Checking out of an Amersham let
Renting in Amersham usually means one of two very different homes: a cottage or flat behind the old brick fronts of the High Street in the valley, or a 1920s or 1930s house up on the hill near the Metropolitan line station. Our end of tenancy clean costs the same in both, a fixed £176 for a studio and £445 for a four-bed house, with the sizes in between listed below.
Last updated October 2026.
A check-out here goes the same way as anywhere else. The inventory clerk walks the property with the report written on the day you moved in, photographs in hand, and notes every place where the home is dirtier than it was then.
Fair wear and tear is allowed. Dirt is not. The rest of this page follows the clerk round an Amersham home and then explains the two kinds of housing, the water and the paperwork.
What the clerk checks, room by room
Hall and stairs. Skirting boards, the top edges of doors, banisters and spindles, light switches and the front door inside and out. In the old town the hall can be a narrow passage with a step down; in a semi on the Hill it is a staircase with a landing, and the clerk looks along every tread.
Living room. Window sills and frames, radiators (front, top and the gap behind), picture rails where there are any, and the fireplace. In older cottages that can be a deep brick fireplace with a hearth, which collects soot and ash; it is brushed out and wiped, never soaked.
Kitchen. This is where most deductions start. The clerk opens every cupboard, pulls out the drawers, looks at the hob and the extractor filter, opens the fridge and freezer and checks the floor at the edges. The oven is the single most photographed item in most reports, and it is an add-on with us, priced below.
Bathroom. Shower screen, taps, shower head, tiles, grout and the toilet. Amersham water is very hard, and limescale here builds fast enough to show up within a few weeks of the last clean. A milky screen next to a clear check-in photo is an easy charge for an agent to justify.
Bedrooms. Inside wardrobes and drawers, skirting, sills, the backs of doors and under where the bed stood.
Windows. Glass on the inside, frames, sills and runners. Old sash windows in the valley and the older casements on the Hill both trap dirt in the channels, so they are wiped out by hand.
Our cleaners work through a 57-point checklist that covers all of this. They are interviewed in person before they join us, insured and trained on the list.
Prices for an Amersham end of tenancy clean
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio flat | £176 |
| One-bedroom flat or cottage | £227 |
| Two-bedroom flat or house | £263 |
| Three-bedroom semi | £359 |
| Four-bedroom house | £445 |
| Five bedrooms or more | quoted from the room count |
| A room in a shared house, or part of a home | £30 per cleaner per hour |
Oven cleaning added to the clean: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. Carpets added to the clean: £29 per bedroom, £36 per living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 for a hallway and £8 for a landing. Both are also available as separate services on our oven cleaning and carpet cleaning pages.
The calculator at the top of the page works out your figure. If we need to pay for parking near the High Street, that is added at what it costs us.
The old town: timber frames behind brick fronts
Old Amersham sits in the valley of the River Misbourne and has been a conservation area since 10 March 1969. Its centre is the Market Hall, built in red brick in 1682 by Sir William Drake of Shardeloes and now listed Grade II*.
The High Street looks Georgian, but Amersham Museum points out that nearly all of those brick facades hide older timber-framed buildings. In 1807 Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake had a row at 84 to 92 High Street refaced to make it look like one uniform terrace; the museum itself, at 49 High Street, dates from around 1480.
That is why a valley let cleans the way it does. Floors are uneven and doors rarely sit square, so dust collects in the gaps along thresholds and the bottoms of doors. Beams and old plaster are dusted dry, with no wet cloths and nothing abrasive.
Ceilings are low, which makes the tops of cupboards easy for the clerk to see. Some lets are flats over shops on the High Street and Whielden Street, reached through a side door or yard; tell us how to get in when you book.
On the Hill: Metro-land semis and the Weller Estate
Amersham-on-the-Hill hardly existed before the Metropolitan Railway arrived in 1892. The station is still a terminus of the Metropolitan line, and Chiltern Railways trains run through it to London Marylebone one way and on towards Aylesbury the other. Amersham Museum records more than 2,300 houses built on the Hill between 1921 and 1931.
Two estates explain most of what you rent there. Elm Close, finished in 1920, is 30 semi-detached houses designed by John Harold Kennard for the Amersham Public Utility Society, built from concrete blocks cast on site because bricks were short after the war.
The Weller Estate, launched in 1930, was the last and furthest from London of the Metro-land estates: 78 acres either side of the station between Grimsdell’s Lane and Stanley Hill Avenue, planned for 535 houses and 51 shops. On the edge of the town, High and Over, Amyas Connell’s 1931 modernist house, is listed Grade II.
For the clean, a 1930s semi means a full staircase, three bedrooms and often a through lounge where a wall was knocked out; book the carpets for that as one room. Flats above the parades near the station are smaller and quicker, with the kitchen again taking the most time.
The High Street looks Georgian, but nearly all of those brick facades hide older timber-framed buildings.
Water, licensing and notice
Amersham is in Affinity Water’s Amersham/Prestwood supply zone, which serves about 56,000 people. The company’s 2025 report gives total hardness there as 325 mg/l as calcium carbonate, which is very hard; the water comes from the chalk under the Chilterns. Every clean includes descaling the shower screen, taps, shower head and tiles, and the kitchen sink and taps.
Buckinghamshire Council’s licensing page sets out the national mandatory licence for houses in multiple occupation, needed when five or more people from two or more households share. A house or flat let to one household does not need it, and licensing is the landlord’s responsibility either way.
The ONS figure for the average private rent across Buckinghamshire was £1,475 a month in August 2026, and £2,163 for detached houses. With a deposit of up to five weeks’ rent, a detached house at that county figure has close to £2,500 riding on the check-out report.
Since 1 May 2026 most tenancies in England are periodic, and a tenant ends one by giving two months’ notice in writing. Once your last day is set, book the clean for the day or two before.
If the letting agent or clerk flags anything within 48 hours of the clean, we come back and put it right free of charge. We have cleaned rented homes since 2014, work with more than 300 letting agents, have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits and hold a 4.7 rating on Google. Call 0333 555 2076, 8am to 7pm, seven days a week. We also cover Chesham, at the end of the Metropolitan line’s other branch, and the rest of Buckinghamshire.
Amersham end of tenancy FAQs
I rent a cottage on the High Street in Old Amersham. Do you clean beams and old plaster differently?
Yes. Beams, lime plaster and old brick are dusted dry and wiped gently, with no abrasive pads or strong chemicals. The price is the same as any home with the same bedrooms.
How much is a three-bed semi on the Weller Estate with a through lounge carpet?
The clean is £359. The through lounge carpet adds £47, and each bedroom carpet £29.
The shower screen in my Amersham flat is white with scale. Is that included?
Yes. Descaling the screen, taps, shower head and tiles is part of every clean, and with water at 325 mg/l it is usually the slowest part of the bathroom.
Can you clean an Aga or range cooker?
A 90cm range cooker is £62 as an add-on. For an Aga, tell us the model when you book and we will confirm what we can do.
Do I need to be at the property during the clean?
No. Most tenants leave a key with the agent or arrange access, and come back for the check-out once we have finished.