The first thing an inventory clerk does in a Fulham Reach flat is stand with their back to the kitchen and look at the river glass side-on, because the low Thames light turns every smear and salt ring on that wall of floor-to-ceiling glazing into a finding. That is the surface your deposit hangs on here, not a skirting board. We are Monster Cleaning, a London end-of-tenancy crew working the W6 riverside since 2014, and we clean these Berkeley flats to the standard the managing agent’s check-out is measured against, at £30 per hour per cleaner with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a fixed price in about three minutes.
Last updated June 2026. We cover the W6 9 riverside in full, the Distillery Wharf and Parr’s Way addresses, and the wider W6 stretch around Hammersmith Bridge and Crisp Road. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Hammersmith and Fulham.
Who you are really cleaning for at Fulham Reach
Start with who writes the report, because at Fulham Reach it is rarely your landlord. This is a Berkeley Homes riverside development of around 744 apartments on a 3.7-acre stretch of the Thames at Distillery Wharf, built out over roughly a decade, and almost every flat is let through a managing agent working from the original Berkeley specification sheet. There is no period stock here. No cornicing, no ceiling roses, no original sash to baby. What you have instead is a single uniform finish repeated across the blocks: floor-to-ceiling glazing on the river elevations, handle-less integrated kitchens with the oven, fridge, freezer, dishwasher and washer-dryer all built behind matching cabinetry, engineered-oak through the living space, and stone or marble in the bathrooms with chrome rainfall fittings.
That uniformity is the whole game. When the finish is identical flat to flat, the check-out clerk is not making judgement calls about wear on a forty-year-old kitchen. They are comparing your flat against a known, documented, as-new standard, line by line, and any gap is yours to account for. It is a tighter benchmark than the period conversions two streets north on Glenthorne Road, where an honest “fair wear and tear” argument still has room to breathe. On a 2017 Berkeley kitchen it does not.
So the deductions cluster in predictable places. Glazing streaked on the inside face. Extractor mesh greyed with cooking film. Hob trim with baked residue along the silicone. A chrome shower head wearing a calcium shadow. Engineered-oak scuffed where a sofa was dragged without felt under the feet. A marble bathroom left hazy because a previous tenant or a cheap clean went at it with an acidic descaler, which etches stone and does not buff out. None of those are dramatic. All of them come off the deposit a managing agent protected on your behalf one or two years ago.
What 1 May 2026 changed, and what it did not
The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 came into force on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone. Existing assured shorthold tenancies have converted to periodic ones, so a tenant can now give two months’ notice at any point rather than waiting out a fixed term.
Here is the part that trips people up. None of that touched the clean. The benchmark at check-out is the same, the deposit rules are the same, and the agent still has to prove a deduction is reasonable against the check-in record. What shifted is timing. Fulham Reach was always a high-churn address, full of one and two-year corporate lets and relocations, and rolling notice makes the move-outs more frequent and harder to predict. The dull, money-saving takeaway: book the clean earlier than you think you need to, because the slot you want goes first.
None of that touched the clean. What shifted is timing.
The 57 things, from the river glass inward
Every job runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist, built over a decade of London check-outs and scaled to the flat in front of us. At Fulham Reach we work it in an order that matches where the clerk looks, which means the glass and the kitchen come first. The full list comes with the booking. Here is the shape of it.
The river glass and the balcony tracks
On the river-facing flats this is the headline job. The inside face of the floor-to-ceiling glazing is cleaned streak-free, then the frame channels and the balcony or Juliette-rail door tracks are degritted, because that grey line of grit in the runner is exactly what a clerk drags a finger through. The outer face of the glass on the upper floors is not ours; that is the building’s own cradle team, scheduled by the estate. We are honest about that on the phone so nobody expects us to abseil.
The integrated kitchen
The built-in oven cavity, racks, door glass and seals come up first. The induction hob, the silicone trim around it, and the surrounding stone or quartz worktop get the slow hand. The integrated extractor canopy comes apart so the mesh filters lift out, get degreased in the sink, dry and go back. Skipping that filter is one of the most common reasons a Berkeley kitchen fails its check-out. Then the integrated fridge, freezer, dishwasher and washer-dryer inside and out, the drawers, the door seals, and the handle-less cabinet faces including the under-edge that collects finger grease. Worktops polished. Taps and waste descaled with a non-acidic solution. The matt cabinetry in most of these kitchens shows every print under the spotlights, so it gets a second pass with a dry microfibre.
The stone bathrooms
Walk-in shower glass, frame and channel descaled. The rainfall head and hose taken down where they come away. Marble or stone floor and walls are buffed with a pH-neutral, stone-safe cleaner and nothing acidic, because acid burns a permanent dull patch into natural stone that no amount of later work removes. Vanity drawers, the mirrored cabinet, the integrated lighting, the extractor vent. Chrome polished. The WC inside the rim, the hinges, the flush plate, the floor behind the pan.
Bedrooms, living space and the rest
Wardrobe interiors top to bottom, drawer runners, bed bases lifted. Skirting, door tops, hinges, the lot. Engineered-oak swept and microfibre-mopped with a manufacturer-safe product, no standing water. Where there is carpet, usually a bedroom or two, it is vacuumed back and front. Light switches, sockets, the thermostat and the video-intercom panel, all of which show finger oil under the downlights. Internal doors both sides, frames and handles. Smoke-alarm housings and ceiling lines dusted. Then the floors last, mopped on the way out so there are no prints left behind.
If you want extras, say a second oven pass on a cooker that has had a long hard let, or a carpet shampoo on the bedrooms, we quote those separately and never fold them into the headline price without telling you.
Why W6 water is the chrome and the glass problem
W6 sits in a very hard water area. Thames Water puts the supply here at roughly 337 parts per million of calcium carbonate, well above the national average, and on the new fittings at Fulham Reach that shows up fast. Calcium films onto the chrome rainfall heads, the shower glass and the tap spouts, and a quick wipe does nothing to it. A clerk checks for exactly this. They look at the shower screen edge-on against the light, run a thumbnail down the tap, pull the shower head in close.
The trap at Fulham Reach is the bathroom material. The aggressive descalers that would shift scale off a cheap chrome tap in seconds are the same acids that etch the marble and stone these bathrooms are finished in, leaving a haze the next clerk will read as damage. So we split the job. Mild, non-acidic scale work on the chrome, glass and ceramic. Hand-buffing only on the stone, never acid. It is slower, and it is the difference between a pass and a charge for a ruined surface.
The licensing question, answered straight
Tenants ask whether their flat needs a council licence, and at Fulham Reach the answer is usually no. Hammersmith and Fulham runs two schemes that both started on 5 June 2022 for five years. One is a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for houses in multiple occupation. The other is a selective licensing scheme limited to 24 named streets, among them King Street, Goldhawk Road, North End Road, Dawes Road, Greyhound Road and Wandsworth Bridge Road. Distillery Wharf and Parr’s Way, the addresses Fulham Reach actually sits on, are not on that list. You can read the council’s own property licensing pages for the full street roll.
Purpose-built self-contained flats in a block of three or more, which is precisely what these are, sit outside mandatory HMO licensing too. So a standard let here, one household in one flat, is generally not operating under a council licence condition. That does not lower the bar. The bar is set by Berkeley’s managing-agent housekeeping standard instead, and that is stricter than any council inspection would be.
No council licence does not mean a softer check-out. The managing agent’s standard is the harder one.
Getting in: the gate, the goods lift, the bridge
Access at Fulham Reach takes more planning than the clean itself, and we sort it before the day. The estate is gated and runs a 24-hour concierge. We email or call the concierge the day before so the crew is on the visitor list at the Parr’s Way entrance, the van goes to a visitor bay in the basement car park, and the goods lift is booked for our slot. That goods lift matters: its protective mat gets photographed before and after any move, and we have seen contractors billed for marks a timestamp pinned on them unfairly, so we bring our own felt sliders and keep our own kit to the lift we are booked into.
Then there is the bridge, which is the local quirk a non-resident never sees coming. Hammersmith Bridge has been shut to motor traffic since 2019. It reopened to pedestrians and cyclists in 2025 but is still closed to cars in 2026, with an MP calling the saga a national disgrace this April. For us that means the southern approaches across the river are not a driving route, so we come in from the Hammersmith side and we plan the parking around it. It is the sort of thing worth knowing when you are lining up your own removal van too.
If your move spans the borough or the river, our Hammersmith and Fulham hub covers the wider area, and the Imperial Wharf page picks up the Berkeley sister-scheme downriver on the SW6 bank. Heading into town, we also work Shepherd’s Bush and Chiswick next door.
What it costs, and the sum worth doing first
Our pricing is the same across London: £30 per hour per cleaner, kit and products included, with the figures below as fixed package prices for a flat in normal lived-in shape. A long corporate let with heavy wear, or a flat nobody has deep-cleaned in three years, costs more, and we say so on the phone rather than on the invoice.
| Property | Typical duration | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|
| Studio or Manhattan suite | 3-4 hours, 1-2 cleaners | From £156 |
| 1-bed riverside flat | 4-5 hours, 2 cleaners | From £207 |
| 2-bed flat | 5-7 hours, 2 cleaners | From £243 |
| 3-bed flat or penthouse | 6-8 hours, 2 cleaners | From £339 |
| 4-bed townhouse | 8-10 hours, 2-3 cleaners | From £425 |
| Hourly cover, part-job top-up | By arrangement | £30 per cleaner |
| Carpet shampoo add-on | Same visit | From £36 per bedroom |
| Oven add-on, standalone spec | 1.5-2 hours | From £77 |
Carpet shampoo runs £36 a bedroom, £43 for the main reception, or £115 for a whole carpeted two-bed. An oven on its own is £77 single, £110 double, £114 for a 90cm range, though on these integrated single ovens it is normally part of the package rather than an extra.
Now the sum nobody runs until it is too late. A riverside one-bed here is held against a deposit that is often well north of two thousand pounds. Set a clean that protects it against the cost of failing the check-out, losing the deposit argument, and paying for a professional clean anyway on the second round, and the maths makes itself. Every booking carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if the agent flags a cleanliness issue inside 48 hours, we come back and put it right at no charge, as long as the flat is still as we left it. Our 97% first-time pass rate is why agents keep our number. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents across London, including the Foxtons, Hamptons and Knight Frank desks that handle a lot of the Fulham Reach lettings, and over the years that work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions.
It helps to know which job you are actually booking, because three get muddled.
- End-of-tenancy clean
- The hand-back clean, built to pass the managing agent’s check-out and release the deposit, flat empty, with the 48-hour guarantee on it, at £30 an hour per cleaner.
- Deep clean
- A deep clean resets a home you are staying in. No formal standard to hit, lived-in, also from £30 an hour.
- Regular domestic clean
- A domestic clean is ongoing upkeep, from £22 an hour on a weekly visit, £24 fortnightly.
- Check-out inventory
- Not a clean at all: the report the clerk writes against the original spec. It is the thing we clean to, which is why we photograph the result.
A Henley House job from April
“Two-year corporate let on a river-facing one-bed in Henley House, and I’d been away with work for the last month of it. The flat looked fine to me, but the wall of glass on the river side was hazed with that salt film you get off the Thames, and I’d never have spotted the scale on the rainfall shower. Two cleaners gave it a full morning, did the glass and the marble properly, and Foxtons signed it off on the first walk-through. Deposit back inside ten days.”
Daniel, Fulham Reach W6, April 2026
That is the typical Fulham Reach pattern. The flat is rarely filthy. It is a long corporate let where the river glass and the stone bathroom need specific work the tenant cannot easily do alone, against an agent who checks line by line. The clean cost a fraction of the deposit it protected. What sealed it was the dated photo set that went out with the invoice, which is the thing a DIY clean almost never has when the agent pushes back.
Questions we get asked
How much is end-of-tenancy cleaning at Fulham Reach?
Studios start at £156, one-bed riverside flats at £207, two-beds at £243, three-bed flats and penthouses at £339, and four-bed townhouses at £425. Part-job hourly cover is £30 per cleaner with a two-cleaner minimum.
Do you clean inside the riverside blocks like Henley House and Faulkner House?
Yes. We work the Berkeley blocks across the estate, Goldhurst, Faulkner, Henley, Fairfax, Brunswick, Palmer and the Townhouses, plus Holland House and Holland Court. The concierge clears us through the Parr’s Way gate on the day.
How long does a river-facing two-bed take?
Around five to seven hours with two cleaners, and the river-facing flats sit at the longer end because of the wall of floor-to-ceiling glazing and the balcony-door tracks that go with it.
Will you use products that are safe on the marble bathrooms?
Yes, pH-neutral stone-safe cleaners as standard on the stone and marble. Acidic descalers etch those surfaces and leave a haze that will not buff out, so we keep acid to the chrome, glass and ceramic only.
What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?
If your managing agent or inventory clerk flags a cleanliness issue within 48 hours of the clean, we come back and put it right at no extra cost, provided the flat is still in the state we left it. It is on every booking we do.
What is your first-time pass rate here?
Our company-wide first-time pass rate is 97%, and the W6 riverside sits at or above that because the crew that works Fulham Reach knows the Berkeley spec and what the managing agents expect to see.
Do you carry public liability insurance the estate can check?
Yes, £5m public liability plus employer’s liability, and we send the certificate to managing agents on request. Berkeley estate management usually wants to see it before clearing a goods-lift booking.
Is Fulham Reach inside the Hammersmith and Fulham licensing schemes?
Generally no. The selective licensing scheme covers 24 named streets and runs to 4 June 2027, and Distillery Wharf and Parr’s Way are not on it. Purpose-built self-contained flats in a block of three or more sit outside mandatory HMO licensing as well, so a standard single-household let here usually needs no council licence, though Berkeley’s housekeeping standard still applies.
How does the gate and the basement car park work for your crew?
The estate is gated with a 24-hour concierge. We arrange access the day before, the crew goes on the visitor list at the Parr’s Way entrance, the van uses a visitor bay in the basement, and the goods lift is booked for our slot.
Does the closed Hammersmith Bridge affect your visit?
Only the route in. The bridge has been shut to cars since 2019 and is still closed to motor traffic in 2026, so we come in from the Hammersmith side rather than across the river, and we plan the parking around that. It is worth knowing if you are booking your own removal van too.
Do you remove the integrated extractor filters?
Always. The mesh filters come out, get degreased in the sink, dry and go back. Leaving them is one of the most common reasons a Berkeley kitchen gets failed at check-out.
Do you charge extra to clean engineered-oak floors?
No. Cleaning the engineered-oak is in the base price; we bring a manufacturer-safe product and microfibre and leave no standing water. Carpet shampoo is the only flooring job that is a separate add-on.
Can I book at short notice for an end-of-month move-out?
Often, especially midweek. Friday and end-of-month slots fill first, and with rolling notice under the new tenancy rules the move-outs are less predictable than they were, so two or three days’ notice is sensible where you can manage it.
What happens if my landlord still disputes the clean?
With the work done to checklist standard and a dated photo set to prove it, most disputes resolve before they reach an adjudicator. If it does escalate, the deposit goes to scheme adjudication and Shelter’s deposit guidance walks through the steps, with our invoice and photos as evidence.
Get a price
Ring 0333 555 2076 and we price the job in about three minutes. Tell us the block, the floor, the bedroom count and the move-out date, and we come back with a fixed figure. Out of hours, email [email protected] and someone calls you back. A couple of phone photos of the kitchen and the river-facing glass sharpen the quote. And if your check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway and we will do what we can.
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