The houses Chipstead tenants hand back
Two in every three homes in Chipstead are detached houses, so most tenants leaving the village are leaving a whole house with a garden, a drive and often more than one bathroom. Our end of tenancy clean for those homes is priced by bedrooms: £339 for a three-bed, £425 for a four-bed, and from £156 if you are in one of the few flats near the station.
Last updated October 2026.
The 2011 census counted 1,212 homes in Chipstead. Flats made up 8% of them, terraced houses another 8% and semis 18%. Across Reigate and Banstead as a whole a quarter of homes are flats.
That mix comes from the way the land was sold: the Jolliffe and Walpole families, who owned most of it, set a minimum building cost of £500 a house, which in the early 1900s meant substantial houses on large plots. The village grew from 688 people in 1891 to more than 2,000 by 1939.
So the typical Chipstead let is a family house on a wide plot, often with a utility room, a downstairs cloakroom and an en suite as well as the family bathroom. Those rooms add hours. They do not add to the price, because the clean is priced on bedrooms.
Conservation area houses in Chipstead
Chipstead has three conservation areas: High Road, Elmore Road, and Walpole Avenue and Starrock Green, designated by Reigate and Banstead Council on 6 March 2024. The newest one covers early 20th century Arts and Crafts houses, most of them designed by the architect George Blair Imrie and built between 1906 and 1936.
The appraisal picks out steep roofs of 49 to 54 degrees, handmade clay tiles, local flint and tall chimney stacks. One house on Walpole Avenue, West Ridge (1923), was listed at Grade II in 2019.
The council also protects Hollymead Road and Bouverie Road, and Court Hill, as Residential Areas of Special Character, which it describes as low density with spacious plots and mature planting. Hollymead Road was laid out in 1910 with holly hedges on both sides to mark the parish boundary.
Inside, houses of this age mean small-paned casement windows, deep sills, picture rails, panelled doors and fireplaces in more than one room. Each of those collects dust in its own way, and a clerk working from a check-in report with photographs will look at them. Our cleaners wipe every pane from the inside, run along the rails and the tops of the doors, and clean hearth tiles and surrounds.
The other side of Chipstead is the valley. In the 1920s and 1930s the developer Costain bought land along the Chipstead valley from the viaduct at the bottom of How Lane towards Kingswood, and built at a higher density than the older roads. Those interwar semis and detached houses are the more common rental here, along with the flats and maisonettes close to Chipstead station and the shops on Station Approach and Rectory Lane.
Prices for a Chipstead end of tenancy clean
The price is fixed by the number of bedrooms, and it is the same for a 1930s semi on How Lane as for an Imrie house on Walpole Avenue.
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio flat | £156 |
| One-bedroom flat or maisonette | £207 |
| Two-bedroom flat or cottage | £243 |
| Three-bedroom house | £339 |
| Four-bedroom house | £425 |
| Five bedrooms or more | quoted from the room count |
| One room in a shared house, or part of a property | £30 per cleaner per hour |
The oven is an add-on: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. If the kitchen has a range cooker, measure it before you book. Our oven cleaning page has the detail.
Carpets cleaned on the same visit cost £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. A four-bed house with carpeted bedrooms, stairs and landing usually needs most of those lines. The carpet cleaning page covers the method.
Most Chipstead houses have a drive, and we park on it where we can. Where we have to pay to park, that cost is added at what it costs us.
The clean, room by room
End of tenancy cleaning
from £156
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
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Every clean follows our 57-point checklist. The cleaners are vetted at an in-person interview, insured and trained on that list.
- Kitchen: inside and outside every cupboard and drawer, worktops, splashback, hob, extractor hood and filter, sink and taps descaled, fridge and freezer, dishwasher door and seals, and the floor where appliances pull out.
- Bathrooms and cloakrooms: tiles, grout, bath, shower tray and screen, taps and shower heads descaled, toilet, basin, mirrors and extractor covers.
- Living rooms and bedrooms: skirting, picture rails, doors and frames, light switches, radiators, inside wardrobes, sills, windows from the inside, and fireplace surrounds.
- Utility room, hall and stairs: the washing machine drawer and door seal, banisters and spindles, and every floor vacuumed and washed.
The clerk compares the house with the check-in report, room by room, so the clean is judged against the day you moved in.
Bedrooms set the price; the extra rooms just mean a longer day for the team, which is why a large Chipstead house gets more than one cleaner. If anything on the check-out report is down to the clean, tell us within 48 hours and we will come back and put it right at no charge.
Water from the chalk
Chipstead is supplied by SES Water, the Sutton and East Surrey company, which serves Banstead, Coulsdon and Reigate too. SES draws much of its water from boreholes in the chalk and greensand, which makes it naturally hard. The company softens some of it at the treatment works, but the supply still leaves scale on taps, shower screens, kettles and the glass of the shower door.
In a house that has been lived in for a few years the scale builds up on the parts a tenant rarely reaches: the shower head, the overflow of the bath, the base of the taps and the inside of the toilet bowl at the water line. We descale all of these as standard. A clerk who sees a white crust on chrome that was clean at check-in will note it.
Deposits, licensing and shared houses in Reigate and Banstead
Rents in the borough show what is at stake. The ONS put the average private rent in Reigate and Banstead at £2,396 a month for a detached house in August 2026, and £2,559 for a home with four or more bedrooms. A deposit is capped at five weeks’ rent when the yearly rent is under £50,000, so on an average detached house the deposit comes to about £2,770.
The landlord can only deduct for damage or dirt beyond fair wear and tear, measured against the check-in inventory. A landlord also cannot make a professional clean a condition of the tenancy. What you need is a house as clean as the day you moved in, and a professional clean is the usual way to show that.
Reigate and Banstead runs the national mandatory HMO licence only, for homes shared by five or more people from two or more households. There is no selective or additional licensing scheme. On 30 July 2026 the council made a borough-wide Article 4 direction, which comes into force on 30 July 2027.
After that date, turning a family house into a small shared house for three to six people will need planning permission. That is the landlord’s business, but it may mean fewer house shares in villages like Chipstead.
We also clean in Banstead, over the downs to the north-west, and in Coulsdon, a few minutes up the Tattenham Corner line towards London Bridge. Prices are the same across Surrey.
We have been cleaning since 2014 in London, Liverpool, Manchester and the areas around them. More than 300 letting agents work with us, tenants have won back £1.2m in deposits after our cleans, and we hold a 4.7 rating on Google. Call 0333 555 2076 from 8am to 7pm, seven days a week, or use the price calculator at the top of the page.
Chipstead end of tenancy FAQs
I am moving out of a four-bed house on Walpole Avenue with several fireplaces. What will it cost?
£425 for the house. Fireplace surrounds and hearth tiles are part of that. Add the oven and any carpets from the price list if the inventory mentions them.
Do you clean the inside of a log burner?
We clean the hearth, the surround and the outside of the stove. Sweeping the flue is a job for a chimney sweep, and your tenancy agreement will say whether that is yours to arrange.
There are no buses through the village. How do your cleaners get here?
They come by van with the equipment and park on the drive where there is one, so the lack of buses makes no difference to your booking.
We are three sharers in a house off How Lane and I leave first. What do I book?
Your own room and a share of the kitchen and bathroom, at £30 per cleaner per hour. Whoever leaves last can book the whole house at the fixed price.
How hard is the water in Chipstead?
Hard. SES Water takes much of it from chalk and greensand boreholes, so taps, shower screens and toilet bowls scale up. Descaling is included in every clean.
How do I pay?
A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done.