Most of our Dartford regulars are terraces and flats within a ten-minute walk of the High Street, the sort of home where the kettle furs up inside a fortnight because the water off the chalk is so hard. We put one cleaner on the house and keep them there, so the place stops sliding backwards every Sunday night.
Last updated April 2026. Written by the team at Monster Cleaning Ltd, a UK domestic cleaning company trading since 2014.
Here is the short version. We do regular domestic cleaning in Dartford from £22 an hour, the same vetted cleaner kept on your home, weekly or fortnightly.
A weekly visit usually runs about three hours, which comes to £66 with one cleaner. Prefer it fortnightly? That is £24 an hour, so a two to three hour fortnightly clean lands between £48 and £72. No VAT, no call-out charge, no quote that swells the moment somebody has seen the place.
What a regular clean covers
A regular clean is the ordinary weekly graft that keeps a home liveable. Kitchen surfaces, the hob, the sink. Bathrooms scrubbed, the loo done properly, taps and mirrors left clear. Floors hoovered and mopped through. Dusting, skirtings when they want it, beds changed if you leave the linen out.
You tell your cleaner what matters and what does not. Some homes want the oven shelves done every single visit. Others would sooner that time went on the inside of the kitchen windows, or the spare room that has quietly turned into a dumping ground. It is your money and your hours, so we fit the work to how you actually live rather than to a printed tick-list that ignores the house in front of us.
We bring our own kit and products as standard.
If you would rather we used your own cleaning things, because of a fussy worktop or sensitive skin in the house, just say so and we will. It changes nothing about the price.
One thing we are blunt about up front.
We clean. We do not work miracles.
A first visit to a place that has not had a proper going-over in months will take longer than the steady rhythm that follows, and we would rather tell you that beforehand than rush the job and leave the corners.
It is your money and your hours, so we fit the work to how you actually live rather than to a printed tick-list.
What it costs in Dartford
Regular cleaning is priced per cleaner, per hour. £22 an hour on a weekly round, £24 an hour fortnightly. That is the rate full stop. No VAT is added and there is no call-out charge tacked on the bottom.
Most Dartford homes settle into a two to three hour visit. A one or two-bed flat near the town centre is usually two hours. A three-bed terrace out towards Temple Hill or Wilmington tends to want three. So a weekly bill with one cleaner normally sits around £66, and a fortnightly one between £48 and £72, and you know the number before anyone turns up.
Want the ironing done while we are there? That is £12 an hour on top of the cleaning time. Plenty of people would rather an hour of the visit went on the iron than on a room they barely use, so we leave it to you and bill the extra hour at that rate.
An honest word on our reviews, because you will find them anyway. Our Trustpilot sits at 3.1 out of 5 across 128 reviews, and we are not going to dress that up. Read them properly. Most of the low scores are from years back and from the move-out side of the business rather than the weekly cleaning, and we would far sooner you booked with your eyes open than felt oversold.
If a visit is not right, tell us within 24 hours and we send someone back to put it straight at no charge. That is the re-clean guarantee, and it covers a long-standing weekly regular and a first booking the same way.
One-off cleans are a different job
A one-off clean is not the same service as the weekly retainer, and it is priced differently, so it is worth being clear about it. Where the regular clean is one cleaner kept on your home, a one-off is a standalone visit done by a team.
Typically that is two cleaners for about three hours, working at £26 per cleaner an hour, with a £67 minimum charge for the visit. Two pairs of hands get a big job done in half the time, which is the point of it. People book one before family come to stay, after a party, when a tenancy is changing over, or simply when a house has got away from them and needs hauling back in one go.
We will be straight with you about whether you actually need a team.
Sometimes one cleaner over a longer slot is the more sensible spend, and we will say so rather than send two people because it sounds grander. We would rather you paid the right amount than the most, and a one-off can always turn into a regular slot afterwards if you decide you want the help every week or fortnight.
Need the deposit back rather than a tidy-up? That is a move-out job with its own checklist and its own price, and our end of tenancy cleaning in Dartford page covers that one instead.
The hard-water problem round here
Dartford sits on chalk, and the water that comes off it is genuinely hard. Affinity Water supplies most of the area and draws a large share of it straight from the chalk aquifer, which puts local hardness up in the band that furs a kettle in a couple of weeks and leaves a chalky film across glass.
You will already know it. The cloudy ring round the bath taps. The white crust creeping up the shower screen. The spots on the glasses straight out of the rack. An ordinary spray and a wipe does almost nothing to any of it, which is exactly why so many Dartford kitchens look smeared again an hour after they were cleaned.
Here is the bit people get wrong. Scale needs a mild acid to shift it, not more elbow grease.
Our cleaners carry the right descaler for taps, screens and tiles, and they know to dry the chrome off afterwards so it comes up properly clear instead of streaked. It is a small habit that makes the difference between a bathroom that looks clean and one that just looks wet. If you have had a water softener fitted, better still, and we will work with it.
Why we keep the same cleaner on your home
We put one cleaner on your home and keep them there. Not a rota of strangers.
There is a plain reason for it. The second week is always faster and sharper than the first, because by then your cleaner already knows that the hoover lives in the cupboard under the stairs, that the cat bolts the moment the back door opens, and that you like the bins out before they leave. You stop having to explain yourself, the clean gets better because the person doing it has a feel for the place, and we only swap anyone out when they are off sick or on holiday, in which case we tell you in advance.
You stop having to explain yourself, and the clean gets better because the person doing it has a feel for the place.
Every cleaner is vetted before they set foot in a customer home. We confirm who they are, check they have the right to work, and take up references. A good number of our Dartford team have cleaned for the same households for years, which tells you more than any badge ever could.
Give us a key and it is logged and held securely, and you can have it back the day you stop. Most regulars do exactly that so they need not be in. Cleaners come and go quietly while the family is at work or at school.
Monster Cleaning Ltd is a registered company, number 9919639 at Companies House, run from 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS. You are dealing with a real firm with an office and a phone, not an app that disappears when something goes wrong. Trading since 2014, with a re-clean guarantee behind every visit.
Where we clean across DA1 and DA2
We cover Dartford town and the streets around it. The Victorian and Edwardian terraces near the centre and through the West Dartford conservation area, the post-war Temple Hill estate, the newer flats that have gone up around the town centre regeneration off the High Street, the big modern schemes out at The Bridge and over towards Ebbsfleet, and the 1930s semis you find round Wilmington, the Brent and Joydens Wood.
Each comes with its own quirks for whoever is cleaning it. The older terraces near the High Street tend to have small kitchens, original tiled hall floors and windows whose runners gather grime. The new-builds at The Bridge are easy on layout but show every speck on dark laminate and glass balustrades. We have cleaned enough of both around Dartford to know on sight what a place is going to need.
Parking is usually fine once you are away from the very middle, though the streets right behind the pedestrianised High Street and the Orchards Shopping Centre can be tight on a weekday. Tell us if access is awkward and we will plan around it rather than turn up and circle the block.
A lot of our customers here commute, so the house sits empty through the day. Dartford station runs Southeastern services into Charing Cross in around thirty-five minutes and Victoria in about forty, with Cannon Street trains too, and trains carry on through Greenhithe for Bluewater out to Gravesend. Plenty of our regulars are on one of those while we clean, and a logged key or a key safe means none of that has to change.
How to book
Booking is a phone call or an email, not a form that eats twenty minutes.
Ring us on 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected]. Tell us roughly where in Dartford you are, how many bedrooms, and whether you want a weekly retainer, a fortnightly one, or a one-off team clean. From that we can give you a price on the spot and usually a start within the week.
We agree a day and a rough time, sort out access, and from then on it runs itself. You can move the day, pause for a holiday, or add an hour for a deeper go whenever you need, as long as you give us a little notice.
While you are deciding, it is worth a look at the rest of what we do. The carpets that take the worst of a hallway are on our carpet cleaning in Dartford page, and a furred-up oven is a job in its own right over on the oven cleaning in Dartford page. If you want the full picture of how the regular service works across the board, the domestic cleaning overview lays it all out.
That is the whole thing. A real cleaner, the same one most weeks, from £22 an hour, in your Dartford home for as long as you want us.
Frequently asked questions
How much is domestic cleaning in Dartford?
Regular cleaning is £22 per cleaner an hour on a weekly round, or £24 an hour if you go fortnightly. There is no VAT and no call-out charge. A three-hour weekly clean works out at £66. A one-off clean is a separate service done by a team at £26 per cleaner an hour, with a £67 minimum charge.
Why is the fortnightly rate higher than the weekly one?
A weekly home stays on top of itself, so each visit is steady work. A fortnightly home has had two weeks to build up, so there is more to do each time. The £22 weekly and £24 fortnightly rates reflect that. Either way it is the same cleaner kept on your home, not a different face each visit.
What is the difference between a regular clean and a one-off?
A regular clean is a retainer. We keep one vetted cleaner on your Dartford home, weekly or fortnightly, at £22 or £24 an hour. A one-off is a standalone job, usually two cleaners for about three hours, at £26 per cleaner an hour with a £67 minimum. People book a one-off before a party, after builders, or when family are coming to stay.
Will I get the same cleaner every week?
Yes, that is the whole point of the regular service. We keep one cleaner on your home so they learn it. The second visit is always quicker than the first because they already know where the hoover lives and how you like things. If your cleaner is ever off sick or on holiday, we send cover and tell you beforehand.
Do I have to be home while you clean?
No, and most of our Dartford regulars are not. Plenty are on the 7-something into Charing Cross while we work. You can leave a key, which we log and hold securely, or give us a key safe code. You get the key back the day you stop. Nothing about the arrangement ties you in.
Can you sort the limescale in my bathroom?
Yes. Dartford sits on chalk and the water is hard, so scale builds fast on taps, screens and tiles. Your cleaner carries a proper descaler for it and dries the chrome afterwards so it comes up clear instead of streaked. An ordinary spray and a cloth will not touch it, which is why so many local bathrooms look smeared an hour after they were wiped.
Do you bring your own products and equipment?
Yes, we bring the lot. If you would rather we used your own things, because of a delicate worktop or someone in the house with sensitive skin, just say and we will use yours. It makes no difference to the price.
Can you do the ironing while you are here?
Yes. Ironing is £12 an hour on top of the cleaning time. Some people would rather an hour went on the iron than on the spare room, so we leave that choice to you and bill the extra hour at the ironing rate. Tell your cleaner what you want done and what you would rather skip.
Is there a contract or a minimum term?
No tie-in on the regular service. Book a weekly or fortnightly slot and stop whenever you like, or pause for a holiday with a bit of notice. The one-off clean has a £67 minimum charge because a team has to travel for it, but it is a single visit with nothing to cancel.
What if I am not happy with a clean?
Tell us within 24 hours and we send someone back to put it right at no charge. That is our re-clean guarantee and it covers every booking, regular and one-off alike. Monster Cleaning Ltd has traded since 2014, company number 9919639, so you are dealing with a real firm rather than an app that goes quiet when something goes wrong.