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Regular Domestic Cleaning in Old Street EC1V

Most Old Street EC1V bookings are homes nobody is in when we arrive. One vetted cleaner holds your slot, lets themselves in the way you agree once, and leaves a home you walk back into — fortnightly visits, products included, and no minimum term.

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  • The same named cleaner, in the same slot, every visit
  • £22/hr weekly · £24 fortnightly · products and kit included
  • No contract — skip or move a visit with 24 hours' notice
  • London Borough of Islington permits and ULEZ inside the rate
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Illustration of a central London Georgian terrace with a Hello Services van in a permit bay and movers carrying a sofa — Old Street, EC1V in Islington

The service, locally

Regular cleaning in Old Street EC1V

The roundabout, tech offices and warehouse conversions on the City fringe. Warehouse and office conversions, new towers with concierge, and Peabody-era estate blocks. 36.1% of households in Islington are one person, and a flat used mainly in the evenings does not build up fast. Fortnightly with a slightly longer visit is the usual answer here.

36.1% of households in Islington are one person, and a flat used mainly in the evenings does not build up fast. Fortnightly with a slightly longer visit is the usual answer here.

Who books here: one and two-person professional households booking a slot they never have to be home for. Access and parking: Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards.

Per hour, weekly
£22Per hour, weekly
Old Street one-person homes
39%Old Street one-person homes
Minimum visit
2hrMinimum visit
Households in Old Street
4,949Households in Old Street

Slot planner

Work out your Old Street slot and what it costs

Pick the size of the home and how often you want someone. The planner shows the visit length we would actually recommend, the cost per visit and the cost per month — the same rates we book on.

Slot planner

Plan your Old Street EC1V slot

Extras (optional — everything else is already included)

£66 a visit

3 hrs at £22/hr · about £286 a month · £624 a year less than monthly rates

  • The default London booking and the one that keeps a home genuinely on top. Nothing builds up between visits, so the same hours buy more rotation work each week.
  • 3 hours is what a 2 bedroom in Old Street realistically needs at this frequency — Two bedrooms made and vacuumed, kitchen and bathroom in full, second WC where fitted, all floors, skirting spot-clean, two rotation tasks.
  • Islington straddles the Congestion Charge zone. It is absorbed, not added — your hourly rate is the London-wide one.
  • No contract and no minimum term. Move or skip any visit with 24 hours' notice.
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How a recurring booking runs

Setting up a regular clean in Old Street once, then it just happens

Five steps, and only the first two need you. After that the slot runs itself — the same sequence behind every Old Street EC1V recurring booking we hold.
  1. Tell us the home and the frequencyStudio to five bedrooms, weekly, fortnightly or monthly. We suggest the visit length that actually fits the property rather than selling you the shortest slot.
  2. Meet your cleaner before the first visitOne named cleaner is assigned to your slot. They walk the home with you once, note the things you care about, and that becomes your standing brief.
  3. Agree the every-visit list and the rotationKitchen, bathrooms, floors and beds happen every single time. Everything deeper — oven fronts, inside the fridge, skirtings, windows, wardrobe tops — goes on a rotation so a different deep task is done each visit.
  4. Sort access onceKey safe, concierge, fob or in-person. It is logged once and repeats automatically, so nobody rearranges their day around the clean.
  5. Adjust it whenever you likeSkip, move or lengthen a visit with 24 hours' notice. No contract, no minimum term, and no charge to stop.
Illustration grid of routine cleaning tasks — kitchen worktop and hob, bathroom sanitising, vacuum and mop, dusting skirtings, changing bed linen, folded laundry, bins and recycling, mirrors and glass, and a key safe beside a weekly calendar — Old Street EC1V

Hourly rates

Regular cleaning rates in Old Street EC1V

Priced by the hour against the frequency you choose, not by the property. Products, equipment, insurance, London Borough of Islington parking, permits and ULEZ — and the Congestion Charge are already inside the rate.

2×/week

£21 /hr

Two shorter visits, usually a Monday and a Thursday. Chosen by busy family houses and shared professional flats where the kitchen and bathrooms need resetting midweek rather than once at the weekend.

Weekly

£22 /hr

The default London booking and the one that keeps a home genuinely on top. Nothing builds up between visits, so the same hours buy more rotation work each week.

Every 2 weeks

£24 /hr

Popular with one and two-person households. Expect the first 30–40 minutes of each visit to go on catching the kitchen and bathroom back up before the rotation task starts.

Monthly

£26 /hr

A monthly reset rather than upkeep. Book a longer visit — four hours or more — because a month of ordinary life needs catching up on before anything else gets touched.

Recommended visit lengths and weekly cost for Old Street EC1V
Home sizeWeekly visitFortnightly visitWeekly costWhat fits in the visit
Studio2 hrs2.5 hrs£44Kitchen surfaces, hob and sink, shower room descaled, floors throughout, bed changed with your linen, bins out, one rotation task.
1 bedroom2.5 hrs3 hrs£55Full kitchen and bathroom, living room and bedroom dusted and vacuumed, hallway floor, mirrors and glass, bins, one to two rotation tasks.
2 bedroom3 hrs3.5 hrs£66Two bedrooms made and vacuumed, kitchen and bathroom in full, second WC where fitted, all floors, skirting spot-clean, two rotation tasks.
3 bedroom3.5 hrs4 hrs£77Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, stairs and landing vacuumed, kitchen in full including fronts, internal glass, two to three rotation tasks.
4 bedroom4 hrs5 hrs£88Whole house, utility room, all bathrooms, stairs and landings, kitchen fronts and splashbacks, three rotation tasks and a laundry load on if asked.
5 bedroom+5 hrs6 hrs£110Large or shared houses: every bedroom, multiple bathrooms, kitchen and utility, all circulation space, three to four rotation tasks, often a two-cleaner team.

All rates are in GBP and are the price you pay, with products, equipment, insurance, parking, permits and ULEZ already inside them. Regular domestic cleaning in an occupied home is supplied VAT-free where the cleaner is self-employed; landlord, managing-agent and company-invoiced contracts are quoted plus VAT at 20%.

The standing brief

Every visit, plus one deeper task on rotation

This is the standing brief your Old Street EC1V cleaner works from. The left column happens on every single visit; the right rotates one task per visit so the whole home is properly covered across a quarter.

Every single visit

Done every time in Old Street EC1V

  • Kitchen worktops, sink and hobCleared, degreased and dried. Splashback and tap descaled, hob and control knobs wiped, sink polished and the drainer emptied.
  • Appliance fronts and handlesOven door, hob surround, fridge, dishwasher and microwave outside and inside the door — the greasy edges a rushed clean skips.
  • Bathrooms sanitisedToilet inside and out, basin, bath, shower screen and taps descaled, tiles wiped, mirror polished, floor washed to the edges.
  • Beds made or changedBeds made every visit; changed with the fresh linen you leave out, and the used set put on to wash if you would like.
  • Dust every reachable surfaceShelves, sills, tables, TV units, picture frames, lamps and handrails — moved and replaced, not dusted around.
  • Vacuum and mop all floorsCarpets, hard floors, stairs, under reachable furniture and along the edges where a domestic vacuum never quite gets.
  • Mirrors, internal glass and touch pointsMirrors, glass doors, light switches, handles and remotes — the surfaces everyone in the house touches daily.
  • Bins and tidy-downBins emptied, liners replaced, recycling taken to the store, cushions straightened and the home left ready to walk into.

One per visit, on rotation

The deeper task that changes each week

  1. Skirting boards and door framesWiped by hand along one floor of the property, plus the scuff line behind doors.
  2. Inside the fridgeShelves and drawers out, washed and dried, seals cleaned and out-of-date items flagged rather than binned.
  3. Kitchen cupboard frontsDegreased top to bottom, handles included, plus the cupboard tops on a step ladder where it is safe.
  4. Internal windows and tracksGlass, frames and sill runners on one side of the property, with the sliding tracks vacuumed out.
  5. Radiators, grilles and ventsFront, top and the dust trap behind, plus extractor grilles in the kitchen and bathroom.
  6. Wardrobe tops and high shelvesThe horizontal surfaces above eye level that never show until the light hits them.
  7. Upholstery and under cushionsSofa and armchairs vacuumed with the crevice tool, cushions lifted, pet hair lifted with a rubber brush.
  8. Limescale treatmentExtended descaler contact on shower screens, taps and the kettle — London water makes this a quarterly necessity, not a luxury.
  9. Bathroom grout and sealantScrubbed along the bath and shower line, and the shower head soaked while the rest of the room is done.
  10. Doors, handles and light fittingsDoors washed both sides, pendant shades and wall lights dusted, cobwebs cleared from ceiling corners.

Ten rotation tasks, one per visit — a weekly booking works through the whole list roughly every ten weeks, a fortnightly one across five months. You can pin a task to the top of the rotation whenever you like.

What a routine visit does not cover

  • Inside the oven — booked as an add-on or as a quarterly one-off, because it takes an hour on its own.
  • Exterior windows above ground floor, which need reach-and-wash equipment and a separate visit.
  • Moving heavy furniture, wall-mounted TVs or anything that needs two people and a risk assessment.
  • Clearing clutter or deciding what to throw away — we clean around your things and never bin anything.
  • Mould remediation, pest treatment, or damage caused by damp; those need a specialist, and we will say so.
  • Carpet and upholstery hot-water extraction, which is a separate machine and a separate booking.
  • Childcare, pet walking, or handling soiled pet bedding unless it has been agreed in advance.
  • Garden, balcony jet washing and communal areas — different equipment, and usually your freeholder's job.

Why Hello Services

What a regular cleaner in Old Street actually gets you

One cleaner, not a rota

The same named person every visit, working in Old Street already so travel is short and the slot is reliable. You meet them before the first clean and they keep your brief.

Every-visit list plus a rotation

Kitchen, bathrooms, floors, beds and bins happen every single time. One deeper task — skirtings, inside the fridge, cupboard fronts, limescale — rotates through, so the whole home is properly done across a quarter.

No contract, no minimum term

Skip, move or lengthen a visit with 24 hours' notice. Pause for a holiday, stop whenever you like, and nothing is charged for the privilege.

Everything is inside the hourly rate

Products, professional equipment, £5m public liability, DBS checks, London Borough of Islington parking and ULEZ. There is no call-out charge, no travel fee and no weekend premium.

Sized for Old Street homes

Warehouse and office conversions, new towers with concierge, and Peabody-era estate blocks. We recommend a visit length that actually fits that stock — usually fortnightly — instead of selling the shortest slot and hoping.

Local to Old Street

Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards. Your cleaner is already working in Islington on the day of your visit, which is why the slot holds and why running late is rare.

Extras and local detail

What is included in Old Street EC1V

Most of what people expect to pay extra for is already inside the hourly rate. The handful of genuine add-ons are priced here so nothing arrives as a surprise on the invoice.
Regular cleaning extras and inclusions in Old Street EC1V
ExtraCostTimeDetail
Ironing£22+60 minCharged at the same hourly rate as the clean. A standard basket is about an hour; tell us at booking so the slot is long enough rather than eating the clean.
Laundry — wash, dry and foldIncluded+20 minPutting a load on at the start of the visit and folding it at the end is included. Machine cycles that outlast the visit are left on the airer.
Inside the oven£35+60 minNot part of a routine visit. Booked as a one-off add-on, or quarterly alongside your usual slot.
Inside the fridge£15+30 minShelves, drawers and seals emptied and washed. Most households book it monthly on the rotation instead of paying for it.
Internal windows and glassIncluded+30 minInternal glass, mirrors and patio doors are inside the rotation at no extra cost. Exterior glass is a separate reach-and-wash visit.
Bed changingIncluded+10 minIncluded on every visit where the fresh linen is left out. We do not go into wardrobes or drawers unless you ask us to.
Pet householdsIncluded+20 minHair lift on carpets, sofas and stair edges is inside the visit. Litter trays and pet bedding are handled on request, never assumed.
Key holding and key safeIncludedNo extra timeFree. Keys are logged, coded and never labelled with your address; concierge and key-safe collection are both fine.
Products and equipmentIncludedNo extra timeIncluded. We can also work with your own products and your own vacuum — flat and tower blocks often prefer it.
Fragrance-free / eco productsIncludedNo extra timeFree swap to fragrance-free, child-safe and eco-certified products. Ask at booking and it becomes the default for your slot.
The same cleaner, the same slot
Your Old Street visit is assigned to one cleaner who lives or already works in Islington, so travel is short and the slot holds week after week. You meet them before the first clean.
Parking and permits
Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards. Any London Borough of Islington permit or visitor bay is arranged and paid for by us and never appears on your invoice.
Congestion Charge
Part of Islington sits inside the Congestion Charge zone. On a recurring booking that is a daily cost we absorb — the hourly rate is the same as anywhere else in London.
ULEZ
Every Hello Services vehicle is ULEZ-compliant. Most regular cleaners in this area travel by public transport anyway, which is why the slot times are so reliable.
Getting in when you are out
Most regular customers here leave a key in a key safe or with us. Keys are coded, never address-labelled, and returned the day you stop.
Stairs and machines
Lift or ground-floor access at most addresses here, so full-size equipment comes to the door.
Changing or skipping a visit
Move, shorten or skip any visit with 24 hours' notice at no charge. Holidays are simply paused — there is no minimum term and no cancellation fee.
Hard water
Every London borough is in a hard-water area. Descaler on taps, screens and kettle is part of the weekly routine here rather than an occasional extra.

This housing stock

What Old Street homes need week after week

Warehouse and office conversions, new towers with concierge, and Peabody-era estate blocks. That stock decides what a recurring visit has to do here week after week, so this is what your cleaner's routine is built around.

Hard water, every week

London sits on chalk and Islington is no exception. Taps, shower screens and kettles scale within days here, so descaler is part of the weekly routine and a full limescale pass comes round on the rotation.

Flats with no airflow

83.6% of Islington homes are flats, and a sealed flat with a shower and no window keeps its moisture. We ventilate first, do the bathroom early so it dries, and keep an eye on the sealant line between visits.

Kitchens off Old Street high streets

The roundabout, tech offices and warehouse conversions on the City fringe. Homes near a busy road here take a fine film on sills and internal glass, which is why sills and glass sit on the every-visit list rather than the rotation.

Rented homes and their fixtures

31.2% of Islington households rent privately, above the 30% London average. Landlord fixtures are usually cheap laminate, vinyl and painted MDF, so we use low-moisture methods that keep the deposit conversation short later.

The stuff that lives on the floor

Warehouse and office conversions, new towers with concierge, and Peabody-era estate blocks. Shoes, buggies, bikes and deliveries all land in the same square metre by the door. The entrance mat, hall floor and skirting by the door get done every visit because that is where the rest of the house picks its dirt up from.

Access at Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground

Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards. A recurring slot only works if getting in is boring, so we settle it once — key safe, concierge, fob or a key we hold under a code — and never renegotiate it week to week.

Coverage

Recurring slots around Old Street EC1V

We hold recurring slots across EC1V, EC1 and the streets around Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground, and cleaners work across borough lines. The areas below are ordered by real distance from the EC1V centroid.
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Related services

Other cleaning we run in Old Street EC1V

One-off deep cleaning in Old Street

Most regular bookings in EC1V start with a single deep clean to get the home to a baseline, then the weekly slot keeps it there for a fraction of the cost.

End of tenancy cleaning in Old Street

Moving out of a EC1V tenancy? That is an inventory-standard clean against a check-out report — a different job from your routine visit, and priced separately.

Carpet cleaning in Old Street

Hot-water extraction once or twice a year for EC1V stairs and living rooms, booked around your existing slot.

Appliance and oven cleaning in Old Street

Ovens, hobs, extractors and fridges in Old Street stripped and dip-tank cleaned rather than wiped on the weekly visit.

After builders cleaning in Old Street

Had work done in EC1V? Fine construction dust needs a different sequence and different filters before the routine visits resume.

Jet washing in Old Street

Paths, patios, decking and bin areas around Old Street pressure washed as an annual outdoor reset.

Pre-sale cleaning in Old Street

Putting a EC1V home on the market? The photography-day presentation clean before the listing goes live.

Hoarder clean-up in Old Street

Discreet, safeguarding-led help where an Old Street home needs sorting before any routine cleaning can start.

Office cleaning in Old Street

Studios, shops and small offices around EC1V cleaned early morning or evening on contract.

All cleaning in Old Street

Ovens, carpets, upholstery, jet washing and after-builders work in Old Street EC1V, all bookable alongside your existing slot.

Regular cleaners across Islington

Borough-wide pricing, coverage and the household mix behind it, plus every Islington area we hold recurring slots in.

Every service in Old Street

Cleaning, clearance, handyman and moving in Old Street — one local team, one number, and the same people you already let into your home.

Regular cleaning across London

Rates, the every-visit list and the rotation explained once, with all 33 boroughs and the areas inside them.

About the area

Old Street in context

The roundabout, tech offices and warehouse conversions on the City fringe. Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground anchors the area and Old Street (Northern, Great Northern) sets the commute, which in turn sets the cleaning slots people ask for: mid-morning once the trains have gone, or late afternoon before anyone is back.

Warehouse and office conversions, new towers with concierge, and Peabody-era estate blocks. Across Islington the ONS Census 2021 records 96,496 households, 83.6% of the dwelling stock as flats against 16.3% houses, and a median age of 33. 36.1% of those households are one person and 31.2% rent privately against a 30% London average — the mix that decides whether a home here wants weekly upkeep or a longer fortnightly visit.

36.1% of households in Islington are one person, and a flat used mainly in the evenings does not build up fast. Fortnightly with a slightly longer visit is the usual answer here. Access shapes the rest: Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards. London Borough of Islington permits are ours to arrange and pay for, and because a regular cleaner returns to the same street every week, that arrangement is made once rather than every visit.

Where Old Street sits in our coverage

Old Street is one of the neighbourhoods on our regular domestic cleaning in Islington page, which sits under regular domestic cleaning across London. Same-week crews working this postcode also cover regular domestic cleaning in Clerkenwell (0.4 miles), regular domestic cleaning in Barbican (0.6 miles), regular domestic cleaning in Angel (0.8 miles), regular domestic cleaning in Hoxton (0.8 miles) and regular domestic cleaning in Shoreditch (1.8 miles). If your address sits on the boundary, book the closest page — the price and the crew are the same.

Postcode districts
EC1V, EC1
Nearest station
Old Street (Northern, Great Northern)
Housing stock
Warehouse and office conversions, new towers with concierge, and Peabody-era estate blocks.
Landmark
Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground
Access, parking and permits
Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards.
Most-booked frequency
fortnightly
Charging zones
ULEZ and Congestion Charge

Area at a glance

Old Street EC1V 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 Old Street & St Luke's neighbourhood itself — not Islington-wide averages, and not estimates.

10,675

Residents

Old Street & St Luke's neighbourhood, Census 2021

4,949

Households

Median age 31.5

Flats vs houses

Flats 98.3%Houses 1.6%

Residents by sex

Male48.3%
Female51.7%

Single-person households

38.9%

Privately rented

28.3%

Median age
31.5
Owner-occupied
19.2%
Social rented
52.2%
Postcode districts
EC1V, EC1
Nearest station
Old Street
Parking
CPZ + C-Charge + ULEZ

Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Old Street & St Luke's (E02000576) — the published geography that covers Old Street, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the EC1V district: 51.5268, -0.0978 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).

Questions

Old Street EC1V regular cleaning questions, answered

From £22 an hour weekly, £24 fortnightly and £26 monthly, with a 2-hour minimum visit. A typical Old Street two-bedroom takes three hours weekly, so about £66 a visit. Products, equipment, insurance, London Borough of Islington parking and ULEZ are all inside that rate — there is nothing added afterwards.

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.

Start a regular clean in Old Street EC1V

One named cleaner, a slot that holds, products and equipment included, and no contract — change or skip any visit with 24 hours' notice. Call 020 3633 4555 or book your slot online.

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