End of tenancy cleaning in East Putney, same week if you need it

East Putney station opened on 3 June 1889, on the Wimbledon branch of the District line between Putney Bridge and Southfields, and the streets that grew up around its Upper Richmond Road entrance set the pattern for what we clean here. “Two years on a Charlwood Road upper floor, both of us out early and back late, and the stair carpet had gone flat to the underlay along the edge.” That is roughly how Hannah opened her booking call last month. East Putney lets going back through Marsh & Parsons, Foxtons or Douglas & Gordon almost always carry one or two specifics the clerk reaches for first, and the split-house flats between the station and Putney Hill throw up a fairly predictable list. Phone 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected]. A 2-bed conversion is £243, fully agent-approved.

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Three streets, three different check-out failures

Walk a quarter mile out from the station and the housing changes under your feet, and the inventory clerks read each band differently. The grid south of Upper Richmond Road, Charlwood Road, Mexfield Road, Werter Road, Disraeli Road, is late-Victorian terraced housing split into upper and lower flats decades ago. Those walk-up flats are the volume let here. Climb Putney Hill toward the Heath and you reach the 1930s mansion blocks, Manor Fields being the big one, twelve acres of communal grounds and lateral flats with parquet hallways. Drop the other way, down to Lower Richmond Road and Deodar Road by Wandsworth Park, and you get post-war and 1980s blocks with balconies onto the towpath. One ward, three kinds of flat, three different reasons a deposit gets clipped.

Average private rent in Wandsworth was £2,603 a month in February 2026, and East Putney sits at the dearer end of the borough. A 2-bed upper-floor flat off Charlwood or Mexfield typically lets at £2,400 to £2,800 a month. The riverside blocks and the Putney Hill mansion flats run higher again. A bigger deposit means a bigger argument when the clerk finds something, which is the whole reason the cleaning has to be right.

The three bands fail their check-out for different reasons, and after twelve years on these streets we can more or less call it from the address. The conversion flats lose money on the kitchen first, an extractor canopy nobody pulled the filter on in two years, then on the communal stair carpet that has gone flat to the underlay from work boots and dragged cases. The riverside flats down by the park lose it on the sliding-door tracks and the balcony rail, where river damp and pollen leave a film that wipes off grey. The Putney Hill mansion flats lose it on the parquet, because a hoovered hallway is not a cleaned one and the clerk runs a hand along the skirting. None of that is exotic. It is just specific, and a clean priced for a generic flat tends to miss it.

The walk up Putney Hill, from the river to the Heath

We cover East Putney in full inside SW15 2, plus the strip of SW15 1 east of the District line cutting. It is easiest to picture the round as a climb from the river. Down at the bottom, Lower Richmond Road, Deodar Road and the Embankment frontage carry the riverside flats, and Wandsworth Park sits right at the end of Deodar Road, a Grade II listed strip of green on the south bank by Putney Bridge Road. The Putney Embankment boathouses below the bridge are where the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race starts, so the towpath foot traffic on a spring weekend is its own thing. These flats fail check-out on the sliding-door tracks and the salty balcony rails more than anything else. Deodar Road in particular runs straight onto the park, which is lovely to live on and a touch awkward to load a van outside of, so we tend to walk the kit the last stretch.

The middle band is the conversion grid by the station. Here is where we spend most weeks:

• Charlwood Road, the terraced spine south of the station, almost all upper and lower flats
• Mexfield Road, same era, slightly wider plots
• Werter Road, with the Putney Arts Theatre on the Ravenna Road corner
• Disraeli Road, a mix of conversions and a couple of small purpose-built blocks
• Lacy Road and Felsham Road, the streets running between the High Street and the river
• Keswick Road, more of the same District-line-adjacent conversion stock

Then the climb. Putney Hill rises south toward Putney Heath, which the A3 cuts through up at Tibbet’s Corner, an old gallows site now marooned in the middle of a roundabout. The hill is lined with 1930s red-brick mansion blocks, Manor Fields the largest, and these are the lateral flats with the parquet hallways and the porter at the service door. East Putney tube is on Upper Richmond Road on the District line, on the Zone 2 and Zone 3 boundary. Putney mainline, with 25-minute trains to Waterloo, is a seven-minute walk west along the same road. The 14, 22, 39, 74, 85, 93, 220, 265, 270, 378, 424 and 430 buses touch one or both of the East Putney and Putney Bridge stops, and the Uber Boat by Thames Clippers calls at Putney Pier on the Embankment.

The letting-agent side is a short list of names. Marsh & Parsons hold a strong slice of the conversion-flat book on Charlwood, Mexfield and Werter. Foxtons run the volume listing from 175 Putney High Street, mostly the newer flats. Hamptons cover Putney Hill, Roehampton and parts of West Putney, and have Manor Fields stock on their books. Douglas & Gordon work an East Putney office near the station entrance, leaning on the riverside and Hill flats. KFH, Dexters, Chestertons and Winkworth show up on individual blocks. The clerks they all use know the SW15 2 stock cold, so the bar barely moves from one agent to the next.

Access is the awkward part, not the cleaning. Upper Richmond Road and the kerbs right by the station are red route and not loadable, so we drop kit on a side-street single yellow with a permit dispensation and walk it in. The CPZ runs Monday to Saturday on Charlwood, Mexfield, Werter and Disraeli, which catches a lot of people out. Boat Race weekend in spring is the one to plan around, when the Embankment fills and the bottom of the ward gets closed off for the crowds. On the Manor Fields and the other Putney Hill blocks the porter logs us in at the service door, and we route the kit through there rather than the main lobby. We would rather know the floor and the parking before the day than send a three-person crew to circle the block.

One ward, three kinds of flat, three different reasons a deposit gets clipped.

Why the second licensing scheme changed the bar

Here is the part that genuinely changed.

This one bites in East Putney in a way it does not across most of Wandsworth. The council’s second selective licensing scheme started on 1 April 2026 and runs for five years. It covers three wards only, East Putney, West Putney and Northcote, and it catches any private let occupied by a single household or two unrelated sharers. So your East Putney landlord almost certainly now holds a Wandsworth selective licence on the address. The fee is £885, paid in two parts, a £529 Part A and a £356 Part B. This is the second such scheme, not the first. The first one, live since July 2025, sits over in Tooting and Balham and never touched Putney, which is why the April 2026 designation matters so much here.

There is a layer on top of that. Mandatory HMO licensing has always applied to the larger shared houses, and Wandsworth added borough-wide additional HMO licensing from 1 July 2025, so a smaller East Putney house share needs its own licence regardless of the ward scheme. The practical upshot is the same either way. The council now holds your landlord to a written housing-condition standard for the length of the licence, and the inventory clerk doing your walk knows it.

Why is that good for a tenant on the way out? Because the agents working the East Putney book have all updated their hand-back checklists to match the licensed standard, and a clean done to a documented standard with a photo pack at the end lines up with what the council, the agent and the deposit scheme are now all looking at. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 came into force last year and removed Section 21 no-fault evictions, and every tenancy is now periodic. What it did not touch is the deposit-deduction game. Your protected deposit still has to come back inside ten days of agreement, and your landlord’s agent still has to back any deduction with photographs and a referenced inventory comparison. The governing statute is still Housing Act 2004 s.214 on legislation.gov.uk. Photograph a Charlwood Road clean and sign it off, and the agent will not fight it. Leave it undocumented, and they will dock for it.

That is where the photo pack earns its place. Every clean we hand back comes with a dated set of photographs of the kitchen, the bathroom, the floors and the stair run, against the same points the check-in inventory recorded. If the clerk queries the extractor or the parquet a day later, the tenant has the evidence in hand rather than a he-said-she-said over a £3,000 deposit. We have watched plenty of disputes fold the moment the agent sees the pack, because an adjudicator weighs documented condition over an opinion, and the licensed standard the council now expects is the yardstick they all measure against.

Selective licence

The council permit your landlord needs for an ordinary private let in East Putney, West Putney or Northcote since 1 April 2026. It ties the property to a written condition standard for five years.

Additional HMO licence

A separate, borough-wide permit (live since 1 July 2025) for smaller shared houses and flats that fall outside mandatory HMO rules. A house share can need this even where the selective scheme does not apply.

Check-in inventory

The dated, photographed record of the property’s condition at the start of the tenancy. The clerk compares your check-out against it line by line, which is why the cleaning has to match that baseline.

Deposit protection

Your deposit is held in a government-backed scheme such as the Tenancy Deposit Scheme; deductions can be disputed there if the evidence does not stack up.

What a hand-back clean actually covers

End of tenancy is the hand-back clean. A deep clean is for staying put, a regular clean is for keeping a place tidy, and the work below is the first of those three. We run the same 57-point agent-approved checklist on every job and scale it to the property. Nothing hides behind an asterisk.

It is detail work, not a quick spray-and-wipe. The list below is roughly what a three-person crew gets through on a 2-bed conversion in five or six hours.

Kitchen

• Gas-hob brass jets and pan supports lifted out and soaked, hob crown polished, ignition rim cleaned
• Extractor canopy stripped: filters and baffle out, degreased in the kitchen sink, dried and refitted; inside of the canopy hand-cleaned, bulb wiped
• Oven cavity, racks, glass door inside and out, door seals and control fascia (most flats here run a freestanding 60cm range or a built-in single)
• Fridge-freezer interior, drawers, door seals, condenser tray where you can reach it
• Splashback and grout brushed; taps and waste descaled with a mild scale solution
• Cabinet doors, handles and the under-edge that catches finger grease; interiors from top shelf to plinth
• Worktop polished streak-free, sink and waste, kettle base, toaster crumb tray
• Bin recess sanitised; floor edges and behind any free-standing unit

Bathrooms

• Shower glass, frame and channel descaled; head and hose stripped if they are scaled
• Tile floors and walls, grout brushed, silicone seals checked for grime
• Bath rim and the skirting where the splash lands, taps polished, overflow flushed
• WC inside the rim, hinges, flush plate, behind the pan
• Heated towel rail and chrome fittings polished, mirror demister edge wiped
• Vanity drawers, light pull, extractor vent

Bedrooms and living spaces

• Wardrobe interiors top to bottom, drawer runners, bed-frame bases lifted
• Picture rails, ceiling rose, light fittings and dimmer plates, the original features the conversions kept
• Skirting boards, door tops, hinges, threshold strips between rooms
• Carpets vacuumed top to tail; the stair-edge wear treated with a fibre-lift brush before any shampoo (this is the recurring East Putney clipboard line on the upper-floor flats)
• Hardwood and engineered floors microfibre-mopped with a manufacturer-safe polish
• Window inner faces, frames and sills; original window boxes wiped where the brushes reach
• Radiator covers lifted, vents and the strip behind the radiator
• Media-unit dust-out, cable channels, the wall behind the TV

Throughout

• Light switches, plug sockets, thermostat, video-entry panel where one is fitted
• All internal doors both sides, frames, architraves, handles
• Cornicing, ceiling lines and smoke-alarm housings dust-cleared
• Entrance hallway and the stair run on the upper-floor flats; communal door wiped on the inside face
• Airing cupboard shelving, immersion tank exterior, riser cupboard
• Floors mopped or buffed last, the route running from the kitchen out, so there are no fresh footprints

Extras you can add: external-side glazing where access allows, a second oven deep on the rare double unit, or carpet shampoo on the bedrooms or the stair run. We quote those on top and never fold them in quietly.

What it costs, and what the clerk reaches for first

East Putney is standard-tier pricing, the same figures we hold across the borough. No postcode premium, no move-out surcharge. A fixed quote, sent by return.

Hourly cover, for when you only want a top-up rather than a full hand-back, is £30 per cleaner per hour on a two-cleaner minimum. Carpet shampoo runs £36 a bedroom, £43 for the main reception and £115 for a whole-flat shampoo on a 2-bed, and we price the upper-floor stair run on its own because it is the line we get asked about most. Oven add-on is £77 for a single, £110 for a double and £114 for a 90cm range.

The most-booked job here is a 2-bed upper-floor flat in an 1890s split house, going back through Marsh & Parsons or Foxtons at the end of an 18 or 24-month let. A 1-bed mansion flat on the Hill is the next most common, and after that the riverside 2-beds. The price is the same whichever it is.

The kitchen is where these jobs are won or lost, and the gas hob is the reason. A standard SW15 conversion kitchen runs a freestanding range under a canopy extractor, and tenants almost never lift the canopy or pull the baffle, so two years of cooking grease bakes onto the underside and goes amber. That is the single line the clerks circle most. We take the brass jets off the hob, soak them and hand-rinse them, drop the baffle and the mesh into a degreaser bath in the sink, and hand-clean the inside of the canopy before any of it goes back. It is slow and it is the bit that gets the deposit back, so we do not rush it.

On the rare jobs that do get a re-call here, it is almost always one of three things: a canopy extractor that looked clean from below but had grease on the top face, a stair carpet where the edge wear photographed worse than it cleaned, or a shower screen where the scale came back as the glass dried. We have learned to over-check exactly those, which is part of why the SW15 2 pass rate holds up.

Twelve years working with Marsh & Parsons, Foxtons Putney, Hamptons, Douglas & Gordon, KFH, Dexters and the smaller Putney offices has given us a fair read on where the clipboard goes first on an East Putney clean. Rough order:

1. Kitchen extractor canopy, baffle and gas-hob trim, the single recurring deduction line on the conversions
2. Stair carpet on the run up to an upper-floor flat, the Charlwood and Mexfield wear pattern
3. Oven cavity, glass door and seals on the freestanding ranges
4. Bath silicone, shower glass and the descaling round the chrome, because the water here is hard
5. Picture rails, cornicing and ceiling-rose dust on the period features
6. Window sills, the inner glazing on the original front bays and the box channels
7. Mansion-block hallway parquet on the Putney Hill stock
8. Balcony rail and sliding-door track on the riverside Lower Richmond Road and Deodar Road flats
9. Wardrobe interiors and drawer bases
10. Light switches, sockets and the video-entry panel on the newer blocks

Booking it, and the 48-hour promise

It is a short process and we keep it that way.

1. Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the address, the floor, the bedroom count and the move-out date.
2. We send a fixed price back by return. No callbacks, no “someone will be in touch”.
3. You confirm by reply, and we send a booking confirmation with a copy of the 57-point checklist.
4. We arrive on the day, two to four cleaners depending on the flat, with our own kit and a vacuum that fits the upper-floor stair run.
5. We send the photo pack the same evening. If the clerk flags anything inside 48 hours, we come back free.

That last step is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee, and it is the reason most of our East Putney work comes back to us by word of mouth.

A couple of practical things on the day. Have the flat empty of your belongings if you can, because we clean inside wardrobes and cupboards and behind appliances, and a half-cleared room slows the whole job. Leave the utilities on so we can run the oven, the hot water and the extractor to check them. If the place is on an upper floor with a shared front door, let us know the entry-phone code or who holds the key. None of that is unusual, but sorting it before the morning is the difference between a crew that finishes by mid-afternoon and one that loses an hour standing on the step.

Nearby cover and the add-ons people pair it with

East Putney is one of the three wards inside the council’s selective licensing designation, so the borough-level cover starts on our Wandsworth end-of-tenancy hub. The obvious sibling to check is West Putney end-of-tenancy for the streets the far side of the High Street and the run up to Roehampton. We cross into Southfields on the same rounds too, since the District line carries straight on there.

The two bolt-ons East Putney tenants ask for most: oven cleaning on the freestanding 60cm ranges, and carpet cleaning on the upper-floor stair runs and the front-room bay patches. Both are priced openly above, and either can be added to a hand-back clean or booked on its own if that is all the inventory flagged.

Geography helps us here. East Putney, West Putney, Southfields and the bottom of Wimbledon Park all sit on the same District line spur, so a crew finishing a Charlwood Road flat in the morning is a few stops from the next job rather than the wrong side of London. If your move sits right on the ward line, ring us with the postcode and we will tell you straight whether it falls under the East Putney book or the next one over.

Questions East Putney tenants ask

How much is end-of-tenancy cleaning at East Putney?

Studios start at £156, one-bed flats at £207, two-bed conversions and mansion flats at £243, three-bed flats and maisonettes at £339, and four-bed houses at £425. Hourly cover is £30 per cleaner per hour with a two-cleaner minimum.

Do you clean upper-floor conversions on Charlwood Road and Mexfield Road?

Yes. The split-house upper and lower flats on Charlwood, Mexfield, Werter and Disraeli are the bulk of our East Putney book. We do the gas-hob trim, the extractor canopy, the picture rails and the stair-carpet edge as standard. Those four lines are what the clerks reach for first on these streets.

Is East Putney in Wandsworth’s selective licensing scheme?

Yes. The council’s second selective licensing scheme started on 1 April 2026 and runs for five years, covering East Putney, West Putney and Northcote wards only. It applies to any private let occupied by a single household or two unrelated sharers. The fee is £885, split into Part A of £529 and Part B of £356. Your landlord almost certainly now needs a licence on the address.

How long does a clean of a 2-bed conversion take?

Roughly five to six hours with three cleaners. The kitchen extractor and gas-hob trim, the stair carpet on the upper-floor run and the bay-window inner glazing are the three jobs that set how late the team finishes.

Do you handle hard-water marks on the chrome and shower glass?

Yes. Thames Water classes SW15 as very hard, around 302 ppm calcium carbonate. We use a mild scale solution on the chrome and the shower glass, never on porous tile or stone, and we hand-buff it dry the same day.

What’s the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?

If your inventory clerk or letting agent flags something within 48 hours of the clean, we come back and put it right at no extra cost. It is on every booking we do, in every postcode we work.

What’s your first-time pass rate at East Putney?

Our company-wide first-time pass rate is 97%. SW15 2 sits at or above that, because the team that works the East Putney book knows the conversion stock and the mansion-block parquet well.

Do you have public liability insurance?

Yes. £5m public liability, employer’s liability, and we send a copy of the certificate to managing agents when they ask. Block managers on Putney Hill and the on-site offices for the newer station developments usually want to see it before they clear the booking.

Can I book at short notice?

Same-day or next-day is usually fine, especially Tuesday to Thursday. End-of-month and Friday slots fill earliest in SW15, so two or three days’ notice helps if you can give it.

Do you do letting agent inventories direct?

We are on the books of 300+ letting agents across London, including Marsh & Parsons Putney, Foxtons Putney, Hamptons, Douglas & Gordon’s East Putney office, KFH, Dexters, Chestertons and Winkworth. Some book us direct on behalf of the tenant. Most of the time the tenant books and we copy the agent on the photo pack.

How does parking and access work on the conversion streets?

Wandsworth’s CPZ runs Monday to Saturday across most of Charlwood, Mexfield, Werter and Disraeli. Upper Richmond Road itself is a red route and not loadable, so we drop kit on a side-street single yellow with a permit dispensation and walk in. On the Putney Hill blocks the porter logs us in at the service door.

How do you handle stair-carpet wear on upper-floor conversions?

We work the edge of the run with a fibre-lift brush first to bring the pile back up, then run a spot-extraction wand with a low-residue detergent. We quote the stair run separately from the flat shampoo, because it is the line we get asked about most in East Putney and we price it openly.

Can you clean the gas-hob brass jets and the extractor baffle?

Always. The brass jets come out, soak in a degreaser solution and get hand-rinsed before the hob crown goes back. The extractor baffle and mesh come out of the canopy and go through the same bath in the kitchen sink. Skipping the canopy is the single most common reason a clerk fails an East Putney conversion kitchen.

Do you clean the riverside Lower Richmond Road and Deodar Road balconies?

Inner face and balcony floor as standard, plus the sliding-door track, which is the dust trap on those river-facing flats. Outer-face glazing on the upper-floor blocks is a building-side job, so we co-ordinate with the block office where the access is sorted on the day.

How much have your tenants recovered in deposits?

£1.2m in deposit money recovered for tenants since 2014. We document every clean with photographs and a checklist sign-off, so a dispute can go to the Tenancy Deposit Scheme with proper evidence.

Can I get my deposit back if my landlord disputes the clean?

If we have done the work to checklist standard and the photo pack confirms it, the dispute usually settles before it reaches a scheme adjudicator. Shelter’s deposit guide walks through the route if it does escalate.

Do you cover the rest of Putney and the Southfields edge?

Yes. We work the whole of SW15 2 and the slice of SW15 1 east of the District line cutting, and we cross into Southfields and West Putney on the same rounds. The borough page lists the wider cover if your move is just outside the ward boundary.

Book the East Putney clean

Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected]. Tell us the street, the floor and the move-out date, and we come back inside the hour with a fixed price.