Holborn / The used rooms deserve the first share of attention
Make a weekday base easier to keep on top of.
A spare room may stay untouched while a compact cooking area is used daily. Tell us which spaces are active, which can wait, and what the first visit needs to establish before regular maintenance begins.
Kitchen · Bathroom
Living areas · Bedrooms
The included spaces
These room examples help you explain the intended work. Agree the actual rooms and available time directly with the team rather than relying on a tab selection as confirmation.
Kitchen
Kitchen tasks can include the accessible sink and worktops, splashbacks, exterior cupboard faces and agreed appliance outsides. Confirm specific areas instead of assuming all contents and interiors are included.
Clear the worktop first. An oven requiring internal attention belongs in a separate service discussion.
Bathroom
For bathroom care, name the shower, mirrors, taps, sanitaryware and reachable tiles included. A room containing different materials should not receive one indiscriminate treatment.
Describe known damage and provide any relevant surface guidance, particularly for sensitive finishes.
Living areas
Living areas need clear furniture surfaces and a usable floor route. The domestic scope combines dusting with vacuuming and compatible floor maintenance through the included area.
Personal collections should be prepared by the household, not rearranged to create access on arrival.
Bedrooms
Bedroom care can cover accessible furniture surfaces and the floors in named rooms. The scope is household maintenance rather than a reorganisation of sleeping spaces.
Put medication out of the work area and make excluded bedrooms clear before arrival.
Holborn / a household scenario
Make a weekday base easier to keep on top of.
Room count alone can hide the useful priorities. A flat with a seldom-used bedroom may still have a kitchen that needs careful recurring attention. Explain use as well as layout.
A Holborn booking should identify the accessible kitchen worktop, sink and agreed exterior surfaces. Oven internals are a separate request, even when the kitchen leads the visit.
Keep the spare-room decision explicit. Excluding it this time is clearer than allowing it to take time from tasks you consider essential.
After the first clean, consider what accumulated between visits. That observation can guide a weekly or fortnightly discussion more reliably than assuming the same interval suits every flat.
A ready home includes ready access
Discuss the full key arrangement, from collection to return, without publishing private access details.
Verify the entrance procedure if a concierge or building contact is expected to help.
Agree any alarm steps directly with the team, including what happens on leaving.
Specify the pet’s location and any restrictions on doors or room access.
Give the home-office availability clearly so the proposed order can be discussed.
Explain known limits on parking, unloading or reaching the entrance.
Name excluded rooms and personal items explicitly rather than expecting them to be recognised.
The cleaner needs a feasible brief, not simply a long one. Prepare the agreed areas and clarify supplies, entry and any work that sits outside ordinary domestic cleaning.
Separate work, separate planning
Keep high access, heavy movement and restoration outside the assumed domestic scope. These service links help distinguish additional requirements from ordinary room maintenance.
Routine vacuuming does not provide the extraction process a carpet may separately need.
Oven interior work has its own scope even when exterior appliance surfaces are on the list.
Mould concerns require assessment rather than being treated as ordinary household dirt.
Glazing outside the property needs a separate service and suitable access discussion.
After-building residue should be described for a specific clean, not hidden in a maintenance request.
For an intensive starting task, discuss a one-off scope independently from the recurring room list.
Guide prices and booking details
Starting figures are taken from the current domestic service, not calculated by the planner. Confirm minimum duration, supplies and task scope with the team for your address.
| Service | Price | Main factors |
|---|---|---|
| Regular domestic cleaning | From £20/hour | Booking minimum, recurring interval and property/supply/access factors |
| First / one-off domestic visit | From £90 | Initial condition and rooms, matched to the time and priorities agreed |
| Specialist / intensive scope | Quoted separately | Separate intensive work, specialist equipment or high-access tasks |
Visit length is not fixed by the page. Property size and state, frequency, equipment, access and parking inform the quote, as do any additional requirements outside ordinary maintenance.
Before we arrange the visit
Discuss its actual use instead of including it automatically. A room that has remained unused can be considered differently from a busy kitchen, with the final room list and any exclusions agreed for the booking.
No interior or storage task is implied by making the kitchen a priority. Identify the accessible surfaces and exterior fronts you want discussed, and keep additional work distinct from the routine maintenance brief.
It is the regular starting rate. The confirmed arrangement also needs minimum visit, frequency, supplies and property/access details, so it should not be multiplied into an assumed total without discussing the scope.
No. A rarely used room and a busy kitchen can have very different needs. Discuss occupation, condition and available time when considering weekly or fortnightly appointments.
Yes, but communicate the change early when possible. Keep essential maintenance visible and ask whether the revised work calls for more time or a different service rather than silently expanding the brief.
The figure is a starting point for first or one-off domestic visits. It does not define a fixed duration or promise that all accumulated work fits; the initial condition and agreed priorities are considered.
Yes. Existing wear helps distinguish care from repair, and available material instructions help inform the method. Confirm products and equipment rather than assuming every surface can be treated identically.
Yes, make the exclusion explicit while planning. If the room will become available later, discuss that handover without assuming the cleaner can wait or extend the visit.
Only through a specific separate agreement. Those tasks differ from exterior kitchen wiping and ordinary vacuuming, with their own process and requirements.
Contact Alesta with the postcode, rooms, preferred interval and arrival arrangements. The planning controls here help organise an enquiry but do not reserve a cleaner or confirm a slot.
Shape an enquiry, not a reservation
Choose the household options that best describe the proposed visit. This planner helps organise the conversation; it neither calculates your final price nor books a cleaner.
What returns, what rotates
Start with the household surfaces and floors that need repeated care. Occasional detail work is a separate decision, even when it sits in the same room as a recurring task.
Name the detail and its location when discussing the visit. That makes its scope clearer than adding a general instruction to be thorough everywhere.
Choose the gap deliberately
Some rooms are used constantly and others only occasionally. Tell the team about that difference when considering weekly or fortnightly care, with availability and duration still to be agreed.
| Planning point | Weekly | Fortnightly |
|---|---|---|
| Best suited for | Regular activity across the main household rooms | A home whose needs can be discussed over a longer gap |
| Core focus | Repeat the confirmed maintenance priorities | Reassess priorities against the tasks waiting |
| Priority planning | Keep the weekly list within its agreed time | Balance the longer interval with realistic priorities |
| Visit scope | Confirm scope before the visit | Confirm scope before the visit |
The first visit should reflect the condition actually found in the home. If maintenance has lapsed, discuss the starting priorities and possible extra time before settling into a recurring list.
Afterwards, a consistent core helps explain what each appointment is for. An expanded list or a busier household requires communication rather than silently changing the original agreement.
A brief for a lived-in home
Household circumstances affect how a visit can be organised. They do not replace a conversation about the current condition and realistic amount of work.
If nobody will be home during working hours, confirm how entry and departure will happen. Highlight the areas that carry the household routine when you return.
For families, a prepared room is more useful than a very broad request. Keep the core cleaning areas accessible and the personal sorting with the household.
Tell us where pets will be settled and any spaces to avoid. Their presence may affect the order, so raise it while arranging the visit.
An active desk needs a clear boundary and available window. Explain whether the surrounding room is also occupied rather than leaving the cleaner to infer it.
Rental households should identify the decision-maker for ordinary maintenance. A future departure or inspection needs its own service discussion.
Where a third party manages the home, keep the instructions current and consistent. The person arranging access should know which room priorities have been agreed.
Methods follow materials
Do not rely on one product being suitable throughout the property. Tell the team about finishes, available instructions and damaged areas so routine care has a clear boundary.
A stone surface should come with whatever care information you already have.
Describe whether you know the wood finish; do not assume all timber tolerates the same treatment.
Delicate lacquer needs to be identified, especially where furniture appears similar to other finishes.
Specify the exterior steel surface included rather than requesting an undefined appliance clean.
Existing paint damage is important information; ordinary upkeep cannot restore a coating.
Before you choose a visit
Choose what should lead
Use the arrows to arrange the example tasks. This does not modify a booking or add time; the agreed core work still needs a realistic place in the visit.
A practical sequence
Explain what needs attention, who will be home and which areas can be reached.
Agree the frequency discussion and the core task order rather than presenting an unlimited checklist.
Make access, supplied equipment and sensitive surfaces part of the same booking conversation.
The included rooms receive maintenance suited to their surfaces and agreed priorities.
Check the result against the brief, noting work needing another service or a different amount of time.
The starting condition described honestly.
A planned sequence through accessible rooms.
An agreed reference for ongoing care.
The photographs are illustrative scenes, not documentation of a completed customer job.
Holborn / enquiry area
When asking about Holborn, include the postcode together with room use and access details. A suitable scope and schedule are discussed directly rather than assumed from a location page.
For the wider service scope, see Domestic Cleaning, or ask the team about your address.
The area map
The map can help orient the access conversation; it does not confirm coverage or timing.
Open map in a new tabHolborn / the next conversation
Tell us about the rooms in your Holborn home, their condition and the routine you want to arrange. Plan the rooms I use: share your preferred frequency and access details directly with the team.
