End of tenancy cleaning in Enfield Lock, EN3
Enfield Lock has three kinds of rented home: the 1990s and 2000s houses and flats of Enfield Island Village, the Victorian factory cottages on Government Row, and older streets such as Salisbury Road and Medcalf Road. Our end of tenancy cleaning covers all three at a fixed price by bedrooms, from £156 for a studio and £243 for two bedrooms up to £425 for four.
Last updated November 2026.
Enfield Lock property types and prices
The area is named after the lock on the River Lee Navigation, and it sits at the north-east corner of the borough, east of the Hertford Road (the A1010) and close to the Lee Valley Park.
From the early 19th century the Royal Small Arms Factory was the reason people lived here. It closed in 1988, and most of its land is now housing. Here is how a clean is priced against what you are likely to be leaving.
| Property | Where you might find it | Price | What slows the clean down |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | Small flat in a converted house or a newer block | £156 | Cooker, sink and shower within a few metres of each other |
| One-bedroom flat | Flat on Enfield Island Village or in a newer block | £207 | Integrated kitchen units, a bathroom with no window |
| Two-bedroom flat or house | Government Row cottage, or an older house on Salisbury Road or Medcalf Road | £243 | Old woodwork, narrow stairs, sash or casement windows |
| Three-bedroom house | House on Enfield Island Village, or a larger older house nearby | £339 | Stairs over two or three floors, an en-suite, a garden door |
| Four-bedroom house | Larger Island Village house | £425 | Two or three bathrooms and a lot of stair carpet |
| Five or more bedrooms | Large house | Quoted from the room count | Priced room by room |
| Part job | A single room, or your share of a shared house | £30 per cleaner per hour | Just the rooms you book |
Every fixed price is for the empty home, including cupboard interiors, descaling and the inside of the windows. Parking or a congestion charge only appears on a quote if it applies to your street on the day, at the price we pay. For your own figure, try the price calculator at the top of the page, or call 0333 555 2076 between 8am and 7pm on any day.
The ONS put Enfield’s average private rent at £1,833 a month in September 2026, up 5.4% in a year, and a terraced house averaged £2,046. A deposit of five weeks’ rent on a house like that is over two thousand pounds.
Enfield Island Village houses and flats
Enfield Island Village was built by Fairview New Homes between 1997 and 2003 on about 100 acres of the old factory site, with a quarter of the homes set aside as social housing.
It is an island in a real sense: the River Lea runs through it, with the Lee Navigation, the Cattlegate Flood Relief Channel and Newmans Weir alongside. The road bridge over the Navigation was finished in 1998, and Keys Meadow primary school opened in 2003. The nearest stations are Enfield Lock and Brimsdown, both on the Greater Anglia line.
The first homes are now more than 25 years old. If the kitchen has a cooker hood, the clerk will slide out its metal grease filter. Bathroom extractor fans gather a grey felt of dust that shows up in a torch beam. Where there are uPVC frames, trickle vents and patio doors, their channels hold dirt. None of it needs special equipment, only time, and it is all part of the fixed price.
Government Row and the streets by the station
End of tenancy cleaning
from £156
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Government Row is older than any of it. The Enfield Society records 81 cottages built there between 1854 and 1858 to house factory workers, and the terraces are listed Grade II for their group value. Historic England first listed numbers 4 to 14 and 18 to 28 in 1989, and numbers 71 to 76 in 1995. The Enfield Lock Conservation Area takes in the cottages, the lock and the Navigation itself.
A Victorian cottage cleans differently from a 1990s house. Painted timber windows have runners and beads that hold years of dust, the stairs are steep and narrow, and original skirting boards are deep enough to need a brush before a cloth. In a listed cottage we use nothing abrasive on old surfaces. Cracked paint and loose putty are wear and tear, which a clerk should record as condition.
Ordnance Road, which has newer housing along it, runs west from the lock towards the Hertford Road, and Salisbury Road and Medcalf Road nearby are older streets where some families have lived for generations.
Enfield Lock station has Greater Anglia trains north to Harlow and Bishop’s Stortford and south to Tottenham Hale and Stratford, some running on to Liverpool Street. The London Overground stops at Turkey Street, to the west, on its way between Cheshunt and Liverpool Street.
Selective licensing in Enfield Lock ward
Enfield Lock ward is inside Enfield Council’s selective licensing scheme. The council’s cabinet approved the new scheme on 22 April 2026, and it came into force on 1 September 2026 for five years, to 31 August 2031.
Enfield Lock is one of the 13 wards in its first designation, along with Brimsdown, Bullsmoor, Ponders End and Southbury nearby. The scheme requires a licence for most homes let to one household, or to one or two people, and it replaced the 2021 scheme, which also covered the ward.
Shared homes have their own rules. Since 1 September 2025 a borough-wide additional licence has applied to homes let to three or four people who are not all related and share facilities, and five or more sharers need the national mandatory HMO licence.
What you owe at check-out is the same in any ward: the home has to be as clean as the inventory said it was when you moved in. Your landlord cannot make a professional clean a condition of the tenancy under the Tenant Fees Act 2019, but they can deduct for cleaning that falls short of the check-in report.
What you owe at check-out is the same in any ward: the home has to be as clean as the inventory said it was when you moved in.
Limescale in EN3 kitchens and bathrooms
Water company boundary data puts every EN3 postcode in Thames Water’s area, and Thames Water says all the water in its region is hard, because its rivers run through chalk and limestone. The result is the same in a Government Row cottage and an Island Village en-suite: a white rim on tap bases, a hazy film on shower glass, scale around the plughole and a brown line in the toilet bowl.
Clerks read scale as dirt, and descaling is included in every fixed price here. The cleaners use a descaler on taps, heads, screens, tiles and the toilet, leave it long enough to work, and rinse it away so no white bloom dries back on the chrome.
What the clean includes
Our cleaners are vetted with an in-person interview, insured, and trained on a 57-point checklist. On the day it covers:
- Kitchen: the inside and outside of every unit and drawer, worktops and tiles, hob, cooker hood and grease filter, sink and taps, fridge and freezer (switched off and defrosted the evening before), dishwasher filter, washing machine drawer and door seal, and behind any appliance that moves.
- Bathrooms: descaling of taps, shower, screen and tiles, grout, the toilet inside and out including the base, bath, basin, cabinet, mirror and extractor fan cover.
- Bedrooms and living room: skirting, doors and frames, switches and sockets, radiators, the inside of wardrobes, sills, frames, trickle vents and the inside of the glass.
- Hall, stairs and landing: banister and spindles, each step, under-stairs cupboard, meter cupboard; carpets vacuumed and hard floors washed as the last job.
Leave the home empty, with the power and water on: the cleaners work from your supply and do not bring their own.
The oven is an extra and is never in the fixed price. With the clean it costs £31 for a single or single wide oven, or £62 for a double or a 90cm range.
Removable parts such as shelves and trays are soaked on their own, and the cavity, the glass and the door seals are cleaned by hand in the kitchen, with the inner pane done where the door design allows. Our oven cleaning page covers an oven booked on another day.
Carpet cleaning added to the clean costs £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing, which is cheaper than a standalone carpet cleaning booking. In a house on three floors, the stair carpet takes the most wear. We have been cleaning since 2014, and the Enfield end of tenancy cleaning page covers the rest of the borough.
Questions about move-out cleans in EN3
Does my Island Village landlord need a licence?
Most likely, if the home is let to one household. Enfield Lock ward is in the selective scheme that started on 1 September 2026, and shared homes need an HMO licence. Your landlord can give you the licence number; it does not change the cleaning standard at check-out.
How much is a Government Row cottage?
It is priced by bedrooms like any other home: £243 for two and £339 for three. The oven and carpets are extra if you want them, and original timber windows are cleaned inside at no extra cost.
Do you clean original sash windows?
Yes. The inside of the glass, the frames, beads and sills are part of the fixed price. Outside glass is a separate window cleaning job.
I am the first of three sharers to move out. What should I book?
Book your own room and your share of the kitchen and bathroom by the hour, at £30 per cleaner. The last person out can book the rest, or the whole home at its fixed price.
What if the clerk writes something down after the clean?
If the letting agent or clerk flags it within 48 hours, the cleaners come back and do it again free. Send the report lines by WhatsApp on 0333 555 2076 and we arrange the visit.