The grit that comes off Croham Hurst is pale, fine and sharp, and it is the first thing a clerk’s torch finds along a skirting line in CR2 7. It walks in on shoes and dog paws off the hill, settles into carpet gripper edges and parquet joints, and it does not look like ordinary house dust when the light goes across it sideways.
So that is what an end of tenancy clean has to answer to here: the check-in report, room by room, on a 57-point agent-approved checklist, at a fixed price by bedroom count, with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee measured against the check-out report rather than against our own opinion of the job. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price.
Last updated June 2026. We cover the CR2 7 streets that ring the hill, Croham Manor Road, Croham Park Avenue, Croham Road, Croham Valley Road, Bankside and Upper Selsdon Road, plus the CR2 6 and CR2 8 edges either side. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Croydon.
What the hill sends through your front door
End of tenancy cleaning
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Croham Hurst is 33.6 hectares of ancient woodland on a steep hill. All of which is lovely, and all of which ends up in your hallway.
- Protected
- Notified as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1984, with a Bronze Age round barrow on the top that is a scheduled monument in its own right.
- Saved from building
- Croydon Corporation bought the whole of it on 8 February 1901 after a public campaign stopped the lower slopes being sold for building, which is why there is a wood here at all instead of another 40 houses.
- Where it meets the streets
- Gardens back onto it. Paths come out onto Croham Manor Road, Bankside and Upper Selsdon Road.
The hill is not made of one thing, and that is the part that matters to a cleaner rather than a geologist.
- The lower slopes are rich soil over chalk.
- Higher up it is Thanet Sand under the beech.
- The summit is Blackheath pebble beds, laid down in shallow sea about 50 million years ago, and acidic enough that the trees change to oak and birch.
So what a Croham household treads indoors across a year is not one material, and each behaves differently.
- Leaf mulch, October through to April
- It stains and it wedges.
- Fine pale sand, most of the summer
- It travels furthest and shows on a dark skirting.
- Small hard pebble grit, whenever anyone has been up to the barrow
- It scratches a floor if you push a vacuum head over it rather than lifting it out first.
A clerk will not write “Blackheath pebble beds” on your report. They will write that the hall floor and stair carpet edges were not cleaned to the check-in standard, and photograph the corner where it collected. Same outcome, bigger bill.
The mulch stains and it wedges. The sand travels furthest. The grit is the one that scratches a floor.
Chalk under the slope, chalk in the kettle
The chalk under the low ground does not stay outside either. Chalk is what makes a water supply hard.
- Supplier
- This corner of South Croydon is supplied by SES Water, which divides its patch into 22 zones and publishes an average hardness figure for every one of them.
- Your figure
- Look yours up on the SES Water quality and hardness report rather than taking a cleaning firm’s number on trust. Ours would only be a number off a page anyway. Yours comes with your postcode on it.
What the hardness does is not in dispute:
- A shower screen films over in about a fortnight.
- Kettle elements fur.
- The base of a mixer tap goes chalky in a ring you stop seeing after the first month you live with it.
- A washing machine drawer builds a grey crust in the corners that a rinse will not shift.
Every one of those is on the clerk’s list, and the shower screen is the one they check edge-on against the light, because that is where the film shows.
The fix is dull and mostly about patience:
- The descaler sits long enough to break the deposit down.
- Then it gets rinsed.
- Then it gets buffed dry.
Spray it, wipe it, walk away, and you have moved the chalk around rather than removed it. That is why so much of this work gets sent back on a re-clean: not the wrong product, the wrong dwell time.
On original chrome we go slower and gentler instead of stronger, because a pitted tap is a worse line on the report than a dull one.
The ward name problem, and why 25 September 2026 matters
Croydon has a ward called Croham, and the streets named after Croham Hurst are not in it. Two places, one name, and the difference now has a price attached, so it is worth getting right before it costs somebody money.
- The CR2 7 streets around the Hurst
- They sit in the South Croydon ward.
- Croham ward
- Further out towards Sanderstead.
From 25 September 2026, selective licensing applies to privately rented homes in 14 of Croydon’s 28 wards, and South Croydon is one of the 14. Croham ward is not.
So a landlord letting a house on Croham Manor Road needs a licence, and a landlord half a mile away in Croham ward does not, and neither of them can work that out from the street name.
The council’s own selective licensing scheme 2026 page lists the wards and the fees. Check the address on it, not the postcode, and not the road name.
None of that changes what a tenant has to clean. It changes who is watching:
- A licensed property is one the council can inspect.
- So landlords in the designation tend to run tighter inventories and use clerks rather than walking the place themselves.
- A tighter inventory is a stricter check-out.
That is the practical effect on your deposit, and it has applied since 25 September 2026.
The other date is behind us. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live on 1 May 2026.
- What it changed
- Section 21 gone, assured shortholds converted to periodic tenancies, notice available at any point in the year.
- What it left alone
- Cleaning obligations were untouched, and the check-in benchmark is exactly what it was in April.
- What it means here
- What moved is timing, and on a hill full of long family tenancies that shows up as slots going in an order nobody can predict a month out.
The law changed who can leave and when. It did not change what the clerk writes down.
The house follows the contour, and the clean follows the house
Croham Hurst Golf Club opened as an 18-hole course on 25 October 1911, laid out by James Braid and Fred Hawtree on the ground below the wood. The residential streets went in around the two of them over the next quarter century, which is why the stock here dates the way it does.
Edwardian and inter-war houses, roughly 1900 to 1935, detached and large semi-detached, on plots that follow the contour rather than a grid:
- Leaded front bays
- Tiled fireplace surrounds with a cast-iron insert
- Herringbone parquet in the entrance halls
- Picture rails still up in bedrooms nobody has redecorated since the eighties
Then later infill on subdivided plots off Upper Selsdon Road, a different building entirely, which cleans like one.
Each of those features is a slow job rather than a hard one, and each has a way of going wrong that costs more than the dirt did.
- Leaded glazing
- The came that holds each pane is soft lead. A microfibre that has picked up garden grit, and on this hill they all have, drags a grey metallic smear along the came, and it shows from the pavement in daylight even when the glass itself is spotless. Dedicated cloth, inside first, outside second, a separate cloth for each.
- Tiled fireplaces
- One winter of open fire and the original glaze carries a brown soot bloom, and a scourer takes the glaze off with the soot, which converts a cleaning line into a replacement line. Soft brush, barely damp cloth, time.
- Parquet
- The one people wreck with kindness. In April we are still lifting oak fragments that came in from the Hurst in October.
The infill houses take none of that, so the same team is out hours earlier.
The 57 things, worked in the order a clerk walks them
Every booking runs the 57-point agent-approved checklist, built out of a decade of check-outs and tuned to what gets flagged rather than what looks impressive on a website. It comes with the job. Here is the shape of it, in the order a South Croydon clerk tends to walk a property.
The hall, because on this hill that is where it shows
- Floor or carpet, edges and gripper line, joints if it is parquet
- Skirting tops and the strip behind the front door
- The radiator and behind it
- The understairs cupboard
- The stair treads and risers, banister and spindles
- The stair carpet edges where the grit sits
Then the kitchen
- Oven cleaned rather than wiped: racks soaked off the unit, door glass split if the door is built to come apart so the brown film between the panels comes out, interior, fan, element and seals.
- Hob rings and burners off, knobs off and washed.
- Extractor degreased inside and out, filter soaked or swapped. If it is an integrated canopy nobody has pulled in two years, the grease behind the baffle is amber and stuck to the fan housing, so a surface wipe will not pass and we do not pretend otherwise.
- Every cupboard inside, outside, on top, underneath and behind.
- Fridge and freezer through once you have defrosted them.
- Appliances pulled out so the gaps behind and under are done, then put back.
- Washing machine drum, drawer out and scrubbed, and the door seal, which is often the very first thing a clerk opens.
- Dishwasher filter, seals, spray arms.
- Sink, taps and plughole descaled properly.
- Tiles and grout scrubbed, bin washed, floor mopped last.
Bathrooms next, and here it is chalk from start to finish
- Limescale off the taps, shower head, screen, screen runner and tiles with the dwell time it actually needs.
- Grout scrubbed back as far as honest effort goes, and photographed first where it is plainly past saving, because that photograph stops you being charged for grey grout that was already grey at check-in.
- Toilet inside, under the rim, base, cistern, hinges, behind the pedestal.
- Bath, taps, the underside of the taps, overflow, plughole.
- Mirrors and cabinets, and behind them where they stand off the wall.
- Extractor vent wiped, sealant cleaned to a usable state, which is a cleaning job, unlike re-sealing, which is a handyman’s.
Then the rest
- Inside every wardrobe, drawer and built-in cupboard.
- Skirtings, doors both sides, frames, architraves, handles, and any original brass or bakelite still on them.
- Light fittings, ceiling roses, switches, sockets.
- Window sills, reveals and frames inside, leaded bays on the dedicated cloth.
- Radiators behind, under and on top.
- Walls spot-wiped with a realistic line drawn, because nail holes and scuffs are a decorator’s bill and were never yours to scrub.
- Tiled fireplace surrounds on the soft brush.
- Carpets vacuumed in two directions, edges included.
- Cobwebs out of the ceiling corners.
Then a final walk-through with a torch held low, in side-light, which is the only way to see the grit and the came smear before the clerk does.
Photographs before and after, every room. That set is your evidence, and it is worth more in a dispute than anything you can say.
What it costs, and the sum worth doing before you buy a sponge
| Property | Typical duration | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|
| Studio or converted upper flat | 3-4 hours, 1 cleaner | From £156 |
| 1-bed flat | 4-5 hours, 2 cleaners | From £207 |
| 2-bed flat or maisonette off Croham Road | 5-7 hours, 2 cleaners | From £243 |
| 3-bed semi, Croham Valley Road or Bramley Hill | 7-9 hours, 2 cleaners | From £339 |
| 4-bed inter-war detached, Croham Park Avenue or Croham Manor Road | 9-12 hours, 3 cleaners | From £425 |
| Carpet shampoo add-on, same visit | Same visit | £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £94 for two bedrooms and a living room |
| Oven only, if that is all the agent flagged | 1.5-2 hours | £77 single, £110 double, £143 range 90cm |
| Part-job or top-up rather than a full move-out | By the hour | £30 per hour per cleaner |
Nothing is bolted on afterwards. Those figures assume a property in normal lived-in shape. These cost more, and you hear that on the phone rather than reading it on the invoice:
- a long tenancy with heavy wear
- a pet household
- a place that has not had a proper deep clean in four years
Now the sum. A four-bed on the avenue is protecting a deposit in the low thousands, and the clean is £425. Almost nobody runs that comparison until after a failed check-out has already cost them the first round, which is a shame, because the first round is the cheap one to win.
The 48-hour re-clean guarantee is there across these jobs. If the agent flags a cleaning issue inside 48 hours, we come back and redo it free, provided:
- you tell us in the window
- nobody has moved in behind us
We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, and over the years that work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits from cleaning deductions that would otherwise have stayed with the landlord. That last number is the whole point of the job.
Four jobs get muddled on the phone almost every week, and booking the wrong one wastes your money rather than ours.
- Check-in inventory report
- The document a clerk wrote on your first day, describing every surface, usually with photographs and usually with the word “new” against the kitchen and bathroom. It is the standard your check-out gets marked against, which is why we clean to it rather than to a general idea of tidy.
- End of tenancy clean
- Built to pass that report and release a deposit. Property empty, 57 points, photographs, 48-hour re-clean guarantee, £156 for a studio up to £425 for a four-bed, or £30 an hour per cleaner if it is a part-job.
- Deep clean
- A reset for a home you are staying in. Lived-in, furniture in place, no clerk, no formal standard to hit, priced by the hour.
- Regular domestic clean
- Ongoing upkeep with the same cleaner kept on the house, from £23 an hour weekly or £24 fortnightly. Useful on this hill precisely because of what walks in off it, but it is not a move-out clean and it will not pass as one.
Questions we get asked
How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost in Croham?
A studio is £156, a one-bed £207, a two-bed £243, a three-bed £339 and a four-bed £425. Carpet shampoo runs £29 a bedroom and £36 a living room, or £94 for two bedrooms and a living room. Ovens are £31 single, £62 double or a 90cm range. If the job is a part-job rather than a full move-out, it is £30 per hour per cleaner.
Is Croham in Croydon’s selective licensing scheme?
It depends which Croham you mean, and this catches people out. The streets around Croham Hurst on CR2 7 postcodes sit in the South Croydon ward, and South Croydon is one of the 14 wards in the designation that applies from 25 September 2026. There is also a separate Croydon ward called Croham, out towards Sanderstead, and that one is not in the 14. Check the address on croydon.gov.uk, not the street name.
Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change what I have to clean?
No. The Act went live on 1 May 2026 and abolished Section 21, but nothing in it touched cleaning obligations or the check-in benchmark. What changed is timing. Tenants can give notice at any point in the year now, so move-out dates scatter instead of clustering on a fixed term end.
Why is the water here so hard?
The hill you live on is the reason. The lower slopes of Croham Hurst sit on chalk, and chalk is what makes a supply hard. SES Water covers this part of South Croydon and publishes an average hardness figure for each of its 22 zones, so look up your own postcode rather than take a cleaning firm’s word for it. In practice: screens, kettles, taps and washing machine drawers film over in a fortnight.
What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?
If the clerk or the agent flags a cleaning issue within 48 hours of us finishing, we come back and put it right at no charge. Tell us inside the window, and the property has to be in the state we left it, with nobody moved in. Around 3 jobs in 100 need it.
Do you clean the modern infill houses as well as the old stock?
Yes, and they are quicker. A 2015 house on a subdivided plot has no leaded glazing, no parquet, no tiled fireplace and no picture rails, so the same team gets through it in less time. The price does not change, because it is set by bedroom count.
Do I need to be there while you work?
No. Most people leave a key with their agent or in a key safe by the porch. Tell us how to get in and where to leave the key, and we email a written report with photographs when we finish. If your street is one of the narrow ones off Croham Manor Road, mention the parking.
My hallway floor is original parquet. Can you clean it?
Yes, and we will not steam it. Steam gets into the joints between the blocks, lifts the glue and blooms the finish, which turns a cleaning job into a flooring bill. We dry-buff along the grain with a pH-neutral cleaner and lift the grit out of the joints with a brush attachment first.
Can you clean around furniture that has not gone yet?
We can work around one room of stored boxes, but an empty property gets a better result and a cleaner check-out. We cannot shampoo carpet under a wardrobe, and the clerk will see the rectangle where it stood. If the removals are running late, say so when you book.
What happens if the landlord still disputes the clean?
It goes to your deposit scheme’s adjudication. Our dated photograph set, the itemised invoice and any re-clean record are all admissible, and a tenant who turns up with that paperwork very rarely loses on the cleaning lines. Shelter’s guidance on tenancy deposits walks through the steps in order.
How much notice do you need in Croham?
Three to five days is comfortable. Month-end is tighter, and a Friday at the end of the month is the worst slot in the calendar to leave until Wednesday. Ring anyway if it is short notice, because a team finishing in Selsdon or Sanderstead can sometimes pick it up the same day.
Get a price
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
Ring 0333 555 2076 and you get a fixed figure in about three minutes. Have these to hand:
- postcode
- bedrooms
- check-out date
- whether the place is period or infill
Mention the parking too, because some of the streets off Croham Manor Road are narrow and steep and a van needs warning.
Out of hours, email office@monstercleaning.com and somebody calls you back first thing. If your check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway. A couple of photographs of the kitchen and hall on WhatsApp sharpen the quote more than describing it will.
If a deduction is disputed after all that, the paperwork is what wins it:
- our dated photographs
- the itemised invoice
- the re-clean record if there was one
Shelter’s tenancy deposit guidance sets out the adjudication route in order. Monster Cleaning Ltd, trading since 2014.