We keep one cleaner on your home in Lewisham, so the person who learns where your spare bin bags live is the same person who turns up next week. No app roulette, no fresh stranger every visit.
Last updated April 2026. Written by the team at Monster Cleaning Ltd, run from 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS.
Here is the short version. We do regular domestic cleaning in Lewisham from £22 an hour per cleaner, no VAT, no call-out charge, the same cleaner kept on your home.
That is the answer most people want before they read another word. The rest of this page is the detail: what the two services actually cost, how they differ, and why a Lewisham home is its own particular job.
What domestic cleaning costs in Lewisham
Recurring cleaning is £22 per cleaner per hour on a weekly round, or £24 per cleaner per hour if you go fortnightly. No VAT on top, no call-out charge. A three-hour weekly clean is £66. A fortnightly visit of two to three hours runs £48 to £72, depending on how long you book it for.
Weekly works out cheaper per hour than fortnightly, and that is deliberate. A home cleaned every week never gets the chance to build up, so the cleaner spends the hour keeping it on top rather than digging it out. Leave a fortnight between visits and there is more dust and more bathroom to fight, so it costs a little more per hour to cover the extra graft. Either way you pay for the cleaner’s time, the products and the kit they carry in, with nothing bolted on at the end.
Want shirts done too? Ironing is £12 an hour on top of the cleaning time, and your regular cleaner handles it in the same visit.
Those are real figures you can hold us to, not a “from” price that climbs the moment you ask a question. We have been doing this since 2014, the rate quoted on the phone is the rate you pay after the clean, and there is no deposit and no joining fee.
Two services, not one flat rate
People muddle these two all the time, so here is the honest split. A regular clean and a one-off clean are different jobs, run by different setups, at different prices. We will never roll them into one vague hourly figure and hope you do not notice.
The first is regular domestic cleaning on a retainer. One cleaner, kept on your home, coming weekly or fortnightly. That is £22 an hour weekly, £24 an hour fortnightly. It is the service most Lewisham households actually want, because the value sits in one person learning your home over months instead of a stranger guessing at it.
The second is a one-off clean, a separate, standalone service. We send a team, usually two cleaners for around three hours, at £26 per cleaner per hour with a £67 minimum charge. It is built for a single big push: before family come to stay, after a party, or a clean before your things go into a new flat. More hands, more done, all in one visit.
A regular clean and a one-off clean are different jobs, run by different setups, at different prices.
What we do not run is a sliding scale tied to how long you book. The weekly rate is the weekly rate whether you take two hours or five. That sort of pricing only exists to nudge people into long visits they do not need, and we would rather you booked exactly the time your home takes and no more.
If a move is the reason you are reading this, a one-off is still not the same thing as a move-out clean against a deposit. For that, see our end of tenancy cleaning in Lewisham, which is priced as a fixed job and checklisted to what letting agents inspect.
Why a Lewisham home is its own job
Lewisham is not one kind of housing, and the clean shifts street by street. The town centre and the roads off Rushey Green are mostly flats: the towers behind the new Lewisham Gateway development by the station, older blocks, and a steady run of conversions. Out towards Hither Green you hit the Corbett Estate, more than three thousand Victorian and Edwardian terraces laid out in the 1890s by the Scottish developer Archibald Cameron Corbett, plenty of them now split into flats. The late-Victorian streets around Ladywell, a conservation area since 2010, are much the same vintage.
That kind of stock cleans differently from a new build. Original floorboards and old skirting hold dust where modern plaster does not. Deep window reveals, picture rails and period woodwork trap grime in every groove, so the dusting and the bathroom take longer and the products want to be gentler round old paint and original tiling. Push south into the SE6 roads around Catford South and you pick up 1930s semis and ex-council flats, a different layout again, and usually quicker to get round.
The one thing nearly every Lewisham home shares is the water, and it shapes more of the job than people expect. Thames Water draws this corner of south London largely off the chalk, so the supply runs hard, somewhere around 296 milligrams a litre and firmly in the very hard bracket. That is why the kettle furs up, why the shower screen clouds within days of a proper clean, and why a strong descaler goes into every cleaner’s kit as standard.
The water here is hard enough to film a tap inside a fortnight, so descaling is a weekly habit, not an occasional treat.
Then there is getting to you. The commercial heart of Catford sits where the A205 South Circular meets the A21, with a one-way gyratory in the middle, so on a busy day a car is more hindrance than help. Lewisham Council has been rolling its Sustainable Streets controlled parking zones across Catford, Catford South and Hither Green, with permit prices pegged to vehicle emissions, so our cleaner needs to know which streets they can stop on. We sort that before the first visit rather than making it your problem on the day.
The same cleaner, kept on your home
This is the part the apps cannot do. Take a regular clean with us and we put one cleaner on your home and keep them there. They learn your place. Where the hoover lives, which cupboard hides the good cloths, that the spare room gets a light touch and the kitchen gets the hour.
Trust matters more than anything when someone is in your home every week. We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House number 9919639, trading since 2014. Our Trustpilot sits at 3.1 out of 5 across 128 reviews, which we will not dress up as five stars. We would rather be straight about the number and earn the next review than quote you something we cannot stand behind.
A clean falls short? You are covered.
Tell us within 24 hours and we come back and redo whatever was not right, free of charge. That is our re-clean guarantee, with nothing buried in the small print. If your regular cleaner is off sick or away we tell you in advance and offer a cover cleaner, briefed on your home first, or we move the visit. You decide, and we never just send a no-show.
What a regular clean covers
A standard weekly or fortnightly clean covers the rooms that get used, scaled to your home and the hours booked. The heart of it is the kitchen and bathroom done properly, the rest of the home dusted, hoovered and mopped, and the bits everyone forgets actually dealt with. Here is roughly how a three-hour Lewisham visit tends to fall, though your cleaner adjusts it to your place.
- Kitchen first, because it is the room that shows. Worktops, splashback, hob, sink and taps wiped, disinfected and descaled, the appliance fronts done, the floor mopped, bins out.
- Bathroom next, which round here swallows the most minutes. Bath, shower, screen and tiles scrubbed and descaled, the toilet cleaned under the rim and round the base, basin and mirror left clear, floor washed including behind the pedestal.
- Bedrooms and living space. Surfaces and skirting dusted, picture and door frames included, carpets and hard floors hoovered, beds made and linen changed when you leave clean sheets out.
- Floors mopped last, so nobody walks back over them, and a quick walk-through before the cleaner locks up.
We bring the cloths and the basics. Want a specific product used on a stone worktop or an antique floor? Leave it out and your cleaner uses yours rather than guess, because plenty of the period homes around Hither Green and Ladywell have surfaces that do not take a supermarket spray.
It is your home. You set the priorities.
One-off and deep cleans
Sometimes you do not want a weekly arrangement, you want one really good clean and your weekend handed back. That is the one-off service. A team of about two cleaners, roughly three hours, £26 per cleaner per hour, £67 minimum charge, and we bring everything.
A one-off suits a handful of situations. You have people coming and the place has slid. You have just taken a Lewisham flat and want it cleaned before your things go in. The Christmas chaos needs undoing, or a landlord wants a tidy between tenants that is not a full deposit clean. If it goes well, plenty of people roll the one-off into a regular slot with the same cleaner, though there is no pressure either way.
Carpets and the oven are specialist jobs with their own machinery, and we keep them separate so you only pay for what you need. See carpet cleaning in Lewisham for hot-water extraction that genuinely adds years to a good carpet, and oven cleaning in Lewisham for a full strip-down with the racks and door glass done rather than a quick wipe over.
How to book us
Booking is a phone call, not a form. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected]. Tell us your Lewisham postcode, how many bedrooms and bathrooms, whether you want weekly, fortnightly or a one-off, and roughly how many hours you think it needs. If you are unsure on the hours we will talk it through, because most people slightly over or under-guess their first time.
We confirm a price on that call. No surveyor visit, no quote that changes later. For a regular clean we match you to a cleaner who already works your corner of Lewisham and set a day and time that repeats. For a one-off we book the team into the slot that suits you.
You pay after the clean, not before. We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, a small London firm run from 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS, not a faceless platform, and you can ring the office and get a person who knows your booking. For the wider view of every home service we run, the domestic cleaning overview lays it out in full.
That is the whole process.
Frequently asked questions
How much is domestic cleaning in Lewisham?
Recurring 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 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 clean?
A regular clean is one cleaner kept on your home, weekly or fortnightly, from £22 an hour. A one-off is a standalone job done by a team of about two cleaners for roughly three hours, at £26 per cleaner per hour, with a £67 minimum charge. Different setup, different price, and you choose the one that fits.
Do I get the same cleaner every week in Lewisham?
Yes, on a regular booking. We put one cleaner on your home and keep them on it, so they learn your place over the months rather than starting cold each visit. Most of our Catford and Hither Green regulars see the same face for years. If yours is off sick or on holiday, we offer a briefed cover cleaner or move the visit, with notice.
Is there any VAT or call-out charge on top of the hourly rate?
No. The hourly rate is the whole rate. There is no VAT added and no call-out fee, whether you are off Rushey Green, up towards Hither Green or out in the SE4 streets towards Brockley. The number we quote on the phone is the number you pay after the clean.
Can you do my ironing as well?
Yes. Ironing is £12 an hour on top of your cleaning time, and your regular cleaner does it in the same visit. Leave the basket out, tell them what to prioritise, and they fit it round the clean. It is the add-on most of our weekly Lewisham households end up taking.
How many hours does my Lewisham home need?
Most one and two-bed flats around the town centre run two to three hours on a regular clean. A bigger Corbett Estate terrace out towards Hither Green or Lee sits nearer three. We do not push longer visits and we do not drop the rate for booking more hours, so you book only the time your home actually takes.
What does a regular clean cover?
Kitchen and bathroom done properly, then the rest of the home dusted, hoovered and mopped. Worktops, hob, sink and the descaling that hard south London water demands, the bathroom top to bottom, beds changed if you leave the linen out, bins emptied. Tell your cleaner what matters most and they build the hour around your home rather than a fixed checklist.
What does a one-off clean include and what does it cost?
A one-off is usually two cleaners for about three hours, at £26 per cleaner per hour with a £67 minimum charge. We bring all the kit and clean the used rooms top to bottom in a single push. It suits a clean before guests, after a party, or before you move into a new Lewisham flat.
Do you bring your own products and equipment?
Yes. Your cleaner carries a proper vacuum, microfibre cloths, a mop and the right product for each surface, plus a strong descaler because the water here runs hard off the chalk. Prefer your own eco brand, or need something specific for an allergy in the house? Leave it out and we use that instead.
Do I have to be home while you clean?
Rarely. Most Lewisham customers leave a key with us after the first few visits, or give us a key safe code, and the cleaner lets themselves in and locks up after. Keys are tagged against a reference number only, never your name or address. Plenty of people like to be in for the first month while they get the measure of us, which is fine.
What if I am not happy with a clean?
Tell us within 24 hours and we come back and put it right at no extra charge. It is a re-clean, not an argument. Our Trustpilot sits at 3.1 out of 5 across 128 reviews, which we would rather show you straight than dress up as five stars, and if the same cleaner keeps missing we move you to someone else.
Is a one-off clean the same as an end of tenancy clean?
No. A one-off is a general deep clean priced by the hour. A move-out clean is a fixed-price job checklisted to what letting agents inspect against your deposit, which is a different service. If you are moving rather than staying put, our Lewisham end of tenancy page covers that side of it.