End of tenancy cleaning throughout Dalston Junction

The inventory clerk on a Dalston Junction handover has a reflex: on a flat above a Kingsland Road shop they open the cooker hood first, because a kebab house or a grocer downstairs pushes a warm oil film up into that canopy for the whole tenancy, and it is the surest deduction on the strip. So this is what end of tenancy cleaning here has to be, and it starts with the mechanism: built for the person writing the report, checklist-led, deposit-first, £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 about three minutes.

Last updated June 2026. We cover E8 across the Junction and the Kingsland Road frontage: Dalston Square, the A10 spine down from Dalston Lane, Ridley Road, Ashwin Street, Boleyn Road and the streets feeding the two Overground stations. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Hackney.

How the check-in report quietly decides your deposit

Start with the document, because the whole thing turns on it and almost nobody reads it that way. When you moved in, a clerk walked the flat and wrote a report describing every surface, nearly always with photographs, usually with “good” or “as new” against the kitchen and the wet-room. Those words were fair on the day, because the flat had just been cleaned to a letting standard. At check-out a clerk walks it again and compares, photo against photo. 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 free Sunday with a mop rarely gets you there.

The money is real, and on this patch it lands in a pattern. On the Dalston DIY check-outs we get called in to rescue, the same lines come up: the oil layer in a cooker hood above a shop, scale furred onto a bright-chrome shower head, the haze on the floor-to-ceiling glass, the grease behind a freestanding cooker. Put those against a deposit capped by law at five weeks’ rent and the arithmetic makes itself. Most tenants only run it after they have tried, failed the check-out, and lost the first round.

Your deposit sits in a government-backed scheme, and the landlord cannot keep a penny without your agreement or an adjudicator’s decision. If it comes to a dispute, the free guidance from Shelter on tenancy deposits sets out the route. Cleaning is the most common single deduction in those adjudications, and the easiest to beat, because it is the only check-out failure you can remove completely before you hand back the keys. Damage you argue about. Dirt you delete.

Damage you argue about. Dirt you delete.

Hackney licensing, and what 1 May 2026 changed

Two things landed on the same date and it is worth keeping them apart. First, Hackney turned on a new round of property licensing. The council’s selective licensing scheme runs from 1 May 2026 to 30 April 2031, and Dalston ward, which takes in the Square, the Junction station and the Kingsland Road frontage, is one of the seventeen wards it covers, next to De Beauvoir and Hackney Central on the same list. On top of that, an additional HMO scheme now applies right across the borough, so most shared houses need a licence too, with the larger ones under mandatory HMO licensing. The council’s own pages block automated readers, so I will not send you round to a link that fails; ring us with the postcode and we will tell you which regime your flat sits in.

None of that changes the cleaning standard at the end of a tenancy. What it changes is scrutiny. A licensed flat carries a paper trail, and a paper trail tends to mean a closer inspection at check-out, so a clean that plainly meets the standard helps rather than hinders here.

The Renters’ Rights Act and the churn it brought

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live on 1 May 2026, the same day the licensing scheme started. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone, and every existing assured shorthold tenancy has converted to a rolling periodic one, so a tenant can give two months’ notice at any point. Here is the part people get wrong: the cleaning side of a move-out did not change at all. An adjudicator still sets the check-in report against the check-out and asks whether the gap is fair wear or something you owe for. What changed is timing. Dalston was already one of the most transient patches in the borough, full of one-year lets, students on the September-to-June cycle and young renters who move for work, so a rolling notice makes the check-outs land less predictably and clusters them harder at month-end. The dull, money-saving move is to book the clean earlier than you used to.

The 57 things we work through, room by room

Every booking here runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist, tuned to what clerks working Dalston actually flag. The full list comes with the job, or we walk you through it first. This is the shape of it.

The kitchen, where most of these deposits go

The oven is stripped, not wiped. Racks go in 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. Then the rest of the room: the hob lifted where it lifts, burners and control knobs off and washed, induction wiped back to glass in the new-builds, gas burners soaked on the period flats. The cooker hood gets real attention here, because the baffle filter and canopy carry a warm oil layer in any flat above a food shop, and that is the first thing a clerk checks along Kingsland Road. Every cupboard, inside, outside, top and behind. Fridge and freezer cleaned through once defrosted, seals scrubbed where mould blooms. Washing machine and dishwasher: the drawer pulled and soaked, the door gasket cleaned, the filter rinsed. And the spot the period kitchens fail on, the gap and floor a freestanding cooker hides, which is where a clerk pulls the appliance out to look, so we move it every time. Worktops, sink, tap and drainer descaled, because the hard supply never gives that a miss.

The wet-room and bathroom, the other place it goes wrong

Scale comes off the taps, shower head, screen and tiles first, worked back to the metal rather than smeared over. Grout scrubbed as far as honest effort takes it, and photographed first where a long let has left it clearly past saving, so nobody bills you for wear that was there at check-in. Then the rest, in plain order.

• Toilet done properly: pan, under the rim, cistern, hinge bolts, seat and the floor behind the pedestal where nobody looks but the clerk
• Shower screen and chrome runner both sides, the head soaked overnight where the deposit is heavy
• Bath or tray and basin, taps and the underside of the taps, overflow and plughole
• Mirror, cabinet and the wall behind them where they come away
• Extractor grille wiped and the brown dust load lifted off it, sealant cleaned to a usable state
• Floor into the corners, behind the loo and under the basin

Bedrooms, living space and the fitted storage

Inside every wardrobe, drawer and built-in cupboard, because a clerk always opens them, and the fitted wardrobes in the Square flats have a top shelf that is exactly the inch the eye skips when the door is open, so it gets done by hand. Skirting, door frames, doors, handles and finger plates, both faces. Switches, sockets, light fittings and shades, plus the thermostat, the entry-phone handset and the fob reader on the wall. Radiators front, top and the gap behind. Window sills, reveals and frames on the inside. Walls spot-cleaned where the paint allows, with a realistic line drawn, because nail holes are a decorator’s bill and not yours to scrub away. Hard floors washed with the right product, engineered oak in the new-builds and original boards in the Kingsland Road flats, carpets vacuumed to the edges and under what moves. Then a final walk against the check-in report so the flat matches the document the clerk arrives holding.

Two jobs often need their own pass on the same visit. A carpet clause written into the tenancy is what the carpet cleaning add-on covers, and a range or built-in double beyond a degrease is the specialist oven cleaning job. Anything past a scrub, like original timber floors, sits with the floor cleaning team.

The glass and the hood: two Dalston-specific failures

Most areas have one signature deduction. Dalston Junction has two, and they map onto the two kinds of flat here. The first is the curtain-wall glass in the Square towers. South and east-facing flats run floor-to-ceiling panels from carpet edge to ceiling track, and Kingsland Road below carries A10 traffic, so a fine film of particulate off buses, taxis and vans settles on the inside face over a tenancy. After a year or so a one-bed reads cloudy in afternoon light even though it looked spotless at night, and afternoon light is when the clerk tends to walk it. A generic spray streaks on a panel that big. We use a microfibre system with a dilute alcohol mix, work top to bottom in overlapping passes, then dry-buff, and reckon on about forty minutes for a one-bed elevation.

The second is the cooker hood, and it belongs to the flats above the shops. Kingsland High Street and the A10 frontage are lined with Turkish grocers, cafes and kebab houses, and a food business on the ground floor pushes warm, greasy air up into the flat above. The canopy and the baffle filter take the worst of it, baking into a layer that kitchen spray glazes rather than lifts. We pull the filter and degrease it and the canopy interior properly, because a clerk who has walked this street goes straight for it.

Most areas have one signature deduction. Dalston Junction has two.

Behind both sits the water. Thames Water supplies E8 and it is very hard, around 300 parts per million of calcium carbonate on the company’s own hard-water figures. Scale sets on taps, shower heads and screens faster than tenants expect, and the bright chrome in the Square wet-rooms shows every bit of it, so a proper acid soak with real dwell time, then a polish dry, is the difference between a pass and a head that furs over within days.

Square to shopfront: the stock changes in a few hundred yards

Dalston Junction packs several housing markets into a short walk, which is why one method does not pass all of it. The centre of gravity is the crossroads where Dalston Lane meets Kingsland Road, the two Overground stations a few hundred yards apart, Ridley Road Market running off the high street. We work it in bands.

Dalston Square and the new-build towers

Right on the Junction station sits Dalston Square, the Barratt-built development on the old railway curve: four blocks up to fourteen storeys, a central plaza, the CLR James Library at the south-west corner and retail below. Studios, one-beds and two-bed corners dominate, and they are high-churn, so the inventory walks come round often. The recurring trouble is the curtain-wall glass, the bright-chrome wet-room fittings and the fitted-wardrobe top shelf. Access runs through a managed handover on several blocks, which we plan around.

The Kingsland Road frontage and the shop-with-flat-above stock

South from Dalston Lane the A10 frontage is late-Victorian and Edwardian terraces with retail at street level, the grocers and cafes and coffee fronts, and one or two-bed flats above reached by a tight side door off the pavement. These fail on the cooker hood and on original detail: picture rails, deep skirting, timber casements that need slow, careful work. Long tenancies leave build-up nobody cleaned between tenants, and we win these on the dull, slow work.

The period streets and ex-estate stock off the junction

East and west of the station the streets turn residential: Boleyn Road, Ashwin Street, Tyssen Street and the terraces feeding the line, a mix of period conversions, warehouse units and pockets of ex-local-authority flats. It is students, young creatives and professionals in the main, high turnover and plenty of sharers, so the shared kitchen and the one bathroom take the beating. The flats above the bars near the Rio Cinema and the strip around Dalston Superstore pick up their own grime. We cover the lot at one price.

What it costs, and the maths nobody runs until it is late

Flat rates, set by flat size, no hourly surprise on the day. Dalston sits at our standard London rate, not a premium tier. These are the Dalston Junction prices.

If you would rather book by the hour for a part-clean than a full hand-back, that is £30 per cleaner per hour, though for a deposit-critical check-out the flat-rate full clean is the one that carries the 48-hour re-clean guarantee. Carpet cleaning runs at £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed carpeted area. An oven beyond the degrease built into the clean is £77 for a single, £110 for a double and £114 for a 90cm range. Curtain-wall glass inside is standard; external glass on the upper towers is quoted on site, because the block controls the cradle access. A flat in heavy, long-let, pet or smoker condition costs more, and we say so on the phone rather than after.

Run the maths the way the deposit forces you to. A one-bed at £207 to protect a deposit capped at five weeks’ rent is barely a decision on Dalston rents. Every quote carries the 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if a clerk flags a cleaning point inside two days of us finishing, we come back and put it right free, provided nobody has moved in. We hold a 97% first-time pass rate on the inspections we attend, we are on the books of 300+ letting agents who recognise our signed checklist, and tenants working this way have recovered £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions. That last number is really the whole point of the job.

A Dalston Square job from the spring

“We had a south-facing one-bed on the eighth floor of one of the Square towers for about eighteen months, both of us working long hours in a startup, so the flat took a back seat. The check-in had it as good, and the agent warned us at the walk-round that the floor-to-ceiling glass would fail, because it had gone hazy off the road below without us really noticing. Two cleaners came the morning before the inventory, did the full glass treatment, stripped the scale off the wet-room chrome and got into the wardrobe shelf we would never have thought about. The clerk passed it with no follow-up. Full deposit back the week after, and it cost a fraction of what they had hinted they might hold.”
Marcus, Dalston Square E8, April 2026

That is a fair example of the Square pattern: a short, busy tenancy, glass haze the tenant cannot see but the clerk can, bright-chrome fittings that fur up on the hard water, and an agent who checks. What turned it was the glass and the descale plus the dated photos and the signed checklist, which is the part most DIY check-outs never have when the agent pushes back.

Booking it, and the parking problem

It is a short process and there is no hard sell.

1. Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with your E8 postcode, the number of bedrooms and the check-out date.
2. Tell us the block or the street and the problem spots, whether you want carpets or a heavier oven clean in, plus anything the check-in report marked.
3. We confirm a flat price and a slot, usually the day before or the morning of the inventory check, with a buffer.
4. The team cleans the whole flat to the 57-point agent-approved checklist against your check-in report, with photos on completion for the deposit file.
5. You or your agent inspects. Anything flagged within 48 hours, we come back and fix it free.

One honest note on parking, because it is the worst part of a move-out day around the Junction. The residential streets off Kingsland Road are controlled and tight, and there is no easy loading bay outside the Square, so we either work from a permitted bay you arrange or load in and carry, and we tell you straight which it is when we quote. Tell us the access too: a fob and concierge for the towers, a key safe on the side-passage door for the shop-above flats, or an agent drop-off. If the move and the clean land together, removals on the same booking saves several van trips on these narrow streets.

Add-ons, the jobs next to it, and nearby areas

A Dalston move-out often pulls in more than the core clean, because a worn carpet, a heavy oven and tired upholstery all read as neglect to a clerk taking them together. Three different cleans get muddled, so it is worth booking the right one.

Check-in inventory report

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

End of tenancy clean

Built to pass that report and get the deposit back, flat empty, at £30 per cleaner per hour with the 48-hour re-clean guarantee on it.

Deep clean

A deep clean resets a home you are keeping, with no clerk to satisfy, also from £30 an hour.

Regular domestic clean

A domestic clean is ongoing upkeep, from £22 an hour weekly.

Furnished lets are judged on the sofa as much as the floor, so hard-used upholstery sometimes needs the upholstery cleaning pass rather than a vacuum, and the curtain-wall and casement glass is the window cleaning job where an inventory asks for it. For the streets either side, we also cover Dalston Kingsland around the Mildmay-line station, De Beauvoir toward the canal and Haggerston down the A10, with Shoreditch and Stoke Newington a little further out. The wider borough sits at the Hackney hub linked at the top of this page.

Questions we get asked

How much is an end of tenancy clean in Dalston Junction?

Flat rates by size: £156 for a studio, £207 for a one-bed, £243 for a two-bed, £339 for a three-bed and £425 for a four-bed. Dalston sits at our standard London rate, not a premium tier, so a one-bed in a Dalston Square block and a one-bed above a shop on Kingsland High Street are the same £207. Carpets and a heavier oven clean are quoted on top, and the parking and upper-floor access are already in the figure.

Do you clean the floor-to-ceiling glass in the Dalston Square flats?

Yes. On the flats facing Kingsland Road the curtain-wall glass picks up a fine haze off the A10 traffic over a tenancy, fine at night but cloudy under afternoon sun, which is when the clerk tends to walk it. Generic spray streaks on a panel that size, so we work it with a microfibre system and a dilute alcohol mix in overlapping passes, then dry-buff. Reckon on about forty minutes for a one-bed elevation.

Will you guarantee I get my deposit back?

No honest cleaner can promise that, because the landlord and the adjudicator decide it on the whole flat, not the cleaning alone. What I can stand behind is the clean: a 97% first-time pass rate on the inspections we attend, and a 48-hour re-clean guarantee if a clerk flags a cleaning point. Tenants working this way have recovered £1.2m in deposits with us.

Is Dalston Junction the same as Dalston Kingsland or Dalston Square?

They overlap but people mix them up. Dalston Junction is the Overground station on the Windrush line, off Dalston Lane, with the Barratt-built Dalston Square development wrapped around it. Dalston Kingsland is a different station a few hundred yards north on the Mildmay line, near Ridley Road Market. Dalston Square is the new-build estate itself. We cover all of it at the same rate.

Does Hackney’s new selective licensing scheme affect my move-out?

It changes the paperwork more than the clean. Hackney’s selective licensing scheme runs from 1 May 2026 to 30 April 2031 and Dalston ward is one of the seventeen it covers, alongside an additional HMO scheme that now applies right across the borough. A licence does not raise the cleaning standard at check-out, but a licensed flat tends to be inspected more closely because there is a paper trail behind it.

What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?

If the inventory clerk or your agent flags a cleaning issue within 48 hours of us finishing, we come back and put it right at no extra charge. It covers the cleaning scope we quoted, not damage or wear and tear, and it assumes nobody has moved in. On the Square and the Kingsland Road frontage the re-clean rate runs at roughly three jobs in a hundred: usually glass haze, a shower head that needed a second descale, or a cooker hood above a food shop.

Do you deal with the hard-water scale on the taps and shower?

Yes, and around here it is half the job. Thames Water supplies E8 and it is very hard, about 300 parts per million of calcium carbonate on the company’s own figures. The wet-rooms in the Square stock are unforgiving because the fittings are bright chrome rather than brushed nickel, so every mark shows. We give it a proper acid soak with real dwell time, then polish dry, rather than wiping the surface and hoping.

Can you fit the clean around a concierge or key handover?

Yes. Several of the Square blocks run a managed handover, and we coordinate with the on-site team so the clean finishes inside your access window. Tell us the block and the day at booking and we work backwards from the clerk’s appointment. On the shop-with-flat-above stock a key safe on the side-passage door works just as well, and plenty of tenants leave a key with Foxtons or Currell.

My flat is above a shop on Kingsland Road, not in the Square. Still you?

Same team, same price. A lot of the A10 frontage is a one or two-bed flat above a Turkish grocer, a cafe or a kebab shop, reached by a narrow door off the pavement. Those kitchens fail on the cooker hood more than anything, because a food shop below pushes a warm oil layer up into the canopy that ordinary spray will not shift. We degrease the baffle filter and the canopy interior as standard.

Are you a real, insured company?

Yes. Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House number 9919639, trading since 2014, fully insured with public liability cover, certificate on request. You are dealing with a registered London firm that works the same E8 streets week after week and is on the books of 300+ letting agents, not a one-off crew you never hear from again.

Is an end of tenancy clean the same as a deep clean?

It overlaps but it is not the same. An end of tenancy clean is the hand-back clean, scoped against your check-in report and aimed at passing the check-out with the flat empty. A deep clean is for a home you are staying in, with no clerk to satisfy. If you are leaving Dalston and the deposit is on the line, the end of tenancy clean is the one to book.