Five jobs go on this list and everything else gets turned down. Handover cleans, carpets, ovens, hourly housework, team deep cleans. Each one has its number printed here, and the number printed here is the number you hear on the phone. No survey visit stands between you and a figure.
The five at a glance
| The job | Starts at | What the figure counts |
|---|---|---|
| End of tenancy clean | £156 | Bedrooms, up to £425 at four. Oven and floors are separate lines |
| Carpet cleaning | £36 a room | Rooms, plus £41 a stair flight and £35 or £51 a rug |
| Oven cleaning | £77 | Appliances. £110 double, £114 90cm range, £143 two oven AGA |
| Regular housework | £22 an hour | Cleaner hours. £24 fortnightly, ironing £12 out of the same hours |
| One off deep clean | £186 | A team, at £26 a cleaner an hour with £30 for the kit |
Two calls we take every week, both of them the same confusion
One version starts with a date. The tenancy runs out on the 28th, how much for four hours. Hours are the wrong currency for that job, because the standard being applied is an inventory somebody else wrote, so we sell a banded price against the whole property and the clock becomes our problem rather than yours. That is the handover clean, opening at £156.
The other version runs the opposite way. The house has got into a state, send a team. Now and then the honest reply is that two hours a week for six months would sort it for less. Working out which of the two you want takes about ninety seconds, and it is ninety seconds well spent, because picking wrong leaves people unhappy with two services at once.
Moving out, counted in bedrooms
The scale opens at £156 for a studio and closes at £425 for four bedrooms, with £207, £243 and £339 in between. That buys the whole property. Units get done front and back with the plinth pulled where it lifts. The bathroom goes back through its scale. Skirtings and door tops get a hand behind them, inside glass is done, floors come last. A loft room being let as a bedroom counts in the total; a second bathroom does not. Two lines stand outside the band on this round, and deliberately so. Neither the oven nor the floors is included, because a good many Edgware handovers want neither, and charging everybody for work half of them never asked for is how a price list stops being honest.
Carpets, by the room and the flight
Bedrooms £36, living rooms £43, a through lounge £61, and £41 for every flight of stairs, with rugs at £35 or £51 depending which side of 2m² they fall. Hot water extraction does the work, driving heated solution into the pile and pulling it back out on the same stroke, walkable inside a couple of hours. Set that against a bonnet, which polishes the surface, or dry powder, brushed through the middle. What neither of them touches is the abrasive grit down at the base of the tuft, and that grit is what wears a carpet out. Two details here are local. The rinse gets softened and the fibre neutralised at no charge, because water this hard dries to a chalky cast in a pale pile. And the moisture setting comes down over the parquet and softwood boards these houses were built with.
Ovens, by the appliance
Singles £77 and doubles £110, a 90cm range £114, a two oven AGA £143, with £23 on a hob and £28 on an extractor. Fan cover, shelves, trays and runners go out to a heated tank on the van. Whatever will not come out gets hand work at your worktop with a caustic free gel, meaning the cavity, the seals and the door glass on both of its faces. Everything is rinsed and neutralised before the kit goes away, which is why dinner can go in that evening. An AGA has to be cold through, so it wants switching off the night before. Catalytic and pyrolytic liners are kept well away from the tank.
Housework, by the cleaner hour
£22 weekly, £24 fortnightly. That makes two hours £44, three hours £66 and four hours £88, with two the shortest visit we run because the travelling swallows anything below it. There is nothing to sign, no joining fee and no notice period worth the name. One cleaner stays with one address as long as the rota allows, which sounds like a small courtesy until you compare a tenth visit with a second. Ironing is £12 an hour and eats into hours you have booked rather than being tacked on the end.
Deep cleans, by team time
£26 per cleaner an hour plus £30 for machines and detergents, with a floor of two cleaners across three hours. That is £186. The same pair over four hours is £238 and over five is £290. Three cleaners come to £264 for three hours and £342 for four. Largest booking taken: three cleaners across six hours, £498, a whole house in a day. Book it after building work, ahead of family arriving, or for a house a three hour weekly visit was never going to rescue by itself.
Sofas, mattresses and curtains, by the piece
A two seater sofa is £57 and an armchair £33. Mattresses go at £35 and dining chairs at £13. Curtains are £35 on a short drop and £42 on a long one, cleaned on the pole. It is the same extraction machine, run softer with more of the water recovered so nothing ends up wet through. Corner units and three seaters want a call first, because fabric type and whether the back cushions lift away decide between an hour and an afternoon. Leather never goes near a machine and gets a cleaner and a conditioner by hand.
What Edgware adds to all five
Four things. None change a price. All of them change which morning we can offer.
- There is usually a wooden floor under the carpet. This district went up on timber joists across the fifteen years after 1924, and a great many semis still carry parquet or softwood boards beneath whatever was laid later, so the extraction moisture setting comes down and the dry passes go up.
- Water between 250 and 350 ppm out of Affinity Water’s north London zone. Descaling has dwell time built into it and that time is inside the quote rather than sold as an extra.
- Front drives, a gift for van access and a nuisance for hoses. Jointing sand lives in block paving and loose stone lives in gravel, and both come indoors given half a chance, so the line runs round the edge and a mat goes at the door.
- The town centre. A £1.7 billion redevelopment of the Broadwalk Centre and the transport interchange has cleared its planning hurdles, bringing 3,365 homes and an underground bus garage, so hoardings, diverted access and construction dust are a fact of life near the station for years yet. Barnet’s permit-controlled streets begin around there and the interchange forecourt is no place to leave a van.
A fifth affects the diary rather than the work. Friday afternoons finish early on this round, Saturdays are quiet across much of it, and the fortnight before Passover in spring is the busiest stretch of our year, so a spring job wants booking in February.
Work we send elsewhere
Nothing on the outside of a building above ground level. Gutters, no. Upstairs glass off a ladder, no. Anything past a two step, no. Gardens, lofts, garages and rubbish beyond a bag or two are other trades, and you will get a name. Sanding, sealing or repairing a parquet floor is joinery, however much we know about keeping water off it. Silicone that has blackened all the way through needs replacing rather than wiping, and that gets said at the time instead of discovered in six weeks. Anybody promising that every mark lifts is guessing.
The same five across six areas
None of the above shifts in Burnt Oak, Stanmore, Mill Hill, Canons Park, Queensbury or Edgwarebury, and crossing between HA8, HA7 and NW7 puts nothing on an invoice. What each of the six mostly wants doing sits on the areas page, and every figure, £67 floor included, sits on the prices page. The line is open seven days, 8am to 8pm, on 020 8077 1591.
Questions we get asked
Which of the five do I want if I am moving out?
The handover clean. It bands on bedrooms between £156 and £425, and the scope follows what a clerk checks rather than a clock. On this round the oven and the floors are quoted apart, so they cost you only where the inventory asks.
Can two jobs go on one visit?
Yes, and it usually works out cheaper. Oven parts soak in the tank outside while the carpet machine runs indoors, so a £77 oven beside a £36 bedroom takes barely longer than either alone and the £67 floor is met once.
Do evenings and weekends cost more?
They do not. One rate covers 8am to 8pm on every day of the week, so a Sunday evening bills at the Wednesday morning figure. Nothing goes on for calling us out and nothing for the miles, wherever you sit on the round.
Are sofas and mattresses on the list?
Yes, and per piece. Two seater sofas are £57, armchairs £33, mattresses £35 and dining chairs £13, with curtains at £35 on a short drop or £42 on a long one. Larger than a two seater and the figure comes on the call, once the fabric is known.
What about windows, patios and gutters?
Inside glass yes, plus ground floor outside where there is a garden to stand in. Above that no, and the same answer covers gutters, patios, gardens and garage clearances. Naming the right trade beats taking a job we cannot do well.