The first thing a Deptford clerk does in a ground-floor flat off Brookmill Road is crouch at the silicone seam where the shower screen meets the tile, because the damp that rolls off the Ravensbourne keeps that bead blooming black faster than almost anywhere else in SE8. That one line loses deposits here. So end of tenancy cleaning around Deptford Bridge has to be built for the person writing the check-out report, not for the eye: checklist-led, deposit-focused, £30 per hour per cleaner on a part job, with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee measured against the clerk’s own notes. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price in about three minutes.
Last updated June 2026. We cover the SE8 4 streets around the Deptford Bridge DLR in full: Brookmill Road, Friendly Street, Albyn Road, Strickland Street, Elverson Road and the creekside blocks off Deptford Broadway, plus the rest of SE8. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Lewisham.
What the check-out clerk marks first by the creek
Begin with the mechanism, because hardly anyone does, and it decides the whole thing. When you moved in, a clerk walked the flat and wrote a report describing every surface, usually with photos, often with the word “clean” or “as new” against the kitchen and bathroom. Those words were true that day, because the place had just been done professionally. At check-out a clerk walks it again and compares line by line. Anything materially worse than the move-in entry, past fair wear and tear, is chargeable against your deposit. You are being marked against a professional clean. A mop and a free Saturday rarely reach that bar.
Near Deptford Bridge the deductions land in a pattern we know well. On the ex-council flats off Brookmill Road it is the kitchen extractor cowling and the metal grease filter that has not come out in a year, the mould bead behind the shower screen, and the wear strip down the narrow internal hallway. On the two-bay terraces in the conservation area it is the original timber window frames, the gap behind a freestanding cooker, and a basement room that smells shut-up. On the creekside new-builds it is the floor-to-ceiling glass and the engineered-oak skirting. Different homes, same job: match the report, then document the match.
Why is the clerk so exact about it here? Because a Lewisham deposit is real money somebody has to account for, and the agent is on the hook for protecting it. Average private rent across the borough was around £1,810 a month in early 2026, and the Deptford Bridge stock sits right in that band, so a five-week deposit is a serious sum. The inspection is genuinely adversarial. The clerk is paid to find faults, not to wave you through. That is not unfair. It just means you turn up with evidence rather than hope.
You are being marked against a professional clean. A mop and a free Saturday rarely reach that bar.
What 1 May 2026 did, and did not, change
The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 came into force on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault eviction is gone, every existing assured shorthold tenancy has converted to a periodic one, and a tenant can give two months’ notice at any point in the year.
Here is the part people get wrong. The cleaning side of a move-out did not change at all. The check-in benchmark still applies. The deposit maths is exactly what it was the week before. A landlord still cannot write professional cleaning into the contract as a condition, but the standard you are measured against is unchanged. What shifted is timing.
This corner of Lewisham was already high-churn, full of one-year lets near the DLR and short professional tenancies in the new blocks. Let people leave on a rolling two months instead of a fixed end date and the move-outs get more frequent and far less predictable. The month-end pile-up that already clogs the patch is not going to ease. The dull, money-saving takeaway: book the clean earlier than you used to, because the slot you want goes first.
Three kinds of home meet at the bridge
Deptford Bridge sits where the A2 crosses the River Ravensbourne and the Ravensbourne turns into Deptford Creek on its last run to the Thames. The DLR station opened in 1999, raised on its viaduct over the road and the creek, on the zone 2 and 3 boundary. Stand on the platform and you can see all three housing types we clean, within a few hundred yards of each other.
The ex-council blocks off Brookmill Road
Post-war Lewisham low-rise lines the streets edging Brookmill Park. These flats fail the walk for the same three reasons every time. The kitchen has a small ducted cowling over a four-ring hob, and the steel grease filter blanks solid if nobody pulls it. The bathroom was built without a fan and had one retro-fitted later, so the silicone seam catches a black bloom that needs a poultice, not a wipe. And the hallway is a narrow run between the front door and the living room that takes the whole footfall of the let, so the carpet wears a strip down the middle. We steam that strip in two directions, then deodorise.
The conservation-area terraces
South of the park, the Brookmill Road Conservation Area holds around 387 houses built between the 1850s and the 1870s, modest two-storey two-bay terraces, many with a basement and most now split into flats. Friendly Street and Albyn Road went up first and were better built, on unusually long leases. The original timber windows hand-wipe rather than spray-clean. The basement room and the internal staircase each take their own pass. A handful carry a heritage note, so flag it when you book.
The creekside new-builds
Then the towers. The creekside regeneration has put hundreds of rental flats around the water, from the Distillery blocks at Neptune Wharf to the schemes climbing up by Deptford Creek itself. Floor-to-ceiling glass, engineered-oak floors, integrated appliances, sometimes a concierge and a corporate check-out spec stricter than any private landlord writes. Send us the operator’s sheet and we work to it line by line. The new build near Greenwich across the creek follows the same playbook.
One method does not pass all three. If your address sits a street or two outside this list, ring the office anyway. We almost certainly cover it.
What the Ravensbourne and the chalk do to a bathroom
Two things make the bathrooms here harder than they look. The first is the water. Thames Water across SE8 runs at roughly 302 mg per litre of calcium carbonate (Thames Water hardness data), which is very hard, because the supply has come up through chalk and limestone. Calcium builds on taps, shower heads, screens and tile joints faster than tenants expect, and a cloth does nothing to it. The clerk runs a thumbnail down the tap and looks at the screen edge-on against the light. Set scale is not a quick job. We acid-soak the chrome with real dwell time, then polish it back.
The second is the creek. The Ravensbourne is tidal at the bridge, and the damp it pushes into the older ground-floor and basement flats keeps the silicone seams and the cold corners blooming. Grout is the line between a pass and a deduction more often than carpets are. We scrub it rather than wipe it, and where it is genuinely past saving in a long let, we photograph the state before we start, so the clerk cannot bill you for wear that was already grey in the check-in pictures. That dated photo has settled more arguments than any conversation has.
The 57 points, and where the hours actually go
Every booking runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist built over a decade of SE8 check-outs and tuned to what these clerks flag. The full list comes with the job. Here is the shape of it, room by room.
The kitchen, where most deposits go
The oven is stripped, not wiped: racks soaked in a tank, the door glass split apart so the brown film between the panes comes out, interior and fan and seals all done. The hob and burners come off, the extractor cowling is degreased inside and the metal filter pulled and soaked. Every cupboard inside, outside, top and underneath. Fridge and freezer defrosted and washed, seals scrubbed. Appliances pulled out so the gaps behind the cooker, the fridge and the washing machine get cleaned, then put back. The washing machine drawer comes out and the door seal is scrubbed, because in this water it greys fast. Sink, taps and plughole descaled with dwell time. Tiles and grout brushed. Floor mopped last, after the dust settles.
The bathroom, the other trouble spot
Scale comes off the taps, shower head, screen and tiles first, then the rest in plain order.
- Toilet done properly: bowl, under the rim, base, hinge bolts and behind the pan where the clerk looks and nobody else does
- Shower screen both sides, the runner track, and the silicone bead poulticed where it has bloomed black
- Bath, the underside of the taps, overflow and plughole
- Mirror, cabinet, shaver socket and the extractor grille, which looks brown when you pull it
- Floor into the corners and behind the pedestal
Bedrooms, living rooms and the bits between
Inside every wardrobe, drawer and built-in cupboard. Skirtings, architraves, doors, handles and finger plates. Light fittings and switch plates, including the dust inside the dome that the face hides. Window glass and the frame edges, with the old timber boxes in the conservation-area flats hand-wiped slowly. Radiators front, back and between the fins. Walls spot-wiped for marks, with a fair line drawn, because nail holes and scuffs are a decorator’s bill, not yours to scrub. Carpets vacuumed in two directions and spot-treated; a full carpet shampoo is a separate add-on. Then the throughway: the narrow ex-council hallway with its wear strip, the conservation-area staircase and spindles, the loft hatch where there is one, and a final walk-through with a torch in low light to catch what daylight hides.
The oven is stripped, not wiped: racks soaked in a tank, the door glass split apart so the brown film between the panes comes out.
A few jobs need their own pass. Heavy carpet wear wants the carpet cleaning add-on; a tired sofa in a shared let sometimes needs full upholstery cleaning rather than a vacuum; and engineered oak in a creekside flat takes the right product, which is what floor cleaning covers. If the oven is the only thing your agent pulled you up on, standalone oven cleaning handles it on its own.
What it costs, said plainly, and the sum nobody runs in time
No table here, because the prices are short enough to say in a sentence. End of tenancy cleaning around Deptford Bridge is £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. Those are full fixed prices with the 57-point checklist and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee built in. No VAT line, no fuel surcharge, no extra for an upper-floor walk-up. Carpet shampoo runs £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed’s carpeted area. Oven work, which is already in the standard clean, costs £77 single, £110 double and £114 on a 90cm range if you want it as a standalone. A part job or a light top-up is £30 per hour per cleaner.
Run the maths the way the deposit makes you. A one-bed at £207 to protect a five-week deposit on a flat renting near £1,650 is not really a decision. Most tenants only run that sum after they have tried, failed the check-out, and lost the first round. The first round is the cheap one to win.
Those figures assume a flat in normal lived-in shape. A long tenancy with heavy wear, a pet household, or somewhere that has not had a deep clean in years costs more, and we say so on the phone, not after. There is a reason the agents working this patch keep our number. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, and over the years the work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions.
It is worth being clear about which job you are buying, because three get muddled.
- 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 and not to a vague idea of clean.
- End of tenancy clean
- Built to pass that inventory and get a deposit back, against the letting-agent benchmark, flat empty, with the 48-hour guarantee on it, at £30 an hour per cleaner on a part job.
- Deep clean
- A deep clean resets a home you are keeping, lived-in, with no formal standard to hit, also from £30 an hour per cleaner.
- Regular domestic clean
- A regular domestic clean is ongoing upkeep, from £22 an hour weekly or £24 fortnightly.
If you are not sure which one fits, ring us. We will talk you through it without pushing the dearer option.
A Brookmill Road job from March
“We moved out of a two-bed conversion on Brookmill Road after three years, the two of us and a cat we probably should have declared. The flat looked fine to us. Then I noticed the extractor over the hob was a solid amber colour and the seal round the shower had gone black at the bottom. Monster sent two cleaners for about six hours. They pulled the cooker out, did the gap behind it, soaked the oven racks, poulticed the bathroom seal, and ran the carpet machine over the cat damage in the lounge. They left a dated report with photos. KFH passed it first time and the full deposit came back the next week.”
Priya and Sam, Brookmill Road SE8 4, March 2026
That job is a fair example of the pattern down by the park. A long-ish let, a cat nobody mentioned, an oven that had quietly cooked itself amber, and an agent who actually checks. The clean cost a fraction of what was at stake. What turned it was not only the scrubbing but the dated photo set that went out with the invoice, which is the thing most DIY check-outs never have when the agent pushes back.
Licensing, booking and the month-end crush
One question we get a lot is whether the flat needs a licence and whether that changes the clean. Lewisham’s selective licensing scheme runs from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2029 across sixteen of the eighteen wards, in three designations. The Deptford Bridge stock sits outside those designated bands, though the Evelyn ward picks up part of the wider riverside. Where it does apply, it is the landlord’s licence, not yours, and it has no bearing on the cleaning standard at check-out. The borough also runs additional licensing for HMOs, so a shared house above a shop or an ex-council flat carved into rooms needs that one. If you are unsure, check the council map against your postcode before you assume either way.
Booking is quick. The steps are simple.
- Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the postcode, the bedroom count and your move-out date. We price it in about three minutes.
- We book you in, ideally the day before check-out with a buffer. Allow more notice for an end-of-month slot.
- Flat empty when we arrive: furniture out, belongings gone, rubbish cleared. We also run removals if you want the move and the clean on one booking, which helps on the tight permit streets off Brookmill Road.
- The team arrives with all kit and chemistry, including the descaler for the chrome and the poultice for the bathroom seal.
- We email a written agent-facing report at sign-off. Anything the clerk flags inside 48 hours, we come back and fix free.
A word on month-end. Like most of inner south-east London, this patch bunches its check-outs hard into the last few days of the month, and the slots go. Ring on the 29th for the 31st and you may be out of luck. For those windows, book early. If you are nearby in the borough, we cover the rest of it too: Deptford High Street, Lewisham Central and New Cross are all on the same teams’ rounds.
Questions we get asked
How much is end of tenancy cleaning around Deptford Bridge?
A studio is £156, a one-bed £207, a two-bed £243, a three-bed £339 and a four-bed £425. Those are the full fixed prices, not deposits or hourly estimates, and they hold for the ex-council flats off Brookmill Road, the two-bay terraces in the conservation area and the creekside new-builds alike. Carpet and oven work is priced on top. If the job is partial, we charge £30 per hour per cleaner instead.
Is Deptford in the Lewisham selective licensing scheme?
No. Lewisham’s selective licensing scheme runs from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2029 across sixteen of the eighteen wards in three designations, and the Evelyn ward covers part of the riverside, but the Deptford Bridge stock sits outside the designated bands. The borough still runs additional licensing for HMOs, so a shared house above a shop or an ex-council flat split into rooms needs that licence. None of this changes the cleaning standard at check-out. Confirm your address against the council’s map before you assume either way.
How long does a clean take near Deptford Bridge?
A one-bed flat off Brookmill Road runs four to five hours with two cleaners. A two-bed conversion on Friendly Street or Albyn Road is more like five to seven, because the basement rooms and the original staircase add surface. A creekside new-build with floor-to-ceiling glass goes quicker on the joinery but slower on the glazing. We book to the property, not the clock.
Do you guarantee I get my deposit back?
We cannot promise the deposit itself, because the inventory covers things we never touch: paint, picture hooks, the landlord’s furniture, fair wear. What we stand behind is the cleaning. If the clerk flags a cleaning fault inside 48 hours, we come back and put it right at no charge. That is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee, and across our jobs the 97% first-time pass rate is the number that matters more.
What does hard water do to the bathrooms here?
Thames Water across SE8 runs at roughly 302 mg per litre of calcium carbonate, which is very hard. On chrome shower heads, screen runners, mixer taps and kettle elements that scale rebuilds within a fortnight if standing water is left to dry. Inventory clerks read a scale tide-line as a poor hand-back, so we acid-soak the fittings with proper dwell time, then polish. A supermarket spray will not shift set calcium.
Do you cover the Brookmill Road conservation area terraces?
Yes, and they are a regular part of our SE8 work. The two-storey two-bay houses on Friendly Street, Albyn Road and Strickland Street date from the 1850s to the 1870s, many split into flats with a basement room and original timber windows. We hand-wipe the old frames rather than spray them, and we treat the basement floor and the staircase as their own jobs. Tell us at booking if the property has a listed note.
Are you insured, and who are you?
We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House 9919639, trading since 2014. Public liability cover sits at £5m and the certificate comes on request. The same teams have worked the SE8 4 patch for years, from the blocks beside Brookmill Park to the new towers going up by the creek.
Do I need to be there on the day?
No. Most clients near the DLR leave a key with the letting agent or in a key safe, and we send a written check-out report by email when we lock up. If you want to walk the property with us at the end, that is fine too, but it is not needed.
Do you bring all the products and kit?
Yes, everything. That includes the descaler we use on Thames Water chrome and the bleach poultice for the silicone seam where black mould blooms behind a shower screen. You do not need to leave a thing behind, and we take the rubbish from the clean with us.
My agent uses a specific inventory clerk. Does that matter?
Tell us the firm when you book and we will brief the team. We know the agents working the Deptford and Greenwich Reach patch and which clerks lean hard on which categories: oven glass, grout, the gap behind the cooker, carpet edges. Knowing the clerk in advance changes where we spend the extra hour.
Can you clean a creekside new-build flat?
Yes. The newer flats around Deptford Creek and the Distillery blocks at Neptune Wharf come with corporate check-out specs that run stricter than a private landlord’s. Send us the operator’s sheet and we clean to it line by line: the floor-to-ceiling glass, the engineered-oak skirtings, the integrated appliances and the balcony glazing where the inventory asks for it.
What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee, exactly?
If the letting agent or inventory clerk flags any cleaning issue within 48 hours of our visit, we send a team back to fix it for free, as long as you tell us inside that window and nobody has moved in yet. We have leaned on it for roughly three jobs in a hundred since 2014. The rest pass first time.
How do you take payment?
Card on the day, bank transfer in advance, or cash if that suits you better. We send an itemised invoice on company-headed paper for your deposit file, which is the document the deposit scheme reads if a deduction goes to dispute.
How much notice do you need to book?
Usually 48 to 72 hours around Deptford Bridge. Month-end is tighter, because half the borough’s tenancies end on the same three days, so book early for the last week of the month. If a team is finishing nearby on the SE8 patch we can sometimes fit a same-day job, so it is worth a phone call either way.
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