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After builders cleaning in Gidea Park, RM2

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 couple smiling in their newly finished kitchen extension with roof lights and garden doors

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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.

Your details
Add a note (access, parking, deadline)

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Gidea Park started in 1910 as a garden suburb whose first houses were chosen by an architects' competition, and nearly half the homes round the station went up between the wars. Complete After Builders cleans a 4-bed house there after a refurbishment with 3 cleaners for 4 hours: £392 all in.

Gidea Park in numbers

The 1910 garden suburb and its competition houses

The Victoria County History tells the story. In 1910 Herbert Raphael and two other Liberal MPs formed Gidea Park Ltd to build a garden suburb on the Gidea Hall estate, and arranged with the Great Eastern Railway for a station at Squirrels Heath, now Gidea Park. About 100 architects entered the competition for the first houses, and 140 had been built by 1911, nearly all of them detached and many in Tudor styles, roughcast, colour-washed or half-timbered. Eastern Avenue cut across the north side in the 1920s, and a second competition in 1934 added more.

The Gidea Park conservation area covers the heart of the suburb, and the Royal Liberty School nearby is listed Grade II*. Houses like these keep their original joinery, doors and glass through a new kitchen or a loft, and the builders' dust gets into every moulding. The crew goes over panelled doors, deep skirtings and window boards by hand, and tries paint flecks on old glass only where the glass will take it.

Interwar semis and post-war flats round Squirrels Heath

Most of the housing round the station came after the first suburb. In the Council Tax records for the area, 48.1% of homes with a recorded build date were built between 1919 and 1939, 26.4% between 1945 and 1972 and 11.8% between 2000 and 2014. In Squirrels Heath ward 36.4% of households live in semis, 14.9% in detached houses and 29.3% in flats, and 73.4% own their home. Elvet Avenue, once Factory Road, began in the 1840s as about 50 houses for workers at the railway company's tarpaulin factory and was rebuilt in 1964 as council tower flats.

On an interwar semi the usual work is a loft with a shower room, a knocked-through kitchen and diner, or a side extension, and the dust goes everywhere the air does. The crew starts at the top of the house and dusts every ledge, frame, radiator and switch twice, because the finest plaster dust settles again. A 3-bed after a refurbishment usually takes 2 cleaners for 5 hours, £332 all in. A dust clean after sanding and plastering explains the second pass.

Getting a Squirrels Heath flat ready to let

18.5% of households in the ward rent privately, and from 18 March 2026 Squirrels Heath is one of the seven Havering wards under selective licensing, which runs to 17 March 2031. A landlord refitting a flat before a new let needs it clean for the inventory and the photos, and the clean has to wait until the decorator has gone and the rubbish is out.

A 1-bed after a refurbishment usually takes 2 cleaners for 3 hours: £212 all in. The crew does the kitchen units inside and out once empty, the bathroom tiles and grout, the inside of the windows and every floor, and the landlord walks round with the crew before it leaves. Anything pointed out is put right there and then.

The council's brownfield register also lists sites for new homes nearby, such as HCL House on Eastern Road in Romford.

Parking near Gidea Park station

Gidea Park station is on the Elizabeth line in fare zone 6. Havering's permits are virtual and sold through MiPermit, and the council would rather residents did not spend visitor permits on trades: the dispensation is the product meant for tradespeople parking near a job, and it does not reserve a particular space. If the crew can use your drive, say so when the office rings to confirm the booking.

Gidea Park sits east of Romford (RM1), with builders cleans in Harold Wood further east and Hornchurch to the south. The council's skip licence and tip rules are on the rest of Havering, and what a builders clean costs lists every size of home.

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

Gidea Park builders cleans: common questions

Anything else? Ring 07418 351088.

How much is a builders clean for a Gidea Park house?

A 4-bed after a refurbishment usually takes 3 cleaners for 4 hours: £392 all in. A 5-bed takes 3 cleaners for 5 hours: £482. Both are £30 per cleaner-hour plus £32 for equipment and detergents.

Will the crew be careful with original doors and glass?

Yes. Mouldings and panels are wiped by hand, and paint spots on old glass are tried gently. Anything that will not come off is shown to you on the walk-round.

Can you clean only the new loft and the stairs?

Yes, once the works are finished everywhere: a rooms-only clean starts at 2 cleaners for 3 hours, £212 all in.

How much notice do you need?

About a week is usually enough; Fridays and weekends go first. Book once the dust-making work has stopped.

Nearby areas

Gidea Park is in Havering. All areas

Sources for the local facts on this page

  • Gidea Park Ltd formed 1910 by Herbert Raphael and two Liberal MPs; station at Squirrels Heath arranged with the Great Eastern Railway; about 100 architects in the competition; 140 houses by 1911, nearly all detached, many Tudor style, roughcast, colour-washed or half-timbered; Eastern Avenue in the 1920s; second competition 1934 british-history.ac.uk
  • Factory Road (now Elvet Avenue), about 50 houses from the 1840s for tarpaulin factory workers, redeveloped 1964 with council flats in towers british-history.ac.uk
  • Gidea Park conservation area within 800 m; Royal Liberty School listed Grade II* historicengland.org.uk
  • Havering 012 MSOA, Council Tax stock 2025: 48.1% built 1919 to 1939, 26.4% 1945 to 1972, 11.8% 2000 to 2014 gov.uk
  • Squirrels Heath ward, Census 2021: 36.4% semi-detached, 14.9% detached, 29.3% flats nomisweb.co.uk
  • Squirrels Heath ward, Census 2021: 73.4% owned, 18.5% private rented nomisweb.co.uk
  • Squirrels Heath in Havering's selective licensing scheme, 18 March 2026 to 17 March 2031 havering.gov.uk
  • Brownfield register entry: HCL House, 28 to 36 Eastern Road planning.data.gov.uk
  • Gidea Park station, Elizabeth line, fare zone 6 api.tfl.gov.uk
  • Virtual permits through MiPermit; residents asked to buy a dispensation for trades havering.gov.uk

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