How much does a cleaner cost?
Pick the service and the size of the place, get the hours and the price range. This cleaning cost calculator uses the same rates as our live price list and shows the working. Nothing you tap leaves your device.
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£66 to £77 a visit
A 2-bed home usually takes 3 to 3.5 hours a visit at £22 per cleaner, per hour, weekly. The minimum visit is 3 hours.
Priced on the size and state of the place, not the postcode: a decade of our job data puts every London area within about 13% of the average. Weighing up doing it yourself? Here is the honest comparison.
The estimate is worked out on your device. Nothing you tap here is uploaded, and the booking form re-checks every figure before anything is confirmed.
The rates behind it
| Weekly regular clean | £22 per cleaner, per hour (3-hour minimum visit) |
|---|---|
| Fortnightly regular clean | £24 per cleaner, per hour |
| One-off clean | £26 per cleaner, per hour, £186 minimum |
| Specialist (after builders, deep, outdoor) | from £30 per cleaner, per hour |
| End of tenancy | fixed, from £156 (studio) to £425 (4+ bed) |
What the calculator is doing
There is no clever pricing engine underneath. The rates are the ones on the prices page: £22 an hour for a weekly clean, £24 fortnightly, £26 for a one-off team visit with a £67 minimum, £30 for specialist work like after-builders, and fixed end of tenancy packages from £156. The calculator multiplies them by the hours a place of your size normally takes and shows the working. The booking form re-checks every figure before anything is confirmed, so the estimate cannot quietly drift from what you would pay.
What actually moves a cleaning price
Four things, in order. Size first, since every extra bedroom is more floor, more surfaces and usually more clutter. Bathrooms second; they are the slowest rooms in the house per square metre, so each extra one adds real time. Condition third: a home that has had regular attention cleans in the standard hours, and one that has not can run a third longer. Frequency last. Weekly clients pay the lowest rate because the work is predictable and the same cleaner keeps the home, so they learn where everything is and what you care about.
Hourly or fixed, and why we use both
Regular, one-off and after-builders work is hourly because the honest unit of that work is time. End of tenancy is the opposite case. The job is benchmarked to your check-in inventory, it follows a fixed 57-point list, and it carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee, so it is sold as a package: you are buying an outcome, the inventory pass, rather than a number of hours. If you are moving out, the end of tenancy checklist shows exactly what that package covers.
When doing it yourself is fine
Plenty of the time. Weekly upkeep of your own home needs no professional, and a one-off spruce before guests is a Saturday morning, not an invoice. Where paying earns its keep is where the stakes or the materials change: an end of tenancy clean judged against day-one photos, builders’ dust that ordinary cleaning misses and keeps resettling, an oven with years of carbon baked on. The £40 to £150 those jobs cost to get wrong tends to make the maths simple.
Want the exact figure?
The booking form prices your actual property in about a minute, using the same rates, and the office confirms every job before it goes in the diary.
Questions people ask about cleaning costs
How much does a cleaner cost per hour in the UK?
Our rates run from £22 an hour for a weekly regular clean, through £24 fortnightly and £26 for a one-off team visit, up to £30 an hour for specialist work like after-builders cleaning. Everything hourly is priced per cleaner, per hour, with a 3-hour minimum visit on weekly work. Market rates vary by city and by company; ours are published in full on the prices page.
How many hours a week do I need a cleaner for?
Most homes settle at the 3-hour minimum visit. A 2-bed usually takes 3 to 3.5 hours a visit, a 3-bed 3.5 to 4.5, and a 4-bed anywhere from 4.5 to 6, with roughly half an hour added for each extra bathroom. Weekly visits run shorter than fortnightly ones because there is less to catch up on.
How much does an end of tenancy clean cost?
It is a fixed package rather than an hourly job: from £156 for a studio, £207 for a 1-bed, £243 for a 2-bed, £339 for a 3-bed and £425 for a 4-bed. Carpet treatment and ovens are itemised on top, an oven from £77. Fixed pricing works there because the job is benchmarked to the check-in inventory and carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee.
Why does fortnightly cost more per hour than weekly?
Weekly clients get the lowest rate because the work is predictable and the same cleaner keeps the home, so they learn it. On a fortnightly rota there is a little more to do each visit, and the schedule is harder to plan around, so the rate is £2 an hour higher.
Is the calculator estimate a final quote?
No, it is an honest estimate built from the published rates and the hours a place of that size normally takes. The booking form re-computes every figure before anything is confirmed, and unusual or part jobs are priced by the hour at £30 per cleaner. What the calculator will never do is show you one number and charge another.