End of tenancy cleaning in Altrincham at a glance
Altrincham lets run from Victorian villas up the hill in Bowdon to flats a short walk from the Interchange, where the Metrolink line from Manchester ends. Whichever you are leaving, our end of tenancy clean is a fixed price set by bedrooms: £156 for a studio, £207 for a one-bed, £243 for a two-bed, £339 for three bedrooms and £425 for four.
Last updated October 2026.
Put your postcode and bedroom count into the price calculator at the top of the page for a final figure, or ring 0333 555 2076 between 8am and 7pm, any day. If the agent or clerk finds something we missed, tell us within 48 hours and we come back and clean it again for free.
Altrincham homes compared, from Linotype cottages to Bowdon villas
Trafford is mainly a borough of owners: 69.0% of households owned their home at the 2021 census and 15.3% rented privately. Rents here are above the North West average, though.
In August 2026 the ONS gave £944 a month for a one-bed in Trafford, £1,202 for a two-bed, £1,483 for a three-bed and £2,106 for four bedrooms or more, against a North West average of £969. The table matches the kinds of home we are asked to clean in and around Altrincham with the fixed price and the part that usually takes longest.
| Home | Price | What takes the time |
|---|---|---|
| Studio near the Interchange or Stamford New Road | £156 | A kitchen in the living room, with grease on the nearest walls and the extractor |
| One-bed flat in the town centre | £207 | Bathroom sealant, appliance seals, the balcony door track |
| Two-bed flat, or a Linotype cottage in Broadheath | £243 | Small rooms with plenty of woodwork; original windows and doors in the cottages |
| Three-bed terrace or Timperley semi | £339 | Stairs, two floors of skirting, a back kitchen with a garden door |
| Four-bed villa or detached house in Bowdon or Hale | £425 | High ceilings, deep sash recesses, tiled halls, more than one bathroom |
| Bigger than four bedrooms | Quoted from the room count | Extra bathrooms, utility rooms and attic floors |
| One room in a shared house, or a part job | £30 per cleaner per hour | Your room plus a fair share of the kitchen and bathroom |
Altrincham grew after the railway reached it in 1849. Manchester merchants built large houses on Green Walk in Bowdon in the 1860s and 1870s, and by 1878 a directory described the hill as studded with handsome villas and mansions.
Trafford’s design code still picks out the grand villas of Bowdon and Hale Barns, the big detached houses on the tree-lined roads of Hale, and the post-war detached and semi-detached houses of Timperley. In the older houses expect Bowdon white brick, bay windows and sash or casement frames, all of which hold dust in places a modern flat does not have.
Broadheath is a different story. The Linotype company, which made typesetting machines there, built an estate of cottages for its workers between 1897 and 1901 in several distinct styles. Trafford designated it the Linotype conservation area on 4 July 1985. These are small houses, so most take the two- or three-bed price, but the original doors and windows need a careful hand.
The town centre has fewer purpose-built flats than its size suggests. The Altair site next to the tram stop, once planned with apartments, sat stalled for close to twenty years until Trafford took it back in March 2025. Most centre flats are in smaller blocks and over shops, with stairs and a street door to account for.
Soft water and a damp climate
United Utilities supplies Altrincham, and water across the North West is soft to very soft; its sources include Lake District reservoirs such as Haweswater, which Manchester Corporation built. That changes the bathroom work. Limescale, which takes up much of a London or Surrey clean, is rarely heavy here, so less time goes on taps and shower screens.
The North West is also the wettest region in England, and the mark a clerk is more likely to find in Altrincham is black mould: in the silicone round the bath, along the grout lines, on the rubber seal of the washing machine and on window reveals in rooms that were not aired.
Light mould comes off with the right cleaner and some time. Mould that has grown into old silicone only goes when the sealant is replaced, which is a repair job beyond any clean, so we tell you if we find it.
Trafford’s rules for landlords and sharers
Trafford has no selective licensing, so an ordinary family let or a flat for a couple needs no council licence. The only licence on the council’s housing pages is the national mandatory one, for a home let to five or more people from more than one household.
Planning is tighter. An Article 4 direction across the whole of Trafford means a family house cannot be turned into a small shared house without planning permission; the council brought it in after University Academy 92 (UA92) was set up, expecting more family houses to be turned into student lets.
The Renters’ Rights Act has changed how those tenancies finish. As Trafford’s own guidance puts it, tenancies no longer have a fixed end date and carry on until the tenant or landlord ends them in the right way. For you that means the check-out date follows your notice, so the clean can be booked as soon as the notice has gone in.
School catchments and the timing of a move
Trafford still has grammar schools, and two of them are in Altrincham, one for boys and one for girls. Altrincham Grammar School for Boys gives priority to homes in WA13, WA14 and WA15, and to M33 and M23 addresses inside Trafford.
Its 2026 admissions policy accepts a rented address with a current tenancy agreement, but a family that applied from a rental must still be living in the priority area on 31 December 2026, and a place can be reviewed if they leave before then.
That rule keeps some family tenancies in WA14 and WA15 running at least until the new year. If yours is one of them, book the clean for after the 31 December date has passed, and give us a week or two of notice.
The mark a clerk is more likely to find in Altrincham is black mould.
The clean, the oven and the carpets
Our cleaners work through a 57-point checklist. In the kitchen that means every cupboard and drawer inside and out, worktops and splashback, the hob, the extractor and its filter, the sink, fridge and freezer, the washing machine drawer and seal, and the floor under anything on wheels.
In bathrooms it means mould treated in grout and silicone, the toilet, bath, basin, screen and tiles, and the extractor grille. In every room it means skirting, doors and frames, radiators, switches, sills, the inside of window glass, built-in wardrobes and the floors. They are vetted (each one is interviewed in person), insured and trained on that list.
The oven is always an extra. Booked with the clean, a single or single wide oven is £31, and a double or a 90cm range cooker £62. For the oven alone, see oven cleaning. Carpets added to the clean are £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing, or see carpet cleaning on its own.
Where a street needs paid parking, we add what it costs us to the quote. We have been cleaning since 2014 in London, Liverpool, Manchester and the towns around them. More than 300 letting agents work with us, tenants have recovered £1.2m in deposits after our cleans, and our Google rating is 4.7.
Along the tram line, Sale is a few stops towards Manchester and shares Altrincham’s grammar school priority area through M33, and Stretford is further in on the same tram line. Urmston sits north of the Mersey, still inside Trafford and under the same Article 4 rule. Every area we cover around the city is on our Manchester end of tenancy cleaning page.
Altrincham tenants’ questions
Do you cover Hale, Bowdon and Timperley as well as the town centre?
Yes, all of WA14 and WA15. Prices are the same in each, set by bedrooms, so a three-bed semi in Timperley and a three-bed terrace near the market are both £339.
My Bowdon house has six bedrooms. How is it priced?
Homes above four bedrooms are quoted from the room count. Tell us the bedrooms, bathrooms and any attic or cellar rooms, and we will give you a fixed figure before you book.
Is the range cooker in our Hale kitchen part of the price?
No, ovens are always added separately. A 90cm range is £62 when you book it with the end of tenancy clean.
We rented to be in the grammar school priority area. When should we book?
After the date your school place depends on. For Altrincham Grammar School for Boys entry in 2026, that means staying in the priority area until 31 December 2026, so a January clean is the safe choice.
Will the mould in the bathroom silicone count against us?
Surface mould is part of the clean and usually lifts. If it has grown into the sealant, the fix is new silicone, which is a repair; we will say so, and you can raise it with the agent before the check-out.