Most of our Hertfordshire rounds run out from St Albans, with a steady spread through Fleetville and Marshalswick and a growing few in the flats near the City 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 service done by a team, at £26 per cleaner per hour. We keep the same cleaner on your home wherever we can, carry in every product and the hoover, and do the kitchen and bathroom properly. Monster Cleaning has kept homes in order since 2014. Ring 0333 555 2076 and we price it on the call.
Last updated April 2026. Covering the AL1, AL3 and AL4 postcodes, from St Albans city centre and Fleetville out through Marshalswick and The Camp to Harpenden, London Colney, Wheathampstead and Sandridge.
Domestic cleaning in Hertfordshire starts from £22 an hour, a cleaner kept on your home, weekly or fortnightly, with a separate team rate for one-offs.
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 across the district.
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 is there, so nobody gets pushed into hours they do not need.
A one-off clean is the other service, 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 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 underpaid to prop them up. Our rates pay a fair wage to vetted cleaners who come back and care. For the wider picture of what an ongoing service includes, the domestic cleaning overview sets it all out.
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 St Albans regulars 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 an average one-off of two people for three hours comes to about £156 of cleaner time in a single 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 in, gets it done in one hit, and gets out. Plenty of people then start a fortnightly slot to keep it that way.
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 district and has your preferred slot free, then we keep that same person on your home for as long as it works for 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 which floor cleaner is under the sink, so each visit gets quicker. When your regular is off sick or away on holiday, we will not drop you, and we will not send someone in blind either. The cover gets a short written brief on your property first.
A clean falls short? You are covered.
Ring us within 24 hours and the cleaner comes back and redoes whatever was not right, at no charge. That is our re-clean guarantee, with no catch attached. Our Trustpilot sits at 3.1 out of 5 across 128 reviews. That is not a perfect score and we will not pretend it is, but it is a real number from real customers, and we would rather show you that than hide behind a made-up five stars. We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House number 9919639, and the founder still reads the complaints.
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 the bathrooms done properly, the rest of the home dusted, hoovered and mopped, and the bits everyone forgets actually dealt with. A larger Marshalswick semi wants more time. A smaller flat near the station that finishes early gets the extras done.
Kitchen. Worktops, splashback, sink and taps wiped, disinfected and descaled. The chalk 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, the spot most cleaners skip and the one a bathroom starts to smell from.
Bedrooms and living areas. Every flat surface dusted, picture rails and door frames included, which matters in the older terraces where there are plenty of both. Carpets, rugs and hard floors hoovered, the sofa too when there is room. Beds made and linen changed when you leave clean sheets out. Skirting boards we do 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. Add ironing at £12 an hour if you want the shirt pile dealt with while we are there.
Would you sooner we left everything where it sits and cleaned round it? Say so on the first visit and that is how we work.
The homes we clean around St Albans
St Albans is not one kind of housing, and the clean shifts from street to street.
Much of the centre is a conservation area, and the streets running off St Peter’s Street and St Michael’s Street are largely Victorian and Edwardian terraces, handsome and almost all without off-road parking. Those homes carry picture rails, deep skirting and original tile in the hallways, detail that holds dust and rewards a careful clean rather than a wet slap-around. Fleetville, just east of the centre, is much the same on its older roads, with bigger 1930s houses on a few of the wider ones.
The chalk water here is hard enough to film a tap inside a fortnight, so descaling is a weekly habit, not an occasional treat.
Head north-east into Marshalswick and the housing changes. It went up as a garden suburb in the 1920s and 1930s, so you get roomier semis and detached houses on tree-lined roads like Marshals Drive, with proper gardens and the odd run of parquet still down. The Camp, named after the Roman encampment, mixes 1930s semis with a lot of ex-council stock. Out at the edges, Harpenden, Wheathampstead and the villages run to larger family homes.
The one thing nearly every home here has in common is the water. This corner of Hertfordshire sits on the chalk, so the mains supply runs very hard, comfortably past 250 milligrams a litre. That is why the kettle furs up, why the shower screen clouds within days of a clean, 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 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 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 the real local quirk. The Victorian streets near the centre have almost no off-road parking, and because St Albans City station is barely twenty minutes into London on the Thameslink, residents’ permit zones were brought in across roads like Sandridge Road, Boundary Road and Beech Road to stop commuters filling them all day. Where a job sits inside one of those zones, we ask whether you can lend a visitor permit, or the cleaner parks legal further out and walks the last stretch. Out in Marshalswick and the villages it is far easier, with driveways and open kerb space.
No deposit, no joining fee, no long tie-in on a regular round. 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 convenient.
Other cleaning we do here
Plenty of our regulars add one of these now and then, alongside the weekly or fortnightly slot:
- Carpet cleaning in Hertfordshire once or twice a year, a separate job with separate machinery that genuinely adds years to a good carpet.
- Oven cleaning in Hertfordshire, 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 Hertfordshire 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. Want 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 Hertfordshire cost?
Regular cleaning is £22 per cleaner per hour on a weekly round, or £24 per cleaner per hour if you go 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 service done by a team, 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 service we send a team to, 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 who already knows where everything lives.
Will I get the same cleaner every time?
On a regular round, yes, that is the whole idea. We pair you with a cleaner who already works your corner of St Albans and keep that same person on your home. A good number of our Marshalswick and Fleetville 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.
Do I need to supply cleaning products or a hoover?
No. The cleaner brings the vacuum, the cloths, the mop and the right product for each surface. The water across this part of Hertfordshire is drawn off the chalk and runs properly hard, well past 250 milligrams a litre, so a strong descaler is in the kit as standard. Would you rather we used your own eco brand, or something specific for an allergy in the house? Leave it out and the cleaner uses that instead.
Can I add ironing to a clean?
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 when you book. It is the one extra most of our weekly customers end up keeping.
Which parts of Hertfordshire do you cover?
We work out from St Albans first, the AL1, AL3 and AL4 streets through the centre, Fleetville, Marshalswick and The Camp, then on to Harpenden, London Colney, Wheathampstead and Sandridge. We also reach Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City and the villages around them. If you are near St Albans City station on the Thameslink line, we cover you. Out toward the edge of the district and unsure? 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 a registered company 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 happens to be nearest.
What happens if I am not happy with a clean?
Ring us within 24 hours and the cleaner comes back and redoes 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. When a clean misses, we put it right.
Can you clean a period terrace or a 1930s semi?
Yes, and a fair slice of our work here is exactly that. The Victorian and Edwardian terraces around the city centre and Fleetville carry picture rails, deep skirting and original tile that hold dust and want a careful clean. The 1930s semis out in Marshalswick often keep their parquet and tiled bathrooms. We work to the surfaces you actually have and reach for gentler products where a fierce one would mark them.