End of tenancy cleaning in Ealing Common, same week if you need it

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. I run Monster Cleaning’s W5 rounds, and end of tenancy work here is fixed-price, built to satisfy the person writing the report, with the oven and a 57-point checklist baked in 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

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, and 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. A clerk reads the tiled vestibule against the check-in photo, runs a finger along the grout, looks for soap film and the four-year shadow a vacuum cleaner leaves. They check the dust line on top of a picture rail, the back of a cast-iron radiator, 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. The council ran its selective licensing scheme in other parts of the borough: the first designation from 1 April 2022 over East Acton, Southall Broadway and Southall Green, and a second from 3 January 2023 to 2 January 2028 across twelve named wards including Hanger Hill, Acton Central and the Greenfords. Ealing Common was 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. The borough-wide additional HMO licence, which runs from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2027, covers any house shared by three or four unrelated people, Ealing Common included. And since 14 November 2025 a non-immediate Article 4 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.

What 1 May 2026 changed, and what it left alone

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 came into force on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone, and almost every assured shorthold tenancy in England has rolled over into a periodic tenancy, so 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, and 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.

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.

• Oven, stripped not wiped. Inner door glass split apart 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. Thames Water draws off chalk and limestone, and the supply across W5 runs around 302mg of calcium a litre, which counts as very hard (Thames Water hardness data). That single fact loses more deposits in this area than anything except the oven. Scale sets on tap collars, shower screens, heads and tile joints faster than tenants expect, and a wipe with a cloth does nothing to it.

The clerk knows exactly where to look. They run a thumbnail down the tap, they hold the screen edge-on to the light, they pull the shower head 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 take the head off and soak it, work a low-pH solution along the grout with a soft brush, then 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, red brick with decorated gables, deep porches and original tiled vestibules, with the gothic-style detail repeating in the more modest houses on Creffield and Inglis roads. Most are split into flats now. 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, extended in 2004 to take in Grange Park, Kenilworth Road, part of Warwick Road, Grange Road and Hamilton Court, is the strictest patch for original fabric. The terrace at Warwick Road numbers 69 to 83 keeps its stucco dressings, and the houses on Warwick Dene 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. Smaller floor areas, but the period bathrooms keep original chrome that needs the gentle descaling routine, and 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

Those are full fixed prices, with kit, products and parking included. They assume a flat in normal lived-in shape. A long tenancy with heavy wear, a pet household, or somewhere that has not had a proper clean in years costs more, and we say so on the phone rather than after the fact. By the hour, a non-EOT clean is £30 per cleaner.

Run the maths the way the deposit makes you. Average private rent in Ealing was £2,057 a month in April 2026, and Ealing Common sits above that borough figure, so a five-week deposit here often lands past £2,500. Set a one-bed clean at £207 against that and it is barely a decision. Every booking carries the 48-hour re-clean guarantee: flag a cleanliness issue inside two days and we come back and redo it free, as long as nobody has moved in. Our first-time pass rate across W5 jobs sits near 97%, but the guarantee is the real 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.

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 £30 per cleaner an hour.

Regular clean

Ongoing weekly or fortnightly upkeep with the same cleaner kept on, from £22 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.

A Warwick Road conversion from March

“We had the top two floors of a converted Edwardian house just off Warwick Road for three years, two of us both working from home, so the place had taken a hammering. The original tiled hall and the cast-iron radiators were what the Winkworth clerk warned us about. Monster sent two cleaners for most of a day, took the radiators back to the metal behind the pipes, and got the hall tile looking like the check-in photo. The shower screen had a scale bloom I had given up on and they cleared it. Full deposit back, no deductions, and the clerk signed it off on the first visit.”
Priya, Ealing Common W5 3, March 2026

A fair example of the W5 3 pattern: a converted flat keeping its period fabric, a clerk briefed to check it by hand, and a tenancy long enough to leave shadows on the tile and the radiators. The clean cost a fraction of what the deposit was worth. What sealed it was the dated photo set that went out with the invoice as much as the scrubbing, which is the part most do-it-yourself check-outs never have when an agent pushes back.

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.

1. Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected]. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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. Tell us the arrangement when you book, whether that is a visitor permit or a meter, and 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. The neighbours are Ealing Broadway W5 2 for the central conversion and build-to-rent stock, and Chiswick Park W4 5 for the garden-suburb houses just south. Or jump back to the Ealing end of tenancy hub for the whole borough.

Questions we get asked

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 and one-off non-EOT cleans run at £30 per cleaner per hour.

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 two days 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. We build the parking into the quote rather than adding it after. 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 end of tenancy clean includes the oven inside and out as standard. A separate carpet shampoo is an add-on: £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 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 £114 against £77 for a single and £110 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 £5m public liability cover, Companies House number 9919639, 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.

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