End of tenancy cleaning in Angel
A flat in Angel, N1, gets an end of tenancy clean at a price set by its size before we arrive: £156 for a studio, £425 for a four-bedroom house, and the oven or carpets only if the inventory asks for them. The cleaners work from our 57-point checklist, and anything the agent or clerk raises within 48 hours gets a free return visit.
Last updated October 2026.
Islington is one of the dearest boroughs to rent in. The ONS put the average private rent at £2,868 a month in August 2026 (a one-bed averaged £2,178), against £2,332 across London. When the deposit can be up to five weeks of that, a cleaning deduction stings, and the check-out report is the document that decides it.
A check-out walk-through, room by room
End of tenancy cleaning
from £156
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
Get your price0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm
A clerk at an Angel check-out walks the home with the check-in report in hand and notes every place where it is now dirtier than it was. This is the route through a typical flat here, and what the cleaners do at each stop.
- Front door and hallway
- In a Georgian house split into flats, the clerk starts inside your own front door: the door and frame, light switches, the entry phone handset, the skirting and the top of any meter cupboard. The communal stairs belong to the landlord or the managing agent, so we leave them alone unless you ask.
- Kitchen
- The oven door gets opened first, then the hob, the extractor filter, the cupboards inside, the fridge seals and the floor behind the washing machine. In the newer blocks the kitchen is often open-plan, so grease on the splashback is in full view from the sofa. The cleaners degrease, wipe every cupboard inside and out, and pull out any appliance that slides.
- Bathroom
- Angel is supplied by Thames Water, whose water passes through chalk and limestone and is hard. Scale on the shower screen, the taps and the grout lines reads as dirt on a check-out report. Descaling is part of the price: screen, taps, shower head, tiles, toilet, bath and the extractor cover.
- Living room
- Period rooms near the Angel have tall sash windows, deep sills, shutters and cornicing. The clerk runs a finger along the sill and the top of the skirting, and checks the inside of the glass for smears in daylight. We clean the sash runners, sills and glass from the inside and take the dust off the rails.
- Bedrooms
- Inside wardrobes and drawers, behind radiators, under the bed space, the window and the carpet. If the carpet is listed as cleaned at check-in, the clerk will expect the same at check-out.
The cleaners are vetted (interviewed in person), insured and trained on the checklist. We have cleaned across London since 2014, 300+ letting agents work with us, and tenants have won back £1.2m in deposits over that time.
Prices for an Angel flat or house
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| One-bedroom flat | £207 |
| Two-bedroom flat or house | £243 |
| Three-bedroom flat or house | £339 |
| Four-bedroom house | £425 |
| Single room in a shared flat, or a part job | £30 per cleaner per hour |
The fixed price covers the whole empty home to the checklist. The oven is an extra: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker.
Carpets booked with the clean 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; a maisonette on Liverpool Road with stairs inside the flat needs the flights counting. Our oven cleaning and carpet cleaning pages cover the same jobs booked on their own.
If your street needs paid parking for the van, we add what it costs us, and you see it on the quote. For your exact price, use the calculator at the top of the page, or call 0333 555 2076 (8am to 7pm, seven days).
Rented homes around the Angel junction
Liverpool Road starts at the Angel and runs 1¼ miles north to Holloway Road, parallel to Upper Street. It was the old Back Road and took its present name in 1826. The southern end is shops; north of that it is late Georgian terraces and Victorian villas, many of them listed.
From the 1850s a lot of these houses were split into rooms and flats, and after the war some were cleared for council housing, so the road now mixes owner-occupied houses, private lets and social housing. A Liverpool Road flat is often a floor of a tall house with original joinery, and that detail is where a clerk finds dust.
Off Liverpool Road, the old Royal Free Hospital closed in 1975. In 1986 two housing associations bought the four-acre site, kept the listed buildings and built homes around a new square, now Old Royal Free Square.
Across Upper Street, Islington Square has taken over the former Royal Mail sorting office: four Edwardian red-brick buildings turned into 260 homes, from studios to penthouses (36% of them affordable), plus 108 serviced apartments, completed in August 2020. A check-out in one of those blocks usually means a concierge and a lift to book, so tell us the building when you book.
Between the two is Chapel Market, a street market since the 19th century, with homes in the terraces and side streets around it. Stalls trade every day except Monday, and only in the morning on Thursdays and Sundays, which matters for loading (more on that below).
Chapel Market and Penton Street is a conservation area, as are the Angel itself and Duncan Terrace and Colebrooke Row on the east side. Islington has used Article 4 directions in 40 of its 42 conservation areas to stop minor alterations that would change their character, and in these streets that protects the period fronts, sash windows included.
A Liverpool Road flat is often a floor of a tall house with original joinery, and that detail is where a clerk finds dust.
Islington licensing, ward by ward
Angel straddles at least three council wards, and that now matters. Islington’s additional HMO licence applies across the whole borough to homes shared by three or four people from two or more households; the council has renewed it beyond February 2026, to run until 2031. Five or more sharers need a mandatory HMO licence wherever they live.
Selective licensing, which covers ordinary lets to one household or one or two people, has run in Finsbury Park, Hillrise and Tollington. From 23 November 2026 it extends to seven more wards, Barnsbury among them, with applications opening on 7 September 2026.
On the ONS ward lookup, the streets west of Upper Street, including Chapel Market and the Angel end of Liverpool Road, are in Barnsbury ward. Islington Square falls in St Mary’s and St James’, and the Duncan Terrace side in St Peter’s and Canalside; neither is in the new scheme. Check your own address on the council’s property licensing page.
None of this changes how the clean is judged. It does mean that from late November a lot more Angel landlords will be on the council’s register, with licence conditions to meet.
Getting the van to an N1 address
Angel station is on the Bank branch of the Northern line, one stop from King’s Cross, and its escalators are the longest on the Underground, at about 60 metres. Nobody carries a vacuum and a steam cleaner up those, so the cleaners come by van.
The streets around the Angel sit in Islington’s Zone B, controlled from 8.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday and 8.30am to 1.30pm on Saturday. Around Chapel Market, parking and loading bays change with the market hours, so a check-out there is usually easier to park for on a Monday, or on a Thursday or Sunday afternoon, when the stalls are gone.
When you book, tell us the floor, whether there is a lift, the bedroom count and any oven or carpets. The flat needs to be empty, with the power and hot water on and the freezer defrosted. Dates at the end of the month go fastest. If anything is flagged within 48 hours, we come back and re-clean it free.
Moving within the borough? Every area we cover is listed under this page and on our Islington end of tenancy cleaning page. Staying put and just want help keeping on top of the flat? Regular cleaning is on the domestic cleaning page, from £69 for a three-hour visit.
Angel end of tenancy FAQs
My flat is just off Chapel Market. Does my landlord need a licence?
If three or four of you share from different households, the additional HMO licence applies now. If you rent alone, as a couple or as a family, your landlord will need a selective licence from 23 November 2026, because Chapel Market is in Barnsbury ward. Either way the clean is judged the same.
Can you clean a flat in Islington Square?
Yes. Tell us the building and floor, and book the lift with the concierge if the building asks for that. If your agent has its own check-out list, send it over and the cleaners will work to it.
Does a Georgian flat cost more than a new-build?
No. The price follows the bedroom count. A two-bed in a Liverpool Road terrace and a two-bed in a new block are both £243, even though the sashes and cornicing make the first one slower.
Is the oven part of the fixed price?
No, it is always an add-on. A single oven added to the clean is £31 and a double is £62.
Do I have to pay for the clean before it happens?
A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done.
