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 £23 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 £23 an hour weekly or £24 an hour fortnightly, a one-off team clean starts at £186 (two cleaners for three hours at £26 per cleaner-hour, plus a £30 kit charge), and ironing is £12 an hour if you add it.
Hourly rates for cleaning in Tooting
Regular cleaning is charged by the hour, and a one-off is a separate team service.
- Weekly cleaning
- £23 an hour
- Fortnightly
- £24 an hour, because two weeks of dust takes longer to shift than one
- One-off clean
- £26 per cleaner-hour, with at least two cleaners for three hours plus a £30 kit charge, so it starts at £186. That buys six cleaner-hours in one visit, a genuinely useful stretch of work.
- Ironing
- £12 an hour on top, for anyone who wants the pile on the chair gone
Most Tooting homes settle at 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, and we schedule around sleep as well as work.
- The hospital
- One of the largest teaching hospitals in the country, around 1,300 beds, serving well over a million people across south-west London
- The staff
- Mostly living within walking or cycling distance because the shifts demand it
- The shifts
- 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. Quiet is part of the job.
- 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.
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, done properly, every week, by someone with no opinion about whose turn it was:
- kitchen
- bathroom
- hallway and stairs
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
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 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 team clean, from £186, 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. They 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.
- Converted terraces nearer the Broadway
- These 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.
- Up towards Tooting Bec Common
- 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 office@monstercleaning.com with the size of the place, what matters most to you and what your week looks like.
- We suggest the hours honestly.
- We agree the rate.
- We 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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When something bigger than a weekly clean is needed, the same office does carpet cleaning in Tooting and oven cleaning in Tooting, and for moving day itself, end of tenancy cleaning in Tooting exists for exactly that.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a domestic cleaner cost in Tooting?
£23 an hour for a weekly clean and £24 an hour fortnightly. A one-off is a team service at £26 per cleaner-hour, with at least two cleaners for three hours plus a £30 kit charge, so it starts at £186. 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?
Regular weekly and fortnightly visits are at least three hours. A one-off clean is a team service: at least two cleaners for three hours at £26 per cleaner-hour, plus a £30 kit charge (which we can waive if you supply the kit), so it starts at £186. 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, 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, as a team service at £26 per cleaner-hour, starting at £186 for two cleaners for three hours with the £30 kit charge. 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 £23 or a fortnightly one at £24.