End of tenancy cleaning in and around Canada Water

End of tenancy cleaning in Canada Water SE16, run by a team that has worked the Rotherhithe peninsula and the Surrey Quays regeneration zone since 2014. We clean to the inventory standard Dexters, Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, Hastings International and Oliver Jaques sign off against, hand the flat back deposit-ready, and stand behind every job with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected].

Last updated April 2026. Coverage across SE16: Canada Water, Surrey Quays, Rotherhithe, Greenland Dock and the Bermondsey border. Parent borough page: end of tenancy cleaning in Southwark.

What handing back a Canada Water flat looks like in 2026

Most of our Canada Water jobs sit within a ten-minute walk of the glass drum over the station. That is the shape of this postcode now. Tall blocks with a concierge desk, a fob-access lobby and a video entry handset, rented to people who work at Canary Wharf one Jubilee stop east or at London Bridge two stops west. The flat you are leaving was almost certainly let furnished, checked in with a photographic inventory, and signed off as “professionally cleaned” in the agreement. That phrase is the whole game at check-out, because it gives the clerk a written standard to measure your flat against and gives the landlord a number to deduct when it falls short.

We get the call at one of two moments. Either you have a check-out booked and three days to sort it, or the agent has already been round, flagged a list, and you are trying to head off a deduction. Both are fixable. The first is cheaper.

The postcode is still a building site, and that sets the bar

Canada Water has changed character faster than almost any postcode in inner south-east London. The 53-acre British Land and AustralianSuper masterplan, granted revised consent by the Deputy Mayor of London in March 2026, has already delivered 186 new homes at the Founding, 79 affordable homes at 7 Roberts Close, the new Canada Water Leisure Centre and the Corner Corner food hall. Up to 4,184 homes will eventually sit on the site across 16 new streets and a 3.5-acre park, with the next phase due on site in 2027. People keep calling it London’s first new town centre in fifty years, and for once the marketing is roughly true. All of that lands on top of an older rental stock of 2000s dockside conversions, Maple Quays, Quebec Quarter, Hithe Point, Brunswick Quay, where the lettings now skew heavily towards furnished, concierge-served flats aimed at the Wharf and London Bridge commute.

It changes the cleaning standard, and not in your favour. Average asking rents in SE16 sit around £1,599 a month for a studio and £1,850 to £2,650 for a one-bed as of April 2026, with two-beds in the Quebec Quarter or the Founding pushing past £3,000. Deposits run to five weeks of rent under the Tenant Fees Act 2019 cap, so a typical one-bed deposit lands between £2,000 and £3,000, and a furnished two-bed in a concierge block can carry £3,500 or more. That figure is what your end of tenancy clean is actually protecting.

There is one more wrinkle the dossier sites further south do not have. Half of this neighbourhood is still a live construction site. Flats let within the masterplan footprint pick up a particular kind of grime, fine cement-coloured dust off the hoardings that drifts in through trickle vents and settles on top of wardrobes and along window tracks, plus the grit that comes off boots in a shared lobby a hundred residents use a day. A clerk who works these blocks knows to look for it, because it is the local tell that a flat was wiped over rather than cleaned.

What you do not get here is period property. The Rotherhithe peninsula was working docks until the 1970s, then redeveloped in waves: Wimpey in the late 1980s, Barratt at Maple Quays through the 2000s, Quebec Quarter in the 2010s, and the British Land scheme now. No Victorian terraces, no Georgian conversions. What you do get is a lot of glass, a lot of engineered wood and Karndean, a lot of integrated appliances hidden behind cabinet fronts, and a lot of clerks trained on the specific failure modes of new-build kitchens.

Towers, concierge desks and who rents here

If your tenancy is in one of these blocks, the clerk will know exactly where to point the camera. The Founding on Plot A1 went up to 35 storeys and completed in 2024 as the first big residential piece of the masterplan, with ground-floor retail and food underneath. Ontario Point caps Maple Quays at 26 storeys, with a 24-hour concierge and a gym, sat right next to the station. Maple Quays itself, Toronto House and the wider Barratt scheme of more than 650 flats, was designed by Glenn Howells and built in the mid-2000s. Quebec Quarter covers Sitka House, Osier House and the Hastings International stock around Quebec Way. Hithe Point on Salter Road takes in Derwent Court and Fairmont House. Then there is Brunswick Quay on Greenland Dock and Pearl Yard over on the old Peek Frean biscuit factory site towards Bermondsey.

Each block has its own habits. The Founding has aluminium-effect kitchen carcasses that streak if you wipe them with the wrong cloth. Quebec Quarter’s Karndean wants a specific pH and will haze if anyone takes a steam mop to it. The Maple Quays towers have ceiling extract grilles that nearly always fail the dust check on first inspection, because nobody thinks to look up. These are not guesses. They are the lines we see come back on inventory reports month after month, and they are why a cleaner who has done a flat in your building beats one who has not.

The people renting these flats are mostly two-year-tenancy professionals, the sort who change jobs and move on, which is why turnover here is high and the agents are practised at deductions. You are not the first tenant your clerk has inspected this month. You will not be the last.

A cleaner who has done a flat in your building beats one who has not.

The law and the licence behind your SE16 tenancy

Two things sit behind your tenancy in 2026, and both push inspections to be stricter, not looser. The first is the law. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 takes effect for new and existing tenancies from 1 May 2026. It ends fixed-term assured shorthold tenancies, abolishes Section 21 no-fault evictions, and moves disputes towards the new Private Rented Sector Database and a landlord ombudsman. It does not touch the deposit deduction rules. Those still sit with the three statutory schemes, TDS, DPS and mydeposits. What it does change is volume. Clerks and adjudicators are already reporting more cleaning-related claims as tenancies turn over, and a clean documented to inventory standard is the most reliable way to keep your money.

The second is the licence. Southwark Council runs a borough-wide Additional Licensing scheme for small HMOs and section 257 converted blocks, live from 1 March 2022 to 28 February 2027. On top of that, Selective Licensing Scheme 2 covers the Surrey Docks and Rotherhithe wards, both of which fall across Canada Water, running from 1 November 2023 to 31 October 2028. That second scheme catches most privately rented homes in SE16, however many tenants are in them. For landlords it means an inspection regime with teeth. For tenants it means letting agents are under more scrutiny than they used to be, and they pass that scrutiny straight down the chain at check-out.

None of this is meant to alarm you. It is meant to explain why a flat that would have passed in 2021 gets picked apart in 2026, and why the documented clean has gone from a nice-to-have to the thing that settles the argument.

What the 57-point clean covers in a glass-and-Karndean flat

Our 57-point agent-approved checklist is the same one our teams run anywhere in SE16, but the points that bite in Canada Water are the glass, the integrated appliances and the dockside-facing reveals where salt air leaves a film. Here is what a full job covers in a typical concierge-block flat. None of it is skipped.

Kitchen

• Oven stripped down: racks, trays, side rails, fan housing, the door glass inside both panes, the seal and the hinges
• Hob and extractor: gas burners or the induction surface, splashback tiles, filter mesh degreased or replaced
• Fridge and freezer defrosted, shelves and drawers out and washed, seals and runners done
• Dishwasher filter, spray arms, door seal, salt and rinse-aid reservoirs wiped
• Microwave inside and out, turntable and the roof plate
• Washing machine drawer pulled, the rubber door gasket lifted, filter and drum cleaned
• Inside every cupboard and drawer, including the awkward back corners under the Quebec Quarter and Maple Quays carcasses
• Worktop seams, splashback grout, limescale round the tap base, sink waste and overflow
• Integrated appliance fronts where they sit flush, common in the Founding and the newer stock
• Tiled and engineered floors on a neutral pH only, no steam near Karndean
• Bin housings inside and out, kickboards lifted and cleaned underneath
• Light fittings, ceiling extract grilles, smoke-alarm dust

Bathrooms

• Shower screens descaled on both faces, tracks dried out, hinges treated
• Bath panel off where it comes away, the underside and the surrounding grout
• Toilet base, cistern, seat hinges and behind the pan
• Tap aerators and shower heads soaked, hose interior flushed
• Mirrors, shaver sockets, the ventilation grille face and inside the housing
• Tile grout brushed, sealant checked, any mould treated
• Floor edges and behind the door, a common deduction spot
• Towel rail and chrome polished free of water marks
• Inside vanity units and any storage

Bedrooms and living areas

• Carpets vacuumed properly with the edge tool, including under any furniture left in place
• Engineered wood and Karndean mopped with the right pH, never steam, never bleach
• Skirting boards top and front, behind radiators where we can reach
• Doors both sides, frames, handles and finger plates
• Light switches, sockets, thermostat housings, the video entry handset
• Windows inside: glass, frames, sills and the dockside-facing reveals where salt-air residue collects
• Window tracks and runners, the single most-missed item in Quebec Quarter and Maple Quays
• Radiators front, top and between the fins where accessible
• Wardrobes inside, hanging rails and the shelf above the rail
• Mirrored wardrobe doors, common in the Founding, taken to a streak-free finish
• Floor-to-ceiling glazing in the tower flats, both faces of any internal pane plus reachable balcony glass
• Ceiling fan blades, pendant fittings, smoke-detector housings
• Curtain rails, blinds slat by slat, pelmets

Throughout

• Cobwebs at the ceiling perimeter and corners, including the high points in double-height lobbies
• Hallway flooring, the inside face of the flat door, the intercom handset
• Loft hatches and any storage cupboards
• A final dust pass after the deep clean to lift settled debris, the building-site dust especially
• Bin emptied, recycling left clean
• Keys arranged for handover to the agent or the concierge

What a Canada Water clean costs

Fixed prices by property type, no hourly creep. Every figure below includes materials, equipment, VAT and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee.

Carpet steam cleaning at £36 a bedroom, or £115 for a whole two-bed, is the add-on most Canada Water tenants want, because the layouts run engineered wood through the living space with carpet only in the bedrooms. An oven-only booking is handy if you have done the rest of the flat yourself and just cannot face the appliance. See the full oven cleaning prices and carpet cleaning prices for the detail.

Those numbers are not decoration. We hold a 97% first-time pass rate, we are on the books of 300+ letting agents, and over the years we have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions. The 57-point checklist and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee are how we keep that record where it is.

The jobs that lose dockside tenants their deposit

After enough check-outs in these buildings you learn where the money goes. The list below is what a Canada Water clerk actually photographs, roughly in the order they catch people out. None of it is exotic. All of it is missable.

1. Oven door glass, between the inner and outer panes. The single most common deduction line, full stop.
2. The hob extractor filter, replaced or properly degreased rather than rinsed and put back.
3. Fridge and freezer defrosted, seals clean, no lingering smell, drawers fully dry.
4. Washing machine: soap drawer out and washed, the rubber door seal lifted and cleaned, the filter accessed.
5. Inside every kitchen cupboard, the drawer backs and the runners.
6. Window tracks and runners. Maple Quays and Quebec Quarter clerks check these every single time.
7. Limescale on shower screens, tap aerators, shower heads, and the kettle if you have left one.
8. Bath sealant and grout, where mould gets flagged even when it was there before you, so photograph it early.
9. Toilet base and behind the pan.
10. The dust ridge along the top of the skirting that most tenants walk straight past.
11. Light fittings and ceiling extract grilles, which in the concierge blocks do get inspected.
12. Wardrobe interiors: hanging rails, shelves, and the shelf above the rail.
13. Balcony floor and glass, often written into the inventory at Quebec Quarter and Hithe Point.
14. The floor under anything left in place: sofas, beds, a dining set.
15. The patch of wall and floor behind the kitchen bin.
16. Inside the dishwasher, spray arms and salt reservoir included.
17. The face of the intercom or video entry handset.

The dockside flats add their own line nobody expects. Salt air off the water leaves a faint film on the glazing reveals and the balcony balustrade, and it comes back within days, so we do that bit last, right before handover, rather than first.

The deep drum, the Jubilee line and getting our van to your door

Canada Water station is the landmark everyone steers by, that big glass drum 25 metres across with the Jubilee line platforms 22 metres down, the deepest part of the box. The Jubilee runs east to Canary Wharf in a single stop and west to London Bridge in two, and the Windrush line of the Overground crosses it north to south, all in Zone 2. That is the draw. That commute is why these flats let so fast and why tenants turn over so often, which loops straight back to how practised the local agents are at deductions.

For us it matters in a duller way. Parking is the worst part. Most of these blocks have no visitor bays and run a loading dock you book through the concierge, so we plan the day around that rather than around the clean. Surrey Quays station is getting a new step-free entrance, due to open in summer 2026, which will help foot access from the south end. If we are bringing the carpet machine and the full kit, we would rather drop at the loading dock than circle Surrey Quays Road looking for a meter.

Key handover is the other Canada Water quirk. Half our jobs here finish at a concierge desk rather than an agent’s office.

We can collect from your agent, from the concierge in the Founding or Maple Quays, or from a key safe, and hand back to whoever you nominate once the clerk has been. If you are moving the same day, our removals team can run the van so the flat is empty before we start, which is the difference between a clean that passes and one that gets re-booked.

Which clean you actually need

People mix these up, and booking the wrong one costs time, because a regular domestic visit will not strip an oven and an end of tenancy job is priced as a fixed deep job rather than by the hour. A quick comparison.

Still living there and want a one-off blitz before a viewing or a visit? That is a deep cleaning job. Moved out and chasing the deposit? This page. Just had the flat refurbished, or taken handover of a brand-new unit still carrying plaster dust off the masterplan site? That is after builders cleaning, and there is a lot of it about in SE16 right now.

Words your clerk and concierge will use

A few terms come up at every Canada Water check-out, and knowing them before the clerk does the walk-round saves you arguing from the back foot when a deduction lands. Five worth having.

Check-in inventory

The photographic report a clerk took the day you moved in, recording the condition and cleanliness of every room. Your check-out is measured against it, so it is the document that decides who pays.

Professionally cleaned

A clause in most Canada Water tenancy agreements requiring the flat to be returned to professional standard. It is what lets an agent deduct when the flat is merely tidy rather than cleaned to inventory spec.

Deposit protection scheme

By law your deposit sits with one of three bodies, TDS, DPS or mydeposits, and any disputed deduction is decided by their free adjudication service rather than by the landlord.

Selective licensing

The Southwark scheme covering the Rotherhithe and Surrey Docks wards over Canada Water, running to 31 October 2028. It is a landlord obligation, but it tightens the inspection regime agents apply at handover.

Fair wear and tear

Reasonable deterioration from normal living, which a landlord cannot charge you for. Dirt and grease are not wear and tear, which is exactly why cleaning, not scuffed paint, drives most deductions.

Where else we clean around SE16

The other services we run across Canada Water and the wider postcode:

• Oven cleaning for single, double, range and AGA
• Carpet cleaning by hot water extraction, room by room or whole flat
• Upholstery cleaning for sofas, mattresses and armchairs
• Hard floor cleaning for wood, Karndean and tile
• Window cleaning, internal and external where we can reach safely
• Removals, single item up to a four-bed house
• Deep cleaning for flats people are still living in
• After builders cleaning for refurbs and new fit-outs

And the neighbouring SE16 and SE1 areas we cover, if your move is taking you a little further out: Rotherhithe, Surrey Quays, Bermondsey, Peckham and Dulwich, all sitting under the Southwark borough hub. If you are moving right out of the borough, start from the London end of tenancy hub instead.

Booking is quick. Phone 0333 555 2076 with your address, the bedroom count and your move-out date, and we send a fixed quote back inside the hour, usually within thirty minutes. Confirm the slot, pay a small deposit, settle the rest on completion. Our team turns up on the day with everything, and if the clerk flags anything within 48 hours we come back and put it right at no charge.

Canada Water end of tenancy questions

How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost in Canada Water?

Studios from £156, one-bed flats from £207, two-beds from £243, three-beds from £339 and four-beds from £425. Carpet steam cleaning is usually £36 a bedroom or £115 for a whole two-bed. Prices are fixed, include VAT and materials, and carry the 48-hour re-clean guarantee.

Do you cover the new BTR towers like the Founding and Ontario Point?

Yes. We clean across the Founding, Ontario Point, Maple Quays, Quebec Quarter, Hithe Point, Brunswick Quay and Pearl Yard. We know the materials in each, the Karndean, the engineered wood and the glazed balconies, and we send cleaners matched to them.

How fast can you turn a Canada Water flat around?

A typical one-bed in Maple Quays or Quebec Quarter runs four to six hours with a two-cleaner team. Two-beds take six to eight. We can usually book within 48 hours of your call, and often same-day for an urgent move.

Is a 48-hour re-clean guarantee actually worth anything?

Yes. If your inventory clerk or letting agent flags anything within 48 hours of completion, we come back and put it right at no charge. We hold a 97% first-time pass rate across 300+ letting agents, so the call-back rate is low, but the guarantee is your safety net.

Do I need carpet cleaning included?

If your tenancy agreement asks for professional carpet cleaning, then yes, and you will need a receipt to evidence it at deposit return. Many Canada Water flats run wood and tile through the living areas with carpet only in the bedrooms, so the add-on is usually £36 to £90.

What about oven cleaning if I have already done the rest myself?

We take oven-only bookings. £77 single, £110 double, £114 for a 90cm range cooker, £115 for a 110cm range and over, £130 for an AGA. Most Canada Water kitchens are single or double ovens.

Can you do the clean while I am still moving out?

The clean works far better in an empty flat. Where you can, schedule it for after the removal van has gone. We can line it up with our removals team if you want a single same-day handover.

Do you handle the keys with the agent or concierge?

Yes. We can collect from your agent’s office, the concierge desk in the Founding or Maple Quays, or a key safe, and return them after completion to whoever you nominate. Half our Canada Water jobs end at a concierge desk rather than an agent’s office.

What payment methods do you accept?

Bank transfer, debit and credit card. A small deposit secures the booking and the balance is due on completion.

Is the price fixed or by the hour?

End of tenancy is always fixed-price for the property type. No surprises and no hourly creep. The hourly figures you see for deep cleans (£30 per cleaner per hour) do not apply here.

What if my landlord still tries to deduct after a professional clean?

Document it with date-stamped photos before the clean, after the clean and at handover. If the agent disputes through TDS, DPS or mydeposits, we provide a copy of our completion checklist to back your case. Shelter has good free guidance if it goes that far.

Do you clean balconies and external glass?

We clean balcony floors, drains and the inside face of any glass balustrade. External windows above ground floor are done where the inventory specifies and where we can reach safely from inside. Specialist external high-rise work is a separate booking.

What about the new selective licensing scheme, does that change anything for me as a tenant?

Not directly. Southwark’s selective licensing covers the Rotherhithe and Surrey Docks wards over Canada Water and runs to 31 October 2028. It is a landlord obligation. For tenants the upside is tighter standards, and the downside is that agents now apply stricter handover inspections, which is exactly why a documented clean matters more in 2026.

Will the Renters’ Rights Act change deposit deduction rules?

The deduction rules under the deposit schemes are unchanged. What the Act changes is the wider framework, abolishing Section 21, moving to periodic-only tenancies, and adding the new ombudsman and the Private Rented Sector Database. Cleaning at end of tenancy is still tested against the inventory check-in report.

Do you offer a discount for repeat customers?

Yes. If you have used Monster Cleaning before for any service, regular domestic, deep clean, oven or carpet, we apply a returning-customer rate to your end of tenancy quote.

Can you provide an invoice for my landlord or agent?

Always. The invoice sets out the property address, the date of the clean, the inventory specification we worked to and the 48-hour guarantee terms, which is exactly what an adjudicator wants to see.

Ready to lock in a slot? Phone 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the address, the bedroom count and the move-out date. Fixed quote back within the hour, a deposit-back finish, and the 48-hour guarantee behind it. Canada Water teams cover Quebec Quarter, Maple Quays, Hithe Point, Brunswick Quay, the Founding, Ontario Point, Pearl Yard and the wider SE16 dockside.