End of tenancy cleaning in and around Greenwich Peninsula

On a Peninsula hand-back the clerk reaches for the river-side glass before anything else, and runs a thumb along the top edge of the Juliette rail where Thames fog leaves a faint green moss line after winter. That single line loses more deposits up here than the oven does. So a Greenwich Peninsula end-of-tenancy clean is built for the managed-building standard these glass towers handed you on day one: checklist-driven, deposit-focused, £30 per hour per cleaner, with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee measured against the check-out report itself. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price in about three minutes.

Last updated June 2026. We cover the Greenwich Peninsula in SE10 0, the Knight Dragon residential phases on the loop of the Thames around The O2, from Upper Riverside round to Peninsula Quay and the cable car. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Greenwich.

How the check-in standard quietly sets your deposit

Start with the mechanism, because almost nobody does, and it decides everything that follows. When you moved into a Peninsula flat, a clerk walked it and wrote a report describing every surface, with photos, and against the kitchen and the glazing it almost certainly read “new” or “as new”. That was true on the day, because the flat had just been finished or turned around between corporate tenants. At check-out a different clerk walks it again and compares line by line, and anything materially worse than the check-in entry, beyond fair wear and tear, comes off your deposit. You are marked against a professional clean, which is why a mop and a spare Saturday rarely gets a flat like this over the line.

The money is not abstract. On the DIY Peninsula check-outs we get called in to rescue, the deductions land in a pattern: the integrated oven and extractor, scale on the chrome and shower glass, the moss line on a river-facing rail, a haze lifted into a polished-concrete floor by the wrong cleaner. Put that against a deposit sitting in a scheme on a flat advertised around £2,300 a month and the sums make themselves. Most tenants only run them after they have failed the check-out and lost the first round, which is a pity, because the first round is the cheap one.

Two things sit behind all this in law. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 means your landlord cannot make professional cleaning a contractual condition, so nobody can force you to book us. Damp or mould behind a wardrobe on a cold north-facing wall, though, is a landlord repair issue, not a tenant failure, so we photograph it to keep the charge off you.

A Bagel Court hand-back, and why the rail mattered

One job from earlier this year shows the pattern.

“I was ending an 18-month corporate let on a 1-bed in Bagel Court, ninth floor on the river side, after a relocation for a bank near Cannon Street. The flat had mostly been a sleep-and-shower address, so I thought it was fine. The pre-inspection clerk pointed straight at the top edge of the Juliette rail: a green moss tinge off the river fog I had never noticed, and the one line their Upper Riverside hand-backs lose deposits on after a winter. Monster lifted it off dry with a soft brush, wiped it with a glazing-safe solution, then re-did the glass behind it. The clerk passed me first time. Deposit cleared by the Friday.”
Niamh, Upper Riverside SE10 0, March 2026

That is the Peninsula pattern: a short corporate let, a compact flat that looked clean to the eye, and a clerk who knew which line item to check first. What turned it was knowing before we arrived that the rail top is where these flats fail, and leaving Niamh with a dated photo set that showed it clean, which most DIY check-outs never have when the agent pushes back.

The pre-inspection clerk pointed straight at the top edge of the Juliette rail.

What 1 May 2026 changed for Peninsula tenants

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone. Every existing assured shorthold tenancy in England has converted to a periodic tenancy, and a tenant can now give two months’ notice at any point in the year rather than waiting for a fixed term to run out.

The part people get wrong is what stayed the same. The cleaning side did not change. The Tenant Fees Act still applies, the check-in benchmark still applies, and the deposit maths is exactly what it was the week before. What changed is timing, and timing is what bites on the Peninsula.

This was already a high-churn district of twelve and eighteen-month corporate lets and young-professional renters who move on fast. Let them leave on a rolling two months instead of a fixed end date and the hand-backs get more frequent and far less predictable, so the month-end and Friday clustering that already clogs the building loading bays will not ease. The takeaway is dull but it pays for itself: book the clean earlier than you used to, because the slot you want, and the lift booking with it, will be gone if you wait.

The 57 things we work through, room by room

Every Peninsula booking runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist, built over a decade of London check-outs and tuned to what these managed buildings flag. The full list comes with the job. Here is the shape of it.

The kitchen, where the integrated kit hides the work

These are open-plan kitchens with everything built in, so the clerk photographs them from the island side and the faults hide in the kit. The oven is stripped, not wiped: cavity, racks in a soaking tank, the door glass split apart so the brown film between the panels comes out, fan, element and seals. Then the integrated extractor canopy, the one tenants forget; the mesh filters soak in the sink and the interior is degreased, because a year of cooking with it in place leaves a hard amber film the clerk knows to look up at. The induction hob and the silicone bead around it, where a baked pasta-pan splash sets hard. Integrated fridge-freezer, dishwasher and washer-dryer inside, with the door seal that is the first thing a clerk opens. Quartz worktops polished, taps and waste descaled, splashback joints brushed, then the bin recess, kickboards and floor edges along the concrete or oak run.

Bathrooms, the other place deposits go

Scale comes off the chrome, the shower head, the screen and the tile joints first, with a glazing-safe solution on the low-iron glass that will not etch the spec finish. Then the rest, in plain order.

• Walk-in shower screen on both faces, the silicone bead and the tracks included
• WC inside the rim, the hinges, the flush plate, the base and the floor behind the pan where nobody looks but the clerk
• Heated towel rail and chrome fittings polished, the mirror demister edge wiped
• Vanity drawers, soft-close hinges, integrated lighting and the extractor vent
• Tile or stone floor and walls, joints brushed, seals checked, into the corners and behind the basin unit

Bedrooms, living space and everything between

Inside every wardrobe, drawer and built-in, with the bed-frame base lifted. Skirting, door tops, frames, handles and the threshold strips between rooms. Light fittings, switches, dimmer plates and the smoke-alarm housing. The glazing gets its own section below; the floors are done here, polished concrete with a neutral pH stone soap, engineered oak microfibre-mopped with a wood-safe polish, aftermarket carpets vacuumed top to tail.

Two of these often need their own pass. Where a bedroom has been carpeted as a tenant’s own choice, hot-water extraction is what the carpet cleaning add-on covers on the same visit, and on the rare double-oven three-bed in The Lighterman, standalone oven cleaning covers the second oven if that is all the agent flagged.

Then everything else: sockets, thermostat and the video-entry intercom; the heat-interface unit cupboard, since the Peninsula runs district heating off the estate energy centre and that cupboard catches dust; internal doors both sides; the riser and airing cupboards; cobwebs out of the corners. Then a final walk-through, photographed before and after in every room.

Glass, the river and the marks a cloth never shifts

The Peninsula sits on a north-facing arc of the Thames opposite Canary Wharf, and the river is the reason two faults recur here that you would not get a mile inland. The first is the moss line. Wind pushes moisture and dust off the water onto every Juliette-rail opening from the Upper Riverside towers round to The Lighterman, and after a winter of fog the top edge of a river-facing rail picks up a faint green tinge that no household cloth lifts. The clerk runs a thumb along it. We brush it off dry, then a glazing-safe wipe and a hand-buff, and check the glass behind it.

The second is the glass itself. Floor-to-ceiling glazing on the river side picks up a fingerprint band at chair-back height, where everyone leans on the glass to look down at the boats, and on a corner unit that is two long runs of it. We work the inner face with a long-reach squeegee and a low-streak solution; the outer face high up is a building-managed abseil trade we coordinate with the block office only if external access has been booked.

Wind pushes moisture and dust off the water onto every Juliette-rail opening.

Then there is the water out of the taps. SE10 sits in Thames Water’s hard-water zone, around 293 ppm of calcium carbonate, so scale builds on the chrome, the shower head and the screen far faster than a new tenant expects. We use a mild scale solution on chrome and glass, never on porous stone or the spec floor, and hand-buff dry the same day.

The polished concrete is where a well-meaning tenant does the most damage: a coffee ring tackled with bleach lifts a pale halo into the factory sealant that the clerk’s torch finds every time. We use a neutral pH stone soap and a manufacturer-safe pad, never a strong acid, and the same restraint on the engineered oak. That careful floor work is what the floor cleaning add-on covers when a let has been hard on its floors.

The Peninsula block by block, river edge to plaza

The Peninsula is not the rest of Greenwich, and it is not the historic town either. This is the Knight Dragon masterplan on roughly 150 acres of former gasworks land north of the Blackwall Tunnel approach, wrapping The O2 and North Greenwich station, one Jubilee-line stop from Canary Wharf and four from London Bridge. It is building out towards about 17,000 homes across seven neighbourhoods into the 2040s, with around 2,000 done and Mace on a framework for more of the Lower Riverside plots. None of it is period stock. Every flat came out of the ground after 2015, and the lettable book is glass towers, managed buildings, concierge sign-in and floor-to-ceiling glazing. One clean does not pass all of it, so we work it in bands.

The river edge: Upper Riverside and Lower Riverside

Start at the water. Upper Riverside is the five-tower SOM cluster near the tip, the cascading-terrace family from No.1 to No.5, with interiors by Tom Dixon, Studio Ashby and Design Haus Liberty and a residents’ club with a pool, a gym and a cinema. These carry managed-building inventory standards stricter than most private landlords bother with: the river-side glass, the Juliette rails and the integrated kit set the tail of every clean. Round the southern edge of Lower Riverside, The Lighterman is the 23-storey block on Pilot Walk with Conran interiors, and the newer plots are still handing over. Send us the operator’s spec sheet and we clean to it line by line.

The plaza and the older end: Peninsula Square, the Village and Greenwich Square

In from the river, the Pavilion sits on Peninsula Square by the station and the bus interchange, with Peninsula Quay running east towards the IFS Cloud cable car terminal. The older end of the masterplan is Greenwich Millennium Village, the low-rise stock from the turn of the millennium, plus the Greenwich Square infill by the bus station, both a gentler clean than the towers but held to the same standard. The Tide, the elevated linear park, threads the lot together, and the Design District of architect-led studios sits next door to the residential phases rather than inside them.

Not sure which block or phase your flat sits in? Ring 0333 555 2076 with the address and the floor and we will place it in about ten seconds, and tell you which kit and floor finish to expect.

What it costs, and the maths nobody runs in time

The Peninsula runs at our standard London pricing: £30 per hour per cleaner, with kit, products and travel included. Carpet shampoo, where an aftermarket let has carpet, is £36 a bedroom, £43 for the main reception, or £115 for a whole carpeted two-bed. Ovens are £77 single, £110 double, £114 for a 90cm range. Those figures assume a flat in normal lived-in shape. A long let with heavy wear, a pet household or a flat nobody has deep-cleaned in years costs more, and we say so on the phone rather than after.

Run the maths the way the deposit makes you. A one-bed at £207 to protect a deposit near a month’s rent on a flat that lets around £2,300 is not really a decision. Every Peninsula 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 inside that window and nobody has moved in. Our first-time pass rate across these jobs sits near 97%, but the guarantee is the point. There is a reason the agents here know us: we are on the books of 300+ letting agents, and over the years that work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions. That is the whole job.

Booking it, and the loading-bay problem

The Peninsula clusters its check-outs hard at month-end and on Fridays, and the people who ring on the 29th for the 31st are often out of luck. Book early for those windows. The steps are simple.

1. Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected]. Price in about three minutes. Give us the block, the floor, the bedroom count, the move-out date and any line the check-in marked “new”.
2. We book you in, ideally the day before check-out. Allow 7 to 10 days for an end-of-month slot, 3 to 5 days mid-month.
3. Clear the loading bay and the lift in advance. Each block runs a service-door bay and the concierge logs the van in, so tell us the building and we sort the bay and goods-lift booking beforehand.
4. Flat empty when we arrive. Furniture out, personal things gone, rubbish cleared. We also do removals if you want the move and the clean on one booking, which helps when a tower hand-back means several lift trips.
5. Photo proof at the end. Every room, before and after, with an itemised invoice on company-headed paper. That is your evidence pack, and anything flagged inside 48 hours we come back and fix free.

One honest note on parking. There is almost no street kerb to use: Pilot Walk, Cutter Lane and the run around Peninsula Square are footway and loading-only. So the van handover is a building job, not a kerbside one, and sorting the bay and the lift code with the concierge in advance takes the sting out of the day.

Add-ons, the right job, and the neighbours next door

A Peninsula move-out often pulls in more than the core clean. Window cleaning on the inner face of the glazing is the common one here, given how much glass wraps a river-facing flat. Oven cleaning is standard in every end-of-tenancy job and stands alone from £77 if that is all the agent flagged. Carpet cleaning covers an aftermarket-carpeted bedroom, removals puts the move and the clean on one booking, and upholstery cleaning covers a furnished let where the sofa has done hard service.

Three different jobs get muddled here, and it is worth booking the right one.

Check-in inventory report

The document the clerk writes on day one describing every surface, with photos. It is the benchmark your check-out is judged against, which is why we clean to it and not to a vague idea of “clean”.

End-of-tenancy clean

Built to pass that inventory and get a deposit back, with the flat empty and the 48-hour guarantee on it at £30 an hour per cleaner.

Deep clean

A deep clean resets a home you are keeping, with no formal standard to hit, also from £30 an hour.

Regular domestic clean

A regular domestic clean is ongoing maintenance, from £22 an hour on a weekly booking.

We work the areas around the Peninsula too, which matters when your next flat is one stop along the line. The historic centre is a distinct page at End of Tenancy Cleaning Greenwich Town, all sash windows and Georgian terraces rather than glass towers. The wider postcode hub is North Greenwich, and along the river we also cover Charlton and Deptford.

Questions we get asked

Do I actually need professional end-of-tenancy cleaning on the Greenwich Peninsula?

You can clean it yourself; the Tenant Fees Act 2019 stops a landlord making it a contractual condition. The snag is the benchmark. Your flat was handed over spotless on a managed-building standard, and the clerk marks you against that with the original inventory photos open. Matching a polished tower flat without trade kit is hard, and with deposits often near a month’s rent around £2,300, the maths usually points one way.

Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change anything for a Peninsula move-out?

From 1 May 2026 Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone and every assured shorthold tenancy has rolled to a periodic one, so a tenant can give two months’ notice at any point. The cleaning side did not change. What changed is timing: rolling notice makes the hand-backs in this high-churn corporate-let district less predictable, so book the slot earlier than you used to.

Which buildings do you cover, Upper Riverside and Lower Riverside included?

Yes. We are inside the five SOM-designed Upper Riverside towers (No.1 to No.5), the Lower Riverside run down to The Lighterman on Pilot Walk, the Pavilion on Peninsula Square, Peninsula Quay towards the cable car, and the older Greenwich Millennium Village and Greenwich Square stock most weeks. Send the block name and floor and we slot it in.

Is the Greenwich Peninsula in Royal Greenwich’s selective licensing scheme?

No. The Royal Borough of Greenwich runs selective licensing in five wards only: Woolwich Riverside, Woolwich Common, Shooters Hill, Plumstead Common, and Plumstead and Glyndon, from 1 October 2022 to 30 September 2027. The Peninsula sits outside it. A borough-wide additional HMO scheme (1 January 2024 to 31 December 2028) still catches qualifying multi-sharer lets, so a flat-share can need a licence even here.

How long does a one-bed Upper Riverside flat take to clean?

Roughly four to five hours with two cleaners. The Peninsula one-beds are compact open-plan flats, so the time goes on the detail rather than the floor area: the integrated extractor canopy, the river-side glazing, the hob seal and the top edge of the Juliette rail. A long let with a year of cooking behind the canopy runs to the longer end.

How do you handle the polished-concrete and engineered floors?

Carefully, and never with acid or an abrasive pad. The clerk runs a torch sideways across the open-plan run looking for a haze or a coffee-ring shadow where someone tried bleach. We use a neutral pH stone soap on polished concrete and a wood-safe polish on engineered oak, then hand-buff dry the same day.

What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?

If your inventory clerk or agent flags any cleanliness issue inside 48 hours, we come back and put it right free, as long as you tell us inside that window and nobody has moved in. On the small share of Peninsula jobs that get a second look, the moss tinge on a Juliette rail and the canopy grease are the usual culprits, both quick to redo.

What is your first-time pass rate here?

Our first-time pass rate across the company runs at 97%, and the Peninsula sits at or above that, because the crew that works it knows the managed-building hand-back standard and the integrated AEG and Bosch kit these flats are fitted with. The point of the 97% is really the guarantee behind it: we would rather come back free.

Do you work with the Peninsula letting agents directly?

We are on the books of 300+ letting agents across London, and on the Peninsula that means regular work with Greenwich Peninsula Lettings, the in-house agency on Peninsula Square, plus Foxtons North Greenwich and KFH Greenwich. Usually the tenant books and we copy the agent on the photo pack; sometimes the agent books for the tenant. Either way the bar is the same.

How do parking and the van handover work on a tower-block move-out?

It is a managed-building routine, not a kerbside one. Each block runs a service-door loading bay and the concierge logs the move-out van in, so we clear that with the building rather than circling Pilot Walk or Cutter Lane for a space. The estate runs its own parking, separate from the surrounding Royal Greenwich controlled-parking zone. Tell us the block and we sort the bay and the lift.

Can you clean the floor-to-ceiling glazing and the balcony glass?

The inner face, yes, on every job: the inner glass, the frame and weather-strip channels, and the balcony patio-door track where grit collects. The river-facing glass picks up a fingerprint band at chair-back height where people lean to look at the water, which we work with a long-reach squeegee. The outer face high up is a building-managed abseil job.

Why does the Thames weather matter for the clean?

Because it leaves a mark a household cloth misses. The Peninsula sits on a north-facing arc of the river opposite Canary Wharf, and after a winter of fog the top edge of a river-facing Juliette rail picks up a faint green moss tinge the clerks know to check. We lift it dry with a soft brush, then a glazing-safe wipe and a hand-buff.

Does the flat need to be empty?

Empty is strongly preferred. Furniture left behind blocks access to skirtings, wardrobe bases and the gaps the clerk checks, and it muddies the photo pack. A single item left for the next tenant can be worked around, but the more that stays the less complete the clean reads.

What if my landlord still disputes the clean after a re-clean?

Take it to the deposit scheme adjudication. Our itemised invoice on company-headed paper, the dated before-and-after photo set and the re-clean record are admissible evidence, and a tenant with a complete paper trail very rarely loses. The Tenancy Deposit Scheme handles the process, and Shelter’s deposit guidance walks through the steps if it gets that far.

Get a price

Call 0333 555 2076 and we price the job in about three minutes. Block, floor, bedroom count, move-out date, any known problem areas, that is the lot. Out of hours, email [email protected] or send us a message and someone calls you back first thing. A couple of WhatsApp photos of the kitchen and river-side glass sharpen the quote. And if your check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway.

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