Circus West Village end of tenancy cleaning

On a Circus West Village hand-back the clerk goes to the kitchen first, and on a handle-less integrated kitchen the line that fails is the silicone bead around the induction hob. A faint cooked-on shadow there reads as new damage against the developer photo pack, and that is a deduction conversation before you have set foot in the lounge. We are Monster Cleaning, an end-of-tenancy crew working SW11 since 2014, and we clean these riverside apartments to the inventory standard at £30 per hour per cleaner, every job carrying a 48-hour re-clean guarantee against the check-out report. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price.

Last updated June 2026. We cover the whole of Circus West Village and the streets either side of it inside SW11 8: SW11 8AL, SW11 8AB, SW11 8BJ and SW11 8BZ as the core, with the river-walk and Electric Boulevard edge addresses that spill into SW8 4. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Wandsworth.

Why the developer photo pack decides this clean, not the clerk’s eye

Start with the thing that makes Circus West different from the Victorian stock south of the river, because it changes how the whole clean is judged. These are new-build apartments. Phase one of the Battersea Power Station regeneration, 865 homes finished in 2017 across the two riverside blocks SimpsonHaugh and dRMM drew up over the railway arches, master-planned by Rafael Vinoly. Floor-to-ceiling glass, engineered-oak floors, glass balustrades, handle-less kitchens with integrated appliances, walk-in showers and no baths in most of the one-beds. No cornicing, no ceiling roses, nothing original to go careful around.

Here is why that matters for your deposit. On a period flat the clerk is making a judgement call about wear. On a Circus West flat they are not guessing at all. They walk the apartment with the developer hand-back pack open on a tablet, photo by photo, and the building operator holds a copy of the same pack. So the comparison is brutal and literal. If the engineered floor has a grey haze along the patio-door track where outdoor grit ground in over a twelve-month let, it gets photographed from the doorway with a torch raked across it. If the integrated extractor mesh has gone amber, that is a line. If the silicone around the hob carries a pasta shadow, the pack proves it was clean when you moved in.

On a period flat the clerk judges wear. On a Circus West flat the photo pack just tells them.

This is corporate inventory rigour, not landlord-and-tenant haggling. A good chunk of the stock here is corporate-relocation and build-to-rent, let through Knight Frank’s office at Fladgate House, JOHNS&CO over in Halliday House, and JLL on the Battersea Power Station desk. The clerks those firms use all work from the operator pack, so the bar is the same in every block. It does not move because you cleaned hard. It moves because the photos match.

Concierge, lift booking and the loading bay: the half nobody plans for

The clean is only half the job at Circus West. Getting in to do it is the other half, and it trips up move-outs here more than the actual dirt does. Every block runs a 24-hour concierge desk. The concierge logs your move-out van in and out at the service entrance, and on most of the blocks you cannot just turn up with kit and a vacuum: the building wants the goods lift booked in a slot, and a few of the buildings ask for a window so two households are not moving through the same core at once.

The kerb does not help you either. Circus Road West and Circus Road North are mostly footway and loading-only, so there is nowhere to sit a van for six hours. Our crews use the public car park under the forecourt or the permit bays over on Kirtling Street to the east, then bring the kit in through the service door the concierge points us at. None of this is hard once it is arranged. It is only a problem when nobody arranged it, the lift is booked out by another flat, and the morning is gone before the oven is touched.

So when you book, tell us the block and the floor, and check two things with your building manager: whether the goods lift needs a slot, and whether the concierge needs us named on a visitor list. We sort the rest. We have done enough of these on the Battersea Power Station side to know which desk wants what.

Where Circus West sits in Wandsworth’s licensing map

People get this wrong, so worth being exact. Wandsworth runs three licensing schemes for private rentals. Mandatory HMO licensing covers the big shared houses borough-wide. Additional HMO licensing went borough-wide on 1 July 2025 and reaches qualifying three and four-person shared flats, including multi-occupied flats in purpose-built blocks. Selective licensing, the one that bites ordinary single-household lets, runs in named wards only: Furzedown, South Balham, Tooting Bec and Tooting Broadway from July 2025, then East Putney, Northcote and West Putney added on 1 April 2026.

What that means for a Circus West flat. The address sits in the Nine Elms ward on the north edge of the borough, well outside the selective wards, so a standard one or two-bed let here does not need a selective licence. If your apartment is run as a sharer HMO, the borough-wide additional scheme can still apply, and that is worth checking. Either way the standard you are actually cleaned against is not the council’s. It is the freeholder housekeeping standard in the operator’s management pack, plus whatever each block manager runs to on top, and that is the bar the inventory clerks were briefed on.

What 1 May 2026 changed, and what it left alone

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone. Every assured shorthold tenancy in England has converted to a periodic one, and a tenant can give two months’ notice at any point rather than waiting out a fixed term.

The cleaning side did not move an inch. The check-in benchmark still applies. Your protected deposit still has to be evidenced before anyone deducts from it, and the deposit maths is exactly what it was the week before. What changed is timing. Circus West already churns hard on twelve-month corporate lets, and rolling notice makes the move-outs more frequent and less predictable, so the slot you want will go if you sit on it. The practical takeaway is dull and it pays for itself: book the clean earlier than you think you need to.

The 57 things we go through, room by room

Every Circus West booking runs to the same 57-point agent-approved checklist, scaled to the apartment. It is built around what these clerks actually fail people on, which is the integrated kitchen and the glass. The full list comes with the job. Here is the shape of it.

The kitchen, where the deductions live

The integrated oven is stripped, not wiped: cavity, racks, the door glass split so the film between the panes comes out, fan, element and seals. The induction hob and the silicone bead around it, the worktop and the splashback. The extractor canopy comes apart, the mesh filters lift out and get degreased in the sink, dry, and go back, because a greasy filter is the single most common reason a clerk fails a Circus West kitchen. Integrated fridge-freezer inside, drawers, seals, the condenser tray where you can reach it. Integrated dishwasher and washer-dryer: filter, drum, door seal. Handle-less unit faces wiped, including the under-edge that collects finger oil. Quartz worktops polished streak-free, taps descaled, the grout line at the splashback brushed. Bin recess and kickboards last.

The bathrooms

Walk-in shower glass, frame and channel descaled, then the rainfall head and hose. Tile floor and walls, grout brushed, silicone joints checked for grime rather than wiped over. Heated towel rail and chrome polished, the demister edge of the mirror done. Vanity drawers, soft-close hinges, the integrated light, the extractor vent. WC inside the rim, the hinges, the flush plate, the floor behind the pan where nobody looks but the clerk.

Bedrooms, living space and the glass

• Wardrobe interiors top to bottom, drawer runners, bed bases lifted
• Engineered-oak floors microfibre-mopped with a manufacturer-safe wood polish, never a wet mop or an acid; carpets where fitted vacuumed top to tail
• Floor-to-ceiling glazing on the inner face, the frame channels, and the patio-door track on the balcony side where grit collects
• Glass balustrade panels wiped on the inner face, including the top edge that catches pollen
• Skirting, door tops, hinges, threshold strips between rooms
• Media-unit dust-out, cable runs, the wall behind the TV

Throughout

Light switches, sockets, the thermostat, the video-entry panel. Every internal door both sides with frames and soft-close mechanisms. The heat-interface unit cupboard tidied and the door wiped, because Circus West runs on district heating rather than a boiler in each flat. Airing and riser cupboard shelving. Windowsills and reveals. Floors buffed last, working the route from the kitchen out so there are no footprints back in.

Extras we quote separately and never fold in silently: external-side glazing where access allows, carpet shampoo on the bedrooms, and a second oven on the rare double-oven apartment. Standalone oven cleaning covers it if the oven is the only thing flagged, and carpet cleaning handles a contractual carpet clause on the same visit.

What very hard Thames water does to a glass shower

SW11 sits in Thames Water’s very hard water zone, somewhere around 290 ppm calcium carbonate on average, and on a walk-in shower with a big glass screen that detail loses more deposits here than anything except the oven. Scale builds on the glass, the frame channel and the chrome faster than tenants expect, and a cloth does nothing to it. The clerk looks at the screen edge-on against the light and runs a thumbnail down the tap. Set-in scale is slow work.

We take it off the glass and chrome with a mild scale solution and hand-buff the screen dry the same day so it does not dry to a film. What we do not do is put acid near the tile grout or any stone, because that does its own damage, and on these apartments the wet rooms are tiled throughout. It is a different job from a quick wipe, and it is the one that separates a screen that passes from one that gets a line written against it.

Set-in limescale on a shower screen is the second thing the clerk checks, right after the kitchen.

What it costs, and the maths nobody runs until check-out day

End-of-tenancy is the hand-back clean, built to pass the inventory. It is not the same job as a deep clean or a regular tidy, and people book the wrong one.

End-of-tenancy clean

Built to match the developer hand-back pack and get the deposit back, flat empty, the 48-hour re-clean guarantee on it, at £30 per hour per cleaner.

Deep clean

A deep clean resets an apartment you are staying in. Lived-in, no inventory clerk to satisfy, also from £30 an hour.

Regular domestic clean

A domestic clean is ongoing upkeep, from £22 an hour weekly or £24 fortnightly.

The package prices below are our standard London rates, kit and products included. They assume a flat in normal lived-in shape. A long let with heavy wear or a pet household costs more, and we say so on the phone, not after.

Carpet shampoo runs £36 per bedroom, £43 for the main reception, or £115 for a whole carpeted two-bed. The integrated single oven is usually fine inside the base price; the £77 single, £110 double and £114 range figures are for a standalone oven job. Now run the maths the way the deposit makes you. A one-bed at £207 against a deposit that is regularly £2,000 or more on a Circus West corporate let is not really a decision. Every booking carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if the clerk flags any cleanliness issue inside 48 hours, we come back and put it right free, provided you tell us in that window and nobody has moved in. Our first-time pass rate sits at 97%, and over twelve years that work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposit money that would otherwise have gone on deductions. That number is the whole point of the job.

A Fladgate House job from April

“Eighteen-month corporate let on a one-bed in Fladgate House, glass balcony over the forecourt, and I was relocating with about four days’ notice. The flat looked spotless to me. Monster sent two cleaners, booked the goods lift through the concierge themselves, and spent most of the time on the kitchen and the shower glass. The clerk from the agent had warned me the induction silicone and the patio-door track were always the lines on these flats, and that is exactly where they went. Passed first time on the developer pack, full deposit back nine days later.”
Priya, Fladgate House SW11 8, April 2026

That is a fair example of the pattern here. A short corporate let, a flat that looks clean to the eye, and a clerk working from a photo pack that the eye cannot match. The clean cost a fraction of the deposit, and the part that settled it was not the scrubbing alone. It was knowing the two lines those clerks always check, and clearing the access before the day so the whole morning went on the work.

Questions we get asked

How much is end-of-tenancy cleaning at Circus West Village?

Studios from £156, one-bed apartments from £207, two-beds from £243, three-bed apartments and duplexes from £339, and four-bed apartments or townhouses from £425. Hourly cover for a part job is £30 per cleaner per hour. Carpet shampoo and a standalone oven are quoted on top and never folded in without telling you.

Do you clean inside Fladgate House and Halliday House?

Yes. We are inside the Circus West blocks most weeks, including Fladgate House and Halliday House and the river-walk apartments along the boardwalk. The block concierge logs us in at the service entrance on the day, and we book the goods lift slot in advance where the building asks for one.

How does the developer hand-back pack affect my clean?

It is the standard you are judged against. The inventory clerk walks the apartment with the operator’s photo pack open and compares surface by surface, so the clean has to match dated photos rather than a general idea of clean. We clean to that pack, which is why the kitchen and the glass get the bulk of the time.

Is Circus West Village in Wandsworth’s selective licensing scheme?

No. Wandsworth’s selective licensing covers Furzedown, South Balham, Tooting Bec and Tooting Broadway from July 2025, and East Putney, Northcote and West Putney from 1 April 2026. Circus West sits in the Nine Elms ward, outside those. The borough-wide additional HMO scheme that started on 1 July 2025 can apply if the flat is let as a sharer HMO.

How long does a one-bed apartment take?

Roughly four to five hours with two cleaners. Circus West one-beds are open-plan with a single walk-in shower, so the integrated kitchen appliances and the floor-to-ceiling glazing set the tail of the clean rather than the floor area.

How do you handle the engineered-oak floors?

Microfibre and a manufacturer-safe wood polish, never a soaking wet mop or an acidic cleaner. The Circus West spec is engineered-oak through the living space and tile in the wet rooms, and we treat each the right way. Cleaning the floor is in the base price; carpet shampoo is the only flooring extra.

How do you handle the river-facing floor-to-ceiling glazing?

Inner face as standard, plus the frame channels, the weather-strip and the patio-door track on the balcony side. The outer face on the high glazing is a building-side job run by the development’s own access contractors, so we co-ordinate with the block office if that is wanted on the day.

Can you clean the integrated extractor filters?

Always. The mesh filters come out of the canopy, get degreased in the sink, dry and go back. Skipping that is the single most common reason a clerk fails a Circus West kitchen, so it is never optional on our jobs.

How does parking and access work on the day?

Circus Road West and Circus Road North are mostly footway and loading-only. Our crews use the public car park under the forecourt or the permit bays on Kirtling Street, then bring kit in through the service door. Tell us the block and floor when you book, and check whether your building needs the goods lift slotted and us named with the concierge.

Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change my move-out clean?

No. From 1 May 2026 Section 21 is abolished and tenancies run periodic, but the cleaning obligations and the deposit rules are unchanged. The real effect at Circus West is more frequent, less predictable move-outs, so book the clean as early as you can.

How do you deal with Thames Water hard-water marks?

SW11 is in Thames Water’s very hard water area, around 290 ppm calcium carbonate. We use a mild scale solution on the shower glass and chrome and hand-buff dry the same day, and we keep acid away from the tile grout and any stone. Scale on the screen is one of the first things the clerk checks.

Can I book at short notice?

Same-day or next-day is often possible, especially Tuesday to Thursday. End-of-month and Friday slots go first, and the goods lift may need booking too, so two or three days’ notice helps if you can give it.

What if my landlord still disputes the clean?

If we have cleaned to checklist standard and the photo pack confirms it, most disputes settle before they reach an adjudicator. Our dated photo set and itemised invoice are admissible evidence at the Tenancy Deposit Scheme adjudication, and Shelter’s deposit guide walks through the route if it escalates.

Which letting agents do you work with around Battersea Power Station?

We are on the books of 300+ letting agents across London. Around Circus West that means regular work alongside Knight Frank at Fladgate House, JOHNS&CO in Halliday House and the JLL Battersea desk. Some book us for the tenant; more often the tenant books and we copy the agent on the photo pack.

Get a price

Ring 0333 555 2076 and we price the job in about three minutes. The block, the floor, the bedroom count and the move-out date is the lot. Out of hours, [email protected] reaches us and we call back first thing. A couple of photos of the kitchen and the shower sharpen the quote. Borough cover starts on our Wandsworth end-of-tenancy hub, and if your next flat is one over, the sibling pages worth a look are Battersea end-of-tenancy for the terraces and conversions south of the Power Station and Nine Elms end-of-tenancy for the riverside towers east toward Vauxhall. And if your check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway and we will do what we can.

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