you are not happy with, tell us while we are there and we redo it on the spot. We would rather spend the extra twenty minutes than leave you looking at it.

Your products, or ours

On an empty property we bring everything — machines, extraction equipment, ladders, products. In an occupied home we normally use what you already have, and most people prefer that: it is your hoover, your surfaces and your choice of product, which matters on marble, natural stone, waxed timber and anything you have been careful with. If you would rather we brought our own, say so when you book and we will.

Where we deep clean in North West London

We are in these streets most days. The postcode groups below are how we run the rounds, so the small places are named as well as the big ones:

• NW3 — Hampstead, Frognal, Vale of Health, Hampstead Heath, South Hampstead, Finchley Road, Belsize Park, Swiss Cottage
• NW6 — West Hampstead, Brondesbury, Brondesbury Park, Kilburn, Queen’s Park, South Kilburn
• NW8 and W9 — St John’s Wood, Hamilton Terrace, Maida Vale, Little Venice, Maida Hill
• NW1 — Primrose Hill, Camden, Regent’s Park, Chalk Farm
• N6 — Highgate, Highgate Village, Hampstead Lane, Archway
• NW2 — Cricklewood, Childs Hill, Mapesbury, Dollis Hill
• NW10 — Willesden, Willesden Green, Kensal Rise, Harlesden
• NW11 — Golders Green, Temple Fortune, Hampstead Garden Suburb

Not listed? We cover all of NW1–NW11 and the surrounding areas. Put your postcode into the price calculator and it will tell you straight away.

The small places, and what they actually need

These are the ones people search for by name, and they are not interchangeable. The property is different in each, and so is the job.

Frognal, NW3

Frognal runs down from Church Row to Finchley Road along the line of the stream that becomes the River Westbourne, and the houses on it span the late 18th century to the 20th — Norman Shaw’s house for Kate Greenaway at number 39, and Maxwell Fry’s Sun House of 1935 round the corner in Frognal Way. In one street you get original timber, lime plaster, leaded glass, Crittall windows and polished concrete. We ask what is in the house before we pick the products, because there is no single right answer on Frognal.

Vale of Health, NW3

The Vale is a hamlet inside Hampstead Heath. Building there stopped in 1872 when the Metropolitan Board of Works bought the Heath, which is why it is still early 19th-century cottages and 1860s villas on lanes barely wide enough for a car. In practice that means we park on East Heath Road and carry in. It changes nothing about the price — it is just worth us knowing before the morning rather than after.

Hamilton Terrace, NW8

Hamilton Terrace runs from Carlton Hill down to St John’s Wood Road, parallel to Maida Vale, and it is grand detached and semi-detached houses with mansion blocks between them. These are among the largest properties we clean anywhere in London. A deep clean here is a full day for a team rather than a pair, and we would rather tell you that at the booking than surprise you with it.

Brondesbury and Brondesbury Park, NW6

Brondesbury was built between the late 1860s and the 1890s, and most of those large Victorian houses are flats now. Conversions are their own job: original cornices and ceiling roses above a modern kitchen, sash windows on the front and a fire door on the landing. The high line — picture rails, cornice, tops of doors — is where a conversion shows its age, and it is where a regular clean never reaches.

Childs Hill, NW2

Childs Hill grew along the Finchley Road from the late 1820s and it has the most mixed stock of anywhere on this list: 1914 council housing, 1930s semis around the park, Victorian terraces, and the larger houses on the Hocroft estate at the southern end. We price on the property rather than the hour, so a three-bedroom semi and a three-bedroom terrace cost the same even though one of them takes us longer.