End of tenancy cleaning in Bankside, booked online

End of tenancy cleaning in Bankside, by a team that has been handing flats back to landlords along this stretch of the SE1 riverside since 2014. We work the towers and the warehouse conversions between Blackfriars and Borough Market, from NEO Bankside and One Blackfriars to the Bankside Lofts on Hopton Street. Booking line: 0333 555 2076. Studios from £165.

The first thing a clerk does in a Bankside flat is walk to the glass. Not the kitchen, not the oven, the glass. In a market built around winter gardens, double-height warehouse windows and floor-to-ceiling Schueco glazing, the light shows every smear, and that is where a deduction starts. This page is about the specific things that get a Bankside deposit docked, and how we stop them. Parent hub: end of tenancy cleaning Southwark.

What a clerk checks first in a Bankside flat

Engineered oak and winter-garden glass. Those are the two surfaces a Bankside inventory clerk reaches for before anything else, because they are the two the landlord paid most to get right at fit-out and the two an amateur clean ruins fastest. Use a supermarket floor spray on a bespoke oak floor and it hazes; the clerk sees it the moment the light from the river hits it. Clean the inside face of a winter-garden screen with the wrong cloth and it streaks, and a streak at eye level is the easiest deduction a clerk will write all week.

The clerks down here are not generalists. Foxtons, Circa London, Dexters, Knight Frank and Cluttons all send people who check SE1 riverside stock week in, week out, and they know what a NEO Bankside lateral looks like when it has been done properly versus done in a hurry. They have a mental library of these flats. The gap between the two states is where your deposit lives.

We have been closing that gap on this riverside since 2014. Our Bankside teams arrive with a 57-point agent-approved checklist that mirrors what those firms actually audit against, professional kit rather than what is under your sink, and a 48-hour re-clean guarantee written into the booking. We pass inventory first time on 97% of jobs. The rest of this page explains why that number holds in a part of London where the buildings are this unforgiving.

The first thing a clerk does in a Bankside flat is walk to the glass.

The building sets the standard, not just the cleaner

Bankside is the part of Zone 1 that turned its old industry into galleries and then into homes. The pivot point was Tate Modern, which opened in 2000 inside the old Bankside Power Station that Giles Gilbert Scott built between 1947 and 1963. Shakespeare’s Globe had reopened just up the riverside walk in 1997, the Millennium Bridge landed in 2000, and the wharfs became architect-led flats. That history matters at check-out for one blunt reason: it left a housing stock where each building has its own finishes and its own way of catching dirt, and the clerk knows them building by building.

So we brief our teams the same way, on the development rather than on a generic spec. A few examples of what that means once you are inside.

NEO Bankside, the Rogers Stirk Harbour pavilions opposite the Tate that Native Land and Grosvenor finished in 2012, carries that exposed steel diagrid and the winter-garden screens hung off it. Dust settles on the internal face of that glass and a standard clean sails straight past it. One Blackfriars, the St George tower at the Blackfriars end that completed in 2018, has touch-panel wall controls and integrated ceilings that smear under the wrong cleaner and then look grubby in the lobby light. Triptych Bankside, JTRE London’s pair of towers on Park Street, has micro-cement bathrooms that an acidic limescale remover will stain for good, so we treat them with a neutral product instead.

The warehouse end is its own job. Bankside Lofts on Hopton Street, the yellow ochre tower Piers Gough designed with the Manhattan Loft Corporation on an old cocoa warehouse in the late 1990s, has double-height industrial windows that need reach poles and a head for the time they take. Southbank Tower on Upper Ground has polished stone in its lobbies that a management company will notice if a removal trolley scuffs it on the way out. And Falcon Point, the late-1970s blocks on Hopton Street where Southwark still holds the ground lease, sets a plainer bar than the towers but the same check-out rules apply to its 110 flats. We send the same team to all of them that we send to the agents themselves.

Some of the terms a Bankside clerk and agent throw around are worth pinning down, because they decide what gets flagged.

Check-in inventory

The dated report and photographs taken when you moved in. The check-out clerk grades your clean against this exact document, so the standard is the day you arrived, not “reasonable”.

Winter garden

The glazed, semi-enclosed balcony space in towers like NEO Bankside and Triptych. The internal face of its glass is yours to clean at check-out and is one of the most common Bankside flags.

Micro-cement

The smooth, jointless cement finish used in Triptych and other newer bathrooms. It looks like stone but stains under acid, so it needs a pH-neutral product, never a standard descaler.

Betterment

The principle that a landlord cannot charge you to leave a flat cleaner than you found it. It is why our itemised invoice, pinned to the check-in standard, settles most cleaning disputes quickly.

Trickle vent

The small adjustable slot in the head of an aluminium or timber window frame. On the Schueco systems common in SE1 prime stock they clog with dust and clerks check them by habit.

Where the deposit money sits, and why deductions bite

Bankside is one of the dearer rental pockets south of the river, and the deposits track the rents. ONS data for Southwark puts the average private rent at £2,395 a month for April 2026, a 1.3% rise on the year, with the average house price at £564,000 in March 2026. Those are borough-wide numbers, and Bankside sits well above them. One-beds along Holland Street, Hopton Street and Park Street list between £2,900 and £3,500 a month, and two-beds in NEO Bankside and One Blackfriars cross £5,000 without anyone blinking. Falcon Point, being part ex-council, runs cheaper, which is the exception that proves how prime the towers are.

Dearer rent means a bigger deposit at risk. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 caps it at five weeks’ rent below £50,000 a year and six weeks above, so on a £3,200 one-bed at Triptych that is roughly £3,690 of your money parked in TDS, DPS or mydeposits. Cleaning deductions on SE1 prime stock usually land between £280 and £950 depending on what the clerk finds. We have watched a tenant lose £400 over limescale on one wet-room screen.

That is the maths the rest of this matters against. A make-good clean billed at commercial rates on a £2,800-a-month flat can take £600 to £900 off you, which is most of a deposit and most of the float you need for the next place. The cheapest insurance against it is a proper clean with paperwork behind it. Over the years that approach has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions, and we keep the figures that earn that trust front and centre.

We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, which is the other half of why the pass rate holds. When the same firm that sends us to clean its managed flats also sends the clerk who checks them, the standard is not a mystery to us. We are cleaning to a spec we already know.

What the law expects when you hand the keys back

Two things changed the ground under Bankside move-outs in 2026, and both push in the tenant’s favour if your paperwork is in order.

The first is the law. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 commenced on 1 May 2026, and it scrapped fixed-term assured shorthold tenancies outright. Every Bankside tenant is now on a periodic tenancy and Section 21 no-fault eviction has gone. For a move-out the effect is simple: a landlord is under more pressure to return a deposit promptly and fairly, because a disputed deduction now runs through a tighter adjudication route. Shelter has clear, plain-English guidance on what a tenant can challenge. The single strongest document you can put on the table at check-out is an itemised invoice from a VAT-registered cleaning contractor, because it pins the work you paid for to the condition you handed back. We invoice per job with the scope spelled out, so the paperwork stacks up if it ever reaches the scheme.

The second is licensing, and Bankside sits in the Borough & Bankside ward for it. Southwark runs a borough-wide additional HMO licensing scheme from 1 March 2022 to 28 February 2027, covering houses in multiple occupation of three or four unrelated sharers, Bankside included. Mandatory HMO licensing sits on top of that for any property with five or more people from two or more households. Southwark’s selective licensing scheme covers nineteen wards, but Borough & Bankside is not one of them, so a single-household let at NEO Bankside, Triptych or one of the period conversions needs no selective licence. It still has to meet the same check-out standard as any other SE1 flat.

If you are a landlord letting a converted warehouse off Park Street as a three-sharer professional flat, you need that additional licence and a documented condition hand-over between tenancies. We give photographic sign-off on every Bankside job for exactly that reason.

The 57-point clean, surface by surface

The 57-point checklist is not a tidy-up. It is the same surface-by-surface audit the SE1 agents run at check-out, and it is framed around the finishes that get flagged in these buildings rather than a one-size list. Here is what it covers, room by room.

Kitchen

The kitchen is where most deductions start, and the extractor is the worst of it. In the integrated Miele and Siemens kitchens common to these flats the filters sit flush and get overlooked, so this is where we spend the most time.

• Oven stripped fully, with the door glass split and cleaned between the panes, plus racks, trays, seals, fan housing, grill element, roof and floor.
• Induction glass polished; extractor grease filters soaked and scrubbed; the motor housing and ducting intake wiped.
• Fridge and freezer defrosted, shelves and drawers washed, seals scrubbed, rear coil vacuumed where you can reach it.
• Dishwasher filter, spray arms and door seal cleaned; the internal walls descaled.
• Microwave done inside and out, plate and roller included.
• Washer-dryer drum, drawer, filter and the rubber door fold where the mould hides.
• Cupboards and drawers emptied and wiped inside and out, hinges and handles degreased.
• Stone and composite worktops treated with a non-acidic cleaner, joints detailed.
• Sink, tap, waste and aerator descaled; splashback and tiling polished.
• Integrated appliance fronts aligned and wiped to match the units.

Bathrooms

London’s hard water is the enemy here, and the polished chrome and micro-cement finishes show every deposit of it. We match the product to the surface so nothing gets etched.

• Full descale of shower screens, wet-room glass, taps, heads, hoses and valves.
• Bath, basin, WC pan, cistern and the underside scrubbed and sanitised.
• Grout treated and any mould spotted; re-grouting flagged separately if it is past cleaning.
• Extractor cover off, filter cleaned, grille wiped.
• Mirrors and cabinet interiors left streak-free.
• Tiled floors mopped with the right product for porcelain or for micro-cement.
• Chrome and brushed-nickel fittings buffed; towel rails and valves left dust-free.

Bedrooms and living areas

This is where the oak and the glass decide the result. Get the floor product wrong or skip the inside of the winter-garden screen and the clerk has a line to write before you reach the kitchen.

• Engineered oak and parquet hoovered then mopped with a pH-neutral product, never left in standing water.
• Carpets vacuumed edge to edge; hot-water extraction if it is specified as an add-on.
• Skirting, architraves, picture rails and coving dust-wiped.
• Internal doors, handles and hinges done both sides.
• Switches, sockets and thermostats detailed; radiators front, back, top and underneath.
• Trickle vents on the aluminium and timber frames cleaned, which is a habitual Bankside flag.
• Winter-garden glass done both sides where it is reachable, as at NEO Bankside and Triptych.
• Built-in and mirrored wardrobes emptied, shelves wiped, rails dust-free, doors left streak-free.
• Curtain rails, roller blinds and Venetian slats wiped; sills, reveals and cills finished.
• Recessed downlight trims and pendant fittings dusted; air-conditioning grilles and filters vacuumed.

Throughout the flat

The shared edges count too, because a smudged video handset or a marked lift-call panel reads as a rushed job before the clerk is even inside.

• Entrance hall and the lift-call approach left presentable, call buttons wiped.
• All internal glass polished streak-free.
• Storage, utility and boiler cupboards emptied and wiped.
• Video-entry handset wiped; keys, fobs and remotes cleaned and laid out for check-out.
• Final walk-through with a photographic record.

If the clerk does flag something inside 48 hours of us finishing, the 48-hour re-clean guarantee runs. We come back within 48 hours and re-do the flagged items at no cost, and it is in writing on every confirmation. On a market this exacting that promise is the point, not a flourish.

What a Bankside hand-back costs

Bankside sits in our central tier. The figures below are guide starting points for a flat in reasonable order; a heavily soiled place, a post-party scene or a flat that has not had a deep clean in a couple of years gets quoted after a quick look.

Every price includes VAT, materials, equipment, travel and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee. No surcharge for an evening or weekend slot. No hidden parking charge either: our teams hold a Southwark permit, load in through the development’s service entrance with the concierge, or use the nearest NCP/Q-Park at our cost. Parking is the worst part of working this riverside, frankly, so we sort it before we arrive rather than circling Hopton Street looking for a bay that does not exist.

Concierge, service lifts and the month-end crush

Access is half the job here. The towers run on concierge desks and bookable service lifts, and a clean that has not pre-cleared either one loses an hour standing in a lobby. So booking with us is built around that.

Tell us the address and the bedroom count first. Call 0333 555 2076, email [email protected] or use the form, and we confirm a fixed price within 30 minutes. Then send us the development name. For NEO Bankside, One Blackfriars, Triptych, Southbank Tower and Bankside Lofts we already hold the service-lift protocol, so we pre-notify the concierge and there is no check-in delay when the team turns up. We clean to the 57-point checklist, the lead runs the walk-through on completion and signs off with the photo record, and the 48-hour clock starts from your check-out.

Timing is the other thing worth planning. End-of-month is the crush right across SE1, the same week the agents are checking out half their stock, so a two-bed and up is best booked a couple of days ahead. Studios and one-beds we can often fit same-day on an early call. We work seven days a week and there is no weekend premium, which on this riverside is more useful than it sounds when your tenancy ends on a Sunday.

Carpets, glazing and the add-ons people forget

Some jobs sit alongside the end of tenancy clean rather than inside it, and on Bankside stock these are the ones that quietly save a deposit. The list is short on purpose.

• Professional carpet cleaning, £36 a bedroom, for any flat where carpet is on the check-in inventory.
• Upholstery cleaning for sofas, mattresses and armchairs left in a part-furnished let.
• Oven deep cleaning as a standalone, £77 single and £110 double.
• Hard floor treatment for the engineered oak, stone and polished concrete these flats are full of.
• Window cleaning for external glazing where the concierge clears access.
• Removals, from £250 for a studio, if you would rather move and clean with one firm.
• Deep cleaning for landlords resetting a flat between lets.

Carpets are the one we push hardest, because clerks flag them as needing a professional clean more often than anything except the oven, and they bill it at commercial rates if you have not done it. The oven is the other near-certainty. Beyond those two, the glazing is the Bankside special: the inside face of external glass and balcony screens gets skipped by most amateur cleans, and in flats this full of glass that omission is visible from the door.

Where we go beyond Bankside

Bankside is small, and most tenants here move within the same corner of the river. We cover the whole of it. If your next flat is one street over, or you are an agent with stock spread across the borough, these are the nearest patches we also clean.

• Borough, the market end immediately east.
• London Bridge, the station and the towers around it.
• Bermondsey, the warehouse conversions down the riverside.
• Waterloo, west along the South Bank.
• Elephant and Castle, the new towers to the south.
• Peckham, further out down the line.
• Dulwich, the leafy end of the borough.
• The Southwark borough hub ties all of it together.

Bankside end of tenancy questions

How much is end of tenancy cleaning in Bankside?

From £165 for a studio, £243 for a one-bed, £243 for a two-bed and £339 for a three-bed. Bankside sits in our central London tier, which reflects the prime SE1 stock here: engineered oak, winter gardens, integrated appliances and concierge-managed access.

Do you cover NEO Bankside and One Blackfriars specifically?

Yes, both are core pickups. We brief the team on each building’s finishes, the Rogers Stirk Harbour exoskeleton and winter gardens at NEO Bankside, the St George touch-panels and integrated ceilings at One Blackfriars, before they are dispatched.

Can you deal with the concierge and the service lift booking?

Yes. Send us the development name when you book and we pre-notify the concierge. For NEO Bankside, Triptych, One Blackfriars, Southbank Tower and Bankside Lofts we already have the service-lift protocol on file.

What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?

If your letting agent or inventory clerk flags any cleaning issue within 48 hours of us finishing, we come back within 48 hours and re-do the flagged items at no extra cost. It is written into every booking confirmation.

Do I need to be there at check-out?

No. Most Bankside tenants leave keys with the concierge or drop them at the agent’s office. We collect, clean, sign off with the photo record and return the keys however you tell us.

Are carpets included?

Vacuuming and standard floor treatment are included. Professional hot-water extraction is a £36-per-bedroom add-on, which we recommend for any flat where carpet is on the check-in inventory, since clerks flag carpets for a professional clean and bill at commercial rates otherwise.

What about the inside of the oven?

A full oven strip is standard on every Bankside end of tenancy, with the door glass split and cleaned between the panes, racks soaked, fan housing, seals and grill element done. It is the single highest-frequency deduction category and we do not cut corners on it.

Can you clean the winter-garden glazing at NEO Bankside?

Yes, internally as standard. External cleaning of winter-garden glass and balcony screens needs concierge clearance and, on higher floors, specialist access, so we quote that separately if it is needed and confirm with the concierge on arrival.

Do you do same-day in Bankside?

If you call before 10am we can usually fit a same-day slot for studios and one-beds. For two-beds and up we suggest booking 48 hours ahead, especially on the end-of-month turnovers that are always busy across SE1.

What if my landlord is disputing my deposit?

Our itemised VAT invoice and photographic sign-off are built to support TDS, DPS or mydeposits adjudication. Forward our paperwork to the scheme and a cleaning deduction is usually resolved quickly in your favour.

Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change anything?

From 1 May 2026 fixed-term ASTs ended and all tenancies became periodic. Deposit-protection rules are unchanged, but dispute resolution is tighter, so a documented professional clean is still the cheapest deposit-protection step you can take.

Do you need parking on site?

No. We either hold a Southwark visitor permit, use the concierge service entrance, or pay the nearest NCP at our cost. You never pay for parking.

Do you clean the double-height windows at Bankside Lofts?

Yes, internally with reach poles. The industrial-scale glazing at Bankside Lofts is a Manhattan Loft signature, and we budget extra time for it on every booking there.

How far ahead should I book?

The last week of the month and the first week of the next are peak, so book two weeks ahead for those windows. Mid-month in Bankside we can usually get to you within 48 hours.

Do you serve landlords as well as tenants?

Yes. We work directly with landlords and with over 300 letting agents, including Foxtons SE1, Circa London, Dexters London Bridge, Knight Frank, Cluttons, Hastings International, Fraser Bond and Garrett Whitelock. We can invoice the managing agent direct on request.

What payment methods do you take?

Bank transfer, credit and debit card, and Apple Pay. Payment on completion; we do not take deposits for end of tenancy bookings.

What if my flat is in worse-than-average condition?

We do a quick video walk-through before confirming a price if you flag the flat as heavy. Post-party, long-term-smoker or post-pet jobs are quoted on a look and the price is fixed before we start, so there are no surprise charges.

Book your Bankside clean

Call 0333 555 2076 now for a fixed price within 30 minutes, or email [email protected] with your Bankside address, move-out date and bedroom count. We have been recovering deposits along this riverside since 2014, we carry that 48-hour re-clean guarantee in writing on every job, and we send the same team to your NEO Bankside, Triptych, One Blackfriars, Southbank Tower or Hopton Street flat that we send to the letting agents themselves. 97% first-time pass rate. Studios from £165.