After builders cleaning in Crystal Palace, SE19
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
Four councils share the SE19 postcode, and Complete After Builders cleans homes on every side of the Crystal Palace triangle after building work, from £212 all in. A 3-bed Victorian house after a refurbishment is usually £332.
Crystal Palace in numbers
- 46%of homes here were built before 1919VOA, homes with a recorded build date, 2025
- 64%of households live in flatsCensus 2021, Gipsy Hill ward
- 7conservation areas within 800 mplanning.data.gov.uk
- 17listed buildings within 800 mHistoric England list, planning.data.gov.uk
Crystal Palace sits where four boroughs meet
SE19 is split between Lambeth, Croydon, Bromley and Southwark, and on Westow Hill the border runs down the middle of the road. Lambeth's Westow Hill conservation area, designated in February 1998, is a strip of 19th century shops that grew up on the success of the Crystal Palace; across the road is Croydon's Upper Norwood Triangle conservation area, with Bromley's Crystal Palace Park to the east and Lambeth's own Gipsy Hill to the west.
The border decides who licenses the skip, which tip will take the rubble and whose parking rules the crew follows. On the Lambeth side the skip company or main contractor applies for the licence, and the council's own tip is the Vale Street centre in West Norwood, but it takes no rubble or plasterboard and turns vans away. Whoever does the building, the waste goes before the crew arrives. Council rules for this side are on the rest of Lambeth; the Bromley side runs into Penge (SE20) and the Southwark side into Dulwich.
Victorian houses on Gipsy Hill and what the dust gets into
Council Tax records put 44.1% of the homes around Gipsy Hill that have a recorded build date as built before 1900 and another 15.2% between the wars. The Gipsy Hill conservation area, first designated in 1974 and revised in 1999, is piecemeal 19th century suburban building rising up the hill past the station and the tower of Christ Church. Houses of that age usually have bay windows, sashes, tall skirting and a cornice in the front room, whether they are still family homes or split into flats.
After a refurbishment plaster dust sits on all of it. The crew starts with the highest ledges it can reach from a 2 m ladder, works down to the skirting and the sash runners and sills, then finishes with the floors. A 3-bed house after a typical refurbishment takes 2 cleaners for 5 hours: £332 all in. A light job after decorating only is 2 cleaners for 4 hours, £272. Every crew size and total is on what a builders clean costs.
Flats from the 1970s to the 1990s, and a few new ones
A quarter of the homes here (25.1%) went up between 1973 and 1999, and 39.2% of Gipsy Hill ward households rent from a social landlord (Census 2021). Flats of that age usually have lower ceilings and plainer joinery, so a builders clean after a new kitchen or bathroom goes faster. The time goes on dust inside the new units and on grout haze and silicone smears on the wall tiles, which the crew lifts where they will come off; that is the core of kitchen and bathroom cleaning after a refit. A 2-bed flat after a new kitchen usually takes 2 cleaners for 4 hours, £272 all in. Haze across a whole tiled floor is the hard floor deep clean, an extra at £6 a m²; see grout residue on new floors.
Very little here is new: only 1.4% of homes date from 2015 or later, and the councils' brownfield registers list mostly small sites for new homes nearby. Handover cleans here are a few flats at a time.
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 cleanCrystal Palace builders clean questions
Anything else? Ring 07418 351088.
Which council licenses a skip in Crystal Palace?
The one your address belongs to, which can be Lambeth, Croydon, Bromley or Southwark. On the Lambeth side the skip firm or main contractor applies, and the 2026/27 skip licence is £80.
Do you clean homes on the Croydon and Bromley sides of SE19?
Yes. The crew, the checklist and the way the price is worked out are the same; tell the office the full address so it knows whose parking rules apply.
How soon after the decorators finish can you clean?
As soon as the last coat is dry and the dust sheets, tools and paint tins are out. Book about a week ahead; Fridays and weekends go first.
Is the inside of the oven and fridge part of the clean?
Appliances are wiped outside as standard. Inside an appliance or an oven is extra, and the fridge should be switched off and defrosted the day before.
Sources for the local facts on this page
- SE19 covers Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth and Southwark api.postcodes.io
- Westow Hill conservation area, designated 16 February 1998: 19th century shops developed on the success of the Crystal Palace; opposite Croydon's Upper Norwood Triangle, east Bromley's Crystal Palace Park, west Lambeth's Gipsy Hill lambeth.gov.uk
- Gipsy Hill conservation area, designated 1974, revised 1999: piecemeal 19th century suburban development rising up Gipsy Hill, with the station and Christ Church tower lambeth.gov.uk
- Lambeth 033 area, Council Tax stock 2025, shares of homes with a recorded build date: 44.1% before 1900, 15.2% 1919 to 1939, 25.1% 1973 to 1999, 1.4% 2015 or later gov.uk
- Gipsy Hill ward, Census 2021: 39.2% social rented nomisweb.co.uk
- Brownfield registers: mostly small sites for new homes within 1.5 km of SE19 1DT planning.data.gov.uk
- Vale Street centre in West Norwood: no rubble or plasterboard, vans turned away lambeth.gov.uk
- Lambeth skip licence £80 (2026/27), applied for by the skip company or main contractor lambeth.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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