If you live in Old Moulsham, you already know the taps fur up faster than they should. That is the Essex water, and it is the single most common thing our cleaners deal with in Chelmsford homes. We are Monster Cleaning, a domestic cleaning firm that has worked across Essex and London since 2014, and this page is about how regular and one-off cleaning actually works here, what it costs, and who turns up.
Last updated April 2026. Prices below are current and we will keep this page honest if they change.
Here is the short version.
We do domestic cleaning in Chelmsford from £22 an hour, weekly or fortnightly, with the same cleaner kept on your home.
Regular cleaning, same person every time
Regular domestic cleaning is a retainer. You keep one cleaner on your home and they come back on the same day each week, or every other week, whichever suits you. They learn the place. After two or three visits they know that the spare room is mostly storage and that the real work is the kitchen and the two bathrooms.
This is the bit agencies get wrong. Send a new face every fortnight and the client ends up doing a guided tour each time, which defeats the point. We match you to one cleaner and we keep them there. If they are ever off sick or on holiday we will tell you in advance and offer a cover cleaner, but the default is one steady person who treats your home like a round, not a lottery.
A weekly clean is £22 per cleaner per hour. Fortnightly is £24 per cleaner per hour, because a home that is left a fortnight needs a touch more graft each visit, and we would rather price that honestly than pretend the two are the same job.
No VAT. No call-out charge. The hourly rate is the rate.
We match you to one cleaner and we keep them there.
Most of our regular Chelmsford clients are on a three-hour weekly slot, which is £66, or a fortnightly visit of two to three hours, which lands between £48 and £72 depending on the size of the home. A two-bed flat near the station tends to want less time than a four-bed out at Springfield with a dog and two children. We will tell you straight, after the first visit, whether your slot is the right length or whether you are paying for time you do not need.
One-off and deep cleans by a team
A one-off clean is a different service. It is not a single regular visit booked in isolation. It is a deeper job, done by a team rather than a lone cleaner, and it is priced separately.
We usually send two cleaners for around three hours. Two people in a house get through a spring clean, a pre-Christmas blitz, or a tidy-up before the in-laws arrive far faster and far better than one person stretched over a whole day. The rate for a one-off is £26 per cleaner per hour, with a minimum charge of £67 so that a small job is still worth a team turning out for.
People book the one-off for the jobs a normal clean never reaches. Behind the oven. The skirting in every room. The inside of the kitchen cupboards. The bathroom grout that has gone the colour of the Essex water it has been drinking. If you have just moved into a place around Great Baddow and the previous owner’s idea of clean was generous, this is the service you want first, before a regular round even starts.
If you would rather a full move-out clean against a tenancy, that is a separate job again, and you want our end of tenancy cleaning in Chelmsford instead, which is checklisted to what letting agents actually inspect.
What it costs in Chelmsford
No hidden tiers. We do not drop the rate the more hours you book, and we do not bundle you into a package. Two clear services, two clear rates.
- Regular weekly clean
- £22 per cleaner per hour. A three-hour visit is £66. No VAT, no call-out charge.
- Regular fortnightly clean
- £24 per cleaner per hour. A two to three hour visit is £48 to £72.
- One-off or deep clean
- £26 per cleaner per hour, usually two cleaners for about three hours, with a £67 minimum charge.
- Ironing
- £12 per hour, added on top of cleaning time if you want it. Plenty of clients have us do an hour of shirts while the rest of the home gets done.
What you will not find on this page is a headline rate that turns into something else at checkout, or a chart where the price falls if you sign up for more hours a week. We think that framing is a trap. You should know the real number before anyone knocks on your door.
You should know the real number before anyone knocks on your door.
The hard water problem
Chelmsford sits in one of the hardest water belts in the country. Anglian Water supplies the area, and the hardness round here runs to roughly 327 parts per million, which is well over the national average. In a kitchen that means the kettle scales up in weeks, the tap bases go cloudy white, and the glass shower screen ends up with a permanent haze that ordinary spray will not shift.
Our cleaners come ready for it. We descale taps and shower screens as part of a normal regular clean, not as some upsell, and on a one-off we will take the worst of the built-up scale off the bathroom glass and the kettle properly. If you have lived with cloudy chrome for a year and assumed it was ruined, it usually is not. It is the hard water, and it comes off.
This is genuinely the thing new clients notice first. A tap that goes back to looking like chrome instead of frosted glass.
How we actually work
Monster Cleaning Ltd is a real company, registered at Companies House under number 9919639, trading since 2014. We are not an app that pairs you with a random nearby account. Our head office is at 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS, and a person answers the phone.
We are honest about our reviews. Our Trustpilot score sits at 3.1 out of 5 across 128 reviews, and we would rather you saw that than a curated set of five-star quotes. The cleaning work itself is what we stand on, and it is why we offer a re-clean guarantee. If something in a clean was missed or not up to standard, tell us within 48 hours and we will send someone back to put it right at no charge. We would rather fix it than argue about it.
You supply nothing if you do not want to. Most regular clients leave their own products and cloths out, because everyone has a kitchen spray they trust, but we can bring our own kit if you would prefer. For one-off teams we always bring the heavier gear.
We cover the whole of Chelmsford and the villages around it. The new-build streets out at Beaulieu, where the houses are barely a few years old but the show-home finish needs keeping up. The older terraces in Old Moulsham off Moulsham Street, walking distance from the High Street and the Bond Street shops, where the rooms are smaller and the skirting is original and worth looking after. The 1960s and 1970s stock up around Springfield. We have cleaned all of it.
If you also want the carpets brought back to life or the oven taken apart and degreased, those are jobs in their own right. Have a look at our carpet cleaning in Chelmsford and our oven cleaning in Chelmsford, both of which slot neatly alongside a regular round.
Booking and what happens next
Booking is plain. Ring us on 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with your postcode, the rough size of your home, and whether you want a regular round or a one-off. We will give you a price on the spot, not a vague estimate.
For a regular clean we then match you to a cleaner and set the day. For a one-off we agree a date and send the team. Either way you are not signing a long contract. If a weekly round turns out to be too much, drop to fortnightly. If you go away for August, pause it.
You can read more about how the service works across the county on our domestic cleaning overview, then call us when you are ready.
Frequently asked questions
How much is domestic cleaning in Chelmsford?
Regular cleaning is £22 per cleaner per hour on a weekly round and £24 per cleaner per hour fortnightly, with no VAT and no call-out charge. A one-off clean by a team is £26 per cleaner per hour with a £67 minimum charge.
Do I get the same cleaner each time?
Yes. On a regular weekly or fortnightly round we keep one cleaner on your home so they learn the place and you are not explaining it every visit. If they are off sick or on holiday we tell you in advance and offer a cover cleaner.
What is the difference between a regular clean and a one-off clean?
A regular clean is a retainer done by one cleaner on a fixed day each week or fortnight. A one-off is a deeper, standalone job done by a team, usually two cleaners for about three hours, and it is priced separately at £26 per cleaner per hour.
Is there a minimum charge?
For a one-off clean, yes, the minimum is £67 so a team is worth turning out for. Regular weekly and fortnightly cleans are charged by the hour at £22 and £24 per cleaner per hour with no separate minimum beyond the length of your slot.
Do you add VAT or a call-out fee?
No. The hourly rate is the rate. There is no VAT on top and no call-out charge for regular domestic cleaning in Chelmsford.
Can you do my ironing too?
Yes. Ironing is £12 per hour added on top of the cleaning time. Many clients have us do an hour of shirts while the rest of the home is cleaned.
Do you bring your own cleaning products?
We can. Most regular clients leave their own products and cloths out because they have a spray they trust, but we are happy to bring our own kit. For one-off teams we always bring the heavier equipment.
Will you deal with the limescale on my taps and shower?
Yes, and it comes up more than almost anything else here. Chelmsford water is very hard, around 327 parts per million, so we descale taps and shower screens as part of a normal clean rather than as an extra.
Which parts of Chelmsford do you cover?
All of it, plus the surrounding villages. That includes the new-build estates at Beaulieu, the period terraces in Old Moulsham, the 1960s and 1970s homes around Springfield, and out towards Great Baddow.
Do I have to sign a long contract?
No. Regular cleaning is rolling. You can move from weekly to fortnightly, pause it while you are away, or stop with reasonable notice. There is no tie-in.
What if I am not happy with a clean?
Tell us within 48 hours and we will send someone back to put it right at no charge under our re-clean guarantee. We would rather fix it than argue about it.
Can you also do an end of tenancy or carpet clean?
Yes, those are separate services. A move-out clean is handled by our end of tenancy team, and carpets and ovens are jobs in their own right that slot alongside a regular round.