After builders cleaning in Edgware, HA8

In the local statistics area (Barnet 013) 56.8% of the homes with a recorded build date went up between 1919 and 1939 and another 20.6% between 1945 and 1972; only 0.7% are from 2015 or later (Council Tax stock, March 2025). The 2021 Census found 39.0% of households in Edgware ward in semi-detached houses and 15.9% in detached ones, with terraces at just 5.9%.

A hip-to-gable loft on a house like that puts a new staircase through the old landing, and the dust from cutting the opening ends up in every bedroom off it. The crew starts in the new loft room, clears the stair treads and the tops of the new doors, then works through the first floor and down. The landing and stairs get two passes, because they are where the fine dust keeps arriving from above. Carpets that stayed down under dust sheets are vacuumed as part of the clean; a shampoo is an add-on, with carpets that sat under the dust priced per room.

Worked totals: a 3-bed semi after a refurbishment usually takes 2 cleaners for 5 hours, £332; add a loft conversion and a kitchen extension and it is nearer 3 cleaners for 5 hours, £482 all in.

Affinity Water's Edgware supply zone, which includes HA8 7JL, HA8 7BD and HA8 0AD, measured 310 mg/l total hardness in a 2025 sample. In water that hard a new shower screen spots white soon after first use, often over a film of grout haze left by the tiler.

The crew cleans the tiles and grout, the screen, the bath or tray, taps and fittings, and lifts silicone and adhesive smears where they come off. Cement-based grout haze across a new porcelain floor takes a separate product and more time, so it is the hard floor deep clean, an extra at £6 a m² (grout residue on new floors). Old limescale and stains are tried but never promised.