Local end of tenancy cleaning in Battersea Reach

End of tenancy cleaning at Battersea Reach, the gated St George riverside quarter on the south bank by Wandsworth Bridge, where the River Wandle runs out into the Thames at the Wandsworth Town end of the river. We have turned over flats across Commodore House, Trafalgar House, Ensign House, Discovery House, Meridian House, Flotilla House and the Ascensis Tower since 2014, covering the SW18 1 postcodes inside the estate. Book a deposit-back clean on 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected]. A 57-point agent-approved checklist, a 48-hour re-clean guarantee, and a 97% first-time pass rate across more than a decade of work on Juniper Drive.

Last updated May 2026. We cover the whole of Battersea Reach (SW18 1TA and the adjacent Juniper Drive postcodes), the Wandsworth borough hub, and the riverside either side, up to Fulham across the bridge and down to Putney.

Where Battersea Reach sits, and why it matters

People hear “Battersea” and picture the power station. This is the other one. Battersea Reach is the riverside quarter at the far western end of the borough, hard by Wandsworth Bridge, built out on the old Heliport-adjacent industrial ground where the Wandle meets the Thames. The name confuses people. The postcode is SW18, not SW11, and the nearest station is Wandsworth Town, not Battersea Park. If you have lived here you already know the difference, because you have spent two years explaining it to taxi drivers.

The blocks are mid-rise St George new-build, finished in phases from the late 2000s onward: glass, balconies, river frontage, a private gym and a concierge desk. More than a thousand flats sit across the named buildings. The lettings mix is heavily professional and corporate, a lot of it furnished, a fair slice of it on short and serviced terms. That matters for cleaning because the turnover is brisk and the inventory bar is high, and because the same agencies handle flat after flat to the same standard.

Walk out of the estate and you are two minutes from the Ram Quarter, the redevelopment of the old Young’s brewery off Wandsworth High Street, where Sambrook’s still brews beer on the historic site. Wandsworth Town station is a short walk away for the South Western trains into Waterloo and out to Clapham Junction. The riverside path runs past the Wandle mouth toward Wandsworth Park, and the Causeway leads back over toward the gyratory and the high street. None of that gets cleaned by us, but all of it explains who rents here and how fast they move on.

The renter profile is the thing that drives the cleaning work. A lot of these flats are corporate lets, taken on a company tenancy for someone relocating to London for a job, and corporate tenancies tend to end on a fixed date with a relocation agent watching the deposit. Others are professional sharers splitting a two or three-bed, and a meaningful slice are furnished short lets run as serviced flats. All three of those move faster than a family in a long let, and all three are handled by agents who clean to a written standard rather than a gut feel. That is why the same checklist comes up flat after flat, and why a clean that misses two items on it gets spotted straight away.

People hear “Battersea” and picture the power station. This is the other one.

The deductions the river causes

The deposits here are big. One-beds let for somewhere around £2,000 to £2,300 a month, two-beds in the £3,000s, and three-bed river-facing flats well above that, which under the five-week Tenant Fees Act cap puts the protected deposit anywhere from roughly £2,400 on a small flat to past £5,000 on a large one. That money sits with one of the government-backed schemes, TDS, DPS or mydeposits, until check-out is agreed. The cleaning verdict decides how much comes back.

What gets marked here is specific, and a lot of it traces straight back to the river. The Thames is tidal this far up, and the spray it throws onto Thames-facing balconies leaves a fine salt haze that ordinary glass cleaner smears around rather than lifts. Window tracks on the same flats collect a gritty residue that has to be vacuumed out before anyone wipes them, or it just turns to paste. Then there is the kit common to the St George spec: integrated ovens carrying two years of baked-on carbon, handleless cupboard fronts that hold fingerprints under the bright lobby-style lighting, composite stone worktops that scratch if someone reaches for an abrasive pad, and comfort-cooling grilles in the Elite flats that trap dust an upright vacuum never reaches. The reception floors are engineered board; the bedrooms are usually carpet, so you get both a wood-care job and a carpet job inside one flat.

None of these is hard to put right. Each is easy to get wrong. A steam mop will lift the lacquer on engineered board. An acidic limescale spray will dull a stone worktop in a single pass. A standard abrasive pad will haze the glass screen in an ensuite. We have spent years on Juniper Drive working out which product belongs on which surface, and the short version is that the deductions clerks raise here are almost never about effort. They are about method. A tenant who scrubs hard with the wrong cleaner can leave a flat looking worse than one who did nothing, and that is a deduction nobody enjoys arguing.

Cleaning is the single most common reason a landlord keeps money from a deposit, which Shelter sets out plainly in its guidance on what a landlord can charge for cleaning. The standard is that you return the flat as clean as it was at check-in, fair wear and tear aside. On a high-spec riverside flat that bar is visibly higher than on an older let, and the clerks who work Juniper Drive grade against the St George snagging standard, not a generic London one.

The other pressure is time. The lettings cycle here is quick. A clean that overruns its window annoys the concierge, and worse, it can collide with the next tenant’s move-in and turn what should be a clean handover into a dispute.

Wandsworth licensing: what actually applies here

This is where a lot of online advice gets Battersea Reach wrong, so here is the position as it actually stands. Wandsworth Council runs two separate licensing regimes, and only one of them can touch a flat in this development.

Selective licensing, which covers ordinary single-household private lets, applies only in named wards. The first designation, live since 1 July 2025, covers Furzedown, South Balham, Tooting Bec and Tooting Broadway. A second designation started on 1 April 2026 and adds East Putney, West Putney and Northcote. Battersea Reach is in none of those. It sits at the Wandsworth Town end of the borough, well outside every selective ward, so a normal let here needs no selective licence.

Additional HMO licensing is the one that can apply. It also started on 1 July 2025, it runs borough-wide, and crucially it reaches flats in purpose-built blocks let to three or more people from different households who share a kitchen or bathroom. A Battersea Reach two or three-bed shared by a group of young professionals can fall inside it. The fee under the current Wandsworth schedule is £1,507 per property, split into a £903 application part and a £604 grant part. You can confirm any address against the council’s selective licensing designation checker, and the council set out both schemes when it launched the new landlord schemes in July 2025.

Why does a cleaner care? Because in an HMO let, a poor check-out clean rarely ends with the deposit. If the flat is licensed, condition shortfalls can feed into the council’s compliance picture for the landlord, on top of any deposit dispute. Our written cleaning record, with the checklist and dated photos, gives the landlord something solid for both conversations.

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025, and what it changed

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 reshaped the end of a tenancy even for premium developments like this one. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone, existing assured shorthold tenancies have converted to periodic ones, and a landlord can only take possession on specific statutory grounds. Two things follow for a tenant at Battersea Reach. You can serve two months’ notice whenever you like, which compresses the turnover windows the concierge already runs tight. And because a landlord recovering a valuable riverside flat will look hard at its condition, a clean check-out protects both your deposit and the reference you carry to the next place.

The buildings we work in

We clean every flat type in every named building: studio, one, two and three-bed, duplex and penthouse, standard and Elite spec, river-facing and garden-facing. The buildings we are in most weeks:

• Commodore House, the flagship block on the river, with the on-site lettings office; studios up to lateral three-beds with roof terraces.
• Trafalgar House, one of the taller early-phase blocks, with penthouses on the top floors.
• Ascensis Tower, the landmark tower, panoramic Thames views and the trickiest external glass.
• Ensign House, riverside one, two and three-beds, including Elite flats with comfort cooling.
• Discovery House, Juniper Drive frontage with balconies over the communal gardens.
• Meridian House, including three-beds with west-facing balconies that take the afternoon river light.
• Flotilla House, a later phase, one, two and three-bed layouts.
• The Pinnacle, rooftop penthouses with wraparound terraces.

The estate gym, business centre and meeting rooms are run by the development and are not part of an end of tenancy clean. Underground parking bays and bike lockers we will do on request, but they are not standard. What is standard is the flat, cleaned to the inventory the agency holds.

A good chunk of the development lets on short and serviced terms, the furnished 90-day-minimum sort handled by agencies such as RiverHomes and Chase Evans. Between-tenancy cleans for those follow the same inventory spec as a normal assured shorthold check-out, so there is no separate, lighter standard for them. If anything the serviced flats run tighter, because a changeover clean often has to be done between a morning check-out and an afternoon arrival with no slack in between.

One practical note on access. Most of the buildings have a single goods entrance and one service lift, and on a busy Friday or a month-end Monday that lift is in demand from removals firms, delivery drivers and other cleaners all at once. We plan the order of a clean around when we can actually get equipment up to the floor, which is the kind of thing you only learn by working a development for years rather than turning up once.

What a full inventory clean covers

Every block here runs to broadly one St George specification, with small differences between buildings and between standard and Elite flats. Handleless kitchens with stone or composite worktops. Integrated appliances, single or double oven, fridge-freezer, dishwasher, washer-dryer, and in the Elite flats a built-in coffee machine and wine cooler. Underfloor heating throughout. Engineered or solid timber in the reception, carpet in most bedrooms. Floor-to-ceiling windows, glass balcony balustrades, ensuites with glass screens. None of it is hard to clean correctly. All of it is easy to damage with the wrong product, which is the whole point of using people who clean these flats every week.

Kitchen

• Handleless cupboard fronts degreased and wiped free of fingerprints, carcasses emptied and wiped, kick-plates cleaned.
• Stone or composite worktops cleaned pH-neutral only, grout lines treated, no acidic or abrasive product near them.
• Integrated oven, single or double: interior, racks, both panes of the door glass, seals, dials and the concealed drip tray.
• Fridge-freezer defrosted, interior cleaned, seals detailed, water and ice dispenser flushed where fitted.
• Dishwasher filter cleaned, salt and rinse-aid checked, interior descaled.
• Washer-dryer drum, drawer, filter and pipework area wiped down.
• Elite coffee machine and wine cooler, where fitted: interior cleaned, tank flushed, grounds tray emptied and washed.
• Extractor wiped down, grease filter degreased.
• Splashback and upstand polished; tap and sink descaled, drain flushed, under-sink cupboard cleaned.

Bathrooms and ensuites

• Rain shower heads descaled face-down, the arm polished.
• Glass screens descaled and squeegeed streak-free.
• Bath or shower tray descaled, sealant checked for mould.
• Toilet cleaned under the rim, behind the bowl, cistern and hinges wiped.
• Basin, tap and waste descaled and flushed.
• Mirror, demister panel and heated towel rail wiped and polished.
• Tiles and grout cleaned through, extractor cover removed, cleaned and reseated.

Bedrooms and reception

• Engineered or solid timber dry-mopped, then a wood-safe solution on a barely damp mop, no steam and no standing water.
• Bedroom carpet vacuumed, edges detailed, marks treated, with a deep hot-water extraction quoted separately.
• Floor-to-ceiling windows cleaned inside, frames wiped, tracks vacuumed then detailed rather than just wiped.
• Balcony glass cleared of the Thames salt haze on both faces where it can be reached safely.
• Balcony decking or terrace swept, wiped, drain checked.
• Built-in wardrobes wiped inside and out, shelves and rails done.
• Skirtings, architraves, internal doors and their tops, sockets and switches dusted and wiped.
• Comfort-cooling grille in the Elite flats vacuumed and wiped, filter cleaned; underfloor-heating panels wiped dry.
• Light fittings dusted, glass shades cleaned where they come down safely.

Throughout

• Entry-phone handset and intercom screen wiped.
• Hallway, cupboard interiors and any internal stairs in the duplex and penthouse flats cleaned, treads to handrail.
• Every corner cobweb-checked, then a final surface wipe-through after the team signs off and before the clerk arrives.

If you want the detail on the appliances specifically, our professional oven cleaning page sets out how the integrated ovens here are handled.

What it costs at Battersea Reach

Battersea Reach is a genuinely premium development, so the prices below sit a little above our standard London rates. They reflect the glass, the integrated kit and the inventory bar, not the postcode for its own sake. Every price includes VAT, products, equipment and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee.

Those are starting points for a furnished flat in clean condition let through a regulated agent. Unfurnished lets, heavily used kitchens, pet flats, balcony deep-cleans and the roof-terrace penthouses carry an uplift. We prefer to quote before we arrive rather than spring a number on you afterwards. If you would rather pay for hours than a fixed job, an hourly team works out at £30 per cleaner, though for an inventory check-out the fixed quote is almost always the better deal.

What the clerk actually checks

We have worked with every major agency operating across the development, and the inventory standards vary only in small ways. The headline list does not. This is roughly the order a clerk works through a Battersea Reach flat:

1. Oven interior, racks, rear wall, roof and between the door-glass panes.
2. Extractor grease filter, degreased or replaced.
3. Fridge-freezer defrosted, dispenser clean, seals spotless.
4. Dishwasher filter and interior, descaled and odour-free.
5. Stone worktops, no watermarks and no product residue.
6. Handleless fronts, no fingerprints under the lobby-style lighting.
7. Tap bases, sink overflow and drain strainer.
8. Shower screens, no limescale streaks, sealant mould-free.
9. Rain shower nozzles descaled and flowing evenly.
10. Toilet rim, hinges and cistern exterior.
11. Balcony balustrade, both faces, including the Thames-facing outer pane.
12. Window tracks vacuumed, not merely wiped.
13. Timber floors, no film, no water marks, no damage.
14. Bedroom carpet, no staining, edges done, with extraction evidence if asked.
15. Mirrors and glass streak-free.
16. Comfort-cooling grille and underfloor-heating panels.
17. The flat smelling neutral, no cooking, pet or smoke trace.

This is roughly the order a clerk works through a Battersea Reach flat.

End of tenancy, deep clean or regular clean

People mix these three up, and booking the wrong one is how a deposit slips. A regular clean keeps a lived-in flat tidy. A deep clean goes further but is not graded against an inventory. An end of tenancy clean is the one built to pass a clerk, and it is the only one of the three that carries the checklist, the evidence pack and the re-clean guarantee.

How a booking runs

1. Tell us the building, floor and bed count. A Commodore sixth-floor two-bed cleans differently from an Ensign fourteenth-floor three-bed, and the quote reflects that.
2. Give us the check-out date and the inventory time. We aim to finish at least two clear hours before the clerk, so floors are dry and glass is streak-free.
3. Share the concierge reference. We book the loading bay and the service lift with the front desk on your behalf, which is routine here.
4. We work, you go. No need to stay. We clean from the checklist, photograph any pre-existing damage, and hand you a signed-off record.
5. Inventory day. The clerk attends and clears the clean. Anything flagged within 48 hours, we return and fix at no cost.

That photo step matters more than it sounds. On a recent Trafalgar House two-bed the lead cleaner spotted a scuff on the reception timber the tenant had not noticed, flagged it as likely pre-existing, and the tenant raised it against the original check-in inventory rather than wearing a deduction for it. Citizens Advice makes the same point in its guidance on getting your tenancy deposit back: a professional cleaning receipt and dated photos are exactly the evidence a deposit scheme’s free adjudication service wants to see.

Deposit jargon in plain terms

Check-in inventory

The dated, photographed record of the flat’s condition at the start of the tenancy. Your check-out clean is judged against this, not against showroom-new, so keep your copy.

Deposit protection scheme

By law your deposit must sit in a government-backed scheme. The three for England are TDS, DPS and mydeposits, and the rules sit on the GOV.UK deposit protection pages.

Additional HMO licence

The Wandsworth licence that can apply to a flat let to three or more sharers from different households, including in a purpose-built block. The fee is £1,507 per property.

Fair wear and tear

The gradual, expected ageing of a flat through normal living. A landlord cannot deduct for it, and cleaning is not part of it, which is why a clean check-out removes the easiest deduction to make.

ADR

Alternative dispute resolution, the free adjudication each deposit scheme runs if you and the landlord disagree on deductions. Evidence wins it, which is why we hand over a checklist and photos.

Services and nearby areas

Often booked alongside a Battersea Reach end of tenancy clean:

• Professional oven cleaning for the integrated single and double ovens.
• Carpet cleaning for the bedrooms.
• Upholstery cleaning for furnished-let sofas and mattresses.
• Window cleaning for the floor-to-ceiling glass.
• Removals, timed around the clean and the concierge lift window.
• After builders cleaning for refurbished flats going back on the market.

Across SW18 and the river either side we also cover Wandsworth Town, a few minutes on foot past the station, Clapham Junction a short train ride away, Putney upriver, and Fulham across Wandsworth Bridge. We also work Battersea and Battersea Power Station over in SW11, plus Southfields and Earlsfield inland. The parent hub for all of it is our Wandsworth end of tenancy cleaning page.

Frequently asked questions

Do you clean studio and one-bed flats at Battersea Reach?

Yes. Studios start at £166 and one-beds at £217. Most studios in the development run from about 400 to 500 sq ft, and a single cleaner takes roughly three to four hours to bring one up to a full inventory standard.

How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost for a two-bed at Battersea Reach?

A standard two-bed furnished flat starts at £263. River-facing units with extra balcony glass, a roof terrace or Elite-spec comfort cooling start a little higher because there is simply more glass and more kit to clean.

Does selective licensing apply to my Battersea Reach flat?

No. Wandsworth’s selective licensing only covers single-household lets in Furzedown, South Balham, Tooting Bec, Tooting Broadway, and from 1 April 2026 East Putney, West Putney and Northcote. Battersea Reach is in none of those wards. Borough-wide additional HMO licensing can still apply if a flat is let to three or more sharers from different households.

Do you coordinate with the concierge and the service lift booking?

Yes. Give us your building name, flat number and any reference the front desk has issued, and we will speak to the concierge to confirm the loading bay slot and the service lift window. Coordinating that booking is routine for us here.

Do you clean the outside face of the balcony glass?

The inside face, always. The outside face too, where it can be reached safely from inside the balcony. Where the outer balustrade needs rope access or a cradle, on the upper floors of the Ascensis Tower for instance, that is the estate’s external contractor and not us.

How do you clean the engineered boards without damaging them?

Dry microfibre first, then a pH-neutral wood-safe solution on a barely damp flat mop, buffed dry. No steam, no standing water, no all-purpose spray. These floors hold up fine to the right method and mark almost at once under the wrong one, which is why scuffed boards are such a common deduction here.

Can you turn a flat round the same day, check-out at 10am and check-in at 4pm?

Yes, and it comes up often given how quick the lettings cycle runs here. We send a larger team, usually three to five cleaners depending on the size of the flat, to compress the work into a four to five hour window so the floors are dry before the next tenant arrives.

What exactly is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?

If the inventory clerk or agent flags anything cleaning-related within 48 hours of us finishing, we come back and re-clean it at no cost. It covers cleaning standards only. It cannot put right pre-existing wear and tear or damage that was already on the inventory.

Do you offer carpet cleaning for the bedrooms?

Yes, as an add-on. Hot-water extraction runs at £36 per bedroom, £43 for a living room where one is carpeted, or £115 for a typical two-bed flat done in one visit. We hand over a cleaning record for the landlord or agent on request.

Is the oven cleaning included in the end of tenancy price?

Yes. A full interior oven clean, racks, door glass and seals, is part of the standard package. Booked on its own, oven cleaning is £77 for a single, £110 for a double and £114 for a range cooker.

What happens if the inventory clerk flags something cleaning-related?

Call us inside the 48-hour window. We book a return visit, usually within a day, and put right whatever the clerk listed. No charge and no argument, as long as it sits within cleaning rather than wear and tear.

Do you work weekends and bank holidays?

Yes. Saturday and Sunday slots fill fast at Battersea Reach because so many agency check-outs land on a Monday. Bank holiday weekends are bookable too, but they go early, so give us as much notice as you can.

Do you cover the short-let and serviced flats in the development?

Yes. Between-tenancy cleans for the furnished short lets here, the ones let on roughly 90-day minimum terms, follow the same inventory specification. We also run recurring changeover cleaning for investor landlords with several flats across the buildings.

How far ahead should I book, and which neighbouring areas do you cover?

Two to three days is comfortable and 24 hours is usually doable, with same-day slots often free given the size of our SW18 team. Around Battersea Reach we also cover Wandsworth Town, Earlsfield, Southfields, Putney and Clapham Junction. Call 0333 555 2076.

Book your Battersea Reach clean

Battersea Reach has its own rhythm: the St George finish, the salt off the river, the concierge bookings, the short sharp turnover windows. Twelve years on Juniper Drive means we clean to it without being told twice. Deposits of £2,400 to £5,500 turn on getting the flat right. Call 0333 555 2076 for a same-day quote, email [email protected], or book online.