After builders cleaning in Catford, SE6
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
More than seven in ten Catford homes were built before 1919, and Complete After Builders cleans them after refurbishments, extensions and flat conversions from £212 all in. A 3-bed Edwardian terrace after a refurbishment is usually £332.
Catford in numbers
- 73%of homes here were built before 1919VOA, homes with a recorded build date, 2025
- 62%of households live in flatsCensus 2021, Rushey Green ward
- 2conservation areas within 800 mplanning.data.gov.uk
- 4listed buildings within 800 mHistoric England list, planning.data.gov.uk
Victorian and Edwardian Catford, much of it split into flats
Council Tax records for the streets round Rushey Green put 56.1% of homes with a recorded build date as built before 1900 and another 17.2% between 1900 and 1918; only 2.7% date from 2015 or later. In Rushey Green ward 29.2% of all households live in flats inside converted houses, almost as many as live in purpose-built blocks (30.0%); 32.8% rent privately (Census 2021).
So a lot of Catford jobs are one floor of an old house after a landlord's refurbishment, or a whole house after the owner has added a kitchen extension. Old houses shed a particular dust when they are worked on: fine plaster from patched walls and ceilings, and grit from opened-up floors. It sits on picture rails, door tops and window boards and settles into the joints of old boards, then comes up again as people walk about, so the crew dusts each room twice and does the floors last. Upper flats in a conversion often have no lift and a narrow stair; say which floor when you book.
Culverley Green and Lewisham Park: period details to protect
Two conservation areas sit within 800 m of the middle of Rushey Green ward. Culverley Green became a conservation area in 1990: an Edwardian grid of broad streets under trees, plus late Victorian villas along Canadian Avenue. The houses still have terracotta round the windows, sashes, solid timber front doors and stained glass, all protected by an Article 4 direction. Lewisham Park has its own Article 4 direction, made in 2019.
Stained glass and leaded panels are cleaned by hand with a damp cloth, and the crew does not scrape them. Paint flecks on plain glass come off where they lift cleanly. South of the town centre, Catford South ward is more house than flat, with 33.5% semis and 30.7% terraces and 60.6% of households owning their home. A 3-bed house there after a refurbishment takes 2 cleaners for 5 hours: £332 all in; gutted and rebuilt inside, it is 3 cleaners for 5 hours, £482.
The Catford town centre rebuild
The council's framework for the town centre allows for as many as 2,700 new homes over the next couple of decades, half affordable, with the shopping centre rebuilt and the South Circular moved to give space back to people on foot. It will be slow: the council has put back any rebuild of Milford Towers, the estate built in 1974 with the shopping centre, to the mid-2030s at the earliest.
While that work goes on, refurbishments in the side streets carry on as normal. A 2-bed flat after a landlord's refurbishment is usually 2 cleaners for 4 hours, £272, and a light clean after decorating only is 2 cleaners for 3 hours, £212. For homes where sanding has coated every surface, read getting plaster dust out of a home.
Parking and skips around Catford Broadway
The controlled zones round the town centre (Catford West, the three Rushey Green zones and Milford Towers) all run Monday to Friday, 9am to 7pm, and the market trades on Catford Broadway Monday to Saturday from 9am to 5pm. Outside a zone, or on a Saturday, parking is usually easier. In a zone the crew needs a visitor e-voucher from you, a driveway or a free bay; the full Lewisham rules for skips, bay suspensions and Landmann Way are on after builders cleaning in Lewisham.
New carpets laid before the painters left can hold a grey film that vacuuming does not lift; carpet cleaning is an add-on from £36 a bedroom. To the west is Forest Hill, and to the north-east the streets lead towards Lee and Blackheath (SE3). All totals are on our prices.
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 cleanCatford builders clean questions
Anything else? Ring 07418 351088.
How many hours does a Catford conversion flat need?
A 1-bed or studio after a refurbishment usually takes 2 cleaners for 3 hours, £212 all in; a 2-bed takes 2 cleaners for 4 hours. Heavy plaster dust adds an hour or so.
Can you clean one flat while the landlord's builders work on the next?
Yes, if nobody is working inside the flat we clean and its door stays shut. Dust from next door gets in through shared stairs, so book the clean after the last noisy work in the building if you can.
Do you clean the sofa if it stayed in the house during the works?
Yes, as an add-on: a two-seat sofa is £57. The builders clean itself wipes hard furniture but does not clean soft furnishings, and the crew does not move personal belongings.
Sources for the local facts on this page
- Lewisham 018 area, Council Tax stock 2025, shares of homes with a recorded build date: 56.1% before 1900, 17.2% 1900 to 1918, 2.7% 2015 or later (71.1% of all homes before 1919) gov.uk
- Rushey Green ward, Census 2021: 29.2% of households in flats in converted or shared houses, 30.0% purpose-built nomisweb.co.uk
- Rushey Green ward, Census 2021: 32.8% private renting nomisweb.co.uk
- Culverley Green and Lewisham Park conservation areas within 800 m of SE6 2DG planning.data.gov.uk
- Culverley Green, designated 1990: Edwardian grid of wide tree-lined streets, late Victorian villas on Canadian Avenue, terracotta window dressings, sashes, timber doors, stained glass, Article 4 lewisham.gov.uk
- Article 4 direction for Lewisham Park (2019) lewisham.gov.uk
- Catford South ward: 33.5% semis, 30.7% terraces; 60.6% own nomisweb.co.uk
- Catford South ward house types: 33.5% semi-detached, 30.7% terraced nomisweb.co.uk
- Catford Town Centre Framework: up to 2,700 homes over the next couple of decades, half affordable, South Circular re-routed, shopping centre redeveloped lewisham.gov.uk
- Milford Towers, 276 homes built in 1974 with the shopping centre: regeneration deferred, unlikely before the mid-2030s lewisham.gov.uk
- Catford town centre zones Monday to Friday 9am to 7pm lewisham.gov.uk
- Catford Broadway market Monday to Saturday 9am to 5pm lewisham.gov.uk
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