A Hampstead house does not clean itself, and the tall ones put up a proper fight: four or five floors of stairs, cornicing that holds dust like a shelf, and a porch that meets the Heath head on. A weekly cleaner from us is £22 an hour, and it is the same person at your door each week.
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 Hampstead is £22 an hour with us, fortnightly visits are £24 an hour, and a one-off clean is £26 an hour with a £67 minimum. Ironing, whenever you want it added, is £12 an hour.
What a regular cleaner costs in Hampstead
Weekly cleaning is £22 an hour. Fortnightly is £24 an hour, a little more because the house has had two weeks to get on with things between visits. A one-off clean is £26 an hour with a £67 minimum, and ironing is £12 an hour on top of any visit. There is no joining fee, no contract tying you in past the next visit, and no small print doing press-ups behind the headline rate.
Weekly works out cheapest for a reason. A house cleaned every seven days never gets far enough gone to slow anyone down, so the hours go on keeping standards rather than on rescue work.
What a weekly clean covers
The core is housekeeping in the old sense of the word. Kitchen wiped down and the floor done. Bathrooms cleaned and dried off, because a dried bathroom stays looking cleaned for days while a wet one does not. Hoovering through the carpeted floors, hard floors mopped, beds changed when the fresh linen is left out, and the surfaces that gather a week of life: banisters, skirting boards, window sills, the top of the piano if you have one.
The same cleaner each week means the routine bends to your house. Some clients want the boot room done first every time because that is where the Heath comes in. Others care most about the kitchen table being ready for homework by four. Say what matters; it goes on the list and stays there.
A dried bathroom stays looking cleaned for days. A wet one does not.
Shower screens deserve their own line. London water is hard, and glass in NW3 fogs with limescale in a fortnight if nobody keeps at it, so the weekly wipe-and-dry holds a line that no annual blitz ever quite wins back. The full task list lives on the main domestic cleaning service page if you want to see everything written down.
Tall houses, cottages and mansion flats
Hampstead housing comes in three shapes, and each one asks for a different clean. The Victorian and Georgian family houses, on Downshire Hill, Keats Grove and the streets around Church Row, run tall: basement kitchen at the bottom, bedrooms in the old servant floors at the top, and stairs connecting the lot. Stairs are half the work in a house like that, and a cleaner who paces the job floor by floor gets more done in three hours than a rushed one manages in four.
The cottages are the opposite problem. Around Flask Walk, Well Walk and out in the Vale of Health, the rooms are small, the sills are low and every surface carries a lifetime of pictures, china and books. That is dusting work, patient and careful, where the skill is putting things back exactly where they stood.
Then the mansion flats toward Finchley Road and the Belsize side, most of them built solid between the 1890s and the 1930s: long hallways, panelled doors, cast-iron radiators that trap dust behind them, and often a parquet floor that wants a well-wrung mop rather than a wet one. One flat, one level, but the detail work adds up.
And plenty of clients fit none of the above, because they rent a flat carved out of one of the big villas. A fortnightly two-hour visit at £24 an hour keeps a one-bed conversion honest, and it is a popular arrangement with people who work long weeks and would rather not spend Sunday on the bathroom.
Keys, trust and the same face
Most regular clients are out when we clean, so keys change hands, and we treat a key with the seriousness it deserves: signed for, coded, never labelled with anything that points at your front door.
You get the same cleaner each week wherever the rota allows, which is most of the time. When your cleaner takes a holiday you choose between a covering cleaner, briefed from the notes on your house, or simply skipping the week. Nothing is forced on you either way.
The work is insured, and the office answers its phone. If a visit misses the mark, tell us straight away; it gets put right on the next visit, or sooner if the miss was serious. We have run on that arrangement since 2014 and it has worn well.
One-off and catch-up cleans
Not everything fits a rota. Parents arriving on Friday, a house that got away from everyone during exam season, a kitchen that needs to look sane before the plumber judges it. A one-off clean is £26 an hour with a £67 minimum: you book the hours, we agree the priorities up front, and the cleaner works down the list rather than drifting about.
Two jobs sit outside the hourly work, and honesty says so here. Carpets need machine extraction, priced per room through our carpet cleaning in Hampstead service, and a baked-black oven is a specialist strip-down job priced through oven cleaning in Hampstead. Moving out of a tenancy altogether is its own discipline, handled by our end of tenancy cleaning in Hampstead team.
Getting started
Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] and describe the place: how many floors and bedrooms, weekly or fortnightly, whether ironing should go on the clock. We suggest a sensible number of hours to start, you adjust it after the first week or two once you have seen what gets done. Monster Cleaning Ltd, company number 9919639, registered at 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS; our Trustpilot is 3.1 from 128 reviews and we leave it on show rather than pretend otherwise.
A regular cleaner arrives without a van, so for once Hampstead parking is nobody’s problem. We cover the whole of NW3, from the village streets and the Vale of Health across to the mansion blocks on the Finchley Road side, and down to the Belsize borders.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a domestic cleaner cost in Hampstead?
Weekly cleaning is £22 an hour, fortnightly is £24 an hour, and a one-off clean is £26 an hour with a £67 minimum. Ironing is £12 an hour added to any visit. There is no joining fee and no long contract, and the rate you agree is the rate you pay.
What does a weekly clean include?
Kitchen and bathrooms cleaned and dried, floors hoovered and mopped, beds changed when linen is left out, and the gathering surfaces done: banisters, skirting, sills. The routine is shaped around your house and stays with the same cleaner, so standing instructions do not need repeating every week.
Will I get the same cleaner every week?
Yes, wherever the rota allows, and that is the normal state of affairs. If your cleaner is on holiday you choose between a briefed covering cleaner or skipping the week. We would rather you had a person who knows the house than a rotating cast who keep asking where the mop lives.
Do I need to be home during the clean?
No, and most clients are not. Keys are signed for, coded and never labelled with an address. Some people prefer to be in for the first visit to walk the house and set priorities, and that is a good idea; after that the clean runs the same whether you are there or on the Heath.
How many hours does a Hampstead home usually need?
As a starting point: a one or two bedroom flat usually sits at two to three hours a week, and a tall family house at four or more, because stairs and bathrooms eat time. We suggest a number when you describe the place, then you trim or extend it once you have seen a few weeks of results.
Can you do the ironing too?
Yes. Ironing is £12 an hour and slots into the same visit, usually at the end once the cleaning is done. Leave the basket out and say roughly what order matters, school shirts before pillowcases or the other way round, and it gets worked through on the clock.
Do you bring the cleaning products?
Most regular clients keep a vacuum and products at home for their cleaner, which lets you choose exactly what touches your worktops and your parquet. If you would rather we arranged everything, say so when you book and we will set the visit up that way instead.
Can I book a one-off clean before guests arrive?
Yes, that is the most common one-off we do. £26 an hour with a £67 minimum, priorities agreed up front, kitchen and bathrooms usually first. Book a few days ahead where you can; Fridays in Hampstead have a way of filling up before the school gates do.