Morden is the end of the Northern line, the last stop before the trains turn around and head back into town, and a good share of our Merton rounds sit within a short walk of that station. We keep a cleaner on your home and that same cleaner comes back each week, kit carried in with them, the kitchen and bathroom done properly rather than wiped over. Monster Cleaning has kept south London homes liveable since 2014. Regular domestic cleaning in Merton runs from £22 per cleaner per hour, weekly or fortnightly, with no VAT on top and no call-out charge. Ring 0333 555 2076 and we price it on the phone in a couple of minutes.
Last updated April 2026. Covering SM4 and the wider London Borough of Merton, from Morden and Mitcham across to Colliers Wood, Merton Park, Raynes Park, South Wimbledon and Wimbledon.
Two services, not one
People ring asking for “a cleaner” and mean one of two quite different things, so it is worth splitting them before we get to prices. Lumping them together is how you end up paying for the wrong thing.
- Regular domestic cleaning
- The same cleaner back on your home every week or fortnight, charged per cleaner per hour. This is upkeep, and it is the cheaper hourly rate because it is ongoing.
- One-off clean
- A deeper, standalone reset done by a team, usually two cleaners for about three hours, charged per cleaner per hour with a minimum charge. This is for moving in, after a party, or when a home has drifted badly.
Most of this page covers the regular service.
What a regular visit covers
A regular clean follows the same routine each time, sized to your home and the hours you book. The kitchen and the bathrooms get done thoroughly, the rest of the place gets dusted, hoovered and mopped, and the corners everyone ignores actually get seen to. Below is what a standard three-hour weekly clean covers in a typical Morden two-bed. A bigger house wants more time. A smaller flat that finishes early gets the extras done, the insides of the sills and the tops of the cupboards, rather than the cleaner clocking off ten minutes short.
Kitchen and bathrooms
- Worktops, splashback, sink and taps wiped, disinfected and descaled, then the hob done properly with the grates lifted and the burners checked underneath.
- Appliance fronts: hob, extractor, fridge, dishwasher and the outside of the microwave.
- Bath, shower, glass screen and tiles scrubbed and descaled, which in this borough is the part that eats the most time.
- Toilet done under the rim, round the base and the flush handle, with the floor washed into the corners and behind the pedestal. That last bit is the spot most cleaners skip, and the one a bathroom starts to smell from.
The rest of the home
- Dusting of every flat surface, picture rails and door frames included, which the older Merton Park and Wimbledon houses collect plenty of.
- Carpets, rugs and hard floors hoovered, then mopped with the right solution for what you have got down, since laminate and real wood do not want the same product.
- Beds made if they are not, linen changed when you leave clean sheets out, skirting boards wiped on a rota rather than every single week.
- Light switches, door handles and the bannister, the touched-by-everyone spots, plus a final walk-through before the cleaner locks up behind them.
We leave your personal things where they are if you would rather we did not tidy them. Just say so on the first visit.
Regular cleaning: what it costs
Regular domestic cleaning is charged per cleaner, per hour, and the rate depends on how often we come. A weekly clean is £22 per cleaner per hour. A fortnightly clean is £24, a little more because we are at your home half as often. There is no VAT added at the end, no travel charge inside the borough, and the rate covers the lot: products, equipment and the cleaner’s time.
Here is what that looks like in practice. A three-hour weekly clean comes to £66 a visit. A fortnightly clean usually runs two to three hours depending on the size of the place, so somewhere between £48 and £72 a visit. A smaller one-bed flat near South Wimbledon might want two hours; a four-bed semi out towards Raynes Park is closer to three or four. We talk you through a realistic length on the phone before anything is booked.
We charge by the hour rather than by the room because homes are not standard, and we would rather quote honestly than dress a number up as something it is not. The rate does not drop the more hours you book, and we will not pretend it does. One word on the rock-bottom quotes in this trade: a lot of those rates only exist because somebody is being underpaid for them to exist. Ours reflect paying a proper wage to vetted people who come back week after week. For the wider picture, the domestic cleaning overview ties it together.
The rate does not drop the more hours you book, and we will not pretend it does.
Want ironing handled while we are there? Add it on at £12 an hour on top of the cleaning time, and the cleaner works through the basket during the visit.
One-off cleans, done by a team
A one-off clean is the other service, and it differs from the weekly slot above.
A one-off is a deeper reset rather than ongoing upkeep, so we send a team, usually two cleaners for about three hours, and the place gets turned around in a single afternoon. It is £26 per cleaner per hour, with a £67 minimum charge for the visit. That is the right call before a party or after one, when you have just got the keys to a new place around Colliers Wood, or when a home has drifted past what a regular slot can claw back in one go.
It is not the same as the weekly or fortnightly retainer, where the same cleaner keeps your home ticking over at the lower rate. People do mix the two, mind, and plenty of our regulars book a one-off team blitz a couple of times a year on top of their standing visit. The ironing add-on at £12 an hour works on a one-off too.
Merton homes, and what they need
Merton is not one kind of housing, and the clean shifts with the street. Morden and the SM4 streets are heavy on 1930s semis, three beds with a long hallway and a front room that has usually kept the same carpet for a decade, the suburb that grew up fast once the Northern line reached it in 1926. The St Helier estate, the big cottage-style development the old London County Council built across the south-east corner of the borough at the end of the 1920s, has its own pattern: solid little houses with narrow halls, road names running in alphabetical order from Abbotsbury Road round to Woburn Road, and often no driveway.
Head north and it changes. The streets around Merton Park and the John Innes conservation area are older and grander, Arts and Crafts touches and the odd Dutch gable, the sort of house where the owner notices every mark on the stairs. Colliers Wood and the Mitcham side bring Edwardian terraces, a fair few knocked through into one long reception, while Wimbledon adds Victorian villas and converted flats. The access and the age of the place differ every time.
The one thing nearly every Merton home shares is the water, and it is a stranger story here than people expect. This corner of the borough is supplied by SES Water, not Thames, and SES is the one company in the country legally required to soften the groundwater it pulls up, which it does at the Cheam works just down the road. Even after that softening it still runs hard, around 239 ppm on SES’s own figures, because the chalk under south London puts more back than the plant takes out. It is why the kettle furs up, why the shower screen clouds over within days of a clean, and why a descaler is in every cleaner’s kit before they reach your door.
Morden water is hard enough to fur a tap inside a fortnight, so descaling is a weekly job here, not a monthly one.
The same cleaner, kept on your home
This is the part that matters most to people, so we take it seriously. We match you with a cleaner who already works your corner of Merton and has your preferred slot free, then we keep that same person on your home for as long as it works for both of you. The large majority of our regulars see the same face every visit, for years on end.
It works better for everyone that way. The cleaner learns your home, your quirks, where the spare bin bags live and which floor cleaner you keep under the sink, so each visit gets quicker and more thorough rather than starting from scratch. When your regular is off sick or away we will not leave you stranded, and we will not send a stranger in blind either. We cover the visit with someone who gets a short written brief on your property first.
A clean falls short? You are covered.
Ring us within 24 hours and we come back to redo whatever was not right, free of charge. That is our re-clean guarantee, and there is no small print attached to it. We are Monster Cleaning Ltd (Companies House 9919639), a real firm with an office and a phone, and our Trustpilot sits at 3.1 out of 5 across 128 reviews. We would rather show you that plainly than dress it up.
How booking works
- Ring 0333 555 2076. Tell us the property size, how many bedrooms and bathrooms, and roughly how often you want us. We suggest a realistic length and give you the price there and then.
- A quick look on the first visit. For regular bookings the cleaner does a five-minute walk-around at the start of the first clean, at no extra cost, so we understand the home before getting stuck in.
- We assign your cleaner. Someone who covers your part of the borough, has your slot free, and stays on your home from then on.
- Keys, a key safe, or you let us in. Most customers leave a key with us after a few visits, kept on a reference number rather than an address. A key safe or being home work just as well.
- A message when it is done. The cleaner sends a quick note, often with a photo or two of the finished rooms, so you know the job has happened while you are out.
No deposit, no joining fee and no long tie-in. You can change frequency with a week’s notice or stop whenever you like. We are run from 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS, a straight run up the A24 from Morden, and you can also reach us at [email protected].
Other things we clean in Merton
Plenty of our Merton regulars add one of these now and then, on top of the weekly slot:
- Carpet cleaning in Merton once or twice a year, a different job with different kit that genuinely adds years to a good carpet.
- Oven cleaning in Merton, a proper strip-down twice a year or before a landlord inspection, with the racks and the door glass done rather than a quick wipe.
- end of tenancy cleaning in Merton for when you are moving out and want the deposit back, priced as a fixed job by property size rather than by the hour.
Frequently asked questions
How much does domestic cleaning in Merton cost?
Regular cleaning is £22 per cleaner per hour weekly and £24 per hour fortnightly, with no VAT and no call-out charge. A three-hour weekly clean works out at £66, and a fortnightly two to three hour clean lands between £48 and £72. A one-off clean is a separate service at £26 per cleaner per hour with a £67 minimum.
Is a one-off clean priced the same as your regular service?
No, they are two different jobs. A one-off is a deeper reset done by a team, usually two cleaners for about three hours, at £26 per cleaner per hour with a £67 minimum. The weekly and fortnightly retainer is cheaper per hour because it is ongoing upkeep with the same cleaner kept on your home, not a one-time blitz.
How often should I have a cleaner in Merton?
Weekly suits busy family houses, the bigger St Helier and Morden semis, and anyone working from home. Fortnightly is the sweet spot for smaller flats around Colliers Wood and South Wimbledon. A one-off is right before guests arrive or after a do. If you are unsure, start fortnightly and we adjust after a month.
Do I need to provide cleaning products or a hoover?
No. The cleaner brings the lot: a proper vacuum, microfibre cloths, a mop and the right product for each surface. Morden sits on hard water, so a decent descaler is in every kit as standard. If you would rather we used your own eco brand, or something for an allergy in the house, leave it out and the cleaner uses that instead.
Will I get the same cleaner every visit?
Wherever we can manage it, yes. We match you with someone who already works your corner of the borough and has your slot free, then keep that person on your home. The large majority of our regulars see the same face for years. If yours is off sick we send a cover with a short written brief on your place first.
Do I have to be home while the cleaner is there?
Rarely. Most Merton customers leave a key with us after a few visits, or give us a key safe code. The cleaner lets themselves in, does the work, locks up and goes. Keys are tagged with a reference number only, never your address. Some people like to be home for the first month or so, which is completely fine.
Which parts of Merton do you cover?
All of it. Morden, Mitcham, Colliers Wood, Raynes Park, Merton Park, South Wimbledon and Wimbledon, across the SM4, SW19, SW20 and CR4 postcodes. If you live on the St Helier estate, off Kingston Road, or up near the common, we cover you. Not sure whether you are in our patch? Ring and ask.
Is the hard water in Morden a problem for cleaning?
It is the thing that shapes the job most. SES Water supplies this corner of Merton and the supply runs hard, so limescale comes back on taps and shower screens fast. That is why descaling is a weekly job here rather than a monthly one, and why the cleaner carries a proper descaler before they reach your door.
Are your cleaners vetted and insured?
Yes. Every cleaner is interviewed in person, reference-checked and right-to-work verified before they touch a single 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, so you are dealing with a real firm, not an app passing your details on.
What if I am not happy with a clean?
Ring us within 24 hours and we come back to put right whatever was missed, free of charge. That is our re-clean guarantee and there is no arguing about it. It does not happen often, but when it does we fix it rather than getting defensive. If the same cleaner keeps falling short, we move you to a different one.
Do you charge extra for parking in Merton?
No. A lot of our cleaners come in on the Northern line to Morden or by tram to Morden Road, so parking is often a non-issue. Where a job genuinely needs a car, the older St Helier and Merton Park streets often have no driveway, so we park legally nearby and walk in, and we never add a parking charge to your bill.