End of tenancy work in Broughton built our Salford name, and we have been at it in the M7 postcode every week since 2014. The patch is not one place but several stitched together: Lower Broughton down by the River Irwell, where the new flats off Camp Street sit beside the older Adelphi streets; Higher Broughton’s red-brick terraces climbing away from the river; Broughton Park up around Singleton Road and Cavendish Road; and the merchant villas of The Cliff looking down over the water. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a written quote, usually inside the hour, or email [email protected].
Last updated May 2026. We cover the whole of M7 and the M3, M6, M8 and M25 streets that border it. For the wider picture, see our Manchester end of tenancy hub.
Three Broughtons, one deposit at stake
Start with the money, because that is what a move-out is really about. The average private rent across Salford was around £1,140 a month in late 2025, and M7 sits above that for anything past a studio, going by ONS local-area data. A two-bed in one of the Camp Street riverside blocks advertises at £1,200 to £1,500. A four or five-bed let on Lower Broughton Road, the sort that takes University of Salford students, clears £2,200 once the bills are bundled in. Under the Tenant Fees Act 2019 a landlord can hold a deposit worth five weeks’ rent, so on a £1,400 flat that is roughly £1,615 of yours held back at check-out. That is the figure a clean is protecting.
Now the awkward part. Broughton has no single house type, which is exactly why a single cleaning routine fails here. Lower Broughton runs from 19th-century workers’ terraces to brand-new riverside flats. Higher Broughton is mostly red-brick Victorian and Edwardian terraces and semis, many split into flats, around Great Cheetham Street East and West, Leicester Road and Bury New Road. Broughton Park, further up the hill, has larger inter-war and post-war houses and purpose-built blocks. The Cliff holds the grandest stock, Italianate and Gothic villas built for Manchester merchants, set in a 26-hectare conservation area that Salford City Council designated back in 1976. Each of those has its own dirt traps, and the clerk who inspects them knows every one.
That clerk is the whole game. Inventory clerks in Salford carry the same kind of detailed check-in report a London clerk would, photographed and time-stamped, and they compare your hand-back against it line by line. A clean that matches the check-in standard returns the deposit. A clean that misses the runners under a window, or the grout above a hob, or the seal at the base of a toilet, gives them a deduction line to write. None of it is personal. It is just what the document tells them to look for.
How the Irwell shapes a Lower Broughton move
The River Irwell does more to Lower Broughton than provide a view. It floods. On Boxing Day 2015 it came over its banks and put parts of Lower Broughton under water, and the response was a £10m flood-storage scheme built by the Environment Agency at Littleton Road and Castle Irwell. The basin sits inside a meander loop of the river, covers about 28 hectares, and can hold roughly 650 million litres when the Irwell rises, protecting more than 1,900 homes and businesses across Lower Broughton and Lower Kersal. If you rent down here, that scheme is the reason your insurance and your tenancy still work the way they do.
It also explains the building boom. With the flood risk managed, the land between Camp Street, Adelphi Street and the river filled up with new flats and townhouses through the regeneration programme, and that stock now turns over fast. New-builds are their own cleaning problem. The ovens are integrated and the manuals tell you not to use wire wool on the liners. The hobs are induction or ceramic and scratch if you go at them with the wrong pad. The windows are sealed double-glazed units that show every smear in the low sun coming off the water. Clerks on these flats are strict because the flats are nearly new, and a mark that would pass on a tired terrace gets written up here.
There is a check-out wrinkle the flood history creates too. Ground-floor and lower flats near the river sometimes carry a faint trace of past damp in the worst-affected pockets, and a clerk who knows the Boxing Day history looks for it: a tide-line on a skirting, a musty cupboard, mould creeping back into a bathroom seal. None of that is yours to fix if it predates you, and the check-in inventory is your proof of that. What is yours to handle is the ordinary build-up, the kind any flat collects, and that is the part our clean is built to clear so the conversation at hand-back stays on the document rather than on guesswork.
Parking is the genuinely annoying part of a Lower Broughton clean, and we will say so plainly. The riverside streets fill early and the older Adelphi terraces have no off-street space at all, so we load and unload fast and keep the van tight to the kerb. None of that touches the price. It is just the bit of the day we plan around, because a team stuck circling for a space is a team not cleaning.
Clerks on these flats are strict because the flats are nearly new, and a mark that would pass on a tired terrace gets written up here.
The licensing change Salford landlords are feeling
Two things changed the rules for M7 tenancies, and both bite at check-out. The first is national. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 came into force on 1 May 2026. It scrapped Section 21 no-fault evictions and turned existing assured shorthold tenancies into periodic ones. The practical effect at the end of a tenancy is a shift in nerve. A tenant can now challenge a deposit deduction through their protection scheme without any fear of a retaliatory eviction in return, so agents document the property’s condition far more carefully than they used to, because a sloppy claim now gets contested. The flip side falls on you: a clean that does not match the check-in is the one thing in this process you fully control.
The second change is local, and it is the one Broughton landlords are talking about. Salford City Council’s cabinet approved a new selective licensing designation on 23 September 2025, and the scheme went live on 21 January 2026, running to 20 January 2031. It covers roughly 1,340 privately rented properties across parts of Broughton and the Kersal and Broughton Park wards. Every landlord in the designated streets now needs a licence to let, at £609, or £390 if they are accredited and apply early, and the licence carries conditions on property condition, gas and electrical safety, working smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, written tenancy terms and proper waste handling. You can read the council’s own page on Salford City Council’s Selective Licensing scheme for the exact streets in scope.
Why does a landlord licence matter to a tenant scrubbing an oven? Because the council inspects licensed properties, holds the landlord to a written standard, and the landlord pushes that same standard straight down to the inventory clerk at the end of your tenancy. We have watched it tighten since January. Cleaning standards on M7 lets are noticeably sharper than they were a year ago, and the slack that used to exist on an older terrace has gone. Those licence conditions overlap with a landlord’s wider safety responsibilities for gas, electrics and alarms, which is one more reason the property gets gone over closely when you leave.
- Selective licensing
- A council scheme requiring every private landlord in a named area to hold a licence to let. Salford’s Broughton, Kersal and Broughton Park designation runs 21 January 2026 to 20 January 2031 and attaches conditions on condition, safety and waste that flow down to check-out standards. The street list is on the council’s Salford licensing conditions page.
- Check-in inventory
- The dated, photographed report describing the property’s condition when you moved in. Your end-of-tenancy clean is judged against this document, not against a clerk’s mood, so the standard to hit is the standard you started with.
- Deposit protection scheme
- By law your deposit sits with TDS, DPS or mydeposits. Each runs a free dispute service if you disagree with a deduction.
- End of tenancy clean
- A full empty-property clean built around the inventory: inside the oven and fridge, every cupboard, descaled bathrooms, the lot. Not the same as a deep clean of an occupied home.
Broughton Park, kosher kitchens and the period stock
Broughton Park is home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities in the North West. In the 2011 census around 14% of Broughton residents gave their religion as Jewish, far above the figures for Salford or England, and the community has grown since. That is not trivia on a cleaning page. It changes the kitchens. A real share of M7 lets, especially up around Singleton Road, Northumberland Street and Cavendish Road, run a kosher layout with two sinks and separate meat and dairy zones, sometimes two ovens or a divided range. A cleaner who does not know what they are looking at can miss the second sink completely, or wipe both with the same cloth, which defeats the point of the layout the next tenant needs intact.
Our Broughton Park crew handle these the way the household runs them. Meat and dairy sinks, surfaces and cloths stay separate. We leave the layout exactly as the check-in inventory describes it. If you have a specific kashrut instruction, put it in writing and we follow it to the letter. The synagogue at 17 Northumberland Street, run by Machzikei Hadass just off Bury New Road, is one of several in the immediate area, which gives you a sense of how settled and particular this part of M7 is about its homes.
The history of these streets shows in the buildings, and the buildings are what we clean. Northumberland Street was once lined with the houses of prosperous merchants, some of them traders from the old Ottoman Empire who settled in Higher Broughton in the mid-1800s, and the larger villas they left behind now run as flats and shared houses. The Jewish community shifted up the hill across the last century, from Lower Broughton towards Higher Broughton, Broughton Park and on into Prestwich, and that movement is why the most particular kitchens cluster where they do now. For a cleaner it means one road can hand you a grand old villa with cornices and a stripped-pine staircase, and the next can hand you a 1970s purpose-built flat with sealed windows and a fitted kitchen, and both want the same deposit back.
That mix is worth spelling out, because it catches people. A fair slice of Broughton’s housing is former council stock, post-war semis and low-rise blocks that have been bought up and let privately, and these sit cheek by jowl with the period houses and the new riverside flats. An ex-council flat is usually a straightforward clean with hard-wearing surfaces, but it still gets the full inventory treatment, because the clerk does not grade on the age of the building. Knowing which kind of property you are handing back is half of judging how long the clean will take, and it is why our written quote asks what you are in before we name a price.
Then there is the period stock, and it is where deposits quietly leak. If your flat sits in The Cliff conservation area, or in one of the older villas along Bury New Road and Great Clowes Street, expect a closer look. Historic England records protected buildings across Salford, including in Broughton, and these houses come with features a modern flat simply does not have. Decorative cornicing and ceiling roses. Original timber sash windows with runners that have collected dust for a century. Stone and stripped-pine floors. Stone fireplaces that etch if anything acidic touches them. We use pH-neutral products on natural stone, marble and original timber as standard, because a cleaner treating an 1860s pine floor like a sheet of modern laminate is simply leaving a deduction behind for someone else to argue about.
Room by room: what the clerk actually checks
Our 57-point checklist follows the clerk’s clipboard, room by room, so nothing on their list is a surprise on ours. Everything below is in the standard quote. The only extras are carpet steam cleaning, separate oven extraction or upholstery, and those only if you ask.
The kitchen, where most deductions start
The oven is checked first, every time. A clerk pulls the racks, looks at the back wall and the underside of the door glass, and that is where a quick wipe gets caught. We degrease the interior, racks, side liners, the door glass inside and out, and the fan housing. The hob and extractor come next, induction, ceramic, gas or range, with carbon filters flagged or swapped. Then the microwave inside and out with the turntable washed, the fridge and freezer defrosted and the seals cleaned, the dishwasher filter and spray arms, and the washing machine drum, drawer and that rubber door gasket where black mould hides. Every cupboard inside and out, kickboards and the tops of the wall units. Worktops, grout lines, and the silicone bead behind the splashback. On a kosher dual-sink layout, both sinks, both taps, both plugholes.
Bathrooms and en-suites
Salford water is moderately hard, so the bathroom is a descaling job as much as a cleaning one. Bath, shower tray, screen and the door tracks. Tiles and grout floor to ceiling, including the strip behind the toilet that gets skipped. The toilet bowl, cistern, seat hinges and the base seal, which is a classic deduction line. Basin, taps, plughole and overflow. Mirror, cabinet interior and the shaver socket. The extractor grille. The towel rail and radiator, and the wall behind it. The shower head and hose, often left to soak overnight to shift the scale properly.
Bedrooms, living rooms and the period features
This is where Broughton’s older stock needs a careful hand. Carpets vacuumed right under the bed and behind furniture. Hard floors mopped, with real care for the original pine and parquet in The Cliff and Higher Broughton conversions. Skirting, dado and picture rails wiped. Cornicing and ceiling roses dusted on poles where a Victorian villa has them. Sash windows done both sides where access allows, sills and runners and the gap beneath the lower sash where dust packs in. Internal doors both sides, tops, handles and hinges. Light fittings and shades. Sockets and switches wiped, not pressed. Wardrobe and drawer interiors. Radiators front, sides, top and behind. Stone fireplaces and tiled hearths cleaned with neutral product only, never anything acidic.
Everywhere else
Private internal stairs, hallways and landings, though communal staircases in a block are the freeholder’s job, not ours. The airing cupboard and the meter cupboard. Cobwebs from corners and porch ceilings. Every bin emptied and the rubbish taken out to the property’s own external store. Last of all a walk-through with the site lead before the keys go back. And if the clerk flags anything inside 48 hours, we return free. That last line is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee, and it is written into your quote, not a verbal promise.
What it costs to clean an M7 tenancy
These are our published M7 rates, starting prices for a property in average condition that has been emptied of furniture and belongings. A flat left in heavy condition, or one stuffed with kit on the clean day, costs more, and we say so in the written quote rather than springing it on you at the end.
| Property | From | Typical range |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | £156 | £156–£207 |
| 1-bed flat or terrace | £207 | £207–£243 |
| 2-bed flat or terrace | £243 | £243–£339 |
| 3-bed terrace or semi | £339 | £339–£425 |
| 4-bed (student HMO or family) | £425 | £425–£460 |
| Carpet steam clean add-on | £36/bedroom | £115 whole 2-bed |
| Oven only | £77 single | £110 double, £114 range |
Anything billed by the hour, which covers deep, after-builders and outdoor work, runs at £30 per cleaner. For a property you still live in and that is not a move-out, the deep clean and domestic cleaning pages are the ones you want instead. A large Cliff villa is quoted on a visit rather than off this table, because a six-bedroom merchant house with three reception rooms is a different day’s work to a flat.
The agents who hold M7 deposits
Over a decade on this patch we have cleaned for most of the firms letting in M7. The list runs through Normie Sales & Lettings, Mishkan Estates, Thornley Groves, Lawrence Copeland, Mistoria, Aubrey Lee, Northern Group, Jordan Fishwick, Peter Anthony, QUBE Residential, Edward Carter Properties, Hunters and Cloud Homes. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents nationally, and that decade of repeat work is a large part of how we have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions.
The clerk’s order of inspection rarely changes, so here is roughly how it goes once they are through the door:
- Oven interior first, racks pulled, the back wall and the underside of the door glass
- Extractor filters, carbon ones either replaced or flagged as filthy
- Fridge and freezer seals, where black mould in the rubber is an easy deduction
- Washing machine drawer and that rubber gasket
- Limescale on shower screens, bath taps and shower heads
- Grout lines in the kitchen splashback and the bathroom tiling
- Toilet base seal and the floor right around it
- Skirting in every room, especially behind where the sofa stood
- Sash runners on the older terraces, where dust builds for years
- Original wood floors, checked for streaking or product damage
- Stone and marble fireplaces, checked for acid etching
- Carpets, for pile direction, traffic lines and any pet residue
- Inside wardrobes and cupboards, top shelf included
- Windows inside and out where they can reach
- Any garden, yard or balcony, for leaves, cobwebs and the odd forgotten BBQ
- Bins, yours and the communal ones, all emptied
If you want the independent view of what a landlord can fairly hold money for, Shelter is blunt about it: cleaning is the most common deduction, but a tenant only has to return a property to its check-in cleaning standard, and a clause forcing you to pay for professional cleaning is not enforceable. Our job is to get the property comfortably past that standard so the question never arises.
Booking a Broughton clean, and what neighbours book
Booking is short. Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the M7 address, the bedroom count, the check-out date and whether you want carpets in. A written, fixed-price quote follows, usually within the hour, worded so your agent can match it against the inventory. We block four to eight hours depending on size, send two to four cleaners with a site lead, and you do not need to be there: keys come from the agent or a coded lockbox. If the clerk flags anything in 48 hours, we are back free of charge.
One timing note. M7 fills up around the 1st and the 15th of the month, and the student turnover off Lower Broughton Road runs hard through late June and into September. Outside those weeks, same-day and next-day slots are common for anything up to a two-bed if you call before late morning. Inside them, book early.
Plenty of Broughton customers add a service or two on top of the move-out clean:
- Oven cleaning as a one-off, single, double, range or AGA
- Carpet cleaning, £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, £115 for a whole two-bed
- Upholstery for sofas, armchairs and mattresses
- Hard floor cleaning, which matters for The Cliff’s pine and Higher Broughton’s tiled hallways
- Window cleaning inside and out
- After-builders cleaning, used a lot on the Camp Street and Adelphi handovers
- Removals if you are shifting the contents as well as cleaning
- Deep cleaning for a home you are staying in
We work the same routes into the neighbouring areas, so if your move crosses a boundary we can cover both ends. From here we regularly run into Salford, the parent district, plus Prestwich, Cheetham Hill, Crumpsall, Whitefield and Manchester City Centre. The full regional view sits on the Manchester end of tenancy hub.
If you do not drive, none of this is hard to reach. The 135 runs the length of Bury New Road into Shudehill in the city centre, the 93 links Shudehill through Salford to Lower Broughton, and the 98 comes down from Bury through Whitefield, all on the Bee Network. The Broughton Park stop opposite Park Street puts most of the M7 lets within a short walk.
Broughton end of tenancy questions, answered
Do you cover all of M7?
Yes. Lower Broughton, Higher Broughton, Broughton Park and The Cliff, plus the Adelphi and Camp Street regeneration streets that bleed into M3. We also work the M8 and M25 roads that border Broughton from the same routing.
Can you do a same-day end of tenancy clean in Broughton?
Most weeks, yes, except the late-June student turnover and the September check-in rush. Call before late morning and we can usually fit you in that afternoon for anything up to a two-bed.
What does an end of tenancy clean cost for a 2-bed in Broughton Park?
From £243 for an empty two-bed in average condition. Add carpet steam cleaning and a typical Broughton Park two-bed lands around £270. We put the price in writing before we start, so there is no hourly creep.
Do you handle kosher dual-sink kitchens correctly?
Yes. Our Broughton Park crew keep meat and dairy sinks, surfaces and cloths separate, and leave the layout exactly as the inventory describes it. If you have a specific kashrut requirement, give it to us in writing and we follow it.
What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?
If your letting agent or inventory clerk flags anything in the first 48 hours after we finish, we come back at no charge to put it right. The guarantee is written into your quote, so it is a contractual promise rather than a verbal one.
Do I need to be there?
No. We collect keys from the agent or a lockbox, send before-and-after photos to your phone, and confirm completion in writing once the walk-through is done.
Will you clean the carpets too?
Yes, if you add the carpet option. We use hot-water steam extraction with professional solutions, with pet treatment available. It is £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed.
What about the oven?
A full oven degrease is part of the standard end of tenancy clean. Single ovens, doubles, range cookers and AGAs are all covered. On an induction or ceramic hob we use non-abrasive products so nothing scratches.
Are you VAT registered?
Yes. Invoices are itemised and supplied as a PDF for both landlord and tenant records.
Do you work with Mishkan Estates, Normie and Thornley Groves?
Yes. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents nationally, and most of the larger M7 firms have used us repeatedly since 2014.
Does the selective licensing scheme affect me as a tenant?
Only indirectly. The licence is the landlord’s obligation, not yours, but licensed properties get inspected more closely, so check-out standards on them are tighter. Meeting the Salford licensing conditions for cleanliness is, in practice, meeting the standard that returns your deposit.
What if my deposit is still deducted after your clean?
The 48-hour re-clean comes first. If the agent still deducts after that, we give you written confirmation of the work plus before-and-after photos to support a dispute through TDS, DPS or mydeposits. You usually have three months from moving out to raise it, and Citizens Advice sets out the deadline and the steps. Adjudicators routinely accept our documentation.
Can you clean listed or conservation-area properties?
Yes. The Cliff villas, the listed houses off Bury New Road and the period stock around Singleton Road are routine work for us. We use neutral pH products on natural stone, marble and original timber so nothing gets etched or stained.
Do you clean student HMOs?
Yes. The University of Salford drives a big student turnover in Broughton each summer, and we are well used to four and five-bed HMOs with the wear that comes with them. We rotate teams through Lower Broughton Road and the surrounding streets every June and July.
How do I pay, and what is your number?
Bank transfer, card, or through your agent if they bill with us, always on completion rather than up front. The number is 0333 555 2076 and the email is [email protected], with office hours 8am to 8pm seven days a week.