A lot of Tooting runs on shift patterns. St George’s is one of the biggest teaching hospitals in the country, its rotas reach into thousands of the flats and houses around it, and for those households cleaning time is usually sleeping time. We send the same cleaner every week or fortnight, scheduled around the shifts, at £22 an hour.
Last updated July 2026. Prices and the areas we cover are checked each season, so what you read here is what you pay.
Regular domestic cleaning in Tooting costs £22 an hour weekly or £24 an hour fortnightly, one-off cleans are £26 an hour with a £67 minimum, and ironing is £12 an hour if you add it.
Hourly rates for cleaning in Tooting
Weekly cleaning is £22 an hour. Fortnightly is £24, because two weeks of dust takes longer to shift than one. A one-off clean is £26 an hour with a £67 minimum, which buys a genuinely useful stretch of work, enough to put a kitchen and bathroom properly straight. Ironing is £12 an hour on top for anyone who wants the pile on the chair gone.
Most Tooting homes settle at two to three hours a week. We will tell you honestly what your place needs rather than pad the estimate; a cleaner standing about helps nobody, least of all us.
You pay for the hours worked at the rate agreed up front. The rate does not creep.
Cleaning built around hospital rotas
St George’s rules this corner of SW17. One of the largest teaching hospitals in the country, around 1,300 beds, serving well over a million people across south-west London, and staffed by people who mostly live within walking or cycling distance because the shifts demand it. Nights, lates, earlies, on-calls. When you get home at eight in the morning, the last thing you want to hear is a hoover, yours or anyone else’s.
So we schedule around sleep as well as work. A clean that lands mid-shift, while the flat is empty, suits everyone; the same cleaner comes each visit and learns the pattern, including which mornings the curtains stay shut. If the rota moves, the slot can move with it.
Quiet is part of the job.
Most of our shift-working regulars end up leaving a key or a code once trust has built, and the flat is simply done when they surface. There is no ceremony to it. The work happens, the door locks behind us, and the note on the counter says what ran out.
Flatshares and the communal-areas problem
The other Tooting household is the flatshare: Victorian terraces between the Broadway and the commons, split four or five ways, everyone friendly and nobody in charge. Bedrooms stay roughly civilised because they belong to someone. The kitchen and bathroom belong to everyone, and the cleaning rota taped to the fridge lasts about three weeks before somebody’s night shift or somebody’s deadline kills it.
Two or three shared hours a week ends the argument. Kitchen, bathroom, hallway and stairs done properly, every week, by someone with no opinion about whose turn it was. Split between four housemates, it costs each person about the price of two pints.
A cleaner has no opinion about whose turn it was, and that is worth almost as much as the cleaning.
We already work in houses like this off Mitcham Road and around the Broadway grid. The bill can be split however you like. We just need one name to talk to when something needs deciding.
What a regular clean covers
The things that make a home feel held together: kitchen surfaces and floor, the bathroom done properly, hoovering and mopping through, dusting, bins out, the hallway made presentable. Beds get changed if you leave linen out. Ironing, at £12 an hour, is the most popular add-on by a distance, usually one hour bolted onto the visit.
Bathrooms in this postcode fight limescale as a second job. London water runs hard, around 270 to 300 ppm most of the year, and it films shower screens and chrome within a fortnight of a deep clean. Weekly attention wins that fight. An annual blitz does not.
An hourly clean is honest about its size. It will not shift a builder’s dust or reverse a whole winter of neglect in one go; for the first visit to a long-neglected flat we usually suggest a one-off at £26 an hour to reset the place, then the weekly rate holds the line from there. The main domestic cleaning service page describes the whole arrangement in more detail.
Cottages, conversions and mansion blocks
Tooting’s homes split three ways for a cleaner, and the hours follow the architecture. The Totterdown estate cottages, 1,244 of them put up by the LCC between 1901 and 1911 and protected as a conservation area since 1978, are compact and quick room by room, but there are a lot of rooms and the staircases are original, with all the dust-holding mouldings that implies.
The converted terraces nearer the Broadway produce odd layouts, bathrooms where bedrooms used to be, and hallways shared with the flat upstairs, which raises the eternal question of who hoovers the stairs. Often the answer becomes us.
And up towards Tooting Bec Common sit the Edwardian conversions and mansion-block flats, high ceilings, picture rails, a shelf of dust running round every room at a height nobody can see from the floor. Those flats book longer visits less often, and the arrangement suits them.
Getting started
Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the size of the place, what matters most to you and what your week looks like. We suggest the hours honestly, agree the rate, and set a slot that survives contact with a rota.
The same cleaner comes each time. When they are ill or on holiday you get told and offered cover, not silence, and you can wait for your usual person if you prefer.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does a domestic cleaner cost in Tooting?
£22 an hour for a weekly clean, £24 an hour fortnightly, and £26 an hour for a one-off with a £67 minimum. Ironing is £12 an hour on top if you want it. You pay for the hours worked at the rate agreed up front, and the rate does not creep once you are booked in.
Is there a minimum booking?
One-off cleans carry a £67 minimum, which is roughly two and a half hours, enough to put a kitchen and a bathroom properly straight. Regular weekly and fortnightly visits usually settle at two to three hours. If you ask for fewer hours than the place needs, we say so rather than deliver half a job.
Will I get the same cleaner every visit?
Yes. The same person comes each time, learns the flat, and stops needing instructions by about the third visit. When your cleaner is ill or away we tell you and offer cover, and if you would rather wait for your usual person, you can.
Can you work around night shifts and hospital rotas?
It is half of what we do in Tooting. St George’s keeps thousands of households on rotating shifts, so we set cleaning times around sleep as well as work, and the slot can move when the rota does. Most shift workers end up leaving a key so the clean happens while they are on the ward.
What does a regular clean include?
Kitchen surfaces and floor, a proper going-over of the bathroom, hoovering and mopping through, dusting, bins out and the hallway made presentable. Beds are changed if you leave linen out, and ironing is £12 an hour on top. Tell us your priorities and the hours are spent in that order.
Do I need to provide cleaning products?
Most regulars keep their own products and a hoover at home and the cleaner uses those, which keeps the hourly rate honest. If you would rather we brought supplies, say so when you book and we will arrange it. For one-off cleans we can bring everything that is needed.
Can a flatshare book a cleaner just for the shared areas?
Yes, and around the Broadway it is one of our most common bookings. Kitchen, bathroom, hallway and stairs, two or three hours a week, one named housemate for us to deal with, and the cost split however suits. It ends the rota argument for the length of the tenancy.
Do you do one-off cleans as well as regular ones?
Yes, at £26 an hour with a £67 minimum. People book them before guests, after building work, or when the shifts have won for a month and the flat needs a reset. If you like what the one-off does, it can turn into a weekly slot at £22 or a fortnightly one at £24.