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The Addiscombe check-out, room by room
Four in ten households in Addiscombe West rent from a private landlord, and most of them live in one of two kinds of home: a flat in a split Victorian house on the old East India Estate, or a flat in a purpose-built block. For either, our end of tenancy clean has a fixed price set by bedrooms, from £156 for a studio to £425 for a four-bedroom house.
Last updated October 2026.
40.2%of Addiscombe West households rented privately at the 2021 census281 mg/laverage hardness of the local Thames Water supply in 202525 Sept 2026selective licensing began in Addiscombe East and West£156studio clean, fixed price
The clerk who does your check-out walks the flat with the check-in inventory in hand and compares each room against it. Here is that walk in the order most of them take it, with the parts of an Addiscombe home that slow them down.
It starts at the front door and hall. In a converted villa the inventory starts at your own flat door. The shared stairs and the street door belong to the freeholder, so the clerk will not mark you down for them. Inside, the hall is where scuffs show first: skirting, door frames, light switches and the top edge of the door. We wash all of them.
Next comes the front room. Many of the estate houses have tall bay windows and timber sliding sashes. The clerk looks at the sills, the glass from the inside and the runners where grit collects, then along the picture rail and the high skirting. A basement or lower ground floor flat has a lightwell window as well, and dust and leaves blow into it.
The kitchen is where most cleaning deductions come from. Cupboards are opened, the hob and extractor are checked for grease, the fridge for mould on the door seal, and the oven last of all. In a block flat the appliances are often built in behind cabinet doors, so we pull out the kick plates and clean the gaps.
In the bathroom, the clerk is looking for scale. Croydon’s tap water is hard, and the scale it leaves on a shower screen or round a tap base gets written up as dirt. Descaling is part of the price.
The bedrooms are last: inside the wardrobes, the top shelf, behind the door, the radiator and the carpet edges. If the inventory says the carpets were professionally cleaned at the start, the clerk will expect the same at the end.
Prices by property size
The price is fixed by the number of bedrooms, whatever the age of the building.
Property
Price
Studio
£156
One-bedroom flat
£207
Two-bedroom flat or house
£243
Three-bedroom house
£339
Four-bedroom house
£425
Five bedrooms or more
quoted from the room count
Your room in a shared house, or part of a home
£30 per cleaner per hour
The oven is an add-on, never part of the fixed price: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. There is more on it as a separate job on our oven cleaning page.
A job our cleaners finished in Croydon.
Carpets cleaned on the same visit cost £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. That is cheaper than our standalone carpet cleaning. Check the tenancy agreement for a carpet clause before you add it.
For scale: the ONS put the average private rent in Croydon at £1,582 a month in August 2026, £1,437 for a flat and £1,797 for a terraced house. With a deposit capped at five weeks’ rent, a tenant in an average Croydon terrace has about £2,070 riding on the check-out report.
The East India Estate and the streets around it
From 1809 to 1861 the East India Company trained its army officers at a military seminary in Addiscombe. When it closed, the 88 acres were sold to the British Land Company, which split them into plots for builders.
Elgin Road was the first new road, laid out in 1862, and more than 118 lots on Canning Road and Clyde Road went to auction soon after. Havelock Road and Outram Road complete the grid, and Ashburton Road was an older lane on the estate edge. Croydon Council made the grid a conservation area in 2008.
The council’s appraisal describes the most common house there as a three-storey semi-detached pair with a lower ground floor, in yellow London stock brick, with double-height bay windows and timber sashes.
The college gymnasium of 1851 still stands on Havelock Road, converted into flats, and the appraisal names conversion into multiple occupancy as one of the pressures on the area. For the cleaner that means plenty of top-floor flats with sloping ceilings, ground-floor flats with a bay, and lower ground floor flats with a lightwell.
The rest of Addiscombe is a mix. The census counted 36.4% of homes in Addiscombe West as flats in purpose-built blocks and 31.5% as terraced houses, with another 12.9% in converted or shared houses. Addiscombe East, towards Shirley, has more semis and fewer renters: about a quarter of households rented privately in 2021. Along Cherry Orchard Road, near East Croydon, a row of railway workers’ cottages still carries the date 1838.
Most deductions start in the kitchen, and the oven is the last thing the clerk opens.
Our cleaners' work in Croydon.
Water, trams and getting the van in
CR0 6 is in Thames Water’s Croydon West Lower supply zone. The company’s 2025 report gives an average hardness of 281 mg/l there, with a peak of 295, which is hard water. You see it as a white crust on shower heads, kettle bases and the chrome round the bath, and it comes off with time and descaler; a quick wipe does not shift it.
Addiscombe has four tram stops: Lebanon Road, Sandilands, Addiscombe and Blackhorse Lane. The old railway line that once ran here closed in 1997, and part of its trackbed is now Addiscombe Railway Park, running towards Woodside. Fast trains from East Croydon are the other reason people rent here.
Our team comes by van with all the equipment. If your street has permit bays or pay-and-display only, tell us when you book; any parking we have to pay for is added at what it costs us and shown on the quote.
Croydon licensing in Addiscombe from September 2026
On 25 September 2026 Croydon Council started two new landlord licensing schemes. Selective licensing covers privately rented homes in 14 wards, and Addiscombe East and Addiscombe West are both on the list, as are Woodside and South Norwood. It applies to a home let to one household or to two people sharing.
The second scheme, additional HMO licensing, covers the whole borough and catches shared houses with three or four people from two or more households. Larger shared houses of five or more already needed a mandatory licence.
The licence is the landlord’s job, and it does not change what your clean is judged against: the check-in inventory, with fair wear and tear allowed. What it does change is how often a council officer may see the property, so landlords here are paying more attention to its condition. The council lists both schemes on its licensing page.
Every clean follows our 57-point checklist, carried out by cleaners who are vetted at an in-person interview, insured and trained on that list. We have worked across London since 2014, more than 300 letting agents use us, and tenants have recovered £1.2m in deposits with our cleans behind them.
If the agent or clerk raises something within 48 hours, we go back and redo it at no charge. Our Google rating is 4.7. For the wider borough, see our Croydon page, or ring 0333 555 2076, 8am to 7pm, seven days a week.
From one of our jobs in Croydon.
Addiscombe end of tenancy FAQs
I rent a lower ground floor flat on Canning Road. How much is the clean?
It depends only on the bedrooms: £207 for a one-bed, £243 for a two-bed. The lightwell window and the bay are cleaned from the inside as part of it.
Do you clean the shared stairs in a converted house?
No. The communal hall and stairs are the freeholder’s to keep clean, and they are not on your inventory. We clean everything from your own front door inwards.
My landlord has just applied for a Croydon selective licence. Does that change what I have to do?
No. The licence is the landlord’s duty. You hand the home back in the condition the check-in inventory recorded, less fair wear and tear.
Three of us share a house near Lebanon Road and leave on different days. What should we book?
The first to go can book their own room and a share of the kitchen and bathroom at £30 per cleaner per hour. The last one out books the whole house at the fixed price.
Is limescale on the shower screen worth worrying about?
Yes. Clerks treat scale as dirt, and the water here is hard. Descaling the screen, taps, shower head and tiles is in every clean.
A price in about three minutes.
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