Lewisham · SE23
Forest Hill Cleaners — SE23, Lewisham
Cleaners in Forest Hill, SE23 — part of Lewisham — for households, landlords and letting agents. We work across SE23, in property that runs to victorian and edwardian terraces and villas, many split into flats.
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- £5m public liability
- Licensed waste carrier CBDU300454
- Since 2019
- DBS-checked cleaners, fully insured
- Fixed prices — parking and ULEZ included
- Forest Hill covered seven days a week
- 72-hour re-clean guarantee on tenancy work

The service, locally
House and flat cleaning in Forest Hill SE23
Around The Horniman Museum and Gardens the flats are carved out of period houses: cornices, sash boxes and limescale on every screen, which is what a SE23 deep clean is really priced for.
Access and parking here: Steep gradients, narrow hill roads and permit bays around the station.
- Lewisham households
- 122,393Lewisham households
- Homes that are flats
- 57.7%Homes that are flats
- Privately rented
- 27.2%Privately rented
- Cleaning from
- £22/hrCleaning from
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Instant estimate
Price a clean in Forest Hill SE23
£65–£80
Typically 3 hours on site
- ULEZ applies to this address and is already inside the price; no Congestion Charge here.
- Minimum booking 2 hours. Parking or permit costs in Lewisham are covered by us.
How it works
Why Forest Hill SE23 homes need their own approach
- Tell us the property and the serviceGive us the postcode, the property size and what you need cleaned — regular, deep, end of tenancy or after builders.
- Get a fixed price instantlyYou get a fixed price on screen. No home survey, no call-back, and no separate charge for parking, ULEZ or products.
- Pick a slot, including evenings and weekendsChoose any day of the week, including evenings and weekends, and tell us how the team gets in — key, concierge, fob or key-safe.
- Your vetted cleaner arrives with everythingA DBS-checked cleaner arrives with HEPA vacuums, microfibre systems and eco products. You do not need to supply anything.
- Walk the checklist, then rebook or set a scheduleWalk the room-by-room checklist with the cleaner, flag anything you want redone, then rebook or set a weekly or fortnightly schedule.
Why Hello Services
What Forest Hill clients get from us
DBS-checked, reference-vetted cleaners
Every cleaner is identity-checked, reference-checked and DBS-screened before their first job on the Forest Hill rounds. You get a named cleaner, not an anonymous slot on SE23 jobs.
Fixed pricing, no call-out or charge extras
The price quoted is the price invoiced. Congestion Charge, ULEZ and permit costs for Forest Hill are already inside it — there is no travel surcharge and no call-out fee in this 58% flats neighbourhood, with 6,684 households on this patch.
Equipment and eco products included
Teams arrive with HEPA vacuums, microfibre systems, steam and COSHH-compliant eco products on the streets near The Horniman Museum and Gardens. You do not need to supply anything, or store anything afterwards across SE23.
Deposit-back re-clean guarantee
If a check-out report flags cleaning within 72 hours of an end-of-tenancy clean, we return and re-clean the flagged items free of charge for Forest Hill (SE23) addresses, with 42% of Forest Hill homes being houses.
Same cleaner on recurring bookings
Weekly and fortnightly customers keep the same cleaner for Forest Hill (SE23) addresses, with 54% owner-occupation locally — and Lewisham parking rules in play, so nobody has to re-explain the flat, the alarm code or which floor finish hates a wet mop.
Built for Forest Hill's period conversions
Walk-up flats with no lift, sash windows and original boards need a smaller kit and a longer detail pass on Lewisham bookings, with Lewisham parking rules in play. Our SE23 teams carry cordless HEPA units up the stairs and treat London's hard-water limescale with acid-safe descaler rather than a scourer in this 58% flats neighbourhood, with 28% one-person households here.
Fixed prices
Cleaning prices in Forest Hill SE23
| Service | Size | From | Typical time | Included | Not included |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular domestic clean | Per hour | £22 | 2–4 hrs | Kitchen, bathrooms, floors, dusting, beds, bins. Equipment and products included. | Inside oven, inside windows above ground floor, carpets. |
| Deep clean | Studio | £160 | 3–4 hrs | Everything in a regular clean plus inside appliances, limescale, skirtings, doors and frames. | Carpet extraction, external windows, balconies. |
| Deep clean | 1 bed | £195 | 4–5 hrs | Full property detail clean including cupboard interiors and extractor filters. | Carpet extraction, external windows. |
| Deep clean | 2 bed | £240 | 5–6 hrs | Two-cleaner team, all rooms, appliance interiors and descaling. | Carpet extraction, external windows. |
| Deep clean | 3 bed | £300 | 6–7 hrs | Two- to three-cleaner team, whole property, stairs and landings. | Carpet extraction, external windows. |
| Deep clean | 4 bed+ | £360 | 7–9 hrs | Three-cleaner team, whole property, loft rooms and second bathrooms. | Carpet extraction, external windows. |
| End of tenancy clean | Studio | £185 | 3–4 hrs | Inventory-standard clean, oven, fridge, cupboards, limescale, internal glass. 72-hour re-clean guarantee. | Carpets (add below), garden, exterior. |
| End of tenancy clean | 1 bed | £225 | 4–5 hrs | Inventory-standard clean with appliance interiors and window tracks. | Carpets, garden, exterior. |
| End of tenancy clean | 2 bed | £285 | 5–7 hrs | Two-cleaner inventory clean, all appliances, all cupboards. | Carpets, garden, exterior. |
| End of tenancy clean | 3 bed | £350 | 6–8 hrs | Team clean to check-out standard, stairs, landings, two bathrooms. | Carpets, garden, exterior. |
| End of tenancy clean | 4 bed+ | £425 | 8–10 hrs | Full team, whole house, all appliances and all glass internally. | Carpets, garden, exterior. |
| After builders clean | Per room | £95 | 2–3 hrs / room | Fine dust removal, film and paint spots, frames, tracks, floors sealed clean. | Skip hire, waste removal, external render. |
| Oven clean | Single oven | £65 | 1–2 hrs | Dip-tank clean of racks and trays, door glass split and cleaned, hob and extractor filters. | Repairs, replacement bulbs or seals. |
| Carpet cleaning | Per room | £45 | 30–45 min / room | Hot-water extraction, pre-spray, traffic-lane and pet treatment. | Stain guarantees on dye-based stains. |
| Upholstery cleaning | 3-seat sofa | £75 | 45–60 min | Extraction clean, deodoriser, fabric test patch first. | Leather restoration, structural repair. |
| Window cleaning | Internal + external | £60 | 1–2 hrs | Glass, frames, sills and tracks; reach-and-wash externally to third floor. | Above third floor without access equipment. |
| Communal area cleaning | Per block visit | £85 | 1–2 hrs | Entrance glass, corridors, stairs, lift interior, bin store deodorise. | Jet washing, bulky waste removal. |
| Airbnb changeover | Per turnaround | £75 | 1.5–3 hrs | Full reset, linen change, restock and photo report before check-in. | Linen purchase, laundry service (add £25). |
| Office clean | Per hour | £26 | Contract | Desks, kitchens, washrooms, floors, waste and consumable restocking. | Window externals, deep carpet work. |
| One-off spring clean | Per property | £180 | 4–7 hrs | Seasonal reset: wardrobes, skirtings, internal glass, appliance interiors. | Clearance and waste removal. |
| Weekly recurring | Per hour | £20 | 2–4 hrs / visit | Same cleaner every week, discounted hourly rate, free rescheduling. | Deep-clean tasks and appliance interiors. |
| Fortnightly recurring | Per hour | £21 | 2–4 hrs / visit | Same cleaner every fortnight, discounted rate, key-safe access supported. | Deep-clean tasks and appliance interiors. |
Prices are shown in GBP and include VAT where applicable. Domestic cleaning is supplied VAT-free where the cleaner is self-employed; commercial contracts are quoted plus VAT at 20%.
Coverage
Where we clean around Forest Hill SE23
Nearby areas we also clean
- Cleaners in Honor OakSE23 · under ½ mileSE23
- Cleaners in SydenhamSE26 · 1.0 milesSE26
- Cleaners in East DulwichSE22 · 1.3 miles · SouthwarkSE22
- Cleaners in CatfordSE6 · 1.4 milesSE6
- Cleaners in Bellingham and DownhamSE6 · 1.4 milesSE6
- Cleaners in BrockleySE4 · 1.5 milesSE4
- Cleaners in Dulwich VillageSE21 · 1.7 miles · SouthwarkSE21
- Cleaners in Crystal PalaceSE19 · 2.3 miles · CroydonSE19
Services
Cleaning services we run in Forest Hill SE23
Regular domestic cleaning in Forest Hill
Weekly or fortnightly visits with the same cleaner across SE23, from two hours.
Deep cleaning in Forest Hill
Detail work for period rooms in Forest Hill — cornices, sash boxes, original floors and limescale.
End of tenancy cleaning in Forest Hill
With 27% of Forest Hill households renting, Forest Hill check-outs are our busiest SE23 booking.
After builders cleaning in Forest Hill
Dust removal after Forest Hill loft, side-return and kitchen work, including protective film and paint spots.
Oven and appliance cleaning in Forest Hill
Dip-tank oven cleaning, hobs, extractor filters and fridges — the items inventory clerks open first.
Carpet cleaning in Forest Hill
Hot-water extraction for Forest Hill stairs, landings and living rooms, with pet and traffic-lane treatment.
Upholstery cleaning in Forest Hill
Sofas, mattresses and headboards cleaned in situ — useful in 58%-flat stock where nothing can be moved out.
Window cleaning in Forest Hill
Sash windows inside and out in Forest Hill, including runners, sills and Georgian bars.
Communal area cleaning in Forest Hill
Shared halls and stairwells in Forest Hill converted houses, on a schedule the freeholder can show residents.
About the area
Forest Hill in context
The Horniman Museum, the hill views and a compact village centre. That is Forest Hill — a SE23 neighbourhood of Lewisham, with Forest Hill (Overground) as its main link into central London. Kentish villages absorbed by railways from the 1840s; Deptford's naval dockyard and Deptford Creek shaped its industrial edge.
Victorian and Edwardian terraces and villas, many split into flats. That mix matters: 57.7% of Lewisham dwellings are flats against 42.2% houses, with a median age of 35 and 30.4% of households living alone. Smaller households, more frequent lighter visits, and far more communal-door negotiation than a suburban round.
Access is the other half of the job. Steep gradients, narrow hill roads and permit bays around the station. Lewisham sits outside the Congestion Charge zone and inside ULEZ. We check the exact address against London Borough of Lewisham's controlled parking zone before the booking is confirmed, so nobody arrives to a bay they cannot use — and the cost of doing that is already inside the quoted price.
Where Forest Hill sits in our coverage
Forest Hill sits inside the coverage published on our cleaning in Lewisham page, which sits under cleaning across London. Same-week crews working this postcode also cover cleaning in Honor Oak SE23 (under ½ mile), cleaning in Sydenham SE26 (1.0 miles), cleaning in East Dulwich SE22 (1.3 miles), cleaning in Catford SE6 (1.4 miles) and cleaning in Crystal Palace SE19 (2.3 miles). If your address sits on the boundary, book the closest page — the price and the crew are the same. For every trade we run at this postcode, see all services in Forest Hill.
Most booked alongside this in Forest Hill
- Postcode districts
- SE23
- Nearest station
- Forest Hill (Overground)
- Housing stock
- Victorian and Edwardian terraces and villas, many split into flats.
- Landmark
- The Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Access, parking and permits
- Steep gradients, narrow hill roads and permit bays around the station.
- Charging zones
- ULEZ only
Area at a glance
Forest Hill SE23 by the numbers
Who lives here and what they live in decides how a clean is priced and how long it takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Forest Hill East and Forest Hill West neighbourhood itself — not Lewisham-wide averages, and not estimates.
15,955
Residents
Forest Hill East and Forest Hill West neighbourhood, Census 2021
6,684
Households
Median age 36
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
28.3%
Privately rented
26.9%
- Median age
- 36
- Owner-occupied
- 54.4%
- Social rented
- 18.6%
- Postcode districts
- SE23
- Nearest station
- Forest Hill
- Parking
- CPZ + ULEZ
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Forest Hill East, Forest Hill West (E02000673, E02000676) — the published geography that covers Forest Hill, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE23 district: 51.4415, -0.0491 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Questions
Forest Hill SE23 cleaning questions, answered
Regular domestic cleaning in Forest Hill starts at £22 per hour with a two-hour minimum around Forest Hill (Overground), with this being London Borough of Lewisham territory, and one-off deep cleans are priced by property size — from £160 for a studio to £360 for a 4-bed. End-of-tenancy cleans in SE23 run from £185 for a studio to £425 for a 4-bed in this 58% flats neighbourhood. Every price includes equipment, eco products, insurance and any parking or ULEZ cost on this side of Lewisham.
Yes. We cover every street in SE23, including Forest Hill itself and the surrounding Lewisham neighbourhoods in this 58% flats neighbourhood. If your postcode sits on the boundary of a neighbouring district we still cover it — enter the full postcode in the quote form and it will confirm coverage instantly on Lewisham bookings — and 28% one-person households here, with The Horniman Museum and Gardens a few streets away.
Steep gradients, narrow hill roads and permit bays around the station on SE23 jobs. Where London Borough of Lewisham operates a controlled parking zone at your address, we check the hours at booking and arrange a visitor permit, a suspended bay or a dispensation ourselves on the Forest Hill rounds, with 54% owner-occupation locally — and 28% one-person households here. You are never asked to buy a permit for our team in Forest Hill, with The Horniman Museum and Gardens a few streets away, and the cost is not added to your invoice.
Forest Hill sits inside the ULEZ but outside the Congestion Charge zone around Forest Hill (Overground). Our vehicles are ULEZ-compliant and any charge is already included in the fixed price you are quoted in Forest Hill, with 19% social-rented stock nearby.
We guarantee the cleaning element. If the check-out report raises a cleaning issue within 72 hours of our visit, send us the report and we return to re-clean those items free of charge in this 58% flats neighbourhood — and 6,684 households on this patch, with this being London Borough of Lewisham territory. We cannot cover damage, repairs or wear and tear — only cleanliness on this side of Lewisham, with 58% of homes here being flats, which is what the scheme adjudicators assess. London Borough of Lewisham rules apply where the kerb or a bay suspension is involved.
Frequently — a lot of SE23 is exactly that on SE23 jobs. Teams carry cordless HEPA vacuums and compact kit up the stairs rather than relying on a lift around Forest Hill (Overground) — and 58% of homes here being flats, with 54% owner-occupation locally, and we plan an extra carry allowance into the timing for third-floor and above walk-ups so the clean itself is not rushed.
Yes. Tell us the building's access process at booking and we register the team, book the service lift where the managing agent requires it on this side of Lewisham, with 19% social-rented stock nearby — and 6,684 households on this patch, and provide ID and insurance documents to the concierge in advance. Key-safe, key collection and agent key release all work too in Forest Hill.
Yes — London water is hard across every borough on SE23 jobs, with Lewisham parking rules in play, and limescale is the single most common reason a check-out clean gets rejected. We use acid-safe descalers with contact time on screens, taps, tiles and toilets rather than abrasives around Forest Hill (Overground), with 58% of homes here being flats, which lift the scale without scratching chrome or glass.
Guides
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What an inventory clerk actually checks
The check-out list your deposit is judged against, room by room.
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Cleaning guides and London updates
Practical guides written by the teams who do the work, updated through the year.
Source: ONS Census 2021, borough totals via Nomis (table TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003). Figures describe the whole borough, the smallest area ONS publishes every one of these tables for.
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Cleaning reviews from Greater London customers
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