The first thing a clerk does on a Maze Hill hand-back is crouch at the cast-iron radiator and run a torch along the floor channel underneath, because that band of dust is the one a household vacuum never reaches and the one a check-in photo never shows. End of tenancy cleaning in East Greenwich has to be built for that person, the one holding the report, not for a tidy-looking flat. We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, a London crew working SE10 since 2014, checklist-led, £30 per hour per cleaner, with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee measured against the check-out report itself. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price in a few minutes.
Last updated June 2026. We cover the East Greenwich postcodes across SE10, the SE10 9 streets off Trafalgar Road and Vanbrugh Hill, the Maze Hill stretch around SE10 9XG and SE10 8, and the Westcombe Park fringe into SE3 7. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Greenwich.
How the check-in report quietly decides the deposit
Start with the mechanism, because almost nobody does. When you moved in, a clerk walked the flat and wrote it down surface by surface, usually with photos, usually with the kitchen and bathroom marked “clean” or “as new”. Those words were true that day, because the place had just had a professional clean. At check-out a different clerk walks it again and compares each line. Anything materially worse than the check-in entry, past fair wear and tear, is chargeable. You are being marked against a professional standard, which is why a free Sunday with a mop rarely gets you over the line.
The money is not abstract. On the East Greenwich DIY check-outs we get called in to rescue, the deductions land in a pattern: the oven, the grout, scale on the bathroom fittings, the gaps behind the appliances, carpets, marks on the skirting. Put a few of those against a deposit on a Vanbrugh Park family let and the figure adds up fast. Most tenants only run that sum after they have failed the check-out and lost the first round. It is nearly always that way round, which is a pity, because the first round is the cheap one to win.
Why is the clerk so thorough? The deposit is real money the agent has to account for, so the inspection is genuinely adversarial and the clerk is paid to find faults. The duty to return a protected deposit inside the statutory window sits in the Housing Act 2004, and the landlord still has to evidence any deduction. Turn up with the evidence yourself and the conversation is short.
What the 2025 rules did to SE10 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 turned periodic, so a tenant can give two months’ notice at any point rather than waiting for a fixed term to run down.
Here is the part people read wrong. The cleaning side of a move-out did not change one bit. The check-in benchmark still applies, a landlord still cannot make a professional clean a contractual condition, and the deposit maths is exactly what it was the week before. What changed is timing.
East Greenwich was already a high-churn pocket, full of one-year professional lets and family lets that turn over in the school holidays. Let people leave on a rolling two months instead of a fixed date and the move-outs get more frequent and less predictable, so the month-end pile-up that already clogs SE10 is not about to ease. The dull takeaway pays for itself: book earlier than you used to, because the slot you want will be gone if you leave it to the last week.
The cleaning side of a move-out did not change one bit. What changed is timing.
The licence question East Greenwich landlords keep getting wrong
This one trips people up. Royal Greenwich runs two separate schemes and East Greenwich falls under one, not the other.
The borough-wide additional HMO licence applies everywhere in the borough, East Greenwich and the Peninsula included. It runs from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2028, and it bites the moment a property is let to three or more people from more than one household who share a kitchen or bathroom. A single household or a couple does not need it. A converted flat shared by three working tenants very probably does. The detail is on the Royal Borough of Greenwich licensing pages.
The selective licence, which covers ordinary single-family lets, is the one that does not reach here. It sits over Woolwich and Plumstead only, the Plumstead and Glyndon, Plumstead Common, Shooters Hill, Woolwich Common and Woolwich Riverside wards, and runs to 30 September 2027. So a standard family let on Vanbrugh Park needs no selective licence, while a three-share conversion off Trafalgar Road needs the additional HMO one. None of this changes the clean, but it changes who holds paperwork before the tenancy starts, and a landlord who has skipped it tends to be twice as fussy about the deposit on the way out.
The 57 things, room by room on a period flat
Every East Greenwich booking runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist, built over a decade of local check-outs and tuned to what the clerks on this stretch actually flag. The full list comes with the job. Here is the shape of it.
The kitchen, where most of the deposit goes
The oven is stripped, not wiped. Racks go into a soak, the door glass comes apart so the brown film between the panes lifts out, and the cavity, fan, element and seals all get done. After that the rest of the room: hob and burners off and washed, the extractor degreased with the filter soaked or swapped, every cupboard inside and out, the fridge and freezer through once you have defrosted them. Appliances pulled forward so the gaps behind and under the cooker, washing machine and fridge are cleaned, then put back. And the washing machine drum, drawer and door seal, which is the first thing a clerk opens. If the oven is the only thing flagged, standalone oven cleaning covers it on its own.
Bathrooms, the other place it goes wrong
Scale comes off the taps, shower head, screen and tile joints first, gentler on the original chrome you find in the older Maze Hill conversions. Grout gets scrubbed back as far as honest effort takes it, and photographed first where it is plainly past saving so nobody bills you for wear that was already there at check-in.
- WC done inside the rim, base, cistern, hinges and the floor behind the pan where only the clerk looks
- Shower screen both sides, the track and the sealant bead
- Bath, taps, the underside of the taps, overflow and plughole
- Mirror, cabinet and the wall behind it where it pulls away
- Extractor vent wiped, the sealant cleaned to a usable state (re-sealing is a handyman job, not a cleaning one)
- Floor into the corners and under the basin pedestal
Living rooms, bedrooms and the period detail
This is where an East Greenwich flat earns its time. The front bay has deep reveals behind the shutters, a jamb a foot deep that holds a year of grit and paint flakes, and the clerk opens both sides on inspection, so we work it on the way in before anything else. Cast-iron radiators get the floor channel hoovered dry with a slim crevice tool, then a microfibre behind the section, never a wet cloth on old painted iron. Picture rails, ceiling roses and cornice tops carry dust at height and all get checked, along with wardrobe interiors, drawer bases, skirting, door tops and the threshold strips between rooms. Where the windows are the original timber sash, the lower runner picks up old paint flakes and we brush it before the glass. Two jobs often need their own pass: hot-water extraction on carpets, the carpet cleaning add-on, and original block or tile floors in the hall, which the floor cleaning service handles with the right product rather than a soaked mop.
Then the dull throughout work that wins these check-outs: switches, sockets, the entryphone, internal doors both sides, the staircase treads and the newel-post top, cobwebs out of the ceiling corners. A final walk-through, every room photographed before and after. That photo set is the evidence you keep.
Chalk in the water, and what it does to a Greenwich bathroom
South of the river the supply is hard, around 293 ppm of calcium carbonate through Thames Water, and that one fact loses more deposits here than anything except the oven. Scale builds on taps, shower heads, screens and tile joints faster than tenants expect, and a wipe with a cloth does nothing to it. The clerk knows to look: a thumbnail down the tap, the screen edge-on against the light, the shower head pulled in close.
Set scale is not a quick job, and in the older conversions around Maze Hill the fittings are often original chrome or brass, which rules out the brute-force descalers a Peninsula new-build would shrug off. We use a mild scale solution, keep it clear of any block-floor edge or porous tile, and hand-buff dry the same day so nothing flash-marks. Grout is the other line between a pass and a deduction, more often than carpets are. We scrub it rather than wipe it, and where it is genuinely grey from a long tenancy we photograph the state first. That dated photo has settled more disputes than any argument has.
That dated photo has settled more disputes than any argument has.
East Greenwich street by street, park gate to Peninsula
East Greenwich is the residential band between Greenwich town and the river, and the stock changes as you cross it. Run a line east from the Old Royal Naval College up Maze Hill, along the park’s eastern wall, then north down Vanbrugh Hill toward Trafalgar Road and on to the Peninsula. One method does not pass all of it.
The park edge: Maze Hill, Vanbrugh Park and Park Vista
Sir John Vanbrugh built his castle up here in the 1720s and his name still sits on the streets. The lettable stock is large bay-fronted Victorian semis on Vanbrugh Park and Vanbrugh Hill, period terraces along Park Vista against the park wall, and Edwardian houses on the slope toward the station. The John Roan School marks the southern end of Maze Hill. Most of this is family-let and long-tenanted, so the wins are on the slow detail: the radiator channels, the bay reveals, the original hall floor. Nearby on the listed Georgian flank of the park, Crooms Hill is its own animal again.
The Westcombe Park fringe into SE3 7
East of Vanbrugh Hill the streets tip into the Westcombe Park conservation area, designated in 2002, where the houses run to Edwardian semis built around 1900 to 1912 on roads like Halstow Road and Vanbrugh Hill’s eastern side, a couple of minutes from Westcombe Park station. The inventory on a house like that names the cornicing and the original fireplaces individually, so the clean has to match them individually and nothing aggressive goes near original paint. The grander end of this runs into Blackheath.
The Trafalgar Road belt and the Peninsula blocks
North of the park the postcodes turn busier: ex-council blocks and older terraces in the side streets off Trafalgar Road, then the newer build-to-rent towers on the Greenwich Peninsula, Upper Riverside and the blocks along the river. The Peninsula flats come with corporate inventory checklists stricter than most private landlords bother with, floor-to-ceiling glass, engineered floors and integrated appliances. Send us the operator spec sheet and we clean to it line by line. East again sits Charlton, where the band tips over the boundary.
Greenwich boundaries get blurry, part of the Westcombe fringe reading as SE3 rather than SE10. Not sure which side your flat sits? 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
East Greenwich runs at our standard London pricing. No premium loaded on for the postcode, just a fixed price against the property size, with kit, products and travel inside SE10 in the figure.
| Property | Typical duration | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|
| Studio (Peninsula block, Trafalgar Road conversion) | 3-4 hours, 1 cleaner | From £156 |
| 1-bed flat or conversion | 4-5 hours, 2 cleaners | From £207 |
| 2-bed flat or terrace | 5-7 hours, 2 cleaners | From £243 |
| 3-bed terrace or semi (Maze Hill, Westcombe fringe) | 6-8 hours, 2 cleaners | From £339 |
| 4-bed semi or house (Vanbrugh Park) | 8-10 hours, 2-3 cleaners | From £425 |
| Carpet shampoo add-on | Same visit | From £36 a room |
| Oven-only spec | 1.5-2 hours | From £77 |
Those figures assume a flat in normal lived-in shape. A long tenancy with heavy wear, a pet household or a place not deep-cleaned in three or four years takes longer, and we say so on the phone rather than after. Per-room rates line by line: carpet shampoo £36 a bedroom, £43 for the main reception, £115 for the whole carpeted area of a two-bed. Ovens £77 single, £110 double, £114 for a 90cm range. Part jobs go on the hourly rate, £30 per cleaner, two-cleaner minimum.
Run the sum the way the deposit makes you. A two-bed at £243 to protect a deposit several times that is not really a decision, it is arithmetic. Every East Greenwich booking carries the 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if the agent flags any cleanliness point inside 48 hours, we come back and redo it free, as long as you tell us in the window and nobody has moved in. Our first-time pass rate sits near 97%, but the guarantee is the point. There is a reason the agents on this patch know us, and that we are on the books of 300+ letting agents. Over the years that work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions.
A Vanbrugh Park job from March
“We handed back a three-bed terrace on Vanbrugh Hill after seven years and two kids, and I was dreading the radiators. Cast-iron, ten of them, with years of dust packed into the channel underneath that I could never reach. The two cleaners hoovered each one out dry with a thin tool, wiped behind the sections, then did the parquet hall with a barely damp pad, no slopping water about. Felicity J Lord signed it off with no re-clean note and the deposit came back inside the week. The photo pack they left me is what did it.”
Priya, ex-tenant, Vanbrugh Hill SE10, March 2026
That is a fair example of the SE10 pattern: a long family tenancy, period detail the household kit cannot reach, an agent who checks properly. What turned it was the dated photo set that went out with the invoice, the part most DIY check-outs never have when the agent pushes back.
Four jobs get muddled here, so book the right one.
- Check-in inventory report
- The document the clerk writes on day one, surface by 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 the deposit back, flat empty, with the 48-hour guarantee on it.
- Deep clean
- A deep clean resets a home you are keeping, lived-in, with no inventory to hit.
- Regular domestic clean
- A domestic clean is ongoing upkeep on the same home, from £22 an hour weekly.
Booking it, and the month-end crush
The steps are simple.
- Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the street, the bedroom count, whether the hall floor is parquet, and the move-out date. Price back in a few minutes.
- We book you in, ideally the day before check-out with a buffer. Allow two to three days for an end-of-month slot, less mid-month.
- Flat empty when we arrive, furniture out and rubbish cleared. We also do removals if you want the move and the clean on one booking, which genuinely helps on the narrow permit streets off Trafalgar Road.
- Photo proof at the end, every room before and after, with an itemised invoice on headed paper. That is your evidence pack.
- Check-out happens. Anything flagged inside 48 hours, we come back and fix it free.
One honest note on parking. The streets around Maze Hill station fall inside the Royal Greenwich controlled zone in the day, the bays are tight, and the hours are long. Tell us the arrangement when you book, a resident bay on a permit code, a meter or a loading window, and how we get in: key safe, concierge on the Peninsula, or an agent drop-off.
Questions we get asked
How much is end of tenancy cleaning in East Greenwich?
A studio is £156, a one-bed £207, a two-bed £243, a three-bed £339 and a four-bed £425. Those are full fixed prices, kit and travel inside SE10 included. Part jobs run at £30 per cleaner per hour. Ring 0333 555 2076 for an exact figure.
Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change my move-out clean?
No. The Act went live on 1 May 2026, scrapped Section 21 and turned every assured shorthold tenancy periodic. The cleaning side did not move at all, and the deposit maths is unchanged. The one real effect in SE10 is more frequent move-outs, so book earlier.
Do I need a licence to rent out my East Greenwich flat?
If you let to three or more sharers from more than one household, yes. Royal Greenwich runs a borough-wide additional HMO licence from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2028, and East Greenwich is inside it. A single household or a couple is exempt. The selective scheme is Woolwich and Plumstead only.
Why do Maze Hill and Vanbrugh Park houses take longer to clean?
The detail. Bay reveals behind the shutters, cast-iron radiators with a dust channel underneath, original block floors, picture rails and ceiling roses. None of it is hard, but a clerk checks all of it and a rushed mop misses most. We price the time the stock needs, not a flat sprint.
Do you clean the original parquet and wood block hall floors?
Yes, carefully. We lift loose grit with a dry pad first, then a barely damp microfibre with a wood-safe finish. No soaked mop head, nothing acidic near the block edges. A wet mop on old parquet lifts a pale patch the check-in photo will not have, and that is a deduction.
How do you deal with hard-water marks in SE10 bathrooms?
South of the river the supply runs hard, around 293 ppm of chalk through Thames Water, so scale sets fast on taps, screens and shower heads. We take it off with a mild scale solution and buff dry the same day. On older chrome and brass we work gentler, since a harsh descaler pits it.
What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?
If your clerk or agent flags any cleanliness point within 48 hours, we come back and put it right at no charge, as long as you tell us inside the window and the flat is still as we left it. It rides on every East Greenwich booking, not as a paid extra.
Do you work with Foxtons and Felicity J Lord in Greenwich?
Several times a month. Foxtons runs a large SE10 book from Creek Road and Felicity J Lord sits at 3 Greenwich South Street. Most of our work here is booked by the tenant with the agent copied on the photo pack. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents.
What is your first-time pass rate?
97% across the company. The crew on the East Greenwich rota knows the Vanbrugh Park semi spec and the Maze Hill conversion-flat spec, so the local rate holds at or above that. The few that need a second visit get one free under the re-clean guarantee.
How much have your tenants got back in deposits?
£1.2m recovered for tenants since 2014. The lever is evidence, not argument. We photograph every room before and after and hand the set back with the invoice, so a landlord query goes straight to the Tenancy Deposit Scheme with proof.
How does parking work near Maze Hill station?
Maze Hill station sits at SE10 9XG, zone 3, two minutes from the north-east corner of Greenwich Park. The side streets around it fall inside the Royal Greenwich controlled zone in the day. We use a resident bay on a permit code the client supplies, or load off Trafalgar Road.
Can I book at short notice for a month-end move-out?
Often, especially Tuesday to Thursday. End of month and Friday slots go first, so two or three days ahead is sensible. Since the 2025 rules made tenancies roll month to month, SE10 move-outs bunch harder, so book the last week of the month early.
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