End of tenancy cleaning in Greenford Broadway

The suburb the factories built

Greenford held 843 people at the 1911 census and 32,824 by 1951, and almost all of that arrived in one interwar rush. The railway reached the village in 1904, Lyons opened its tea-and-food works on the Grand Union Canal in 1921 and had 3,000 people on the books by 1926, Glaxo followed in 1935, and the A40 Western Avenue cut through on its way west. The fields went under brick in twenty years. What that boom left behind is the rental market you are handing a flat back into now, and on Greenford Broadway it comes in three clear shapes.

The shopping parade itself dates from the 1920s, on the stretch of Ruislip Road between Greenford Road and Oldfield Lane, and the Art Deco station was rebuilt in matched style in the early 1930s. The flats above those shops and the pebbledash semis behind them all went up in the same short window, which is why the hand-back patterns here are so repeatable. Long before any of it, this was where William Perkin made the world’s first synthetic dye by the canal in North Greenford in 1856; the industry that followed, Lyons, Glaxo, Rockware Glass, is the reason the town filled up at all. None of that history is on the inventory sheet, but it explains the housing the inventory clerk is standing in.

End of tenancy cleaning on Greenford Broadway UB6 9 starts at £156 for a studio and £207 for a one-bed parade flat, fixed price, run on our 57-point agent-approved checklist with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee. That is the short answer. The rest of this page is how the clean changes between a flat over a Broadway shop, a pebbledash semi on Costons Lane, and a post-war infill block near Ravenor Park, and why the licence on the property makes the hand-back stricter here than a mile east.

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Three kinds of front door, three kinds of deduction

A clerk reads the stock off the door before they are even inside. UB6 9 splits three ways, and each way fails inspection differently.

First, the Art Deco shop parade on The Broadway, the run between Greenford station and Ravenor Park that went up with the 1930s station rebuild in matched style. A private street door sits beside the shop front, a steep stair climbs to a one-bed or two-bed flat above, and sometimes a small roof terrace is cut into the back. These fail on the kitchen extractor over the gas hob, almost always overdue a deep clean and the single biggest deposit-loser in the postcode, then the steep private-stair carpet, the silicone bead above the bath, and the chrome shower fittings the hard water turns chalky in three weeks.

Second, the 1930s pebbledash semis on the residential streets behind the parade: Costons Lane, Costons Avenue, Whitton Avenue East, the eastern stretch of Ruislip Road, Allenby Road. Pebbledash front, low-pitched roof, leaded bay window on the front reception, a side-return kitchen, a long back garden. These fail on the glazing-bar dust in that leaded bay, the side-return tile grout, the chimney-recess hob where the original breast still stands, picture-rail dust in the reception, and the cast-iron radiator pipework that runs down into stripped pine floorboards. On a four-year tenancy add the airing-cupboard tank shadow.

Third, the post-war infill. The 1960s and 1970s ex-council flats near the canal-side works and the 1990s and 2000s pockets tucked between the older streets toward Ravenor Park. These fail on the integrated washer-dryer door rubber, paint scuffs in tight communal hallways, the en-suite shower-screen seal, and the kitchen plinth crumb-line. Three stocks. One checklist, applied three ways.

The money behind the inspection is not small. Greenford Broadway flat rent runs to around £2,023 a month for a two-bed at the start of 2026 (ONS housing prices for Ealing), and a five-week deposit on a Costons Avenue four-bed at £2,400 a month puts £2,768 in scope. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (the source text is on legislation.gov.uk) scrapped Section 21 and tightened what a landlord may take from a deposit at the end of a tenancy. The legal test for a cleaning deduction has not changed, but the evidence bar has, because clerks now photograph every line item against the check-in inventory so the charge holds up if a tenant disputes it. The deposit cap is still five weeks below £50,000 annual rent, the 30-day protection rule still applies, and the court can still order one to three times the deposit if the landlord never protected it.

Three stocks. One checklist, applied three ways.

The licence on the property changes the hand-back

Here is the bit that catches tenants out. Greenford Broadway ward is inside Ealing Council selective licensing, the second designation, which came into force on 3 January 2023 and runs to 2 January 2028 (the council sets out the schemes on its Ealing Council on the licensing schemes page). The same wave brought in Acton Central, Dormers Wells, Greenford Green, Hanger Hill, Hobbayne, Lady Margaret, North Greenford, Northolt Mandeville, Northolt West End, Perivale and South Acton. The licence costs £750 per property for the five-year term, with a £75 cut for accredited landlords and a £50 cut for an EPC A-C rating. On top of that, Ealing runs a borough-wide additional HMO scheme to 2027 covering shared houses, so a good slice of the parade-flat and semi stock carries a licence one way or another.

Why does it bite at hand-back? Because a licensed property comes with a council audit obligation on standards and a paper trail that runs back to the council as well as the landlord. Get it wrong and the landlord faces prosecution or a financial penalty up to £30,000, so the managing agent is not going to wave through a soft clean. That is why the agents on UB6 9 lean harder on the clean than the agents in Ealing Common, not softer. Haart on The Broadway, Bairstow Eves over from Medway Parade, Ellis & Co Greenford, Evans & Co and Star Estate Agents all work to the licence standard, because a mile east in Ealing Common or Ealing Broadway selective licensing does not apply at all. The audit is real, and they know it.

That is why the agents on UB6 9 lean harder on the clean than the agents in Ealing Common, not softer.

A few terms worth pinning down, because they decide what the clean has to clear:

Selective licensing

A council-wide or ward-by-ward scheme that requires a licence for most privately rented homes, with conditions on management and standards. Greenford Broadway is in Ealing’s second designation, 3 January 2023 to 2 January 2028.

Additional HMO licence

A separate borough-wide licence for houses in multiple occupation, shared homes let room by room, running in Ealing to 2027. Distinct from selective licensing, and a property can sit under one or both.

Check-in inventory

The dated, photographed record of a property’s condition at the start of the tenancy. The hand-back walk is judged against it line by line, which is why move-in photos decide most disputes.

Five-week deposit cap

The legal maximum a landlord can hold, five weeks’ rent where annual rent is below £50,000. On a £2,400-a-month Costons Avenue semi that is about £2,768.

Hard water off the Greenford chalk

Greenford sits in Thames Water’s chalk-aquifer supply. UB6 average hardness is 287.2 mg per litre (Thames Water hardness data), which is classed very hard. That matters more than it sounds. On a parade-flat shower head that has not been descaled since the lease began, the calcium crust photographs cleanly under the bathroom shot on the inventory iPad. On the original chrome bib taps in a Costons Avenue bathroom, a chalk bloom rings the tap collar within weeks of the last clean.

We descale with a low-pH solution, brushed onto the surface, worked, rinsed and dried. Never a paste left on a rag, never a chemical we name on the invoice. The shower head comes off, soaks in a sink basin, and goes back on. Hand finished. Every time.

The same hard water marks the kettle and the kitchen mixer tap, and on a long tenancy it builds a cloudy film on the inside of the shower screen that a quick wipe never shifts. That film is one of the things a clerk leans in to check, because it photographs as neglect even when the rest of the bathroom is clean. We take the screen back to clear glass with the descaler and a blade where the limescale has bonded, then buff it dry so there is nothing for the move-out photo to catch.

Room by room, what the 57-point clean does

The 57-point checklist is the same everywhere. Where it spends its time shifts with the stock.

Kitchen

This is where the parade-flat extractors and the Costons Lane chimney-recess hobs both burn the clock. Behind the cooker, hood filter degreased, oven racks and trays into a hot-soak bath. The extractor canopy lifts off its wall mount where the design allows: baffle pulled, fan housing wiped, fascia hand-finished. Cupboards inside and out, including the dust line above the cornice on the 1930s semi kitchens. Worktop joints scrubbed. The splashback silicone bead re-finished where it has yellowed. Sink, taps and drain hand-descaled with the low-pH solution. Splashback grout brushed back. Fridge-freezer defrosted and washed front and back, door rubber pulled and cleaned. Dishwasher filter pulled. Washing-machine drawer out, door seal hand-cleaned. Plinth off, floor washed underneath. On a recessed gas hob the chimney-breast tile gets a soft brush along the grout.

Bathrooms

Tile grout brushed down to the silicone line. Chrome shower fittings descaled, rinsed, dried. Shower head dismantled, soaked, re-fitted. Tile cracks watched for. Bath-edge silicone wiped, black mould spotted out, the bead re-cut where it is past saving. Toilet inside the bowl, behind the bowl (the bit a clerk checks with a torch), and the cistern lid. Sink, trap, overflow. Mirror polished without a smear. Extractor vent grille pulled and washed where it comes off. Door frame and architrave wiped. Floor mopped.

Bedrooms and living areas

Picture-rail dust on the semi-stock front reception. Wardrobe interiors and tops. Skirtings, architraves, door tops. Light fittings, and the ceiling-rose dust on those reception cornices. Window interiors and frames, including the leaded bay glazing bars on the Costons Lane stock and the smaller casements on the parade flats. Carpets vacuumed into the corners, then spot-cleaned with a barely damp microfibre. Hard floors mopped. Behind beds and sofas, as far as the clerk’s torch reaches. The cast-iron radiator pipework on the semis gets the top, the sides, the ribs, behind, and the pipes that drop into the floorboards.

Throughout

The steep private-stair carpet on a parade-flat entrance, hand-vacuumed and spot-cleaned where the foot-traffic shadow has set in between the shop door and the flat door. Stair edges and landings on the semi staircases. Light switches, sockets, the intercom on the parade flats. Internal door panels. Skirtings throughout. Bin emptied, lid washed. The airing cupboard around the tank on the older houses. The understairs cupboard floor on the semis.

What the parade and the side-street semis cost

Standard outer-London pricing applies on Greenford Broadway. A parade-flat one-bed runs a little shorter than a full semi, but the extractor beat balances it out. Fixed price by property size, no surprise add-ons after the clean.

Add-ons

Carpet shampoo on top runs £36 per bedroom, £43 for the living room, and £115 for the whole-flat carpet on a two-bed. A single oven deep clean is £77, a double is £110, and a 90cm range cooker is £114. If you want extra finish by the hour, it is £30 per cleaner. Across the UB6 round and the wider London map since 2014 we have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits.

How a UB6 9 inventory walk actually runs

The clerks each run a slightly different sequence on the iPad, but the beats land in much the same order. The haart clerk from 53 The Broadway UB6 9PP, the Bairstow Eves clerk over from 7 Medway Parade in Perivale, the Ellis & Co Greenford clerk, the Evans & Co clerk (on the Greenford office since 1992), the Star Estate Agents clerk and the Rolfe East clerk all work to roughly this on a UB6 9 hand-back:

1. The front door and, on a parade flat, the steep private stair, walked for foot-traffic shadow on the carpet.
2. Kitchen first: extractor canopy, baffle, fan housing, oven racks, dishwasher filter, washer door rubber, fridge seal, sink and tap descale, behind the cooker, and the chimney-recess tile on a recessed hob.
3. Bathroom: shower-head descale, screen, the silicone bead above the bath, toilet rim, wet-area grout, extractor cover.
4. Front reception on the semi-stock: picture-rail dust, behind the sofa, leaded bay glazing bars, light fittings.
5. Bedrooms: wardrobe interiors and tops, skirtings, behind the bed, the en-suite if there is one.
6. Throughout: skirtings, sockets, switches, internal doors, hallway, stair edges on the semis, the airing-cupboard tank shadow on the older houses.
7. The walk-around with the report, checking each photo against the move-in inventory and the council licence-condition record.

That last line is the Greenford difference. On a licensed property the clerk is feeding a record the council can ask to see, on top of protecting the landlord’s deposit position. It is also why we photograph our own work on the way out on the bigger UB6 9 jobs, so that if a charge is queried later there are two sets of dated pictures rather than only the clerk’s.

The order is not random, either. A clerk who has walked a hundred parade flats goes to the kitchen extractor first because that is where the time and the money sit, and a clerk who has done the Costons Lane semis knows the leaded bay and the radiator pipework are the two spots a tenant almost never touches. We brief the team off the same logic. On a semi the front reception and the airing cupboard get a second pass; on a parade flat the canopy and the stair carpet do. Same checklist, different running order, because the stock decides where the deductions hide.

Getting in and out around The Broadway

Greenford station is unusual. It sits on the Central line and on the Great Western Railway branch to West Ealing, and the branch terminates in a central bay platform with a cross-platform interchange straight onto the Central line, one of only a handful of such interchanges in London. The branch shuttle runs about every half hour, calling at South Greenford, Castle Bar Park and Drayton Green, and for the Elizabeth line you change at West Ealing where it ends. That detail earns its keep on a working day: when a parade-flat job falls in a parking black-out, we send the team in by tube rather than circle The Broadway looking for a bay.

Parking is the worst part of the postcode, frankly. The Broadway carries a meter band along the parade frontage, and Costons Lane, Costons Avenue and Whitton Avenue East sit inside the Ealing controlled parking zone. We build the parking into the quote and do not pass it on as a surprise. On most jobs that is a non-issue; on an end-of-month Friday on the parade it can be the thing that decides whether the van or the Central line gets the team there first.

Booking is simple. Most Greenford Broadway jobs are key-drop: we collect from the managing agent, run the clean, and hand the keys back the same day, with the agent-facing report emailed once the team leader has signed it off on site. You do not need to be there. Tell us the property type, the postcode, the check-out date and which agent is managing it, and we quote, book a slot, and confirm the report timing in writing. Email [email protected] or phone 0333 555 2076.

Where Greenford Broadway sits on the wider map

End of tenancy is the hand-back clean. A deep clean is for when you are staying. A regular clean is for keeping the place ticking over. The work on this page is the first one. The 48-hour re-clean guarantee is the line that separates it from the other two: if your inventory clerk flags any item on the 57-point spec within three days of our visit, we come back and re-do that item at no charge, on the strength of the agent’s written report. That cover only attaches to an end of tenancy booking, because that is the only one priced as a fixed-spec hand-back service.

People do ask why they cannot simply book a deep clean and save a few pounds. The honest answer is that a deep clean is scoped for a home you are keeping, so it is judged by you, not by a clerk with the check-in inventory open on an iPad. The end of tenancy clean is scoped to that inventory and backed by the re-clean cover, which is exactly what a Greenford Broadway agent on a licensed property wants to see. On a parade-flat one-bed the gap in price is small; the gap in what it protects is not.

If your Greenford Broadway clean needs the add-ons we run as their own jobs, you can read the oven cleaning service and the carpet cleaning service in their own right; both go on the same job number as your end of tenancy if you flag them at quote stage. For the streets the other side of the station in UB6 7, see the Greenford Green page, or step back up to the parent Ealing borough hub for the borough overview and the rest of the UB6 area pages.

Greenford Broadway end of tenancy questions

How much is end of tenancy cleaning in Greenford Broadway?

Studio £156, one-bed £207, two-bed £243, three-bed £339, four-bed-plus £425. Carpet shampoo and oven deep-clean are priced separately. The quote is in plain English, with no surprise add-ons once the clean is done.

Is Greenford Broadway in Ealing’s selective licensing scheme?

Yes. Greenford Broadway ward is inside Ealing Council selective licensing, the second designation, which started on 3 January 2023 and runs to 2 January 2028. The licence costs £750 per property for the five-year term, with a £75 discount for accredited landlords and a £50 discount for EPC A-C properties. The same designation covers Acton Central, Dormers Wells, Greenford Green, Hanger Hill, Hobbayne, Lady Margaret, North Greenford, Northolt Mandeville, Northolt West End, Perivale and South Acton.

Do you clean the parade-flat kitchen extractors above the Broadway shops?

Yes, and it is the line item that loses more Greenford Broadway deposits than any other. The canopy comes off its wall mount where the design allows. Baffle and mesh filters go into a hot-soak bath in the sink, not sprayed in place. The fan housing is hand-scrubbed. The fascia is wiped down last. On a parade-flat one-bed this is a 35 to 45 minute job on its own, and the clerk’s move-in photo is the reference.

What about the 1930s pebbledash semis on Costons Lane and Costons Avenue?

That is most of our UB6 9 work outside the parade. The patterns are different from the parade flats: leaded bay-window glazing-bar dust, side-return kitchen tile grout, the chimney-recess hob area, picture-rail dust in the front reception, cast-iron radiator pipework running into the original floorboards, and the airing-cupboard tank shadow on a long tenancy. We cost a four-bed Costons Avenue semi at £425 and a smaller three-bed at £339.

Do you handle the steep private-stair carpet up to the parade flats?

Yes. It is hand-vacuumed top to bottom, then spot-cleaned where the foot-traffic shadow has set in between the shop entrance and the flat door. On a deep stain we follow up with a short carpet shampoo at the £36 single-room rate. The clerks know to look at this run on the parade-flat hand-backs.

Do you work with haart, Bairstow Eves, Ellis & Co and the rest of the UB6 letting agents?

Yes. We have done jobs through haart at 53 The Broadway UB6 9PP, Bairstow Eves at 7 Medway Parade in Perivale, Ellis & Co Greenford, Evans & Co (on the Greenford office since 1992), Star Estate Agents Greenford, Rolfe East, Albert Grace and Regions Estates. We are happy to liaise direct with the inventory clerk on hand-back day if you want.

Are you insured?

Yes, public liability and treatment-risk cover. We send the certificate on request before the booking if a managing agent asks for it.

Do I need to be there for the clean?

You do not. Most Greenford Broadway bookings are key-drop with the managing agent. We collect the keys from haart on The Broadway or the Bairstow Eves Perivale branch, run the clean, and drop the keys back the same day. You get the agent-facing report by email as soon as the team leader has signed it off on site.

Do you bring the products?

All products, all kit, all consumables. You do not need to leave anything at the property. We carry the descaler, the low-pH bathroom solution, the hot-soak bath kit for the canopy baffle, and a separate kit bag for the period radiators and original floorboards on the 1930s semis.

How does parking work on The Broadway and Costons Lane?

The Broadway has a meter band on the parade frontage, and the side roads (Costons Lane, Costons Avenue, Whitton Avenue East) sit inside the Ealing Council controlled parking zone. We build the parking into the price and do not pass it on. If a parade-flat job falls in a permit black-out, we send cleaners in on the Central line to Greenford station rather than driving.

What is the closest station and which lines run through Greenford?

Greenford station is on the Central line and the Great Western Railway branch line to West Ealing. The branch ends in a central bay platform with a cross-platform interchange onto the Central line, which is one of only a handful in London. For the Elizabeth line you change at West Ealing, where the branch shuttle terminates. It is useful when a UB6 9 job runs into the parking black-out and we send the team in by tube.

What if my deposit was not protected?

If your landlord did not protect your deposit with one of the three approved schemes, TDS, mydeposits or DPS, within 30 days, the court can order them to pay you one to three times the deposit on top of returning it. Shelter has a clear walk-through at shelter.org.uk. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 did not change that part of the deposit regime, and the deduction logic on the clean is the same either way.

What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?

If the inventory clerk flags any line item on our 57-point checklist as not done, we come back inside 48 hours and re-do it at no extra cost. The agent’s written report is the trigger, and we do not argue with the clerk.

What is the 97% first-time pass rate?

Across our agent-managed Greenford Broadway and wider UB6 work in 2025-26, 97 of every 100 cleans were signed off by the inventory clerk on the first walk, with no re-clean needed. The other three were re-cleaned inside 48 hours under the guarantee.

How quickly can you book me in?

Same-week is normal on a parade-flat one-bed or a 1930s semi if you can flex the weekday. End-of-month Fridays are the busy slot in UB6 9. If you have a Saturday or a midweek check-out, we can usually book you in two or three days out. Phone 0333 555 2076.

Why does Greenford have so much 1930s housing and parade-flat stock?

Greenford grew from 843 people in 1911 to nearly 33,000 by 1951, almost all of it built in the interwar boom after the railway and the A40 arrived and after Lyons opened its factory by the canal in 1921. The Broadway parade and the matching Art Deco station went up in the early 1930s, with flats above the shops, and the side streets filled with pebbledash semis at the same time. That is the stock the rental market still trades on, which is why the hand-back patterns here are so consistent.

Book your Greenford Broadway clean

Phone 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected]. Tell us the property type, a parade-flat one-bed above The Broadway, a Costons Lane semi, or a post-war infill flat, plus the postcode, the check-out date, and the managing agent. We quote, book the slot, and send the booking confirmation with the agent-facing report timing in writing. We have cleaned Greenford hand-backs since 2014, and we know what the UB6 9 clerks look for.