Need end of tenancy cleaning in Champion Hill?

End of tenancy cleaning on Champion Hill, booked direct, priced from £156, and finished to the standard your Southwark clerk signs against. We have cleaned across SE5 since 2014, from the Georgian houses on Camberwell Grove to the 1930s flats of Ruskin Park House and the terraces of the Champion Hill Estate, so we know where the deductions hide on a house this size. Call 0333 555 2076 or book online.

Last updated May 2026. Coverage across SE5 8 and the adjoining SE5 9, SE22, SE24 and SE15 postcodes. Champion Hill ward sits in the London Borough of Southwark.

Champion Hill sits on the postcode seam

Stand at the top of Champion Hill and you are on a ridge, not in a neighbourhood. The road climbs east from Denmark Hill station along the crest of the same hill whose other slopes carry the names Grove Hill and Dog Kennel Hill, and the summit it shares with them is also the seam where SE5 hands over to SE22. That single fact shapes every check-out up here. One side of a street can be Camberwell, the other East Dulwich; a flat near Ruskin Park answers to one set of agents while a house near Green Dale answers to another. We work both postcodes, because on Champion Hill you cannot tidily separate them.

The numbers tell you what is at stake. The average property across Champion Hill SE5 reached £421,136 over the year to spring 2026, according to Rightmove’s HM Land Registry data, and rents in the wider Camberwell catchment run about £1,200 to £1,400 a month for a one-bed and £1,800 to £2,400 for a two-bed. Deposits are capped at five weeks under the Tenant Fees Act, which puts a typical Champion Hill deposit in the £1,400 to £2,800 band and a family house on the hill itself well past £3,000. None of that money is yours back until a clerk signs the inventory off.

Cleaning is where the signing-off snags. The Tenancy Deposit Scheme’s most recent statistical review puts cleaning at the top of disputed deductions, and the median London cleaning deduction sits well above the national figure. On Champion Hill the pattern repeats house after house: limescale, oven interiors, carpet edges, extractor filters and the back-of-cupboard work nobody does on moving day.

The houses up here are big

Size is the whole problem. Most of our Champion Hill jobs are not flats; they are houses with four, five, sometimes six bedrooms, and a bigger house is just more surface for a clerk to inspect. You are not dealing with one building type, either. Inside about a six-hundred-metre stretch you have late-Georgian terraces on Camberwell Grove and Grove Lane, Victorian houses around Daneville and Maude Road, the 1930s mansion flats of Ruskin Park House, and the post-war terraces and low-rise blocks of the Champion Hill Estate. Each one cleans differently.

The Camberwell Grove conservation area is the demanding end. Its two long streets, Camberwell Grove and Grove Lane, were built between the 1770s and the 1840s, and the houses run three and four storeys of yellow brick with sash windows, glazing bars, slate mansards and basements set down behind front lightwells. Numbers 79 to 85 and 91 to 95 are Grade II listed. On a house like that a clerk checks the parting beads on the sashes, the dust shelf on ten-foot skirtings, and the cornicing and ceiling roses that a quick wipe never reaches. It takes time, and the time is the point.

Ruskin Park House is a different animal again. It is a 1930s modernist mansion block looking over Ruskin Park, designed by Alexander Stuart Gray and William Watkins and now Grade II listed, with original parquet, tall ceilings and long communal stairwells we do not touch. The parquet seams and the edge gaps where carpet meets wood are the recurring flag in those flats.

Then there is the green edge, which is unusual for inner London and worth knowing. Champion Hill backs onto Ruskin Park on the Camberwell side and onto Green Dale Fields on the East Dulwich side, a strip of Metropolitan Open Land with a footpath and cycle track running down past the King’s College sports ground towards Dog Kennel Hill Wood and the Champion Hill stadium where Dulwich Hamlet play. Houses backing the park and the fields are the ones that pick up garden tread and mud through the back rooms, which a clerk will notice on the hard floors.

Who actually rents on the hill

King’s College Hospital and the Maudsley sit at the foot of the hill, and between them they employ thousands. A good share of the doctors, nurses and research staff rent locally on six and twelve-month tenancies that turn over fast, and the King’s postgraduate and PhD cohort attached to the hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry feeds the same private market every summer and winter. These are tenants on a clock. They move when a rota or a term ends, not when it suits the let, so the cleaning often gets squeezed into a single day between handing back and starting somewhere new.

The student halls are a trap people fall into. You would expect the big King’s residence on Champion Hill to soak up that demand, but four of its five blocks have stood empty since July 2020 over a fire-safety problem with their timber frames and cladding, and the listed Platanes block is shut too. So the housing pressure from King’s, the Maudsley and the Institute of Psychiatry has pushed out into ordinary flats and house-shares across SE5 and SE22 instead. If you are leaving one of those shares, you are on a private inventory, and a private inventory is checked hard.

We clean a lot of those moves. The work is the same whether you are a single NHS tenant leaving a Ruskin Park House one-bed or four researchers leaving a Daneville Road house: empty, defrosted, descaled, and finished to the inventory. If you are on a King’s master tenancy or a sub-let with the inventory held centrally, send us the document and we clean to it line by line.

The licence your landlord is holding

Champion Hill ward is licensed, and that matters more than most tenants realise. It is one of five wards in Southwark’s first selective licensing designation, alongside Newington, Faraday, St Giles and Goose Green, which came in on 1 March 2022 and runs to 28 February 2027. Any privately rented home in the ward let to a single household or to two unrelated sharers has to hold a licence, set at £900 over the five-year term. You can read the detail on Southwark Council’s property licensing pages, and a borough-wide additional licensing scheme covers smaller HMOs on top of it.

Here is why it reaches your deposit. A landlord holding a live licence is under council scrutiny on the condition of the property, because a licensing officer can ask to see it, so they cannot afford to put a tired flat back on the market. They want the deep-clean evidence on file before re-letting. That pushes the inventory standard up, not down, and it is exactly where end of tenancy cleaning earns its money. A clerk-grade clean, not a looks-fine-to-a-mate clean.

The law around your deposit is changing in your favour on timing, though not on cleaning. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 ends Section 21 no-fault evictions and makes periodic tenancies the default from 1 May 2026, which gives you more room to set the move-out date around your work. It does not soften the deposit rules. Statutory deposit protection still makes the landlord prove any deduction with photographs and a clerk report, and the burden is on them to show the place came back worse than it went in, not merely short of show-home. Our checklist is built so there is nothing left for the camera.

A clerk-grade clean, not a looks-fine-to-a-mate clean.

Streets we cover across the two postcodes

If your tenancy is a short walk from Denmark Hill station, Ruskin Park or Green Dale, we cover it. We work the whole Champion Hill footprint and the streets that spill over the SE5/SE22 line, so you do not need to work out which postcode you are technically in before you call.

• Champion Hill itself (SE5 8TQ, SE5 8TL, SE5 8AW).
• The Champion Hill Estate and its low-rise blocks.
• Ruskin Park House and the Ruskin Park frontage.
• Camberwell Grove and Grove Lane, down through the conservation area to Grove Park.
• Daneville Road, Maude Road and Ondine Road.
• Champion Park and the Denmark Hill side (SE5 8RZ, SE5 8RS).
• Green Dale and the streets backing Green Dale Fields.
• Dog Kennel Hill and the Dog Kennel Hill Estate towards SE22.
• Sunray Avenue and the Sunray Estate.
• The King’s College Hall site and its private overspill lets.

We also clean the neighbouring areas on the same checklist and the same prices. Off the hill that means Camberwell to the north, Denmark Hill down the slope, East Dulwich over the SE22 line, Herne Hill to the west, and Dulwich beyond that. We reach Peckham too, and the full borough hub for Southwark lists the rest.

What a clerk ticks on a Champion Hill check-out

Every Champion Hill clean runs on our 57-point checklist, the same list 300+ letting agents across London have signed off as meeting their inventory standard. It is written from the clerk’s side, in the order they inspect, which is rarely the order rooms sit in a house. Clerks working SE5 split into three sorts: an agency’s own staff at Acorn, Urban Village Home or Petermans; independent specialists from Inventory Hive, No Letting Go or Brego; and corporate clerks on the institutional stock. They flag the same points, only with different tolerances.

Kitchen

• Oven interior degreased, base, roof and door glass inside and out, shelves and grill pan soaked and scrubbed.
• Hob and extractor, burners or induction surface, splashback, filters lifted and the housing wiped through.
• Fridge and freezer defrosted, shelves and seals washed, and behind where it pulls out.
• Microwave, dishwasher and washing machine, drawers, drums, filters and rubber seals cleaned.
• Every cupboard inside and out, doors, hinges, shelf tops and undersides, kick-plates off where they lift.
• Worktops, sink, taps and drainer descaled, silicone seals along the splashback cleaned.
• Tiled walls degreased and the grout scrubbed; floor mopped and detailed by hand into the corners.

Bathrooms

• Bath, basin, toilet and shower descaled, shower heads and screens cleared of limescale, glass polished both sides.
• Tiles and grout re-whitened, any mould treated, the shower-tray seal checked.
• Toilet bowl, rim, hinges, base and behind the pan; cistern top and sides.
• Extractor cover off, vanes cleaned, housing wiped.
• Skirtings, door, frame and behind the door; floor mopped into the corners.
• Cabinets and shelving emptied and wiped inside and out; towel rail, radiator and pipes done.

Bedrooms and living rooms

• Carpets vacuumed and the edges detailed by hand; heavy traffic lanes flagged for an optional wash.
• Hard floors, including the original parquet in Ruskin Park House, swept and mopped to a no-streak finish.
• Skirtings wiped, top edge included, where the dust a clerk looks for collects.
• Sash window furniture, weights, pulleys and parting beads cleaned on the original Georgian and 1930s frames.
• Cornicing, ceiling roses and picture rails dusted, a regular flag in the Camberwell Grove houses.
• Built-in wardrobes inside and out, shelves, rails and drawer runners.
• Doors, handles, finger plates, light switches, sockets, radiators and pipework.

Throughout

• Hall and stairs, banister, spindles, treads and landing skirtings, which is real work in a four-storey house.
• Cobwebs off every ceiling corner and behind every door.
• All internal doors and frames wiped both sides.
• For flats, the front door inner face, the intercom and the mat well.
• Loft hatch and any under-stairs or cellar cupboard swept and wiped.

Where the deductions actually land

After a decade up here the leak points barely change. If you only had time to do five things before a Champion Hill check-out, do these.

1. The oven, and especially the glass between the door panes. It is the most-deducted item in SE5, full stop.
2. Limescale on shower heads, taps, mixer cartridges and screens. The water here is hard and the scale shows.
3. Grout in bathrooms and kitchens, worst in the older conversions with original tiling.
4. Carpet flattening and marks under furniture, and the parquet edge gaps in the Ruskin Park House flats.
5. The bits clerks reach that tenants forget: skirting top edges, the tops of internal doors, behind the cistern, and the runners inside built-in wardrobes.

This is also where the guarantee does its job. We hit a 97% first-time pass rate, and on the few that do not clear at once a single re-visit settles it. Over the years we have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions, which is the only number on this page that really matters to you. It comes from cleaning to the clerk’s list, not to a guess.

What it costs to clean a place this size

Prices are fixed by the size of the property, with add-ons for carpets, upholstery, glass and outside space. Champion Hill rates sit at our standard SE5 tier, a touch above outer Southwark and level with Camberwell and East Dulwich. We quote firm before you book. No hourly creep, no surprises on the day.

Furnished places add roughly ten to fifteen per cent, for the time spent cleaning behind, under and inside furniture you do not own. The big listed houses on Camberwell Grove are quoted on a viewing rather than off the table: original sashes, lath-and-plaster and ten-foot skirtings need more hours per square metre, usually £30 to £60 a tier above the prices above.

Add-ons that earn their place on a big house

On a larger Champion Hill house a few extras pay for themselves at the check-out. Pick whichever your inventory actually turns on.

• Oven cleaning as a standalone, if the kitchen is the only likely flag.
• Carpet cleaning by hot-water extraction, worth it on any tenancy over two years.
• Upholstery cleaning for sofas, mattresses and armchairs.
• Window cleaning inside and out, sash frames included.
• Hard floor cleaning for parquet, laminate and tile, which the Ruskin Park House flats often need.
• Removals if you would rather hand the whole move to one firm.
• After-builders cleaning, handy when a landlord has had work done mid-tenancy.

Booking it around your move

Booking is quick, because most people up here are juggling a hospital rota or a term date and have no time for a drawn-out back-and-forth.

1. Quote. Call 0333 555 2076, email [email protected], or use the form. Tell us the size, the address and the check-out date, and we quote firm within an hour in working hours.
2. Hold. We hold the slot with no deposit. You confirm by reply.
3. Clean. A team of two to four arrives with a van, kit and products. No charge for parking, products or travel inside Greater London. A clean runs four to nine hours by size.
4. Check. The clerk usually inspects within a day or two of us finishing.
5. Re-clean if needed. Within 48 hours of the clerk’s report we come back free and put right anything on the checklist they flagged.

One local note worth saying out loud. If your check-out is first thing and you are out by nine, we can clean the same day; if it is later, we take the morning after. The 48-hour clock starts when we finish, not when you hand back, so a same-day clean actually tightens your own window. Studios we can usually fit the same week, a five-bed house wants three to five days’ notice.

The words your agent and clerk will use

Check-out paperwork is full of jargon. Here is the short version of the terms that decide your deposit.

Check-in inventory

The report and photos taken when you moved in. It is the benchmark; a clerk judges the move-out against this, not against a brand-new flat.

Inventory clerk

The person who inspects on the way out. On Champion Hill they are often an outside firm like Inventory Hive or No Letting Go, who tend to run tighter than an agency’s own staff.

Selective licensing

A council scheme requiring a licence to rent in certain wards. Champion Hill is in Southwark’s first designation to February 2027; the detail is on Southwark Council’s property licensing pages.

Deposit protection

Your deposit must sit in a government-backed scheme, and deductions have to be evidenced. Statutory deposit protection sets the rules.

End of tenancy vs deep clean

A deep clean resets a home you are staying in. An end of tenancy clean is aimed squarely at passing the inventory, empties every cupboard, and carries the 48-hour re-clean.

Champion Hill end of tenancy questions

How much is end of tenancy cleaning on Champion Hill?

Studios start at £156, a one-bed flat at £207, a two-bed at £243, a three-bed house at £339 and a four-bed at £425. The big Camberwell Grove and Champion Hill houses are quoted on top of that because Grade II listed rooms take longer per square metre. Carpet washing, oven-only and exterior glass are priced as add-ons.

Will I get my deposit back if you clean?

We cannot promise the deposit itself, because a clerk can still dock you for damage, missing items or rent arrears that have nothing to do with us. What we stand behind is the cleaning. If the inventory clerk flags any cleaning item on our 57-point list within 48 hours of us finishing, we come back and put it right at no charge.

Do you clean the big houses on the hill and Camberwell Grove?

Yes, and they are most of our Champion Hill work. A four or five-bed Georgian on Camberwell Grove has original sash windows, ten-foot skirtings and lath-and-plaster walls, so we quote it as a full-day job for a team of three or four rather than off the standard table. Expect roughly £30 to £60 a tier above the price list.

Do you cover Ruskin Park House?

We do, and we know the block. It is a 1930s mansion block above Ruskin Park with original parquet, tall ceilings and deep cornicing, so we bring the longer ladder kit for the cornice runs. We clean inside the flat only; the porter and managing agent look after the communal stairwells.

Is the King’s College Hall site still student accommodation?

Mostly not, and it catches people out. Four of the five blocks on the Champion Hill residence have stood empty since July 2020 over a timber-frame and cladding fire-safety issue, with the listed Platanes block also shut, so the King’s, Maudsley and Institute of Psychiatry housing demand has spilled into private flats around SE5 instead. If you are on a King’s master tenancy or a sub-let with a central inventory, send it over and we match it.

Does Southwark’s selective licensing change my move?

It bears on your landlord more than on you. Champion Hill ward is one of the five wards in Southwark’s first selective licensing designation, which runs to February 2027, so a let to a single household or two sharers has to hold a licence. If yours does not, you may be able to claim back up to a year of rent through a Rent Repayment Order; Shelter’s guidance explains how. It does not lower the cleaning bar, but it does mean these landlords are under more scrutiny on condition.

What changes under the Renters’ Rights Act?

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 ends Section 21 and makes periodic tenancies the default from 1 May 2026, which gives you more room to fix the move-out date around a hospital rota or a term end. It does not touch the deposit rules. Statutory deposit protection still makes the landlord evidence every deduction with photos and a clerk report.

How long will the clean take?

A studio runs three to four hours, a one-bed four to six, a two-bed five to seven, and a three-bed house seven to nine. A five-bed Georgian on the Grove is a full day. We give you a firm window when you book rather than an open-ended morning slot.

Do you clean inside the oven?

Yes. The oven interior, the door glass including between the panes where the door splits, the shelves, grill pan, hob, extractor and filter are all in the standard end of tenancy price. No surcharge. The oven is still the single most-deducted item a clerk finds in SE5, so it is never an extra.

Can you add carpet and window cleaning?

Yes. Carpet cleaning by hot-water extraction is £36 a bedroom, £43 a lounge or £115 for a whole two-bed, and we push it on any tenancy over two years. Window cleaning inside and out, including the original sashes, and upholstery cleaning for sofas and mattresses can go on the same booking.

Do I need to be there on the day?

No, and most people up here are not, because they are mid-move. Leave a key with the agent, the Ruskin Park House porter, or in a key safe, and we collect, clean and drop back. We carry £5m public liability cover and every cleaner is DBS-checked.

What if my landlord uses an outside clerk?

Plenty on Champion Hill do, instructing Inventory Hive, No Letting Go or Brego rather than the agency’s own staff. We build the checklist around third-party clerk tolerances precisely because they run tighter than an in-house check. The 48-hour re-clean applies whoever holds the clipboard.

Can I just book the oven on its own?

Yes. A single oven is £77, a double £110, a 90cm range £114, a 110cm-plus £115 and an AGA £130. If the kitchen is the only thing your clerk is likely to flag, that is all you need. Oven cleaning can be booked as a standalone.

Are you tied to particular Champion Hill agents?

No. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents across London, including ones active in SE5 such as Acorn, Urban Village Home and Petermans, but we are not exclusive to any of them. Book us direct, send us your inventory standard, and we clean to it whoever manages the let.

How do I pay you?

Card on the day, bank transfer in advance, or an invoice on 14-day terms for landlords and agents. We do not take cash. For a house quoted on a viewing we confirm the figure in writing first, so there is nothing to settle that you have not already seen.

What if the house has been left in a real state?

We quote that on a viewing rather than off the table. Pet damage, smoke residue, a long-neglected let or a post-party mess all sit outside the standard bands because the hours involved are unpredictable. We have cleaned most of what SE5 can produce since 2014, so very little throws us.

How do I book, and how soon do you reply?

Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the property size, the address and your check-out date, and we quote firm within an hour in working hours. We hold the slot with no deposit. Studios we can usually fit the same week; a five-bed house wants three to five days’ notice.