To ask how much you’d pay for a deep clean?

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New house, 3 bed semi with one bathroom

Kitchen needs a deep clean, so does the upstairs main bathroom

How much would you pay? I have a company who are recommended but charge £21.50 per hour per person, and they want to bring 3 people so £64 an hour is a lot - unless it gets done quickly?

Completely disagree. A deep clean will include cleaning the oven for eg, that alone is a £60 job (taking around an hour) if you were to hire someone to specifically do that job. Deep cleans involve a lot more work than a general clean, it’s not just the same job but it takes longer

I think customer expectations are higher for a deep clean and it requires greater attention to detail / usage of products.

Also tends to be more than one person so the logistics are a bit more awkward to organise.

But there is indeed probably a bit of Opportunistic mark up in there as it is a one off service

I paid £165 for a 7 hour deep clean the other week. They just managed the kitchen and 3 bathrooms in that time.

They did spend a long time in each room. All the doors and light fittings got wiped down so much more thorough than when I had a regular cleaner.

We had a deep clean recently. Our house sounds about the same size as yours. It didn’t include the oven, fridge or the insides of the kitchen cabinets as I’d done that already, but everything else. It took two cleaners four hours and we paid about £110.

That's what they've quoted. If you're not happy get another quote. We paid £350 recently for a deep clean including carpet steaming.

Interesting - in our area there’s a sense that you book the cleaner for so many hours and whatever they do in that time is paid at the hourly rate.

Thinking about it there’s no reason why a ‘deep’ clean is more expensive than a ‘normal’ clean. In fact, it is quite surprising that things often classed as a deep clean should normally be thought of as a standard part of a normal clean!

When I sold my late mother's house last year, I paid £75 for a deep clean of the kitchen. I cleaned the rest of the house myself but the kitchen was really filthy and way beyond any cleaning that I was willing to do. The cleaners did an amazing job.

I should add that it took two people 3.5 hours to clean the kitchen because it was so bad.

I recently got this quote for a relative, who didn't go ahead with it. It was for a 2 bedroom flat, which is pretty manky:

*Moving Cleaning/ Deep Cleaning
Total £ 295.00 0% vat

All cleaning products and equipment are included in price.

Cleaning duties that will be carried out:
All rooms to have
All inside windows and frames cleaned.
All wood work ,doors, door frames in throughout the property
All carpets to be hoovered .
All flooring wooden floors vinyls to be hoovered and mopped clean
All lights and fittings cleaned
Dusting cob webs all rooms

Kitchen
inside & outside of cupboards cleaned inside of requested
All white goods (washing machine ,fridge freezers (MUST BE DEFROSTED)
dishwashers, microwaves
Tops of kitchen cupboards
Under and behind white goods cleaned
Floors cleaned

REQUIRED
Carpet shampooing

REQUIRED
Oven ,hob,extractor cleaning

Bathroom cleaning
Wash areas , WC
All taps limescale removed .
shower glass , shower frames limescale and scum removed
Sinks cleaned
Mirrors clear and clean
Bathroom tiles cleaned left scum and limescale free and shining.
Floors cleaned lights and switches.

Bedrooms /living areas
All wood work doors, door frames cleaned
any built in wardrobes
Floors hoovered
Windows and frames and sills Mildew mould cleaned*

This is south of England, but still seems dear compared to other quotes on here.

Oh think that’s a bargain for all that.

I'll try and talk them into it.
I'm certainly refusing to stay there again until it's clean!