Need end of tenancy cleaning in Grange Road?

How do you finish a 14-month let on a one-bed flat above a Grange Road cafe, hand the keys to a Daniel Cobb clerk on a Friday morning while the Bermondsey Square antiques market is in full swing outside, and still walk away with the deposit inside ten working days? You book the firm that has scrubbed kitchen-extractor cowls over the same kind of cafe-below shop-flat stock for the last decade, and you do it before the inventory clerk gets a torch onto the hood baffle.

Last updated April 2026. We cover the SE1 3 patch from the Tower Bridge Road end of Grange Road past Bermondsey Square along the south side of Long Lane, plus the SE1 4 bleed on the Tabard Garden Estate fringe and the Bermondsey Spa-edge cluster behind Spa Road. Same-day work is sometimes available. See the wider Southwark end of tenancy hub for the rest of the borough.

Why Grange Road deposits get deducted

The average private rent in Southwark hit £2,388 a month in February 2026, up 1.7% on the £2,349 figure twelve months earlier (ONS Private Rent and House Prices, February 2026). The borough average house price for January 2026 was £589,000, up 1.2% year on year. Grange Road itself sits between two values: the Bermondsey Square end transacts at the conservation-area premium because numbers 8, 9, 10 and 11 were folded into the Bermondsey Street Conservation Area on 12 January 2010, and numbers 44 and 45 carry Grade II listings; the Tower Bridge Road end is closer to the borough median, with shop-with-flat-above stock built between 1880 and 1910. A one-bed above a Bermondsey Square cafe lets at £1,950 to £2,250 a month; a Pages Walk terrace upper-floor split lets at £1,650 to £1,850. Five to six weeks of rent on the deposit. The clerk’s incentive to find a deduction is real.

Housing stock is the second factor. Grange Road runs east from Tower Bridge Road, hits Bermondsey Square at the south side of the abbey footprint where the Friday antiques market has traded since 1947 (the New Caledonian moved south of the river in that year), and continues to Spa Road and on to the Old Kent Road junction. The street sits on land that was Grange Farm of the Cluniac Bermondsey Abbey, founded in 1082 and dissolved 1538. The current frontages are mostly 1880-1910 four-storey shop-with-flat-above terraces in yellow stock-brick, with shop windows at ground level and two or three flats above. The corner of Grigg’s Place still has the inscribed stone of the Bermondsey United Charity School for Girls from the 1830s. Numbers 44 and 45 are Grade II listed. The east end of the road shades into the Tabard Garden Estate fringe – the LCC mid-rise built between 1910 and 1933 in red brick around a central garden, seven storeys at Geoffrey House and lower across the rest of the scheme. Behind Spa Road sits the Bermondsey Spa regeneration, a 20-hectare 2003-onwards Levitt Bernstein and Hyde scheme that has delivered over 2,000 new homes, more than 40% of them affordable; the new-build studios and one-beds are honest modern stock with no period detail.

Hard water is the third factor. Grange Road sits on the Thames Water network. South London water tests at around 296ppm calcium carbonate, classified very hard (Thames Water hard water guidance). Calcium scale climbs back inside two weeks on shower heads, kettle elements, mixer taps and washing-machine drawers. The Grange Road-specific issue is the kitchen-extractor cowl over a gas hob – cafe-below ventilation chases run through the building, the cowl over a domestic hob in a flat above pulls extra warm air, and the grease cools into a varnish on the cowl underside far faster than in a quieter block.

Renters’ Rights Act 2025 – what changed on 1 May 2026

Section 21 no-fault evictions were abolished one week ago. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 27 October 2025 and Phase 1 commenced on 1 May 2026. Fixed-term ASTs are replaced by rolling periodic tenancies. Any Section 21 notice served on or before 30 April 2026 has to be acted on with a possession claim by 31 July 2026 or it lapses. The deposit walk-out is now the cleanest exit on the books, and the inventory carries more weight than ever. If your tenancy is in dispute, the deposit scheme holds the money: Tenancy Deposit Scheme, mydeposits, or the Deposit Protection Service. Free advice on disputed deductions sits with Shelter.

Practical effect: clerks check harder.

Southwark Council’s selective licensing regime

Southwark’s second selective licensing scheme started on 1 November 2023 and runs five years to 31 October 2028. The scheme covers nineteen of the borough’s twenty-three wards – one of the largest selective designations in the country – and London Bridge ward (which contains the Tower Bridge Road end of Grange Road, Bermondsey Square, Bermondsey Street and the SE1 3 conservation area extension) is one of those nineteen, alongside West Bermondsey, South Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, Surrey Docks, Chaucer, Camberwell Green, Peckham Rye, Rye Lane and others (Southwark Council selective licensing scheme). Any private landlord renting out a single-household or two-sharer property in London Bridge or West Bermondsey ward needs a licence. Failure to license is a civil penalty offence under the Housing Act 2004.

Practical effect on cleaning: licensed flats on Grange Road get inspected more closely than they used to be. Communal stairs, hallway carpets, the cafe-side stair runner, the front door from the street and the bin store get walked separately on a licensed let. We price HMO common parts as standard rooms; you do not pay twice for the bit between your front door and the pavement.

What’s particular about cleaning shop-with-flat-above stock on Grange Road

Three things, in the order they cost cleaners time. First, the kitchen-extractor cowl over a gas hob. Most Grange Road flats above shops have a small four-burner gas hob and a recirculating or external-vent cowl that pulls warm air from a building-wide ventilation chase. Daily cooking over a gas flame puts more grease into the air than an induction hob; the cowl underside, the back of the impeller and the gap above the cowl where greasy dust settles all collect more residue than in a quieter modern block. We pull the filter, soak it in a degreaser bath, scrub the cowl, clean the back face of the impeller, and wipe down the building-side flue exit where it is accessible. Second, the stair carpet between street door and flat. If the building has a cafe at ground level, footfall through the street door from suppliers and bin men leaves grit on the carpet that vacuuming alone does not lift. We carpet-shampoo the run if it is on the licensed common-parts list, or quote it as an add-on if the landlord requests. Third, the bathroom-window condensation rim. Most Grange Road shop-flats have one bathroom, often back-of-flat with a small window onto an internal lightwell or a side-return. Trickle vents are routinely painted shut. Black mould forms along the silicone bead corners and up the bottom of the frame. A spray-and-wipe will not lift it. We strip silicone where it has gone past saving, treat the frame with a fungicidal wash, polish the glass, and re-seal.

“I had 14 months on a one-bed above a Bermondsey Square coffee shop – first floor, two casement windows facing the antiques market, a small galley kitchen with a gas hob and the original 1990s extractor cowl. I am a freelance illustrator, I cooked at home most evenings, and the cowl over the hob got amber inside the first six months. My agent at Daniel Cobb on Bermondsey Street warned me when I gave notice that the cowl was where the clerk would look first – the previous tenant had been deducted £180 for it. Monster came on a Tuesday, two cleaners, seven and a quarter hours in a flat that small. They pulled the filter, dropped it in a degreaser bath for forty minutes, scrubbed the cowl underside, turned the impeller and cleaned the back face, then wiped down the flue exit on the lightwell side. The clerk passed it first time, the Friday morning the market was setting up at six. £2,100 deposit back the following Wednesday.” – Hannah, Grange Road one-bed shop-flat above a Bermondsey Square cafe, SE1 3

Coverage – streets and zones

We work the SE1 3 patch around Grange Road and Bermondsey Square, plus the SE1 4 bleed onto the Tabard Garden Estate fringe and the Bermondsey Spa-edge cluster behind Spa Road. Streets and zones we book most often:

• Grange Road itself – both sides, from the Tower Bridge Road junction past Grigg’s Place and Bermondsey Square along to Spa Road and the Old Kent Road end
• Bermondsey Square – the four sides of the square plus the antiques-market frontage and the cafe rows
• Bermondsey Street, the south end – from Long Lane down to the Grange Road junction, including the conservation extension fronts
• Tower Bridge Road – the bus-route spine, both sides between the Bricklayers Arms and the Long Lane junction
• Pages Walk, Crimscott Street, Willow Walk – the SE1 5 industrial-and-residential band on the Old Kent Road bleed
• Tabard Street, Long Lane – the Tabard Garden Estate fringe between Borough High Street and Grange Road
• Spa Road, Grange Walk, Grigg’s Place – the conservation-extension hinterland streets
• Tanner Street, Druid Street, Maltby Street – on the SE1 3 / SE1 2 bleed towards the railway arches
• Bermondsey Spa-edge new-build cluster – studios and one-beds delivered through the Hyde Group regeneration since 2003
• SE1 3 around Bermondsey Square, SE1 4 along Long Lane, SE1 5 on the Pages Walk side

If your address sits a few streets outside this list, ring the office. We almost certainly cover it.

What’s included in our Grange Road end of tenancy clean

One bullet list. We work the same 57-point agent-approved checklist on every job, scaled to the flat. End of tenancy is the hand-back clean. Deep is for staying. Regular is for keeping it tidy. The work below is the first one – agent-facing report on request, fixed price, nothing rushed by the clock.

• Kitchen: oven cavity, racks soaked separately, glass door inner and outer panes, seals, the gap between the panes that most agents test first
• Kitchen: gas hob, burner caps and crowns soaked separately, surrounding worktop, splashback, ignition recess
• Kitchen: extractor cowl underside, baffle filter degreased, back face of the impeller, the gap above the cowl where greasy dust hides, accessible flue exit
• Kitchen: fridge, freezer fully defrosted, microwave, washing-machine drawer and rubber gasket – the place Thames Water leaves grey scale
• Kitchen: all worktops wiped, taps and waste descaled with a hard-water scale solution, splashback grout brushed clean
• Kitchen: unit fronts inside, outside, top, behind and underneath – including the under-edge that finger oil settles on
• Kitchen: sink chrome polished separately after descaling, plug fitting and overflow
• Kitchen: bin recess sanitised, kickboards, plinths, vinyl or hardwood floor mopped including the lifted edge at the cooker side
• Bathrooms: bath, shower tray, screen and tiles – acid descale on shower head and screen runner, rinsed twice
• Bathrooms: bathroom window frame, trickle vent (cleared if painted shut), silicone bead corners and head, fungicidal wash where condensation has set in
• Bathrooms: WC inside the rim, hinges, behind the pan, base, floor edges
• Bathrooms: sink, taps, plug, overflow – chromework polished after descaling
• Bathrooms: mirror, cabinet, shaver socket, extractor grille (the dust load looks brown when removed)
• Bathrooms: tile grout scrubbed where shower water hits, towel rail and the radiator behind it
• Bedrooms: wardrobes inside and out, drawer runners, rails wiped
• Bedrooms: skirtings, picture rails where present in the older shop-flat conversions, light fittings, switches and sockets
• Bedrooms: internal doors both sides, frames, hinges, handles, threshold strips
• Bedrooms: carpet vacuumed in two directions, edges done with a brush attachment, scuffs spot-treated (full carpet shampoo is an add-on)
• Living areas: windows, internal sills, frame channels, shop-frontage casement runners on the older 1880-1910 stock
• Living areas: radiator covers lifted where present, vents, behind-radiator strips
• Living areas: mirrors, picture frames, dust-magnet ledges – the flat sill above the bay-window head holds the most
• Living areas: behind sofas, freestanding furniture, TV cabinet rear and the cable run
• Throughout: all internal doors both sides, frames, architraves
• Throughout: communal stairs in licensed-let conversions on the cafe-below side – banister, spindles, under-stair cupboard, stair carpet vacuumed end-to-end
• Throughout: hallway and stairwell skirtings, including the long Pages Walk front-to-back hallways in older terrace conversions
• Throughout: light switches, plug sockets, thermostats, intercom panels, doorbell button
• Throughout: final torch walk-through in low light to catch what daylight hides – particularly bathroom corners and kitchen cowl

Common reasons we get re-called

Even on the 3% of jobs that do not pass first time, the re-clean is covered free under our 48-hour re-clean guarantee. The patterns we see most often on Grange Road and the Bermondsey Square shop-flat stock:

• Extractor cowl back face. Forty per cent of cafe-above shop-flat cowls have a grease film on the back of the impeller. Pull the filter, scrub the cowl, but if you do not turn the impeller and clean the back face the inventory clerk will lift the cowl themselves and find it. The gas-hob warm-air pull makes this worse than on an induction setup.
• Stair-carpet wear strip. The street-door-to-first-floor run on a cafe-below building gets supplier and bin-collection grit on it daily. A vacuum lifts the loose dust; the embedded grit needs a shampoo pass. If the carpet is on the licensed common-parts list, this is the cleaner’s job, not the landlord’s.
• Bathroom-window condensation rim. If the trickle vent is left painted shut after the move-out, the mould rim re-forms in three weeks. We always clear the vent slot during the clean. If the landlord paints over it again, that is a disrepair complaint, not a clean issue.
• Kitchen tile grout greying. Hard water plus oil mist from the gas hob turns the splashback grout grey faster than on an induction-hob flat. A grout brush and a dilute scale solution restores it. A cloth alone does not.
• Sash and casement frame channels on the 1880-1910 fronts. The original timber casement runners on Grange Road shop-frontage flats collect black grime in the parting bead and the bottom drain hole. A toothbrush and a scale solution lift it; a sponge does not.

What it costs in Grange Road

Grange Road pricing sits at our standard London tier – the shop-with-flat-above stock and the Bermondsey Spa new-builds are straightforward to clean compared to the listed-Georgian work west in Kennington or the conservation-listed terraces in Walcot. Pricing below is the full agent-approved end of tenancy service, fixed price not hourly, with the 57-point agent-approved checklist applied and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee included. No VAT add-on, no fuel surcharge, no extra for upper-floor walk-ups without a lift.

Add-ons

• Carpet shampoo – £36 per bedroom, £43 per living room, £115 whole-2-bed package
• Single oven deep clean (already in standard EOT, listed for reference) – £77
• Double oven deep clean – £110
• Range cooker 90cm – £114
• External window-glass on upper-floor shop-fronts – quoted on site

For comparison, the National Living Wage rose to £12.21 an hour in April 2025 and moves to £12.71 from April 2026 (gov.uk minimum wage rates). Our £30 hourly rate covers two cleaners working in tandem with full kit.

What your Grange Road letting agent will actually check

This list is built from feedback from Daniel Cobb (82-84 Bermondsey Street SE1 3UD), Foxtons (220 Tower Bridge Road SE1 2UP), Acorn on Tower Bridge Road, Cluttons across SE1, and Pedder coming in from the Peckham office at 91-93 Queens Road SE15 2EZ, plus the inventory clerks who walk the SE1 3 patch. Order matters – top of the list is what gets failed most often on cafe-below shop-flat stock.

1. Kitchen-extractor cowl over a gas hob – underside, baffle filter, back face of the impeller, gap above the cowl, accessible flue exit
2. Hard-water scale on shower head, screen runner, tap base, kettle, washing-machine drawer – the Thames Water failure mode at 296ppm
3. Bathroom-window frame condensation rim and silicone bead corners – the painted-shut trickle vent telltale
4. Stair-carpet wear strip between street door and first-floor flat – cafe footfall grit embedded in pile
5. Kitchen tile grout greying from hard water plus gas-hob oil mist
6. Oven door inner glass – the gap between the panes where grease seeps in and bakes
7. Original timber casement runners on the 1880-1910 shop-frontage stock – parting bead and bottom drain hole
8. Behind the cooker – the gap between cooker and worktop where oil pools
9. Carpet edges and the strip under the wardrobe – vacuumed but not visibly cleaned
10. Toilet hinge bolts, rim underside, behind the pan
11. Skirting tops, especially in the long Pages Walk terrace hallways and the Tabard Estate corridor blocks
12. Light fittings and ceiling rose centres in older conversions – the inside dome as well as the outside
13. Fridge and freezer seals – the rubber where mould blooms behind the fridge door
14. Cupboard interiors, especially under-sink (which often has historic scale rings)
15. Door tops and hinges – the flat upper edge nobody dusts
16. Bathroom extractor grille – dust load looks brown when removed
17. Communal stairs, hallway carpet and front-door brass on licensed-let buildings under the London Bridge ward scheme
18. Lightwell or side-return rear-of-flat window glass – the side most tenants never get to

How booking works

1. Phone 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected]. Tell us the postcode, the bedroom count, and your move-out date.
2. We confirm a fixed quote on the call. Carpet add-on, oven type, range cooker, parking on Grange Road (no CPZ between Bermondsey Square and Tower Bridge Road but the antiques market closes the square apron on Friday mornings) and access through any cafe-side stair door get talked through then.
3. We email a written confirmation with the start time and the team lead’s name.
4. The team arrives – usually two cleaners on a one or two-bed, three on a three-bed. They work to the 57-point agent-approved checklist. Photos on completion if you want them for the deposit file.
5. Inventory clerk attends within 48 hours. If they flag anything that’s on our checklist, we come back free under the 48-hour re-clean guarantee. If they flag something outside the checklist (a pre-existing chip in the timber casement, a stair-carpet patch that was already worn at move-in), that’s an inventory dispute, not a clean issue, but we will back you up with our photos.

Frequently asked questions

How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost on Grange Road?

From £207 for a studio, £207 for a one-bed, £243 for a two-bed, £339 for a three-bed, and £425 for a four-bed whole terrace. Grange Road sits at our standard London tier because the shop-with-flat-above stock and the Bermondsey Spa new-builds are straightforward to clean. Carpet shampoo, range-cooker and double-oven add-ons are priced separately. Hourly bespoke at £30 a cleaner where a full EOT is overkill.

How long does the clean take?

A one-bed shop-flat above a Bermondsey Square cafe takes us six to seven hours with two cleaners, a touch longer than the SE1 average because the gas-hob extractor cowl needs the impeller back face cleaned. A two-bed Pages Walk upper-floor conversion runs seven to eight. A three-bed Tabard Estate fringe flat runs eight to nine. Studios are usually finished in a long morning. We do not rush by the clock; we work to the checklist.

Do you guarantee my deposit back?

We can’t guarantee the deposit because the inventory has many lines we don’t touch (paint, wear and tear, the landlord’s furniture, pre-existing scuffs on a stair carpet). What we guarantee is the cleaning side: if the inventory clerk flags any cleaning issue inside 48 hours of our visit, we come back at no charge under the 48-hour re-clean guarantee. 97% first-time pass rate.

Are you insured?

Yes. Public liability cover is in place at £5m. We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House number 9919639, trading since 2014. Insurance certificate available on request.

Do I need to be there?

No. Most of our Grange Road clients drop a key with the letting agent at Daniel Cobb on Bermondsey Street, Foxtons on Tower Bridge Road, Acorn on Tower Bridge Road, Cluttons or Pedder, or use a key safe. We send a written check-out report by email when we leave.

Do you bring all the cleaning products?

Yes. Everything from the scale remover we use on Thames Water hard scale to the degreaser bath the kitchen cowl filter goes in and the fungicidal wash for bathroom-window condensation rims. You do not need to leave anything behind.

What if my landlord uses a specific inventory company?

Tell us the firm when you book. We have worked with most of the SE1 3 inventory clerks, including those instructed by Daniel Cobb, Foxtons, Acorn, Cluttons and Pedder. We brief the team accordingly.

Can you clean a flat that is still partly furnished?

Better if it is empty, but we will work around stored furniture if it is confined to one room. We cannot shampoo a stair carpet under stacked boxes, and the inventory clerk will see the difference. Be aware.

Do you cover shop-with-flat-above stock on Grange Road?

Yes. Most of our SE1 3 work is on this stock – 1880-1910 four-storey terraces with a shop at ground level and one or two flats above, gas-hob kitchens with cafe-style extractor cowls, single bathrooms with side-return windows. We carry the right kit for the cowl impeller back face and the painted-shut trickle vents.

Do you handle HMO common parts under Southwark’s selective licensing?

We do. HMO common parts (communal stairs, hallway, shared kitchen, shared bathroom, front door from the street, bin store) get priced as standard rooms. Southwark’s second selective scheme runs to 31 October 2028 in London Bridge ward and changed how landlords document the property, but did not change the cleaning standard at the end of a tenancy. Inventory walks are still walked the same way.

What about hard-water scale on chrome shower fittings?

South London water tests at around 296ppm calcium carbonate – very hard. Chrome shower heads, screen runners, mixer taps and kettle elements need a dilute weak-acid soak with proper dwell time, then a polish. Our team carries all of it. If your previous cleaner has been using a generic kitchen spray, the scale will not lift; that is why hard-water inventory failures are so common across SE1.

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

If the letting agent or inventory clerk flags any cleaning issue inside 48 hours of our visit, we send a team back at no extra charge to put it right. We have used it on roughly 3 in 100 jobs since 2014. Across our books to date that’s £1.2m of deposits recovered for tenants we have cleaned for, working with 300+ letting agents.

Do you take card or only bank transfer?

Card on the day, bank transfer in advance, or cash if that is easier. We send an itemised invoice for the deposit file.

How quickly can you book me in?

Usually 48 to 72 hours’ notice across SE1 3 and SE1 4. Same-day work is sometimes possible if a team is finishing nearby on Bermondsey Street or Tower Bridge Road; phone the office to ask. The Bermondsey Square antiques market trades from early Friday morning to 2pm and closes the square apron to traffic, so on a Friday job we tend to load and unload from Tower Bridge Road or Long Lane.

Will you work with my letting agent’s preferred inventory firm?

Yes. We work with Daniel Cobb, Foxtons, Acorn, Cluttons and Pedder regularly across SE1. Coordinating timings, leaving keys, sending reports – that is how every job runs.

Is Grange Road in a conservation area?

Part of it. Numbers 8, 9, 10 and 11 Grange Road were folded into the Bermondsey Street Conservation Area on 12 January 2010. Numbers 44 and 45 are Grade II listed in their own right. The Bermondsey Square frontage at the centre of the road sits over the Norman Bermondsey Abbey footprint, which English Heritage excavated in 2005-6, and the ground in the square slopes irregularly inward because of the medieval drainage. If your flat is in the conservation extension or a listed shop-frontage, brief us at booking – we send a team that has done conservation-area work before.

Related services and neighbouring areas

If you are booking the end of tenancy clean, you may also want one or more of these add-ons or sister services. Same teams across the same patch.

• Standalone oven cleaning – if the rest of the flat is fine and only the oven let you down
• Carpet shampoo and stain treatment – the most common deposit-deduction line item across SE1, especially the cafe-below stair runs
• Upholstery cleaning – sofa and armchair fabric, especially worth doing on landlord-supplied furniture
• Window cleaning – upper-floor shop-frontage reach
• Hard floor restoration – timber, vinyl and any salvaged Pages Walk parquet

Neighbouring areas we cover for end of tenancy:

• The Blue, Bermondsey end of tenancy – the SE16 3 patch around the Blue market square, next door to the east
• Maltby Street end of tenancy – the SE1 3 railway-arch and Saturday-market band, a few minutes north of Grange Road
• Shad Thames end of tenancy – the SE1 2 riverside warehouse-conversion strip east of Tower Bridge for comparison
• East Street end of tenancy – the SE17 1 Walworth post-war walk-up patch around East Street market
• The full Southwark end of tenancy hub with every neighbourhood we cover

To date we have helped recover £1.2m deposits across our London and county books, working with 300+ letting agents on rolling rotas.

Ready to book?

Phone 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected]. Tell us the move-out date, the postcode, and the bedroom count. We come back with a fixed quote inside an hour during office hours. The 57-point agent-approved checklist, the 48-hour re-clean guarantee and the agent-approved standard are all included; the only optional extras are carpet shampoo, range cooker, double-oven and external windows.

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