Alexandra Park end of tenancy cleaning

End of tenancy cleaning in Alexandra Park, N22, done by a Haringey team that has been getting tenants through local check-outs since 2014. We work the residential side of the hill, the N22 7 and N10 2 streets that sit between Ally Pally, Bounds Green station and the Muswell Hill border. Fixed quotes start at £156. Every job runs off the 57-point agent-approved checklist and carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected].

Last updated May 2026. Covering N22 7, N22 8, N10 2 and the N8 edge around Priory Road. This is a neighbourhood page under our Haringey end of tenancy hub.

The N22/N10 line that runs through the park

If you rent here you already know the neighbourhood does not match its name on a map. Alexandra Park is the quiet residential shoulder below the palace, the streets that lean towards Muswell Hill rather than the Wood Green end, and the postcode flips from N22 7 to N10 2 somewhere around the top of Alexandra Park Road. That split matters at move-out, because the agent valuing your flat prices it as a Muswell Hill-adjacent home and inspects it to that standard.

The housing is nearly all Edwardian. These villas went up between 1896 and 1914 under the Edmondson and Collins builds that gave the whole hill its red-brick look, and most were carved into flats in the 1970s and 80s. So you are usually renting a conversion: stripped pine floors, original cornicing, a tiled hearth, sash windows set in deep reveals, a tiled path to the front door. Each of those holds dust and grease in a way a new-build never will, and each one ends up in the check-out photos.

This page is about that. Not the palace, the park itself, or the funfair history. The flat you are handing back.

What an Edwardian conversion hides from a clerk

An inventory clerk does not clean. The clerk looks. They walk the flat with the check-in report from the day you moved in, and they compare, room by room, against what they can see now. In a converted Edwardian flat that comparison is unkind, because the features people love about these places are exactly the ones that trap grime where you never look.

Take the cornicing and the ceiling roses. They run to the original 1900s mouldings on the better streets, and dust settles into the deep cuts and goes grey over a tenancy. Nobody dusts a ceiling rose during a normal week, so it reads on the report as neglect even when the rest of the room is spotless. A cast-iron fireplace surround does the same thing, holding soot and polish residue in the casting detail, and the tiled hearth in front of it shows every scuff.

Then there are the sash windows. The reveals are deep, the gap between the upper and lower sash collects a black line of London dirt, and the sills carry condensation staining that a tenant stops seeing after a month. Clerks check that gap on purpose. They know the building.

The floors are the other one. Stripped pine looks wonderful and hides grit in the gaps between the boards and along the skirting, and if a previous tenant ever waxed them the edges go dark near the hearth. We work these with the grain, lift what is in the gaps, and leave the timber dry rather than soaked, because water standing in an old pine joint is its own problem. On painted surfaces we use a pH-neutral degreaser, and we keep bleach and anything abrasive away from original timber and ceramic completely, since one careless wipe on a hundred-year-old skirting can cost more to put right than the whole clean.

An inventory clerk does not clean. The clerk looks.

The deposit maths on Alexandra Park Road

Here is the part that decides whether a clean is worth it. Asking rents on Alexandra Park Road have climbed to around £2,983 a calendar month on the Land Registry-linked figures from early 2026, with sale values near £977,000 on the main road and £580,000-plus on the Victorian terraces behind it. A standard five-week deposit on a two-bed conversion at £2,400 pcm works out near £2,770. That is the money on the table when the clerk arrives.

Against a deposit that size, the deductions are not trivial. A smoked oven, discoloured bathroom grouting and a grease film on the wall units together can run to £200 to £500 once an agent prices the remedial cleaning, and they will price it at a contractor rate, not what it would cost you. The deposit is your money sitting in a scheme. A cleaning deduction is the easiest one for an agent to justify and the easiest one for a tenant to lose by default, because most people do not dispute it.

Spending £243 to £255 to protect £2,770 is not a hard sum. Over the years we have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions, and almost none of that was clever argument. It was the flat being genuinely clean on the day, plus an itemised invoice the tenant could put in front of the agent.

What tends to go wrong is the timing rather than the cleaning itself. A tenant cleans hard over a weekend, the clerk comes Monday and flags four things, and there is no time and no energy left to fix them before the keys go back, so the agent proposes a deduction and the tenant accepts it to be done with the place. The clean was fine. The process beat them. Booking the job for the day before the check-out, not the day of the move, is the single thing that changes that outcome, and the new Act giving most people a clear two months makes it easy to plan.

Hard water, the N22 problem nobody warns you about

North London water is hard. Really hard. N22 sits in a chalk-fed supply zone, and limescale is the single biggest deduction trigger we see on check-out reports across this postcode, ahead of ovens and well ahead of carpets. It builds a chalky ring on the kitchen tap, a white crust on the shower head, a scaled line round the toilet, and a dull film across tiled splashbacks that a quick wipe does nothing to.

The Edwardian bathrooms make it worse. A lot of these flats still have the original tile layout, and old grouting yellows fast under hard water, so what looks like dirt is often scale and mineral staining bonded into the surface. You cannot spray and wipe that off. We use a proper descaler with dwell time, leave it to work on the taps, heads, toilet and tiles, then take it back, which is slower and the only thing that actually shifts it.

There is a knock-on most people miss. Scale furs up the inside of a kettle, a dishwasher and a washing-machine drum just as readily as it coats the taps, and where the landlord left white goods in the flat the clerk will open them. A scaled detergent drawer or a mouldy washing-machine seal reads as a dirty appliance on the report even though it is really just the water doing what hard water does. We descale and clean those out as part of the kitchen, not as an extra.

If a flat has been let to smokers at any point, the nicotine yellowing on ceiling roses and the tops of door frames is a separate job again, and a clerk will spot the difference between scale and tar straight away.

Which rules actually bind your flat

Three sets of rules touch a tenancy in this corner of Haringey, and tenants mix them up constantly. One is national and brand new, one is about shared houses, and one is about the look of the streets. Only some of them change what happens on your check-out, which is why a landlord quoting a licensing scheme at you as a reason for a deduction is often quoting a rule that has nothing to do with how clean the flat is when you leave it. So it is worth being plain about which is which.

Renters’ Rights Act 2025

Live from 1 May 2026 and the biggest change to renting here in thirty years. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 scraps Section 21 no-fault notices and makes periodic tenancies the default. For move-outs it means fewer rushed 48-hour exits and more tenants giving the statutory two months, so you get time to book a clean properly instead of a midnight blitz. It also means agents are tightening check-out protocols, because disputed deposits now sit inside the Private Rented Sector Database and an ombudsman scheme, and a named professional invoice with a 48-hour guarantee carries more weight than it ever did.

Selective licensing

Haringey runs a selective licensing scheme until 16 November 2027, but it does not reach here. It covers wards like Bounds Green, Noel Park, Harringay, Seven Sisters, St Ann’s and Tottenham, and the Alexandra ward is exempt. The full ward list is on the Haringey Council licensing page.

Additional HMO licensing

This one does apply. The borough-wide additional HMO scheme runs until 16 June 2029, so any flat shared by three or more unrelated people needs a licence, and a licensed HMO is held to a stricter inspection standard on kitchens, waste and bathrooms. Check out of a four or five-person share on Mayes Road or one of the bigger Palace Gates conversions and the clerk will be working off the HMO template.

Conservation area

Most of what we clean sits in the Alexandra Park and Palace Conservation Area, which takes in Rhodes Avenue, Bedford Road, Dukes Avenue, Palace Gates Road, Victoria Road and the turnings off Bounds Green Road. It governs what owners can change outside, not how you clean inside, but it is why the period detail survives in these flats and why a clerk expects to see it cared for.

The short version. The new Act gives you more time and makes your paperwork matter more. HMO rules make a shared-house check-out tougher. Selective licensing and the conservation status do not change your clean, whatever a worried landlord might tell you.

Room by room, the way a clerk walks it

A check-out is not random. Clerks walk a flat in roughly the same order every time and they look at the same things, so this is the work laid out the way they actually inspect it. Everything below is part of the 57-point list. We do all of it on every job, whether or not the clerk gets to it.

Kitchen

The kitchen is where most deductions live, and the oven is where most kitchen deductions live. We strip the oven interior, the door glass, the racks, trays and grill, including the catalytic liners a lot of these flats had fitted in the 2010s. The hob, the extractor hood and its filter, and the splashback tiles all get a full degrease, and the splashback is usually scaled as well as greasy in N22.

• Inside and outside of every cupboard, the high wall units above the fridge included, since the tops are a standard eye-level check
• Fridge-freezer defrosted, shelves washed, seals worked, back vent dusted
• Dishwasher and washing machine: drum, seals, filter, the detergent drawer and the door rim
• Sink, taps, drainer and waste descaled to take off the chalky ring the hard water leaves
• Worktops and tiled areas polished, skirting and radiator tops wiped down
• Floor cleaned to the surface it is, whether that is tile, board, laminate or vinyl
• Bin area sanitised and waste sorted into the right Haringey bins, the green, blue and brown system that trips every tenant up
• Light switches, sockets and handles done last

Bathroom

Bathrooms are about scale and mould, in that order here. The bath, the shower enclosure, the screen and the tiles are descaled, the grouting and silicone get a mould treatment left to dwell rather than a spray-and-wipe, and the floor is scrubbed including the awkward bit behind the toilet that clerks always check.

• Toilet interior, rim, cistern, the seat hinges and the base
• Sink, taps, pedestal and overflow
• Mirror, chrome towel rail, shaver socket, extractor grille
• Skirting, door edges and the vent slot in the door
• Shower curtain laundered, or replaced if the landlord supplied it

Bedrooms and living rooms

This is where the period detail needs a soft touch and a slow hand. The cornicing, ceiling roses and picture rails are dusted with a soft brush, the cast-iron fireplace and tiled hearth are polished without anything abrasive, and the sash frames, sills and deep reveals are cleaned with the inside glass. The top of the wardrobe gets done, because the top of the wardrobe is the most commonly flagged missed spot on any check-out report, full stop.

• All surfaces and freestanding furniture, tops, fronts and undersides
• Radiators, including behind and underneath
• Skirting, architraves and door frames
• Switches, sockets, thermostats and smoke alarms dusted
• Carpets vacuumed through; hard floors mopped or buffed to suit
• Curtains and blinds dusted, nets washed on request
• Mattresses lifted and the floor underneath done
• Behind and under beds, sofas and drawers
• Any built-in storage, common in the Palace Gates loft conversions, opened and cleaned

Halls, stairs and the rest

The bits between rooms still count. We do the entrance hall, the stairs and landings, the tiled Edwardian path at the front door where there is one, every internal door and handle, the light fittings and shades, and the cobwebs out of the ceiling corners and stairwells. For a conversion flat we clean the communal hallway floor outside your own front door too, because that often sits inside the demised area on the check-in. Then a final floor pass once everything else is finished.

The top of the wardrobe is the most commonly flagged missed spot on any check-out report, full stop.

What it costs here

Fixed quotes, priced on bedrooms and bathrooms plus any extras. No site visit for a standard flat.

Prices take in VAT at 20%, all materials and equipment, and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee. No fuel surcharge, no weekend uplift. You can bundle carpet cleaning, upholstery cleaning and exterior window cleaning at a discount, and many tenants here do, because a tenancy that demanded professionally cleaned carpets on the way in will demand them on the way out.

For context on how this differs from a normal clean: a regular domestic visit runs £22 to £19 an hour and skips the oven interior and the inside of cupboards; a deep clean is around £30 an hour and covers those but carries no guarantee; an end of tenancy is the fixed-price job from £156 with the 57-point list and the 48-hour cover. The difference is the standard you are cleaned against, which is a check-out, not a tidy.

Booking, and how the guarantee works

Booking is short. Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the postcode, the bedroom count and your check-out date, and you get a fixed quote back within the hour. We confirm by email with the price itemised, an arrival window and the cancellation terms. On the day a team of two to five turns up with everything, and most Alexandra Park jobs take four to seven hours start to finish. We work to completion, not to the clock.

The guarantee is the bit that matters, so here is exactly how it works. If the clerk or the agent flags anything cleaning-related on the check-out, you call us inside 48 hours and we come back and put it right at no charge. It is not a refund dressed up as a guarantee. We re-clean the thing that was flagged until it passes, which is why our first-time pass rate across N22 runs at 97% and why agents keep using us.

That last point is worth saying plainly. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents and have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions, which is the same job seen from both sides of the same check-out. Agents invoice monthly. Tenants pay on completion by card or transfer.

Nearby streets and the jobs people bundle

We cover the whole ward and the streets that bleed into it: Alexandra Park Road and Dukes Avenue, Palace Gates Road, Rhodes Avenue and Bedford Road, Park Avenue north and south, Victoria and Albert Road, Mayes Road and The Avenue, Priory Road and Crescent Rise, New River Village and Hornsey Park Road, plus the N22 end of Bounds Green Road. Priory Road and Crescent Rise are worth a note: the lower-ground rooms there run damp on local surveyor reports, so a cellar or basement check-out usually needs the mould treatment as well. We know the streets.

Same teams work the streets around here too. For the Muswell Hill side proper there is Muswell Hill, and across the rest of the N22, N10 and N8 patch we cover Bounds Green, Wood Green, Hornsey, Crouch End, Bowes Park and Stroud Green. The parent hub for the borough is our Haringey end of tenancy cleaning page.

On the services you can add to a clean: carpet cleaning, upholstery cleaning, oven cleaning on its own, window cleaning, after builders cleaning if the landlord has just had work done, removals and a standalone deep cleaning. If you need the van and the clean on the same day, our removals service can run alongside the cleaners so we start as the last box leaves.

Questions tenants here actually ask

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

Studios start at £156, one-bed flats at £207, two-bed properties at £243, three-bed homes at £339 and four-bed houses at £425. Every price takes in VAT and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee.

Do you guarantee my deposit back?

We guarantee the clean, not the agent. If Hobarts, Hamptons, KFH, Martyn Gerrard, Wilkinson Byrne or anyone else flags something cleaning-related on check-out, we come back inside 48 hours at no charge. Our first-time pass rate in N22 runs at 97%.

Is carpet cleaning included?

Carpets are vacuumed as standard. Steam-extraction carpet cleaning is a paid add-on at £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed. If your tenancy says professionally cleaned carpets at the end, which is common round here, you will need it.

Do you bring all the products and equipment?

Yes. The team turns up with commercial vacuums, steam cleaners, pH-neutral products that are safe on period fixtures, proper oven degreasers, and all the cloths, mops and pads a full flat needs. You provide access and nothing else.

How long will the clean take?

A one-bed Edwardian conversion takes four to five hours. A two-bed takes five to seven. A four-bed Rhodes Avenue semi can be a full day with a team of four. We work to completion rather than the clock.

Can you clean on the same day as my move-out?

Yes, as long as the flat is empty of furniture and belongings when we get there. We can often fit a same-day booking at short notice, especially for studios and one-beds. Call and we will tell you straight what is free.

Do you clean original Edwardian features like cornicing and fireplaces?

Yes. Our N22 teams use soft brushes and light dusting on ceiling roses, cornicing, picture rails and cast-iron fireplaces. We keep bleach and abrasives off original timber and ceramic.

What if my property has hard water limescale?

N22 is a hard-water postcode and limescale is the biggest single deduction trigger on check-out reports here. We use a descaler left to dwell on taps, shower heads, toilets and tiled areas, not a quick spray-and-wipe.

Do you cover HMOs in Alexandra Park?

Yes. We regularly clean four and five-person HMOs here and across Haringey. HMO check-outs are stricter under the borough-wide additional HMO licensing scheme, so we price a small premium for the extra kitchen and bathroom detail.

Can you work around a removal company?

Yes. We can time it with your removers so we start as the last item leaves. If you also need the van, our removals service bundles with the clean for a combined discount.

What areas of Alexandra Park do you cover?

All of N22 7 and N22 8, plus the N10 2 and N8 overlap around Priory Road, Crescent Rise, Alexandra Park Road, Palace Gates Road, Rhodes Avenue, Bedford Road, Victoria Road, New River Village and the Bounds Green Road end of the ward.

Do I need to be there during the clean?

No. Most of our Alexandra Park customers leave keys with the agent or a neighbour. We photograph the finished flat and send the pictures over by WhatsApp or email.

How do I protect my deposit under the new Renters’ Rights Act?

Your deposit should already sit in one of the three government schemes, TDS, DPS or mydeposits. Keep your check-in inventory, photograph the flat on move-out day, and get a professional cleaning invoice. If the agent proposes cleaning deductions you can dispute through the scheme’s free adjudication, and Shelter sets out how.

Is your price inclusive of VAT?

Yes. Every price on this page includes VAT at 20%. No hidden fees, no fuel surcharge, no weekend uplift.

What if I’m not happy with the clean?

Call within 48 hours of finishing and we come back at no charge to sort anything you or the agent have flagged. We have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits since 2014 and we are not about to spoil that record over a skirting board.

Do you work for landlords and agents as well as tenants?

Yes. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents nationally, several of them active in N22. Agents are invoiced monthly; tenants pay on completion by card or bank transfer.

Book the clean

Call 0333 555 2076, email [email protected], or use the booking form on any service page. Give us your Alexandra Park postcode and your check-out date and the fixed quote comes back within the hour, with no site visit needed for a standard flat and no obligation if the number is not for you. Cleaning move-outs here since 2014, on the 57-point agent-approved checklist, with a 48-hour guarantee and a 97% first-time pass rate. Book early.