How Much Does End of Tenancy Cleaning Cost? An Honest Breakdown

End of tenancy cleaning is priced differently from an ordinary clean, and the number tends to catch people out. A regular tidy is sold by the hour. A checkout clean is measured against a standard: the property has to go back looking the way the inventory report said it looked on the day you moved in. The price follows that standard more closely than it follows the floor area.

What decides the cost

A full-property checkout clean is usually quoted by the number of bedrooms, because bedrooms are a rough stand-in for how much there is to do. A one-bed flat and a four-bed house are different afternoons. On top of size sits condition: a home kept clean throughout needs far less than one that has had a hard couple of years, and a place where pets have lived almost always needs the carpets done. Two identical flats on the same landing can carry very different quotes.

The two line items that decide your deposit

Here is the part worth knowing before you spend anything. When a deposit dispute reaches an adjudicator it is settled on photographs, and the same two items turn up in almost every case: the inside of the oven and the state of the carpets. A deduction for either routinely comes to more than it would have cost to clean them properly in the first place. Our founder spent years working alongside letting agencies, so this comes from watching clerks check the same two things, week after week, rather than from a checklist.

That is the reason we published a separate guide to what agents actually check at a checkout, because knowing it in advance is worth real money to a tenant.

What we charge

We clean the two items that decide deposits, plus the kitchen around the oven if you need it, and we put the prices in writing.

• Changeover Bundle: £150 for a single oven plus carpets in up to two rooms, one visit and one invoice
• The same work booked separately: £170, so the bundle saves you £20
• Extra carpet rooms: £25 each beyond the first two, and a double oven adds £20
• A full kitchen deep clean for checkout: cupboards inside, on top and underneath, the fridge stripped, the washing machine reveal cleaned
• A whole changeover with the kitchen included: usually £200 to £300, fixed before we start
• A free agent re-clean guarantee: if the landlord or agent is not happy, we come back at no charge

We are specialists. We do the oven, the carpets and the kitchen around them, the jobs a normal clean cannot rescue and an adjudicator actually rules on. We do not try to scrub every window and skirting board in the flat, so if you need the whole property done top to bottom, a general end of tenancy company is the right call. You can still hand us the two jobs they tend to do worst.

If you have kept on top of the place, cleaned as you went and never let the oven get away from you, you might not need a professional at all, and we will happily say so. The trouble is that ovens and carpets rarely stay on top of. Grease bakes on invisibly across a tenancy and traffic lanes appear without anyone noticing, and both show up brutally in a checkout photograph under an agent's lighting.

Send us the property size and the checkout date and we will fix a price before any work is booked. Most changeovers are done in one visit and the carpets are dry the same day, so even a tight gap between tenants usually works.