Most of our Havering rounds run out from Romford, with a steady spread through Gidea Park and Hornchurch and a growing few in the new blocks by the station. Regular domestic cleaning here is £22 per cleaner per hour on a weekly round, or £24 if you go fortnightly, with no VAT and no call-out charge. A one-off clean is a separate team service at £26 per cleaner per hour. We keep the same cleaner on your home wherever we can and carry in every product and the hoover. Monster Cleaning has kept London homes in order since 2014. Ring 0333 555 2076 and we price it on the call in about two minutes.
Last updated April 2026. Covering the RM1, RM2, RM3 and RM11 postcodes, from Romford town centre and Gidea Park out through Hornchurch and Elm Park to Upminster, Cranham, Harold Wood and Rainham.
Domestic cleaning in Havering starts from £22 an hour for a cleaner kept on your home, weekly or fortnightly, plus a one-off team rate.
What it costs
The obvious question first, and the honest answer is that there are two prices because there are two different jobs. A regular cleaner kept on your home is £22 per cleaner per hour if we come weekly, or £24 per cleaner per hour if we come fortnightly. No VAT goes on top and there is no call-out fee inside the borough.
A three-hour weekly clean is £66. A fortnightly visit of two to three hours lands between £48 and £72, depending on how long you book. The hourly rate stays the same however long the cleaner stays, so nobody is pushed into booking hours they do not need; three hours is simply three times the hourly figure.
A one-off clean is the other service, and it is priced differently because it is a different kind of work. We send a team, usually two cleaners for about three hours, at £26 per cleaner per hour, with a £67 minimum charge so a small job is still worth a team turning out for. That is the booking for a deep one-time reset rather than ongoing upkeep, and the next section sets out when each one makes sense.
Ironing is the common add-on, at £12 an hour on top of the cleaning time. If the cleaner spends the last part of a visit on a basket of shirts, that stretch is charged at the ironing rate rather than the cleaning one, and we build the time in when you book.
One honest word on the rock-bottom quotes that drift around this trade. The cheapest hourly rates only hold up because somebody down the line is being underpaid to prop them up.
Regular round or one-off team
People mix these two up, so here is the plain version. They are not the same booking and they are not priced the same way.
A regular round is one cleaner, the same one, on your home every week or every fortnight. It is upkeep. The kitchen and bathroom stay on top of themselves, the place never gets the chance to slide, and over time your cleaner gets quicker because they know where everything lives. That is the £22 weekly or £24 fortnightly service, and it is what most of our borough customers are on.
They are not the same booking and they are not priced the same way.
A one-off is a team job for a single big clean. Two cleaners, roughly three hours, at £26 per cleaner per hour with a £67 minimum, so a typical one-off comes to about £156 of cleaner time in one visit. You would book this before you move into a place, after a party, or when a home that has gone a while without help needs hauling back to a baseline. The team gets it done in one hit. Plenty of people then start a fortnightly slot to keep it that way, though there is no obligation to.
The same cleaner, week after week
This is the part people ask about first, so we will deal with it first. On a regular round we pair you with a cleaner who already works your slice of the borough, has your preferred slot free and suits what you have asked for, then we keep that same person on your home for as long as it suits both sides. The large majority of our regular customers here see the same cleaner every single visit, often for years on end.
It simply works better that way. Your cleaner learns the house, knows where the spare bin bags live and which floor cleaner is under the sink, so each visit gets quicker. When your regular is off sick or on holiday, we will not drop you and we will not send someone in blind. The cover gets a short written brief on your property first.
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What a visit covers
A regular clean runs the same routine each time, scaled to your home and the hours you have booked. The heart of it is the kitchen and bathrooms done properly, the rest of the home dusted, hoovered and mopped, and the bits everyone forgets dealt with. A larger Gidea Park semi wants more time. A smaller flat near the station that finishes early gets the extras done rather than the cleaner clocking off.
Kitchen. Worktops, splashback, sink and taps wiped, disinfected and descaled. The water here is hard enough to film a tap inside a fortnight, so descaling is a weekly habit, not an occasional treat. The hob is done properly, grates lifted and burners checked underneath, and the appliance fronts wiped: hob, extractor, fridge, dishwasher and the microwave. The floor is mopped, and the bins go out.
Bathrooms. Bath, shower, screen and tiles scrubbed and descaled, which round here is the part of the visit that swallows the most minutes. The toilet cleaned and disinfected under the rim, round the base and the handle. Basin, taps, mirror and glass left clear. The floor washed, the corners and behind the pedestal included, because that is the spot most cleaners skip and the one a bathroom starts to smell from.
Bedrooms and living areas. Every flat surface dusted, picture and door frames included. Carpets, rugs and hard floors hoovered, the sofa too when there is room. Beds made if they are not already, and linen changed when you leave clean sheets out. Skirting boards on a rota rather than every visit.
Around the home. Light switches, door handles and the bannister, the germy bits everyone touches and nobody thinks about. Internal glass too, and a last walk-through before the cleaner locks up. Add ironing at £12 an hour if you want the shirt pile dealt with.
Would you sooner we cleaned round everything, no tidying? Say so on the first visit and that is how we work.
The homes we clean around the borough
Havering is not one kind of housing, and the clean shifts from street to street. We have learned the borough the slow way, one round at a time.
A great deal of it went up between the wars, when the Tube and the railway pulled London out east and street after street of 1930s semis appeared with a bay window and a long back garden. Gidea Park has the smartest of it, the Romford Garden Suburb, where the 1934 Modern Homes Exhibition left a run of architect-designed houses that people still seek out. Those homes are solid, but the original bathrooms, tiling and parquet in the ones not redone in a while want a careful clean rather than a wet slap-around.
Around Romford town centre it is a different story. New flats have gone up fast since the Elizabeth line turned the place into a thirty-odd-minute run into Tottenham Court Road, and a lot of them are let and turn over, so we do a fair few first-cleans when someone moves in. Out the other way, on the Liberty line through Emerson Park to Upminster, you are back into bigger houses with gardens, while the terraces near the old market carry picture rails and the odd run of period tile.
The water here is hard enough to film a tap inside a fortnight, so descaling is a weekly habit, not an occasional treat.
The one thing almost every home out here has in common is the water, and it shapes more of the job than people expect. Essex and Suffolk Water draws this corner of London off the chalk, so the supply runs very hard, comfortably past 300 milligrams a litre. That is why the kettle furs up, and why a strong descaler is in every cleaner’s kit as standard.
Booking, access and parking
Booking is a phone call, not a form. Here is how it runs.
- Ring 0333 555 2076. Tell us the size of the place, how many bedrooms and bathrooms, and whether you want a regular round or a one-off team. We give you the price there and then.
- A quick look on the first visit. For regular bookings the cleaner does a five-minute walk-round at the start of the first clean, no extra charge.
- We assign your cleaner. For a regular slot, someone who covers your area, has your slot, and stays on your home from then on. For a one-off, a team for the day.
- Keys, a key safe, or you let us in. Most people hand us a key after a few visits, kept against a reference number rather than an address. A key safe or being home both work too.
- A message when it is done. The cleaner drops you a quick note, often with a photo or two of the finished rooms, so you know the job has happened.
Parking is mostly kinder here than in inner London, though the controlled bays right around Romford town centre and the station fill by mid-morning. Plenty of our cleaners skip the car entirely: Romford station puts the Elizabeth line and the Liberty line out to Upminster under one roof, and the wider borough is well served by buses. Where a job needs a car and your road is on a permit, we ask whether you can lend a visitor permit, or we park legal further out and walk the last stretch.
No deposit, no joining fee, no long tie-in on a regular round. You can change how often we come with a week’s notice, or stop whenever you like. We are run from 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS, and you can reach us at [email protected] if a call is not handy.
Other cleaning we do here
Plenty of our borough regulars add one of these now and then, alongside the regular slot:
- Carpet cleaning in Havering once or twice a year, a separate job with separate machinery that genuinely adds years to a good carpet.
- Oven cleaning in Havering, a full strip-down a couple of times a year or ahead of a landlord inspection, racks and door glass done rather than a quick wipe over.
- end of tenancy cleaning in Havering for when you are moving out and want the deposit back, priced as a fixed job by the size of the property rather than by the hour.
A regular weekly visit and a move-out clean are not the same thing, and we price them separately, so do book the right one for what you need. For the wider view of what an ongoing service covers, the domestic cleaning overview lays it out in full.
Frequently asked questions
How much does domestic cleaning in Havering cost?
Regular cleaning is £22 per cleaner per hour on a weekly round, or £24 per cleaner per hour fortnightly, with no VAT and no call-out charge. A three-hour weekly clean is £66. A fortnightly visit of two to three hours runs £48 to £72. A one-off clean is a separate team service at £26 per cleaner per hour, with a £67 minimum charge.
What is the difference between a regular clean and a one-off?
A regular clean is the same cleaner kept on your home, week after week or every fortnight, at £22 or £24 an hour. A one-off is a separate team service, usually two cleaners for about three hours, at £26 per cleaner per hour with a £67 minimum. The team gets one big clean done in a single visit; the regular round keeps a home ticking over with one familiar face.
Will I get the same cleaner every time?
On a regular round, yes, that is the entire point. We match you with a cleaner who already works your part of the borough and keep that same person on your home. A lot of our Gidea Park and Hornchurch regulars have had the same cleaner for years. When yours is off sick, we brief a cover cleaner on your home in writing first rather than send a stranger in cold.
How often should I book?
Weekly suits the bigger 1930s semis, working households and anyone home all day. Fortnightly is the popular middle for the newer flats around Romford station and the smaller terraces. Unsure? Start fortnightly and we change it after a month. Nothing ties you in.
Do I need to supply products or a hoover?
No. The cleaner brings the vacuum, the cloths, the mop and the right product for each surface. The water out here off the Essex chalk is properly hard, comfortably past 300 milligrams a litre, so a strong descaler is in the kit as standard. Prefer your own eco brand? Leave it out and we use that instead.
Can I add ironing?
Yes. Ironing is £12 an hour on top of the cleaning time, so if the cleaner spends the last half-hour of a visit on a basket of shirts, that half-hour is charged at the ironing rate rather than the cleaning one. Tell us roughly how much there usually is and we build the time in. It is the one extra most of our weekly customers end up adding.
Which parts of the borough do you cover?
All of it. Romford town centre and the RM1 streets first, then out through Gidea Park, Hornchurch and Elm Park, on to Upminster, Cranham, Harold Wood, Rainham and Collier Row. If you are near Romford station on the Elizabeth line, or anywhere on the Liberty line out to Emerson Park and Upminster, we reach you. Out on the edge towards the M25 and not sure? Ring and ask.
Are your cleaners vetted and insured?
Yes. Every cleaner is interviewed in person, reference-checked and right-to-work verified before they go near a home, and we carry public liability cover up to £5 million. Monster Cleaning Ltd has been registered since 2014, Companies House number 9919639. You are hiring a real firm with an office and a phone number, not an app that hands your address to whoever is nearest.
What if I am not happy with a clean?
Ring us within 24 hours and we come back and redo whatever fell short, free of charge. That is our re-clean guarantee, with nothing buried in the small print. We will be straight about our reviews too: our Trustpilot sits at 3.1 out of 5 across 128 reviews, which we would rather show you than dress up.
Can you clean a 1930s semi or an older Romford terrace?
Yes, and a fair slice of our work here is exactly that. The between-the-wars semis around Gidea Park and Hornchurch have solid tiled bathrooms and original parquet or boards that want a careful clean rather than a wet one. We work to the surfaces you actually have and reach for gentler products where a fierce one would mark them.