A one off deep clean from Monster Cleaning Wood Green is a team booking with a start time and a finish time, and it is a different animal from the weekly housework. The maths behind it is short: £26 an hour for each cleaner on site, £30 for machines and detergents, and never fewer than two people for three hours. Bottom of the scale £186. Top of it £498, meaning three cleaners across six hours, which is a whole house cleared in one day.
| Team and time on site | Total, kit included |
|---|---|
| 2 cleaners, 3 hours | £186 |
| 2 cleaners, 4 hours | £238 |
| 2 cleaners, 5 hours | £290 |
| 3 cleaners, 3 hours | £264 |
| 3 cleaners, 4 hours | £342 |
| 3 cleaners, 6 hours | £498 |
That total is fixed at the booking and it will not creep up as the afternoon goes on. Finish early and you are billed for hours worked rather than hours booked. Have your own machine and products standing ready and the £30 comes straight off. A pair over three hours covers noticeably more ground than one person over six, and hands you your evening back.
What deep means here
Inside the kitchen cupboards and on top of them rather than the fronts. Behind and underneath the white goods wherever they roll out. Extractor filters lifted out and soaked instead of wiped. Tile grout scrubbed by hand. Skirtings, door tops, picture rails, radiator backs, light fittings unclipped and washed where they come down. Windows inside with the frames and the runners. Limescale on the screen, the taps and the shower head, which on this water is never quick. It is the list you look at for a year and never get round to.
Descaler wants time rather than muscle
Ask which hour of an N22 deep clean runs slowest and the answer is almost always the bathroom. Acid product has to sit on a screen and round a tap base long enough for the bond to give, and there is no way of hurrying that with a cloth. Those minutes are counted into the quoted hours rather than turning up as a surprise at five o’clock. It also explains why two years of neglect in one bathroom can swallow as much of a day as the whole kitchen, and why the older conversions run longer still.
Picking a tier
Three hours suits a pair in a tidy two bedroom, which is the £186. Take a Noel Park terrace let as one house that nobody has turned out in years and you are looking at two people over six hours or three people over four. Both come to £342, so pick on the shape of your day rather than the money. Given the choice we send three and leave by mid afternoon. Reserve the £498 for a four bedroom up the Alexandra Park slope, a finish after building work, or a probate flat where the tops of the kitchen units have not been seen in a decade.
How a team splits a flat
Work runs downwards and dry always precedes wet. One cleaner opens at ceiling height with cobwebs, light fittings and the tops of the doors, then travels down the wall towards the skirting. The second takes the kitchen, which on every deep clean is where the hours disappear. Inside a room nothing wet touches a surface until the dry dust has been lifted off it, because dampened dust becomes a smear you then chase across the paintwork for ten minutes. Hard floors finish the job and carpets finish it after them. That £30 buys the kit the crew carries in: an extraction machine, a steamer for grout and silicone, a pole long enough for the coving, and a run of pads and brushes nobody keeps under a sink.
A decade of building work along the High Road
Wood Green has had ten years of dense redevelopment on and around the High Road, and a great many flats here have had a kitchen or a bathroom done inside the last few years. Fine plaster dust does not clear in one pass. It keeps dropping for the best part of a week from curtains, door tops and every window track, so a post works clean is booked either as one longer visit or as two visits a week apart, and we say which when you describe the job. Hold the booking until the last trade has packed up, otherwise the dust settles again over everything that has just been finished.
The studios off Clarendon Road
The Chocolate Factory and Blue House Yard hold a good many small creative workspaces, and they ring after a build or a show rather than on a schedule. Those get quoted individually, because no two units in there are the same shape and a unit with a mezzanine is a different afternoon from a unit without one. The team rate underneath is the same £26 a cleaner hour.
Resetting a converted house between rooms
A steady share of this work comes from landlords with a licensed shared house wanting the shared parts reset before a room goes back on the market. That is a scoping question rather than anything else. A converted house has more than one kitchen or more than one bathroom in daily use, so we count what is genuinely in use rather than reading a bedroom figure off a listing, and the tier drops out of that count. Tell us how many kitchens and how many bathrooms, and the figure comes off the table above.
Deep clean or move-out clean
These two get mixed up on the phone most weeks and they are priced on opposite principles. If you are handing keys back, book the end of tenancy clean: it is banded by property size from £156, it is scoped against the list an inventory clerk works from, and the oven goes on top of it for £31. A deep clean is judged by you, standing in your own hall at the end of it, so hours make sense as the unit and a team makes sense as the shape. One resets the flat, the other is measured by somebody else’s checklist. Landlords between tenancies often want both, and then we quote the pair as a single figure.
When we can come, and what pairs with it
Mid week is easiest. The last week of the month is taken up with check-out work right across N22 because the tenancies here mostly finish on that final Friday, so a deep clean booked into it gets whatever is left. December wants a fortnight of notice. Two cleaners have to be free at the same time and that is the entire constraint. Carpets go through the extraction machine at the usual room rates on top, ovens become their own job at £77 or £110, and where what you actually want is somebody in every week, weekly housework at £23 an hour costs less and works better. Ring 020 8077 9085, or read the full list first.
Questions we get asked
What does a deep clean cost in Wood Green?
£186 opens it, being a pair over three hours at £26 for each cleaner hour with £30 of equipment added. Push that pair to four hours for £238 or five for £290. Three cleaners come in at £264, £342 and £498 across three, four and six hours, £498 being the biggest job on the list.
What separates a deep clean from the weekly visit?
Scope and shape. The deep clean is a one off team booking that gets inside cupboards, behind white goods, into the grout and up at the picture rails, opening at £186 for a pair over three hours. Weekly housework is hourly upkeep at £23 a cleaner hour. The first resets a flat and the second keeps it there.
Can I book just one cleaner?
Not for a deep clean. The minimum is two people for three hours, which is the £186. One cleaner for six hours costs about the same and gets less done, and the heavy work wants two pairs of hands anyway. Hourly regular cleaning can be a single cleaner.
What is the £30 kit charge for?
The kit the crew carries in: an extraction machine, a steamer for grout and silicone, a pole for the coving, and pads and brushes no household keeps. It is flat whatever the booking size, and it disappears entirely where you provide your own.
Will three hours be enough for my flat?
For a reasonably kept one or two bedroom, usually. For a three bed, a flat after building work, or somewhere that has gone years without a proper turn out, no, and we would book four hours or three cleaners instead. Describe the state of it and you get the real number.
Can you do an after builders clean?
Yes, and the High Road redevelopment keeps a steady run of it coming. Wait until the trades are off site first, because fine plaster dust carries on falling for days after the last cut. Big refurbishments go in as two visits a week apart rather than one long day.