End of tenancy cleaning in Clapham, SW4
Clapham covers a lot of ground, from the flats around Clapham North and the High Street to the big houses on both sides of the Common, and our end of tenancy clean anywhere in SW4 is a fixed price by size: £156 for a studio, up to £425 for a four-bedroom house. If the letting agent or clerk flags anything within 48 hours, the cleaners come back and do it again free.
Last updated October 2026.
Renting in Clapham in 2026
Lambeth costs more to rent than most of London. The ONS put its average private rent at £2,525 a month in August 2026, up 3.7% on a year before, while the London average was £2,332. A one-bed in the borough averaged £1,882 and a two-bed £2,342. Those are borough-wide averages, and Lambeth runs from Waterloo down to Streatham.
Renting is the normal way to live here. At the 2021 census 31.4% of Lambeth households rented privately, up from 29.3% in 2011 and slightly above London’s 30%. In Clapham the renters are mostly working adults in their twenties and thirties, a lot of them sharing a flat or a house to make the rent work. With five weeks’ rent held as a deposit on a two-bed at those prices, the check-out matters to people.
The Renters’ Rights Act moved tenancies in England onto a rolling basis from 1 May 2026. The cleaning standard did not change with it: the home still goes back in the condition the check-in inventory recorded, less fair wear and tear.
The homes from Clapham North to the Common
Around Clapham North station the streets are older than the High Street makes them look. Clapham Manor Street was built up from the 1830s, mostly by local builders working for Thomas Cubitt, as small villas and terraces, many still with their ironwork round the front doors and the basement steps.
A lower-ground flat in a house like that has a front area to sweep, a lightwell window that catches every cobweb, and often a damp corner the clerk will have photographed at check-in.
Off Clapham Road, the Clapham Rise estate was laid out between 1874 and 1879 on unusually broad roads, and the houses on Bromfelde Road and Sibella Road run from sober Italianate to pairs with mock battlements.
Further along Clapham Manor Street is the Clapham Manor Estate, low-rise council housing Lambeth built in the mid-1970s from second-hand bricks, and beside Clapham Leisure Centre, opened in 2012, is newer housing built in the same scheme. Clapham Road carries on north to Stockwell, where the Northern line meets the Victoria line, and the stock changes again.
Clapham Common is 220 acres, and the borough line runs through it. Lambeth has looked after the whole Common since 1972, yet the North Side and West Side are in Wandsworth. Wandsworth’s conservation appraisal describes North Side as mostly large late-Victorian and Edwardian red-brick terraces with balustraded balconies, plus Grove Mansions, a four-storey block of 1896.
At the southern corner, brick and Portland stone flats were built over and around Clapham South station soon after it opened in 1926. Off South Side, the Notre Dame estate went up between 1947 and 1952 on the grounds of a former convent school, and its Georgian orangery still stands among the flats. The Georgian and Regency houses round the Common’s north-east corner have their own page, end of tenancy cleaning in Clapham Old Town.
A lower-ground flat has a front area to sweep and a lightwell window that catches every cobweb.
Licensing on the Lambeth and Wandsworth sides
Lambeth extended selective licensing to 19 more wards on 1 September 2025, and all four Clapham wards are among them: Clapham Common and Abbeville, Clapham East, Clapham Park and Clapham Town. A landlord there now needs a council licence to let a home to a single household or to two unrelated sharers.
Shared houses with three or more sharers from two or more households have needed an additional HMO licence across Lambeth since 9 December 2021; that designation runs to 8 December 2026. The council’s selective licensing page lists the wards.
Cross to North Side or West Side and the rules are Wandsworth’s. Wandsworth has run additional HMO licensing borough-wide since 1 July 2025, and selective licensing in seven named wards, so check a Wandsworth address with that council’s postcode checker. For a tenant, a licensed let usually means a landlord or agent who keeps a careful file, with a dated inventory and check-out report. The clean has to match the paperwork.
The clean, room by room
Clapham’s water comes from Thames Water, and Thames Water says most of the water in the south-east is hard because it passes through chalk. In a flat that has been lived in for a couple of years, the taps, shower screen, shower head and kettle carry a white crust, and a clerk notes it. The cleaners descale every hard surface as part of the fixed price.
- Kitchen: cupboards and drawers inside and out, worktops, splashback tiles, hob, extractor hood and filter, sink and taps, fridge and freezer (defrosted the night before), washing machine drawer and seal.
- Bathrooms: limescale off the taps, screen, tiles and shower head, grout scrubbed, toilet, bath, basin and the extractor cover.
- Bedrooms and living rooms: skirting, doors and frames, light switches, radiators, window sills, inside wardrobes, glass from the inside, floors vacuumed and mopped.
- Period details where they exist: picture rails, shutters, fireplaces and the tops of tall doors.
In a shared flat, the kitchen and bathroom are usually where the deposit is lost. If sharers leave on different days, one can book their room and a share of the communal rooms by the hour, and the last one out books the rest.
Clapham prices and add-ons
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio flat | £156 |
| One-bedroom flat | £207 |
| Two-bedroom flat or house | £243 |
| Three-bedroom flat or house | £339 |
| Four-bedroom house | £425 |
| Part job or unusual layout | £30 per cleaner per hour |
Ovens are an add-on and are never part of the base price: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. For an oven clean on its own date, see oven cleaning in Clapham.
If the tenancy agreement asks for professionally cleaned carpets, booking them with the end of tenancy clean costs £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. Standalone prices are on our carpet cleaning Clapham page. Moving within SW4 and want the new place kept on top of? Regular visits are £23 an hour weekly or £24 fortnightly, three hours at a time (from £69), through domestic cleaning in Clapham.
Booking a date and parking the van
Booking takes three steps
- Your postcode and the property. The form gives the price.
- A date that suits you. Seven days a week.
- We confirm it with you by phone or WhatsApp.
0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm
Most Clapham streets sit inside Lambeth or Wandsworth controlled parking zones, so the van needs a paid bay or a visitor permit during controlled hours. If your street needs either, we add what it costs us to the quote and show it there. A visitor permit from your own allowance is often the cheapest way.
Give us the postcode, the number of bedrooms, the floor and whether there is a lift, the check-out date and any carpets or oven to add. The power and hot water need to be on, and the home should be empty. End-of-month dates go first, so a week’s notice helps. Use the price calculator at the top of the page, or call 0333 555 2076 between 8am and 7pm, seven days a week.
We have cleaned across London since 2014, more than 300 letting agents work with us, and we hold 4.7 on Google. Clapham sits in the north-west of Lambeth; the rest of the borough is on our Lambeth end of tenancy cleaning page.
Clapham end of tenancy questions
My flat off Clapham High Street became licensable in September 2025. Does the clean change?
The standard is the same. The difference is the paperwork: a licensed landlord usually has a dated inventory and will compare the check-out against it line by line. Read your check-in report before the clean and tell us about anything it singles out.
I rent on Clapham Common North Side. Is that Lambeth or Wandsworth?
Wandsworth. The North Side and West Side are in Wandsworth, and the Lambeth licensing schemes stop at the borough line. It makes no difference to our price or to the clean.
Can you clean a basement flat with only front-area access?
Yes. Tell us when you book, so the team brings the kit down the area steps in one trip, and leave the front area gate unlocked on the day.
Do I have to use a professional cleaner at the end of my Clapham tenancy?
No. Since the Tenant Fees Act 2019 a landlord cannot make you pay for a professional clean. You do need to return the home as clean as the inventory recorded at the start, allowing for fair wear and tear, or the landlord can claim the shortfall from your deposit.
How do I pay?
A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done.