Hertfordshire · AL1, AL2, AL3
Cleaners in St Albans and the villages round it
We are a small cleaning firm working across AL1 to AL4, from the Fleetville terraces out to Sandridge and Bricket Wood.
- Fixed price move out cleans from £156
- Descaling included, because the water here is punishing
- End of tenancy cleans carry a 48-hour re-clean
Prefer the phone? 01727 510218, 8am to 7pm.
- 8am to 7pm, every day
- Fully insured
- Checked, vetted cleaners
- Fixed price before we start
What we clean
Move out cleans are fixed by bedroom count, so a studio is £156 and a three bed is £339, agreed before anyone picks up a cloth. Ring 01727 510218 and you will normally get a price on the call.
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Prices
Standard prices, not a teaser rate. Regular housework is £23 per cleaner per hour weekly.
| Job | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| One-bed | £207 |
| Two bedrooms | £243 |
| 3 bedrooms | £339 |
| Four bedrooms | £425 |
| Job | Price |
|---|---|
| Bedroom carpet | £36 |
| Lounge | £43 |
| Through-lounge | £61 |
| Stairs, per flight | £41 |
| Rug up to 3m² | £35 |
| Large rug (3m²+) | £51 |
| Job | Price |
|---|---|
| Single oven clean | £77 |
| Two-cavity oven | £110 |
| Single oven, wide | £114 |
| Range cooker (90cm) | £143 |
| Two-oven AGA | £143 |
| Hob (from) | £23 |
| Extractor hood | £28 |
The minimum charge on one-off work is £67. Parking or congestion charges, where a visit needs them, are added at cost. On end of tenancy work, anything we cleaned that the clerk marks down gets a free re-clean, as long as you tell us within 48 hours.
How the city actually works for a cleaning van
The centre is the awkward bit. Residents' bays and pay and display cover most streets inside the ring road, and twice a week the Charter Market takes over St Peter's Street and the kerbside space goes with it. On Wednesdays and Saturdays we book central jobs early or late. The rest of the time we use one of the district's eighteen car parks, which hold roughly 4,500 spaces between them and beat circling for a bay. Where a job needs paid parking it is passed on at what it actually costs.
Housing changes every half mile here, and it changes what we can physically get through the door. Fishpool Street and Romeland are listed frontages with narrow openings and steep winder staircases, so a large wheeled machine is out and those jobs go with smaller kit and a second pair of hands. Fleetville and Camp are tight Victorian and Edwardian terraces, put up for the people who worked at Ballito and at Smith's. The hallways there are long and thin. Stair carpets take an age. Out at Marshalswick and Bernards Heath you get post-war semis with driveways, which is the easiest access we ever get. The newer flats by the City station turn over faster than anything else on our books.
Then the water, which shapes half of what we do. Affinity Water pulls this district's supply from the Chilterns chalk aquifer and it lands in the very hard band, around 280 to 320 ppm. Shower glass goes cloudy inside a month. Kettle elements fur up. Descaling is inside our price rather than bolted on as an extra, because charging separately for something every single house needs would be daft. Same water, same problem, out in Park Street and London Colney.
Access is the last thing. This is a Thameslink commuter town and a lot of households can only let us in before about quarter past seven in the morning or after seven at night, so key safes and neighbour handovers are normal rather than unusual. We have regulars in Sandridge we have never met.
Areas we cover
St Albans and the streets around it. Each area has its own page.
Questions people ask
Do you charge more to come out to Harpenden or Bricket Wood?
No. The same price list applies across AL1 to AL5, and there is no mileage or call out fee on top.
How much notice do you need?
Two or three days is comfortable for a move out clean. We can sometimes do next day if a slot drops out, and Mondays are usually the easiest day to squeeze someone in.
Do I have to be at home?
No. Plenty of our customers leave a key with us or fit a key safe, which suits the commuter timetable here better than trying to meet us at eight in the morning.
Is the end of tenancy price really fixed?
Yes, on the bedroom count you give us. It only changes if you add carpets or the oven, or if the property turns out to be much bigger or much worse than described, and we would ring you before starting rather than after.
Do you clean ovens without doing the rest of the house?
Yes. A single oven on its own is £77, which clears the £67 minimum charge for one off work.