After builders cleaning in Abbey Wood, SE2
From £212 all in: two cleaners for three hours with their own equipment and detergents. Every extra cleaner-hour is £30.
- Crews of two or more, with their own kit
- 7 days a week, 8am to 7pm
- No payment online; a 50% deposit holds the date
Three in four homes in the Council Tax records for Abbey Wood date from 1945 to 1972, and the area is split between Royal Greenwich and Bexley. Complete After Builders cleans here after refurbishments from £212 all in; a 3-bed terrace usually takes 2 cleaners for 5 hours, £332.
Abbey Wood in numbers
- 7%of homes here were built in 2015 or laterVOA, homes with a recorded build date, 2025
- 37%of households live in flatsCensus 2021, Abbey Wood ward
Post-war terraces after a new kitchen and bathroom
75.3% of local homes with a recorded build date went up between 1945 and 1972. In Abbey Wood ward 44.1% of households live in terraced houses, 40.8% own their home and 34.9% rent from a social landlord. When one of these terraces is done up for a sale or a new tenancy, the work is often a kitchen, a bathroom and new floors, and that is where the cleaning hours go.
A bathroom refit leaves grout haze on the tiles and silicone smears round the bath and basin. A kitchen leaves dust inside every cupboard and along the tops of the wall units. Each bathroom beyond the first in a 2-bed, or beyond the second in a house of three bedrooms or more, adds about an hour and a half of cleaner time, so a 2-bed terrace with a new downstairs shower room takes longer than its bedroom count suggests. The page on grout haze and silicone smears explains what usually comes off and what may not.
Greenwich or Bexley: which council's rules apply
Abbey Wood straddles the borough boundary, and the rules for a skip outside your house depend on which side you are on.
| Royal Greenwich | Bexley | |
|---|---|---|
| Skip on the road | £114, usually 30 days | £65 per application, up to 14 days |
| Who applies, and when | a council-approved skip firm | at least two working days ahead |
| Parking bay suspension | £66.40 per bay per day plus £66.40 admin, 10 working days | £50 per bay per day, three working days |
| Tip for residents' DIY waste | Nathan Way, Thamesmead | Thames Road (Crayford) or Foots Cray |
Neither council's tip takes waste produced by contractors working in your home, so the rubble is your builder's job on both sides. The skip has to be gone before the crew starts, because it cannot clean round rubble.
Lesnes Estate and the new homes along Harrow Manorway
On the Bexley side, the Local Plan allocates the Lesnes Estate and Coralline Walk for Peabody's estate regeneration, about 1,850 homes in place of 746. The two councils' brownfield registers list more sites for new homes nearby, among them land at Harrow Manorway and Felixstowe Road on the Greenwich side. Harrow Manorway runs up from Abbey Wood station, which has the Elizabeth line, Southeastern and Thameslink. Already 7.1% of local homes date from 2015 or later.
A handover clean in one of the new flats is mostly fine dust, labels on the glazing and smears on new sanitaryware. A 2-bed with light dust takes 2 cleaners for 3 hours, £212 all in, and the page on window cleaning after the builders covers the glass.
Abbey Wood has Thamesmead to the north, Woolwich to the west and Belvedere to the east. For the council detail on each side, see the rest of Greenwich and Bexley; what a builders clean costs has every size of home.
What a builders clean costs here
CleanersHours£30£32 kit
Every crew brings its own vacuums, cloths, ladders and detergents; the £32 covers them once per job. The table shows our usual starting point for a standard refurbishment. Lighter or heavier work moves it, and you can set your own crew and hours in the form.
Price my cleanAbbey Wood builders clean questions
Anything else? Ring 07418 351088.
My house is on the Bexley side of Abbey Wood. Do you cover it?
Yes. The price works the same way on both sides of the boundary; only the council rules for skips, parking and tips change.
How much is a builders clean for a 3-bed terrace in Abbey Wood?
After a refurbishment it usually takes 2 cleaners for 5 hours: £332 all in, at £30 per cleaner-hour plus £32 for equipment and detergents. A full renovation with plaster dust in every room is more like 3 cleaners for 5 hours, £482.
Can you clean only the new kitchen and bathroom?
Yes. A clean of some rooms only starts at 2 cleaners for 3 hours, £212 all in; if the dust has reached the hall and stairs, add them when you book.
Will the crew get grout haze off the new tiles?
Fresh haze usually comes off with a product that suits the tile. Where it has set hard, the crew says so on the walk-round; there is no promise on it. Haze across a whole tiled floor is the hard floor deep clean, an extra at £6 a m².
Sources for the local facts on this page
- Greenwich 003: 75.3% of Council Tax properties built 1945 to 1972, 7.1% 2015 or later (31 March 2025). gov.uk
- Abbey Wood ward: 44.1% terraced (Census 2021). nomisweb.co.uk
- Abbey Wood ward: 40.8% own, 34.9% social rented (Census 2021). nomisweb.co.uk
- Greenwich skip licence £114, usually 30 days, council-approved skip companies only. royalgreenwich.gov.uk
- Bexley skip permit £65 per application, one skip for up to 14 days, at least two working days ahead. bexley.gov.uk
- Greenwich bay suspension £66.40 per bay per day plus £66.40 admin fee, 10 working days ahead. royalgreenwich.gov.uk
- Bexley bay suspension for building work £50 per bay per day, at least three working days' notice. bexley.gov.uk
- Greenwich's Nathan Way centre takes DIY waste brought by the householder, not the contractor. royalgreenwich.gov.uk
- Bexley's Foots Cray and Thames Road centres refuse waste produced by contractors working in a resident's home. bexley.gov.uk
- Bexley Local Plan (adopted 26 April 2023) allocates the Lesnes Estate and Coralline Walk, Abbey Wood, for Peabody estate regeneration of about 1,850 homes replacing 746. bexley.gov.uk
- Brownfield register within 1.5 km of SE2 9SG includes land at Harrow Manorway and Felixstowe Road (Royal Greenwich record RBG-91). planning.data.gov.uk
- Abbey Wood station is served by the Elizabeth line, Southeastern and Thameslink. api.tfl.gov.uk
Builders nearly done?
Book the clean for the day after they finish. Price it in a minute, or ring and talk it through.
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