After builders cleaning in Belgravia, SW1X
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

Belgravia's stucco townhouses are tall, and the dust from a refurbishment reaches every floor: a 5-bed house usually takes 3 cleaners for 5 hours, £482 all in with Complete After Builders. Two thirds of the homes here were built before 1900, so the crew plans for plaster dust in cornices and sash boxes.
Belgravia in numbers
- 68%of homes here were built before 1919VOA, homes with a recorded build date, 2025
- 75%of households live in flatsCensus 2021, Knightsbridge & Belgravia ward
- 14conservation areas within 800 mplanning.data.gov.uk
- 369listed buildings within 800 mHistoric England list, planning.data.gov.uk
Stucco terraces and mews houses: where the dust ends up
Thomas Cubitt and Thomas Cundy laid Belgravia out from the 1820s on Grosvenor Estate land, and it is still mostly homes: long stucco terraces of matching height, plainer brick side streets and mews behind. On the council tax list 67.5% of the homes with a recorded build date in the local Census area were built before 1900, and only 20 of its 6,020 properties from 2015 onwards. One household in five in the ward lives in a terraced house, nearly three times the Westminster share. The grandest rows carry the top grade: 1 to 11 and 12 Belgrave Square are listed Grade I.
In a house that tall, refurbishment dust climbs the stairwell and settles on every handrail, picture rail and door top on the way. The crew starts on the top floor with the cornices and the tops of the sash boxes, works down to the basement, then dusts the stairs a second time, because fine dust settles again after the first pass. On a big house the crew gets bigger and the day stays about the same length. Construction dust cleaning sets out the full order of work.
Basement digs and which council's rules apply in SW1X
Westminster allows a basement under no more than half the garden and only one storey below the lowest original floor, and every new or extended basement works under the council's Code of Construction Practice. A dig leaves the heaviest dust of any job: inside light fittings, in the airing cupboard and under the stair runner two floors up. It is priced as heavy work, so a 5-bed house after a basement is usually 4 cleaners for 6 hours, £752 all in.
Check the council before you fix dates. The SW1X district is split between Westminster's Knightsbridge and Belgravia ward and two Kensington and Chelsea wards: Brompton and Hans Town towards Knightsbridge and Royal Hospital towards Sloane Square. Builders on the Westminster side may work until 1pm on a Saturday; in Kensington and Chelsea noisy work stops at 6pm on Friday and starts again on Monday. The finish date, and so the cleaning date, moves with it. Hours, skip licences and waste rules for the rest of Westminster are on the borough page.
Parking the crew in Belgravia's zone A
Belgravia is in Westminster's parking zone A, with Knightsbridge and Pimlico. The council issues no visitor permits, so without a free space the crew's car needs a pay-to-park bay or a zone A trade permit at £47.00 a day, which opens resident bays from 8am to 5.30pm. In a mews, a skip or a builder's van parked at the door can block the only way in; tell the office how the house is reached when it rings to confirm.
New flats at Ebury Bridge and hard water on new taps
The council's Ebury Bridge rebuild, in the same ward, is planned at 779 homes. Phase one, 226 homes, was finished in December 2024, and phase two adds 334 more. A handover clean in a new flat is lighter on dust and heavier on detail: film and labels off the glazing, grout haze off the wall tiles, silicone smears off the bath where they will come off and a wipe inside every kitchen unit. A tiled floor hazed from end to end needs the hard floor deep clean, £6 a m² extra. A 2-bed new flat is often a light clean, 2 cleaners for 3 hours, £212 all in.
The water is hard. Thames Water's Parliament supply zone, which covers Eaton Square, averaged 264 mg/l of calcium carbonate in 2025, so new chrome and shower screens show limescale from the plumber's first test. The crew lifts what will come off and says on the day what will not. Landlords letting in the ward have also needed a selective licence for most private lets from 24 November 2025. Across Hyde Park Corner, Mayfair has more new flats among its old houses; further west, South Kensington has an even higher share of pre-1900 homes.
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 cleanBuilders cleans in Belgravia questions
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How long does an after builders clean take in a Belgravia townhouse?
A 4-bed house after a standard refurbishment is usually 3 cleaners for 4 hours, £392 all in, and a 5-bed 3 cleaners for 5 hours. Bathrooms are where the time goes, roughly an extra hour and a half of cleaner time for each one beyond the second in a house this size. Every size is listed under our prices.
Do you clean original sash windows and shutters?
Yes, on the inside: glass, frames, sills, sash tracks, shutters and the paint flecks that will come off. Outside glass is extra and only where it can be reached safely from inside or the ground; see window cleaning after the builders.
Is my Belgravia address under Westminster or Kensington and Chelsea?
Your council tax bill says which. SW1X runs into two Kensington and Chelsea wards, and the two councils set different building hours, parking rules and licence fees.
Will the crew clean the stair carpet after the works?
The crew vacuums every carpet as part of the clean. A wash is an add-on: £41 for a flight of stairs and £36 for a bedroom. Carpets that sat under the dust usually need it.
Nearby areas
Belgravia is in Westminster. All areas
Sources for the local facts on this page
- Belgravia laid out from the 1820s by Thomas Cubitt and Thomas Cundy on Grosvenor Estate land; mainly residential stucco terraces of matching height, brick side streets and mews westminster.gov.uk
- Council Tax stock, Westminster 019: 6,020 properties; 67.5% of those with a recorded build date built before 1900; 20 built 2015 or later gov.uk
- Census 2021, Knightsbridge and Belgravia ward: 20.0% of households in terraced houses against 7.2% across Westminster nomisweb.co.uk
- 1-11 Belgrave Square and 12 Belgrave Square are listed Grade I historicengland.org.uk
- Westminster City Plan policy 50: basements under no more than half the garden and one storey below the lowest original floor westminster.gov.uk
- Every new or extended basement in Westminster works under the Code of Construction Practice westminster.gov.uk
- SW1X covers Westminster's Knightsbridge and Belgravia ward and Kensington and Chelsea's Brompton and Hans Town and Royal Hospital wards api.postcodes.io
- Westminster building work 8am to 6pm weekdays and 8am to 1pm Saturdays westminster.gov.uk
- Kensington and Chelsea: noisy building work 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday, none on Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays rbkc.gov.uk
- Belgravia is in Westminster parking zone A (Knightsbridge, Belgravia and Pimlico) westminster.gov.uk
- Zone A daily trade permit 47.00 pounds; trade permit valid in resident bays 8am to 5.30pm westminster.gov.uk
- No on-street visitor permit scheme in Westminster westminster.gov.uk
- Ebury Bridge: 779 homes planned; phase one 226 homes finished December 2024; phase two 334 homes westminster.gov.uk
- Thames Water Parliament supply zone (includes SW1W 9AE, Eaton Square): 2025 total hardness average 264 mg/l water-quality-api.prod.p.webapp.thameswater.co.uk
- Knightsbridge and Belgravia ward in selective licensing Designation 1 from 24 November 2025 westminster.gov.uk
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