Furzedown is the quiet grid of streets between Tooting Bec Common and Streatham, centred on Moyser Road, still SW17 and still Wandsworth. It has a different feel from the roads nearer the station. Fewer conversions, more whole houses, and a lot of families who have been in the same place for fifteen years.
Cottage terraces rather than tall Victorians
The housing round here is largely 1920s and 1930s cottage-style terraces, smaller in scale than the tall bay-fronted Victorians closer to Tooting Bec Road. Lower ceilings, narrower hallways, one main flight of stairs rather than two, and a kitchen at the back that was usually extended some time in the last twenty years. For us that means a house here takes less time per bedroom than the same bedroom count over towards the common, and the stairs line on a carpet quote is one flight, not two.
What Furzedown books us for
Regular work, mostly. Families in houses they own want someone every fortnight rather than a one off, so a cleaner every other week at £24 per cleaner per hour is the common booking, usually three hours. Carpets come next, and the carpet prices matter more here because these houses still have fitted carpet upstairs: £36 a bedroom, £41 for the flight of stairs. Move-out work is thinner on the ground, though when it comes it is generally a whole three bed house at £339 rather than a flat.
Parking that actually works
This is the easy bit of our patch. Away from the controlled streets nearer the station, most of Furzedown will take a van outside the house without a permit session or a two hour cap hanging over the job. That is worth something on a deep clean or a full day of carpets, because it means nobody is stopping at eleven to feed an app. We still check the signs on the day. Rules change street by street round here and the boundary is not where people assume.
The common end of the grid
The top of Furzedown runs up to Tooting Bec Common and the athletics track, and the houses on those roads get the same problem as the ones on our side: mud and leaf litter walked in off the grass, worst between October and February. Hall and stair carpet takes the brunt. School run times are the other thing we plan around here, since the roads narrow to one usable lane with cars on both sides at half eight and again at three, so a van booked for nine will often arrive at twenty past and we would rather tell you that than pretend.
Between two boroughs
Furzedown runs right up to the Streatham boundary, and the far side of that line is Lambeth rather than Wandsworth, with different parking rules and a different council. We work both sides. If you are on one of the streets where nobody is quite sure which side of the border they are on, it makes no difference to us or to what you pay.
Our round comes through here on the way to Streatham, and a house that has got away from you is better handled as a one off blitz by two cleaners than by stretching a regular visit. The rest of the area we work is set out on the page for Tooting Bec itself.
Questions we get asked
Do you do fortnightly cleaning in Furzedown?
Yes, it is our most common booking here. £24 per cleaner per hour, three hours being typical for a three bed house, so £72 a visit. Weekly works out cheaper per hour at £22.
Can the same cleaner do the ironing?
Yes, it goes into the booked hours rather than being charged separately. Tell us roughly how much there usually is so we book enough time, otherwise it eats the hour the bathroom needed.
How much to clean the carpets in a three bed house?
Three bedrooms at £36 each is £108, plus £41 for the flight of stairs and £43 for the living room, so £192 for the lot. A knocked-through through lounge is £61 instead of £43.
Is Furzedown in Wandsworth or Lambeth?
Wandsworth, on the SW17 side. The border with Lambeth runs along the Streatham edge, so a few streets at the top sit in the other borough, which changes the parking rules but nothing about the way we work.
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