Bermondsey Spa’s end of tenancy cleaning team

End of tenancy cleaning in Bermondsey Spa, from a team that has worked the SE16 3 postcode since 2014. We clean to inventory-clerk standard right across the regeneration footprint, from Spa Road and Grange Walk to Neckinger, Alscot Road and the old Peek Frean ground off Drummond Road, and the price is fixed before we start. A studio is £156; a two-bed is £243. Book on 0333 555 2076 or [email protected].

Last updated May 2026. We cover SE16 3, SE16 4, SE1 3 and SE1 5. Parent borough page: end of tenancy cleaning Southwark.

What happens when you hand back a Spa Road flat

The clerk arrives with the check-in report on a tablet and works the flat against it, photo by photo. They open the oven. They lift the shower drain. They run a finger along the top of the skirting and along the bi-fold track. None of that is personal; it is a paid comparison between how the flat looked at check-in and how it looks now, and cleaning is the easiest box for them to mark down.

Here is the short version. We clean Bermondsey Spa flats to a 57-point agent-approved checklist, photograph every room, and back the job with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee, which is a big part of why 97% of our cleans pass the check-out first time. The rest of this page is the detail: what the area is, what the flats are, what the clean covers, what it costs, and what the clerk will actually open.

From pleasure garden to regeneration zone

Bermondsey Spa is a name with two lives. The first was a Georgian pleasure garden. Around 1770 a painter called Thomas Keyse found a chalybeate spring, iron-rich water that was sold as health-giving, near where Rouel Road now meets Spa Road, and turned his tea gardens into a spa with a pump room and, by the mid-1780s, licensed music and the odd firework, a small rival to Vauxhall a mile west. It faded after Keyse died in 1800 and closed around 1805. Factories came next, and the name went quiet for two centuries.

The second life is the one your tenancy sits inside. In 2000 Southwark Council marked out a stretch of run-down land behind Tower Bridge Road for renewal, with a masterplan drawn by the architects Levitt Bernstein across fifteen separate sites and roughly twenty hectares. Building started at Artesian House in 2003. By the time it was done the scheme had delivered more than 2,000 homes, over 40% of them affordable, with Hyde as one of the housing partners alongside the council. The Jubilee line extension, which opened Bermondsey station in 1999, was the thing that made any of it work.

That history is not trivia. It is why the housing stock here is so mixed, and why a single street can hand you a 2005 new-build, a listed civic conversion and a stripped-back factory loft within a hundred yards. Each one fails a check-out differently.

The name itself still trips people up. Bermondsey Spa is not the old riverside Bermondsey of Shad Thames and the antiques market; it sits inland, west of Southwark Park, with its centre on Spa Road and the triangle bounded by Jamaica Road, Tower Bridge Road and Southwark Park Road. Bermondsey Spa Gardens, the small park that carries Keyse’s old name, sits in the middle of it. If your tenancy agreement says SE16 3 or SE1 5 and the block went up after 2003, you are almost certainly inside the regeneration zone, and the clean we quote is built around exactly that stock.

A single street can hand you a 2005 new-build, a listed civic conversion and a stripped-back factory loft within a hundred yards.

The three kinds of Bermondsey Spa flat

Most of what we clean here falls into three groups, and the clerk treats each one to its own standard.

First, the regeneration new-builds. Artesian House, Larnaca Works, Weightman House and their neighbours were built to a spec-developer finish: quartz or Silestone worktops, integrated Siemens or AEG appliances, wet-room bathrooms with linear drains, engineered oak through the living space. The agents on these blocks, Foxtons, Acorn, Dexters, Oliver Jaques, Garrett Whitelock and the managing agents the housing association uses, all work to near-identical inventory templates. Our 57-point list maps straight onto them.

Second, the Town Hall. The old Bermondsey Town Hall at 164 Spa Road is Grade II listed, and Hollybrook converted it into private flats in 2014 with the cornicing, picture rails, original staircase and sash windows kept. Cleaning these is as much about what you leave alone as what you scrub. You keep steam away from original plaster. You keep abrasives off historic brass. We have done enough listed conversions across London to tell a period feature from a later addition, and to price the time it honestly takes.

Third, the industrial conversions and the build-to-rent. Bermondsey was once “Biscuit Town”, after Peek Frean ran a biscuit works on Clements Road and Drummond Road from 1866 until 1989; Frean Street still carries the founder’s name. The Pearl Yard scheme sits on that industrial ground off Drummond Road and was built for the rental market, run by an in-house managing agent with a tight inventory. Build-to-rent inspections score harder than a standard private check-out, so budget for it. Older warehouse conversions towards Shad Thames bring exposed brick and steel that needs a soft brush head, never a wet cloth.

The practical upshot is that you cannot quote this area off a postcode alone. A two-bed in Larnaca Works and a two-bed in the Town Hall are the same number of rooms and a different job entirely, because one has wet-room drains and engineered oak and the other has parquet and listed plaster. When you call, the more you can tell us about the block, the tighter the quote. We have probably cleaned in it before.

The licence and the law behind your tenancy

Two pieces of paper sit behind your move-out. One is your landlord’s licence. The other is the deposit scheme.

Most of Bermondsey Spa falls inside Southwark’s selective licensing scheme. The London Bridge and West Bermondsey ward and the South Bermondsey ward are both in it, the scheme runs from 1 November 2023 to 31 October 2028, and inside that area any privately rented flat let to a single household or two unrelated sharers needs a selective licence, on top of the borough-wide additional licensing for smaller HMOs and converted blocks. You can confirm your own address on Southwark Council’s property licensing pages. A licensed landlord is held to property-condition standards that include cleanliness at handover, which in practice means the inventory report gets more scrutiny, not less.

The law is changing too. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 reaches its first phase on 1 May 2026, when section 21 no-fault evictions end and fixed-term tenancies convert to periodic ones. What does not change is the deposit framework. Schemes like the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, the DPS and mydeposits still hold the money, and the way a dispute is decided still rests on evidence. So photograph the flat after the clean, and keep the dated invoice. An adjudicator wants proof, not opinions.

What the 57-point clean actually covers

The clean is room by room, and it is the same 57-point list whether the flat is a studio in a new block or a three-bed in the Town Hall. Below is the shape of it.

Kitchen

The kitchen is where most deposits are won or lost, so it gets the most hours.

• Oven stripped inside: liner plates, racks, fan housing, and the door glass separated into its layers and degreased
• Hob and extractor filter cleaned, whether that is an induction surround, gas caps and crowns, or ceramic
• Integrated dishwasher, washing machine and fridge-freezer moved where they can be, then cleaned inside, behind and underneath
• Worktops sealed and buffed, joints cleaned, splashbacks taken to streak-free
• Cupboards emptied and wiped, handles and soft-close hinges degreased
• Limescale off the chrome taps, strainer, waste and plughole
• Tile grout treated; the cooker-hood or extract grille vacuumed and the filter wiped
• Skirting, architraves, door frames and switch plates degreased, and engineered-oak floor edges done by hand with pH-neutral cleaner only

Bathrooms

Limescale is the running theme in a Bermondsey Spa bathroom, and it is the first thing a clerk looks for.

• Limescale off the rainfall head, thermostatic mixer, screens and grout
• Wet-room linear drain lifted and the hair trap emptied
• WC cleaned inside and out, then the basin, taps and overflow
• Silicone beads checked, with reversible black mould bleached back
• Chrome towel rail and radiator valves polished; extractor grille vacuumed
• Floor corners and skirting done by hand, not just the open floor

Bedrooms and living areas

The living space is where the floors, the brick and the heritage detail all get judged against the check-in photos.

• Engineered oak or laminate dust-mopped, then a pH-neutral mop with no water sitting in the joints
• Exposed brick in the factory and warehouse conversions vacuumed on a soft brush head
• Original cornicing and picture rails in the Town Hall flats dusted by hand, no steam, no abrasive
• Bi-fold and sliding tracks vacuumed and the silicone residue lifted
• Fitted wardrobes, shelves and rails dusted and wiped; under beds and behind furniture cleaned where it moves safely
• Radiators, light fittings, downlighter bezels, window interiors, sills and balcony thresholds all done
• Switches, sockets, thermostats and the intercom handset wiped down

Then the whole flat gets a final pass: a full vacuum into the edges and under the radiators, cobwebs off the coving, the entrance door and letterbox cleaned, and a walkthrough against the 57 points with the photographs sent to you before we leave. We do not test the smoke and CO alarms, mind; that is a landlord duty, so we dust them and leave them be.

What it costs to hand a flat back here

The price is fixed by the size of the flat, and you get it before we book. It includes materials, kit, VAT and travel across SE16 3, SE16 4, SE1 3 and SE1 5.

We do not charge for parking inside the masterplan car parks or on the Spa Road residents’ bays during permit-free windows. Carpets and upholstery are optional, but most tenancies here add them, because the check-in inventory photographs them and the clerk compares. For the detail, see our carpet cleaning, upholstery cleaning and oven cleaning pages.

We do not charge for parking inside the masterplan car parks or on the Spa Road residents’ bays during permit-free windows.

The jobs that cost Spa Road tenants their deposit

After more than a decade in these flats, the failures repeat. These are the ones a Bermondsey Spa clerk goes for, roughly in the order they check them.

1. The oven glass, both layers, separated. Acorn, Foxtons, Dexters and Oliver Jaques clerks all open it.
2. The hob filter and extractor housing. The grease trap is the most common fail in a spec-build kitchen.
3. Fridge seals and the salad-drawer runners, not just the drawers.
4. Silicone around sinks, baths and shower trays. Black mould is a deduction unless it was there at check-in and photographed.
5. Limescale on chrome mixers, waste covers and shower heads. Central London water hardness guarantees it.
6. Grout between the large bathroom tiles. The newer blocks use porcelain, and it all shows soap scum under a low light.
7. Wet-room linear drains. The hair trap has to come up and out.
8. Mechanical-ventilation grilles and the cooker-hood filter. Spec-build agents know to look.
9. Engineered oak. Scratches versus wear are judged against the check-in photos.
10. Exposed brick in Pearl Yard and the warehouse conversions, where dust gathers on the mortar ledges.
11. Original cornicing in the Town Hall flats, where any steam damage is both obvious and costly.
12. Behind the washing machine and the dishwasher. Clerks pull them out, so we do too.
13. The tops of the skirting boards. A finger run along the top edge is the clerk’s quick fail.

It is a long list. That is the point of the guarantee: if the clerk flags something off it, you tell us inside 48 hours and we put it right for nothing.

One pattern is worth calling out, because it catches good tenants who cleaned the flat themselves. The new blocks were built airtight, with mechanical ventilation doing the work an opening sash used to do, and that quietly throws condensation and mould at the bathroom silicone and the window reveals over a winter. A normal weekly wipe never gets into it. By check-out the clerk sees a grey bead of silicone and a tide-mark on the reveal, marks it down, and the tenant is baffled because the flat looked clean. We treat those surfaces as a matter of course, which is most of why a flat that “looks fine” still benefits from a proper inventory clean.

Getting to your door, and the month-end crush

Bermondsey Spa is well connected, which helps us turn up on time. Bermondsey station on the Jubilee line is a few minutes north, with buses 47, 188, 381 and the C10 running past it, and the 1, 42, 47, 78 and C10 work the Spa Road end. We carry our own kit, so a tight one-way street or a controlled parking zone is our problem, not yours.

Booking goes like this. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the postcode, the bedrooms and bathrooms, and whether the carpets or the oven need adding. You get a fixed price in minutes. Pick your check-out date; we can usually land a team inside 48 hours, though for the end-of-month rush we ask for five to seven days. On the day, two to four cleaners work the flat against the 57 points, photograph it, and send you the evidence before they go. Access is whatever suits: keys to the agent, a lockbox code, a concierge in most blocks, or you meet us at the door.

The timing matters more here than it does in a borough of houses. Bermondsey Spa is almost all flats, leases tend to turn over at the end of the month together, and the lifts in the taller blocks get booked solid for moves on the last weekend. If your check-out clerk is coming on the 31st, we would rather clean on the 30th, after your removals are out and before the clerk walks in, so the flat is empty and the photographs are clean. Tell us the clerk’s appointment time when you book and we will work back from it.

Need movers as well? Our removals team can run the same day. If the floors need more than a mop, the hard-floor cleaning service handles stone and engineered timber, and window cleaning covers the panes the clerk will look straight through. Handing back a flat you have refurbished? Then after-builders cleaning is the right job, not a standard tenancy clean.

Which clean you actually need

People mix these up, and it costs them. A regular domestic clean is hourly, surface-level, and it does not touch the inside of the oven. A deep clean goes further: descaling, grout, behind appliances when there is time. An end of tenancy clean is the only one built to satisfy an inventory clerk, with a fixed price by flat size, every appliance pulled, photographic evidence, the 48-hour guarantee, and the 57-point spec the agents recognise.

If a clerk is checking you out, you want the third column. The first two will not satisfy an inventory.

Terms your clerk and agent will use

Check-in inventory

The dated, photographed record of the flat’s condition when you moved in. Your check-out is judged against it, so the check-in photos are your best friend in a dispute.

Selective licence

The licence a landlord needs to let most single-household flats in the designated Southwark wards. See Southwark Council’s licensing page for the area covered.

MVHR

Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery, the whole-flat system in most of the new blocks. We clean the grilles and wipe the housings; replacing the filter is a landlord job.

Build-to-rent

A block owned and run by one institutional landlord, like Pearl Yard. The inventory is standardised and scored, and the cleaning bar is higher than a private let.

Fair wear and tear

The reasonable ageing of a flat over a tenancy. It is not deductible. Dirt is. The line between them is what an adjudicator decides.

Where we clean around Bermondsey Spa

We cover the whole regeneration footprint and the streets around it: Spa Road and the masterplan blocks, the Town Hall flats at 164 Spa Road, Grange Walk and the Grange conservation area, the Neckinger and Vauban estates, Alscot Road, Fort Road and Abbey Street, St James’s Road, the Southwark Park Road and Tower Bridge Road corridors, Pearl Yard off Drummond Road, and the Maltby Street and Dickens Estate pockets at the edges.

We work the neighbouring areas too. There is Bermondsey proper, Rotherhithe and Surrey Quays out on the peninsula, London Bridge and Borough to the west, and Peckham and Dulwich further south. The parent hub pulls them together: end of tenancy cleaning Southwark.

Bermondsey Spa end of tenancy questions

How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost in Bermondsey Spa?

From £156 for a studio, £207 for a one-bedroom, £243 for a two-bedroom, £339 for a three-bedroom and £425 for a four-bedroom. The price is fixed and it covers VAT, materials and travel across SE16 3, SE16 4, SE1 3 and SE1 5.

Do you clean inside the regeneration blocks like Artesian House and Larnaca Works?

Yes. We work inside the masterplan blocks around Spa Road and Grange Walk, and our teams know the concierge access routes and the managing-agent inventory templates on sight.

Can you clean a flat in the Bermondsey Town Hall conversion?

Yes. We treat the Hollybrook conversion at 164 Spa Road as the Grade II listed building it is. No steam near original plasterwork, no abrasive on historic brass, nothing paint-stripping near the sash frames. Priced per job.

Is carpet cleaning part of the end of tenancy price?

No, it is a separate add-on. It runs £36 a bedroom, £43 for a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed. Most Bermondsey Spa tenancies add it because the check-in inventory photographs the carpets, so the clerk compares them at check-out.

What happens if my letting agent fails the check-out?

Send us the clerk’s report within 48 hours. We come back and re-clean whatever was flagged, at no cost. About 97% of our jobs pass first time, and the few re-cleans are usually one room, not the whole flat.

Do you clean oven interiors?

Yes, as standard inside the end of tenancy clean. The door glass comes apart into both layers, the racks go in the dip tank, and the fan housing is degreased. If the oven is all you need, the oven-only clean is £77 single or £110 double.

Do you pull appliances out to clean behind them?

Where it is safe to, yes. Washing machine, dishwasher, fridge-freezer. The integrated units in the newer blocks often slide out on rails, so we slide them out; free-standing ones we walk out and clean behind.

What about the extract filters in the newer Bermondsey Spa flats?

We vacuum the mechanical-ventilation grilles and wipe the filter housings. We do not swap filters out, because that is the landlord’s maintenance job, but we will tell you if a filter is past its life so you can ask for a new one before the check-out.

Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change how I get my deposit back?

The first phase lands on 1 May 2026. Deposit protection under the TDS, the DPS and mydeposits is unchanged, and so is the way disputes are decided. A dated, itemised cleaning invoice plus photographs taken after the clean stays the strongest evidence you have against a cleaning deduction.

Is my Bermondsey Spa flat inside Southwark’s licensing scheme?

Most of it is. The London Bridge and West Bermondsey ward and the South Bermondsey ward both sit inside Southwark’s selective licensing scheme, which runs from 1 November 2023 to 31 October 2028. You can check your own postcode on Southwark Council’s property licensing pages.

Do you clean balconies?

Yes. Balcony glass, decking, thresholds and drains are included as standard. The masterplan blocks usually have a small linear drain at the balcony threshold that fills with leaves, and we clear it.

Can you clean a build-to-rent flat at Pearl Yard to the managing agent’s spec?

Yes. Pearl Yard runs an in-house managing agent with a tight inventory, and build-to-rent inspections tend to score harder than a standard private check-out. Our 57-point list maps onto it.

Can I book at short notice?

Usually, yes. We hold same-week slots across SE16. Month-end is the tight bit, so if your check-out falls between the 26th and the 2nd, give us five to seven days where you can.

Do you bring your own materials and kit?

Yes. Professional vacuums, steam cleaners, telescopic pole systems, dip tanks for oven racks, pH-neutral cleaner for engineered oak, descaler, degreaser, grout brushes. You supply nothing.

How long does an end of tenancy clean take?

A one-bed Bermondsey Spa flat is four to five hours with two cleaners. A two-bed is five to seven with two or three. A three-bed is seven to nine with three or four.

Do you give a VAT invoice?

Yes. It is itemised, dated, and comes with the 57-point checklist attached. That is the document a deposit adjudicator wants to see if your landlord disputes the clean.

What payment methods do you take?

Bank transfer, debit and credit card, and invoicing for letting agents and corporate clients. Private tenants pay on completion.

Still deciding? Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected]. A fixed quote lands in minutes, a team lands at your Bermondsey Spa door when you need one, and the deposit stays where it belongs, with you.