The smallest one off deep clean we take in Brentford is £186. That figure puts two cleaners in the property for three hours with the machines and detergents already covered. Behind it sit £26 an hour per cleaner and a £30 kit charge. At the other end, three cleaners across six hours is £498, which handles a whole house in a day. This is a team booking with a floor of two people and three hours on site, and it works nothing like the weekly hourly visit.
Team and time
| Cleaners and hours | Total, machines and detergents 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 |
Each line is the same arithmetic. Leave out your own machine and products and the £30 comes off, which households ask for often enough, usually over a floor finish or an allergy. Where a team finishes early, the shorter time is what appears on the invoice. The prices page carries the rest of the list.
After the trades have gone
Brentford has been rebuilt more thoroughly than almost anywhere else in west London, and it is not finished yet. Brentford Lock West covers a 6.4 hectare canalside site by itself, and blocks arrive in phases, which produces runs of empty flats wanting the same clean in the same week. Sometimes an entire floor at once.
On a new build the dust is the whole job. Fine plaster keeps dropping out of the air for a fortnight after the last trade packs up, so a clean on the day you collect keys wants a lighter second pass later, and a serious post-build booking is better set at three cleaners for four hours, £342, than at the minimum. Take the protective film off the windows before we arrive if the contractor left it there, and the whole booking goes on cleaning.
New build floors
Nearly all the new stock here is concrete slab with underfloor heating and no ventilated void beneath, so we keep water use low on every floor. The same fact slows carpets in those flats, which the carpet page works through properly.
Limescale eats more of the clock than the kitchen does
Kitchens and bathrooms take roughly two thirds of the hours on almost every deep clean, and in TW8 the bathroom is the heavier half. The supply is very hard, so screens cloud, tap bases crust, shower heads block and grout goes chalky. An acid-based descaler and dwell time answer that. Effort does not, and dwell time is slower on the clock while being far kinder to the chrome. Three applications on a badly scaled screen is ordinary.
The old cottage rows behind the High Street
Not all of Brentford is ten years old. Behind the High Street, out towards the Musical Museum and the Brentford Monument by the river, small cottage rows and Victorian frontages predate everything on the waterfront by a century and a half. Low ceilings, tight stairs, kitchens wedged into rooms never built to hold one. Per square metre a deep clean in one of those runs slower than a two bedroom flat at Brentford Lock, purely because there is nowhere to put anything down while you work. That gets allowed for at the quote rather than discovered at half two.
Getting a team and the kit into the building
Three cleaners plus machines is more than a single lift load. In the managed schemes on the Great West Road and the canal that means a loading bay slot and a goods lift window booked with the concierge before the day, and on the towpath side at Brentford Lock it means everything travelling along the water on a trolley. Neither alters the price. Both alter which morning is available, so the sooner the building name reaches us the better.
Who books one
Landlords between tenancies, mostly, and this postcode has a great many tenancies. After that come households who have just had a kitchen fitted, and the occasional person expecting parents on Friday. An empty property can take half the time of a lived in one at the same figure, which is worth knowing if you have any say over the date. Spring brings a run of them over the bridge in Kew.
Adding carpets and upholstery
Carpets and upholstery go through a separate machine on their own prices, and both can join the same visit as the deep clean.
When the handover clean is the right booking instead
Where the worry is a deposit rather than a dirty house, book the banded move out clean rather than a team on the clock. It is scoped against the inventory standard, it carries the 48 hour return where a clerk marks something down, and on a one bedroom flat at £207 it comes to less than the team would. Two different jobs at two different prices, and sorting out which one you need takes a minute and a half on the phone. The weekly service at £23 per cleaner an hour is the third option, and it is the one that keeps a property there once a deep clean has brought it back.
Questions we get asked
How much is a one off deep clean in Brentford?
It opens at £186 for two cleaners over three hours, built from £26 an hour per cleaner plus £30 of kit. Two over four hours is £238, three over four is £342, and the biggest booking we take is £498.
How does a deep clean differ from regular cleaning?
One is a team, booked once, at £26 an hour each, to drag a property back to a standard. The other is a single cleaner at £23 an hour holding it there week after week. Two rates for two jobs, and we do not blur them.
Can you clean after building work?
Once the trades are out and the place is safe, yes. Set the booking at three cleaners for four hours, £342, rather than the minimum, and expect a lighter second pass a fortnight on, since plaster dust keeps dropping for a while.
Can the £30 kit charge come off?
It does where we work with your machine and your products. Most households leave it on, because it covers the extraction gear and the detergents, but a particular floor finish or an allergy is reason enough to use yours.
How long does a new build clean take?
Two cleaners over three hours, £186, covers most one or two bedroom flats at Brentford Lock or Great West Quarter. Plaster dust keeps settling for a fortnight, so a lighter second pass later leaves it right.