A domestic cleaner in Hillingdon is £23 an hour if booked for every week and £24 if every second week, for at least 3 hours a visit, using the products and equipment you keep at home.
Hillingdon is outer-London suburb from Northwood down to West Drayton. The council’s Local Plan describes a suburban borough with areas of 1930s building and typical Metroland estates, where the semi is the commonest home, and the 2021 Census agrees: 35.1% of households in a semi, 19.9% in a terrace and 13.9% in a detached house, with flats at 30.8%. So a regular cleaner here is more often in a house with a staircase than in a flat, and the hours follow the number of bathrooms more than the number of bedrooms.
Hours for a Hillingdon house or flat
Book the 3-hour minimum for a one or two-bedroom flat. A three-bedroom semi with one bathroom takes about four hours. Add roughly half an hour to three quarters for every further bathroom or en suite. Detached houses in Ickenham or Northwood with three bathrooms are five or six hours, or two visits a week. The cleaner brings no kit for a regular visit, so the household buys and keeps the vacuum, the mop and bucket, the cloths and the products, including a descaler, because every Hillingdon postcode checked has hard or very hard water. Your first visit is billed as a trial at £26 an hour. After it, regular domestic cleaners drop to £23 an hour on a weekly booking and £24 on a fortnightly one. Pay the cleaner when the visit ends, or settle a single invoice each month.
Hard water in the south, very hard in the north
Affinity Water supplies every Hillingdon postcode its checker has been asked about. Some readings are hard: 265 mg/l in its Hayes zone, which the checker gives for UB3 postcodes, and 285 mg/l in its Ickenham/Denham zone, where it places UB8 1JX in central Uxbridge and HA4 7LJ in Ruislip. Further north they pass Affinity’s 300 mg/l line into very hard, with 321 mg/l at HA5 1RD in Eastcote and 348 mg/l in the Northwood zone. The difference shows on chrome taps and glass shower doors, and a weekly cleaner in Northwood is likely to spend longer on them than one in Hayes. If the bathroom has years of scale, a one-off deep clean from £198 deals with it first; the team brings its own products and kit and works at £28 per cleaner per hour.
Visitor vouchers and permit bays in Hillingdon
The first ten visitor vouchers for each address in a Hillingdon permit zone cost nothing; after that they are sold in tens. Residents start a session online for a visitor’s car, with up to 50 sessions on each visitor permit. Permit bays are normally enforced on weekdays from 9am until 5pm and open to any driver at other times, so a Saturday visit usually falls outside a permit bay’s hours, though the street signs decide. Pay and display is normally charged from 8am until 6.30pm, Monday through Saturday, with no charge on Sundays and bank holidays, and can be paid through the PayByPhone app. The council’s parking waiver is only for listed jobs such as removals, big deliveries and window glazing, not for general visits. Where the cleaner has paid for parking, you see that amount on the bill, up to £40.
Domestic cleaning in Eastcote
Eastcote has the highest share of semis of any part of Hillingdon covered here, 49.4% of households in the ward, and three quarters own their home. Part of it is the Eastcote Park Estate, made a conservation area in 2005. Comben and Wakeling built it in the 1930s on what had been parkland belonging to Eastcote House, meant as affordable housing for people working in London, and roughly 90% of the houses on it are semi-detached, on plots much alike, so once the first visit has set the hours on one house, they are a fair guide for the next one along. St Lawrence Drive and Rodney Gardens break the pattern with detached bungalows, everything on one floor, where the cleaner loses no time on stairs and a 3-hour visit goes a long way. Affinity’s checker reads HA5 1RD at 321 mg/l, very hard, so leave a limescale spray beside the bath. For domestic cleaning in the older Eastcote Village conservation area, designated in February 1970, mention any period floors or fireplaces on the call.
Domestic cleaning in Hayes
Hayes is the biggest part of Hillingdon here, 30,045 households across six wards, and two big schemes are adding to it. On the former Nestlé site by the Grand Union Canal, Barratt London is building Hayes Village, 1,386 homes planned, with the old factory’s south facade, its Art Deco entrance and its main staircase kept as part of them. The EMI works on Blyth Road is now The Old Vinyl Factory, over 700 homes mixed with offices, a school and shops. A new one or two-bed flat in either is a 3-hour visit, kitchen and shower room first. Three in ten Hayes households rent privately; when a tenancy ends, the landlord or tenant pays £207 for a one-bed end of tenancy clean, and the team brings the equipment. Older Hayes survives too, in the Hayes Village conservation area round St Mary’s Church and Wood End Green. Affinity Water’s Hayes zone recorded 265 mg/l in 2025, hard, the lowest of the Hillingdon readings on this page. Domestic cleaning in UB3 and UB4 is booked by phone, where the office confirms a regular cleaner is free near you.
Domestic cleaning in Ickenham
Large houses set the pattern in Ickenham. Across Ickenham & South Harefield ward a third of households (32.4%) have a detached house and slightly more (35.5%) a semi, with flats at 20.3% and owners at 75.1%. For a detached house with a pair of bathrooms plus a downstairs cloakroom, start at five hours a week, and a 3-hour fortnightly visit rarely keeps up with one. The old centre has been the Ickenham Village conservation area since January 1970, and the listed buildings nearby include Swakeleys and Ickenham Manor (both Grade I) and St Giles’ church (Grade II*). Big houses can mean big carpets, and a regular cleaner’s vacuum only lifts what sits on top; once a year, book carpet cleaning at £43 for a living room and £36 a bedroom, done by hot water extraction, room by room. Affinity’s 2025 report for its Ickenham/Denham zone records 285 mg/l, hard, so for domestic cleaning in Ickenham a descaler sits on the household’s shopping list.
Domestic cleaning in Northwood
The highest Hillingdon water reading is Affinity Water’s 2025 report for its Northwood zone, 348 mg/l, well inside the very hard band. Kettles fur up, and shower heads and glass doors need a descaler every visit. The housing is mixed. Detached houses hold 28.5% of households across Northwood and Northwood Hills, and The Glen, protected as a conservation area from July 2007, is a planned 1950s layout of maisonette blocks in landscaped grounds. Inside a maisonette there is a staircase of its own, so the vacuum still climbs a flight; 3 hours covers a two-bedroom one. Old Northwood, Dene Road, the Copsewood and Gatehill Farm estates and Hillside in Northwood Hills are areas of special local character; if your house keeps original features, mention them on the call. One address point matters before you book domestic cleaning: part of HA6 lies in Hertfordshire, under Three Rivers council (Moor Park and Eastbury ward, for one), so give the office the full address on the call.
Domestic cleaning in Ruislip
The Ruislip Village conservation area dates from November 1969 and was widened in January 2009, now covering all of the High Street plus the inter-war houses built west of it on the Park House Estate, varied in style along tree-lined roads. St Martin’s church (Grade I) and Manor Farm’s Great Barn (Grade II*) stand in the old village. Across Ruislip, Ruislip Manor and South Ruislip, 71.4% of households own their home and 27.1% live in terraced houses, more than the borough average. A between-the-wars terrace with one bathroom is a 3-hour weekly or fortnightly visit, and households who want shirts and school clothes pressed can add ironing as extra time on the visit, priced on the call. Water readings differ: Affinity’s 2025 report gives its Ruislip zone 320 mg/l, very hard, while its checker puts HA4 7LJ in the Ickenham/Denham zone at 285 mg/l. Either way, domestic cleaning in Ruislip goes better with a limescale remover in the cupboard. Moat Drive and Midcroft are local character areas too.
Domestic cleaning in Uxbridge
Uxbridge and Colham & Cowley wards split three ways: a third of households in purpose-built flats (32.9%), nearly as many in semis (31.0%) and 13.3% in detached houses. Uxbridge is also where Brunel University London has its campus; it received its charter in 1966. Its halls are all on campus, and its student lettings service runs a scheme for landlords letting property in the area. A student house that is changing hands needs more than a regular visit: book an end of tenancy clean, priced by the size of the home, or a deep clean if the landlord wants it done by the hour. Households staying put, in a flat or a semi, book a weekly or fortnightly cleaner. The town has conservation areas old and new, from Old Uxbridge and Windsor Street (July 1973) to Uxbridge Moor and Uxbridge Lock beside the canal (July 2003). Affinity Water’s Uxbridge zone recorded 308 mg/l in 2025, very hard, though its checker puts UB8 1JX in the town centre in its Ickenham/Denham zone at 285 mg/l. For domestic cleaning in UB8 or UB10, ring and ask whether a regular cleaner covers your road.
Domestic cleaning in West Drayton
West Drayton and Yiewsley are flat country by Hillingdon standards: 40.9% of households live in flats, 46.0% in Yiewsley ward alone, mostly in purpose-built blocks, and a quarter rent from a social landlord. A one or two-bed flat needs no more than the 3-hour minimum, and fortnightly cleaning at £24 an hour may be all it wants, with the extra time going on the inside of the oven or the windowsills. Houses make up most of the rest, 30.6% semis and 20.5% terraces, and Garden City has been one of the borough’s areas of special local character since November 1989. The West Drayton Green conservation area was designated in November 1969, and the Church of St Martin and Southlands, both Grade II*, stand in West Drayton. Affinity Water’s 2025 report for its West Drayton zone, which serves about 57,120 people, records 283 mg/l, hard, so add a descaler to the products the household buys. For domestic cleaning in UB7, ring the office, which checks whether a regular cleaner is free on your street.
Questions about domestic cleaning in Hillingdon
When would my cleaner use a Hillingdon visitor voucher?
Only if the cleaner drives and parks in a permit bay during its hours, usually 9am to 5pm on weekdays. Each property’s first ten visitor vouchers cost nothing and further packs of ten are charged; the session is started online against the cleaner’s car. The council’s parking waiver is not available for general visits. If the cleaner pays for a bay, the bill shows the same sum, £40 at most.
My address is HA6 in Northwood. Is that Hillingdon?
Not always. Northwood’s HA6 runs over the county line, and some of it (Moor Park and Eastbury ward, for example) is run by Three Rivers council in Hertfordshire. Give the office the full address when you call and it will tell you whether a regular cleaner can reach you.
Which shared houses in Hillingdon need a licence?
Since 24 August 2026, and until 23 August 2031, the whole borough has had additional HMO licensing. It catches homes where at least three people from more than one household live together and which fall outside mandatory licensing. Separately, after Full Council voted on 27 November 2025, converting a family house into an HMO for three or more unrelated people needs planning permission wherever it is in Hillingdon. Whatever the licence position, a shared house between tenants can have an end of tenancy or one-off clean from a team with its own kit; see all cleaning services for the options.