End of tenancy cleaning prices in Brixton
Most rented homes in Brixton are one of three kinds: a flat on a council-built estate such as Angell Town or the Loughborough Estate, a floor of a Victorian house along Acre Lane or the roads off Brixton Hill, or a newer flat near the station.
We clean all of them at a fixed price set by the number of bedrooms, from £156 for a studio up to £425 for a four-bedroom home, and you know the figure before anything is booked.
Last updated November 2026.
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio flat | £156 |
| One-bedroom flat | £207 |
| Two-bedroom flat or maisonette | £243 |
| Three-bedroom flat or house | £339 |
| Four-bedroom house | £425 |
| Five bedrooms or more | Quoted from the room count |
| Part jobs and unusual layouts | £30 per cleaner per hour |
The fixed price covers every room, the kitchen and bathrooms included, worked through our 57-point checklist. The oven and the carpets are separate add-ons, listed further down, so a tenant whose oven is already clean does not pay for it.
The price calculator at the top of this page gives the same figures if you would sooner check it yourself. The hourly rate is only for part jobs, such as a single kitchen that failed a check-out, or a layout that does not fit the bedroom table.
Estate flats, conversions and Acre Lane
Brixton’s estates were built across several decades and clean differently. The Loughborough Estate in central Brixton is home to more than 3,000 families and mixes 1940s low-rise blocks with towers and houses from the 1960s and 1970s; we cover its southern streets on our Loughborough Junction page too. Angell Town sits off Brixton Road on the boundary with Camberwell.
The Stockwell Park Estate, off Stockwell Road and Brixton Road, was laid out for high-level walkways that were never finished; its northern edge runs into Stockwell, which has its own page.
Southwyck House, the long horseshoe on Coldharbour Lane that locals call the Barrier Block, has 176 flats. It was built in the 1970s as a noise screen for the Ringway 1 motorway, which was later abandoned. Estate kitchens are usually compact, so the job there is grease on wall tiles, the extractor filter and the gap beside the cooker.
The older houses are a different job. Large late Victorian houses on the main roads were split into flats and boarding houses in the early twentieth century, and many still have high ceilings, picture rails, deep skirting and sash windows. Acre Lane, the road from Brixton toward Clapham, is mostly Victorian housing with some late Georgian survivors; the Brixton Society dates No. 46, opposite Tesco, to 1808.
Lambeth Town Hall stands where Acre Lane meets Brixton Hill. In these conversions the clerk looks up: the top of a picture rail, the sash runners and the dust ledge over a door all appear on a good inventory, so our team brings steps and extension poles for them.
Landlord licensing in the Brixton wards
End of tenancy cleaning
from £156
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
Get your price0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm
Lambeth’s selective licensing scheme reached Brixton on 1 September 2025. From that date a private landlord letting a home to a single household or two sharers in Brixton Acre Lane, Brixton North, Brixton Rush Common or Brixton Windrush ward needs a council licence.
The fee is £1,025 per licence for applications from 1 April 2026. Between its two phases the scheme now covers every Lambeth ward except Vauxhall and Waterloo & South Bank, and the council’s selective licensing page has a ward checker.
Shared houses sit under a second scheme. Since 9 December 2021 Lambeth has licensed every privately rented HMO with three or more people forming two or more households, across the whole borough. The council’s public notice says that designation ends on 8 December 2026 unless it is renewed or revoked earlier, so landlords of Brixton house shares should check what follows it.
For a tenant, licensing changes the paperwork more than the cleaning. A licensed landlord keeps records on the property and the letting agent works to a written inventory, so the check-out is compared line by line against the check-in report. Keep a copy of that report, and take your own dated pictures of each room on the day you hand back the keys.
What the clean covers
Every job follows the same 57-point checklist, and the order follows the inventory.
In the kitchen the team cleans:
- inside and outside every cupboard and drawer
- the worktops
- splashback
- hob and extractor (filter included)
- the sink and taps
- the fridge and freezer inside and out
- the washing machine drawer and door seal
Freestanding appliances are pulled out where it is safe, so the floor behind them gets done.
Bathrooms take longer here than tenants expect, because Thames Water says all the water in its region is hard, picking up minerals as it passes through chalk and limestone. That leaves limescale on taps, shower screens, shower heads and the base of the toilet. We descale each of them, clean the tiles and grout, the bath panel and the extractor grille, and polish the mirrors.
In the other rooms we clean:
- skirting boards
- doors and frames
- switches
- sockets
- radiators
- window sills and the inside of the glass
Then we vacuum and mop every floor. Fitted wardrobes are cleaned inside. The flat needs to be empty, with the water and electricity left on, because the team cannot work without either.
The cleaners are interviewed in person before they join, insured, and trained on the checklist. If the letting agent or the clerk flags anything we cleaned within 48 hours, we come back and redo those items free of charge.
In the conversions the clerk looks up: the top of a picture rail, the sash runners and the dust ledge over a door.
Add-on prices for ovens and carpets
An oven added to the end of tenancy clean costs £31 for a single or single wide oven and £62 for a double oven or a 90cm range. The removable parts are soaked separately while the cavity, glass and seals are cleaned by hand, normally in the kitchen, and the inner door glass is done where the door design allows.
If you only need the oven, our oven cleaning in Brixton is priced on its own: £77 for a single, £110 for a double, £114 for a single wide oven and £143 for a 90cm range cooker.
Carpets added to the clean cost £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. Where a conversion has fitted carpet in the bedrooms or on the stairs up to a top-floor flat, the Brixton carpet cleaning page explains the method if you want the detail. Tenants who are staying put and want a weekly or fortnightly clean can see our regular cleaning in Brixton.
Booking a Brixton clean
Ring 0333 555 2076, or send a WhatsApp message with photos to the same number, between 8am and 7pm, seven days a week. Tell us the bedrooms, the date the flat will be empty and the check-out time, and whether the oven or carpets need doing. We have cleaned rented homes since 2014, more than 300 letting agents use us, we hold a 4.7 rating on Google, and our cleans have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits.
Brixton is the southern end of the Victoria line, and Southeastern trains from Brixton station run toward Victoria and Orpington, which helps on a check-out day when the roads are slow. Lambeth has 24 controlled parking zones, mostly in the north of the borough, so check the time plate on the nearest bay before the team arrives. Where the team needs paid parking, it is added to the bill at what it costs us.
The best slot is the day between your move and the check-out. An empty flat cleans faster, and it leaves a day for the free re-clean if the clerk finds something. Other Lambeth areas are on our Lambeth end of tenancy cleaning page.
Questions from SW9 tenants
Does my Brixton landlord need a licence to rent the flat to me?
Almost certainly. Since 1 September 2025 Lambeth’s selective licensing scheme has covered the four Brixton wards, so a home let to one household or two sharers needs a licence, and shared houses with three or more people from two or more households fall under the borough’s HMO licensing. A missing licence is a matter for the council and does not change what the clean has to achieve.
Is a flat on Acre Lane priced the same as one by the market?
Yes. Prices go by bedrooms, so a one-bedroom flat in a converted house on Acre Lane is £207, the same as a one-bedroom flat on the Loughborough Estate or in a new block by the station.
Why does the bathroom take so long in a Brixton flat?
Hard water. Thames Water supplies the area and describes all the water in its region as hard, so limescale builds on taps, screens and shower heads, and a clerk treats it as dirt. We descale every fitting during the clean.
What happens if the check-out report lists something?
Send us the clerk’s or agent’s note within 48 hours of the clean and we return to redo the flagged items at no charge, provided nobody has moved in or used the flat since.
How do I pay?
A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done.