Bromley Town’s end of tenancy cleaning team

End of tenancy cleaning in Bromley Town, done to inventory-clerk standard with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee and a 97% first-time pass rate. We hand properties back to jdm, Alan de Maid, Langford Russell, Maguire Baylis, Kinleigh Folkard and Hayward, Sinclair Hammelton and the corporate lettings desks at St Mark’s Square. We cover BR1 in full and the BR2 fringe: the High Street and Market Square, Widmore Road, Tweedy Road, the Palace Estate, Sundridge Park and Bromley North Village. Quotes in ten minutes on 0333 555 2076.

Last updated 30 May 2026. For wider south-east London context, see our Bromley borough end of tenancy hub.

The deposit maths on a Bromley Town flat

Start with the number. The ONS local housing dashboard for the London Borough of Bromley puts average private rent at £1,673 per calendar month in April 2026, a 3.4% rise on the year, with the average house price at £518,000 in March 2026. The Tenant Fees Act caps a deposit at five weeks’ rent. So a town-centre one-bed near the Churchill Theatre at £1,500 a month sits on a deposit of about £1,730. A two-bed at St Mark’s Square nearer £1,900 carries roughly £2,190. A four-bed on the Palace Estate routinely holds £2,800 or more. That is the sum the check-out clean is protecting.

Bromley Town is not one kind of building, and that is the catch. The south end of the High Street is now dominated by St Mark’s Square, the regeneration scheme around the 20-storey residential tower next to Bromley South station, with private and affordable flats, a multiplex cinema and an underground car park. A short walk north you hit Notus Point and the older blocks by Bromley North station, then the period conversions along Widmore Road and London Road, the 1930s semis behind Bromley South, and the ex-local-authority stock above East Street. Each type fails a check-out for different reasons. New-build glazing and brushed-steel kitchens show every fingerprint. Period conversions hide dust in the cornicing and the picture rails. Council-built flats scuff on the skirting, and the paint lifts if you attack it with the wrong product.

Why does the building type matter so much to your deposit? Because the inventory was written against that specific building when you moved in, and the clerk checks out against that same document. A new-build clerk has photographed clean white grout, gloss-handle kitchen units and unmarked engineered-oak flooring, so anything off that baseline reads as a deduction. A clerk in a Widmore Road conversion has logged the original features as features, which means the cornice and the timber sash are now your responsibility to hand back dust-free and unmarked. The deposit dispute, when it comes, is almost never about whether the flat is broadly clean. It is about a named line on a named inventory, and it is won or lost on detail the size of a tap or a window track.

There is a seasonal rhythm to it in the town centre. The corporate tenants in the St Mark’s Square blocks tend to move on company relocation dates, which bunch around the end of the quarter, so we and the inventory clerks both get busiest in late March, late June and late September. A clerk working a full diary looks harder and slower. If your tenancy lets you choose, a mid-month check-out is calmer for everyone.

What Bromley licensing actually means for your check-out

People get this wrong about Bromley all the time, so let me be plain. The council runs mandatory HMO licensing only. There is no borough-wide selective scheme, and there is no additional licensing scheme either, and as of early 2026 the council has said it is not planning to bring in either one. That puts Bromley in a different position from Lewisham or Newham next door, where selective licensing covers ordinary lets.

Mandatory licensing under the Housing Act 2004 only bites when a property is occupied by five or more people in two or more households who share a kitchen, bathroom or toilet. The fee starts at £2,558 for a five-bedroom shared house and climbs by £512 per extra bedroom. If you are moving out of a sharer-style let in BR1, the landlord is on the council’s HMO register, the inspections are tighter, and the check-out gets measured against the council’s Bromley HMO standards for kitchen hygiene, bathroom condition and shared-area cleanliness. A single household renting a flat is not licensed at all, but the agent still checks out against the inventory in exactly the same way.

There is a separate planning rule that catches landlords rather than tenants, and it is worth knowing because it shapes the stock. Bromley made two Article 4 Directions, both confirmed on 8 February 2022. The immediate one took effect from 1 September 2021 and covers the Biggin Hill and Darwin wards. The non-immediate one took effect from 1 September 2022 and covers every other ward, Bromley Town included. Together they strip the permitted-development right to turn a family house into a small three-to-six-person HMO without planning permission. The practical effect in BR1 is that there are fewer back-door HMO conversions than you might expect, and more of the rental stock is straight flats and family houses.

So what does all of that mean for you, standing in a flat with a suitcase and a move-out date? In short, the licensing position changes who is watching, not what gets cleaned. In a licensed HMO the council can inspect against published amenity and fire-safety standards, the kitchen and shared bathrooms are scrutinised harder, and the landlord has a paper relationship with the council that makes them fussier at check-out. In an ordinary single-household let, which is the bulk of Bromley Town stock, there is no council licence at all, but the inventory clerk and the deposit scheme are still in play, and they are the people who decide whether your money comes back. We clean both to the same 57-point standard, because the shower screen does not know whether the flat is licensed.

One more thing that trips up sharers specifically. If you are one of five housemates leaving a licensed HMO near the town centre, the check-out often gets done room by room as well as on the shared spaces, so your own bedroom condition is logged against your name and your share of the deposit. We can clean the whole house or just the communal kitchen, bathroom and hallway if the housemates are leaving on different dates, and we will put which is which in writing so nobody pays for a room that was not theirs.

A quick glossary, because the jargon trips people up at exactly the wrong moment.

Mandatory HMO licence

A licence the council requires for any house in multiple occupation with five or more occupants in two or more households. It is the only mandatory licensing Bromley runs. The standards behind it are set out in the council’s adopted Bromley HMO standards.

Selective licensing

A scheme some councils use to license ordinary single-household lets in a named area. Bromley does not operate one and has no current plan to. Do not assume your BR1 flat needs a licence.

Article 4 Direction

A planning rule that removes a permitted-development right. In Bromley it stops the automatic conversion of houses into small HMOs, so a landlord needs planning permission first.

Check-in inventory

The dated, photographed record of a property’s condition at the start of the tenancy. The check-out clean is judged against this exact document, not against general tidiness.

The Renters’ Rights Act and why paperwork now wins

The rules around your deposit changed in late 2025. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 got Royal Assent on 27 October 2025 and ends assured shorthold tenancies and Section 21 evictions, converting existing fixed-term ASTs in Bromley Town into rolling periodic tenancies. You serve notice and leave on a date you choose. Landlords keep statutory grounds for genuine possession. What matters at the door, though, is the redress side.

The Act sets up a landlord redress scheme, the Private Rented Sector Landlord Ombudsman, and a private rented sector database alongside it. Cleanliness disputes now run through that route as well as the deposit scheme. Agents we work with at jdm, Alan de Maid and Langford Russell have all told us the same thing: a documented professional clean with photographs and a dated invoice is now the practical defence against a challenge. Walk away with one A4 invoice and a signed checklist and you are covered. Clean it yourself with no paper trail and you are arguing your word against a clerk’s photos.

It is worth being honest about what the deposit schemes will and will not do, because tenants often expect more from them than they deliver. The adjudicator does not visit the flat. They read the check-in inventory, the check-out report and whatever evidence each side files, and they decide on the paper. Fair wear and tear is not chargeable, so a landlord cannot bill you for a faded carpet that was already worn at check-in, but dirt is chargeable, and the line between the two is drawn from photographs. That is the whole reason a dated professional invoice carries weight: it dates the clean to the day you left and proves the dirt was dealt with, which is precisely the evidence an adjudicator is looking for.

Your deposit itself is still held by one of three government-approved schemes. Most Bromley landlords use the Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS), the Deposit Protection Service (DPS) or mydeposits. Under the government deposit-protection rules, the landlord must protect the money within 30 days and return the agreed sum within 10 days of you both agreeing it. All three schemes accept a Monster Cleaning checklist plus a dated invoice as evidence if the cleaning is contested. That is the whole point of the paperwork we leave behind.

Those figures are not marketing decoration. We have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions, and the 97% first-time pass rate is measured against agent inventories, not against our own opinion of the work. The 57-point checklist is the spine of every job, and a copy of it goes to your clerk on the day.

Walk away with one A4 invoice and a signed checklist and you are covered. Clean it yourself with no paper trail and you are arguing your word against a clerk’s photos.

Room by room, what fails a Bromley inventory

The 57-point checklist is the same standard the south London agency network checks against, and we run every Bromley Town job to it. The short version is that clerks fail you on the things you cannot see from standing height, and on hard-water scale, which BR1 has in abundance. Here is the detail by room.

It helps to know how a clerk actually works the room, because they are not random. They walk in and look up first, at the cornice, the picture rail and the tops of the doors, then they open every cupboard and drawer, then they get down and check behind the WC and under the kitchen units, and last they run a finger along the window track and the radiator backs. A good clerk carries a small mirror on an extending pole for the tops of wall units and wardrobes, which is exactly why those edges are on our list. The clean has to survive that walk, not the glance you give it on your way out with the keys.

Kitchen

The oven is the single biggest deduction trigger we see, every agent, every time. The interior comes apart: racks, side panels, base, the ceiling element, the inner and outer glass and the cavity inside the door. We lift carbonised grease with a non-caustic degreaser and never put wire wool near enamel. The hob gets stripped, the burners cleaned, the splashback polished. Then the extractor hood, filters degreased or swapped, canopy wiped. The fridge and freezer come defrosted with the seals scrubbed and the condensate channel flushed. The dishwasher filter is pulled and rinsed and the spray arms unclogged. The washing machine drum, drawer and rubber gasket all get done, because black mould on that gasket is flagged at half the St Mark’s Square check-outs we attend. Every cupboard door, inside and out, every drawer emptied and wiped, the kickboards, and the dust-trap edge on top of the wall units. Worktops, sink, taps descaled, grout degreased.

Bathrooms and en-suites

Hard water is the story here. Scale comes off the chrome, the mixer spouts, the shower head and any rainfall rose, and the glass screen gets a descaler then a vinegar-based polish so it dries clear rather than cloudy. Tile and grout scrubbed, mould treated where it is safe to. The WC pan, cistern, seat, hinges, the base seal and behind the pan. Bath, basin, the inside of the vanity unit. Mirrors, glass shelving, the extractor grille, the towel rail. Then the floor to every edge, behind the WC and behind the pedestal, where the clerk always looks.

Bedrooms and living areas

Fitted wardrobes are common in Bromley Town stock, and they hide a year of dust on top, so we do the inside, the top and the outside of each one. Drawers, bedside cavities. Skirting, picture rails and dado rails in the period stock, plus the cornicing and ceiling roses in the Widmore Road and London Road conversions. The floor-to-ceiling glazing and sliding balcony doors at St Mark’s Square and Notus Point get finished fingerprint-free and streak-free, including the bottom track that traps grit. Windows: glass, frames, sills, the beading. Curtain poles, blinds slat by slat where they are venetian, light fittings and lampshades, switches and sockets, radiators front and back, and the back of every door.

Throughout the property

Hard floors are mopped with the right product for the surface, and engineered oak gets the lightest touch because over-wetting it is the most common mistake we are called back to fix in the St Mark’s Square flats. Carpets are vacuumed to a forensic standard, and professional carpet steam-cleaning is available as a paid add-on where the stock is light-coloured and a vacuum mark will not pass. Communal hallways, the airing cupboard, the boiler enclosure, the meter cupboard. The bin store, with rubbish taken to the property boundary. Then a final smell pass, because clerks at Alan de Maid note the smell of a property: every bin wiped, every drain flushed, every fridge interior deodorised.

One blunt warning about the conservation area. Bromley has 47 conservation areas, and the Bromley Town Centre Conservation Area, formally re-adopted in June 2025, takes in Market Square, the western High Street and parts of Church Road, with Shortlands Village covered separately. Inside it, original tiled hallways, leaded lights and stained timber are protected features that the inventory lists by name. We use pH-neutral cleaner on encaustic tile, microfibre on lead came and nothing abrasive on stained timber. Get that wrong and the reinstatement quote is genuinely steep.

Book a deep clean to save thirty pounds and you can lose four hundred at check-out.

What a clean costs here, and what it does not

Bromley Town sits on our standard south-London band. No central-London premium, no discount tier. Every quote is fixed before we arrive, put in writing, and held for 14 days.

By-the-hour cleaning is £30 per cleaner if you would rather buy time than a fixed package, though for a deposit-return job the fixed price is almost always the better call because it carries the guarantee. Carpet steam-cleaning runs at £36 a bedroom, £43 for a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed, with the full breakdown on the carpet pricing page. Oven cleaning on its own is £77 for a single, £110 for a double and £114 for a range cooker. Rates are inclusive: the cleaners, the supervisor, materials, machines and VAT. There is no surcharge for limescale removal, because in BR1 that is simply part of the job.

Why does the fixed price beat the hourly rate at check-out? Because the cheaper-looking option usually loses you money. Two cleaners for three hours by the hour costs £180 for whatever they managed in the time, with no guarantee. The fixed two-bed package is defined by the 57-point checklist, finished whether it takes three hours or five, and backed by the 48-hour re-clean. The hourly rate only makes sense for a part-job, say an oven and a bathroom in a flat you are keeping clean yourself.

Carpets are the add-on people most often skip and most often regret. On the light-grey carpet that fills the St Mark’s Square and Notus Point flats, a vacuum leaves the foot-traffic lane visible, and the clerk photographs it. Steam extraction lifts that shadow, and on a whole two-bed it is £115 on top of the clean. It is your call, and on dark or hard flooring you can skip it, but on pale carpet in a corporate-tenant block it is usually the difference between a clean pass and a deduction quote from the agent’s own contractor.

The streets and blocks we work in Bromley Town

We cover BR1 in full and the slice of BR2 that hugs the town centre. If your road is not on this list, ring and ask, because we are in Bromley Town most weeks.

• St Mark’s Square and the Bromley South quarter, including Cinema Walk
• The High Street, Market Square and East Street, inside the conservation area
• Widmore Road, Tweedy Road and the Civic Centre approach
• Notus Point and Bromley North Village, around London Road and College Road
• The Palace Estate behind Bromley South, on Hayes Lane and Plaistow Lane
• Sundridge Park, along Plaistow Lane and Burnt Ash Lane
• Park Road, Glassmill Lane and Queen’s Mead Road
• Ringers Road, Ravensbourne Road and Hill Street
• Kentish Way and Masons Hill down toward the BR2 fringe

Transport shapes how we schedule, because the two stations behave differently. Bromley South runs fast and semi-fast services to Victoria and on to Blackfriars via Catford, plus the Kent lines out to Orpington, Sevenoaks, Ramsgate and Ashford International via Maidstone East, so it is busy and the roads around it clog from mid-afternoon. Bromley North is the quiet one, a half-hourly shuttle up to Grove Park for the Charing Cross and Cannon Street trains. We try to book town-centre jobs for the morning where the inventory timing allows, because parking near the Glades and Market Square is the worst part of working here once the shops are open.

If your move sits just outside the town centre, we clean the neighbouring areas too: Beckenham (BR3), Chislehurst (BR7), Orpington (BR5/BR6), Petts Wood, Bickley and Shortlands. The full borough picture is on the Bromley borough hub.

Beyond the end of tenancy clean, we also do single services across BR1: Oven cleaning, Carpet cleaning, Upholstery cleaning, Hard floor cleaning, Window cleaning, After-builders cleaning for the renovated St Mark’s Square units, and Removals if you need the van as well as the clean.

Picking the right clean, not the cheapest

People book the wrong product and lose money on it, so this is the part to read twice. An End of Tenancy clean is the move-out, deposit-return job: oven inside, every drawer and cupboard, and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee behind it. A Deep Clean is a heavy reset for a place you are staying in, surfaces and oven but not the inside of every cupboard, and crucially no re-clean guarantee. A Regular Domestic clean is your weekly or fortnightly upkeep, and it does not touch the oven unless you add it.

Only the end of tenancy clean carries the guarantee, and the guarantee is the thing your deposit hangs on. Book a deep clean to save thirty pounds and you can lose four hundred at check-out. Match the product to the job.

How the booking runs

The process is short on purpose, because moving week is busy enough. You ring or email with the postcode, the property type and the check-out date, and we give you a fixed written price in about ten minutes during office hours. We confirm the slot by text, and most Bromley Town jobs go in within 48 hours, with same-day possible before noon if a team is already working BR1. The team arrives uniformed and insured, two to four cleaners depending on the size, with every machine and product in the van, and we work around removal vans where the timing overlaps.

At the end the supervisor walks the property with you, or sends photographs if you have already handed the keys back, and signs off the 57-point sheet so you have a copy for the agent. Then the 48-hour re-clean guarantee is live: if your clerk flags anything within three days, we come back and put it right at no charge. That is the part that protects the deposit, and it is the reason we put it in writing on every job rather than treating it as a favour.

If the previous tenant left the place in a genuine state, tell us at quote stage and we will either send a deep-clean team first or extend the visit. An end of tenancy quote assumes a normally lived-in flat. Serious pet damage, smoke staining or a hoarding situation is quoted separately and honestly, rather than turning up and finding the booked hours nowhere near enough.

Frequently asked questions

How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost in Bromley Town?

From £156 for a studio, £207 for a one-bed flat, £243 for a two-bed, £339 for a three-bed and £425 for a four-bed house. Quotes are fixed in writing before we arrive, with no surcharge for limescale removal, which is standard given the hard water in BR1.

Do you cover St Mark’s Square and the new town-centre towers?

Yes, the St Mark’s Square blocks are among our most-cleaned addresses in Bromley Town. We know the integrated appliance specs and the corporate-tenant standard the lettings desks expect at hand-back, including the floor-to-ceiling glazing and the balcony tracks.

Will you clean to jdm, Alan de Maid, Langford Russell and KFH check-out standards?

Yes. Our 57-point checklist is calibrated against every major Bromley Town agent, and we hand back a signed copy on the day so your inventory clerk can match it line by line.

Is carpet cleaning included or extra?

Vacuuming is included in the end of tenancy clean. Professional hot-water steam extraction is a paid add-on at £36 per bedroom, £43 for a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed flat.

What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?

If your letting agent or inventory clerk flags any cleaning issue within 48 hours of our visit, we come back free of charge and put it right. It is quoted in writing on every booking.

Does Bromley have selective or additional HMO licensing?

No. Bromley runs mandatory HMO licensing only, for properties with five or more occupants in two or more households, and has no selective or additional scheme and no current plan to introduce one. A single-household flat in BR1 is not licensed, though the agent still checks out against the inventory.

Do you bring your own equipment and products?

Always. We bring commercial vacuums, steam machines, microfibre kit and pH-balanced products suited to the mix of new-build composite surfaces and period stock in Bromley Town. You do not need to leave anything behind.

Can you do same-day end of tenancy cleaning in BR1?

Often, yes. Call before noon and we will usually fit you in for the same afternoon if a team is already in Bromley Town. Saturdays and Sundays are at standard weekday rates.

What if my landlord uses a tenancy deposit scheme?

Most Bromley landlords protect deposits with the Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS), the Deposit Protection Service (DPS) or mydeposits. A signed Monster Cleaning checklist plus a dated invoice is accepted by all three as evidence in a dispute.

Do you handle limescale on glass shower screens?

Yes. BR1 has hard water and the screen is inventory-checked at every property, so we use a professional descaler followed by a vinegar-based polish for clear, streak-free glass.

What about properties inside the Bromley Town Centre Conservation Area?

We adjust products and methods for protected features, using pH-neutral cleaner on encaustic tile, microfibre on lead came and nothing abrasive on stained timber. Tell us at quote stage if your property sits in a conservation area.

Do you clean serviced or short-let flats at St Mark’s Square?

Yes. Turnaround cleans, linen changes and key handling can be arranged, and these are quoted separately from an end of tenancy clean.

Will the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change how my deposit is handled?

From late 2025 the Act adds a Private Rented Sector Landlord Ombudsman alongside the existing deposit schemes, so documented professional cleaning evidence matters more than before. The ombudsman wants paper, which is exactly what our checklist and invoice provide.

Can you clean if I have already moved out?

Yes. Give us key access through the agent or a lockbox and we will clean the empty property, then drop the keys back. Most St Mark’s Square hand-overs work this way.

Is your team insured, and how do I pay?

Every cleaner is vetted and trained on our 57-point method, and we carry public liability insurance with a certificate on request. You can pay by card over the phone, by bank transfer on completion, or cash on the day.

Book a Bromley Town clean

Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected]. Tell us the postcode, the property type and the check-out date, and you will have a fixed price in ten minutes, a confirmed slot usually within 48 hours, and a 48-hour re-clean guarantee in writing. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, we hold a 97% first-time pass rate against agent inventories, and since 2014 we have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions. Bromley Town is core territory for us.