End of tenancy cleaning in Alexandra Palace, same week if you need it

The hill changes the clean

The transmitter mast on top of Alexandra Palace is the oldest television aerial in the world, and it sits 213 feet up on the windiest point for miles. That hill is why end of tenancy cleaning around here is not the same job it is down in the flats off the main road. Wind drives fine grit through any sash window that ever gets opened, so reveals and runners that look clean to you photograph grey under a clerk’s flash. We clean to the inventory standard your Haringey letting agent actually checks against, and we have done it across the N22 postcode since 2014.

End of tenancy cleaning in Alexandra Palace starts at £156 for a studio and most N22 two-bed flats land between £243 and £245, fixed price, with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee on every job.

The rest of this page is the detail: what your deposit is up against in N22, the three kinds of home you find around the park, what the 1 May 2026 rules change, how we get a team up the hill on a moving day, and a long list of what the clerk will actually open and check. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] when you want a number.

Last updated May 2026. Coverage: N22, plus the N8 and N10 edges that pull toward the park. Parent borough hub: end of tenancy cleaning Haringey.

What an N22 check-out costs you

Haringey is not cheap to rent. The ONS local housing dashboard put the average private rent in the borough at £2,202 a calendar month at the end of 2025, a 4.7% rise on the year that ran ahead of London as a whole, with the average house price around £613,000. In the N22 7 sector by the park, family houses on the better streets cross £700,000, and a two-bed flat will hold five or six weeks of rent, £2,500 to £3,300, in a deposit scheme until the check-out is signed off.

That deposit sits with one of three protection schemes: TDS, DPS or mydeposits. Whichever holds it, the inventory clerk’s report is the one document that decides how much comes back. Cleaning is the most common deduction on every dispute summary I have read. The reason in N22 never changes. The housing is old, the detail is dense, and the agents here are unusually good at spotting what a tenant walked past.

It is worth saying plainly what good cleaning is worth. We have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions, we pass first-time check-out on 97% of jobs, and we are on the books of 300+ letting agents across north London. None of that is a slogan. It is the difference between a full deposit and a £400 hole in your moving budget.

The maths of it surprises people. A clean that costs you £243 protects a deposit of three grand, and the deduction it heads off is usually two to three times the price of the clean itself. I have watched tenants spend two evenings scrubbing, hand the keys back proud of the effort, and still lose £350 on an oven and a set of window runners a clerk found in ten minutes. The work was honest. It was the wrong work, in the wrong order, measured against a standard they had never seen. That gap, between a tenant’s idea of clean and an inventory clerk’s, is the whole reason this trade exists in N22.

Three kinds of home around the park

Walk the streets below the park and the rental stock sorts into three layers, and each one fails a check-out differently.

First, the late-Victorian and Edwardian terraces and semis that run down the hill toward Wood Green. Picture rails, dado rails, deep cornicing, tiled front paths, bay windows, the odd cast-iron fireplace that nobody lights but every inventory lists as ornamental. These houses carry more horizontal dust ledges than a modern flat has in total, and a clerk checks every one of them with a phone torch. Second, the heavier Arts and Crafts and 1920s stock on streets like Princes Avenue, with stained-glass panels, quarry tiles and leaded lights that take real time to clean without streaking.

Third, and newest, the managed blocks. Alexandra Gate, the large Berkeley scheme by the park, brings well over 1,800 flats with full-height glazing, engineered timber floors and a concierge, and the Clarendon regeneration next to the gardens is adding more than 1,700 homes on top of that. These need a different clean again. No cornicing to dust, but acres of glass, hard floors that water-flood mopping will ruin, and communal corridors where the mat outside your own front door counts as your wear.

The conversion flats sit across all of it. A big Edwardian house off the hill might be two or three flats now, and the one you are leaving could be the top two floors with a private balcony, sloping ceilings and a kitchen squeezed under the eaves. Those eaves are a check-out trap, because the high sloped sections gather cobwebs and the low cupboards never get opened. Landlord-owned furniture is more common in the conversions too, and an inventory will list the inside and the top of every wardrobe and chest the landlord supplied, which a tenant almost never thinks to clean.

A generic wipe-down clears none of these to standard. The terrace wants patience on the ledges; the conversion wants care on original glass and timber; the new block wants the right floor product and a booked loading bay. One checklist, three jobs.

The terrace wants patience on the ledges; the conversion wants care on original glass and timber; the new block wants the right floor product and a booked loading bay.

What the 1 May 2026 rules change

From 1 May 2026 the rules around your tenancy change for good.

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 is in force from that date, and it ends the old “professional clean clause” for any tenancy that carries on past it. Your landlord cannot make you use a named cleaning firm and cannot deduct for anything beyond returning the flat to its documented move-in condition, fair wear and tear allowed. What a landlord can still do, and around the park certainly will, is set your check-out photographs against the move-in set and charge back any difference a camera can see. The Shelter guidance on deposit returns is blunt about it: the landlord has to evidence a deduction, but the evidence is the inventory report, and a well-photographed report is very hard to argue with unless you already have a professional clean on record.

Licensing tightens the screw further. Haringey runs Additional HMO Licensing borough-wide under a scheme that runs to 2029, so any house shared by three or more unrelated people needs a licence, rather than only the larger ones caught by the mandatory rules. A licensed landlord has to show proper management standards at the end of a let, and a documented professional clean is part of that paper trail. Because a deposit dispute can surface problems that touch a licence renewal, licensed landlords near the park inspect harder, not softer, on the last day.

Check-in inventory

The photographed record of the flat’s condition and cleanliness on the day you moved in. Every check-out is judged against it, so the cleaner the move-in baseline, the easier the exit.

Check-out report

The clerk’s walk-through at the end of the tenancy, comparing each room to the check-in set and pricing any change. The “cleaning” line is the one tenants lose money on most.

Deposit protection scheme

The ring-fenced account, run by TDS, DPS or mydeposits, that holds your deposit. Disputes are decided by the scheme on the documented evidence, not on who shouts loudest.

Fair wear and tear

The reasonable ageing a landlord cannot charge you for: a faded carpet, a scuffed skirting from normal use. Dirt is not wear and tear, which is why cleaning sits outside the protection.

Ornamental fixture

A feature listed on the inventory as decorative, such as a sealed cast-iron fireplace. You still have to clean it to the photographed standard even though you never used it.

Getting a team up the hill

Most cleaning firms never mention how they actually reach you. Up here it is worth a paragraph, because the geography genuinely shapes the day.

The park sits between Wood Green and Muswell Hill, and the W3 bus is the line that matters. It runs from Northumberland Park through Wood Green, climbs to the Palace itself, then drops down through Hornsey to Finsbury Park, so a team carrying kit can get to a hill-top job without a van if parking is hopeless. Alexandra Palace railway station, on the east side of the park, runs Great Northern trains to Moorgate by way of Finsbury Park, and the nearest Underground is Wood Green on the Piccadilly line. When a client is paying and a permit is needed, we sort the code in advance; when a job is a short walk from the bus stop, we tell you straight rather than padding the quote with travel.

Parking is the real grumble. The streets around the park sit under controlled-parking hours for most of the working day, and on event days at the Palace the whole hill clogs, so we will not promise a van on the doorstep when there is a concert on. If you are in the older terraces, a single bay outside is usually fine off-peak. If you are in a managed block like Alexandra Gate, the access is different again: we book a contractor slot through the concierge or the on-site office, take the goods lift, and use the loading bay window the building gives us. Sorting that before the day saves an hour of standing about, and an hour on a moving day is not nothing.

Event days are worth planning around in their own right. The Palace runs concerts, the ice rink, the fireworks each November and a steady run of fairs, and on a big night the roads up the hill back up from early afternoon. If your check-out lands on one of those dates, tell us when you book and we will start earlier, drop the team and kit first, and sort the van separately. It is the kind of local quirk an out-of-area firm gets wrong, then turns up late and rushes your clean to catch the next job. We would rather know in advance and give your flat the hours it needs.

The 57-point clean, room by room

Every Alexandra Palace job runs against our 57-point checklist, written to the same inventory standard used by Hobarts, Wilkinson Byrne, Philip Alexander and the other clerks working N22. Here is what a team actually does.

The order matters as much as the list. We start at the top of each room and work down, because cleaning a floor before you dust the cornicing just means doing the floor twice. In the period terraces that means ledges, rails and frames first, then the fittings, then the floor last. The kitchen and bathroom get the longest because that is where the deductions live. A tenant who knows the order can do a fair share themselves; what they usually miss is the hidden detail, the things you only check because you have read a hundred inventory reports.

In the kitchen

• Oven interior, the racks and trays, and the inner door glass between the panes where the door comes apart
• Hob and extractor hood degreased; a carbon filter gets replaced if one is fitted
• Fridge-freezer defrosted, shelves and seals wiped, and the floor underneath it
• Cupboards emptied, wiped inside and out, handles done
• Worktops, splashbacks and the grout between the tiles
• Sink, waste and overflow descaled; taps and mixer descaled at the base
• Washing machine drum, drawer, door seal and filter
• Dishwasher filter, spray arms and seal
• Skirting, kickboards, and behind the freestanding appliances nobody moves
• Floor mopped, edges vacuumed, stained grout scrubbed
• Light fittings, switches and socket faces

Bathroom and shower room

• Shower screen, tiles, grout, head and handset fully descaled
• Bath, taps and overflow, and the panel underside where it lifts
• Toilet bowl, cistern, seat hinges, the base and behind the pan
• Basin, pedestal, taps and waste
• Mirrors, glass shelves and the extractor grille
• Grout bleached where it helps; stained silicone noted rather than hidden
• Floor, including behind the toilet and under the radiator pipes
• Towel rail, light fittings, and the ceiling checked for the black spotting that comes off N22 condensation

Bedrooms and living rooms

• Picture rails, dado rails and cornicing dusted down, which is most of the work in the period terraces
• Window runners, frames, internal reveals, and glass both sides where it opens
• Skirting, architraves, door frames and the tops of the doors
• Radiators front, back and underneath
• Fitted wardrobes cleared, shelves wiped, mirror backs done
• Ornamental fireplaces: grate, surround and hearth
• Pendant shades and the drops on any light fitting
• Carpets vacuumed to the edge; timber and engineered floors dry-mopped with the right product, never flooded
• Blinds slat by slat, plus rails and pelmets

Hall, stairs and the rest

• Internal doors front and back, handles and hinges
• Staircase spindles, stringers and the under-stair cupboard
• Hall floor, the mat area and the letterbox
• Cobwebs up at cornice and ceiling-rose height
• Loft hatch frame wiped, not entered unless we have agreed it

What it costs here

We price per property, not per hour, so the figure on the phone is the figure you pay. Every quote covers materials, travel within N22, carpet vacuuming, the oven interior and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee. No hidden extras. The number we say is the number on the invoice, which matters more than it should because plenty of firms quote low and then add for the oven, the carpets and the parking once the team is already on your doorstep.

The biggest Arts and Crafts houses on Princes Avenue and the restored family homes on the streets nearest the park carry a premium of roughly £20 to £40 on the base tier, because the original detail genuinely adds hours. A standard two-bed conversion off the main road sits at the base tier and stays there.

What the clerk writes down

The agent pool here is small. Most N22 tenancies run through six or seven firms and the report formats barely differ between them. These are the lines that come up again and again.

1. Oven glass, especially the hidden inner pane on a double oven. The single most common deduction we see in N22.
2. The extractor filter, grease you can feel, and carbon cartridges left unchanged.
3. Limescale at the base of the kitchen mixer and around the rim of the sink waste.
4. The washing machine drawer and door seal, where black mould in the rubber is an automatic note.
5. Shower silicone, pink or stained. Try cleaning first, because a re-silicone is charged on top.
6. Bathroom grout, worst along the gap by the bath overflow.
7. Toilet seat hinges and the floor directly behind the pan.
8. Window runners in the period terraces, where grit and old paint flakes gather in the channel.
9. Radiator backs. The torch comes out for these every time.
10. Skirting tops, door-frame tops, picture rails and cornicing, the ledges a hill-top flat has in abundance.
11. Inside the pendant shades and on top of the ceiling roses.
12. Original timber under rugs and furniture, scratched or dull.
13. Inside the fitted wardrobes, the top shelf and the back wall included.
14. Behind the fridge and freezer.
15. The bin cupboard inside, and the bin store at the front of a conversion.
16. The communal mat and corridor right outside a managed flat at Alexandra Gate, which the building counts as yours.

None of these are obscure. They are the same lines, in the same order, on report after report, which is exactly why a 57-point checklist beats good intentions. A clerk is not trying to catch you out so much as working through a form, and the form has a box for the oven glass and a box for the radiator backs whether or not you remembered them. The trick is to clean to the form, not to your own sense of tidy, and that is the difference between a clean that looks fine and a clean that passes.

We clean the reveals and original glass with microfibre and a low-foam detergent on purpose, because standard glass spray streaks on old panes and a streak photographs as dirt. Small thing. It is the sort of small thing the deposit turns on.

A streak photographs as dirt. It is the sort of small thing the deposit turns on.

End of tenancy against the other cleans

People mix these three up on the phone, so here is the difference set out plainly.

Booking a slot

Booking is quick. There is no survey and no form to fill in, just a phone call where we take the address, the bedroom count and the date, then give you a fixed price on the spot so you can decide there and then without waiting on an emailed estimate.

1. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with your Alexandra Palace address, the bedroom count and the check-out date.
2. We quote a fixed price on the call. No survey, no site visit, no surprise on the day.
3. We book a slot that lines up with your check-out, usually same week across N22.
4. The team turns up with everything. You supply nothing. An empty flat is best; if furniture is still in, we work around it.
5. We walk the flat at the end. If the agent flags anything inside 48 hours, we come back free.

Other jobs and streets nearby

One booking can cover more than the clean. Plenty of Alexandra Palace tenants bolt one of these onto the end of tenancy job because it saves a second appointment and a second day waiting in for a team:

• Oven deep cleaning, worth booking on its own if the rest of the flat is already sorted
• Carpet cleaning, close to essential on the period flats with carpeted stairs
• Upholstery cleaning for landlord sofas and mattresses
• Window cleaning for the external sashes and bays
• Removals, so the move and the clean run off one booking and one day off work
• Deep cleaning if you are staying on and the landlord has flagged standards mid-tenancy

We work the streets all round the park too. If you are just off our patch, try Wood Green down the hill, Muswell Hill over the N10 side, Crouch End and Hornsey toward N8, or Bounds Green on the Piccadilly line. For the whole borough picture, the Haringey borough hub lists the lot.

Questions people in N22 ask

How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost in Alexandra Palace?

A studio starts at £156, a one-bed from £207, a two-bed from £243, a three-bed from £339 and a four-bed from £425. Most N22 two-beds land between £243 and £245 depending on size and condition.

Do you cover the N22 7 postcode?

Yes. We cover all of N22 7 and N22 8, plus the N8 and N10 edges around Muswell Hill and Crouch End. Travel is included in the quoted price.

Can you clean before I have moved out?

We would rather have an empty flat, because we can get behind freestanding furniture, inside wardrobes and into cupboards. If the place is part furnished we work around it, but the inventory standard is harder to hit with things in the way.

What if my agent fails the check-out?

Call us within 48 hours with the inventory report. We come back free and re-clean anything specifically listed. The guarantee covers cleaning, not pre-existing damage.

Do you handle oven cleaning on its own?

Yes. Single oven £77, double £110, 90cm range £114, 110cm and over £115, AGA £130. Same 48-hour guarantee.

Will you clean original timber floors properly?

Yes. Edwardian parquet and pine boards need dry-mopping with a pH-neutral product, not a water flood that lifts the finish. Our teams carry the right kit for N22 stock.

Do you do carpets as well?

Yes, with a separate extraction machine. £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, £115 for a whole two-bed flat. Book it with the end of tenancy for a discount.

What about mattress cleaning?

£65 for a double, £77 single, £85 king. Handy for HMO landlords under Haringey’s additional licensing, where mattress hygiene is checked at inspection.

Are you insured?

Yes, full public liability insurance covers every job. Certificates are available on request.

Do I need to be there during the clean?

No. A lot of Alexandra Palace jobs are done with us holding a key and meeting the agent at the end. Give us the access details when you book.

Can you work with the Alexandra Gate concierge and other managed blocks?

Yes. We book contractor access through the concierge or on-site office ahead of time, and arrange the goods lift and loading bay slot before we arrive.

How quickly can you come?

Same-week is normal across N22 outside the summer peak. In July and August we suggest booking 7 to 10 days out.

What payment methods do you take?

Bank transfer, card over the phone, or cash on the day. We can invoice in advance if your letting agent is paying directly.

Do you clean HMOs licensed under Haringey’s additional scheme?

Yes, and we know the room-by-room standard a licensed HMO has to show at inspection. Useful for outgoing tenants and for landlord turnover cleans alike.

Can you help with a deposit dispute?

We provide a detailed job report on request, covering what was cleaned and where, with before-and-after photographs where they help. Tenants use these in scheme disputes with TDS, DPS and mydeposits.

What is the largest job you have done around the park?

A seven-bedroom Arts and Crafts house on Princes Avenue, two full days with a four-person team. Most jobs are one team in one day.

Book your Alexandra Palace clean

Moving out of an Alexandra Palace flat in the next month? Get a fixed price in under two minutes, with no survey and no obligation, from a team that has cleaned these hill-top flats and managed blocks for more than a decade and knows what the local clerks open first. Call 0333 555 2076, email [email protected], or use the form on the end of tenancy main page. Say “Alexandra Palace” on the phone. We will fit you into the N22 round.