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Have you ever watched an inventory clerk drop to one knee in a W5 hallway with a torch, hunting the grout lines of the original tiled porch? That is where an Ealing Common check-out is usually won or lost, because the houses round the Common keep the period detail a clerk is told to mark item by item.
End of tenancy work in W5 is fixed-price, built to satisfy the person writing the report, with a 57-point checklist, the oven as a £31 add-on and a 48-hour re-clean guarantee on every job. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price in about three minutes.
Last updated June 2026. We cover W5 3 across Ealing Common, from The Common itself, North Common Road, Creffield Road, Inglis Road and Warwick Road to Warwick Dene and Elm Avenue, plus the mansion-block fringe running into W5 1 toward Hanger Hill. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Ealing.
The period-detail test a clerk runs on a W5 3 hallway
End of tenancy cleaning
from £156
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
In most areas a clerk starts at the oven or the washing-machine seal. Ealing Common is different, and it is the detail nobody warns tenants about: the houses ringing the Common kept their original fabric.
encaustic and geometric floor tile in the porches and halls
leaded fanlights
picture rails
ceiling roses
cast-iron radiators
Half of these big late-Victorian and Edwardian houses were carved into flats decades ago, so one front door often hides three or four units and a shared tiled hall. Every one of those original features is written into the inventory as an item in its own right rather than as background.
That changes what a clean has to be. At check-out the clerk:
reads the tiled vestibule against the check-in photo and runs a finger along the grout
looks for soap film and the four-year shadow a vacuum cleaner leaves
checks the dust line on top of a picture rail, the back of a cast-iron radiator and the underside of a ceiling rose
None of that comes off with a mop and a hopeful Sunday afternoon. It comes off with the slow, dull work, and it has to come off without stripping the paint on a radiator or bleaching the colour out of a hundred-year-old tile.
This is why the standard here is genuinely high. The deposit on a W5 3 let is large, the agent is on the hook for protecting it, and the inspection is built to find faults rather than wave you through. Turn up with evidence, not optimism.
The clean has to lift the dirt without bleaching the colour out of a hundred-year-old tile.
The licensing myth that costs Ealing Common landlords planning fees
People hear “Ealing licensing” and assume it lands on them. For a standard let in Ealing Common, it does not, because the council ran its selective licensing scheme in other parts of the borough.
First designation
From 1 April 2022, over East Acton, Southall Broadway and Southall Green.
Second designation
From 3 January 2023 to 2 January 2028, across twelve named wards including Hanger Hill, Acton Central and the Greenfords.
Ealing Common
Deliberately left out, on the basis of fewer poor-housing complaints.
So no council licence audit sets your cleaning bar here. Your tenancy contract and the inventory clerk do, and in practice the agents along Uxbridge Road are a touch stricter on cleaning for it, because there is no licence threshold to argue against.
Two rules do reach W5 3, though, and they catch landlords out.
Additional HMO licence
Borough-wide, running from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2027. It covers any house shared by three or four unrelated people, Ealing Common included.
Article 4 direction
Since 14 November 2025 a non-immediate direction has removed the automatic right to convert a family house into a small shared house across most of the borough (Ealing Council Article 4 directions). A landlord now needs planning permission first.
Neither rule changes the cleaning standard at the end of a tenancy, but a licensed HMO tends to get checked harder, so the hand-back clean has to be the real thing.
Almost every assured shorthold tenancy in England has rolled over into a periodic tenancy.
Notice
A tenant can give two months’ notice at any point instead of waiting for a fixed term to end.
Here is the part that gets misread. The cleaning side of a move-out did not change at all:
the benchmark is still the check-in report
the deposit maths is still what it was
a landlord still cannot force you to use a particular cleaner
What shifted is timing. W5 was already a high-churn patch, full of one-year professional lets and converted flats that change hands often. Let people leave on a rolling notice rather than a fixed date and the move-outs get more frequent and less predictable, so the end-of-month pile-up gets worse, not better.
The dull, money-saving takeaway: book the clean earlier than you used to, because the slot you want will be gone if you leave it late.
The cleaning side of a move-out did not change at all.
A job our cleaners finished in Ealing.
The 57 things we go through before we hand the keys back
Every W5 booking runs to the same 57-point agent-approved checklist, built over a decade of local check-outs and tuned to what these clerks actually flag. Nothing on it is optional and nothing is a surprise line on the invoice. The full list comes with the job. Here is the shape of it, by room.
From one of our jobs in Ealing.
Oven, cleaned not wiped. Inner door glass split apart where the model allows so the brown film between the panels comes out, plus the seals, shelves, side rails, roof and base. On the bigger kitchens with a 90cm range cooker we price that as a range, because it is genuinely more work.
The rest of the kitchen. Hob burners and crowns off and washed, extractor hood degreased and the filter done, every cupboard inside, outside and along the dust line on top, the integrated washing-machine gasket and detergent drawer, the dishwasher filter, the sink and taps descaled, the floor done last.
Bathrooms, against the hard water. Grout brushed to the silicone line, chrome descaled with a low-pH solution and a soft brush, shower head taken off and soaked, screen done both sides, the toilet inside and behind the pan where the torch goes.
Original tiled halls and vestibules. Neutral wash, soft brush along the grout, no bleach and no strong acid, so the encaustic pattern stays sharp instead of bleaching out.
Skirtings, frames and mouldings. Hand-wiped full length including behind the bed and wardrobe, which the clerk pulls out, plus door tops, architraves, switch and socket plates.
Period detail, by hand. Picture-rail dust lines, the underside of ceiling roses and cornices, cast-iron radiators top, sides, ribs and behind, all done with a soft cloth and a thin brush rather than anything that strips paint.
Windows and floors. Inside glass both sides where the opening allows, sills, frames and runners; original boards dry-vacuumed then damp-mopped with the right product, never flooded; carpets vacuumed into the corners.
Throughout. Staircase and banister, light fittings and pendants dusted, every cupboard interior, cobwebs off the ceiling corners, then dated before-and-after photos of every room. We carry all the kit in.
Common reasons we get re-called
On the rare W5 3 job a clerk sends back, it is almost never a whole room. It is one detail the period stock throws up, and they are predictable enough that we now check them twice before we leave.
Picture-rail dust in a rear bedroom. Easy to miss because it sits above eye line; the clerk runs a finger along the top edge.
The back of a cast-iron radiator. A four-year tenancy leaves a real build-up where the pipe enters the wall, and it has to be reached, not skimmed.
Grout shadow in the tiled hall. A long shared hallway shows footfall, and the grout reads as grey against the check-in photo unless it is brushed.
Tap collars and the shower-head face. Scale comes back fast on Thames water, so a head cleaned a week before check-out can already show a bloom.
Ceiling-rose plasterwork. Clerks check the rose plasterwork itself for dust, the bulb included, on the higher-ceilinged front rooms.
What Thames Water leaves on a W5 bathroom
Ealing sits in London’s hard-water belt, and that single fact loses more deposits in this area than anything except the oven.
Source
Thames Water draws off chalk and limestone.
Hardness
The supply across W5 runs around 302mg of calcium a litre, which counts as very hard (Thames Water hardness data).
Where it sets
Tap collars, shower screens, heads and tile joints, faster than tenants expect. A wipe with a cloth does nothing to it.
The clerk knows exactly where to look:
a thumbnail run down the tap
the screen held edge-on to the light
the shower head pulled in close
Set-in scale is slow to shift, and on the mansion-block bathrooms round here the fittings are often original chrome, which rules out the brute-force descalers a new flat would shrug off. So we work it in order:
Take the shower head off and soak it.
Work a low-pH solution along the grout with a soft brush.
Rinse and dry.
The limescale on a tile joint and the limescale on a tap collar are two different jobs, and we do them as two jobs.
Grout is the other quiet decider. Where it is honestly past saving in a long let, we photograph it before we start, so a clerk cannot bill you for wear that was already grey at check-in. That dated photo has settled more disputes than any argument has.
Ealing Common street by street: the stock is not one thing
People picture one kind of house around the Common. There are at least four, and each hides a different failure mode at hand-back, which is why one cleaning method does not pass all of W5 3.
The grand houses: North Common Road, Creffield Road, Inglis Road
The spine east of the Common is large late-Victorian and Edwardian detached and semi-detached houses, most of them split into flats now. The gothic-style detail repeats in the more modest houses on Creffield and Inglis roads. Expect:
red brick with decorated gables
deep porches
original tiled vestibules
Long tenancies plus shared halls mean build-up in the places nobody touched between tenants:
the grout of the porch tile
the back of a radiator
the dust on a picture rail
We win these on the slow work, not on anything clever.
The conservation streets: Warwick Road, Warwick Dene, Grange Park
The 1982 conservation area is the strictest patch for original fabric. It was extended in 2004 to take in:
Grange Park
Kenilworth Road
part of Warwick Road
Grange Road
Hamilton Court
Warwick Road, numbers 69 to 83
The terrace keeps its stucco dressings.
Warwick Dene
The houses were planned and leased by the Rothschild estate in 1904.
Where the inventory names a cornice or a tiled hall by hand, the clean has to match it by hand, and nothing aggressive goes near original plaster.
The flats: mansion blocks and 1930s infill
Towards Elm Avenue and the eastern edge running into W5 1 toward Hanger Hill, the stock turns to red-brick mansion blocks, inter-war and 1930s apartments, and some modern infill. The floor areas are smaller, but:
the period bathrooms keep original chrome that needs the gentle descaling routine
the integrated kitchen appliances in the newer flats each have their own quirks we already know
Not sure which W5 postcode you are in, or whether your road counts as Ealing Common or Ealing Broadway? Ring 0333 555 2076 with the postcode and we will tell you in about ten seconds.
What it costs, and the deposit maths behind it
These are full fixed prices, with kit and products included; parking is added at cost only where needed.
Property
Typical duration
Estimated cost
Studio flat
3-4 hours, 1 cleaner
£156
One-bed flat or conversion
4-5 hours, 2 cleaners
£207
Two-bed flat or conversion (Warwick Road, North Common Road)
5-7 hours, 2 cleaners
£243
Three-bed flat or house
6-8 hours, 2 cleaners
£339
Four-bed house
8-10 hours, 2-3 cleaners
£425
Five or six-bed converted semi
Full day, 3-4 cleaners
From £425, quoted on a look
Carpet shampoo add-on
Same visit
£29 a bedroom, £36 a living room
Oven-only (single / double / 90cm range)
1.5-2 hours
£77 / £110 / £143
The figures assume a flat in normal lived-in shape. These cost more, and we say so on the phone rather than after the fact:
a long tenancy with heavy wear
a pet household
somewhere that has not had a proper clean in years
By the hour, a one-off clean outside a move is £26 per cleaner, with two cleaners for at least three hours plus £30 for kit, so from £186.
Run the maths the way the deposit makes you:
Rent
Average private rent in Ealing was £2,057 a month in April 2026, and Ealing Common sits above that borough figure.
Deposit
A five-week deposit here often lands past £2,500.
The clean
A one-bed at £207. Set against that, it is barely a decision.
Every booking carries the 48-hour re-clean guarantee: flag a cleanliness issue within 48 hours and we come back and redo it free, as long as nobody has moved in.
Across W5 jobs the guarantee is the point, because a failed check-out on a deposit this size is not a small thing to shrug off. There is a reason the 300+ letting agents on our books keep sending us work.
Our cleaners' work in Ealing.
57-pointagent-approved checklist4.7our rating on Google300+letting agents on our books£1.2mdeposits recovered for tenants
Three jobs get muddled, and it is worth booking the right one.
End of tenancy clean
Built to pass the inventory and get the deposit back, measured against the check-in report, flat empty, with the 48-hour guarantee on it. Fixed price from £156.
Deep clean
A reset for a home you are keeping, lived in, with no formal standard to hit, charged at £26 per cleaner per hour for two cleaners and at least three hours, plus £30 for kit, so from £186.
Regular clean
Ongoing weekly or fortnightly upkeep with the same cleaner kept on, from £23 an hour weekly or £24 fortnightly.
Domestic one-off
A standalone team clean, not a hand-back service, at £26 per cleaner an hour with a £186 minimum, which is two cleaners for three hours plus the £30 kit charge.
Booking it without the month-end scramble
The steps are simple. The only real trap is leaving it too late for an end-of-month slot.
Ring 0333 555 2076 or email office@monstercleaning.com. Tell us the postcode, the property type, the hand-back date and which agent. Price by return, usually inside a couple of hours on a working day.
We book you in. Allow about a week for an end-of-month date, two or three days mid-month. A five or six-bed converted house we quote on a quick look first.
Flat empty when we arrive. Furniture out, rubbish gone. We also do removals if you want the move and the clean on one booking, which helps on the tighter W5 permit streets where several van trips become a headache.
Photo proof at the end. Every room, before and after, with an itemised invoice on company paper. That is your evidence pack if the check-out tries to deduct.
Re-clean if needed. Anything flagged inside 48 hours, we come back and fix it, no quibble.
One honest note on parking. W5 3 is permit-controlled almost throughout, the bays are tight on the terraced roads, and the meters on the Uxbridge Road side fill early. When you book, tell us:
Parking
The arrangement, whether that is a visitor permit or a meter.
Access
How we get in: a key safe, the agent, or you on the day.
Ealing Common station puts the District and Piccadilly lines on the doorstep, oddly sharing the same pair of tracks, so we can send a cleaner in by tube when a job clashes with the parking.
If your next flat is one stop over, we cover the area around you too:
How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost in Ealing Common?
A studio is £156, a one-bed flat £207, a two-bed £243, a three-bed £339 and a four-bed house £425. Those are fixed prices, not hourly estimates. A converted five or six-bed semi on Twyford Avenue or North Common Road we quote on a quick look, because the floor area and the original tiling decide the time. Part jobs run at £30 per cleaner per hour; a one-off clean outside a move is £26 per cleaner per hour for two cleaners and at least three hours, plus £30 for kit, so from £186.
Is Ealing Common covered by Ealing Council’s selective licensing scheme?
No. Ealing Common is one of the wards the council left out of both selective licensing designations: the first ran from 1 April 2022 (East Acton, Southall Broadway, Southall Green) and the second from 3 January 2023 to 2 January 2028 across twelve named wards. Selective licensing covers single-household lets in those areas only. It does not reach W5 3.
So do any licensing rules apply to rented homes here at all?
Yes, two that catch people out. The borough-wide additional HMO licence (running 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2027) covers a house shared by three or four unrelated people anywhere in Ealing, Ealing Common included. And since 14 November 2025 an Article 4 direction has removed the automatic right to turn a family house into a small HMO across most of the borough, so a landlord now needs planning permission first. Neither rule changes the cleaning standard at hand-back, but a licensed HMO often gets inspected harder, so the clean has to hold up.
What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?
If your inventory clerk flags anything off our 57-point checklist within 48 hours of our visit, we come back and re-do that item at no charge. We do not argue the call, we just sort it. The catch is small: tell us inside the window and leave the place as we left it, with nobody moved in yet.
Do you clean the original tiled hallways and vestibules?
Yes, and on W5 3 stock it is the surface a clerk checks first. The encaustic and geometric tile in the porches and halls off North Common Road and Inglis Road gets a neutral wash and a soft brush along the grout lines, never bleach and never a strong acid. It lifts the dirt without bleaching the colour out of the tile, which is the part a rushed mop ruins.
Can you deal with the hard-water marks on the bathroom fittings?
That is most of the bathroom job in W5. Thames Water runs around 302mg a litre here off the chalk, so scale builds on tap collars, screens and shower heads within a few weeks. We take the head off, soak it, work a low-pH descaler along the grout, then rinse and dry. On the older mansion-block bathrooms with original chrome we go gently and keep the plating intact.
We are in a converted flat in one of the big houses. Is that a different price?
Usually it sits in the flat tiers above: most one and two-bed conversions are the £207 or £243 jobs. What pushes the time up is the period detail, not the floor area, so a conversion keeping its picture rails, ceiling rose and a tiled communal hall takes longer than a plain modern flat of the same size. Tell us the road and the layout on the phone and we will price it straight.
Which letting agents around Ealing do you work with?
We have handed flats back through Hamptons, Winkworth, Foxtons, Dexters, Sinton Andrews and Northfields across W5, plus the usual independents along Uxbridge Road and around Ealing Broadway. If you want, we will liaise with the inventory clerk on the day so the report gets signed off while we are still on site.
How much notice do you need, and which day is best?
Mid-month we can often turn a job around in two or three days. The end of the month is the squeeze, because most W5 check-outs land on the last few days, so give us a week if you can. Friday is the busiest hand-back day around here. If your agent gives you any choice, a Tuesday or Wednesday slot is easier to get and less rushed.
Do I have to be there while you clean?
No. Plenty of W5 jobs run with the keys picked up from the agent in the morning and dropped back that evening. If you can spare five minutes at the end we will walk the place with you against the checklist; if you cannot, we send dated photos of every room by email so you have the evidence pack.
How does parking work on streets like The Common and Warwick Road?
Most of W5 3 sits inside Ealing’s controlled parking zone, with permit bays on the residential roads and meters on the Uxbridge Road side of the Common. Where parking is needed, it is added to the quote at what it costs, not after the job. On the tighter terraced stretches we will sometimes send a cleaner in on the District or Piccadilly line from Ealing Common station instead of fighting for a bay.
Does the carpet or the oven cost extra, or is it in the price?
The oven, inside and out, is an add-on to the end of tenancy clean, from £31. A separate carpet shampoo is an add-on: £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, or £94 for the carpeted area of a whole two-bed. If you have a wide range cooker, common in the bigger kitchens here, a 90cm range is £62 against £31 for a single and £62 for a double.
What happens if the landlord still disputes a charge after the re-clean?
Take it to your deposit scheme’s free adjudication. Our invoice, the dated before-and-after photos and the re-clean record all count as evidence, and a tenant with a full professional-clean paper trail rarely loses. The three schemes are the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, mydeposits and the Deposit Protection Service, and Shelter’s guidance walks you through the steps.
Are you insured, and how long have you been going?
Yes. Monster Cleaning Ltd has public liability cover, and we have run W5 rounds since 2014. We will send the certificate by email on request, and we have recovered roughly £1.2m in deposits for tenants over the years across the wider London map.
