The Elizabeth line rewired Woolwich in 2022: Canary Wharf in about eight minutes, the West End in twenty-odd, and a lot of front doors that stay shut from seven to seven. Somebody still has to clean the flat. At £23 an hour on a weekly visit, it does not have to be you.
Last updated July 2026. Prices and the areas we cover are checked each season, so what you read here is what you pay.
Weekly cleaning in Woolwich is £23 an hour, fortnightly £24, and a one-off clean is a team job at £26 per cleaner per hour, from £186 for two cleaners over three hours including a £30 kit charge. Ironing is £12 an hour.
What a cleaner costs in Woolwich
£23 an hour for a weekly visit, £24 an hour fortnightly, £26 per cleaner per hour for a one-off. The gap between those rates is not a loyalty gimmick.
- Weekly
- £23 an hour. A weekly flat never gets properly dirty, so the hours stretch further.
- Fortnightly
- £24 an hour. A fortnightly one needs a little recovery each time.
- One-off clean
- A team job at £26 per cleaner per hour: at least two cleaners for three hours plus a £30 kit charge, so from £186. A one-off means walking into the unknown, which is why it goes to a team of at least two.
- Ironing
- £12 an hour whenever you want a basket added to the list.
How long a visit takes depends on the home:
- One and two-bed flats
- Most here settle at three hours a visit.
- Family houses up the hill
- With stairs and a garden’s worth of foot traffic, they run more like three to four.
You choose the hours. We will say honestly if the number you have picked will not stretch to the list you have written, because a cleaner sprinting through twelve jobs helps nobody.
Ironing at £12 an hour is the quiet favourite among the add-ons: a weekly basket done at home, on your board, so shirts come out smelling of your own laundry rather than a service wash.
Who books a regular clean in SE18
Regular cleaning
from £69
A three-hour weekly visit, agreed before we start.
Get your price0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm
Commuters, families, shift workers and long-time locals, mostly.
- Commuters, first
- The Arsenal blocks by the station are full of people who leave on an early train and come home twelve hours later, and a midweek reset (floors, bathroom, kitchen, ironing) is the difference between a flat and a to-do list. The fob lobbies and concierge desks down there are used to cleaners, so access is rarely a drama.
- Families next
- Mostly in the terraces between Burrage Town and Plumstead Common, where three bedrooms and a staircase produce crumbs and washing on an industrial schedule. Weekly suits those houses. Fortnightly starts to work once the children stop redecorating the floor daily. Trinity Walk and the other rebuilt corners of central Woolwich have brought young families back too, and a three-hour fortnightly slot is the popular compromise there.
- Then the shift workers
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital sits up on Stadium Road, and hospital hours make weekend cleaning a miserable use of a rare day off. A Tuesday morning clean while the flat is empty solves that neatly.
- And a quiet fourth
- People who have lived here since long before the Elizabeth line, who want the same trusted face each fortnight rather than an app that sends a stranger.
A midweek reset is the difference between a flat and a to-do list.
What a visit covers
A regular visit runs to a rhythm you set once and adjust whenever you like. The usual shape:
- kitchen worktops, sink and hob wiped down
- the bathroom done properly, including the limescale that grows quickly on water as hard as ours
- floors hoovered and mopped
- surfaces dusted
- bins out
- beds changed if the linen is left out
Whatever remains of the hours goes on a rotating extra: inside windows one week, skirting boards or fridge shelves the next.
The list is yours. Some customers want the kitchen forensic and never mind the dusting; others want the whole place skimmed and the bathroom perfect. Say so, and that is what happens.
Two jobs sit outside a domestic visit because they need machines and hours of their own.
- Carpets
- Carpets that have gone grey in the walk-lines need extraction rather than a hoover, which is carpet cleaning in Woolwich, priced per room.
- Ovens
- A baked-up oven is a specialist job with a long soak for the parts: oven cleaning in Woolwich, from £77. Regulars often bolt one on once or twice a year, and scheduling is easy because we already know the flat.
One-off team cleans at £26 per cleaner per hour, from £186 for two cleaners over three hours, suit the before-and-after moments:
- after builders
- ahead of a landlord inspection
- before family descend for Christmas
- the spring clean the flat has been promised since February
Tell us the target and we will say how many hours it honestly needs.
Your cleaner, your keys
You get the same cleaner each visit. When that has to change (holidays, illness, someone moving on) we tell you first and send cover who has been briefed on your list rather than a name off a rota.
The regulars who have been with us longest barely need the list any more; their cleaner knows the house.
- Keys
- The practical question. Most working households leave one, or sort a fob and a word with the concierge in the riverside blocks. If you would rather be home while we clean, that is normal too, and mornings are the easiest slots to hold.
- Products and kit
- Your call. Plenty of customers prefer their own under-sink line-up and their own hoover; others want everything brought. Say which when we set up.
- Pets
- Mention them while you are at it, so we send someone who is happy working around the dog rather than sneezing at it.
- Hours
- They flex both ways. Fortnightly households flip to weekly for a month before visitors or after a move, then flip back, and that is a phone call rather than a renegotiation.
If something is ever not right, a missed shelf, a streaked mirror, say it plainly, and nobody sulks.
Who we are
Monster Cleaning
- Since 2014 cleaning homes
- 4.7 on Google
- Vetted, insured cleaners
- 300+ letting agents use us
- London, Manchester and Liverpool
Monster Cleaning Ltd, registered at 75 Shakespeare Avenue, Feltham, TW14 9HU, cleaning London homes since 2014.
We’re rated 4.7 on Google. Domestic cleaning is personal, and when it goes wrong people say so in public, as they should. We reply, including to the sore ones, and the measure we actually live on is how many households keep the same slot year after year.
This page is the Woolwich version of a service we run across the city. The wider domestic cleaning page covers the how and the add-ons in full, and it is worth a read if you are weighing us against an agency or an app.
How to start
Phone 0333 555 2076, or email office@monstercleaning.com with:
- your postcode
- the size of the place
- roughly how many hours you are thinking of
- We talk it through and suggest an hour count if you are unsure.
- We set a regular day.
- First visits sometimes run long while the cleaner learns the place.
- After that the rhythm settles quickly.
We take on regulars across the whole of SE18:
- the riverside blocks by the station
- the streets around Powis Street and General Gordon Square
- Burrage Town
- both commons and the terraces between them
- out to the Plumstead side
One-off team cleans cover the same ground at £26 per cleaner per hour, from £186, and spring-clean season is real, so book those ahead.
Moving out rather than staying? That is a different job entirely: end of tenancy cleaning in Woolwich. For everything that happens while you actually live here, this is the page.
Common questions
How much does a domestic cleaner cost in Woolwich?
£23 an hour for weekly visits, £24 an hour fortnightly, and £26 per cleaner per hour for a one-off team clean, which is at least two cleaners for three hours plus a £30 kit charge, so from £186. Ironing is £12 an hour. You choose the number of hours, and we will tell you honestly whether it matches the list you have in mind.
What is included in a regular clean?
Kitchen surfaces, sink and hob, the bathroom, floors throughout, dusting, bins, and beds if you leave the linen out, with the remaining time spent on a rotating extra such as inside windows or the fridge. The list is yours to change, and the cleaner works to it rather than to a company script.
Do I get the same cleaner every time?
Yes, that is the design of the service. When holidays or illness force a change we tell you beforehand and send cover who has been briefed on your list. Long-standing customers usually find their cleaner knows the house well enough that the list barely gets looked at.
Do I need to be home during the clean?
No, and most working households are not. Regulars usually leave a key, or arrange a fob and a word with the concierge in the riverside blocks. If you prefer to be in while we work, that is fine as well, and morning slots are the easiest to arrange.
Do you bring the cleaning products?
Whichever you prefer. A lot of customers like their own products and hoover used, so nothing unfamiliar touches the worktops. Others want everything brought to the door. Tell us when we set the visits up and the cleaner comes prepared either way.
How many hours will my home need?
Most one and two-bed flats in Woolwich settle at three hours a visit. A three-bed terrace with stairs and a family living at full tilt is more like three to four. Weekly homes need fewer hours than fortnightly ones because the dirt never gets a head start, and we adjust after the first visit or two.
Can you do the ironing as part of the visit?
Yes, at £12 an hour. Leave the basket out with hangers or space to lay things flat and the cleaner works through it inside the booked time or as added hours, whichever you have asked for. Shirts for the week is the most common request from the commuter flats by the station.