A deep clean covers the annual jobs, not the weekly ones: inside the oven and fridge, limescale on taps and screens, grout, inside cupboards, behind and underneath furniture, skirting boards, door tops, light fittings and window interiors. It takes three to four times as long as a standard clean.

If you have a cleaner every week and the bathroom still has a grey tidemark in the grout, that is not a failing of your cleaner. Grout is not in a weekly clean and never was. A regular clean maintains a standard; a deep clean resets it.

We do a lot of this work in West Bridgford, where period houses that have had the same annual jobs postponed for a few years running. See deep cleaning in West Bridgford, across Beeston or Lenton and NG7.

What is included

Kitchen, which is about 40% of the time

  • Oven interior, racks, side runners, door glass and grill pan
  • Hob, including underneath the burner caps
  • Extractor hood and filter, degreased or replaced
  • Inside, on top of and underneath all cupboards
  • Fridge and freezer emptied, defrosted and washed including the seals
  • Washing machine drawer, door seal and filter
  • Dishwasher filter and spray arms
  • Sink, taps, plughole and overflow descaled

Bathrooms

  • Limescale removed from taps, shower head, screen, tiles and grout
  • Shower head soaked or bagged with descaler
  • Grout scrubbed and mouldy sealant identified
  • Toilet including hinges, base and behind the pan
  • Extractor vent, cabinet interiors, mirrors and chrome

Everywhere else

  • High level dust: light fittings, door tops, picture rails, coving
  • Skirting boards by hand throughout
  • Behind and underneath furniture
  • Window interiors, sills, frames and the tracks they run in
  • Radiators, including between the fins and behind
  • Carpet edges, which a normal vacuum pass misses

What is not included

  • Decluttering. A deep clean cleans surfaces, and covered surfaces cannot be cleaned
  • Repair. Failed grout, a scratched shower screen and etched chrome stay as they are
  • Carpets, which are priced separately as hot water extraction

Clearing worktops, windowsills and floors before we arrive is the single biggest thing you can do to get value from the booking. If the grout has been bothering you for a year, say so when you book, because it changes how we allocate the time.

How long it takes

PropertyOur teamOn your own
Studio3 to 4 hours6 to 8 hours
1 bedroom4 to 5 hours8 to 10 hours
2 bedrooms5 to 7 hours10 to 14 hours
3 bedrooms7 to 9 hours14 to 18 hours
4 bedrooms9 to 12 hours18 to 24 hours

Add two hours if the oven has not been touched in over a year. Nottingham sits on the harder end of the water scale, so allow extra for limescale in bathrooms that have not been descaled recently.

What deep cleaning costs in Nottingham

A one-off deep clean, priced as a job rather than by the hour. Our own cost research puts the Midlands at around the UK average to 10% below it, so Nottingham sits in the lower half of every range on this page.

PropertyTypical one-off
Studio£110 to £180
1 bedroom£135 to £220
2 bedrooms£165 to £280
3 bedrooms£220 to £350
4 bedrooms£300 to £460

Our cost research puts a one-off deep clean of a two to three bedroom home at £165 to £350, which is the anchor the rest of this table is built around.

Priced separately

ExtraTypical cost
Single oven deep clean£45 to £80
Double oven£70 to £110
Range cooker£80 to £130

These are typical Nottingham market ranges, not our price list. We quote a fixed price in writing for your property before anything starts, because a number produced from a bedroom count alone has priced an average property rather than yours. The figures above come from our own UK cost research, set out in full in this guide.

How a deep clean runs

Chemicals go on in the first five minutes

Oven cleaner on, racks into a bag or a bath with biological washing powder, extractor filter into the sink, descaler wrapped around the taps. Then we walk away from all of it and do something else. That waiting, running in parallel with other work, is where the hours are saved.

Cupboards one at a time

Emptying an entire kitchen at once produces a mess large enough to stop the job. One cupboard emptied, wiped including the back corners and the runners, dried, refilled, then the next.

High level before low

Light fittings, door tops, picture rails, coving, then skirting, then floors. Doing it the other way round means doing the floors twice.

The oven is finished, not started, at the end

Softened deposits scraped with a plastic scraper, never metal, then wiped repeatedly with clean water. Six or seven rinses is normal, because caustic residue left behind smokes on first use and reads as a job not done.

Carpets last, if they are booked

Everything above them drops dust onto them, so extraction happens after the deep clean rather than before. Booking them the other way round means paying for the carpets twice.

When to book it

Twice a year suits most homes: once in spring, when low sun makes the dust visible and windows can be opened for drying, and once in October or November before the house is sealed up for winter with the heating on. Avoid late December, when availability disappears and you have less time than you think.

Whoever turns up is directly employed by us, DBS-checked and reference-verified, which is not the same arrangement as most companies quoting against this. More on how we work on the about page, and the common pre-booking questions are on the FAQ page.

What goes wrong, and how to avoid it

The mistakes below account for most of the disappointment in this kind of work, ours included. Several of them will save you money whether you hire us or not.

Cleaning the carpets first

Everything above them drops dust onto them. Carpets go last, after the high level dusting, or you pay for them twice.

Expecting cleaning to fix damage

Grout that has failed will not be restored. A scratched shower screen stays scratched, etched chrome stays etched, and glass pitted by years of hard water is permanently pitted. Cleaning removes what sits on a surface, not damage to the surface itself.

Leaving the surfaces covered

A deep clean cleans surfaces, and covered surfaces cannot be cleaned. Clearing worktops, windowsills and floors before we arrive is the single biggest thing you can do to get value from the booking.

Assuming one visit fixes years

A property that has never been deep cleaned may genuinely need two. We would rather say that when quoting than discover it halfway through and rush the second half.

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Questions

Deep CleaningQuestions

Anything not covered here, ring us on 07438 843980.

How often should I have one?

Twice a year for most homes, three times with pets or young children, once for a small low-traffic flat.

Will one deep clean fix a badly neglected house?

Often not. A property that has never been deep cleaned may need two visits, and we would rather tell you that when quoting than discover it halfway through.

Is it the same as an end of tenancy clean?

The scope overlaps almost entirely, but the standard is different. A deep clean satisfies you. An end of tenancy clean has to satisfy an inventory clerk against a check-in report, and comes with a re-clean guarantee.

Do I need to be home?

No, though being present for the first fifteen minutes to point out what matters most to you genuinely helps.

How long before I can use the rooms?

Immediately, except carpets, which need two to six hours to dry.

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