End of Tenancy Cleaning Hither Green SE13 | 48-Hour Guarantee

The no-pub estate and a Hither Green move-out

End of tenancy cleaning

from £156

For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.

0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm

Hither Green is the bit of Lewisham built with no pubs in it. When Archibald Cameron Corbett laid out his estate from 1896 on 278 acres he had bought off the Earl of St Germans, he wrote a covenant into the deeds banning any licensed house on the land.

He was a committed temperance campaigner, and he meant it.
More than three thousand houses went up.
The streets got Scottish names because he was a Scot.
For well over a century there was not a single pub inside the original estate boundary.

Corbett’s houses, roughly 3,000 of them, still make up most of what we clean here. An end of tenancy clean is the top-to-bottom clean a rented home gets between one tenant leaving and the deposit being settled, and Monster Cleaning has been doing them across south-east London for years.

What we clean in SE13:

Typically, a flat carved out of one of those terraces, upstairs or down, sharing a front path with the neighbours
The Meridian South homes built on the old Hither Green Hospital site
The odd whole house let to a family or a group of sharers

Whatever the building, the aim is the same: return it to the state the check-in report records, so none of the deposit goes on cleaning charges.

The no-pub thing is more than a pub-quiz answer once you have worked here a while. Corbett built the estate as respectable housing for clerks and the better-off working families, the people who would catch the train into town from the new station, and he kept the alcohol out on principle.

Researchers at the time called it a new Garden of Eden with young married people and no public houses, which is a grand way of saying tidy streets and a lot of front gardens.

When a flat here finally does change hands after a long let, there can be two, three, four years of living baked into the oven and the grout. The clean is bigger for it.

Our fixed prices sit further down the page. If you would rather ask a person, call 0333 555 2076 with your postcode and the number of bedrooms and you will have a fixed quote while you are still on the line. Nobody needs to come round and measure up first, and no hourly rate is involved.

What you actually rent on the Corbett streets

The Corbett houses look uniform from the pavement and behave very differently inside. They went up fast between 1896 and about 1911, bay-fronted, two storeys, the cheaper ones with a small front garden and the better ones a bit wider.

Streets like Duncrievie, Hafton, Merchiston, Glenfarg and Torridon all carry Scottish place-names, which is a nice quiz fact and also a clue to how old the plumbing is. Most of these houses have been split into flats at some point, and that is the version we usually clean: a converted upper or lower maisonette with one shared front path.

Houses of that age bring a predictable list of jobs:

Timber sash windows have deep sills and glazing bars that trap dust, and the runners collect grit and dead insects.
In terraces of this period the kitchen often sits at the back of the house, in the rear extension or the old scullery, with a vinyl or tiled floor whose grout has gone grey.
Bathrooms tend to be small, sometimes squeezed into a former box room, and poorly ventilated, which is how black mould gets into silicone and grout.

Every one of those things cleans up. It simply takes longer than in a modern flat of the same size, and our quote reflects the building you actually live in.

Furnished sharer lets

Furnished sharer lets are the other big slice. A lot of the larger Corbett houses run as three or four-bedroom shares, and those rooms turn over one at a time through the year.

Sharers are usually good tenants who are short on time, and the kitchen is the room that suffers:

an oven nobody has touched in two years
an extractor filter you could plant seeds in
a fridge with four people’s worth of spilled sauce in it

That is normal. We see it every week and it does not faze us.

One more thing about these houses. They are cold and a bit damp in winter, north-facing back rooms especially, so condensation mould on the window reveals is common by the time a spring tenancy ends. A clerk will mark it.

We can clean it off, but if the cause is ventilation rather than dirt, say so on the way out so it does not land on you as damage.

The Meridian South homes

Not everything here dates from Corbett’s time. Hither Green Hospital, which opened as a fever hospital in 1897, closed in 1997, and its site became the Meridian South housing estate. The old water tower with its clock faces still stands at the centre, along with a few hospital buildings by the entrance.

Newer homes like these usually have sealed double glazing, plain flat surfaces and fitted appliances of known designs, so they clean faster. Deductions on them are more often about limescale and a greasy extractor than a century of grime in the woodwork.

Whichever you rent, describe it honestly when you ring for a quote. A tidy one-bed and a four-bed sharer house left in a state are different jobs, and the price should reflect the real one.

The junction, the 1967 crash, and moving day

Hither Green station is a junction first and a local stop second. Trains run to Charing Cross and to Cannon Street, some by way of Lewisham and some through St Johns and New Cross, and the lines fan out south past the maintenance depot. That depot is why the place is in the history books for the wrong reason.

When: The evening of 5 November 1967.
What happened: The 19:43 from Hastings to Charing Cross derailed on a broken rail between Hither Green and Grove Park, just by the depot.
The toll: Forty-nine people were killed and seventy-eight hurt. Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees was on board and survived.

It is still one of the worst rail crashes Britain has had, and the memorial plaque at the station is quietly looked after.

The tracks cut Hither Green in two, and the bridges and level changes around the station shape how you get a van anywhere near the door.

On foot: The two halves meet in the tunnel under the platforms that links Staplehurst Road with Maythorne Cottages, the one with the Prime Meridian marked across its roof.
By van: A van has no such shortcut and has to go round by road, so a removals lorry that pulls up on the wrong side of the line is a real nuisance on moving day.

Tell us which side of the tracks you are on when you book, and we will plan our arrival, and the order of the day, around your removal. The clean starts once your belongings are out.

End of tenancy cleaning in Lewisham by Monster Cleaning — A job our cleaners finished in Lewisham.

The tracks cut Hither Green in two, and the bridges and level changes around the station shape how you get a van anywhere near the door.

Trains run early and late on this line, which suits people who work long days in town. On our side, a same-day check-out after a morning move can often be done, even when the timing is tight. Tell us the inventory appointment time when you book and we will work backwards from it.

Both sides of the tracks, and where the van goes

The neighbourhood runs east and west of the line, and each side has its own landmarks.

East of the line: Staplehurst Road with its parade of Edwardian shops, the bit people call the village, where the butcher and the cafes and the community fairs are.
West of the line: Hither Green Lane and Springbank Road heading toward Lewisham and Ladywell.
Out east, towards Lee: Manor House Gardens, an award-winning little park with a lake, a walled garden and the old Manor House itself holding the library. The River Quaggy threads through the gardens and on through the low ground.

That river is a practical detail, not scenery. The Quaggy and the Ravensbourne run low through this part of Lewisham, and the ground-floor and basement flats near the water can be the damp ones, which shows up as musty skirting and mould in the corners by the end of a tenancy.

If your flat is one of those, the move-out clean needs to deal with the smell as well as the marks, and we bring kit for it.

Parking takes more planning than people expect. The Corbett roads are long, narrow terraces laid out long before car ownership was normal, so kerb space is shared by every house on the street, and on moving day a removals lorry, our van and the neighbours’ cars all want the same few metres.

We look after our own parking. If your road needs a bay suspension or a visitor permit, we tell you in advance, so nobody collects a ticket on the one day they least need it. It is the fiddliest part of working in SE13, and far more of a headache than any oven.

The village side has its own rhythm. Staplehurst Road is busiest at the weekend, with the cafes full and prams everywhere, and the side streets off it fill up early.

If your flat is up that end and your move is on a Saturday, we will often aim to be parked and unloading before the road wakes up, and the same goes for the roads out towards Lee and Manor House Gardens.

None of this changes the clean. It changes the timing, and timing is what keeps a moving day from falling apart.

Licensing in SE13, and which side of the line your let sits

Lewisham runs a selective licensing scheme that started on 1 July 2024 and lasts five years, and Hither Green is a case where the detail genuinely matters.

The scheme does not cover the whole borough. It is split into three designations.
They are drawn on the ward boundaries in use until May 2022, which had no Hither Green ward.
On that map most of Hither Green sat in the old Lewisham Central ward, which is in Designation 1.
The neighbouring old wards of Catford South, Rushey Green and Lee Green are in the scheme too.
Only the old Blackheath and Telegraph Hill wards were left out.

So in practice most single-household lets in Hither Green need a licence, whatever the ward is called today.

If you are a landlord, the safe move is to check the exact address against the council scheme rather than assume the postcode tells you. You can do that on the Lewisham selective licensing pages.

Getting it wrong is expensive. Since 1 May 2026 an unlicensed let can bring a civil penalty of up to £40,000, and the tenants or the council can apply for a rent repayment order worth up to 24 months’ rent.

Shared houses

Shared houses fall under a separate, borough-wide rule.

Lewisham’s additional HMO licensing scheme came into force on 5 April 2022 and runs until April 2027.
It covers homes where three or four people from more than one household share a kitchen, toilet or bathroom, along with lodger set-ups where more than two tenants live with the landlord’s household.
Five or more sharers need a mandatory HMO licence under the national scheme instead.

A bay-fronted Corbett house let room by room is precisely the kind of property both rules were written for.

Why should a tenant care? A licensed share comes with conditions the landlord has to keep to, and the council can inspect, so landlords with an HMO licence tend to run careful check-outs. Expect the clerk to spend longest in the shared kitchen and bathroom, where grease and mould build fastest when several households use one room.

Selective licensing: A council scheme that makes most private lets in certain wards need a licence. In Lewisham it started on 1 July 2024 for five years and covers named wards only, not the whole borough; check the council scheme by address.
Additional HMO licensing: Lewisham’s licence for shares of three or four people from more than one household, required borough-wide from 5 April 2022 to April 2027. A Corbett house let to three friends needs one.
Check-in inventory: Done when you move in, this is the written and photographed record of every room. At the end, the deposit is judged against it, with fair wear and tear allowed, so it is the benchmark your clean has to meet.
Deposit protection: Your deposit must sit in a government-backed scheme. The rules and the three schemes are set out on GOV.UK.

How a Hither Green check-out is scored

The check-out itself follows a method. An inventory clerk walks the property with the check-in report in hand and notes, item by item, whether each thing is as it was, better or worse, making allowance for fair wear and tear.

Dirt and damage go in separate columns, and tenants often miss that. A scuffed wall after four years is wear. A blackened oven counts as a cleaning failure, and in our experience it is the charge Hither Green tenants face most often.

The walk usually runs in this order:

The kitchen. Most clerks start here, since that is where the grease and the appliances are. They open the oven and look at the door glass, racks, grill pan and back panel, then check the hob, splashback, extractor filter and the inside of each cupboard and drawer.
The fridge and freezer get opened too, and a fridge left switched off with its door shut for a week will smell and grow mould, so we prop appliance doors open when we finish.
The bathroom comes next: scale on the taps and screen, the grout, the fan, and the toilet right round to the hinges.
Floors follow, then windows, sills and frames, which on a Corbett sash means the runners as well.
Last come the details everyone forgets, such as switches, skirting, picture rails and door tops.

In a licensed share the inspection is usually slower and more exacting, because the landlord has council conditions to satisfy. Our end of tenancy cleaning is done to that stricter level whatever the property, so a one-person flat and a five-person share get the same attention to detail and the clerk has nothing to write down.

Carpets show the line between cleaning and wear most clearly, and paintwork works the same way. A clerk writes the two up differently:

Wear: A hall carpet flattened by four years of feet, which your landlord cannot bill you a replacement for. Faded paint is fine.
Cleaning charge: The same carpet grey with ground-in dirt, or greasy fingermarks round the light switches.

Knowing which is which wins half the argument. A proper deep clean deals with the dirt, which leaves only honest wear that you do not owe for.

Disputes usually come down to photos. The check-in report has dated pictures and the check-out report will too, so a deduction either matches a visible change or falls apart.

We finish on the spots a camera picks up, such as the inside of the oven door, the shower screen and the window sills, because a clean floor in the middle of a room proves little if the sash sill behind it is grey.

If a surface looks clean in a photograph, it is hard for anyone to call it dirty.

Shelter sets out plainly what a landlord can and cannot deduct for, and it is worth a read before you hand the keys back.

Their guidance on tenancy deposits is the clearest free version.
Citizens Advice covers how to push back if a deduction is unfair.

Both are worth ten minutes before you sign off the check-out report.

What our Hither Green move-out clean covers

Every job follows our 57-point agent-approved checklist. We turn up with the machines, the steamer and all the products. What we need from you:

an empty flat
the electricity and hot water on
the fridge switched off to defrost a full day before we arrive

Kitchens take the longest:

oven racks soaked properly instead of given a quick wipe
the oven door glass and cavity cleaned by hand
the hob, extractor and filter, and splashback
unit fronts and interiors
the sink and taps
the floor scrubbed into the grout lines

In the bathroom:

scale off the taps and screen
grout and silicone cleaned and any mould treated
the toilet cleaned inside and out
the fan vent cleared of fluff

Elsewhere we work through:

skirting, sockets and switches
doors and frames
sills and radiators
the insides of fitted wardrobes
cobwebs in the high corners
the floors last: hard floors mopped, carpets vacuumed

57-point

agent-recognised checklist

300+

letting agents use us

48-hour

free re-clean if a clerk objects

£1.2m

deposits kept by our tenants

Some flats need more than the core clean.

If your agreement asks for professionally cleaned carpets, our carpet cleaning uses hot-water extraction to lift the dirt a vacuum leaves behind, and the same kit handles sofas and mattresses through our upholstery cleaning.
A sharer oven that has been burnt black may justify the full oven cleaning service as a job of its own.
When the inventory includes outside glass, window cleaning with a water-fed pole reaches the upper sashes you cannot open from inside.

Still packing and surrounded by boxes? Our deep cleaning and domestic cleaning teams can help in the run-up, and the removals service can shift the heavy furniture so the rooms are empty by the time the end of tenancy team arrives.

There is no hourly meter on a move-out clean. The price follows the number of bedrooms, and once the team is inside they keep going until every line of the checklist is ticked, however long a tired Corbett conversion takes.

The jobs that quietly cost SE13 tenants their deposit

In these houses the same few deductions come up time and again, and almost all of them can be avoided.

The oven heads the list. Tenants clean the door and forget the racks, the glass between the inner and outer panes and the burnt fat on the back panel, all of which a clerk spots within seconds.
The extractor filter in a shared kitchen comes next, usually a solid pad of grease that nobody has ever taken down.
Limescale. Thames Water says all the water in its region is hard, because it passes through chalky limestone on the way, and in a bathroom that means a white crust on taps, shower screens and glass that a quick wipe will not shift. A clerk reads it as neglect even in an otherwise spotless flat.
A fridge-freezer switched off and shut. Within a week it smells and grows mould. Leave the doors wedged open.

Limescale is a London tax and SE13 is no exception.

Two problems are typical of the Corbett houses, and clerks mark both:

Deep timber sills under the sashes collect years of grime in the corners and along the paint edge.
The colder back rooms can grow black spots of condensation mould on the window reveals over a damp winter.

Both clean up if they are dealt with before hand-back. In ground-floor flats on the low ground near the Quaggy, a musty smell can earn a note of its own, so airing the rooms matters as much as wiping them.

Limescale is a London tax and SE13 is no exception.

We are on the books of 300+ letting agents across London, and some of them manage flats in SE13, SE12 and SE6. That helps our work pass.

A clerk who has seen our cleans before knows the standard to expect and has less reason to go hunting for faults, and an agent who trusts the company that did the clean has an easier report to sign off.

What it costs, and how the guarantee works

The price follows the size of the flat and what is in it.

Studio: £156
One-bed: £207
Two-bed: £243
Three-bed: £339
Four-bed: £425
Extras: Carpets, a heavy oven clean or outside windows are extra because they need more kit and time, and you hear that figure before we start work.

A small one-bed conversion sits near the bottom of that range and a four-bedroom Corbett share with two bathrooms at the top.

When a deposit is at stake, the guarantee is what counts. Ours is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if the clerk or agent flags a cleaning point within 48 hours of our visit, we return and deal with it for nothing. You never pay twice, and nobody leaves you to argue it out on your own.

Some things you will never see on our invoice:

a call-out charge
a fee for products or machines
overtime if the flat takes longer than planned

Pricing by size puts the risk of a long job on us. If a sharer oven turns out to need twice the work we expected, that is our problem on the day, and it does not turn up as a surprise line on your bill.

The law has moved on as well. Since 1 May 2026 the tenancy reforms in the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 have applied in England.

What changed: Section 21 notices have gone and tenancies are periodic.
What did not: The deposit basics. Your money still has to be protected, and at the end it is still measured against the check-in report with fair wear and tear allowed for.

A thorough clean remains the surest way to get all of it back.

A tenant booking straight from this page gets exactly what a letting agent gets when they book us: one checklist, one guarantee and the same price for the same size of flat.

Agents keep using us for a plain reason. Their check-outs pass and their tenants’ deposits come back, and in this trade that is the only review that matters.

Booking a move-out clean in Hither Green

Booking takes three steps

Your postcode and the property. The form gives the price.
A date that suits you. Seven days a week.
We confirm it with you by phone or WhatsApp.

0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm

To book, call 0333 555 2076. The fixed price comes during the same call, with no survey or visit needed. Give us:

the postcode
the number of bedrooms and bathrooms
whether the flat is furnished
any carpets or windows you want added

Choose a slot after the removal and before the inventory appointment, and let us know when the clerk is due so we can work back from that time.
We bring all the equipment. Your part is an empty flat, power and hot water connected, and a fridge that has been off and defrosting for a day.
If the clerk raises anything later, call the same number and the 48-hour re-clean comes into play.

Written enquiries go through the contact page, which has the form and the email address, though with a moving date close the phone gets you an answer faster.

Saturdays and Sundays are ordinary working days for us, which helps in Hither Green, where plenty of check-outs fall on the weekend after a Friday move.

If your move is to or from somewhere nearby, we clean the same way right across this corner of Lewisham, with the same teams covering all of these:

Questions from Hither Green tenants and landlords

Do you guarantee my deposit back in Hither Green?

The guarantee covers our cleaning. The deposit also depends on damage and wear, which are outside our control. What we promise is a clean to our 57-point checklist and a free return visit within 48 hours if the clerk or agent spots something we missed.

How much does an end of tenancy clean cost here?

It depends on the size of the flat and what is in it. Our fixed prices run from £156 for a studio and £207 for a one-bed, through £243 for two bedrooms, up to £339 for three and £425 for four, with carpets, a deep oven clean or outside windows added if needed. Ring 0333 555 2076 with the postcode and bedroom count for a firm figure.

Is my Hither Green rental covered by Lewisham selective licensing?

Very likely, unless it is a licensed HMO. Lewisham’s scheme, in force since 1 July 2024, is drawn on the ward boundaries in use until May 2022, which had no Hither Green ward. On that map most of the area sat in the old Lewisham Central ward, which is covered, as are the neighbouring old wards of Catford South, Rushey Green and Lee Green. Check the exact address against the Lewisham selective licensing pages to be sure.

Does a shared house in Hither Green need an HMO licence?

Very likely. Since 5 April 2022 Lewisham has required an additional HMO licence across the borough where three or four people from more than one household share, and the national mandatory scheme covers five or more. Plenty of the larger Corbett houses are let this way, and a licensed share usually gets a tougher check-out, so a full clean is worth booking.

Do I need to be there when you clean?

No need. Most tenants leave a key with us or arrange access through the agent, and we let ourselves in, clean and lock up afterwards. Just check that the flat is empty, the power and hot water are on, and the fridge has been off and defrosting for a full day.

Can you clean the same day as my move-out?

Quite often, provided the timings work. Give us the time of the inventory appointment and we will fit the clean between the removal van leaving and the clerk arriving. We work all week, so a Saturday or Sunday check-out is no problem.

Are carpets and oven included or extra?

The standard clean covers hoovering carpets, with the oven as an add-on from £31. A full hot-water carpet extraction or a deep clean on a badly burnt sharer cooker are add-ons, because they take extra machines and time. We will tell you which your flat needs when you call.

What if the agent finds a problem after you have cleaned?

Call us on the same number. Under our 48-hour guarantee, if the clerk or agent raises a cleaning point within 48 hours of the clean, a team returns and puts it right at no cost. That backstop is a large part of why local agents keep recommending us.