How much for a house deep clean?

[JenaWren]

I've just had a new kitchen and booked a deep clean for the whole house (the dust got everywhere!)

I'm not sure if I'm being unreasonable but the 2 people were only here for 2 hours (so 4 hours of work) and the cost was £180.

I understand that they have overheads and that they are professionals so can do things quicker than I can.

But is seems an awful lot of money to pay for 4 hours of work. They haven't done a bad job but it's not as thorough as I would expect from a deep clean. I thought they would be here longer and do things like wipe down the woodwork not just dust it.

When I asked them they said my house was very clean anyway so it didn't take long. Should I go back to the owner or just suck it up?

Hi! I am a professional cleaner and organiser.
It takes 3 times as long to deep clean compared to general clean. Deep cleaning gets into all your drawers, cupboards, pulls out all furniture etc. They should have done your fridge and inside kitchen cupboards, was this done? It is impossible to deep clean an entire house in 4 hours, even a 1 bed. The kitchen alone would take 3.

Even if they had deep cleaned in that time, £180 is a crazy amount of money. Market rate here is £20ph for deep cleaning so £80 at most considering the time they were there!

do not pay them, complain!
let me know if you need help

I paid £85 for a deep clean, I was leaving a rental and it was empty and already pretty clean. She did woodwork etc and it was clean when she left. I think she was there about 3-4 hours.

I charge £20 an hour for a deep clean/after build clean and as above, the kitchen would have taken 3/4 hours alone….so it’s not necessarily the cost that’s the issue but rather the length of time they were there.

OP has just had a new kitchen so that wouldn't have needed cleaning.

But the bathroom(s) would take a while, plus I'd expect all the woodwoork (skirting boards, doors, bannister) to be wiped down.

GoodVibesHere · Today 06:45
OP has just had a new kitchen so that wouldn't have needed cleaning

Brand new kitchens need cleaning after fitting! They are covered in dust for a start and you really don't want to think about how many hands have been all over everything.

I just did my own end of tenancy clean (have worked as a chambermaid way back in my mis spent youth so know how to do it professionally) and it took about 10 hours, it was unbelievable. But it would cost about £200 to get that done here.

Just endlessly cleaning the new renovation now, hour and hours and hours of dusting! For cleaning plaster dust etc, I recommend pledge fluffy dusters and even the swifter dusting sheets (I never normally use anything disposable) as I want to capture all the dust then throw it out. And hoovering hoovering hoovering.

Yes agree it took this long to properly clean my rental kitchen alone. And then same again for new kitchen. It’s neverending!

Do it yourself if you can't afford to pay someone else to do it...problem solved.