End of tenancy cleaning in Cobham, with no hidden fees

The check-out clerk on a Cobham let opens the oven first, then runs a thumbnail down the bathroom taps, because hard water and a missed oven are the two deductions that come up here more than any other. That is what an end of tenancy clean in Cobham has to satisfy: the person who wrote the report, not a general idea of tidy. We have been doing exactly that across KT11 since 2014, on a 57-point agent-approved checklist, at £30 per hour per cleaner, with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee measured against the check-out itself. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price in a few minutes.

Last updated June 2026. We cover all of KT11, from the Fairmile and Water Lane estates and Stoke d’Abernon in the south, through Church Cobham and the cottages along the Tilt, to the flats around the High Street and Cobham & Stoke d’Abernon station, with a postcode anchor at KT11 2DG. This page sits inside the county directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Surrey.

What the check-out clerk grades, and why it is not the same as tidy

Start with the mechanism, because most people miss it and it decides the whole thing. When you moved in, a clerk walked the property and wrote a report describing every surface, nearly always with photographs, usually marking the kitchen and bathroom as new or as new. Those words were true that day, because the place had just been cleaned to a professional standard. At the end a clerk walks it again and compares it line by line. Anything materially worse than the check-in entry, beyond fair wear and tear, is chargeable against your deposit. You are marked against a professional clean, which is why a mop and a spare Saturday rarely gets a Cobham property over the line.

The deposits here are large, so the inspection is genuinely careful. Under the Tenant Fees Act, a deposit is capped at five weeks’ rent, and on the bigger Cobham houses five weeks’ rent is a serious figure sitting in a scheme that somebody has to account for. The clerk is paid to find faults, not to wave you through. That is not unfair, it just means you turn up with the work done and the evidence to show it.

You are marked against a professional clean, not against tidy.

A let cottage near the Tilt, handed back in March

Most of what we do here is ordinary, despite Cobham’s reputation. A good example from this spring sets the tone better than a sales pitch.

“We rented a two-bed cottage just off the Tilt for six years, so by the end it was lived in properly. My worry was the Aga, which I had never deep-cleaned in all that time, and the wood-burner in the sitting room with a season of soot round it. Two cleaners came for most of a day, took the Aga back to clean enamel, cleared the grate and the hearth, descaled a bathroom that had gone chalky, and did the original quarry floor by hand. Curchods checked it and passed it without a single note. Deposit back inside the fortnight.”
Hannah, Cobham KT11 3, March 2026

That is the shape of a typical Cobham hand-back: a long tenancy, one or two features that need real attention rather than a wipe, and an agent who checks properly. The clean cost a fraction of the deposit at stake. What turned it was partly the slow careful work and partly the dated photographs that went out with the invoice, which is the bit a DIY check-out almost never has when the agent comes back with a query.

Cobham is really three towns in one postcode

KT11 does not have one kind of housing, and anyone who tells you it is all footballers’ mansions has not cleaned here. The clean is different in each part, so it helps to be honest about the spread.

The gated estates: the Fairmile, Water Lane, Sandy Lane, Stoke d’Abernon

This is the Cobham that made the name, the belt of large detached and gated houses on private roads near the Chelsea training ground on Stoke Road. Big kitchens with stone or quartz islands, natural-stone bathrooms, glass balustrades on the stairs, integrated appliances throughout. These take roughly twice as long as a similar-sized older house because every surface is reflective and every joint shows, and the products have to suit the stone. They also need notice: a gate code, and sometimes a slot that fits around the people who run the house.

The old village: Church Cobham, the Tilt, Downside, Plough Corner

Cobham has four conservation areas, and the period stock sits in them. Church Cobham runs around the High Street and Church Street with its listed buildings; the Tilt, designated back in 1979, takes in the commons, the village green with its old oaks and the lane past the Running Mare. The lets here are cottages and older houses with cast-iron baths, quarry or stone floors, working fireplaces and original joinery. The job is careful rather than heavy, and nothing aggressive goes near original detail.

The flats: the High Street and the station

Then there is the ordinary end, which is bigger than outsiders think. One and two-bed flats above and around the High Street, and the lets near Cobham & Stoke d’Abernon station over in Stoke d’Abernon, the stop on the New Guildford line that runs into Waterloo. These are the standard end of tenancy jobs, a clerk checking an empty flat against a check-in report, and they turn round quickly. If your next place is just over the boundary, we also cover Oxshott, Esher and Weybridge on the same diary.

The 57 things we work through, room by room

Every Cobham booking runs to the same 57-point checklist, built from a decade of local check-outs and tuned to what these clerks flag. The full sheet comes with the job. Here is the shape of it.

The kitchen, where most of it is won or lost

The oven is stripped, not wiped. Racks come out to soak, the door glass is split so the brown film between the panels comes out, and the interior, fan, element and seals all get done. That film is the most-flagged oven fault we see. Hob and burners off and washed, the extractor degreased and the filter soaked or swapped. Every cupboard inside and out. Fridge and freezer cleaned through once you have defrosted them. Appliances pulled out so the gaps behind and under the washing machine, dishwasher and fridge are cleaned, then put back, and the washing machine drum, drawer and door seal done, because that seal is one of the first things a clerk opens. Sink, taps and drain descaled, since the hard water never spares those. Stone or quartz worktops cleaned with the right product, not an acidic one. Tiles, grout, bins and the floor into the corners.

Bathrooms, the other place it goes wrong

Limescale off the taps, shower head, screen and tiles first, gently on any original chrome you find in the older cottages. Grout scrubbed back as far as honest effort takes it, and photographed first where it is clearly past saving. Then the toilet inside, under the rim and behind the pedestal, the screen both sides with the tracks and the sealant bead, the bath and the underside of the taps, mirrors and cabinets and behind them, the extractor vent, and the floor into every corner. On natural-stone floors that means a pH-neutral cleaner and a cloth, never a steam mop.

Bedrooms, living rooms and everything else

Inside every wardrobe, drawer and built-in cupboard, including the walk-in storage the bigger houses run to. Skirting, door frames, doors and handles. Light fittings, switches, and the ceiling roses and cornicing in the period flats, which hold years of dust. Window sills, reveals and frames on the inside. Radiators behind, under and on top. Walls spot-wiped for marks, with a fair line drawn, because nail holes and scuffs are a decorator’s bill rather than yours to scrub. Hard floors washed with the product the material wants. Then the rest: sockets, thermostats, internal doors both sides, the stairs and bannisters, cobwebs out of the ceiling corners, and a final walk-through photographed before and after, every room. That photo set is the evidence you keep.

Why the water here loses bathrooms their deposit

Cobham sits on chalk and the water is hard, and that one fact loses more deposits in this area than anything except the oven. SES Water supplies the town, and chalk ground gives up calcium as the water passes through it, so scale builds on taps, shower heads, screens and tile joints faster than tenants expect. By the standard the Drinking Water Inspectorate uses, anything above 200 mg/l of calcium carbonate counts as hard, and Surrey water sits well up that range. A clerk checks for it deliberately: thumbnail down the tap, screen held edge-on to the light, shower head pulled in close. Scale that has set into chrome is not a quick job, and in the cottages round the Tilt the fittings are sometimes original, which rules out the brute-force descalers a newer bathroom would shrug off.

Grout is the other one. Bathroom and kitchen grout is the line between a pass and a deduction here more often than carpets are. We scrub it rather than wipe it, and where it is genuinely past saving, which happens in a long tenancy, we photograph the state before we start so the clerk cannot bill you for wear that was already there at check-in. That photograph has settled more disputes than any argument.

A wipe with a cloth does nothing to scale that has set, which is exactly why a clerk checks for it.

What 1 May 2026 changed, and what it left alone

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 came into force on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone, and every existing assured shorthold tenancy in England has converted to a periodic one, so a tenant can give two months’ notice at any point in the year rather than waiting for a fixed term to end.

Here is the part people get wrong. The cleaning side of a move-out did not change. The check-in benchmark still applies, the Tenant Fees Act still applies, and the deposit sum is exactly what it was the week before. What changed is timing. Move-outs are now harder to predict, and that makes the slot you want easier to miss, so book the clean earlier than you would have a year ago. The standard a clerk grades to is untouched.

What it costs, and the sum worth doing before you decline

Cobham runs at our standard Surrey pricing: £30 per hour per cleaner, with kit, products and travel included. Those figures assume a property in normal lived-in shape. A long tenancy with heavy wear, a pet household, or a house that has not had a deep clean in years costs more, and we say so on the phone rather than after. The very large gated houses we tend to price by the hour because the day genuinely varies, and we are honest about that before we book.

Run the sum the way the deposit makes you. A two-bed at £243 to protect a deposit of several thousand is not really a decision. Every Cobham booking carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if the clerk flags any cleaning point inside 48 hours, we come back and redo it free, as long as you tell us inside that window and nobody has moved in. Our first-time pass rate sits near 97%, and over the years the work has helped recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions. There is a reason the local agents know us.

End of tenancy, deep clean or regular: which one you are booking

Three different jobs get muddled, and it is worth booking the right one.

Check-in inventory report

The document a clerk writes on day one describing every surface, with photographs. It is the benchmark your check-out is judged against, which is why we clean to it rather than to a generic idea of clean.

End of tenancy clean

Built to pass that inventory and get a deposit back, with the property empty and the 48-hour guarantee on it, at £30 an hour per cleaner.

Deep clean

A deep clean resets a home you are staying in, with no formal standard to hit, also from £30 an hour.

Regular domestic clean

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

If you are clearing furniture as part of the move, our removals team works the same diary, which saves several van trips out to the gated roads. For a furnished hand-back where the soft furnishings need refreshing, upholstery cleaning runs alongside, and the original boards and stone floors in the older cottages sometimes want the floor cleaning add-on rather than a standard mop.

Booking it, gate codes and all

It is a short process.

1. Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the postcode, the bedroom count and the hand-back date. Price in a few minutes.
2. We book the team and the kit. A week is comfortable, three to five days mid-month. For Water Lane, the Fairmile or Sandy Lane we ask for the gate code in advance and allow a bit more time.
3. The property is empty when we arrive, furniture out and rubbish cleared, because that is what the clerk inspects.
4. We clean to the check-in standard and hand you a signed, dated 57-point sheet plus before-and-after photographs.
5. If anything is flagged inside 48 hours, we are back at no charge.

If your check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway and we will do what we can.

Questions we get asked

Do I actually need a professional end of tenancy clean in Cobham?

You are not obliged to book one. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 stops a Cobham landlord writing professional cleaning in as a hard condition of the tenancy. The snag is the benchmark. The check-in report was almost always written on the back of a professional clean, so that is the standard the check-out clerk holds you to, and with deposits round here running into thousands the cost of a clean is small against what is at stake. Most people who try it themselves, fail the check, then call us, would rather have called first.

How much does it cost for a Cobham flat or house?

A studio is £156, a one-bed £207, a two-bed £243, a three-bed £339 and a four-bed £425. If you only want part of a property done, or a top-up on a clean you have started, it is £30 per hour per cleaner. Those figures hold whether the flat is above the High Street or the house is off the Fairmile. We quote against the property, not the postcode.

Are your prices higher because Cobham is an expensive area?

No. We charge the same in Cobham as we do across the rest of Surrey. A three-bed near the station costs the same to clean as a three-bed in the next town, so it is priced the same. A genuinely large house with six or seven bedrooms takes longer and we say so on the phone, but that is about the hours on site, not a Cobham surcharge.

What does the 57-point checklist actually cover?

It is the walkthrough sheet we have built over a decade of local hand-backs, 57 named items across the kitchen, the bathrooms, the bedrooms, the living spaces and the bits clerks always check last. Oven interior and door glass, extractor filter, the gaps behind appliances, limescale on taps and screens, skirting, light fittings, inside every cupboard. You get the signed sheet at hand-back so the deposit conversation is short.

Did the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change the clean?

Not the clean itself. The Act went live on 1 May 2026, Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone, and every assured shorthold tenancy has rolled over to a periodic one, so a tenant can now give two months’ notice at any point rather than waiting out a fixed term. What that means in practice is that move-outs are harder to predict, so the sensible move is to book the clean earlier than you used to. The cleaning standard a clerk grades to has not moved at all.

Do you bring the right products for stone and marble surfaces?

Yes. A lot of the bigger Cobham kitchens have marble or quartz islands and the bathrooms run to natural stone, and none of that takes an acidic descaler. We use stone-safe products on those surfaces and keep the limescale removers for the chrome and the glass, where they belong. Tell us what you have got when you book and we load the van accordingly.

Why does limescale come up so often in Cobham?

Because the water is hard. SES Water supplies Cobham and the ground round here is chalk, so calcium builds on shower heads, glass screens, taps and kettles faster than people expect. A clerk checks for it by running a thumbnail down a tap and looking at the screen edge-on against the light. A wipe with a cloth does nothing to scale that has set, which is the single most common reason a DIY bathroom fails the check.

Can you do the carpets and the oven on the same visit?

Yes, same team, separate kit. Carpet shampoo is £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed’s worth of carpet. A single oven done as an add-on is £77, a double is £110 and a 90cm range cooker is £114. If the oven is genuinely the only thing your agent pulled you up on, our standalone oven service from £77 covers it on its own.

How much notice do you need, especially on the gated estates?

A week is comfortable for most jobs, three to five days mid-month. For the larger houses on Water Lane, the Fairmile or Sandy Lane, give us a bit more, because we need the gate code and sometimes a slot that works around household staff. The bigger places are a full day for a team of three or four, so a single date that floats around is harder to pin down than a flat near the station.

What if the inventory clerk flags something after we have left?

If a cleaning point gets flagged inside 48 hours of the hand-back, we come back and put it right at no charge, provided nobody has moved in and the property is as we left it. That is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee. Our 97% first-time pass rate means most people never need it, and over the years the work has helped recover £1.2m in deposits across the 300+ letting agents we deal with, Knight Frank, Curchods and Hamptons among the Cobham offices.

Do you cover the period cottages around the Tilt and Church Street?

Yes, and they need a gentler hand than the modern houses. An original cast-iron bath, a stone or quarry-tiled floor, a working fireplace and old skirting all take care rather than brute force. We treat the listed-building stock around Church Cobham and the cottages along the Tilt the way the clerk expects: clean to the check-in photographs, nothing aggressive near original detail, and we photograph anything that was already worn before we touched it.

Does the property have to be empty when you arrive?

Empty is much better. The check-out clerk inspects an empty property, so that is what we are cleaning to, and furniture left behind blocks access and leaves a question mark on the report. We can work around the odd piece left for the next tenant, but the more that stays, the less complete the clean can be. If you are moving the furniture out yourself, we can fit the clean to the day the van leaves.

Do you remove the rubbish left behind?

We bag and take away what fits in our van as part of the job. A full skip’s worth, or bulky items dumped in a garage or an outbuilding, is a separate run and we price that on its own rather than pretend it folds into the clean.

Will your report help if my deposit goes to a dispute?

It should. We hand you a dated, photographed clean report against the 57-point list, and if your deposit goes to the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, mydeposits or the DPS, that report is the document you put in alongside the check-out inventory. A complete clean record settles most arguments about cleaning grade before they get going.

Do you work the rest of Elmbridge as well?

We do. We cover the whole borough and the neighbouring KT postcodes, so if your next place is one village over the same team can pick it up. Esher, Oxshott and Weybridge are all on the diary alongside Cobham.

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