Almost half of Bexley’s households (44.2%) live in a semi, so domestic cleaning in Bexley usually means a family house on two floors: one cleaner at £23 an hour each week, using the vacuum and products you keep.
Add terraces and detached homes and three-quarters of Bexley lives in a house; 68.6% of households own. According to the council’s Local Character Study, residents numbered 100,000 in 1931 and twice that by 1941 as the interwar estates went up, and the same study says most of the borough is still no taller than two storeys. For a cleaner that means stairs on three jobs in four, and a kitchen and bathroom that take the most time.
Flats are the minority here (24.7%), and the same study puts the taller buildings mainly along the Sidcup, Welling, Bexleyheath, Crayford and Erith corridors. Our domestic cleaners come weekly or fortnightly, and the office asks about the number of bathrooms, any extension and who is home in the day before suggesting hours.
Hours and products for a Bexley semi
A three-bed semi with one bathroom and a downstairs toilet takes about four hours a week; a two-bed terrace manages in 3. If there is a conservatory, a second bathroom or a dog, say so on the call. The hourly rate is £23 for a weekly slot or £24 for a fortnightly one, and the very first visit is a trial at £26 an hour.
All of Bexley’s water is Thames Water’s, and the company describes its entire region as hard because its sources pass through chalk and limestone. Readings above 300 mg/l count as very hard on its scale, and the Bexleyheath zone’s 2025 average was 355. In practice that is white crust on taps, shower screens and the kettle between visits, so leave a limescale remover out with the rest of the kit. For regular cleaning the household provides all of it: vacuum, mop and bucket, cloths, sprays. A weekly cleaner arrives with nothing and uses what you keep under the sink.
Parking windows in Bexley’s permit zones
Bexley controls many of its permit zones for just two hours, 10am to midday for example, to keep commuters from leaving cars all day, while the town centres are controlled all day. Once the controlled hours end, any car can use the zone’s bays, though never a double yellow line. A one-off or deep clean team that drives can often time its arrival around that window. Residents can buy visitor scratch cards in books of ten, at a higher price in the all-day zones of Bexleyheath, Sidcup and Welling town centres.
For a job needing constant access to a building, Bexley will let a vehicle stand on single or double yellow lines under a dispensation, by the day or the week, if asked a working day ahead. The dispensation does not cover permit, disabled or pay and display bays, and TfL deals with red routes. Parking the team pays for is passed to you at cost; the most it can add is £40.
Renting and moving out in Bexley
Private renting is low in Bexley: 15.3% of households in 2021, roughly level with social renting. Licensing is light too. Belvedere ward alone has a selective scheme (it began on 13 January 2025 and ends on 12 January 2030), and elsewhere the council lists only the national mandatory licence for larger HMOs. At the end of a let, the move-out clean has a fixed price set by bedrooms: three bedrooms cost £339, four cost £425, and the team brings its own equipment. Bedroom carpets done during that visit add £29 each.
Domestic cleaning in Bexley Village
Old Bexley grew up where old routes crossed the River Cray. Its conservation area, designated in 1971, takes in St Mary’s Church, which dates from the late 12th century, and the King’s Head and other timber-framed buildings line the High Street. When the railway came in 1866 it split the village, and smaller Victorian houses filled new streets such as Albert Road and Salisbury Road. A two-bed house there is a 3-hour weekly visit, with the time going on the kitchen, the bathroom and the stairs.
Parkhurst is the other end of the scale: an early commuter estate of 1869 to around 1885, with curving roads, deep front gardens and broad plots, where a large house needs five hours or two visits a week. For a team coming to do a deep clean, zone H, the village’s permit zone, has controls for one hour only, 10am to 11am on weekdays. Owners made up 75.9% of households in St Mary’s and St James ward in 2021, and the first visit, a trial at £26 an hour, shows an owner how a domestic cleaner works before the weekly rate applies.
Domestic cleaning in Bexleyheath
The council’s character study names Bexleyheath as the borough’s main town centre, a long strip on the old Roman road with side streets leading off into interwar estates. Volume builders laid out whole neighbourhoods there in the 1930s, once big estates like Danson were sold off and the railway line was electrified. Owners dominate: 79.6% of households in Bexleyheath ward in 2021. A 1930s three-bed semi takes about four hours a week, or five with a second bathroom.
Thames Water put two of three ward postcodes checked in its Bexleyheath zone (2025 mean 355 mg/l) and the third in Bexley and Blackfen (304), both above its very hard line, so domestic cleaners there spend real time on limescale. Parking depends on the zone. Zone A, the town centre, has controls from 8.30am until 5.30pm every day but Sunday, while the station zone (G) is enforced only from 10am until noon on weekdays, so a booking after midday near the station falls outside its hours.
Domestic cleaning in Crayford
Crayford was a munitions town. During the First World War the workforce at Vickers’ armaments works rose from about 300 to 14,000, and for them the firm put up a garden suburb at Barnes Cray, to the east of the town; those houses still stand. For a two-bed house there, 3 hours a fortnight is usually enough.
Up the hill from the shops, inside Iron Mill Lane conservation area, 19th-century terraces and semis sit on brick retaining walls, because the High Street below runs in a cutting. That can mean steps up to the front door for anyone carrying a vacuum or a carpet machine. Crayford’s permit zone (E) is controlled on weekdays from 9am to 11am only, so a carpet cleaning or deep clean team arriving at eleven is outside its hours. Thames Water puts two Crayford postcodes checked (DA1 4RS and DA1 4RF) in its Thamesmead zone, with a 2025 mean of 355 mg/l, and a third in Dartford South (311), both very hard, so domestic cleaning there includes descaling the bathroom.
Domestic cleaning in Erith
Erith’s old town was demolished in stages from 1966 to 1980 to make way for a rebuilt centre, and more change came on the former Larner Road estate. Its seven tower blocks are gone and Erith Park stands there, with 587 homes (houses plus mid-rise flats), 80% let at affordable rent or sold in shared ownership, completed in 2019. A newer home there is quick to clean, and a two-bed flat needs 3 hours a week.
Around Lesney Park Road the homes are older and bigger. The conservation area there keeps what is left of Victorian and Edwardian Erith, big houses, detached or semi, on generous plots, built between the 1860s and the 1920s, and one of those can take five hours a week. Zone ER is only enforced for two hours on weekday mornings, 10am to noon. Every water postcode tested in Erith and Northumberland Heath wards falls in a very hard Thames Water zone, so the domestic cleaning kit should include something for limescale on taps, glass and the kettle.
Domestic cleaning in Sidcup
Big Victorian and Edwardian houses sit next to 1930s suburbs in Sidcup, and the flat share in Sidcup ward, 42.7%, tops the six places here. Bexley lists eight of its conservation areas under Sidcup. One of them, The Green, holds Sidcup Place (1743, much altered since) and a Manor House of 1788 to 1789, and the 1866 railway brought small estates of late Victorian houses, each on a quarter of an acre. A big Edwardian house that has had no cleaner for months is easier to take on after a deep clean by a team of two; a regular domestic cleaner can then keep it at four or five hours a week.
Parking hours vary within a short walk. The town centre zone (S) is controlled 9am to 5.30pm from Monday to Saturday; around Sidcup station (B) and West Sidcup (WS) the controls apply only between 1pm and 3pm on weekdays, so a morning booking there falls outside the controls. All three ward postcodes checked sit in Thames Water’s Sidcup and Elmstead Wood zone, 334 mg/l on average, very hard.
Domestic cleaning in Welling
Welling was a coaching village on Watling Street, the old road from London to Kent, until the Bexleyheath Line arrived in May 1895; its three inns date from that trade. Suburban building spread south of the railway after the Danson estate was sold to developers. Falconwood and Welling ward has the fewest flats of any place on this page (14.1%) and 79.3% of households own, so domestic cleaning here is mostly houses: a three-bed semi with a garden at about four hours a week, plus ironing as extra time if you want it.
Welling’s town centre zone (W) has controls from 9am to 5.30pm except on Sundays; inside it, a household can buy visitor scratch cards for a team that drives. Thames Water’s lookup puts the three ward postcodes checked in two zones, with 2025 averages of 331 mg/l (Plumstead) and 318 (Eltham Park), both very hard.
Questions about domestic cleaning in Bexley
What does a first deep clean cost before a regular cleaner starts in Bexley?
Deep cleaning costs £28 for each cleaner hour. The minimum is three hours with two cleaners, and £30 is added for the equipment and products they bring, so the price starts at £198; a 50% deposit holds the date. Regular cleaning that follows has no deposit, and a weekly visit starts at £69.
Is a regular cleaner available in my DA postcode?
Not in every postcode. Bexley covers DA1, DA5 to DA8, DA14 to DA18 and parts of SE2, SE9 and SE28, and the office confirms on the call whether a regular cleaner can take your day and time. One-off, deep and end of tenancy cleans can be booked anywhere in the borough.
Do I have to be at home when the cleaner comes?
No. You can leave a key with the cleaner or use a key safe; we do not keep keys at an office. The first four weeks of regular cleaning are a settling-in period, and after that either side can end the arrangement with 14 days’ notice. A visit cancelled with under two working days’ notice is charged at half price.