Move-out cleaning
End of tenancy cleaning in Greenhithe and North Kent
End of tenancy cleaning is priced by property size, from £221 for a studio to £604 for a five bedroom house. You've got a date for the keys and a deposit you'd like back whole, so here's the number before anything else. It covers the property against a published checklist, including inside the oven, inside cupboards and full descaling. We clean the property, and we don't take rubbish, furniture or bulky waste away. Products are included and there's no call-out fee. If we miss something, tell us within 48 hours and we'll re-clean it free.
What is included in an end of tenancy clean?
The whole property, room by room, against a checklist you get before we start. Inside and outside every cupboard, inside the oven, all the limescale off taps, screens and tiles, then skirting, doors, frames, switches and sockets, with the floors last. It's cleaned empty, which is why the price is set by size. Cleaned empty means empty of your belongings. Furnished lets are fine, and the price doesn't change because the sofa and the bed belong to the landlord.
Kitchen
Oven cleaned inside, hob, extractor filter, splashback, sink and taps descaled, cupboards emptied and wiped inside and out, floor washed right to the edges.
Bathrooms
Shower screen, tiles and grout descaled, bath, basin and toilet cleaned inside and behind, extractor vent dusted, mirrors and chrome polished.
Bedrooms and living rooms
Wardrobes and drawers cleaned inside, shelves, skirting, picture rails, radiators and light fittings dusted, marks taken off paintwork where they'll lift.
Windows and glass
Inside glass, frames, sills and tracks, all inside the price. There's no inside-windows add-on on a move-out clean. Outside glass is done where it's safely reachable from the ground, and anything higher needs a window specialist.
Floors
Carpets vacuumed throughout, hard floors washed, edges and corners done by hand.
Everything else
Doors, frames, handles, switches, sockets, bannisters, bin cleaned and relined, cobwebs off ceilings and corners.
Not included as standard: machine cleaning of carpets, the fridge inside, the freezer inside, exterior windows above ground level, walls that need repainting, and anything that counts as damage. The first three are priced below. The last three want a different trade, and we'll tell you which one. We clean the property, and we don't take rubbish, furniture or bulky waste away, so the sofa nobody wants and the bags in the hall need collecting before we come.
How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost?
The price is set by the number of bedrooms, from £221 for a studio to £604 for a five bedroom house. Products and equipment are included, there's no call-out fee, and the price is the same in every town we cover. Where a property has been let go, it takes longer, and that is usually 15 to 25 per cent more. We tell you the number from your photos before we start, never afterwards. Once it's agreed it doesn't move unless you add something to the job.
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £221 |
| One bedroom | £261 |
| Two bedroom | £368 |
| Three bedroom | £447 |
| Four bedroom | £525 |
| Five bedroom | £604 |
Whole property, cleaned empty of personal belongings, oven and inside windows included. Furnished lets are fine. We clean the property and we do not take rubbish, furniture or bulky waste away. Products and equipment included. No call-out fee and no travel charge in any area we cover.
Add-ons, priced the same way
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Carpet cleaningMachine cleaned. Booked with the move-out clean there is no separate minimum visit to meet. | £45 a room |
| Fridge, cleaned inside | £15 |
| Freezer, cleaned inside | £15 |
| Upholstery left in the propertyTwo-seat sofa 45, three-seat 55, armchair 25, mattress 25. | from £25 per item |
A worked example
A two bedroom flat is £368. Say the inventory listed carpets in both bedrooms and the living room. Three rooms of carpet at £45 a room is £135, so the job is £503. Add the fridge inside at £15 and the freezer inside at £15 and you're at £533. That's the number on the invoice, and there's nothing else to add on the day.
Can my landlord charge me for cleaning when I move out?
Not in advance, and not by naming a cleaner. Under the Tenant Fees Act 2019 a landlord or agent cannot require you to pay for professional end of tenancy cleaning, and cannot require you to use a particular cleaner. What they can do is deduct from your deposit at the end if the property is returned dirtier than it was when you moved in, minus fair wear and tear.
So you don't have to book us. Here's why plenty of people still do.
Cleaning is still the most common cause of deposit deductions, and over half of deposit disputes involve cleaning. The argument is almost never about whether the tenant cleaned. It's about whether the standard matches the check-in inventory, and that's a judgement call made by someone who inspects properties for a living.
You can absolutely do it yourself, and if your inventory was light and the flat is small, you probably should. What you're buying from us is a checklist written against the way inventory clerks inspect, a whole day handed back to a moving week, and a named deadline for putting anything right. If that isn't worth £221 to £604 to you, keep your money.
There's more on the rules in our guide, can landlords charge for cleaning.
Do I need a professional clean to get my deposit back?
No. You need the property to match the condition recorded at check-in, allowing for fair wear and tear. A professional clean is one way to get there, and in a moving week it buys back the weekend, because the oven, the shower screen and the insides of the kitchen cupboards are where deductions come from.
Do you offer a deposit-back guarantee?
No, and be careful with anyone who does. Nobody cleaning your flat controls what an adjudicator decides about a scratched worktop or a missing curtain. What we can control is our own work, so that's what we guarantee. If we've missed something on the agreed checklist, tell us within 48 hours and we'll come back and re-clean it free.
How long does an end of tenancy clean take?
We plan most of a day for one cleaner on a studio or a one bedroom flat, most of a day for a three bedroom house, and a full day with more than one cleaner on a four or five bedroom house. Those hours are the whole explanation for the ladder. Your figure is set from your photos before we start, and once it's agreed it holds, so a day that runs long is ours to absorb. That's why the form asks what state the property is in.
Which service do I need?
If you're handing keys back, this page. If you're moving into a place someone else has left, a deep clean is the better buy. If the property has just had work done, builders dust needs a different method and a different machine. Here's the whole range side by side.
| Regular clean | Deep clean | End of tenancy | After builders | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | £84 to £194 a visit | Studio 135 to 5-bed 355 | Studio 155 to 5-bed 435 | Studio 150 to 5-bed 370 |
| Best for | Keeping a lived-in home in order | A home that has slipped, or one you are moving into | Moving out and getting the deposit back | The day building or refurbishment work finishes |
| Property occupied | Yes, lived in | Usually yes | No, cleaned empty | No, cleaned empty |
| Inside the oven | Add from £81 | Add from £81 | Included | Included |
| Inside cupboards and wardrobes | No | Yes, where they are empty | Yes, emptied and wiped through | Yes |
| Limescale on taps and screens | Kept down each visit | Descaled in full | Descaled in full | Descaled in full |
| Carpets | Vacuumed | Vacuumed | Vacuumed, machine clean £45 a room | Vacuumed, machine clean £45 a room |
| 48-hour re-clean guarantee | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
What does hard water do to a check-out inspection?
North Kent sits on chalk and the local water is hard. Hard water leaves limescale on taps, shower screens and inside kettles and ovens. On a check-out inspection that reads as a bathroom nobody properly cleaned, even when the tenant scrubbed it the day before. Clerks go straight to the clouded glass and the white ring round the base of the tap.
Scale doesn't come off with a spray and a cloth once a tenancy has built it up. It wants the right acid, real dwell time and a second pass, which is exactly the part people run out of patience for at eleven at night with a van booked for the morning. So descaling is a named line on our checklist with its own block of time. There's a moment near the end of it when the screen goes properly clear and the taps come back to chrome, and that's the bit we do this for. Chalkdown is named after that chalk, so it seemed fair to be good at it.
What does the 48-hour re-clean guarantee not cover?
Four things, and they live here beside the promise: pre-existing damage, permanent staining, mould, and areas we couldn't get to on the day. If a carpet was already burnt, a worktop already chipped or a wall already needs paint, a re-clean won't change the outcome, and we'll tell you that before you book.
Everything else on the agreed checklist is covered. Tell us within 48 hours and we'll come back and re-clean the affected areas free. That window is deliberately tight, because it's the one that matters for a check-out inspection. It runs on you telling us, and the re-clean itself is booked at the earliest time you can give us access.
You pay after the visit, once the work is done. If the move date shifts, tell us a clear day ahead and moving the slot costs you nothing. If we arrive and can't get in, we charge half the visit price, and you're hearing that now rather than on the day.
Before our first clean, public liability insurance will be in place and every cleaner will have a DBS check. As soon as those certificates exist they'll be published right here, and every written quote includes our insurance certificate and DBS details before you pay anything.
What else do people ask about moving out?
How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost?
Ours is a published ladder by property size: studio 155, one bed 185, two bed 240, three bed 305, four bed 370 and five bed 435. Cost guides put end of tenancy work in London and the South East at £150 to £490, so you can see where ours sits. You get your figure before we come.
Do you clean carpets as part of an end of tenancy clean?
Carpets are vacuumed as standard. A machine clean, which is what an inventory clerk means by carpets cleaned, is £45 a room. Booked with the move-out clean it goes in the same appointment with no separate minimum to meet, which is exactly why we sell it attached rather than as a call-out of its own.
Do I need to be there while you clean?
No. We plan for an empty property, which is the easiest way to do it. Leave us access and we'll work through it room by room. We clean the property, and we don't take rubbish, furniture or bulky waste away, so anything you're leaving behind wants to go before we arrive.
How far ahead should I book?
As soon as your move date is fixed, and earlier still if it falls at the end of a month. Put the check-out time on the form and we'll work backwards from it. If the removal van slips a day, tell us and we'll move the slot. Cleaning around your boxes helps nobody.
Can a landlord or agent book this instead of the tenant?
Yes. The price and the checklist are the same whoever books it. A landlord between tenancies may want the property ready to photograph as well as ready to live in, so put the viewing date on the form and we'll work back from that.
What if the agent still finds something after you have been?
Tell us within 48 hours and we'll come back and re-clean the affected areas free. Send us whatever the agent flagged. If it's on the agreed checklist it's ours to put right. If it's damage, permanent staining or mould, we'll say so plainly and we won't take your money for it.
End of tenancy cleaning in your town
Same ladder, same checklist, same guarantee wherever you're moving from. We've written up the local detail for end of tenancy cleaning in Swanscombe, end of tenancy cleaning in Dartford and end of tenancy cleaning in Gravesend. We also cover Greenhithe, Stone, Ebbsfleet and Northfleet.
Moving in this week? A one-off deep clean is the right buy. Want the carpets machine cleaned at the same visit? That's carpet and upholstery cleaning. A landlord with a property between tenants and a viewing booked can add oven cleaning to a regular visit instead.
Booking for a landlord, or instructing us on more than one property? Letting agents and landlords have their own page and ladder, on their own published ladder and invoiced on fourteen day terms.
Get a price for your move
Tell us the property size, the postcode and the date the keys go back, and we'll come back with your price. We answer every single enquiry. Send the form below, or call 07727 439446 if you prefer.