The people who ring us about regular cleaning in Clapham are not living in chaos. They are out the door by eight, back at seven, and the flat loses ground all week until the weekend goes on chores instead of the Common. A weekly cleaner at £23 an hour buys that time back.
Last updated July 2026. Prices and the areas we cover are checked each season, so what you read here is what you pay.
Weekly domestic cleaning in Clapham is £23 an hour, fortnightly £24, and a one-off team clean is £26 per cleaner per hour, starting at £186 for two cleaners for three hours plus a £30 kit charge. Ironing is £12 an hour on top if you want the basket dealt with too.
What regular cleaning costs
Most Clapham flats settle at about three hours a visit. That makes a weekly clean on a two-bed £69, cheaper than most people guess before they ask.
- Weekly visits
- £23 an hour per cleaner
- Fortnightly
- £24, slightly more because two weeks of kitchen film takes longer to shift than one
- One-off session
- A team job at £26 per cleaner per hour, with a minimum of two cleaners for three hours plus a £30 kit charge, so from £186
- Ironing
- £12 an hour whenever you add it on
The full rate table and the small print live on the main domestic cleaning page.
No headline rate that doubles after month one. The hourly price is the hourly price.
What a visit covers
The cleaner brings the kit; you leave the water and power on. A visit works through the home like this:
- Kitchen
- Worktops, cupboard fronts, the hob top, the sink and the floor
- Bathrooms
- A proper scrub: tiles, screen, basin, loo, and the limescale film that London taps lay down on everything shiny
- Bedrooms and living rooms
- Dusted, hoovered and mopped, skirting boards and ledges included, with handles and switches wiped as standard
The kit is a professional vacuum, microfibres, a mop system and solutions matched to each surface. If you would rather a particular product went on the oak worktop or the brass taps, say so and it happens.
Regulars use the visits to rotate the extras:
- fridge shelves one week
- the microwave and the window sills the next
- the oven door front the week after that
Leave a note or text the office and the brief changes; the cleaner reads it before starting, not after finishing.
A regular visit maintains a home; it does not resurrect one. If the flat needs a hard reset first, start with a one-off session and drop into the weekly rhythm afterwards.
The inside of the oven is its own trade too, a specialist job priced on the oven cleaning in Clapham page rather than something to burn two hours of a domestic visit on.
Flatshares, families and four-storey stairs
Clapham is flatshare country, and the streets off the High Street and around Clapham North fill with sharers every summer.
The arithmetic for a shared house is friendly: a three-hour weekly clean at £23 an hour is £69, which split four ways is about £17.50 each. That is less than a takeaway, for a kitchen and bathroom nobody has to argue about. One booking, one invoice, split it however the house splits things.
One booking, one invoice, split it however the house splits things.
- Families in the Abbeville village terraces
- They run a different week. School run, work, clubs, and a Victorian house that sheds dust from every original floorboard. Three or four hours weekly keeps a family house honest, and ironing at £12 an hour clears the basket that lives on the spare bed.
- The Old Town
- It adds stairs to everything. A Georgian townhouse near the Polygon can be four storeys of landings, and cleaning one is a different job from a lateral mansion-block flat by the Common, which is why we quote in hours rather than pretending one price fits every home.
- The mansion blocks
- The calmest work we do. A porter downstairs, a lift, rooms on one level, and three careful hours covers a two-bed to a standard the building itself seems to expect. Several of our longest-standing customers live in those blocks, which probably says something.
Tell us the layout and we will tell you the hours honestly.
Saturday belongs to Venn Street market and the Common, not the mop. That is rather the point of all this.
One-off cleans
A one-off is a team clean at £26 per cleaner per hour, starting at £186 for two cleaners for three hours plus a £30 kit charge.
It exists for the moments a routine cannot cover:
- the flat after a birthday spills back off the Common
- the spring clean that never happened
- the week before your parents visit
Be straight with us about the starting state when you book and we will be straight about the hours. Undershooting helps nobody.
If what you actually need is a check-out clean with an inventory in mind, that is a different job with its own checklist, handled by end of tenancy cleaning in Clapham rather than by the hour.
Who turns up, and what happens to your keys
You get the same cleaner each visit wherever we can manage it, and most of our regular customers keep the same cleaner for years. When yours is on holiday, we send cover briefed on your flat rather than a stranger with no notes.
- Keys we hold
- They run through a tagged system: a key held by us carries a reference number, never an address.
- Key safe
- Plenty of customers use one instead.
- Porter’s desk
- In the mansion blocks along the Common it does the job nicely.
- Exit photos
- After each visit the cleaner sends them, so you can see the state of the flat from your desk before you head home.
Monster Cleaning Ltd has been running cleaners across London since 2014. Not every review we have ever had is glowing, and we will not pretend otherwise.
How to start
Phone 0333 555 2076 or email office@monstercleaning.com with:
- the size of the place
- how often you want a visit
- anything unusual: five flights of stairs, two spaniels, a landlord’s inventory in a drawer somewhere
The first visit starts with a quick walk-through so you and the cleaner agree what matters most.
Not sure which frequency fits? A rough rule that rarely misses:
- Weekly
- Pets, small children or four sharers
- Fortnightly
- A tidy household of one or two usually holds its ground on it
We would rather recommend fewer hours than sell you more than the flat needs.
We cover all of SW4 and its edges:
- the Old Town
- the Abbeville streets
- Clapham North
- Clapham Park
- the mansion blocks along the Common
- down to the Clapham South end of the Northern line
If the carpets need a machine clean before the routine starts, carpet cleaning in Clapham is the other half of what we do, and we can line the two visits up.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a domestic cleaner cost in Clapham?
Weekly cleaning is £23 an hour, fortnightly £24, and a one-off team clean is £26 per cleaner per hour, from £186 for two cleaners for three hours plus a £30 kit charge. Ironing adds £12 an hour. A typical two-bed flat settles at about three hours a visit, so a weekly clean usually comes out at £69.
What does a regular clean include?
Kitchen surfaces, hob top, sink and floors, a full bathroom scrub including the shower screen, then dusting, hoovering and mopping through the bedrooms and living space. Skirting boards, handles and switches are part of the standard round, and you can hand the cleaner a priority list any week you like.
Do I need to supply cleaning products or a vacuum?
No. The cleaner arrives with a professional vacuum, cloths, mops and solutions for each surface type. If you would rather a specific product was used on wood, stone or anything delicate, tell us and we will use yours or bring it.
Will I get the same cleaner every visit?
That is the aim, and it is the normal outcome; most regulars keep the same cleaner for years. Holidays happen, and then we send cover who has been briefed on your home rather than left to guess. If you would rather wait for your usual person, we work around their dates.
Can a flatshare split one cleaning bill?
Yes, and half of Clapham seems to. The house books one weekly or fortnightly slot, we invoice once, and the housemates split it by whatever maths keeps the peace. Three hours weekly at £23 an hour is £69, which is about £17.50 each in a house of four.
What happens if I am at work during the clean?
Most of our Clapham customers are. Keys can be held by us on a tagged reference-number system with no address attached, left in a key safe, or handed over by the porter in blocks that have one. The cleaner sends photos when the visit is finished.
What is the minimum for a one-off clean?
£186: two cleaners for three hours at £26 per cleaner per hour, plus a £30 kit charge. In practice a worthwhile one-off on a Clapham flat can run longer than the minimum, especially if the last proper clean was a while ago. Be straight about the starting state and we will be straight about the hours it needs.
Do you do ironing as well?
Yes, £12 an hour added to a regular visit. Leave the basket out with hangers handy and the cleaner works through it once the cleaning is done. A week of shirts is the usual Clapham order.
