End of tenancy cleaning throughout Boleyn

End of tenancy cleaning in Boleyn, E13, done by a team that has worked this ward since 2014, knows the difference between a Castle Street terrace and an Upton Gardens flat, and cleans to the same 57-point checklist your letting agent reads off the inventory. From £156 for a studio. Same-week slots, oven and carpet add-ons fitted in one visit, and a 48-hour re-clean guarantee in writing. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected].

Last updated May 2026. We cover E13 9, E13 0, the Green Street corridor up to E7 8, and the E6 1 edge where the ward meets East Ham. Boleyn is a ward of the London Borough of Newham, on the western side of the Green Street area, north of Barking Road and south of Plashet Road.

The tower that named the ward

Boleyn is named after a building that no longer stands. On the east side of Green Street there was once a stately home, properly called Green Street House, that local people knew as Boleyn Castle. In its garden stood an octagonal red-brick tower with a crenellated parapet, built around the middle of the sixteenth century, and that tower was called Anne Boleyn’s Tower. The story went that Henry VIII courted Anne Boleyn there. There is no documentary evidence for it, and the house was built after her lifetime, so the romance is almost certainly a tale. The name stuck anyway.

When West Ham United built their ground next door in 1904 they borrowed the name, which is why a generation of supporters called the stadium the Boleyn Ground. The house itself was demolished in 1955. The junction where Green Street meets Barking Road, by the Boleyn Tavern, is still known to older residents as Morley’s Corner, after the family who once owned the house.

None of that history changes how a kitchen cleans. It does explain why the ward carries a Tudor queen’s name over what is now one of the most heavily rented, most heavily inspected corners of east London. Boleyn sits inside Newham, and Newham has spent more than a decade checking private landlords harder than almost any council in the country. That is the real backdrop to a check-out here, and it is where this guide starts.

Why a Boleyn check-out turns on paperwork now

The deposit is the only money still moving when you hand the keys back. Rent is paid, the new place is sorted, and the one sum a landlord can still reach into is the deposit they took at the start. On a two-bed flat around Upton Gardens, where rents sit near £1,750 to £2,100 a month, that deposit is commonly £2,000 to £2,400. Every penny of it is decided at check-out.

What changed in 2026 is how that decision gets made. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent in October 2025, and the bulk of it came into force on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone. Most assured shorthold tenancies converted automatically to rolling periodic tenancies on that date, so the fixed term you signed has very likely already lapsed into a periodic one. The burden of proving damage and dirt at check-out now sits more firmly with the landlord than it used to.

You would think that makes deductions harder to pin on a tenant. In Boleyn it has done the opposite. Agents around Green Street and Barking Road read the new rules and tightened their inventories rather than loosened them, because a deduction now has to survive scrutiny. The easiest way to defend a deduction is a fresh, dated check-out report with a photograph of exactly what a so-called professional clean missed. So the reports got longer and the standard got higher.

Translation: clerks inspect harder, not softer. A clean that passed in 2022 fails in 2026.

Your deposit is still protected, and that protection is what gives you a route to argue. By law it sits in one of three government-backed schemes, and the dispute process behind each one rewards documented evidence over assertion every time. Adjudicators do not visit the flat. They read what both sides send them, and they side with the party holding date-stamped photographs. That is the whole reason our team leaves a property with a photo report you can use.

Tenancy deposit scheme

A government-approved holder for your deposit. Most Boleyn landlords use one of three: TDS, DPS or mydeposits. Each runs a free adjudication service if you dispute a deduction.

Check-in inventory

The report made at the start of the tenancy, with photos, describing the condition and cleanliness of the property. Your check-out is judged against it, so the inventory is the document the whole argument hangs on.

Check-out report

The inspection at the end, usually by an independent clerk. Since the Renters’ Rights Act it is written to be defensible, which in practice means more photos and more flagged points.

Periodic tenancy

A rolling month-to-month tenancy with no fixed end date. Since 1 May 2026 this is the default for almost every let in Boleyn, new or old.

Adjudication

The free dispute service inside each deposit scheme. An adjudicator reads both sides’ evidence and decides who keeps the disputed money. No site visit, so your photos do the talking.

The licence behind every E13 inspection

Boleyn is a named ward in Newham’s borough-wide property licensing scheme, and that single fact shapes every check-out here. The council confirms it on its own selective licensing designation page. Boleyn is one of 22 of the borough’s 24 wards covered; only Royal Victoria and Stratford Olympic Park sit outside it.

The selective scheme launched on 1 June 2023 and runs to 31 May 2028. It covers single-household private lets, which is most of the housing stock in this ward. A separate additional scheme covers smaller houses in multiple occupation let to three or four sharers, and mandatory licensing sits on top for larger ones. A selective licence costs the landlord £750 for up to five years, a little less for accredited landlords with efficient properties. Newham was the first council in the country to license its whole private rented sector, and this is its third five-year scheme, which is why local landlords treat compliance as routine rather than optional.

What does that mean for you, the tenant moving out? A licensed property is inspected against a defined standard, and the council can flag the landlord for limescale, mould blooms in bathrooms, and grease build-up on extractors. So the landlord, in turn, pushes hard to have all of that gone before the next tenant arrives. The inventory at your check-out is treated less like a friendly handover note and more like a compliance record. To get your deposit back without a fight, the bar you are clearing is the licensable standard, not the standard a decent neighbour would shrug at.

A clean that passed in 2022 fails in 2026.

This is the part of Boleyn that catches people out, especially anyone who has rented in a borough with no licensing at all. Down the road in Stratford the picture even splits mid-district, because the E20 Olympic Park ward is one of the two exempt from the scheme while the rest is in. Boleyn has no such split. The whole ward is in. If you rent here, assume your landlord holds a licence and assume the inspection that follows your clean will be a thorough one.

Two ages of Boleyn housing, and where each costs you

Boleyn rentals come from two very different eras, and they fail an inventory in two completely different ways. Knowing which one you are handing back tells you where the deductions hide.

The older stock is the late-Victorian and Edwardian terrace. Bay-fronted, two or three bedrooms, often three storeys with a converted loft, on streets like Tweedmouth Road, Jedburgh Road, Brampton Road, Selsdon Road and Hollybush Street running off Green Street. Many still have their original cornicing, ceiling roses, sash windows and encaustic-tiled hallways. These houses were built for dockworkers and railway families in the 1880s and 1890s, and they hide grime in places a tenant never looks: the top edge of a picture rail behind a wardrobe, the pulley housing inside a sash window, the grout between original hallway tiles, the gap behind a kitchen plinth. Bay windows are the classic damp trap, so mould on the cornicing inside a bay is one of the first things a clerk circles.

The newer stock is Upton Gardens, Barratt London’s redevelopment of the old Boleyn Ground. It is a large scheme, more than 800 homes across eighteen buildings of three to thirteen storeys, finished in phases up to 2022, with blocks named Lyall House, Chapman House, Cantwell House, Paynter House, John Charles Tower and Sealey Tower among others. These flats look immaculate at a viewing and then collect inspection faults quietly. The integrated kitchen extractor hides a grease-saturated mesh filter. The balcony has a drainage channel that clogs with leaf litter. The sliding patio door runs on a track that holds a year of grit. The en-suite shower screen limescales within months, because east London water is hard and these screens are used daily.

Between the two ages there is a third, smaller layer: post-war and 1960s ex-council flats, where kitchens and bathrooms are older and more worn, and where a clerk expects fair wear and tear but still wants the appliances and seals clean. We clean all three. The point is that a single generic method does not cover them, because the Victorian terrace and the new-build flat lose your deposit in opposite places.

What a clerk photographs first, and in what order

Inventory clerks in Boleyn do not all work to the same script. We have passed check-outs from No Letting Go, VeriSmart, InventoryBase users and the in-house teams of every major Newham agent, and the order varies. The failure points do not. After hundreds of E13 check-outs we can tell you what gets photographed, roughly in the sequence a clerk walks the property.

They start in the kitchen, because that is where most deductions live. The oven door comes first, both faces of the glass, and between the panes if the door splits. Then the extractor canopy and its grease filter, pulled out and held up to the light. Then the hob, burner caps and pan supports on gas, a lift-and-look on the ceramic. The washing machine seal is next, peeled back to show the black mould that grows in the rubber gasket. A finger runs along the top of the wall units. Anything that pulls out, the fridge and the machine, gets checked behind for grease and dropped food.

The bathroom is the second front. Silicone seals get inspected for the pink bloom that hard water and damp encourage. The shower screen is turned against the light so limescale shows. The toilet rim jets, hinges and the hidden underside of the seat all get a look. Then the clerk moves through the rest of the flat: skirting top edges throughout, picture rails in any pre-war terrace, the tops of internal doors with a finger swipe, condensation staining on the sash sills, the sliding patio-door tracks in any Upton Gardens flat, the balcony drainage there, carpet edges around skirtings and under furniture footprints, and the garden if there is one.

Our 57-point checklist is built backwards from that walk. Every one of those points is on it, which is why our first-time pass rate runs at 97%, and why on the rare miss the 48-hour re-clean brings us straight back at no charge. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents and have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions, and the checklist is the reason that figure exists.

Here is what the checklist covers, room by room.

Kitchen

• Oven dismantled, the door glass split and degreased on every face, racks soaked, trays scrubbed, fan housing wiped, seals checked
• Hob and extractor, with gas burners stripped, ceramic or induction surfaces descaled, the canopy degreased and the mesh filter soaked or replaced if it is past saving
• Splashback tiles and grout fully degreased, not wiped, so lacquered cooking residue actually comes off
• Fridge and freezer defrosted, shelves and seals cleaned, the condenser grille at the back dusted
• Washing machine and dishwasher seen to: gasket mould treated, detergent drawer removed and scrubbed, filter cleared
• Cupboards inside and out, tops of wall units, inside the cutlery drawer, behind the kickboard where it lifts
• Sink, taps and waste descaled, the U-bend flushed, the plug chain detailed
• Worktop joins and the silicone at the upstand cleaned
• Floor grout scrubbed, vinyl edges lifted at the units and cleaned beneath

Bathrooms

• Shower screen and enclosure stripped of limescale, which east London hard water makes non-negotiable
• Bath, taps, mixer and shower head descaled and polished
• Tiles and grout brightened, mould treated, silicone checked
• Toilet bowl, rim jets, hinges, base, behind the cistern and the underside of the seat
• Sink, pedestal and vanity unit cleaned inside and out
• Extractor grille taken off and cleaned where it is meant to come off
• Mirror, light fittings, towel rail and accessories

Bedrooms and living areas

• Skirting boards, both edges, including behind movable beds and wardrobes
• Picture rails in the Green Street terraces, where top-edge dust is a classic deduction
• Cornicing and ceiling roses checked for cobwebs and bay-window mould
• Sash pulleys, sills and runners in the old stock; aluminium tracks vacuumed and wiped in the Upton Gardens flats
• Window glass, frames, handles and locks inside
• Sliding patio-door tracks on the Upton Gardens balconies, where a grit-clogged runner is a recurring fail
• Balcony drainage channels cleared of leaf debris
• Internal doors on both sides, the top edge a clerk always swipes, plus handles and hinges
• Light switches, sockets and thermostats degreased
• Radiators front, sides and behind where you can reach
• Built-in wardrobes inside, on top, rails wiped
• Curtain rails, pelmets and blinds, slat by slat on a venetian
• Carpets vacuumed, with a professional shampoo available as an add-on
• Hard floors mopped with the right cleaner, since laminate, engineered board, original Victorian tile and vinyl each want a different one

Throughout

• Original encaustic hallway tiles in the older terraces brushed and washed without acidic cleaner, which would etch them
• Staircase treads, risers, handrail, spindles and the tops of newel posts
• All internal glazing, plus communal windows on flats where access is given
• Cobwebs front to back, including the porch on a terrace
• Bins emptied, the bin store accessed where a development needs it
• A final walk-through, with a date-stamped photo report emailed to you within 24 hours of finishing

Green Street kitchens, and why a wipe never passes

Green Street is the spine of this ward, and Queens Market sits halfway along it by Upton Park station. The street has fed the area for more than a century, and the food culture around it is genuinely one of the best in London. That has a direct and unglamorous consequence at check-out. Kitchens in Boleyn rentals get cooked in, hard.

The oils used in Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Caribbean and West African cooking are wonderful on a plate and brutal on a tile. Heat them daily and they turn to a hard lacquer on the splashback, the extractor canopy and the oven trim. A soapy cloth slides straight over that lacquer and does nothing. We have watched tenants scrub a splashback for an hour and lift none of it, then assume the tiles are just stained. They are not stained. They are varnished in cooking residue, and it needs a proper alkaline degreaser and dwell time to break the bond before it wipes away clean.

Then there is the water. East London runs hard, so limescale builds on every wet surface faster than most renters expect. A shower screen that looks fine in dim bathroom light shows a milky film the moment a clerk turns it to the window. Taps, the kettle area, the shower head and the toilet all scale up. None of it shifts with a quick wipe either, and white vinegar from the cupboard rarely touches a year of buildup. We use a descaler made for the job and give it time to work.

That is the difference between a tenant clean and a deposit-back clean in this ward. It is not effort. People put in plenty of effort and still fail. It is the right product, on the right surface, left long enough to actually do something, and a method built around the two things Boleyn kitchens and bathrooms always throw at you: baked-on cooking grease and hard-water scale.

What the clean costs in E13

Pricing is fixed by the size of the property and quoted up front, with no callout charge. Boleyn sits outside the central charging zones and our vans are compliant, so nothing is added for parking, congestion or emissions.

Every price includes VAT, all materials and equipment, and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee. It helps to know how this clean differs from the other two we get asked about, because tenants sometimes book the wrong one and pay for work the inventory does not need, or skip work it does.

A regular clean keeps a lived-in flat ticking over. A deep cleaning visit resets a place you are staying in, top to bottom, but carries no guarantee because it is not measured against an inventory. The end of tenancy clean is the only one of the three written to pass a check-out, and the only one we back with the 48-hour promise.

Add-ons that save a Boleyn deposit

The core clean covers the whole property, but a few jobs come up so often in this ward that we carry the kit for them on the same van. Booking them together saves a second visit and, more to the point, closes the gaps a clerk goes looking for.

Oven cleaning is the one almost every Boleyn tenancy needs, given how hard the kitchens work here. Carpet cleaning matters in the terraces, where bedroom carpets show a furniture footprint the moment a wardrobe moves, and a machine shampoo lifts the traffic lanes a vacuum cannot. Upholstery cleaning applies if you rented furnished and the inventory lists a sofa. Floor care covers the original Victorian tile and the engineered boards in the new flats, each needing its own treatment. Window cleaning covers the inside glass within the standard clean; exterior upper-floor glass on a three-storey terrace is the separate job.

And if the move itself still needs sorting, our house removals team can clear the property first, which matters because a clerk cannot pass a flat that still has your boxes in it. An empty, cleared property is the one assumption the whole inventory standard rests on.

Booking it around your move-out date

The timing that works best is simple. Book the clean for the day before your check-out, so the property is fresh when the clerk arrives and there is a clear 48 hours of guarantee cover running across the inspection itself. Here is how it goes.

1. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with your Boleyn address, the size of the place, and the check-out date and time.
2. We send a fixed quote within the hour. No callout charge, no surprises on the day.
3. You confirm, and we book the slot, usually the day before your check-out.
4. The team arrives with everything: vacuum, mop, ladders, professional degreasers, descalers, mould treatments and spare extractor mesh, plus a printed copy of the 57-point checklist.
5. On completion you get a date-stamped photo report. If your agent flags anything within 48 hours, you send us the photo and we come back at no charge.

Weekends are our busiest time in E13, because most check-outs land on a Monday morning. Friday and Saturday slots in the week before a bank holiday go first, so the earlier you call, the more choice you have.

A clerk cannot pass a flat that still has your boxes in it.

Streets and neighbours we cover

We work the whole Boleyn ward and the streets that ring it. That means Green Street north and south of Barking Road, Castle Street, Boundary Road and Waghorn Road, the whole of Upton Gardens from Lyall House and Chapman House across to the Thunderer Street and Ironworks Way blocks, the terraces on Tweedmouth Road, Jedburgh Road, Selsdon Road and Hollybush Street, Brampton Road and Queens Road, Katherine Road at the Boleyn end, Boleyn Road down into Upton Park, the Barking Road corridor toward East Ham, the streets around Queens Market, and the addresses backing onto Plashet Park and West Ham Park. Postcodes are E13 9 and E13 0, with E6 1 and E7 8 where they cross the ward line.

Beyond the ward we cover the rest of the silo. The closest are East Ham to the east and Plaistow to the west, then Forest Gate to the north, Stratford, West Ham and Canning Town further out. They all sit under the Newham borough hub, where the same licensing rules and the same inspection standard apply, which is the thread tying the whole borough’s check-outs together.

Questions Boleyn tenants ask

How much is end of tenancy cleaning in Boleyn?

From £156 for a studio, £207 for a 1-bed, £243 for a 2-bed, £339 for a 3-bed and £395 for a 4-bed terrace. Carpets and oven-only jobs are quoted separately or bundled into the visit.

Do you clean Upton Gardens flats specifically?

Yes. We have cleaned Lyall House, Chapman House, Cantwell House and the Thunderer Street and Ironworks Way blocks more than once. We know the integrated extractor models, the balcony drainage layout and the sliding-door tracks the management company photographs.

What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?

If your letting agent or landlord finds a cleaning issue within 48 hours of our visit, you call us, send the photo, and we come back at no extra cost. We have done this for every Boleyn property since 2014.

Can you do the clean the same day as the check-out?

We much prefer the day before, so the clerk is not arriving while we are still working. If it has to be the same day, we slot you in early and send a larger team to finish before the inspection.

Are you insured?

Yes, full public liability and treatment-risk cover. We can send the certificate before you book if you want to see it.

Do I need to provide cleaning materials or equipment?

No. We bring the lot: vacuum, mop, ladders, professional degreasers, descalers, mould treatments and a replacement extractor mesh if the old one is past cleaning.

Is my Boleyn rental selectively licensed?

Almost certainly. Boleyn is one of the 22 Newham wards inside the borough-wide selective licensing designation that runs to 31 May 2028, with only Royal Victoria and Stratford Olympic Park left out. Your landlord should hold the licence, and licensed properties get inspected harder, which is worth knowing before you clean.

My deposit is held in TDS. What happens if the agent disputes it?

You raise a dispute through TDS and their free adjudication service. Our date-stamped photo report and the 48-hour guarantee are built to be the evidence that process rewards, because adjudicators side with documented proof.

Do you clean the inside of windows on an upper-floor Boleyn terrace?

Yes, interior glass on every floor is part of the standard clean. Exterior upper-floor glass is a separate job, quoted under our window cleaning service.

Can you clean the carpets and the oven in the same visit?

Yes. We carry the carpet shampoo gear and the oven kit on the same van. Carpet adds £36 a bedroom and £43 for a living room, or £115 for a whole 2-bed. The oven add-on is £77 single, £110 double.

How long does a Boleyn end of tenancy clean take?

A studio is roughly three to four hours with two cleaners. A 2-bed flat runs five to six. A 3-bed Victorian terrace with original tile floors and picture rails is usually seven to nine hours.

Will you move furniture to clean behind it?

Yes for anything that moves safely, like fridges, washing machines, sofas and free-standing wardrobes. Built-in units we clean in place. If we can shift it without risk, we shift it.

Do you work weekends in E13?

Yes, and Saturdays and Sundays are our busiest days for Boleyn move-outs, because so many check-outs fall on a Monday morning.

My agent uses a third-party inventory company. Will you pass their report?

We have passed inventories from No Letting Go, VeriSmart, InventoryBase users and the in-house teams of every major Newham agent. The 57-point checklist is built around what those clerks photograph.

How quickly can you fit me in?

For Boleyn we can usually offer a slot within 48 to 72 hours, sooner midweek. Friday and Saturday slots before a bank holiday book out first, so call early if your move is near one.