Regular cleaners across Croydon, from Fairfield to Selsdon
Croydon had 390,719 residents at the 2021 census, and they live in everything from the 43-storey Saffron Square tower on Wellesley Road to the council-built semis of New Addington at the far end of the tram line.
Our regular cleaners cost £23 an hour on a weekly visit, so £69 for three hours, or £24 an hour if you want us fortnightly. How many hours your home needs depends far more on the street you live on than on the postcode.
Last updated October 2026.
How long a visit takes in a Croydon home
This is the table we work from on the phone. The hours are a starting point for one cleaner; after the first couple of visits you can add or drop time.
| Home | Common in | Hours a week | Weekly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio or one-bed flat in a tower | Fairfield, around East and West Croydon | 3 | £69 |
| Two-bed flat in a converted terrace | Addiscombe, Selhurst, Broad Green | 3 | £69 |
| Three-bed semi, one bathroom | Shirley, New Addington | 3 or 4 | £69 or £92 |
| Four-bed semi or detached, two bathrooms | Selsdon and Ballards | 4 | £92 |
Fortnightly visits are charged at £24 an hour, so three hours costs £72. A fortnight between cleans means more dust and more scale to shift, so for a family house we usually suggest weekly. The price calculator at the top of the page does the sums for any number of hours.
Towers, terraces and the big semis
The census breakdown by ward shows how quickly the housing changes. In Fairfield, the town-centre ward, 69.4% of homes were flats at the 2011 census. Addiscombe, east of the centre, was 47.2% flats and 35.7% terraced houses, so a flat and a whole terraced house are often next door to each other. Go south and east and it flips: Selsdon and Ballards was 57.6% semi-detached and 24.4% detached, and Shirley 42.3% semis.
Each of those is a different visit. A one-bed in a tower like Saffron Square (414 flats over 43 floors, finished in 2016) is a small floor area with a kitchen and a bathroom to do properly, and three hours leaves time for the extras, such as the inside of the microwave or the skirting.
A flat or house in a terrace has stairs, a hall and plenty of sills and ledges, and the dust settles on all of them. The semis in Shirley and Selsdon have more floor to cover, a garden door that brings mud in and, in many cases, a second toilet, which is why we start those at four hours.
New Addington, the large council-built estate east of the town, was the first place the trams reached when Tramlink opened on 10 May 2000. Half its homes were semis at the 2011 census, and three hours a week suits most of them.
If the cleaner has to pay for parking or a visitor permit at your address, that cost is added at what it costs us.
Two water suppliers, both hard
Croydon is split between two water companies. Thames Water supplies much of the borough, including CR0; SES Water covers the south, and its area runs as far north as South Croydon. You can check your own supplier on your water bill.
Whichever one you are on, the water leaves scale. Thames Water states that all the water in its region is hard, because it passes through chalk on the way to the tap, and it counts anything from 200 to 300 mg/l of calcium carbonate as hard.
In a Croydon bathroom that shows up as a grey film on the shower glass and a crust round the plughole within a week or two of the last clean. The cleaner deals with it every visit with a descaling spray on glass, taps and the shower head, left to soak before it is wiped off, so it never gets the chance to set hard.
The work done on each visit
Every regular visit covers the same core, then the cleaner spends any time left on the jobs you have asked for. The core is:
- Kitchen: worktops, hob, splashback, sink and taps, cupboard and appliance fronts, the inside of the microwave, the floor washed.
- Bathrooms and toilets: bath or shower, screen and tiles, toilet inside and out, basin, mirror, floor.
- Living rooms and bedrooms: dusting from the top down, hoovering, hard floors mopped, beds changed when you leave fresh sheets out.
- Hall and stairs: hoovered, banister and light switches wiped, door glass cleaned.
- Bins emptied and the rubbish taken to your outside bin or the block’s bin store.
You can ask for ironing at £12 an hour in the same visit; tell the cleaner how much of the booked time to give it. Things that need their own equipment are separate bookings: the oven goes to our Croydon oven cleaners, and a carpet that needs washing goes to the carpet cleaning team in Croydon.
We try to keep the same cleaner on your home for every visit, and if the person we send is not the right fit, we change them. Each cleaner is interviewed in person before they work for us, is insured and is trained before their first job. We have cleaned homes since 2014 and are rated 4.7 on Google.
How many hours your home needs depends far more on the street you live on than on the postcode.
Deep cleans and one-off visits
A house that has slipped, a flat you have just moved into or a home covered in plaster dust after building work needs a team for one long visit before a weekly cleaner can keep it there.
A deep clean is £26 per cleaner per hour, with at least two cleaners for three hours, plus £30 for equipment and detergents. That comes to £186 for the smallest job, or £156 if you supply your own products and kit. The deep cleaning page has the full list of what the team covers.
Moving out of a rented flat is a different service with prices set by the number of bedrooms; see our end of tenancy cleaning in Croydon.
To book either service, use the calculator at the top of the page or ring 0333 555 2076 (8am to 7pm, seven days).
Croydon domestic cleaning FAQs
How much does a weekly cleaner in Croydon cost?
£23 an hour for one cleaner. A three-hour weekly visit is £69 and a four-hour visit is £92. Fortnightly visits are £24 an hour, so £72 for three hours.
How many hours does a three-bed semi in Shirley need?
With one bathroom, three hours a week is usually enough. With a second bathroom or a downstairs toilet, and children or pets, we suggest four. You can change the hours after the first few visits.
Is Croydon water hard, and does the cleaner deal with the limescale?
Yes to both. Thames Water and SES Water both supply parts of the borough, and Thames Water describes all the water in its region as hard. The cleaner descales the taps, shower glass and shower head every visit, which stops the scale building up.
I live in a tower flat by East Croydon. Is three hours too much?
Three hours is the shortest regular visit we book. In a one-bed flat that leaves time for jobs that a quicker clean skips, such as the inside of the fridge, the windowsills and the skirting, on a rota.
Can the cleaner do the ironing as well?
Yes, at £12 an hour within the same visit. Most people give it the last half hour or hour of the booking.