Cleaning services in Wood Green

Five jobs, a page each, and soft furnishings sold one piece at a time. Every line here has a number attached to it, and that number is the one you get on the phone.

The whole list on one screen

Handovers: the room count sets the figure

Studio £156. One bedroom £207. Two £243, three £339, four £425. For that the property is brought up to whatever standard the inventory clerk has written down: units emptied then cleaned outside, inside and along the door tops, the fridge and the freezer once you have thawed them, bathrooms taken right back through their scale, then skirtings and door tops by hand, switch plates, window tracks, glass on the inside, floors at the end. Count a let loft room as a bedroom. Do not count bathrooms, however many the flat has. The oven sits outside the band as a separate £31 line, however lightly it has been used. Floors always sit outside too, since a great many N22 flats are boarded end to end and would otherwise be charged for a service they cannot use.

Handover or deep clean, and how to tell

These two get muddled on the phone most weeks. The difference is who is doing the judging. A handover is measured against a document somebody else wrote and you have never read, so a clock on that job would push every minute of overrun onto the tenant, which is why it is banded. A deep clean is measured by you, standing in your own hall at the end of the afternoon, so hours are the sensible unit and a team is the sensible shape. Ring and describe the place. Where the request is a deep clean and the real problem is a year of drift, the answer that costs least is one team visit and then a weekly slot, and that is the answer you will be given.

Floors, and why extraction is the one that works

A bedroom £36, a living room £43, two receptions opened up £61, each stair flight £41, and rugs at £35 under 3m² or £51 over. On method: a bonnet pad buffs the top of the pile and the carpet greys off again in a fortnight, and dry powder reaches about halfway into the tuft before it stops. Neither touches the sand lying at the base of the pile, which is the material actually cutting the fibre apart underfoot. Extraction sends heated solution down under pressure and takes it back up the same wand with the soil in it.

The Noel Park sum nobody works out in advance

The estate east of the High Road was laid out from 1883 for the Artizans and General Properties Company and it is a conservation area now, so those houses stand as built. One narrow flight per house with a turn near the top. Small front rooms with the original chimney breast still proud of the wall. Two consequences follow for us. The machine gets chosen to fit the staircase rather than the room, so a flight is hand work with a small tool, one tread at a time. And a little front room with two alcoves and a hearth edge carries more corner work per square metre than a room twice its size. Neither moves a figure. Both move the length of the booking. Add a terrace up as one house and you have hall £22, living room £43, flight £41, landing £9 and two bedrooms £72, so £187 of floors beside a £243 band.

Appliances, one number apiece

Hobs £23 ceramic or £28 gas, extractors £28. Ovens go £77 single, £110 double, and £143 for a 90cm range or the two oven AGA. Out come the shelves, the runners, the trays, the pan supports and the fan cover, and all of it goes into a soak. Whatever is fixed down gets hand work in the kitchen: cavity, seals, and both faces of each pane wherever the door is built to come apart. All of it is rinsed and dried before we leave, and the cooker takes a meal that night. An AGA needs switching off the previous evening. Catalytic and pyrolytic liners get a wipe and never a soak.

Housework, sold by the hour

£23 an hour for each cleaner weekly, £24 fortnightly, so three hours is £69 or £72. Three hours is the shortest visit. One cleaner keeps one address for as long as the rota holds up. Ironing runs at £12 an hour as extra time on top of the clean, so the rooms get their full share. What really decides the length of a visit round here is how many staircases there are and how much scale the bathroom is carrying, rather than the bedroom count on the old advert.

The team job, priced by arithmetic

Three numbers generate the whole ladder: £26 an hour for every cleaner on site, £30 covering machines and detergents, and never fewer than two people over three hours. A pair therefore runs £186 at three hours, £238 at four and £290 at five. Put three on it and the figures become £264, £342 and £498 across three, four and six hours. £498 is the biggest job on the list and it takes a whole house apart inside a day. Where your own machine and products are standing ready, the £30 simply comes off.

Soft furnishings by the piece

£57 a two seater sofa, £35 a mattress, £33 an armchair, £13 a dining chair. Curtains are priced on the drop, £42 for a long one and £35 for a short one, and they are cleaned while still hanging so nothing shrinks up off the sill. The tool is a small hand version of the carpet wand, worked lightly so more water comes back out than went in. Above a two seater there is no printed figure, because arm shape and fabric decide the hour and length never does, so those get quoted once you have described one. Leather is done entirely by hand, cleaner and then conditioner, with no machine anywhere near it.

Four local facts that sit behind the timings

Each of these shapes a start time, or the way the work gets done.

• Two zones and the car-free blocks. Wood Green Inner and Wood Green Outer hold different street lists, and the newer High Road schemes are car-free, so the arrival plan is set around your road before the day.
• Water near 300 ppm. Descaling is simply part of what cleaning a Haringey bathroom is, and the dwell time was counted in from the start.
• One door, several homes. Conversion into flats and licensed shared houses is very common in the terraces near Noel Park and Lordship Lane, so we price the flat in front of us rather than the building around it.
• Where the big cookers live. Ranges and AGAs come up west of the High Road and towards Bounds Green. A flat over the shops hardly ever holds either.

One list, six areas

These figures hold in Turnpike Lane, Bounds Green, Alexandra Park, Hornsey, Tottenham and Harringay without a penny between them. What each area tends to book is on the areas page, every figure including the £67 minimum is on the prices page, and 020 8077 9085 is picked up 8am to 7pm on all seven days.

Questions we get asked

My tenancy is ending. Which of these do I book?

The banded handover clean, set by the room count on your own agreement and running £156 to £425. It is scoped against an inventory rather than a clock. Floors are quoted apart, and so is the oven, at £31.

Can you do two jobs in one visit?

Usually, and it often costs less. One cleaner can start on the carpets while the oven racks are still soaking, which means the two jobs run alongside each other rather than one after the other, and £67 is met once for the pair.

Is a Sunday or an evening dearer?

It is not. One rate covers 8am to 7pm across all seven days, so six o’clock on a Sunday bills exactly like ten on a Wednesday.

Do you clean sofas, mattresses and curtains?

Yes, per item. £57 for a two seater sofa, £35 a mattress, £33 an armchair and £13 a dining chair, with curtains at £42 long or £35 short and cleaned on the pole. Corner units and three seaters get a figure once you describe the arms and fabric.

How does a whole flat of carpet add up?

Room by room and flight by flight. A two bedroom conversion with a hall and a living room is £22 plus £43 plus £72, so £137. Where the whole house is yours, add £41 for the flight and £9 for the landing. We count it with you before booking.