Local end of tenancy cleaning in Bexley Village

End of tenancy cleaning in Bexley Village, from £156 for a studio and £243 for a two-bed, with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee on every job. We have cleaned DA5 rentals since 2014: the Old Mill conversions, the Georgian cottages off Manor Road, the 1930s semis on Hurst and Baldwyns, the Victorian terraces around Parkhill. Call 0333 555 2076 or book online.

Last updated May 2026. We cover every DA5 postcode and the wider borough; the Bexley end of tenancy hub lists the sibling areas.

A working village that still keeps a clerk busy

Bexley Village is one of the few corners of Greater London that still works like a village. The High Street bends around a mini-roundabout past shops and cottages, St Mary the Virgin sits at the eastern end on Manor Road, and the whole core was made a conservation area in 1972 with eighteen listed buildings inside it. St Mary’s is grade II* and dates to the 13th century, on the site of a Saxon church before it. The River Cray runs through, and the Old Mill that once stood on it burned down in 1966, got rebuilt in replica, and is now flats. None of that history matters to an inventory clerk. The age of the buildings, though, matters a great deal.

That is the thing tenants underestimate. A modern flat in a new block near the station is a quick clean with predictable surfaces. A Victorian terrace on Parkhill Road, with original sash windows and deep skirting and a cast iron fireplace nobody has lit in years, holds dirt in places a newer home simply does not have. The clerks who inventory this stock for the High Street agents know every one of those places, because they have been writing them up for years.

There is a commuter side to all this. Bexley station sits at the southern edge of the village on Station Approach, and the run into London Charing Cross is what brought a lot of these tenants here in the first place. So the local rental market splits in two. On one side the period cottages and terraces, let by the old High Street firms. On the other the newer flats near the station, turning over faster as people move in and out for the commute. Both ends get the same scrutiny at check-out.

This page is the long version. It covers what the local agents check, why DA5 deposits get clipped, what the clean includes, what it costs, and how the law sits since the spring of 2026. Read it before you pack the last box.

The money in play when you leave a DA5 rental

DA5 is the premium corner of the London Borough of Bexley. According to ONS data, average private rent across the borough reached £1,521 a month in November 2025, up 9.0% on the year, and Bexley Village runs ahead of that borough figure. Weekly rents here average around £449. Three-bed houses on roads like Woodside Lane and Baldwyns let for £2,100 to £2,200 a calendar month through agents such as Acorn, Dexters and Milegate.

Here is why that number governs your move-out. Under the Tenant Fees Act 2019 your deposit is capped at five weeks’ rent where the annual rent is under £50,000. On a £2,100 three-bed that is roughly £2,421 held against you. On a one-bed Old Mill conversion at £1,400 it is about £1,615. That is the pot a clerk is working from on check-out day, and a single flagged category, the oven or the bathroom grout or a stained carpet, can justify £150 to £450 of it. Fail three or four categories and the deduction crosses into four figures fast.

We do not gamble with that. Over the last decade we have built up to 300+ letting agents on our books, and we have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions. The clerks know our paperwork. That is half the battle on a disputed check-out.

Why a Bexley Village home hides dirt where newer stock does not

The stock here is mixed, and that is exactly what makes a DIY clean risky. You have converted mill buildings, Georgian and Victorian cottages, Edwardian villas, post-war semis, a few sheltered schemes around Hurst Place, and a pocket of new-build flats by the station. Each type fails the inventory in its own way, and the local clerks have seen all of them.

Take the windows. Original timber sashes in the terraces on Parkhill, Vicarage and Chaucer Road collect decades of grime down the runners, and you cannot lift it with a cloth; it needs a pointed tool and patience. Cast iron fireplaces, even ones decommissioned years ago, hold soot in the grate and the hearth. Parquet and original floorboards in the cottages off Manor Road want a dry method, because a wet mop swells the joints and the clerk will note the marks. The Old Mill units have exposed brick and beams that catch dust and cobwebs along the top, where nobody looks until handover.

Newer areas do not carry any of this. A skirting board in a 1930s semi is a flat run you can wipe in a minute. A deep moulded skirting in an Edwardian villa has a profile that traps dust in the grooves, and a clerk will run a finger along it. If your checklist treats every property the same, the period homes are where it falls down.

Hard water is the other constant. DA5 is a hard-water zone, so scale builds on shower screens, taps, mixer heads and toilet bowls whether the property is old or new. It photographs clearly, and it is one of the first things a clerk logs.

None of this is a reason to dread the move. It is a reason to use someone who has cleaned the houses before. We have spent a decade learning which Bexley Village features trip a check-out and how to deal with each one, and that experience is the difference between a clean that passes first time and one that comes back with a list.

The streets and corners we cover

We work the full DA5 sector and the village core. Some of the roads we clean most often:

• Bexley High Street and the Old Mill development on the Cray
• Manor Road, Manor Farm Road and Park Hill Road
• Bourne Road, Tile Kiln Lane and Vicarage Road
• Hurst Road, Hurst Place and Baldwyns Road
• Blendon Road, Blendon Drive and Penhill Road
• Woodside Lane, Oakwood Close and Montpelier Avenue
• Station Approach, Station Road and the Bexley railway station catchment
• North Cray Road, Thanet Road and Parkhill Road over towards the Blackfen border

We split jobs roughly by stock. The High Street, Manor Road and the cottage roads off it are period work, slower and more careful. Station Approach and the newer blocks are quicker turnarounds, often booked at short notice by tenants moving for the commute. The Blendon and Penhill end shades into 1930s and post-war stock, closer in feel to neighbouring Blackfen than to the village core.

If your road is not on that list, it is almost certainly still within reach. The whole point of working one area for a decade is that we rarely meet a Bexley Village street we have not cleaned before. Tell us the postcode and we will confirm.

What the law expects when you hand back the keys

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 has been rolling into force through the spring of 2026. The headline is the end of Section 21 no-fault evictions, but the part that touches cleaning is quieter: a wider redress scheme and clearer guidance on what a landlord can and cannot deduct for. Wear and tear stays on the tenant’s side. Dirt, grease, limescale, carpet stains and an uncleaned oven stay on the landlord’s side. What has changed is speed. Disputes now get triaged through the new ombudsman in weeks rather than months, so the clerk’s photographs carry more weight, not less.

The deposit rules around that have not moved. Your money must sit in one of the three protected schemes, and if a cleaning deduction is disputed, the scheme adjudicates on the evidence. They want to see a professional clean, a dated invoice and a room-by-room checklist. We supply all three on every Bexley Village job.

Deposit protection scheme

By law your deposit sits with TDS, DPS or MyDeposits. Each runs a free adjudication service that decides disputed deductions on the documents both sides provide.

Check-in inventory

The report and photographs taken when you moved in. Your check-out is measured against it, allowing for fair wear and tear, so the cleaner’s job is to return the property to that documented condition.

Selective licensing

Bexley runs a selective licensing scheme, but only in Belvedere Ward, from 13 January 2025 to 12 January 2030. Bexley Village is not in it.

Article 4 Direction

Since 24 September 2017 an Article 4 Direction has applied borough-wide, removing the automatic right to convert a house (class C3) into a small HMO (class C4). Any HMO conversion in DA5 now needs planning permission.

Licensed HMOs get a closer look on check-out, because the council cross-references the property’s condition against the licence. Borough-wide mandatory HMO licensing covers any property let to five or more people in two or more households. If your landlord is a licensed operator, the cleaning bar is effectively higher, and we will flag the HMO-specific items in the report so nothing gets missed.

The 57-point clean, room by room

Every end of tenancy clean runs off our 57-point checklist, set against what Bexley Village clerks actually mark. This is what a team works through on site.

Kitchen

• Oven stripped down: racks, trays, inner and outer door glass, fan housing, element and seals
• Hob and extractor, including the grease trap and filters, degreased or replaced where needed
• Fridge and freezer defrosted, cleaned inside and out, pulled forward to reach behind and underneath
• Microwave, dishwasher and washing machine: drums, seals, filters and the detergent drawer removed and degreased
• Cupboards emptied, wiped inside and out, handles degreased
• Worktops and sink descaled, taps polished, splashback grout spot-treated
• Skirting, switches, sockets, then the floor vacuumed and either mopped or dry-cleaned to suit

Bathrooms

• Bath, shower, screen and enclosure descaled, with mould cleared off the silicone
• Toilet done in full: bowl, both sides of the seat, cistern, base and the pipework behind
• Sink, taps, waste and splashback cleaned, mirror polished streak-free
• Wall and floor grout spot-bleached where there is mildew
• Extractor grille taken off and cleaned where it comes away
• Radiator and towel rail wiped front and back, cabinets emptied, floor vacuumed and mopped

Bedrooms and living areas

• Wardrobes, drawers and bedside units emptied and wiped inside and out
• Original sash window runners vacuumed then wet-wiped, which is the make-or-break detail in the period terraces on Parkhill and Vicarage Road
• Cast iron fireplace surrounds dusted and the hearth cleared of soot, working or not
• Parquet and original boards in the Manor Road cottages cleaned dry, never wet-mopped
• Exposed brick and beams in the Old Mill units brushed down for dust and cobwebs
• Curtain poles, tracks and blinds, venetians done slat by slat
• Light fittings and shades dusted, skirting and picture rails wiped, radiators front, back and underneath
• Carpets vacuumed thoroughly, with hot-water extraction available as an add-on

Throughout

• Halls, landings and stairs, including banisters and spindles
• Internal doors both sides, plus tops, frames and handles
• Windows cleaned inside and sills wiped, exterior on request for ground-floor flats
• Loft hatch wiped, keys and fobs sanitised for handback

What a Bexley Village clerk actually flags

We have worked alongside Village Estates, Robinson Jackson, Harpers and Co, Park Estates, Acorn and Ashton Reeves over the last ten years. The clerks they instruct keep flagging the same things. Here they are, roughly in order of how often the deduction lands:

1. Oven interior, door glass and trays. The single biggest category here. A neglected double oven on Hurst Road costs £85 to £140 to put right. We do it as standard.
2. Limescale on bathroom fittings. The water is hard, the scale shows, and the clerk photographs it.
3. Extractor grilles, kitchen and bathroom. Almost always missed by a DIY clean.
4. Deep skirting and dado rails in the period homes. The Victorian and Edwardian stock on Parkhill, Vicarage and Chaucer Road has profiles that hold dust in the grooves.
5. Original sash window runners. Old grime that needs a pointed tool to dig out.
6. Cast iron fireplace hearths. Even a decommissioned grate holds soot.
7. Behind and beneath the white goods. Clerks pull the fridge and the washing machine out on check-out.
8. Light fittings and shades. Dead flies in a pendant shade trigger a surprising number of deductions.
9. Grout in tiled bathrooms and kitchens. Mildew spots, not general age.
10. Carpet stains by the front door, and any pet marks where the tenancy allowed pets.
11. Loft hatch and airing cupboard dust, and the rear of every radiator.

Notice how many of those are period-stock items. That is the difference between Bexley Village and a newer patch like Blackfen, and it is why a clean here has to be done by someone who knows the houses.

There is an order to a check-out, too. The clerk usually starts in the kitchen, because the oven and the white goods are where most deductions live, then works the bathrooms for scale and mould, then the rooms for skirting, windows and fireplaces, and finishes with the halls and the loft hatch. We clean in the same order, on purpose, so that when the clerk follows their own routine the property holds up at every stop. A clean that looks finished from the doorway is not the same as a clean that survives a clerk crouching down to photograph the bottom of a radiator.

A clean that looks finished from the doorway is not the same as a clean that survives a clerk crouching down to photograph the bottom of a radiator.

Prices, and the extras worth bundling

Pricing is flat. No survey fee, no surprise add-on at the door. These are starting prices for an empty, unfurnished property in reasonable pre-clean shape.

Every price includes VAT, equipment, materials and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee. A few extras are worth bundling while we are on site. Carpet cleaning by hot-water extraction is the common one in the period homes, and upholstery cleaning for any sofas or mattresses left behind. We also run Oven cleaning as a standalone if the rest of the flat is fine, plus Floor cleaning for wood, tile and stone, and Window cleaning for the outsides.

If you are moving the contents too, our Removals team can run the same day, and After-builders cleaning covers the DA5 refurbs and loft conversions. Gardens and driveways are not part of an end of tenancy clean, but our outdoor cleaning service handles a patio or a drive separately.

One word on the difference between jobs. If you are not moving out, what you want is a deep clean, not an end of tenancy clean. The two cover similar ground, but only the end of tenancy clean carries the checklist and the guarantee that a deposit dispute needs, and that guarantee only bites once the property is empty.

Booking it around the Charing Cross timetable

Bexley station runs four trains an hour to London Charing Cross off-peak, via Lewisham, with Cannon Street services added at peak. Most of our village tenants are commuters working to that timetable, so we fit the clean around the move, not the other way round. Here is how it goes.

1. Call 0333 555 2076 or book online. Give us the address, the property size, the move-out date and any access notes. Parking on the High Street is metered and most residential roads are permit-only, so we plan the van around that.
2. We confirm the quote in writing. Fixed price, with any carpet or upholstery extras quoted separately so there are no surprises.
3. We turn up on the day, fully kitted. Team size scales to the property: a two-bed runs as a pair, a four-bed as a three-cleaner team.
4. We walk the property with you at the end. Anything you are unsure about gets sorted there and then.
5. You hand back the keys. If the agent challenges the clean inside 48 hours, we come back free. That has happened on roughly 3% of our Bexley Village jobs in the last year, which is the other side of that 97% pass rate.

We can usually do same-day or next-day when a slot opens, for an urgency premium, and we will tell you honestly whether we have one. Pairing the clean with the removal is common: furniture out in the morning, clean in the afternoon, keys back the next day.

One bit of local advice on timing. End of month is the worst rush, and Friday move-outs are the worst of the worst, because half the village seems to hand back keys the same day. If your tenancy gives you any flexibility, a midweek slot is easier to book and gives the carpets longer to dry before the clerk walks through. If it does not, book early and we will hold the date.

We clean across the rest of the borough too. Nearby end of tenancy areas:

• Bexleyheath (DA6 and DA7)
• Sidcup (DA14 and DA15)
• Welling (DA16)
• Erith (DA8)
• Belvedere (DA17)
• Crayford (DA1)
• Blackfen (DA15)
• The parent Bexley borough end of tenancy hub

Bexley Village end of tenancy questions

How much is end of tenancy cleaning in Bexley Village?

Studio from £156, one-bed from £207, two-bed from £243, three-bed from £339, four-bed from £425. The price is fixed per property, not hourly. Carpet and oven cleaning are separate line items, quoted before we start so there is nothing unexpected on the day.

Do you guarantee my deposit back?

We guarantee the clean, not the deposit, because deductions can also cover damage, missing items or arrears that are outside our control. What we do guarantee is a 48-hour re-clean, free, if your agent disputes the cleaning at check-out. Our first-time pass rate with Bexley Village clerks is 97%.

Do I need to be there when you clean?

No. Most Bexley Village tenants leave keys with the agent or with us through a key-safe. We let ourselves in, lock up, return the keys as instructed, and email the completed 57-point checklist with timestamped photos so you have a dated record.

How far in advance should I book?

Five to seven days in peak moving season, around month and quarter end, and two to three days off-peak. We can sometimes do same-day or next-day for an urgency premium when a slot opens, so call 0333 555 2076 and we will tell you straight.

Do you cover the Old Mill apartments?

Yes, routinely. The exposed brick and beams in the Old Mill conversions need a specific dusting approach that our Bexley Village teams are trained on. Parking there is tight, so we use the visitor bays and check in with building management before we start.

What if I have carpets that need deep cleaning?

We add hot-water extraction carpet cleaning as a line item. A whole two-bed is £140 and a three-bed is around £195. The carpet clean happens after the rest of the property is finished, so it has the night to dry before the check-out.

Do you handle properties with pets?

Yes. Pet-friendly tenancies in Bexley Village, especially the Old Mill units and some Blendon Road conversions, almost always get flagged for dander on carpet and soft furnishings. We charge a £30 to £60 pet premium depending on size and note the rooms affected in the invoice.

Do you clean external windows?

Interior sills and glass are standard on every job. External windows are included on ground-floor properties. First floor and above are quoted separately, usually £25 to £45 extra depending on how easy the access is.

Can I get a VAT invoice dated for the deposit dispute?

Yes. Every invoice carries our VAT number, the date of service, the property address and the 57-point checklist attached. TDS, DPS and MyDeposits all accept that format when they adjudicate a disputed cleaning deduction.

What if the property is already partly furnished by the landlord?

That is fine. The price is based on property size, not on empty versus furnished. We clean around landlord-owned furniture, including sofas and mattresses vacuumed both sides, and we note in the report which items could not be moved.

Do you clean the garden or patio?

Not as part of an end of tenancy clean. A patio or driveway is a separate outdoor cleaning job, from £95 for a small patio up to £260 for a standard drive. Ask us to quote it alongside the move if you need both.

Are you insured?

Yes. We carry £5m public liability and £10m employers’ liability cover. Certificates are available on request, and several Bexley Village letting agents already keep ours on file from previous jobs.

What payment methods do you accept?

Bank transfer, credit and debit card, and cash on completion. We do not take payment until the clean is finished and you have walked the property with our team, so you only pay once you have seen the result.

Is Bexley Village covered by HMO licensing?

Selective licensing applies only in Belvedere Ward, not in Bexley Village. Borough-wide mandatory HMO licensing applies to any property let to five or more people in two or more households, and an Article 4 Direction has restricted HMO conversions since 2017.

How does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 affect my deposit?

The deposit cap of five weeks’ rent below £50,000 a year and the three protected schemes are unchanged. What has changed is the speed of adjudication through the new ombudsman, so photographic check-out evidence carries more weight, and a documented professional clean with a dated invoice matters more than ever.

Can you do the clean on the same day as the removal?

Yes, and we often do, because we run removals as a sister service. Typically the furniture goes out in the morning, the cleaning team works the afternoon, and you hand the keys back the next morning.

Get your Bexley Village slot booked

Call 0333 555 2076, email [email protected], or book online. We cover all of Bexley Village, DA5 and the wider borough, seven days a week including bank holidays. From £156 for a studio, with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee and a 97% first-time pass rate across Bexley inventory clerks since 2014.