End of tenancy cleaning in Barnet: prices at a glance
A third of Barnet’s households rented privately at the 2021 census, in anything from a new studio by Colindale station to an early 20th-century house in Hampstead Garden Suburb or a family semi off the High Barnet branch of the Northern line. Our end of tenancy clean is priced the same way across the whole borough, by bedrooms: £156 for a studio, £207 for one bedroom, £243 for two, £339 for three and £425 for four.
Last updated November 2026.
Barnet homes compared by type and price
Barnet runs from Cricklewood and Golders Green in the south to High Barnet and the Hertfordshire border in the north, and had about 389,300 residents at the 2021 census. The census also counted the shift to renting: private renters rose from 25.6% of households in 2011 to 32.7% in 2021, while home ownership fell to 52.7%.
| Property | Where you find it in Barnet | Price | What takes the time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | New-build or build-to-rent block in Colindale or Brent Cross Town | £156 | Integrated appliances behind matching doors; booking the lift |
| One-bedroom flat | Purpose-built block, or a flat in a converted house in Finchley or Hendon | £207 | Kitchen grease and bathroom scale in a small space |
| Two-bedroom flat or house | Block near a Northern line station, or a terrace | £243 | Balcony doors and tracks, or stairs and a back addition |
| Three-bedroom house | Family house in Finchley, Mill Hill, Edgware or East Barnet | £339 | A long-let kitchen, garden doors, stair carpet |
| Four-bedroom house | Larger house in Hampstead Garden Suburb, Totteridge or Mill Hill | £425 | Two bathrooms, original woodwork, more glass |
| Five bedrooms or more | Large detached houses | Quoted from the room count | Every room and bathroom priced in |
| Your room in a shared house | Student and sharer lets near Hendon | £30 per cleaner per hour | Your room plus your share of the kitchen and bathroom |
Each fixed price covers the empty home: inside cupboards, wardrobes and drawers, descaling, and the inside of every window. Where a paid bay or the congestion charge applies on the day, we add what it costs us and show it on your quote. The price calculator at the top of the page gives your own figure, or ring 0333 555 2076 from 8am to 7pm, seven days a week.
Rents explain why landlords inspect closely. The ONS put the borough’s average at £1,953 a month in September 2026, up 2.9% on a year before; a two-bed averaged £1,862 and a three-bed £2,261. Five weeks of that is the deposit, so on an average two-bed more than two thousand pounds rides on the check-out.
New flats in Colindale and Brent Cross Town
Much of the new building is in the south-west of the borough. Colindale had 6,290 households in 2011 and 11,941 in 2021, as apartment blocks went up across the area, including on the old Colindale Hospital site, where only the listed administration buildings were kept. Colindale station is on the Edgware branch of the Northern line. Next door is Grahame Park, built on part of the former Hendon Aerodrome and the largest post-war housing estate in Barnet.
Further south, Brent Cross Town is being built by Related Argent with Barnet Council: 6,700 homes in all, with construction from 2020 and the first residents moving in during 2025. Brent Cross West station, on the Thameslink line, opened in December 2023. Its residential buildings include The Ashbee and The Delamarre, which overlook Claremont Park.
New flats fail check-outs in their own places. The clerk opens each integrated appliance door, runs a finger along the cooker hood, checks the shower glass and the balcony door track, and looks at the grout on large-format floor tiles.
Many blocks also have rules for contractors: a concierge sign-in, a service lift to book, or a loading bay with a time limit. Send us the building’s rules when you book and we plan the visit around them.
Older houses in the north, student lets in Hendon
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Hampstead Garden Suburb, in N2 and NW11, was founded by Henrietta Barnett, who set up the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust in 1906, with a master plan by Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. It has just over 5,000 properties. Freeholders there need the Trust’s approval for external alterations. If your house has leaded or small-paned windows, tell us when you book, because each pane is cleaned by hand and that takes longer than a single sheet of glass.
At the other end of the borough, Chipping Barnet (also called High Barnet) has had a market since King John’s charter of 1199, and Wood Street still has cottages from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
The town is served by Barnet Hospital, run by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. The High Barnet branch of the Northern line climbs to its terminus here through Woodside Park and the station that serves Totteridge and Whetstone, and East Barnet has its own Affinity Water supply zone.
Hendon is the student end. Middlesex University’s main campus is near Hendon Central station and had 15,020 students in 2024/25. A student kitchen used by four people for a year needs more time than its size suggests.
Licensing in Barnet in 2026
Barnet has run additional HMO licensing across all 24 wards since 27 October 2022, and the scheme ends on 26 October 2027. It covers houses shared by three or four people who are not all related and share a kitchen or bathroom, and some converted blocks of flats. The national mandatory licence still applies to five or more sharers.
There is no selective licensing in force for ordinary family lets. An earlier scheme for Burnt Oak, Colindale North and Colindale South was approved but never started.
In February 2026 the council’s cabinet approved a new consultation on ten wards (Burnt Oak, Childs Hill, Colindale North, Colindale South, Cricklewood, Finchley Church End, Friern Barnet, Golders Green, Hendon and West Hendon), which ran from 15 June to 15 September 2026. The result goes back to cabinet, and a scheme cannot start until at least three months after it is designated.
For tenants the test at the end is the same everywhere: the home has to come back as clean as the check-in report describes it, and the clerk compares the two room by room.
The home has to come back as clean as the check-in report describes it, and the clerk compares the two room by room.
Limescale on two water networks
Barnet is one of the boroughs supplied by two water companies. Affinity Water serves the north, including every EN5 postcode, and its Barnet supply zone averaged 295 mg/l of calcium carbonate in 2025, which is hard. Thames Water serves almost all of NW4 around Hendon and says all the water in its region is hard. Wherever you rent in the borough, expect scale.
On a check-out that shows as white crust on tap bases, a cloudy shower screen, a tide mark in the toilet and scale on the tiles behind the taps. Descaling all of it is part of the fixed price.
What the cleaners do in each room
Every cleaner is interviewed in person before they start, insured, and trained on our 57-point checklist.
- Kitchen: cupboard and drawer interiors, door fronts and handles, worktops and splashback, hob, cooker hood and its filter, sink and taps, fridge and freezer (turned off and defrosted the night before), dishwasher and washing machine seals and drawers, and the floor under anything that slides out.
- Bathroom: taps, shower head, screen and tiles descaled, grout scrubbed, toilet inside and round the base and back, bath and panel, basin, mirror, extractor grille.
- Bedrooms and living rooms: skirting boards, doors and frames, light switches and sockets, radiators, wardrobes inside, window frames, sills and the inside of the glass, balcony door tracks in flats.
- Hall and stairs: banisters, spindles and step edges, the meter cupboard, internal glass; floors vacuumed and washed last.
We need the home empty and the electricity and water on, because the cleaners work from the property’s own supply. Marks that will not lift, such as a scorch on a worktop, are damage, and the clerk records them as such.
The oven is always an add-on: £31 for a single or single wide oven, or £62 for a double or a 90cm range, when booked with the clean. Shelves, trays and other parts that come out are soaked separately while the cavity, door glass and seals are cleaned by hand in the kitchen, with the inner glass done where the door design allows. To book an oven on its own, see oven cleaning in Barnet.
With the clean, carpets cost £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing, less than the standalone carpet cleaning in Barnet service. Staying put in the borough instead? Our domestic cleaning in Barnet starts at £23 an hour for weekly three-hour visits, and the London end of tenancy cleaning page covers the boroughs around it.
End of tenancy questions from across the borough
Is my rented flat in Colindale or Hendon covered by selective licensing?
Not yet. Both are among the ten wards in the 2026 consultation, but no scheme has been designated. A home shared by three or more unrelated people already needs an HMO licence under the borough-wide scheme.
How much is a three-bed family house in Finchley?
£339 at a fixed price. The oven adds £31 for a single, and carpets are priced by room if your tenancy asks for them.
We are four sharers near Middlesex University and leave on different days. How do we book?
Each person can book their own room and a share of the kitchen and bathroom at £30 per cleaner per hour. Whoever leaves last books the shared rooms, or the whole house at the fixed price.
How do I pay?
A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done.
What if the inventory clerk marks something down?
If the letting agent or clerk raises a cleaning point within 48 hours, the cleaners return and fix it for free. Forward the lines from the report, or send them by WhatsApp to 0333 555 2076.