VerulamCleaning Co.
A Verulam cleaner wiping the marble mantelpiece in the front room of a Victorian house in St Albans

House cleaners in St Albans · family-run since 2011

Come home to a house that’s been properly cleaned.

Weekly and fortnightly cleans with the same uniformed team every visit, plus end-of-tenancy and oven cleans that get deposits back. Plant-based products, our own vans, fully insured.

Instant price & booking

Your price, now. Not after a call-back.

Tell us about the house and you’ll see exactly what you’ll pay. Pick a start date and we’ll confirm your team by text within the hour (Mon–Sat, 8am–6pm).

  • No contract. Pause or cancel with 48 hours’ notice.
  • We bring everything, including the steam cleaner.
  • Not happy with a room? We come back within 24 hours, free.
What do you need?
Bedrooms
3
Bathrooms
2
How often?
Which oven?
Add-ons
Postcode
Clarence Road area · we’re there Tuesdays & Thursdays
Fortnightly clean, 3 bed / 2 bath £79per visit About 3½ hours with a team of two. First visit is a deep clean at £139.
Pick your first visit

No card needed today. We take payment by card or bank transfer after each clean.

What we do

Three jobs, done the long way round.

Fresh white sheet being lifted over an iron bed in a Victorian bay-windowed bedroom
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Regular cleans

Weekly, fortnightly or every four weeks. The same two people every time, who learn that the stair rods need doing and the cat’s bowl doesn’t get moved. Beds changed, bathrooms descaled, floors done on hands and knees in the corners.

From £21.50 an hour · 3-bed fortnightly typically £79

Steam cleaning a black glass hob in an Edwardian kitchen
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End-of-tenancy cleans

Checked against the inventory clerk’s list that most St Albans agents use: skirting tops, inside every cupboard, limescale behind the taps, extractor filters, window tracks. If the check-out flags anything we’ve cleaned, we go back and redo it free within 72 hours.

2-bed flat £290 · 3-bed house £365, oven included

A professionally cleaned oven with clear door glass
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Oven cleans

Racks, trays and door glass come out and go into a heated dip tank in the van while we hand-clean the inside. No caustic fumes left in your kitchen; you can cook on it the same evening. About two hours for a single oven.

Single £75 · double £99 · range £135

Before & after

Last month, on Marlborough Road and in Fleetville.

Bathroom after an end-of-tenancy clean
Bathroom before: limescale, mould on the sealant and grubby grout
BeforeAfter
End of tenancy, 2-bed flat, Marlborough Road. Six hours, two of us. Deposit returned in full.
Oven after a deep clean
Oven before: baked-on grease on the glass and racks
BeforeAfter
Single oven, Sandpit Lane. “Hadn’t been done since we moved in.” Two hours, £75.
0households on a regular clean
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0people in green, two vans
Jo Hartley and her son Sam unloading the van on a St Albans street

Who turns up

Jo, Sam and twelve people we’d trust with our own keys.

Jo Hartley started cleaning houses on Fishpool Street in 2011 with a Henry hoover and a Corsa. Her son Sam joined after university and now runs the end-of-tenancy side. Everyone on the team is employed, not agency, paid the Real Living Wage, DBS-checked and trained by Jo for a month before they go out alone.

You’ll recognise us: bottle-green uniforms and the two green vans you’ve probably seen parked on Hatfield Road.

Jo & Sam Hartley

What we clean with

Steam, microfibre and plant-based refills.

Most of the work is done with dry steam and colour-coded cloths that go home to be washed at 60° after every house. Sprays are plant-based, fragrance-free on request, and refilled from 5-litre drums at our unit off Campfield Road, so we throw away about 400 fewer plastic bottles a year.

Cloths
Colour-coded: green for kitchens, red never leaves the bathroom.
Bleach
Only if you ask for it. Limescale comes off with steam and citric.
Pets & babies
Everything we use is safe once dry. Tell us and we’ll go fragrance-free.
Canvas caddy of refillable amber glass spray bottles on a tiled doorstep

Where we clean

St Albans and about eight miles around.

AL1 to AL4 most days. Harpenden, Wheathampstead, Hatfield, London Colney, Park Street, Bricket Wood and Radlett on set days, so the vans aren’t criss-crossing the county.

  • Mon Harpenden & Wheathampstead
  • Tue St Albans centre, Clarence Park
  • Wed Hatfield, Colney Heath, London Colney
  • Thu Fleetville, Marshalswick, Jersey Farm
  • Fri Park Street, Bricket Wood, Radlett

4.9 out of 5 · 312 Google reviews

What the neighbours say.

“Priya and Kasia have done our house on Clarence Road every other Thursday for three years. I’ve stopped tidying before they come, which tells you everything.”

Helen W., Clarence Road, AL1

“Got the whole deposit back on our flat off Victoria Street. The agent actually commented on the oven.”

Tom & Grace, end of tenancy

“Booked online at 10pm, had a text from Sam at 8 the next morning. They came on the Saturday.”

Martin O., Harpenden

Thursdays in Fleetville are filling up.

Three regular slots left this month. Price it now; it takes about thirty seconds.

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