After builders cleaning in Mottingham, SE9
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
Mottingham was built mostly in the 1930s, when the London County Council put up a 2,000-home estate on Court Farm. Complete After Builders cleans its terraces and semis after building work from £212 all in; a 3-bed after a refurbishment usually takes 2 cleaners for 5 hours: £332.
Mottingham in numbers
- 23%of households live in flatsCensus 2021, Mottingham ward
- 1conservation area within 800 mplanning.data.gov.uk
- 5listed buildings within 800 mHistoric England list, planning.data.gov.uk
The 1930s Mottingham Estate and its houses
The University of Greenwich's Ideal Homes history says the London County Council bought the Court Farm estate at the start of the 1930s and built the 2,000-home Mottingham Estate, with the first houses lived in from 1935. Older Mottingham is smaller: cottages along Mottingham Road after the station opened in 1866, and bigger houses on West Park from the 1880s.
In the Council Tax records for the area, 58.8% of homes with a recorded build date were built between 1919 and 1939 and another 19.9% between 1945 and 1972; only 10 date from 2015 or later. In Mottingham ward 39.5% of households live in terraced houses and 28.5% in semis. 27.8% of households rent from a social landlord, 16.4% rent privately and 55.7% own their home.
Refitting a 1930s terrace: kitchens, bathrooms and lofts
A 1930s estate house has small rooms, a narrow staircase and one bathroom, so the usual work is a new kitchen, a new bathroom, a loft room or the back two rooms knocked into one. Each of those puts dust into rooms the builder never touched. Loft work sends it down the stairs onto every landing and into the bedrooms; a knock-through leaves a grey film on the window boards, the radiators and the tops of the doors.
The crew starts at the top of the house and works down. It wipes every ledge, frame and radiator, washes the new tiles and grout, cleans the inside of the windows, vacuums and mops the floors, then dusts again because the finest dust settles a second time. A 3-bed after a refurbishment usually takes 2 cleaners for 5 hours: £332 all in. After decorating only, it can be 2 cleaners for 4 hours, £272.
If the carpets stayed down under dust sheets, the crew vacuums them as part of the clean; carpets that sat under the dust can be cleaned as an add-on, the stairs at £41.
Small new schemes off Chinbrook Road and Balder Rise
Several small schemes nearby are over the Lewisham border in Grove Park: Lewisham's brownfield register shows permission for 28 flats on the former Marvels Lane Boys Club site off Balder Rise, granted in September 2025, and a few small plots on Chinbrook Road. Ideal Homes notes that recent building round here has been small housing on old school, pub and business sites.
A small developer handing over four or eight new homes needs each one cleaned after the snagging: film and labels off the glass, grout haze off the bathroom walls, dust out of the kitchen units and the fuse board cupboard. Book the crew once the last trade has finished in every unit. A clean done while two are still being fitted gets dusted again.
Parking, waste and which council covers your SE9 street
Bromley's list of controlled parking zones has none in Mottingham, so there are no visitor vouchers to buy on the Bromley side. Tell the office if the crew can use your drive or the space outside.
The SE9 postcode spans four councils: Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham. Mottingham ward is Bromley's, but Mottingham, Coldharbour & New Eltham ward next door is Greenwich's, and the skip licence, the tip and the parking rules follow the council. A Bromley resident takes their own DIY waste to Churchfields Road in Beckenham on a booked visit; builders' rubble needs the builder or a licensed waste carrier, and the crew does not move it.
Mottingham sits between Eltham to the north and Chislehurst (BR7) to the south-east, with builders cleans in Kidbrooke further north. After builders cleaning in Bromley has the council's licence fees, and what a builders clean costs has 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 cleanMottingham builders cleans: common questions
Anything else? Ring 07418 351088.
How much is a builders clean for a 1930s terrace in Mottingham?
A 3-bed after a refurbishment usually takes 2 cleaners for 5 hours: £332 all in, at £30 per cleaner-hour plus £32 for equipment and detergents. A 2-bed flat takes 2 cleaners for 4 hours: £272.
Can you clean just the loft room and the stairs?
Yes, once the works are finished everywhere: a rooms-only clean starts at 2 cleaners for 3 hours, £212 all in.
Can you clean a house before a new tenant moves in?
Yes, once the works are finished, the rubbish is out and water, hot water and power are on. Book it for the day after the decorator leaves and the house is ready to let.
Do I need a permit for the cleaners' van in Mottingham?
Not on the Bromley side: there is no controlled zone there on the council's list. Greenwich streets in SE9 have their own zones, so check which council covers you.
Sources for the local facts on this page
- LCC bought Court Farm in the early 1930s and built the 2,000-home Mottingham Estate, first houses occupied 1935; station 1866; West Park laid out in the 1880s; recent building small schemes on school, pub and business sites ideal-homes.gre.ac.uk
- Bromley 001 MSOA, Council Tax stock 2025: 58.8% built 1919 to 1939, 19.9% 1945 to 1972, 10 homes 2015 or later gov.uk
- Mottingham ward, Census 2021: 39.5% terraced, 28.5% semi-detached nomisweb.co.uk
- Mottingham ward, Census 2021: 27.8% social rented, 16.4% private rented, 55.7% owned nomisweb.co.uk
- Lewisham brownfield register: former Marvels Lane Boys Club, Balder Rise, 28 homes, permission 19 September 2025; small plots on Chinbrook Road planning.data.gov.uk
- Bromley's controlled parking zone list has no zone in Mottingham (checked 23 October 2026) bromley.gov.uk
- SE9 postcode district covers wards in Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham, including Mottingham (Bromley) and Mottingham, Coldharbour & New Eltham (Greenwich) api.postcodes.io
- Churchfields Road Reuse and Recycling Centre, Beckenham: booked visits for residents' own DIY waste bromley.gov.uk
- Lewisham planning committee report on 28 flats at the former Marvels Lane Boys Club, Balder Rise, Grove Park councilmeetings.lewisham.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.
Page updated