End of tenancy cleaning in Clissold Park, from £156

Which floor does an inventory clerk look at first around Clissold Park? The tile vestibule inside the street door, nearly every time, because five winters of wet boots turn that grout grey and most tenants have spent the whole tenancy assuming the vestibule is the landlord’s problem. It is usually inside your demise. So a hand-back clean here gets built for the person writing the check-out report: the 57-point agent-approved checklist, a 48-hour re-clean guarantee measured against that report, and £30 per hour per cleaner where a full package would be overkill. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price.

Last updated July 2026. We cover N16 9HJ, N16 9ES, N16 9BE, N16 9BN, N16 9NJ and N16 9LH around the park, the N16 0BF end of Queen Elizabeth’s Walk, the N16 5UD stretch of Lordship Park and the N5 2RT run of Petherton Road that stays inside Hackney. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Hackney.

What the clerk checks before the coat comes off

Two things decide most check-outs on the streets around the park, and neither of them is the oven. The first is the floor at the street door. The second is the floor everywhere else.

Start with the vestibule, because it is the cheapest failure to avoid and the one nobody sees coming. The 1880s terraces that ring this part of Stoke Newington mostly kept a small geometric tile panel between the outer door and the inner hall door, oxblood and cream and black, sometimes with a buff border round the edge. Wet boots, five years, no attention. The glaze still looks fine from standing height. The grout does not, and the clerk is not standing, they are crouching with a torch, because they already know what they will find.

The clerk is not standing at head height admiring your cornice. They are crouched by the front door with a torch, looking at grout.

Then the boards. A great many of the upper-floor flats here have had their original pine stripped at some point by a landlord chasing a better letting photograph, and finished with oil, hard wax, or a thin lacquer that has since worn through at the doorway pivots and along the run of the bay. Normal living does the rest. The finish goes grey, the threshold scuffs, and a line of dust settles against the skirting where no vacuum nozzle has ever reached. If the surface film and the dust load have not been lifted, that gets written up as cleaning rather than wear, and cleaning comes out of your money.

We work boards with a wood-safe pH-neutral cleaner, edges by hand, then a hand-buff to finish. We do not refinish them. A two-bed with a stripped-pine reception, hallway and bedroom costs us an extra forty-five minutes over a carpeted equivalent, which is the honest reason a period flat takes longer here than the same floorplan in a new block by the reservoirs.

What 1 May 2026 changed for a Clissold move-out, and what it left alone

Two separate things landed at the start of May, and tenants keep merging them into one. They are not related.

The first is national. The first phase of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 commenced on 1 May 2026: Section 21 is gone, and assured shortholds converted to periodic tenancies. The cleaning consequences are fewer than the internet suggests. Your obligation at hand-back did not change. The standard did not change. What changed is timing. A periodic tenancy ends when the tenant gives notice rather than when a fixed term runs out, so move-out dates have scattered across the calendar instead of clustering on the anniversary, and the deposit route is now the main way a tenancy gets financially settled rather than a sideshow to a possession claim. In practice that has made clerks more careful, not less.

The second is local, and it is the one that actually touches this postcode. Hackney’s selective licensing scheme came into force the same day, running to 30 April 2031, and Clissold ward is one of seventeen wards inside it. Stoke Newington ward, which picks up Church Street and the frontage south of the park, is another. If your landlord lets to a single household or two sharers here, they now need a licence.

Which matters to you for one unglamorous reason: paper. A licensed flat has a file. Clerks know a file exists, agents know the council can pull it, and reports written against a licensed property tend to be longer and more specific than the ones written five years ago. Communal stairwells in the split conversions get walked as their own section by some clerks now. We price those as standard areas and never as an extra.

The 57 things, in one list, in the order we work them

Other companies break this into six pretty room-by-room boxes. We work it as one run, top of the flat to the front door, because that is how the dust falls and because a clerk reads their report as one continuous walk too. Everything below is standard.

• Cornice run and picture rail tops worked from a stepladder with a soft long-bristle brush, upper face included, which is where the torch goes
• Light fittings inside the dome as well as out, switch plates, thermostat, doorbell button
• Curtain poles, tracks, finials; nets shaken, washed on request
• Windows hand-cleaned to the glass, frames wiped, sills hand-dusted; original timber on the front elevations gets a dry pass, not a soaking
• Internal doors both sides, hinges, handles, and the flat top edge nobody has touched since the tenancy started
• Original brass handles, finger-plates and thresholds polished with brass polish rather than a chrome spray
• Wardrobes inside, outside, on top, drawer runners, rails
• Skirtings hand-wiped, not vacuum-edged, because the deep profiles here hold dust in the mouldings
• Cast-iron radiator backs and fin spaces where a period flat has kept them, soft brush only
• Oven stripped, racks soaked apart, inner door glass done between the panes
• Cooker hood baffle pulled and degreased, canopy interior scrubbed, splashback polished
• Hob caps off, pan supports soaked, surface taken back to enamel
• Every cupboard inside, outside, on top, underneath and behind; drawer runners wiped
• Fridge and freezer defrosted, washed through, door seals scrubbed where the mould sits
• Washing machine drawer soaked out, door gasket cleaned, filter checked
• Dishwasher filter lifted, salt reservoir checked, body wiped
• Sink, mixer base and aerator descaled properly, chrome polished, plug and overflow cleared
• Shower tray, screen, runner and head descaled with real dwell time; overnight soak where it has gone hard
• WC bowl, rim, hinge bolts, cistern lid, base and behind the pan
• Basin pedestal, plug, overflow, mixer chrome
• Bathroom extractor grille hand-wiped, which always comes off brown
• Tile grout brushed where the water actually hits, not everywhere for show
• Carpets vacuumed both directions, edges by hand, marks spot-treated; full shampoo is an add-on
• Stripped boards washed pH-neutral, edges by hand, hand-buffed dry
• Hard floors mopped once the dust has settled, edges by hand, finished dry
• Tile vestibule brushed in the grout lines, neutral pH on the glaze, dry buff
• Stairwell to the upper flat: banister, spindles, every tread, corners of the original timber
• Bin store washed inside and out, surrounding cupboard wiped
• Final torchlight walk to catch the dust shadows daylight hides on cornice tops, rail tops and board edges

That is twenty-nine lines covering fifty-seven checks, because several of them are multi-room. The full 57-point agent-approved checklist is what the team signs off against, and it is the same document the 48-hour re-clean guarantee is measured on.

Chalk in the taps: what the water does to an N16 bathroom

Everything on this side of London is fed from chalk. Thames Water, which supplies every address around the park, says plainly that all the water in its region is hard, and its own scale puts anything above 300 mg/l calcium carbonate in the very hard band. You do not need the number. You need to know what it does on a two-week timescale.

It does this. A white bloom on the shower head. A grey ring round the base of the kitchen mixer. A screen runner gone crusty in the channel. A kettle with a rattling floor. Limescale is the most predictable inventory fail in this borough after the floors, and the reason is boring: a generic kitchen spray does not touch it. You need an acid, and you need to let it sit. Rushed contact time is why a tenant scrubs a shower head for forty minutes, looks at it, and cannot see any difference at all.

The wrinkle here is the period stock. Plenty of the conversions round the park have original or reproduction brass taps, and acid on brass takes the finish straight off, so we swap to a brass polish on those and do it by hand. Same on original tile glaze. The strong stuff is for chrome and enamel only.

Park edge to Church Street: the stock changes in about four streets

People say Stoke Newington as if it were one thing. Walk it and the housing changes faster than that.

The park itself, plus the two parish churches and the Town Hall, sit inside the Clissold Park conservation area, designated in 1969 with the boundaries revised in 2004. Clissold House stands in the middle of it, Grade II* listed, built around 1793 by Joseph Woods for his uncle Jonathan Hoare, and useful mainly as the thing you point at when you are lost.

Queen Elizabeth’s Walk on the east side is the architectural exception. Detached stock brick villas, not terraces. Number 14 is Grade II, a mid-19th-century house built for a nurseryman named Alfred Kendall by 1846, with a full-width glazed loggia carried on ornamental cast iron. Those are whole-house lets when they let at all, and they are cleaned to a different rhythm: nothing wet near the original ironwork, soft brushes on the plaster.

Clissold Crescent curves away south-west off the park in a run of 1880s terraces, almost all now split into upper and lower flats. Lordship Park along the north edge mixes terraced stock with older detached villas. Aden Grove and the streets bleeding towards Newington Green are plainer late-Victorian terraces, more of them intact as houses. And Petherton Road is the odd one, because the borough boundary runs along it: some of its postcodes are Hackney and Clissold ward, some are Islington and Mildmay ward, which means two flats facing each other across the road can sit under different councils and different licensing regimes entirely. When we quote a Petherton Road job we ask for the postcode, not the street.

Two flats facing each other across Petherton Road can answer to two different councils. Ask for the postcode, never the street name.

South of the park, Church Street runs into listed Georgian and Victorian frontages and the Town Hall stretch, where loading is its own small negotiation.

What it costs, and the sum tenants run a fortnight too late

Hackney sits at our standard London tier. No park-frontage premium, no surcharge for a top-floor flat with stair-only access, no VAT bolt-on, no fuel line. Fixed quote, agreed on the phone, not an hourly meter running while you watch.

Add-ons, if you want them: carpet shampoo at £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed’s carpeted area. Single oven £77, double £110, a 90cm range £114. External glass on an upper-floor flat gets quoted on site because reach varies wildly along these terraces.

Now the sum. Average private rent in Hackney reached £2,622 a month in May 2026 according to ONS figures for the borough, and around the park it runs above that. The deposit cap is still five weeks’ rent, so a typical park-side tenancy has roughly £3,000 of your money sitting with a protection scheme. Against that, a £243 clean is not the expensive decision on your move-out list. The expensive decision is trying it yourself on a Sunday, failing the walk, then paying the agent’s contractor rate to redo it in the four days you have left.

A Lordship Park job in April

“Eighteen months in a one-bed on the Lordship Park side, me and my brother, both of us on shifts and neither of us ever home in daylight, which is exactly why we never noticed what the front room boards looked like. The clerk had flagged them at the interim visit. Cast-iron rads too, the fins at the back. Monster sent two people on a Tuesday, five hours, boards washed and buffed by hand, rads brushed out, and the bathroom chrome went from grey to actually shiny, which I had assumed was permanent damage. Passed first time. Deposit cleared eight days later, whole thing.”

Daniel R, Lordship Park one-bed, N16 5UD, April 2026

Getting a van to your door, and why Clissold Crescent is the awkward one

This sounds like our problem. It becomes yours on the day, so it is worth ninety seconds of your attention.

Hackney runs a low traffic neighbourhood on Clissold Crescent. It went in as a trial in 2020, the council made the filter permanent after reviewing the traffic and air quality data, and it works with planters physically placed in the road rather than a camera, so only cycles, waste vehicles and emergency vehicles pass through. Nothing else does, whatever a satnav believes. Everything routes round the edges, which here means Albion Road, Green Lanes and Stoke Newington Church Street.

For a team carrying stepladders and eight litres of kit that means a walk in from the nearest legal stop, and we would rather plan that walk than discover it. Tell us the door number and which end of the street you are on. Same for the narrow street-entrance stairs on the taller terraces, and the Church Street loading window near the Town Hall. None of it costs you anything. All of it costs time if nobody mentions it.

End of tenancy, deep clean, regular: which one survives an inventory?

People ask, and around here the distinction has teeth, because a deep clean will not pass a torchlight walk on a split period flat with original boards and a cornice run.

End of tenancy

The hand-back clean, built for the check-out report. Worked against the 57-point agent-approved checklist, carpets vacuumed with shampoo as an add-on, and covered by the 48-hour re-clean guarantee if a clerk flags a cleaning line. This is the one you want if an inventory walk is the reason you are reading this.

Deep clean

An annual reset for a home someone is staying in. Our internal spec, thorough, no inventory pressure behind it, goodwill rather than a guarantee. Good service. Wrong tool for a check-out.

Regular clean

Weekly or fortnightly upkeep, lighter spec, vacuum only, no re-clean cover. Keeps a flat pleasant. Will not get a deposit back.

Domestic clean

The same thing as a regular clean, just what half our clients call it. If you are unsure which you have been quoted for, ask whether the checklist is the agent-approved one. That single question separates all four.

Questions we get asked

How much is end of tenancy cleaning around Clissold Park?

A studio is £156, a one-bed £207, a two-bed £243, a three-bed £339 and a four-bed £425. N16 9 sits at our standard London tier, so nothing on this page carries a park-frontage surcharge. Where a full package is overkill, say a part-job or a top-up after a builder, we work at £30 per hour per cleaner. Carpet shampoo, double ovens and range cookers are priced on top.

How long will it take?

A one-bed on Clissold Crescent runs four to five hours with two cleaners. A two-bed upper flat with stripped-pine boards and an original cornice run takes seven to eight, because both eat time a modern flat never asks for. A three-bed off Lordship Park is eight to nine.

Will I definitely get my deposit back?

No honest cleaner can promise that. The check-out report covers paintwork, the landlord’s furniture and fair wear and tear, and we touch none of those. What we stand behind is the cleaning half. If a clerk flags a cleaning line within two days of our visit we come back free under the 48-hour re-clean guarantee. Our 97% first-time pass rate is what that policy costs us to keep.

Is Clissold Park inside Hackney’s selective licensing scheme?

Yes. Clissold ward is one of seventeen wards Hackney designated for selective licensing from 1 May 2026 to 30 April 2031, alongside Stoke Newington, Brownswood and Cazenove. It does not change the cleaning standard. It does mean a licensed flat carries a council paper trail, and clerks write a tighter report when they know one exists.

Why is Petherton Road complicated?

Because the borough boundary runs along it. Some Petherton Road postcodes sit in Hackney’s Clissold ward and some in Islington’s Mildmay ward, so two flats facing each other across the road can answer to different councils and different licensing rules. For the clean this changes nothing. For your landlord’s paperwork it changes a lot, so check the postcode rather than the street name.

What is the vestibule tile problem?

Most of the 1880s street entrances around the park kept a small encaustic tile panel between the front door and the inner hall door. Tenants assume it belongs to the landlord. Usually the upper flat’s demise includes it, the clerk walks across it, and looks down. We brush the grout lines by hand and use a neutral pH solution on the glaze, because a strong alkaline strips the patina off original tile. Twenty minutes, done properly.

Do you handle stripped-pine floorboards?

It is the line item this patch turns on. Oiled, hard-waxed or thinly lacquered boards wear at the doorway pivots and along the bay run, then daylight shows the edge dust the vacuum never reached. We wash them with a wood-safe pH-neutral cleaner, do the edges by hand, then hand-buff. We do not refinish. That is a decorator’s job.

Can you get a van to Clissold Crescent?

We plan for it. The Clissold Crescent low traffic neighbourhood uses planters in the road, and Hackney made the filter permanent after its 2020 trial, so only cycles, waste lorries and emergency vehicles pass through. Everything else routes round via Albion Road, Green Lanes or Church Street. Tell us the door number when you book and we will sort the approach.

Are there restrictions on the listed villas by the park?

The listing controls repair and alteration, not cleaning, but we work sympathetically anyway. Number 14 Queen Elizabeth’s Walk is Grade II, a mid-19th-century stock brick villa with a full-width glazed loggia on ornamental cast iron. On that kind of frontage we keep water off original ironwork, use a soft brush on cast plaster, and reach for brass polish rather than a chrome spray. The checklist still applies in full.

Do I need to be there on the day?

No. Key safe, a neighbour, or a key left with your agent all work. We send a written report by email when the team leaves, plus completion photos for your deposit file on request.

Do you bring everything?

Yes. Descaler for the chalk, wood-safe pH-neutral cleaner for the boards, neutral solution for original tile, brass polish, stepladders as standard. Leave nothing behind for us.

How much notice do you need?

Two to three days usually covers N16 9. Same-day is sometimes possible if a team is finishing nearby. Month-end is the pinch point, because most tenancies here end on the last Friday and every clerk in Hackney is booked that week. Email [email protected] or phone the office.

Get a price

Ring 0333 555 2076, or email [email protected]. Give us the postcode, the bedroom count and the move-out date. We will quote a fixed price on the call, and we will ask about the boards, the oven, the vestibule and how a van gets near your door, because those four answers are the whole quote around here.

We have worked this patch since 2014. Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House 9919639, £1.2m deposits recovered for tenants we have cleaned for, 300+ letting agents on rolling rotas. The 57-point agent-approved checklist and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee come as standard.

Book early for month-end. Everyone leaves on the same Friday.