Most of our Tower Hamlets homes split neatly down the middle of the borough. South of the East India Dock Road you have the new flats stacked over Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs; north of it you have the old terraces and the council estates that the docks left behind, through Bow, Poplar and Bethnal Green. We clean a lot of both, and this page tells you what a regular cleaner costs, what a one-off team costs, and how the two services differ.
We provide domestic cleaning in Tower Hamlets from £22 an hour for a regular cleaner, plus a separate one-off deep clean by a team. That is the short answer.
Last updated April 2026. The prices below are what we actually charge across the E14, E3, E1 and E2 postcodes, with no VAT to add and no call-out fee.
Monster Cleaning Ltd has been doing this since 2014. We are a registered company, Companies House number 9919639, run out of an office at 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS. If you would rather just speak to a person, the number is 0333 555 2076 and the inbox is [email protected].
Regular cleaning, the same cleaner kept on your home
This is the service most Tower Hamlets customers want. One cleaner, the same one each time, who learns your home and gets on with it. A weekly round is £22 per cleaner per hour. Fortnightly is £24 per cleaner per hour, because a home left for two weeks takes a little more elbow on each visit, so the weekly rate quietly rewards the steadier rhythm. No VAT on top. No call-out charge ever.
A typical booking around here is three hours a week, which comes to £66. Plenty of the one and two-bed flats on the Isle of Dogs do perfectly well on a fortnightly visit of two to three hours, landing between £48 and £72 depending on how long you book. You pick the hours and the rate stays put whether you book two hours or twelve. We do not run any of those sliding scales where the price quietly bends so a bigger booking looks like a deal. The hourly rate is the hourly rate, full stop.
We keep the same cleaner on your home on purpose. Someone who has done your kitchen ten times is faster and better at it than a stranger sent in cold, and you stop having to explain where the hoover lives every single week. When your regular is off sick or away we will tell you and offer a cover cleaner. We will not quietly send a stranger and hope you do not notice.
Want the ironing done too? Add it at £12 an hour on top of the cleaning time. A lot of our regulars in the Wharf towers book three hours of cleaning and tack on an hour of ironing while the washing machine is going. It is your hour, spend it how you like.
Someone who has done your kitchen ten times is faster and better at it than a stranger sent in cold.
One-off deep cleans, done by a team
A one-off clean is a different job, and we price it differently. This is not your regular cleaner doing a longer shift. It is a small team, usually two cleaners for about three hours, charged at £26 per cleaner per hour with a minimum charge of £67. Two people get a tired flat sorted in an afternoon instead of one person grinding at it all day.
People book the one-off for the obvious reasons. A spring clean. Before family come to stay. After the builders have finally cleared out and there is plaster dust sitting on top of the picture frames, which in this borough is a near-constant given how much is being knocked through and built up. The team brings the kit, works the place top to bottom, and you commit to nothing ongoing. If you then decide you want a regular after all, we set that up at the regular rates above.
One thing worth saying plainly. A move-out clean is its own animal, with its own checklist and its own standard, and it is not the same as a domestic deep clean. If you are at the end of a tenancy and need the deposit back, read our page on end of tenancy cleaning in Tower Hamlets instead, because the work and the pricing are built for exactly that.
What Tower Hamlets homes are actually like to clean
Tower Hamlets is two housing stories sharing one borough, and the cleaning is different in each. South and west, on the Isle of Dogs and around Canary Wharf, the flats are new. Towers like One Park Drive and the blocks around South Quay Plaza have flat modern surfaces, sealed windows and, more often than not, a balcony that wants a wipe come spring. The dirt in a new flat is quiet. It builds up across the first metre inside the front door, a grey tide of street grit on a pale floor, and people leave it far too long because the surfaces do not look filthy until you actually clean them.
North of the dock road the homes are older and the cleaning has more corners to it. The terraces through Bow and Poplar were thrown up for dock and factory workers more than a century ago, many long since carved into flats, with deep skirtings, picture rails that catch dust, and bathrooms wedged into corners that were never built to hold a shower. Up in Bethnal Green you get the council estates the East End is famous for, including the Boundary Estate off Arnold Circus, which went up in the 1890s on the cleared Old Nichol slum and is reckoned the oldest council housing in the country. Cleaning a flat in a listed 1890s block is a world away from cleaning a 2020s tower, and we send people who know the difference.
The water is the one headache both halves share. Thames Water runs very hard water across this part of east London, roughly 300 parts per million of dissolved chalk, which is about as hard as it gets in England. On the ground that means limescale, everywhere: kettles fur up, shower screens cloud over, taps grow a white crust. A regular cleaner who is in your bathroom every week stays on top of it. Leave it three months and it sets like concrete.
It moves fast here, too.
A big slice of the borough’s flats are rented and turn over often, especially around the Wharf where people come for a couple of years of work and then go, so we get more one-off and end-of-tenancy calls in E14 than in a borough full of owner-occupiers. That churn is part of why we keep both services running side by side.
Cleaning a flat in a listed 1890s block is a world away from cleaning a 2020s tower, and we send people who know the difference.
Getting to your door across the borough
Getting to you is half the work in this borough, and the DLR does most of the heavy lifting. It is the only fully step-free railway in the country, and it threads the whole Isle of Dogs together, from Poplar down through Heron Quay, Crossharbour and Mudchute to Island Gardens, with the Jubilee and Elizabeth lines piling in on top at Canary Wharf. Up towards Bow and Bethnal Green the buses and the Central line do the same job. Most of our cleaners reach Tower Hamlets work without a car, which matters to you because we are not knocking money off for parking we cannot find, and we are rarely late blaming the Blackwall Tunnel.
Where a car is needed, the parking is its own puzzle. Most of the borough sits inside a controlled parking zone running through the day, the permits are virtual and tied to your number plate rather than a paper disc, and the council caps households at three permits with a surcharge climbing on the second and third. The side streets off Manchester Road and the bays around the Wharf fill early. None of that is your problem to solve. If a cleaner is driving we build the parking into the plan, and where it is easier we simply send them in on the train.
What we clean, and what we leave alone
A regular visit covers the everyday stuff that makes a home feel looked after. Kitchens wiped down and floors washed, bathrooms scrubbed and the limescale kept at bay, hoovering through, dusting, beds changed if you leave the linen out, bins taken out. Tell your cleaner what matters most to you and that is where the time goes. Some people want the kitchen spotless and could not care less about the spare room. Some are the other way round.
A one-off team clean goes deeper. Inside the kitchen cupboards if you empty them first, behind and under what we can safely move, skirtings and door frames, the tops of things people forget, the inside of the windows you can reach. It is the once or twice a year reset, not the weekly tidy.
We do not do the dangerous or the specialist as part of a standard clean. Nobody is leaning out over a tenth-floor balcony to do the outside glass. No carpet shampooing or oven strip-downs squeezed into a normal visit either, because those are proper jobs with proper kit, and we run them as their own services. If the carpets need doing, look at carpet cleaning in Tower Hamlets. If it is the oven, the oven cleaning in Tower Hamlets page has the prices for that.
No.
That is the honest answer when people ask whether one quick session will undo years of neglect on hard-water taps or a never-cleaned oven. It will help, but the first deep clean on a long-neglected home is always the heaviest, and a regular slot afterwards is what keeps it easy.
Booking, and the re-clean guarantee
Booking is not complicated. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected], tell us your postcode, roughly how big the place is, and whether you want a regular cleaner or a one-off. We give you a straight price over the phone, not a vague range, and book you a day. For regulars we try to lock in the same cleaner and the same time each week or fortnight, so it becomes one less thing you think about.
If a clean is not right, tell us within 48 hours and we will send someone back to put it right at no extra cost. That is our re-clean guarantee, and we would rather fix a missed skirting than argue about it. We are not going to pretend every clean over twelve years has been flawless. Our Trustpilot sits at 3.1 out of 5 across 128 reviews, a mix of people who love their cleaner and a few we did not get right, and the guarantee exists precisely so we can sort the second group out.
We are based at 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS, and we cover Tower Hamlets as part of our east London round. If you are weighing up regular help at home more broadly, our domestic cleaning overview lays out how the service works across the city. For Tower Hamlets specifically, the fastest route to a price is just to ring.
Frequently asked questions
How much is a regular cleaner in Tower Hamlets?
A regular domestic cleaner is £22 per cleaner per hour on a weekly round, or £24 per cleaner per hour fortnightly. There is no VAT and no call-out charge. A typical three-hour weekly clean comes to £66.
How much does a one-off clean cost?
A one-off clean is a separate service done by a team, charged at £26 per cleaner per hour with a £67 minimum charge. The usual booking is two cleaners for about three hours, which resets a tired flat in an afternoon.
What is the difference between a regular clean and a one-off?
A regular clean keeps the same cleaner on your home each week or fortnight at £22 to £24 an hour. A one-off is a deeper, standalone reset done by a team at £26 per cleaner per hour. They are staffed and priced differently on purpose, so we do not merge them into one rate.
Do you keep the same cleaner on my home?
Yes, that is the point of the regular service. You get the same cleaner each visit, so they learn your flat and work faster, and you stop re-explaining where the hoover lives. If they are off sick or on holiday we tell you and offer a cover cleaner rather than sending a stranger unannounced.
Is there VAT or a call-out charge on top?
No. The hourly rate is what you pay, with no VAT added and no call-out fee. We do not run any sliding scale where the rate drops the more hours you buy, so the price per hour is the same whether you book two hours or twelve.
Can you do my ironing as well?
Yes. Ironing is £12 an hour on top of the cleaning time. Plenty of our Tower Hamlets regulars book three hours of cleaning and add an hour of ironing while the washing machine runs.
Which parts of Tower Hamlets do you cover?
All of it. We clean the new flats around Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs, the converted terraces through Bow and Poplar, the warehouse flats down in Wapping, and the older estates up by Bethnal Green. Most jobs sit a short walk from a DLR or Jubilee line station.
Do I need to provide cleaning products and a hoover?
For a regular clean it helps if your cleaner can use your own hoover and a few basics, because every home is different and you know what you like used on your surfaces. For a one-off team clean we bring the kit. Tell us when you book and we will sort it either way.
Can you work around a Canary Wharf concierge and parking?
Yes, we do it most weeks. The towers around the Wharf and South Quay sign visitors in at a desk and run a goods lift you book ahead, and the streets off Manchester Road are permit-controlled through the day. We plan around the concierge and lean on the DLR, so a cleaner often arrives on foot from Crossharbour or Heron Quay rather than circling for a bay.
What if I am not happy with the clean?
Tell us within 48 hours and we send someone back to put it right at no extra cost. That is our re-clean guarantee. Our Trustpilot sits at 3.1 out of 5 across 128 reviews, an honest mix of people who love their cleaner and a few we got wrong, and the guarantee is there to fix the second group.
Do you handle end of tenancy cleaning too?
We do, but it is a separate service with its own checklist and standard, built around getting a deposit back. If you are moving out, use our end of tenancy cleaning page for Tower Hamlets rather than booking a domestic deep clean, because the work and the pricing are set up for that.
How do I book a cleaner in Tower Hamlets?
Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with your postcode, the rough size of your home, and whether you want a regular cleaner or a one-off. We give you a firm price on the phone, not a vague range, and book a day. For regulars we try to fix the same cleaner and time each week.