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After builders cleaning in Forest Hill, SE23

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
A man in a newly finished basement family room with a lightwell

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  1. Step 1: Postcode
  2. Step 2: The job
  3. Step 3: Your details
Where is the job?

We cover London, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and north Cheshire.

What needs cleaning?

The property

The work that was done

For a 2-bed flat after a refurbishment we usually send 2 cleaners for 4 hours. Change it if you know the job better.

Cleaners
Hours
Add carpets, hard floors or outside windows
Carpet: bedrooms £36 each
Carpet: living rooms £43 each
Hard floor deep clean m², £6 a m²
Bedroom £36
Living room £43
Through lounge £61
Small room £29
Hallway £22
Landing £9
Flight of stairs £41
Rug up to 3 m² £35
Rug over 3 m² £51
Two-seat sofa £57
Extra sofa seat £26
Armchair £33
Mattress £35
Dining chair £13
Office chair £10
Curtains, short £35
Curtains, long £42

Which sides?

What kind of clean?

Floor area m²

Your price

£272

  • 2 cleaners for 4 hours, £30 an hour each£240
  • Equipment and detergents£32

Nothing to pay now. We confirm the details by phone, then a 50% deposit holds the date. This is the price for the choices shown when the page opened; if you change them, the office gives you the new price when it rings.

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Forest Hill's Victorian villas climb the hill from the station and half its households own their home; Complete After Builders cleans them after lofts, extensions and full renovations from £212 all in. A 4-bed semi after a loft conversion usually comes to £392.

Forest Hill in numbers

Railway-age villas in the Forest Hill conservation area

The railway reached Forest Hill in 1839, and most of the streets in the conservation area went up between 1840 and 1900. At 45 hectares it is the fifth largest conservation area in Lewisham, designated in 1976 and extended in 1994 and 2010, and it takes in the Horniman gardens, the listed library, Louise House and Holy Trinity school on Dartmouth Road and the inter-war houses of Thorpewood Avenue. An Article 4 direction protects the architectural features.

Council Tax records put 37.9% of homes around Forest Hill with a recorded build date as built before 1900 and 18.4% between the wars. In Forest Hill ward 14.4% of households live in semis, a little above the Lewisham figure of 13.0%, and 5.7% in detached houses, nearly twice the borough's 3.0%; 50.1% own their home (Census 2021). Big houses with tall rooms take longer: dust from a loft conversion comes down two flights onto every banister, door top and landing, and from the hall it drifts into the reception rooms. The crew starts at the top, dusts each floor twice and finishes on the ground floor.

Ted Christmas houses in Perry Vale

Perry Vale and the Christmas Estate became a conservation area in January 2019. It is a large group of Edwardian-style houses by the local builder E.C. (Ted) Christmas (1897 to 1936), a trained joiner known for decorative woodwork on the outside of his houses, and a non-immediate Article 4 direction has applied from 24 April 2020. With the fronts protected, refurbishments tend to happen behind them, in lofts, rear extensions, kitchens and bathrooms.

A 4-bed semi after a loft conversion and a new shower room is usually 3 cleaners for 4 hours: £392 all in. If it is a full renovation, with rewiring, replastering and sanded floors, it becomes 4 cleaners for 5 hours for £632. A 2-bed flat in a converted villa after a refurbishment is 2 cleaners for 4 hours, £272.

Parking, skips and the SE23 border

Lewisham's list of controlled zones has none named for Forest Hill or Perry Vale, and the nearby Honor Oak and Ravensbourne Park zones run only 9am to 5pm on weekdays; the signs at the entry to each zone give the hours. On the steeper roads it helps if a driveway is free for the van. Lewisham does not allow a skip on yellow lines or at a corner, so on narrow hill streets the builder may need a bay suspension; either way the skip should be full and the house empty of rubble before we clean.

SE23 also crosses into Southwark: Dulwich Wood and Peckham Rye wards share the postcode, and their council's rules apply there. Nearby pages cover Dulwich and builders cleans in Sydenham, and Lewisham's skip and waste rules sit on after builders cleaning in Lewisham.

New flats on the Sydenham Hill estate

The council's brownfield register lists sites for new homes nearby, most of them small. On the Sydenham Hill estate the City of London Corporation started building 110 social homes at Mais House and Otto Close in December 2023. Handovers here are a few flats at a time, cleaned like any new flat: dust inside the units, labels on the glass, grout haze in the bathroom.

Once the dust is gone, new carpets often still carry a grey film from the sanding; carpet cleaning after building work is an add-on from £36 a bedroom, and outside window cleaning is priced by house size, from £66. All totals are on what a builders clean costs.

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 clean
Suggested crews and prices for a standard refurbishment
PropertyCrewPrice
Studio flat2 × 3 h£212
1-bed flat2 × 3 h£212
2-bed flat2 × 4 h£272
3-bed flat or house2 × 5 h£332
4-bed house3 × 4 h£392
5+ bed house3 × 5 h£482
Some rooms only2 × 3 h£212

Prices include travel. Parking: we ask for a free space or a visitor permit; paid parking is added at cost. A site visit for big or unusual jobs costs £20. All prices

Prices as of October 2026

Forest Hill builders clean questions

Anything else? Ring 07418 351088.

Our house is on three floors with two bathrooms. How many cleaners come?

For a 4-bed after a standard refurbishment the office usually sends 3 cleaners for 4 hours; bigger houses get a bigger crew before they get longer hours. Each extra bathroom adds roughly ninety minutes of cleaner time.

Is the new loft room and its eaves storage cleaned too?

Yes. The loft room gets the same top-to-bottom clean as the rest of the house, and eaves cupboards are cleaned inside once they are empty and safe to reach.

Do you clean on the Southwark side of SE23?

Yes. Tell the office the full address, because parking and skip rules belong to Southwark there.

Is the inside of the new kitchen cupboards included?

Yes, once they are empty: cupboards and drawers inside and out, worktops, splashback, sink and taps. Inside the oven or another appliance is extra.

Nearby areas

Forest Hill is in Lewisham. All areas

Sources for the local facts on this page

  • Forest Hill conservation area: 45 hectares, fifth largest in Lewisham, designated 1976, extended 1994 and 2010, streets built 1840 to 1900 after the railway arrived in 1839, Article 4; includes Horniman gardens, Dartmouth Road library, Louise House, Holy Trinity school and Thorpewood Avenue lewisham.gov.uk
  • Lewisham 021 area, Council Tax stock 2025, shares of homes with a recorded build date: 37.9% before 1900, 18.4% 1919 to 1939 gov.uk
  • Forest Hill ward, Census 2021: 14.4% semi-detached, 5.7% detached nomisweb.co.uk
  • Forest Hill ward, Census 2021: 50.1% own their home nomisweb.co.uk
  • Lewisham, Census 2021: 13.0% semi-detached, 3.0% detached nomisweb.co.uk
  • Perry Vale and the Christmas Estate conservation area, January 2019: Edwardian-style houses by E.C. (Ted) Christmas, joiner, 1897 to 1936; non-immediate Article 4 from 24 April 2020 lewisham.gov.uk
  • No CPZ named for Forest Hill or Perry Vale; Honor Oak and Ravensbourne Park zones Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm lewisham.gov.uk
  • Lewisham skips may not stand on yellow lines or corners lewisham.gov.uk
  • SE23 includes Lewisham's Forest Hill and Perry Vale wards and Southwark's Dulwich Wood and Peckham Rye wards api.postcodes.io
  • Mais House and Otto Close garages, Sydenham Hill estate: construction of 110 social homes started December 2023 news.cityoflondon.gov.uk
  • Brownfield register: mostly small sites for new homes within 1.5 km of SE23 3TW planning.data.gov.uk

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