Broad Green end of tenancy cleaning, done properly

End-of-tenancy cleaning in Broad Green, CR0, for the terraces, conversion flats and above-shop units either side of the London Road corridor. Fixed prices, a 57-point agent-approved checklist, and a 48-hour re-clean guarantee written into every booking. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected].

Last updated May 2026. We cover CR0 2 and CR0 3, the streets behind West Croydon station, and the run of mansion flats heading towards Thornton Heath. Parent hub: end of tenancy cleaning Croydon.

The London Road turnover machine

Walk the London Road parade on a Saturday and you pass phone-repair shops, halal butchers, fabric wholesalers and at least three letting-agent windows, with flats stacked above almost every unit. Those above-shop flats turn over fast. So do the Victorian and Edwardian terraces on the residential streets behind, and the 1930s villa conversions that thin out towards Thornton Heath. Broad Green is dense, mixed and heavily rented, and the trams and West Croydon station on its eastern edge make it commuter-friendly enough that tenancies rarely last long.

High turnover means a lot of check-outs. A lot of check-outs means a lot of inventory clerks walking properties with a clipboard, and a lot of deposits hanging on whether a kitchen reads as professionally cleaned or merely tidied. That is the whole game on this side of Croydon. The agents along London Road do this every week, and they have seen every shortcut.

The geography shapes how we work, too. West Croydon station sits on the eastern edge of the ward, with trams running out from the stops around the town centre and the bus station feeding the whole of CR0. Most of our Broad Green clients do not drive, so they move out by tram and bus, and the flat sits empty for a day or two before the check-out. That gap is the window we book into. It also means parking near the London Road end can be a nuisance for our van, and we plan the kit run around it rather than circling for a space.

Rents have not made this easier. Croydon’s average private rent reached roughly £1,553 a month in early 2026, a rise of about 4.6% on the year, ahead of London as a whole (ONS local housing data, Croydon). A typical one-bed in Broad Green advertises around £1,250 to £1,500, and a two-bed terrace clears £1,800 often enough. Five weeks’ deposit on an £1,800 let is £2,076. That is the sum the agent’s torch is pointed at when they crouch down to check behind the toilet.

Selective licensing has landed on Broad Green

This is the fact that changes check-outs in CR0, so it goes near the top. From 1 September 2026, Broad Green is one of fourteen Croydon wards inside a new selective licensing scheme, approved by the council’s Cabinet on 25 March 2026 and running for five years. Selective licensing covers every privately rented home in the ward, not only shared houses. Broad Green is named in the designation alongside West Thornton, Bensham Manor, Thornton Heath, Selhurst, South Norwood, Woodside, Addiscombe East and West, Waddon, South Croydon and the Norbury wards.

The selective licence costs £800, split into a £480 part on application and £320 once the application is assessed. Running underneath it is a borough-wide additional HMO scheme at £1,250 a licence, which catches smaller shared houses everywhere in Croydon, including the streets outside the fourteen selective wards. The council still maintains its earlier landlord licensing guidance for tenants and landlords who want the background.

Why does a licence fee matter to your deposit? Because a landlord paying £800 to be licensed, and facing enforcement and civil penalties if the property falls short, has every reason to want the place handed back in inspected condition. Licensed lets get checked harder at check-in, and a property logged as professionally cleaned at the start is the standard the adjudicator holds you to at the end. The bar tenants have always faced is simply being written down and enforced more carefully now.

One quirk of CR0 worth knowing. Plenty of the above-shop flats on London Road and the larger terraces off Whitehorse Road are run as HMOs, so they fall under the additional HMO scheme as well, and shared-house check-outs are read room by room. We clean those that way too.

A property logged as professionally cleaned at the start is the standard the adjudicator holds you to at the end.

The legal backdrop shifted in 2025. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 ended Section 21 no-fault evictions and moved assured shorthold tenancies onto periodic terms. There is less pressure to clear out on a fixed deadline now. The cleaning standard at check-out has not dropped an inch. Your deposit still sits with the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, the DPS or mydeposits, and the government’s own tenancy deposit protection rules govern how disputes are decided.

It is worth understanding how a cleaning dispute actually plays out, because it is not the shouting match people imagine. If you and the agent cannot agree, the deposit scheme runs a free adjudication. An independent adjudicator reads the check-in inventory, the check-out report and the photos, and decides. They do not visit. They cannot deduct for fair wear and tear, and they will not let a landlord charge you to clean something that was already grubby when you moved in. What sinks tenants is the opposite case: the check-in says the oven was spotless, the check-out photo shows baked-on grease, and there is no professional cleaning invoice to counter it. A dated invoice from us is exactly the document that tips that decision back your way. Citizens Advice spells out the same logic in its guide to getting your deposit back.

What the housing stock does to a deposit

Broad Green took its name from an actual green that once sat where London Road meets Handcroft Road. The green went under bricks more than a century ago, but the street names remember it. Most of what stands there now went up between 1880 and 1939: two-up two-down terraces with rear additions, three-bed semis off the main roads, and the long line of Edwardian villas along London Road that were carved into flats in the 1950s and 1960s. Layered on top are the above-shop units over the retail parade and a scatter of newer purpose-built blocks near the station.

Each kind of property loses a deposit its own way, and clerks know where to look.

The period terraces fail on the bits nobody touches all year. The window runners and the top pane you have to pull the frame down to reach. Picture rails and the tops of skirtings, where a grey dust line shows the second a torch rakes across it. Painted-over fireplaces in the front room, with soot dust in the recess. Narrow galley kitchens where grease creeps up the wall above the splashback and sits there invisibly until someone runs a cloth over it.

The London Road conversions are a different problem. Older tiled bathrooms hold hard-water scale in the grout and around the taps because Croydon sits on hard water. Original tiled hallways and parquet under the carpet need the right approach, not a soaked mop. Crittall metal windows have channels that trap years of grime in the frame. These flats look characterful and clean up beautifully, but only if you give the grout and the metalwork proper time.

Above-shop flats carry their own headaches. Kitchens are often tight and badly ventilated, so cooking grease builds up faster and clings to the extractor and the wall units. Access can be awkward, up a shared stair from the street, which matters when we are carrying kit. We plan for it.

Then the new-builds, which catch people out. Tenants assume a modern flat near the station barely needs cleaning, and then lose money on the silicone seal around the shower tray, on the chrome track of a sliding wardrobe, and on the white gloss kitchen units that show every fingerprint and splash under the inventory photographer’s flash. New does not mean it passes itself.

New does not mean it passes itself.

Running through all of it is the water. Croydon sits in a hard-water belt, and it shows everywhere a tap drips or a kettle sits. Scale crusts on shower screens, dulls the chrome on taps, blocks the little holes in a shower-head rose, and leaves a chalky tide line round the toilet. The cheap supermarket spray does not shift the older build-up, and scrubbing harder just scratches the surface, which then fails the inventory on its own. We carry proper descaling chemistry and the patience to let it work, because that is the single most common thing tenants get wrong in CR0 bathrooms.

The shared houses deserve their own line. A lot of the bigger terraces off Whitehorse Road and Bensham Lane, and many of the above-shop flats on London Road, are let as HMOs to several tenants at once. When one person moves out, only their room and a share of the kitchen and bathroom are theirs to clean, but the inventory clerk still scores the lot. I have lost count of the rooms where one tenant did a careful job and got dinged anyway because the shared kitchen was a state. We split those cleans fairly and clean the communal parts properly, so nobody pays for a housemate’s mess.

The rooms we clean to inventory spec

Every Broad Green job runs to the same 57-point checklist the agents around here recognise. It is built to match what a check-out clerk actually scores, room by room. Here is what that covers.

Kitchen

• Oven interior degreased, racks soaked, glass door cleaned between the panels, fan housing and top element done
• Hob, extractor hood and the filter, plus the grease channel behind it
• Fridge and freezer defrosted, shelves out, seals scrubbed, defrost tray cleaned
• Wall and base units cleaned inside, outside and on top
• Worktops sanitised and resealed where laminate
• Sink, taps, drain and waste descaled, because CR0 water leaves a chalky film fast
• Tiles and grout degreased, mould treated where it has taken hold
• Skirtings, sockets, switches and door frames wiped
• Dishwasher and washing-machine drums, seals, filters and the detergent drawer
• Appliances pulled forward and cleaned behind where it is safe to move them
• Floor mopped, edges done by hand

Bathrooms

• Bath, shower tray and screen taken back to clear glass, full limescale removal
• Tile and grout deep-cleaned, mould treated
• Toilet pan, cistern, seat, hinges, base and the rim under the lip
• Sink, taps, plug and overflow descaled
• Mirrors polished without streaks
• Extractor grille, towel rails, radiators and light fittings
• Sealant lines wiped and checked, and we flag any that need replacing rather than papering over it
• Floor scrubbed, behind the toilet done by hand

Bedrooms and living rooms

• Carpets vacuumed to the edges and under anything we can move
• Hard floors mopped, whether sealed wood, laminate, vinyl or original parquet
• Skirtings, picture rails and dado rails dusted and damp-wiped
• Doors, frames, handles and architraves cleaned
• Fitted wardrobes inside, including shelves, rails and the runner tracks
• Cornicing and ceiling roses dusted, since the cornice holds a surprising amount of grime in these older rooms
• Sash runners, sills and reveals, including the upper sash nobody cleans
• Crittall frames in the conversions wiped along the channels
• Light fittings, shades and pendant cords
• Sockets, switches, smoke alarms and CO detectors wiped
• Radiators front, back, sides and top
• Inside windows, frames and sills throughout

Hallways and shared areas

• Communal hall, stair carpets and bannisters where they are yours to clean
• Cobwebs off ceilings and high corners
• Top edge of every internal door, a point clerks check every time
• A final mop pass with sealer where the floor takes it
• Inside window panes throughout, with an outside clean available as an add-on

That covers the standard scope. Furnished lets, HMO rooms and anything carpet-heavy take extra time, and we say so up front rather than rushing the job.

Where we work around CR0

We cover the whole ward and the streets around it. The addresses we are booked on most often:

• Handcroft Road and Pawsons Road, mostly Victorian terraces
• London Road, the conversions and the above-shop flats
• Sumner Road and Cross Road, two-up two-down terraces
• St James’s Road, Edwardian villas and conversions
• Broad Green Avenue and Broad Green Place
• Whitehorse Road, towards the Selhurst edge
• Bensham Lane, running into Bensham Manor
• Mitcham Road and Tamworth Road
• Cecil Road, Johnson Road and Pemdevon Road
• The newer blocks near West Croydon station

If your street is not on the list, ring and ask. We are across CR0 daily, and a postcode is enough for us to price it.

The check-out points agents flag first

I have cleaned for check-outs run by most of the agents working out of London Road and West Croydon, and for the bigger inventory firms behind them. The failure list barely changes from clerk to clerk. Roughly in the order they get raised:

1. Oven interior, grease on the back wall and under the top element
2. The extractor filter, which tenants forget almost without exception
3. Limescale on shower screens, taps and shower-head roses, because CR0 water is hard
4. Skirting dust in the rooms nobody used much
5. The top of internal doors and the door frames
6. The washing-machine detergent drawer and the rubber door seal
7. Fridge-seal mould and freezer ice
8. The toilet base, behind the cistern, and the rim under the lip
9. Window runners and the upper pane that pulls down
10. Carpets, especially stair edges and where the bed stood
11. Grout in the older tiled bathrooms
12. Kitchen grout and the hidden grease above the splashback line
13. Inside light fittings and lamp shades
14. Between the oven door glass, where grime gets trapped
15. Bin stores, including the outside wheelie-bin housing

None of it is dramatic. It is just the stuff a tired tenant skips at eleven at night, and a clerk finds it in ten minutes with a torch. Hit every point and the deposit conversation is short.

People ask what professional standard actually means, because it is the phrase in every tenancy agreement and nobody defines it. In practice it means the property looks the way it did in the check-in photos, allowing for fair wear and tear. Not showroom-new. Just clean to the same line a clerk drew at the start. The reason a professional clean wins is partly the result and partly the paperwork: you get a dated invoice that proves the work was done, which is the evidence the scheme wants if the landlord argues. Doing it yourself can hit the standard, but you cannot hand the adjudicator an invoice from yourself.

What a clean costs here

Broad Green runs on our standard CR0 rate card. No premium loaded on for the postcode. Every price below includes VAT, materials, equipment and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee.

Prefer to pay by the hour for a smaller job? That runs at £30 per cleaner. Carpet cleaning by hot-water extraction is £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed flat. Oven cleaning on its own is £77 for a single, £110 for a double and £114 for a range cooker. Full pricing across every service is on the main pricing page. We quote fixed, so the number you are told is the number you pay, and there is no deposit to book.

One honest steer. Plenty of Broad Green tenants ask their agent to organise the clean and get quoted well north of what we charge, because the agent marks it up. Booking it yourself, with a dated invoice to show the scheme, is almost always cheaper and gives you the same evidence.

End of tenancy, deep and regular cleans compared

People mix these up, and booking the wrong one costs a deposit. Quick version: an end-of-tenancy clean is graded against a check-in report on an empty property, a deep clean is a heavy refresh you can have while you still live there, and a regular domestic clean is upkeep.

If you are moving out, you want the end-of-tenancy clean. It is the only one of the three with the guarantee and the inventory-grade finish attached.

Booking a clean around your check-out

It is quick. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the property type, postcode, number of bedrooms and your check-out date. We send a fixed price the same day. Most Broad Green jobs are next-day or 48-hour bookings, and we work seven days, bank holidays included.

The flat or house has to be empty when we arrive. That is the industry rule for end-of-tenancy work, not ours, and it is what lets us reach everything a clerk checks. If the timing with your move is tight, our removals service can coordinate the same day so the clean follows the van out.

On the day, two to four cleaners turn up depending on size. A two-bed flat takes five to seven hours, a four-bed house a full day. We bring the lot: chemistry, vacuums, ladders, oven products, descaling agents, microfibre. If your agent or landlord raises a cleaning point within 48 hours, we send the same team back free. That is a contract term, not a favour.

Need more than a standard clean? Tenants here often add one of these:

• Oven cleaning on its own, if that is the only thing your check-in flagged
• Carpet cleaning by hot-water extraction on bedroom and living-room carpets
• Upholstery cleaning for furnished lets where the sofa and mattress are on the inventory
• Window cleaning for the outside panes on ground and accessible upper floors
• Floor cleaning for sealed wood, laminate, tile or original parquet
• Outdoor cleaning for patios, decking and bin stores

And if you are moving within the area, we clean the streets either side too: West Croydon, Thornton Heath, Selhurst, South Norwood, Norbury, Addiscombe, Waddon and South Croydon, plus Bensham Manor. The full borough list lives on the Croydon end of tenancy hub.

Questions Broad Green tenants ask

How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost in Broad Green?

A studio is from £156, a one-bed flat from £207, a two-bed flat or terrace from £243, a three-bed house from £339 and a four-bed house from £425. Carpet steam-cleaning adds £36 a bedroom. Prices are fixed and include the 48-hour re-clean guarantee.

Do you clean inside the oven?

Yes, a full oven degrease is in every end-of-tenancy clean. We take the racks out and soak them, scrub the interior including the back wall and top element, do the fan housing, and clean both sides of the door glass including between the panels where grime gets trapped.

Will you guarantee I get my deposit back?

We guarantee the cleaning, not the deposit, because deductions can also cover damage, missing items, late rent or the garden, which are outside our scope. If your agent flags any cleaning point within 48 hours, we return free. Our first-time pass rate across CR0 over the last year is 97%.

Does the property need to be empty when you arrive?

Yes. An end-of-tenancy clean is, by definition, a clean of an empty property, and it is the only way we can reach everything a clerk inspects. If belongings are still in, we either reschedule or quote separately for the cleared parts. Our removals team can run the move the same day.

How long will the clean take?

A studio takes three to four hours with two cleaners, a one-bed four to five, and a two-bed five to seven. A three-bed house is usually a full day with three cleaners, a four-bed a full day with four. We start between 8am and 9am and aim to finish by late afternoon.

Do I need to provide cleaning products or equipment?

No. We bring everything, including vacuums, mops, ladders, oven products, descaling agents, glass cleaner and microfibre. All you need to provide is running water and electricity at the property.

What if my landlord uses a specific inventory company?

It makes no difference to us. The inventory firms working across Croydon use much the same checklist, and ours mirrors it. If you have the check-in report, send it over and we will clean to that exact spec so the two documents line up.

Do you handle the carpets too?

Yes, by hot-water extraction with a commercial machine, at £36 a bedroom or £43 a living room, and £115 for a whole two-bed flat. Carpets need four to eight hours to dry depending on the weather, so we usually do them at the end of the job.

Do you cover HMOs and rooms in shared houses?

Yes. We clean room by room for HMO check-outs across Broad Green, priced per room by size and condition, with the shared kitchen and bathroom split between tenants leaving in the same week. Plenty of the above-shop and larger terrace lets here are run as HMOs.

Will my Croydon letting agent accept the clean?

We have worked with letting agents around West Croydon and London Road for over a decade, and we are on the books of 300+ letting agents in total. We hand you a dated invoice on completion, which is the evidence the deposit schemes ask for to show the property was professionally cleaned.

What about the garden, patio or outside bins?

A standard end-of-tenancy clean is indoor only. Patio jet-washing, garden tidies, decking and bin stores are quoted separately under our outdoor cleaning service, starting at £95 for a small patio.

Does Croydon’s selective licensing scheme change anything for me?

Indirectly, yes. From 1 September 2026 every privately rented home in Broad Green ward needs a selective licence, and shared houses across the borough need an additional HMO licence. Licensed properties get inspected more carefully at check-out, so the cleaning standard is enforced more tightly than it used to be.

Can you book me in for tomorrow?

Usually, yes. We keep same-day and next-day capacity across CR0 for late bookings. Call 0333 555 2076 before 2pm and we can normally fit a next-day morning slot.

What happens if the agent rejects the clean?

You contact us within 48 hours of completion and send the agent’s written feedback, an email is fine, listing what failed. We send the same team back, free of charge, to put right anything cleaning-related they flagged.

Are you insured?

Yes, we carry £5m public liability cover and full employer’s liability for our staff. We can send the certificate on request before the job.

The short version

Broad Green check-outs come thick and fast, the housing is old enough and mixed enough to trip up a rushed clean, and from September 2026 the ward sits inside Croydon’s selective licensing scheme, so the standard is being enforced harder. Get the clean right and the deposit follows. Two minutes on the phone locks in a fixed price, an arrival window and the 48-hour guarantee. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected]. Quotes back the same day, weekends included, no deposit to book.

Selective licensing

A council scheme requiring a licence for every privately rented home in a named ward, separate from HMO rules. Broad Green is inside Croydon’s scheme from 1 September 2026 (scheme details).

Additional HMO licence

A licence for smaller shared houses, £1,250 in Croydon and required borough-wide, on top of any selective licence.

Check-in inventory

The dated report describing a property’s condition at the start of a tenancy. The clerk scores your check-out against it, which is why we clean to match it.

Deposit protection scheme

One of three government-backed schemes that hold your deposit and rule on disputes. See the official tenancy deposit protection guide and Citizens Advice on getting your deposit back.

48-hour re-clean

Our guarantee: if the agent flags a cleaning point within 48 hours of the job, the same team returns free.