End of tenancy cleaning in Bray, from £156

End of tenancy cleaning in Bray runs from £165 for a studio to £495 and up for a five-bed riverside house, fixed in advance, with a free re-clean inside 48 hours if the inventory clerk flags anything we covered. We have been recovering deposits across SL6 since 2014, on the books of 300+ letting agents nationally, and we know what Hamptons, Savills, Prospect and Romans tick off at check-out on Church Lane, Fishery Road and the Fisheries Estate. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] for a quote.

Last updated May 2026. Coverage across SL6: Bray village, the Fisheries Estate, Braybank, Bray Wick, Holyport, Oakley Green and the Thames-side lets between Maidenhead Bridge and Bray Lock. Part of our wider Berkshire end of tenancy hub.

The deposit maths in a village of million-pound houses

Start with the numbers, because in Bray they drive everything else. The average house price across the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead was £573,000 in March 2026, with detached homes averaging £1,117,000, reported by ONS for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. Bray village sits at the top of that range, not the bottom. The riverside houses on Fishery Road and the Fisheries Estate trade well into seven figures, and the three and four-bed lets on those roads ask £4,500 to £8,000 a month.

Deposits track the rent. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 caps a deposit at five weeks’ rent where the annual rent is under £50,000, so a £6,000-a-month house can lawfully hold a deposit close to £7,000. That is the sum sitting in trust when you hand back the keys. It is also the sum an agent will protect line by line if the check-out report gives them cause.

Here is the part tenants underestimate. A clerk’s deductions are itemised, and each item is small enough to look reasonable on its own. A dirty oven door comes back at £85. A skirting board carrying grease shadow is £65. Limescale on a marble vanity is £75. None of those feels like a fight worth having. Four of them together is £300, and on a six-week notice you have effectively worked a week for nothing.

The contrast with a flat in Slough or central Reading is sharp. There the deposit might be £1,200 and the clerk’s report runs four pages. Here the deposit is several thousand pounds and the report is sixty, so the agent has both the motive and the documentary cover to itemise hard. That is not the agent being awkward. It is what a clerk is instructed to do when the sums are this size, and it is why a clean that would pass in a rented flat down the M4 will not always pass on Fishery Road.

The deposit is held in one of three government-backed schemes, and that detail matters when a dispute starts. Most Bray landlords use the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, the DPS or mydeposits; every let must be registered with one of them within 30 days, as the government guidance on deposit protection sets out. If the clean is the only thing standing between you and a full return, a professional invoice is the cleanest piece of evidence you can put on the file.

That last figure is the one we are proudest of. We have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions, and our first-time pass rate sits at 97%. The 3% that get a second look are usually the ones with a boathouse cupboard or a wine room nobody mentioned at the quote stage.

A clerk who logs a greasy oven door, mildew on the wet-room silicone and dust on a beamed ceiling has three line items before lunch, and on a property this size each one is worth £65 to £90.

What listed cottages and the conservation area change

The middle of Bray is a conservation area with twenty-five listed buildings and monuments inside it. The lich gate, St Michael’s church, which dates to 1293, the Jesus Hospital almshouses and a run of timber-framed cottages along the High Street and Church Lane all sit in that protected core. So do the two pubs the village is known for nationally, the Hind’s Head, a 1400s Tudor building Heston Blumenthal has run since 2004, and the Crown a few doors along.

The history is more than decoration on a sale brochure. The Jesus Hospital almshouses on the High Street, a red-brick range founded in 1609 by William Goddard for the aged poor of the parish, are still lived in and still listed, and the same protected status sits on cottages people rent today. Bray Studios, where Hammer made its horror films from 1952 to 1966, is the other piece of village heritage, though that one is on the parish edge rather than in the cleaning round. The point for a tenant is simple. A good number of the homes you can rent in the village core are old, protected, and built from materials that modern cleaning products were never made for.

A protected cottage cleans differently from a new flat at Braybank, and getting it wrong does more than fail the inventory. Lime plaster and lime mortar are alkaline already, so bleach reacts with them and leaves a bloom. Distemper and limewash paint, common on older internal walls, lift the moment you put steam near them. Original oak boards and wide-plank pine dull and cup if you mop them wet rather than damp, and a soaked microfibre on a waxed floor strips the finish the agent expects to see intact.

Then there are the features that simply hold dirt where you cannot see it. Beamed ceilings collect a grey film of dust along the top edge of every timber, invisible from the floor until a clerk lifts a torch to it. Leaded lights smear under ordinary glass spray and the lead came needs a dry buff, not a wet wipe. Inglenook hearths shed soot if you brush them carelessly, and the firebrick at the back marks the surround. We dust the beams with extension-pole fibre heads, dry. We clean the leaded panes with a low-moisture method and leave the came alone unless it is sound.

None of this is exotic to us. We see it every week across SL6, and every crew that goes out to a listed address is told before they leave the depot which surfaces are off-limits to steam and which products stay on the van. It is the single biggest reason a general cleaner who is fine in a modern flat gets into trouble in Bray village.

Comparative inventory

The check-out report the clerk produces by walking the property against the original check-in, room by room, noting any change in condition or cleanliness. On a four-bed it runs to sixty pages.

Lead came

The strips of lead that hold the small panes in a leaded-light window. Fragile and easily marked, so it gets a dry buff rather than a wet clean.

Distemper

A traditional water-based paint found on older walls and ceilings. It dissolves under moisture and steam, which is why steam cleaners stay away from it in listed cottages.

Mandatory HMO licence

A licence required where five or more people from two or more households share a let, issued by the council under Part 2 of the Housing Act 2004.

Damp off the river and why it costs deposits

The Thames is the reason Bray is worth what it is worth, and it is also the reason for the most common single deduction we see in the village. Properties on Fishery Road, Monkey Island Lane and the Braybank development sit close enough to the water that humidity is structural rather than seasonal. The Fisheries Estate itself runs along a stretch protected by a flood-relief scheme and has stayed dry for over twenty years, but dry from flooding is not the same as dry inside.

Mildew is the result. It shows up at the back of fitted wardrobes, in the void behind skirting on north-facing walls, and along the silicone seal of a shower or wet room. A clerk knows exactly where to look. Black spotting on a bathroom seal reads as neglect on a report even when it grew in a fortnight, and it is an easy deduction to justify because the photograph speaks for itself.

We treat it as a standard part of every riverside clean rather than an add-on. The silicone gets a fungicidal treatment and a scrub, the grout is worked rather than wiped, and we pull what we can to clear the skirting voids and the wardrobe backs. On the wet rooms and walk-in showers that are common in the newer riverside houses, we clean down to the drain trap, because that is the next place a thorough clerk checks once the visible surfaces pass.

Boathouses are their own job. Several Fishery Road and Monkey Island Lane properties have a wet boathouse or a mooring store, and those carry damp, silt and sometimes a canoe cupboard that has not been opened in months. We sign those spaces off separately so they appear as their own line on our sheet, which is exactly the format a clerk wants to tick against.

The newer flats are not immune either. Braybank and the contemporary blocks near the river run mechanical ventilation, and when the trickle vents and extractor grilles clog the moisture has nowhere to go but the corners of the bathroom. We clear those vents as part of the spec, because a blocked extractor is both a cleaning flag and the actual cause of the mildew a clerk will photograph next to it.

The rules as they stand in Bray this year

Two pieces of law shape a Bray check-out in 2026, and one local fact decides whether the rules get any tighter. Take the local fact first.

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead runs no Selective Licensing scheme and no Additional HMO Licensing scheme as of May 2026. We checked the council’s own pages to be sure. The only regime in force is the mandatory national one under Part 2 of the Housing Act 2004: a property let to five or more people forming two or more households needs a licence direct from RBWM, with a current fee of £920.70 for a first property of up to five bedrooms and £847 for additional properties. The national HMO threshold is the same wherever you rent.

For most of Bray this is academic. The village is family-let detached houses and cottages, not flat-shares, so the mandatory regime rarely bites. Where it does is the small share market on Maidenhead Road and a handful of the Braybank flats. If you are vacating a licensed HMO the cleaning standard is higher, because the inventory is broken down room by room and bathroom by bathroom and the shared kitchen is treated as a commercial hotspot rather than a domestic one.

The first piece of national law is the Renters’ Rights Act 2025, now commencing through 2026. It abolishes Section 21 no-fault evictions and turns assured shorthold tenancies into periodic ones. The practical effect at check-out runs the opposite way to what tenants expect. An agent can no longer end a soured tenancy with a quiet Section 21, so to recover anything at the end they have to evidence a specific breach, and a poor clean is one of the easiest breaches to photograph and stand behind. The upshot is that agents in Bray are tighter on deposit returns this year, not looser.

The second is the deposit law itself. If the clerk disputes a cleaning deduction you cannot agree on, the scheme holding your money runs a free adjudication, and the decision is binding on both sides. The government’s dispute guidance explains how it works. Adjudicators decide on evidence, and a dated professional invoice plus a signed 57-point sheet is far stronger evidence than a tenant’s word that the place was clean. Keep the receipt.

An agent can no longer end a soured tenancy with a quiet Section 21, so to recover anything at the end they have to evidence a specific breach, and a poor clean is one of the easiest breaches to photograph and stand behind.

Who checks the property and what they look for

The agents working Bray are run out of the Maidenhead and Windsor offices. Hamptons and Savills handle most of the high-end riverside instructions, Prospect and Romans cover the village and Holyport lets, and Foxtons takes a slice across the borough. Roger Platt, Braxton and Oakwood Estates pick up the rest. Each instructs its own inventory clerks, and clerks have habits, but the things that get flagged are consistent across all of them.

This is the list a Bray check-out actually works through:

1. The oven, range cooker or AGA inside and out, every plate cover and chrome rail, the door glass between the panes
2. Limescale on bathroom chrome, worst on shower screens and rainheads in the hard-water supply
3. Mildew on grout and silicone, the standing riverside problem
4. Carpet shading where a sofa or bed has stood and the pile has kept its colour
5. Skirting and dado-rail dust shadow, caught with a torch held low
6. Extractor fan grilles and cooker-hood filters, lifted out and checked
7. Window frames, leaded lights and the lead came
8. Original wood floors, looking for wax build-up and scuffing at thresholds
9. Beamed ceilings and any exposed structural timber
10. Inglenook fireplaces, soot and ash in the hearth and on the firebrick
11. Garden room, orangery and conservatory glass
12. Boathouse interiors, mooring stores and canoe cupboards on the riverside houses
13. Loft hatches, eaves cupboards and meter housings
14. Cellar or wine room, dust and damp on racks and walls

We work to the same list, in the same order, because we built the 57-point checklist around what clerks photograph rather than around what looks tidy to the eye. The final pass on every job is a torch walk by the team lead with a copy of the inventory in hand, checking the property the way the clerk will, not the way a tenant would.

One local factor sits behind a lot of those flags: the water. Bray is a hard-water area, so scale builds faster on taps, screens and kettles than tenants are used to, and a clerk who finds a clouded shower screen will note it whatever caused it. We descale rather than wipe, which is the only thing that actually shifts it. The other recurring theme is furniture shading on carpets, where a wardrobe or a bed has shielded the pile and left a darker rectangle once it is moved out on the last day. We lift and work those patches rather than vacuum over them, because a side-lit photograph in a report makes shading obvious even when the carpet is otherwise clean.

The 57-point clean, room by room

Every end-of-tenancy visit covers the full checklist. The room breakdown below is what that means in practice. If a clerk’s report flags anything on this list, we return inside 48 hours and put it right, free.

Kitchen

• Oven interior cleaned to the metal, base, walls, roof and racks, door glass split and cleaned between the panes
• Range cooker, AGA or Lacanche where fitted, every door, plate and chrome rail, soda-blasted if the carbon needs it
• Hob, splashback and extractor degreased, filters lifted and run through a hot soak
• Microwave inside and out, turntable and roof plate
• Fridge and freezer defrosted, shelves out, seals scrubbed, drip tray emptied
• Dishwasher filter cleared, spray arms checked, door seal and dispenser scrubbed
• Cupboards inside and out, hinges wiped, plinths pulled where they come away
• Worktops descaled, sealed if stone, polished if solid timber
• Sink, taps and drainer descaled with a non-abrasive product safe on chrome and brushed brass
• Grout scrubbed, silicone treated for mildew
• Skirting, switches, sockets and pendant cords
• Floor mopped if tiled, damp-wiped if engineered timber, never soaked

Bathrooms and wet rooms

• Limescale stripped from showerheads, taps, screens and tiles
• Toilet pan, cistern, seat, fixings and behind the pan
• Bath including the underside of the overflow and the waste cover
• Mirrors, vanity tops and cabinet interiors
• Extractor grille lifted and dust cleared
• Grout treated for mildew, silicone rechecked and resealed if it is ours to redo
• Towel rails and the radiator behind and under
• Wet rooms and walk-in showers cleaned down to the drain trap
• Floor and skirting

Bedrooms and living areas

• Carpets vacuumed under beds and behind bedside tables, the shaded patches worked
• Hard floors mopped or damp-wiped to the finish’s tolerance
• Skirting, picture rails, dado rails and cornicing
• Beamed ceilings dusted dry with extension fibre heads, never wet
• Leaded-light frames cleaned inside, the came left dry-buffed
• Inglenook hearths brushed and dusted, soot lifted from the firebrick
• Wardrobes inside and out, shelves wiped, rails dust cleared, backs checked for mildew
• Mirrors, glass and any chandelier crystal
• Radiators front and back, behind the brackets
• Switches, sockets, dimmers and intercoms
• Curtain rails, pelmets and tracks
• Door tops, hinges, handles and frames
• Original wide-plank or parquet flooring buffed with a pH-neutral cleaner
• Air vents, trickle vents and AC units on the contemporary flats

Throughout

• Internal glass, windows, French doors and glazed partitions
• Hard surfaces dusted, wiped, then dried streak-free
• Bin stores, recycling cupboards and refuse areas
• Loft hatches, airing cupboards and meter housings
• Boilers and tanks dust cleared on the accessible faces
• A final torch walk by the team lead against the inventory

For carpets across several rooms, or for restoration work on parquet and original boards, the detail sits on our pillar pages for carpet cleaning and floor cleaning.

What it costs in Bray

Bray sits above our base rate. We quote a little higher here because the properties run larger, the kitchens carry range cookers and AGAs more often than not, and the period ceilings are high enough to need ladders rather than a step. Every figure below is a starting point. The fixed quote depends on the actual condition and the inventory, and you get it before anything is booked.

If you would rather pay by the hour for a part-job or a top-up, that is £30 per cleaner. For most move-outs the fixed end-of-tenancy price works out better, because it carries the 48-hour guarantee and the by-the-hour rate does not.

End of tenancy against a deep clean

People ask which one they need, and the honest answer is that it depends entirely on why you are cleaning. The two are not the same product, and booking the wrong one wastes money.

If a tenancy is ending and you want the place handed back to the standard the inventory expects, you want end of tenancy. If you have just moved into a Bray house and the previous tenant left it grubby, you want a deep clean instead. A deep clean gets the property genuinely clean; the end-of-tenancy clean does that and carries the guarantee that protects the deposit. That guarantee is the difference you are paying for.

Booking the clean and the streets we cover

Booking is short. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the address, the bedroom count and the move-out date. We send back a fixed quote, usually within twenty minutes in office hours. You confirm by email, we hold the slot the same day, and Saturdays and Sundays carry no surcharge. The crew arrives with every product, machine and ladder, so all you provide is access. At the end the team lead walks the property against the inventory with a torch, hands over the receipt and emails a VAT invoice for the file.

We cover every SL6 address with a Bray, Holyport or Bray Wick element. The regular pickups are the listed cottage core on the High Street and Church Lane, Windsor Road and Old Mill Lane, the gated Fisheries Estate off Fishery Road, Monkey Island Lane and Bray Marina, Chauntry Road, the Braybank development, Holyport Street and the village green, Stroud Farm Road by Holyport College, Oakley Green Road out toward the M4, and the riverside lets between Maidenhead Bridge and Bray Lock. The same crew runs the wider parish, so Fifield, Oakley Green, Touchen End and Moneyrow Green are all on the round.

The parish is bigger than the village, which is worth saying because the postcodes blur into Maidenhead at the edges. We pick up lets out toward Bray Lake, the sailing and watersports water off the Windsor Road, and around the Stafferton Way and Braywick Park fringe where the village meets the town. Holyport has its own pull, with the green, the war memorial and the lets around Holyport College, and we treat that as part of the same round rather than a separate trip. If your address says Bray, Bray Wick or Holyport, we cover it.

If your move-out needs more than a clean, we also handle oven cleaning on its own, upholstery cleaning for sofas and mattresses, window cleaning including leaded lights and conservatories, outdoor cleaning for patios and decking, after-builders cleaning for the renovation jobs, and removals from a single item to a full house. Booking two or three together on one visit is usually the cheapest way to do it.

Across the borough we also cover Maidenhead, Windsor, Cookham, Taplow and Eton from the same depot, along with Datchet and Old Windsor on the eastern fringe. The full list lives on the Berkshire end of tenancy hub.

Frequently asked questions

How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost in Bray?

Starting prices in Bray are £165 for a studio, £243 for a one-bed, £279 for a two-bed, £375 for a three-bed and £465 for a four-bed, with five-bed riverside houses quoted from £495. The fixed price is set once we know the bedroom count, the rough size and any extras such as an AGA, a range cooker, a conservatory or a boathouse.

Do you cover the Fisheries Estate and other private gated developments?

Yes. We clean every gated address inside SL6, including the Fisheries Estate, Braybank, Monkey Island and the private mooring developments along the river. Just pass us the gate code or arrange concierge access for the day.

Can you clean Grade II listed cottages on Church Lane and the High Street?

Yes. Listed cottages need a different approach, so we use pH-neutral products on lime-plastered walls, keep steam away from distemper paint, dust beamed ceilings dry and only damp-mop original boards. Every crew sent to a listed address is briefed on this before it leaves the depot.

Do you offer same-day or next-day service?

Often, particularly midweek. Saturdays and end-of-month dates fill first. Call 0333 555 2076 and we will tell you what is free.

What if Hamptons or Savills fails the property at check-out?

That is what the 48-hour re-clean guarantee is for. If the agent flags anything we covered in the original spec, we come back inside three days and put it right at no charge.

Do you handle range cookers and AGAs?

Yes. A double oven is £110, a 110cm-plus range is £114 and an AGA is £130 on top of the end-of-tenancy base. We bring the dip tank and the soda-blast kit. Lacanche, Aga, Esse, Everhot and Falcon are all routine for us.

Can you do carpet cleaning, oven cleaning and window cleaning on the same visit?

Yes, and bundling them is usually the cheapest route. We send one van with the right kit on board rather than three separate visits, and a combined quote normally saves on booking each service alone.

Do you cover Maidenhead, Holyport, Cookham and Windsor as well?

Yes. The Bray crew covers the western side of the Royal Borough and the eastern fringe too, including Eton, Datchet and Old Windsor. The borough hub page lists everywhere we reach.

Are you insured?

Yes. We carry £5 million public liability and £10 million employers’ liability. Certificates go to letting agents and landlords on request.

Do I need to provide products or equipment?

No. We bring it all, the eco-friendly chemicals, the vacuums, the steam cleaners, the ladders, the microfibre stock, the descalers, the oven dip tank and the soda-blast kit for AGAs.

Can you handle riverside damp and mildew?

Yes. Properties on Fishery Road, Monkey Island Lane and Braybank usually need extra work on grout, silicone and skirting voids, and we run a fungicidal mildew protocol as standard on riverside jobs.

Will my deposit definitely come back?

Nobody but the deposit scheme itself can promise that, and we will not pretend otherwise. What we guarantee is that the property meets the inventory standard. If the clerk flags a cleaning issue we come back free under the 48-hour guarantee, and if it goes to a dispute our VAT invoice and signed 57-point sheet are accepted as evidence by the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, DPS and mydeposits.

Do you work weekends and bank holidays?

Yes. Saturday and Sunday slots run at the same rate. Bank holidays carry a 10% surcharge.

Can you provide a VAT invoice for the agent?

Yes. Every job is invoiced through Monster Cleaning Ltd, company number 9919639, with the VAT shown separately. Most agents accept it as part of the deposit-return file.

Where can I get independent advice if there is a dispute?

The deposit scheme runs a free adjudication, and the government’s dispute guidance explains the steps. Shelter publishes useful tenant guidance too, and for the regional picture our Berkshire end of tenancy hub sets out how we work across the county.