Kensington and Chelsea · Central London
Pre-sale cleaning in Earl's Court SW5
Getting a SW5 property ready for the camera, the valuation and the first viewing. Fixed prices from £135, timed to your listing date, with parking, permits and ULEZ inside the quote.
- £1m public liability
- Basic DBS-checked teams
- Since 2019
- Covering every street in SW5
- Entrance, kitchen, bathrooms, light, floors and odour — in buyer order
- 72-hour promise — anything missed, we come back free
The service, locally
Selling in Earl's Court? present it properly first
Pre-sale cleaning for Earl's Court (SW5) sellers and agents in Kensington and Chelsea for Earl's Court (SW5) addresses. Fixed price from £135, DBS-checked cleaners, with 25% owner-occupation locally, and every hour spent on what a buyer notices in the first ten seconds in this 97% flats neighbourhood. All of SW5 covered.
Local stock here is five-storey stucco houses split into studios and one-beds, plus mansion blocks in this 97% flats neighbourhood. With The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment on the doorstep and Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly) for the commute, the listing already sells the location; the clean has to sell the condition for Earl's Court (SW5) addresses — and this being a short walk from Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly), with a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood.
- Primary postcode
- SW5Primary postcode
- Photo-ready clean from
- £135Photo-ready clean from
- Earl's Court homes that are flats
- 97.2%Earl's Court homes that are flats
- Nearest station
- Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly)Nearest station
- Local landmark
- The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopmentLocal landmark
Why sellers book it
What a pre-sale clean in Earl's Court actually buys you
Photographs sell the viewing
Presentation is priced into offers
Timed around the agent, not the diary
One team, one fixed price
Each of these is explained in full on the London pre-sale cleaning hub.
In buyer order
The rooms a buyer judges and the order we clean them
Front door and hallway
The first ten seconds of a viewing.
Kitchen
Worktops, splashbacks, cupboard fronts, handles, extractor and the oven interior.
Bathrooms and en-suites
Limescale off screens, taps and tiles, grout brightened, silicone treated for mould and chrome polished.
Windows and light
Glass, frames, cills, tracks and trickle vents inside, plus external glass as an add-on.
Floors and traffic lanes
Correct product for the finish, edges by hand, and extraction on carpets to lift traffic lanes and the dark edging along skirtings..
Smell
Bins, drains, waste traps, soft furnishings and pet areas treated at source.
Fixed prices
Pre-sale cleaning prices in Earl's Court SW5
| Property | Photo-ready | Full pre-sale reset | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio / 1-bed flat | £135 | £215 | 1–2 cleaners |
| 2-bed flat or house | £175 | £285 | 2 cleaners |
| 3-bed house | £235 | £365 | 2 cleaners |
| 4-bed house | £295 | £455 | 2–3 cleaners |
| 5-bed / large house | £365 | £585 | 3 cleaners |
Prices include VAT, all products and equipment, parking, permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge where it applies. Nothing is added on the day.
What each tier includes, room by room, is set out on the London pre-sale cleaning hub.
Add-ons
What else sellers add in Earl's Court priced up front
External window and frame clean
£75 per propertyCarpet and upholstery extraction
£55 per roomKerb appeal wash-down
£95 per propertyDeclutter and staging tidy
£90 per half dayRemoval of unwanted items
£90 per van loadOdour and pet treatment
£65 per propertyViewing-day touch-up visit
£85 per visit
Not the same job
Pre-sale clean or deep clean which one you need
A deep clean is judged by the people living in the home; a pre-sale clean is judged by buyers, photographers and valuers. The full side-by-side comparison sits on the London pre-sale cleaning hub.
Not selling yet? One-off deep cleaning in London is the right service, and end of tenancy cleaning covers a let coming to an end.
How it works
Booking a Earl's Court pre-sale clean around the listing date
- Tell us the listing date, not just the bedroomsPhotography day, first open house and completion are three different jobs.
- Get a fixed price in about a minuteChoose the property size and the tier — photo-ready presentation or the full pre-sale reset — and the price on screen is the price on the day, with parking, permits and ULEZ already inside it..
- The presentation clean, in buyer orderA DBS-checked team works the rooms in the order buyers judge them: entrance, kitchen, bathrooms, light, floors and odour, top down, with the styling tidy last..
- Photography-day check and touch-upWe can hold a short visit for the morning of the shoot or the open house so glass, worktops and floors are put back to photograph condition after a week of living in the property..
- Walk-round, snag sheet and the 72-hour promiseWe walk the property with you before we leave.
Coverage
Around Earl's Court and the streets next door
Earl's Court (SW5) sits in Kensington and Chelsea — our crews cover the whole SW5 district and the streets bordering it.
Related services
Other cleaning we run in Earl's Court SW5
One-off deep cleaning
Staying put a while longer in Earl's Court? The same detail, without the photography deadline.
End of tenancy cleaning
Selling with a tenant in situ across SW5? The inventory-standard check-out clean.
Carpet cleaning
Hot-water extraction lifts the traffic lanes that make Earl's Court listing photographs look tired.
Appliance and oven cleaning
Buyers open the oven. Dip-tank cleaning for Earl's Court kitchens before the viewings start.
After builders cleaning
Refurbished to sell in SW5? Fine construction dust cleared before the photographer arrives.
Jet washing
Kerb appeal first: driveways, paths and frontages around Earl's Court pressure washed for the exterior shot.
Regular domestic cleaning
Keep an Earl's Court home viewing-ready week after week with the same cleaner.
Hoarder clean-up
Where a Earl's Court property has to be cleared before it can be marketed, we start there — discreetly.
Office cleaning
Marketing a SW5 commercial unit? Presentation cleaning and ongoing contracts for workplaces.
About the place
Earl's Court at a glance SW5
Earl's Court sits in Kensington and Chelsea, served by Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly) on this side of Kensington and Chelsea. Tall stucco terraces of flats and short lets around the former exhibition site in Earl's Court. Market gardens turned into the Great Exhibition's Albertopolis on Kensington and Chelsea bookings, with 31% social-rented stock nearby, then estate-built stucco terraces for the Victorian wealthy.
6% privately rented (ONS Census 2021). Those proportions tell you who your buyer is likely to be and how the property should be presented for them on this side of Kensington and Chelsea, with this being Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea territory.
Access for our van: Dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift in this 97% flats neighbourhood, with a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood. Parking, permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge where it applies are already inside the price you are quoted on this side of Kensington and Chelsea, with this being a short walk from Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly).
Where Earl's Court sits in our coverage
Everything we fit in Earl's Court is booked through our pre-sale cleaning in Kensington and Chelsea page, which sits under pre-sale cleaning across London. The same crew works the adjoining postcodes too — pre-sale cleaning in West Brompton and Chelsea Harbour SW10 (0.7 miles), pre-sale cleaning in South Kensington SW7 (0.7 miles), pre-sale cleaning in Kensington W8 (0.7 miles), pre-sale cleaning in West Kensington and Olympia W14 (0.8 miles) and pre-sale cleaning in Fulham SW6 (1.1 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 Earl's Court.
Most booked alongside this in Earl's Court
Area at a glance
Earl's Court SW5 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 Earl's Court neighbourhood itself — not Kensington and Chelsea-wide averages, and not estimates.
6,212
Residents
Earl's Court neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,241
Households
Median age 35.6
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
49%
Privately rented
43.7%
- Median age
- 35.6
- Owner-occupied
- 24.8%
- Social rented
- 31.4%
- Postcode districts
- SW5
- Nearest station
- Earl's Court
- Parking
- CPZ + C-Charge + ULEZ
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Earl's Court (E02000591) — the published geography that covers Earl's Court, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SW5 district: 51.4916, -0.1919 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Questions
Pre-sale cleaning in Earl's Court answered
From £135 for a photo-ready presentation clean in a studio or 1-bed up to £585 for a full pre-sale reset in a large house across SW5, with a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood. A 2-bed in SW5 is £175 to £285 and a 3-bed house £235 to £365 on this side of Kensington and Chelsea — and a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood, with 3,241 households on this patch, with VAT, products, parking, permits and ULEZ already inside the figure.
A SW5 flat is three to six hours, a 3-bed house six to eight and a large house a full day across SW5, with 3% of Earl's Court homes being houses. 9% of Kensington and Chelsea homes are flats in this 97% flats neighbourhood, with The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment a few streets away around Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly), with 31% social-rented stock nearby, so most Earl's Court sales are judged on light and on the communal approach.
Yes — every street in SW5, plus the neighbouring Kensington and Chelsea areas on the Earl's Court rounds. Boundary postcodes are covered; enter your full postcode in the quote form and it confirms coverage instantly on SW5 jobs, with Kensington and Chelsea parking rules in play.
Yes, and most Earl's Court bookings are exactly that on this side of Kensington and Chelsea. We work early mornings and weekends, present wardrobes and worktops as space rather than storage across SW5, with this being Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea territory, and box personal items neatly for the shoot rather than hiding them badly.
Dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift on SW5 jobs. That is priced in — parking, permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge where it applies never appear as an extra on the day around Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly), with 3,241 households on this patch.
A declutter and staging tidy is £90 per half day and removal of unwanted items is from £110 a quarter van load under our upper-tier waste carrier registration in Earl's Court — and Kensington and Chelsea parking rules in play, with The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment a few streets away, with a waste transfer note issued.
Tell us within 72 hours and we come back and put it right free of charge for Earl's Court (SW5) addresses, with this being a short walk from Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly). For open houses we can also hold a short touch-up visit (£85) for the morning itself in this 97% flats neighbourhood, with 25% owner-occupation locally.
Get your Earl's Court, SW5 property photograph-ready
Tell us your listing date and property size and we will hold the team, the price and the touch-up visit around it.
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