Foxbury end of tenancy cleaning, the easy way

The clerk who walks a 1930s semi off Plaistow Lane drops to a knee at the shower screen before anything else, because the bottom seal is where this corner of Bromley loses deposits first. Run two winters of very hard Thames Water past untreated chrome and the scale sets into a grey crust no Sunday wipe shifts. That is the work this page covers: the hand-back clean for landlords and agents around Foxbury and the wider BR1 3, charged at £30 per hour per cleaner, measured against the check-in inventory, with 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 BR1 3 across Plaistow Lane, Plaistow Grove, Rodway Road, Scotts Road and College Road, the streets around Sundridge Park station, and out to the Foxbury name proper on the Kemnal Road edge of Chislehurst. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Bromley.

Which Foxbury you actually mean

Worth clearing up first, because the name slides around on a map. Foxbury proper is the big house: a Kentish ragstone pile up Kemnal Road in Chislehurst, built in the 1870s for the Tiarks banking family, later a missionary training centre and then a Woolwich Building Society college before it went back to private hands. The name now also sits on Foxbury Avenue nearby, a short gated run of new five-bedroom houses on the Kemnal Road side. Both of those are technically a BR7 Chislehurst address, not BR1 3.

The BR1 3 most people booking a Foxbury clean mean is the slope below it: the Plaistow and Sundridge stretch of Bromley, Plaistow Lane down to Sundridge Park station, with Foxbury Road and Foxbury Close themselves sitting just over the line in BR1 4. So the postcode label is one thing and the estate-agent romance is another. We work all of it. When you ring, the postcode tells us which it is in about two seconds, and the price is set by the property, not the name on the road sign.

The check-in report is the only marking scheme that matters

Start with the mechanism, because it is the whole game and almost nobody is shown it. The day you moved in, an inventory clerk walked the property and wrote a report on every surface, usually photographed, usually with “new” or “as new” against the kitchen and the bathroom. Those words were true that morning, because the place had just had a professional clean. At check-out a clerk walks it again and compares the two, line by line. Anything materially worse than the check-in entry, past fair wear and tear, is a deduction against your deposit. You are not being judged against tidy. You are being judged against a professional clean, which is exactly why a mop and a free afternoon rarely gets you over the line.

The money is real, and it lands in a pattern we know cold from the BR1 3 jobs we get called in to rescue. The oven runs £85 to £120. Limescale and grout in the bathroom, £80 to £150. The gaps behind and under appliances, £60 to £100. Carpets on a longer let, £150 to £350. Marks on walls and skirting, £80 to £200. Put that against a five-week deposit on a Plaistow Lane semi and the figures answer themselves. Most tenants only run that sum after they have already failed the first walk, which is a shame, because the first walk is the cheap one to win.

Two laws sit behind this and pull opposite ways. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 means a Bromley landlord cannot make professional cleaning a contractual condition, so nobody can force you to book us. The deposit itself has to sit in one of the protection schemes, TDS, mydeposits or the DPS, and the agent has to evidence every cleaning deduction with photographs against the check-in. The smart move is to take the cleaning case off the deduction list before any dispute starts. That is what the 57-point agent-approved checklist is built to do.

You are not being judged against tidy. You are being judged against a professional clean.

A Rodway Road move-out from April

“I rented a 1930s three-bed semi on Rodway Road for six years and taught at a school nearby, then took a head of department post up in Leicester and had three weeks to be out. The shower screen was the thing I dreaded. Six years of that hard water had left the bottom rail crusted solid and the original tiled hall by the front door had gone dark in the grout where everyone walked. I had no idea how to clean either properly. Monster sent two cleaners for most of a day, took the screen rail back to the chrome, scrubbed the hall grout and photographed it first so the clerk could see what was wear. Langford Russell signed it off with nothing held back and my whole deposit came home inside a fortnight. It cost me £339. I should have called sooner and worried less.”
Rachel, Rodway Road BR1 3, April 2026

That is a fair example of the pattern down here: a long let, hard-water damage at the screen, an original tiled hall, and an agent who actually checks. The clean cost a fraction of what was riding on it. What settled it was not only the scrubbing but the dated photographs that went out with the invoice, which is the piece most do-it-yourself check-outs simply do not have when the clerk pushes back.

What 1 May 2026 changed for a Bromley move-out

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 came into force on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault eviction is gone. Every existing assured shorthold tenancy in England has converted to a periodic assured tenancy with no fixed end, and a tenant can now give two months’ notice at any point rather than waiting out a fixed term.

Here is the part people read wrong. The cleaning side of a move-out did not change at all. The Tenant Fees Act still applies. The check-in benchmark still applies. The deposit cap is still five weeks’ rent below £50,000 a year, six weeks above it, and the agent still has to evidence deductions the same way. What changed is timing. BR1 3 already turns over steadily, with school-linked families and Sundridge Park commuters moving on a one or two-year cycle. Let people leave on a rolling two months instead of a fixed date and the check-outs spread out and get harder to predict. The dull, useful takeaway: book the clean earlier than you used to, because the slot you want goes first.

What 302 ppm does to a Sundridge Park bathroom

BR1 3 sits in Thames Water’s supply, which the company rates hard across the South East, and its network average sits at about 302 parts per million calcium carbonate, firmly in the very-hard band. That single fact loses more deposits in this postcode than almost anything except the oven. A scale plate builds on taps, shower heads, screens and tile joints faster than tenants expect, and a cloth does nothing to it. The clerk knows. They run a thumbnail down the tap, look at the screen edge-on against the light, pull the shower head in close.

Scale that has set into chrome is slow work, and on the older Plaistow Lane and Sundridge Park houses the bathroom fittings are sometimes original chrome or even brass, which rules out the harsh acids a newer flat would shrug off. We take it back by hand with a careful soak instead. Grout is the other one. Kitchen and bathroom grout is the line between a pass and a deduction here more often than carpets are. We scrub it rather than wipe it, and where it is genuinely past saving, which happens on a six-year let, we photograph the state before we touch it so the clerk cannot bill you for wear that was already grey at check-in. That photograph has settled more disputes than any argument.

A dated photograph of grey grout has settled more disputes than any argument has.

The 57 things, room by room

Every BR1 3 booking runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist, built over a decade of local check-outs and tuned to what Bromley clerks actually flag. The full list comes with the job, or we walk you through it before we start. Here is the shape of it.

The kitchen, where most of the deposit goes

The oven is stripped, not wiped. Racks soak in a tank, the door glass is split apart so the brown film between the panes comes out, and the interior, fan, element and seals all get done. That film is the single most-flagged oven fault we see. The hob rings and burners come off, the control knobs off and washed. The extractor is degreased inside and out and the filter soaked or swapped. Every cupboard inside and out, including the deep awkward-cornered ones in the older Plaistow Lane kitchens. Fridge and freezer cleaned through once you have defrosted them. Appliances pulled out so the gaps behind and under the fridge, dishwasher and washing machine are done, then put back. And the washing machine itself: drum, the detergent drawer out and scrubbed, and the door seal, which is the first thing the clerk opens. Sink, taps, drainer and plughole descaled, because the hard water never gives that a miss.

The bathroom, the other place it goes wrong

Scale comes off the taps, shower head, screen and tiles first, with the gentle approach on any original chrome or brass. Grout scrubbed back as far as honest effort takes it, photographed first where it is clearly beyond it. Then the rest, in plain order.

• Toilet done properly: inside, under the rim, the base, the cistern, the hinges, and behind the pedestal where only the clerk looks
• Shower screen both sides, the tracks, and the sealant bead
• Bath, taps, the underside of the taps, overflow and plughole
• Mirrors and cabinets, and the wall behind them where they sit proud
• Extractor vent wiped, sealant cleaned to a usable state (re-sealing is a handyman job, not a cleaning one)
• Floor into the corners, behind the loo, under the basin

Bedrooms, reception rooms and the rest

Inside every wardrobe, drawer and built-in cupboard, top shelf included. Skirting, door frames, doors, handles and finger plates by hand. Light fittings, shades, switches and any ceiling rose, which on the period-edge houses up towards Chislehurst holds years of dust. Window sills, reveals and frames on the inside; the timber casements on a 1930s bay get the channel grit cleared without scuffing the paint line. Radiators behind, under and on top. Walls spot-wiped for marks, with a fair line drawn, because nail holes and scuffs are a decorator’s bill and not yours to scrub away. Then the stairs and bannister where the house has them, the tiled or parquet hall worked at the threshold where the grit darkens the joint nearest the mat, and a final walk on the clerk’s photograph list. The whole lot is photographed before and after, every room, and that set is the evidence you keep.

Two jobs often need their own pass. Hot-water extraction on carpets is sometimes written into a Bromley tenancy as a hard requirement, which the carpet cleaning add-on covers on the same visit. A heavily used oven on a long let sometimes wants the full strip as a standalone, which is what our oven cleaning service is for.

The stock changes as you climb towards Kemnal Road

The work is not one method, because the houses are not one kind. Walk BR1 3 from the station upwards and it shifts under your feet.

The 1930s suburb: Plaistow Lane, Rodway Road, Scotts Road

This is the bulk of it. Inter-war semis and detached houses, wide plots, bay fronts, the odd parquet or tiled entrance hall, kitchens that are either six months or thirty years old. The longer lets sit here, and a long let means build-up in the places nobody touched between tenants: behind the cooker, under the fridge, into the grout of that hall tile. The clerks working Plaistow and Sundridge know exactly where to put their torch. We win these on the slow, dull work, not on anything clever.

Around Sundridge Park station and Plaistow Grove

Closer to the railway the stock tightens into smaller semis, terraces and converted flats, with a pocket of older cottages near Plaistow Grove. Quicker jobs, but the bathrooms are small and the scale is the same, so the screen and the tile joints still take the time.

The Chislehurst edge towards Kemnal Road

Climb towards the Foxbury name proper and the houses get grander: larger detached homes, Edwardian and inter-war, some with original cornicing and ceiling roses, and the new gated builds on Foxbury Avenue at the top. Period detail like that gets named individually on an inventory, so the clean has to match it individually and nothing aggressive goes near original plaster or paint. We do that by hand and we are careful with it, because a scratched original architrave is a bigger deduction than a missed oven. If your tenancy straddles the border, our Chislehurst and Bickley pages cover the same teams one postcode over, and Widmore sits just the other side on the BR1 1 fringe.

Where Bromley stands on licensing

Bromley does not run selective licensing for the private rented sector, and as of 2026 it does not run additional HMO licensing either. The borough does operate the standard mandatory HMO licence under the Housing Act 2004, the one that bites when five or more people from more than one household share a property, and the fee on a five-bed shared house runs to roughly £2,558 with more per extra room. There are HMO Article 4 directions on the council’s pages, but they sit out at Biggin Hill and Darwin, nowhere near here.

So for the BR1 3 and Foxbury work the practical position is simple. The Plaistow and Sundridge lets run mostly as single-household assured tenancies through agents like Langford Russell, the Acorn Group and Proctors on the Sundridge Park side, on the ordinary agent-inventory standard, with a thread of larger family houses let through corporate relocation on the Chislehurst edge. The relocation jobs report to the relocation agent rather than a high-street office, and their inventory runs at least as strict. The clean is the same either way.

What it costs, and the sum people run too late

BR1 3 runs at our standard pricing: £30 per hour per cleaner, with kit, products and travel included. Those figures assume a property in normal lived-in shape. A long tenancy with heavy wear, a pet household, a smoker’s place or somewhere that has not had a deep clean in years costs more, and we say so on the phone, not after. No surprise lines on the invoice.

Run the sum the way the deposit makes you. A three-bed semi at £339 to protect a five-week deposit that can sit north of £2,500 around here is barely a decision. Every booking carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if the agent flags any cleanliness issue inside 48 hours, we come back and redo it free, as long as you tell us in that window and nobody has moved in yet. Our first-time pass rate sits around 97%, but the guarantee is the point. Over the years the work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions, and we are on the books of 300+ letting agents who keep handing us the jobs because the walks pass.

Three jobs get muddled, and it pays to book the right one.

End-of-tenancy clean

Built to pass the inventory and get a deposit back, against the agent’s check-in benchmark, with the property empty and the 48-hour guarantee on it, at £30 an hour per cleaner.

Deep clean

A deep clean resets a home you are staying in. Lived-in, no formal standard to hit, also from £30 an hour.

Regular domestic clean

A regular domestic clean is ongoing upkeep, the same cleaner kept on the home, from £22 an hour weekly or £24 fortnightly.

Booking it, and the BR1 3 quirks

Booking is short.

1. Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the BR1 3 postcode, the property size, the check-out date and anything the check-in marked “new” or “as new”. Price in about three minutes.
2. We send a fixed quote by reply, usually inside a couple of hours on a working day. Allow seven to ten days for an end-of-month slot, three to five mid-month.
3. The property is empty when we arrive: furniture out, personal things gone, rubbish cleared. We also run removals if you want the move and the clean on one booking.
4. The team works to the 57-point list. Two cleaners on a typical semi, three on a four-bed detached.
5. The clerk walks it. Anything flagged inside 48 hours and we are back to fix it free.

One honest local note. Parking around the 1930s streets is mostly fine, kerb space or a drive, but the houses on the Kemnal Road and Foxbury Avenue side often sit behind a gate or a long private drive, so tell us how we get in when you book: a gate code, a key safe, a concierge on the newer builds, or an agent drop-off. And the railway splits the patch. If your check-out is on the far side of the Sundridge Park line from the address you gave us, say so, because it changes the route the van takes and we would rather know before the day than circle on it.

Questions we get asked

Is the Foxbury you cover the Kemnal Road one or the BR1 3 streets?

Both. The Foxbury name proper is the old mansion and the gated Foxbury Avenue new-builds up Kemnal Road in Chislehurst, which are a BR7 address. The BR1 3 work most people mean is the Plaistow and Sundridge suburb down towards Sundridge Park station. Give us the postcode and we will know which in seconds. The price is set by the property, not the road name.

How long does a three-bed 1930s semi on Rodway Road or Scotts Road take?

Two cleaners, most of a working day, six to eight hours depending on the state of the oven, the bathroom scale and the hall floor. We aim to be off-site a few hours before the clerk’s walk so the property is settled and dry.

Will the clean clear the shower-screen scale a long let has left?

Yes. We take the bottom rail and the screen back to the chrome with a careful soak by hand, not a harsh acid that would mark original fittings. Where the scale has etched the glass past cleaning we tell you, rather than charge you for time on something that will not improve.

What do you do about the original tiled or parquet hall?

Worked at the threshold by the front door first, where foot grit darkens the grout or the board joint nearest the mat, then across the whole floor with a finish suited to the material. On an older tiled hall that has gone grey on a six-year let we photograph it before we start, so wear that was there at check-in does not land on your deduction list.

Do you work with Langford Russell, Acorn and Proctors on BR1 3?

Yes. Langford Russell and the wider Acorn Group handle a large share of the Bromley and Sundridge Park lettings, and Proctors run the Sundridge Park side too. The 57-point agent-approved checklist matches what their clerks read on the inventory walk.

What if the clerk flags something on the walk?

We are back inside 48 hours under the re-clean guarantee, no quibble and no charge. The flagged item is re-worked and the clerk re-walks. The 97% first-time pass rate means the call-back is rare, but the guarantee is there for the rest.

Does Bromley Council require a landlord licence around Foxbury?

Not for a normal single-household let. Bromley runs no selective and no additional HMO licensing as of 2026. The mandatory HMO licence applies only where five or more people from more than one household share, and the Article 4 HMO directions sit out at Biggin Hill and Darwin, not in BR1 3.

Does the Renters’ Rights Act change the clean?

No. From 1 May 2026 Section 21 is abolished and tenancies have converted to periodic, so notice is more flexible, but the cleaning standard, the check-in benchmark and the deposit caps are exactly as before. The real effect is more frequent, less predictable move-outs, so book earlier than you used to.

Is the price fixed or hourly?

The package prices are fixed at quote: the figure we send by reply is the figure at the door, with the checklist and the 48-hour guarantee included. The £30 per hour per cleaner rate is for the unusual jobs and part-cleans that do not fit a standard size.

Do you handle the larger gated houses on the Kemnal Road side?

Yes. The bigger detached and the gated Foxbury Avenue builds take three cleaners and a longer booking, and the inventory on a house like that names original features one by one. We clean to that, by hand on the period detail, and we sort gate or concierge access with you in advance.

Is carpet cleaning included in the price?

No, it is a separate add-on: £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for the whole carpeted area of a two-bed. On a three-bed semi with a through lounge the carpet add-on usually runs £110 to £150. If your tenancy demands a hot-water-extraction receipt, we do it on the same visit and itemise it.

Can you do a Saturday, and how far ahead should I book?

Saturdays yes, regularly. Sundays case by case where the walk is a Monday. For lead time, seven to ten days for an end-of-month slot, three to five mid-month, and a smaller BR1 3 flat can sometimes be done same-day on a quiet week. The four-bed houses need the longer notice because we send a bigger team.

Do you bring your own equipment and products?

Yes, all of it: cloths, mops, vacuum, descalers, oven product, the kitchen and bathroom range. You provide access and, if the agent wants them, the meter readings for the walk. Nothing else.

Do you carry insurance the clerk can see?

Yes. Five million pounds of public-liability cover on all residential work across Bromley and our wider area. Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House 9919639, trading since 2014. The certificate goes over by email if a clerk asks for it.

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