End of tenancy cleaning in Cubitt Town, from £156

The clerk on a Cubitt Town hand-back walks straight to the river-facing glass, tilts their head against the light, and looks for the chalky bloom that a soft-westerly leaves on anything overlooking Greenwich. That haze, plus the grease baked into a handle-less integrated oven, is where most Isle of Dogs deposits get clipped. We are Monster Cleaning Ltd (Companies House 9919639), a London firm trading since 2014, and we run deposit-focused move-out cleans across the eastern edge of the Island at £30 per hour per cleaner, every job carrying a 48-hour re-clean guarantee measured against the check-out report. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price in about three minutes.

Last updated June 2026. We cover Cubitt Town and the wider Isle of Dogs frontage across E14, from Saunders Ness Road round to Manchester Road and up to Crossharbour and Mudchute. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Tower Hamlets.

Who really decides your deposit on the Island

It is not your landlord, and it is not you. It is the inventory clerk, working from a check-in report written the day you moved in. That report described every surface, usually with photographs, and against the kitchen and bathroom it almost certainly said “clean to a professional standard” because the flat had just been through a professional clean. On the way out a clerk walks the place again and compares it line by line. Anything materially worse than the check-in entry, past fair wear and tear, is chargeable against your deposit. You are being marked against a professional clean, which is why a mop and a spare Saturday rarely gets you there.

On the Cubitt Town and Isle of Dogs check-outs we get called in to rescue, the deductions fall in a familiar shape: £80 to £150 on an integrated oven nobody had lifted out, £60 to £120 on chalk and hard-water film round the taps and shower, £120 to £300 on river-facing glass and balcony balustrades, £150 to £350 on carpets in the towers. Put that against a two-bed here carrying a deposit north of £2,000 and the maths writes itself. Most tenants only run the sum after they have failed the first check-out, which is a pity, because the first round is the cheap one to win.

Why is the clerk so exacting on the Island? Because the deposit is large, the agent is on the hook for protecting it, and a lot of these lets are corporate or managed-block tenancies where the paperwork is watched. The inspection is genuinely adversarial. The clerk is paid to find faults, not to wave you through, and the way you beat that is evidence rather than optimism.

What 1 May 2026 changed for E14 move-outs

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone. Every existing assured shorthold tenancy in England has converted to a rolling periodic tenancy, and a tenant can now give two months’ notice at any point 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 one line. The deposit is still held under a government scheme, the burden of proof on a cleaning deduction still sits with the landlord, and the check-out report is still the hinge of any later dispute. What changed is timing. This corner of E14 was already high-churn, full of one-year corporate lets and sharers who move on the dot, and rolling notice makes the move-outs more frequent and far less predictable. So the month-end pile-up on the Island is not going to ease. The dull, money-saving takeaway: book the clean earlier than you used to, because the slot you want will be gone if you wait.

The cleaning side of a move-out did not change one line.

Where Cubitt Town sits in the Tower Hamlets licensing map

Landlords ask us about this more than anything else on the Island, usually because they have half-heard about “licensing in Tower Hamlets” and want to know if it touches them. Here is the accurate version. Tower Hamlets runs a selective licensing scheme, but it only covers Whitechapel, Weavers, and Spitalfields and Banglatown, and it is due to run to 30 September 2026. Cubitt Town sits in the Island Gardens and Canary Wharf part of the borough, which is not in that selective designation. So a standard single-household let here does not need a selective licence.

What does apply across Cubitt Town is the borough-wide additional HMO licensing scheme, which started on 1 April 2024 and runs to 31 March 2029. That one catches houses in multiple occupation, meaning three or more tenants forming more than one household, which is a live issue on the Island because a lot of the docklands flats are let to sharers. Mandatory HMO licensing sits on top of that for the larger, five-person-plus HMOs, as it does nationwide. None of this changes whether a cleaning deduction is fair, but it does change what paperwork a landlord has to hold, and we format our end-of-clean report so it drops straight into a licensing or inventory file without any fuss.

Selective licensing

Covers only Whitechapel, Weavers, and Spitalfields and Banglatown, running to 30 September 2026. Cubitt Town is not in it.

Additional HMO licensing

Borough-wide, 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2029, for houses in multiple occupation of three or more tenants across more than one household.

Mandatory HMO licensing

The national scheme for larger HMOs, generally five or more people, applying in Cubitt Town as everywhere.

The river, the glass, and what Thames Water does to a bathroom

Cubitt Town has a problem the rest of Tower Hamlets does not, and it comes off the water on two sides. The eastern and south-eastern edge of the Isle of Dogs faces Greenwich across the Thames, and a prevailing south-westerly drives a fine mist onto anything river-facing. On the newer riverside blocks along the Saunders Ness and Manchester Road frontage, the floor-to-ceiling glass and the balcony balustrades cloud with a mineral bloom within a fortnight of a missed clean. A soft microfibre and standard glass cleaner smear it rather than lift it. We finish the outside face, where the building allows access to it, with a deionised-water rinse after the wash pass, which strips the dissolved minerals and leaves no streak for the clerk to flag.

Then there is the tap water. E14 is served by Thames Water, and it is hard, sitting around 273 parts per million as calcium carbonate. That is enough to grey up chrome, fur a shower head, and chalk the edge of a shower screen inside a couple of weeks of a missed clean. The clerk checks for it deliberately: a thumbnail down the tap, the screen edge held against the light, the shower head pulled in close. We treat it as its own pass with a weak acid solution rather than the harsh descalers a newer fitting would shrug off, and we go carefully on any older brass or chrome in the Victorian terraces, where an aggressive product does more harm than the limescale ever did.

A soft microfibre and standard glass cleaner smear the river bloom rather than lift it.

The 57 things we work, room by room

Every Cubitt Town booking runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist built over a decade of London check-outs and tuned to what the Island’s clerks actually flag. The full list comes with the job, or we walk you through it before we start. This is the shape of it.

The kitchen, where the deductions cluster

The oven is stripped, not wiped. Racks and trays go into a soaking tank, the door glass is split apart so the brown film between the panels comes out, and the interior, fan, element and seals all get done. In the docklands new-builds that oven is usually integrated behind a flush handle-less door the last tenant never lifted out, and the grease has cooked onto the inside of the door and the underside of the canopy. The hob and induction surround, the extractor with its filter pulled and bathed, the splashback and grout, every cabinet inside and out including the bin housing. Sink, taps and waste descaled in plain water and a weak acid wipe. Fridge and freezer defrosted, washed and switched off if you ask. Appliances pulled out so the gaps behind and under get cleaned, then put back, and the washing-machine drum, drawer and door seal done, because the seal is the first thing a lot of clerks open.

Bathrooms, the other place it goes wrong

Hard-water film comes off the taps, shower head, screen and tiles first, in a weak acid solution, careful on any original chrome. Grout brushed back as far as honest effort takes it, and photographed first where it is clearly past saving. Toilet inside and out, cistern, hinges and the floor flange. Mirror, glass shelving and cabinet fronts polished to a streak-free finish. Extractor cover off, fan blades cleaned, cover back on. The 273 ppm Thames Water leaves a chalk haze that comes back fast, so we go after it as a separate pass rather than a wipe on the way past.

Bedrooms, living areas and the whole flat

Skirting hand-wiped. Cornice, picture rail and architrave dusted, with the older Manchester Road flats getting a softer brush by hand rather than a duster head run along the moulding. Inside and outside of every wardrobe and drawer. Carpets vacuumed with the pile and edge-detailed against the gripper. Window glass inside and reachable outside, sills and the track grit. Radiator faces and behind. Light switches, sockets, and the screws on the cover plates. Fitted blinds slat by slat. Then everything shared: internal doors both faces and the top edge, door frames, pendant shades, the entry mat lifted and the floor under it cleaned, cobwebs out of the ceiling corners, and the balcony glass on the inside face. A final walk-through, photographed room by room, and that photo set goes to you with the invoice.

Cubitt Town street by street, from the terraces to the towers

Cubitt Town is the eastern and south-eastern slice of the Isle of Dogs, named after William Cubitt, the builder who laid out the original riverside grid in the 1840s and 1850s. It is not one kind of housing, and a clean that passes on one street will not pass on another two hundred yards away. We work it in bands.

The riverside and the Greenwich-view blocks

Along Saunders Ness Road and the Manchester Road frontage sit the newer apartment blocks that look straight across the river to the Old Royal Naval College. This is where the glass problem lives. Floor-to-ceiling windows, balcony balustrades, and integrated kitchens, often on a managed-block tenancy with a stricter inventory than a private landlord bothers with. Send us the building’s key-handover arrangement and we clean to the operator’s spec, glass included, with the deionised rinse on the outside face where the elevation allows it. The window cleaning add-on covers exterior panes an inventory specifically asks for.

The original Cubitt Town terraces

Behind the riverside, the Victorian terraces that Cubitt built for the dock and shipyard workers still stand, some now split into flats. Cornice, picture rail, older bathroom and kitchen layouts, and cast-iron radiator backs that read older than the towers and get inspected as separate items. We carry softer detail brushes for the plaster mouldings and hand-wipe the picture rail. A different room, a different set of tools, the same 57-point list. Specialist flooring in these older flats, an original tiled hallway or a stripped board, takes its own product, which is what the floor cleaning add-on is for.

The estates and the streets round Mudchute

North and west of the riverside sit the larger ex-council estates and the streets running off East Ferry Road and Manchester Road, up towards Mudchute Park and Farm and the Mudchute and Crossharbour DLR stops. Castalia Square, Glengall Grove, Stewart Street, Saunders Ness, Spindrift Avenue, the streets near Island Gardens and its foot tunnel to Greenwich: long tenancies here mean build-up in the places nobody cleaned between tenants, behind the cooker and under the fridge, and we win those check-outs on the slow work rather than anything clever. If your address is not on that list, ring anyway, because a flat near Crossharbour is no further from a crew than one in Millwall.

Not sure which patch you are on, or whether your block counts as Cubitt Town, Millwall or Canary Wharf? Ring 0333 555 2076 with the postcode and we will tell you in about ten seconds.

What it costs, and the sum nobody runs in time

Cubitt Town runs at our standard London pricing, not a docklands premium. A studio starts at £156 and a one-bed flat at £207, which is the common Island size for a single Canary Wharf worker. A two-bed, the sharer and young-family default here, is £243, a three-bed £339, and a four-bed £425. By-the-hour cover for anything beyond the end-of-tenancy scope is £30 per cleaner. Those figures assume a flat in normal lived-in shape; a long tenancy with heavy wear, a pet household or a flat nobody has deep-cleaned in years costs more, and we say so on the phone rather than after.

Quotes are fixed in writing before we arrive, with no day-of additions unless you ask for one and agree the new figure on the email thread. Card or bank transfer, and we do not ask for cash on the day. Run the maths the way the deposit makes you: a one-bed at £207 to protect a deposit above £2,000 is not really a decision. Every booking carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee, so if the clerk flags a cleaning point inside 48 hours, we come back and put it right at no charge, provided you tell us in the window and nobody has moved in. Our first-time pass rate sits at 97%, so the call-back is rare, but the guarantee is the point. There is a reason the agents know us: we are on the books of 300+ letting agents, and over the years that work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions.

A Saunders Ness Road job from spring

“A two-year corporate let, an eighth-floor two-bed on the riverside off Saunders Ness Road, both of us working in Canary Wharf and both flat out by the time the tenancy ended. The agent had warned us the last tenant lost money on the glass, and sure enough the check-out worry was the floor-to-ceiling window on the river side and the balcony rail, both hazed over from the Thames. The integrated extractor over the induction hob was the other one. Monster sent three cleaners for the day, rinsed the outside face of the glass with deionised water from the inside, pulled the extractor filters through a degreaser bath, and shampooed the lounge carpet. The clerk signed off the next morning with no cleaning deduction and the full deposit came back.”
Priya and Tom, ex-tenants, Cubitt Town E14, April 2026

That is a fair example of the Island pattern: a busy corporate let, river glass that a normal clean leaves streaked, an integrated appliance nobody had touched, and a clerk who genuinely checks. The clean cost a fraction of what was at stake, and what turned it was not only the scrubbing but the dated photo set that went out with the invoice, which is the thing most do-it-yourself check-outs never have when the agent pushes back.

Booking it around the month-end rush

The Isle of Dogs clusters its move-outs hard at month-end, and Friday-afternoon hand-backs are the worst of it, so the last three days of any month go early. Book ahead for those windows. The steps are short.

1. Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the address, the bedroom count, and your check-out date. Price in about three minutes, no site visit and no upsell on the call.
2. We send the fixed written quote the same day, with the slot, the crew size and any add-ons you have asked for. Allow 7 to 10 days for an end-of-month slot, 3 to 5 days mid-month.
3. Flat empty when we arrive. The common Island pattern is a key or fob handover at the building’s front desk the night before, and we pick it up, work the flat, and drop it back at the desk or with the agent.
4. Photo proof at the end. The crew lead photographs every room and emails you the set the same day, alongside the signed-off checklist. That is your evidence pack.
5. Check-out happens. Anything flagged inside 48 hours, we come back and fix it free under the guarantee.

Add-ons, and the neighbours next door

A Cubitt Town move-out often pulls in more than the core clean. Carpet cleaning with hot-water extraction is the common one, sometimes written into the tenancy as a hard requirement in the managed blocks. Oven cleaning is in every end-of-tenancy job as standard and also stands alone from £77 if that is all the agent flagged. It helps to book the right job, so the distinctions are worth a line.

End-of-tenancy clean

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

Deep clean

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

Regular domestic clean

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

We also cover the rest of the Island and the neighbourhoods next door, which matters when a tenancy straddles a boundary or your next flat is one stop away: Millwall to the west, Canary Wharf to the north, and the Isle of Dogs more broadly. Island Gardens and Blackwall sit right on the edge of the patch too.

Questions we get asked

How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost in Cubitt Town?

A studio starts at £156, a one-bed at £207, a two-bed at £243, a three-bed at £339 and a four-bed at £425. That is standard London pricing, not a docklands premium. Carpet and oven add-ons are charged on the rate card above, and the quote is fixed in writing before we arrive.

Do you cover the riverside blocks along Saunders Ness and Manchester Road?

Yes. The Greenwich-facing apartment blocks on the eastern edge of the Island are core work for us. We know which elevations allow access to the outside face of the glass and which do not, and the deionised-water rinse on floor-to-ceiling glass is part of the standard scope on those flats.

Is Cubitt Town inside Tower Hamlets selective licensing?

No. Selective licensing in Tower Hamlets covers only Whitechapel, Weavers, and Spitalfields and Banglatown, and runs to 30 September 2026. Cubitt Town is in the Island Gardens part of the borough, which is not in that scheme. The borough-wide additional HMO scheme, running to 31 March 2029, applies to houses in multiple occupation.

What does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change for my move-out?

From 1 May 2026, Section 21 is abolished and every existing assured shorthold tenancy has converted to a rolling periodic tenancy, so a tenant can give two months’ notice at any point. The cleaning obligations at the end of a tenancy did not change. The real effect on the Island is more frequent, less predictable move-outs, so book as early as you can.

What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?

If the inventory clerk or the letting agent flags a cleaning point within 48 hours of our visit, we come back and put it right at no charge, provided you tell us inside that window and nobody has moved in. Our 97% first-time pass rate means the call-back is rare, but the guarantee is there in writing.

Do I need to be there during the clean?

No. The most common pattern on the Isle of Dogs is a key or fob handover at the front desk of the building the night before. We pick it up, work the flat, photograph the result, and hand the keys back at the desk or to the agent.

Why does the river glass need special treatment?

The eastern edge of the Island faces the Thames, and a south-westerly drives a fine mineral mist onto river-facing glass and balcony balustrades. Standard glass cleaner smears it. We use a deionised-water rinse after the wash pass on the outside face where the building allows it, which lifts the dissolved minerals and leaves no streak for the clerk to flag.

Is the tap water in E14 really that hard?

Yes. Thames Water serves E14 at around 273 parts per million as calcium carbonate, which is hard enough to grey chrome and fur a shower head inside a fortnight of a missed clean. We treat the limescale as its own pass with a weak acid solution, careful on any older brass or chrome fittings in the Victorian terraces.

Do you clean the older Cubitt Town terraces differently to the towers?

Yes. The original riverside terraces have cornice, picture rail, older bathroom layouts and cast-iron radiators that a clerk inspects as separate items. We carry softer detail brushes for the plaster mouldings and hand-wipe the picture rail rather than running a duster head along it. Same 57-point list, different tools per room.

Do you do oven and carpet on the same visit?

Yes. The oven add-on at £77 single, £110 double or £114 for a 90cm range, and the carpet shampoo at £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room or £115 for a whole two-bed, both run alongside the end-of-tenancy scope on the same crew visit.

Can I organise the clean from abroad?

Common on the Island, where corporate lets often end after the tenant has flown out. Email us a copy of the check-in inventory, the agent’s contact, the building’s key-handover process and a card on file. We work to the inventory and bill on completion.

Will the clean actually affect my deposit return?

That is the whole point of the job. We have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits since 2014, working the same 57-point checklist that 300+ letting agents already know. Your deposit comes back from the scheme, whether that is TDS, mydeposits or the DPS, not from us, but the cleaning line on the deduction list is the one we directly stop. Shelter’s guidance walks through the dispute steps.

Do you work weekends in Cubitt Town?

Saturdays yes, Sundays by prior arrangement at the same weekday rate. Friday-afternoon hand-back slots are the busiest on the Island, so book at least four working days ahead if you can.

Get a price

Ring 0333 555 2076 and we price the job in about three minutes. Postcode, property size, check-out date, any known problem areas, that is the lot. Out of hours, email [email protected] or use the booking form on this site and someone calls you back. A couple of photos of the kitchen and bathroom sharpen the quote, which helps most on the glass-heavy riverside flats. And if your Cubitt Town check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway and we will do what we can. Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House 9919639, trading across London since 2014.