A Hoddesdon check-out, room by room
Hoddesdon tenants hand back everything from 1960s flats by the Tower Centre to brand-new houses at High Leigh Garden Village, and the clerk checks them all against the same inventory. We clean them at a fixed price by bedrooms: £176 for a studio, £227 for one bedroom, £263 for two, £359 for three and £445 for four.
Last updated October 2026.
An inventory clerk works through a home in a fixed order, comparing each room to the photos and notes taken when you moved in. Following that order is the simplest way to see what our 57-point checklist covers.
- Front door and hall
- Door, frame and letterbox wiped, light switches and sockets cleaned, the cupboard under the stairs emptied of dust, and the stair spindles and handrail done one by one.
- Kitchen
- The room where most deductions start. Cupboards and drawers inside and out, worktops, tiles, hob, extractor and filter, sink and taps, fridge and freezer, the plinth under the units and the floor behind the cooker and washing machine.
- Bathroom and toilet
- Limescale removed from taps, the shower head, screen and tiles, grout scrubbed, then bath, basin, toilet, mirror and extractor grille. In a newer house there is often an en suite as well, cleaned to the same standard.
- Bedrooms and living room
- Skirting, doors, frames, radiators, wardrobes inside, window boards, the inside of every window, and any built-in cupboards.
- Patio doors and conservatory
- The glass, frames and runners from inside. Clerks in family houses look at these because garden dirt collects in the tracks.
- Floors
- Vacuumed throughout, hard floors washed.
Our cleaners are vetted at an in-person interview, insured and trained on that checklist. If the agent or clerk raises a point within 48 hours of the clean, we send someone back to sort it, free. The oven and carpets are add-ons, covered in the next section.
Prices by home size
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio flat | £176 |
| One-bedroom flat or maisonette | £227 |
| Two bedrooms | £263 |
| Three-bedroom house | £359 |
| Four-bedroom house | £445 |
| Five bedrooms or more | quoted from the room count |
| One room in a shared house, or part of a home | £30 per cleaner per hour |
Oven cleaning booked with the clean costs £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker; the oven cleaning page describes the process.
Carpets cost £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. For a three-bed semi with carpeted bedrooms, stairs and landing, that means three bedrooms, one flight and one landing. The carpet cleaning page explains how we do it.
The online calculator at the top of the page adds these up for you, so you see the full price before you book.
Where Hoddesdon tenants live
The town grew along a single road. Broxbourne Council’s conservation area appraisal describes the High Street as the spine of the old town, splitting into Amwell Street and Burford Street at the market place. The northern end is the medieval core, with buildings from almost every century side by side.
In the 1960s the buildings at the north end of the market place, between Amwell Street and Burford Street, were demolished and replaced with blocks of flats and a shopping precinct, and the Dinant relief road was cut through to meet the 1975 bypass. The flats around the Tower Centre come from that rebuild.
The southern end of the High Street is quieter. The appraisal describes it as mainly residential from the 1880s and 1890s onwards, with detached houses in the Domestic Revival style set back in large plots among mature trees.
St Catherine’s Estate at Spitalbrook was built in the 1880s, with several houses designed by Reginald Blomfield. These are large detached houses, so the clean covers more rooms, more doors and more skirting than a modern house with the same number of bedrooms.
The appraisal dates Hoddesdon’s spread beyond the High Street to the 1960s, when suburbs and housing estates grew up around the old town. Until 2006 the borough’s council homes were owned by Broxbourne Borough Council. That January more than 4,000 of them moved to B3Living, a housing association based in Turnford, which now looks after around 6,000 homes in the area.
High Leigh Garden Village and other new homes
High Leigh Garden Village is on the western edge of the town, by the A10. The council granted outline planning permission in April 2015 for a town extension of around 500 homes, a school, a care home and a sports ground south of Lord Street, and the land came out of the Green Belt in the Local Plan adopted in June 2020.
The first 100 homes, south of the A10 link road, were approved in October 2022 and are fully occupied. Building continues on phases 2 and 3 north of the link road, where the first semi-detached houses and three blocks of apartments are already finished.
New-build lets have their own check-out habits. Clerks look closely at integrated appliances, the seals round baths and showers, and marks on fresh paintwork. We clean the appliance fronts, door seals and filters, and leave paint alone except for wiping off grubby marks.
Licensing, rents and deposits in Broxbourne
Broxbourne Council’s licensing pages list only the national mandatory HMO licence, for homes with five or more people from two or more households sharing a kitchen, bathroom or toilet. There is no additional or selective scheme, so a family let or a flat shared by two needs no licence from the council.
Rents here are lower than in London but rising. The ONS put the average private rent in Broxbourne at £1,685 a month in August 2026, up 3% in a year. Flats averaged £1,310, terraced houses £1,660 and three-bedroom homes £1,780. With deposits capped at five weeks’ rent, a three-bed tenant has around £2,050 held against the check-out, which is why the kitchen and bathroom matter so much.
We have cleaned homes since 2014, over 300 letting agents use us, tenants have got £1.2m of deposits back, and we hold a 4.7 rating on Google.
Parking and getting here
Hoddesdon never had its own station. When the railway opened in 1840 it ran to the east of the town, and the nearest stops are still Rye House and Broxbourne, both on Greater Anglia services to London Liverpool Street. Our cleaners come by van.
In the town centre the council car parks at Taveners Way charge from £1.40 for an hour to £7 for more than four hours. If a clean needs a pay car park, that cost goes on your quote at the price we pay.
The same team covers Cheshunt to the south, the next town down the Lea Valley, and the county town of Hertford to the north-west. See our Hertfordshire page for the rest of the county. Call 0333 555 2076, 8am to 7pm, seven days a week.
Hoddesdon end of tenancy FAQs
I am leaving a three-bed house at High Leigh Garden Village. What will it cost?
£359 for the clean. Add £31 for a single oven or £62 for a double, and carpets at the add-on rates if any rooms have them.
Do you clean the flats around the Tower Centre?
Yes. A one-bed flat is £227 and a two-bed is £263, whichever floor it is on.
We are five sharers in a house near Rye House station. Who books the clean?
If you all leave together, book the whole house at the fixed price for its bedrooms. If only one of you is going, book your room and a share of the kitchen and bathroom at £30 per cleaner per hour.
Does my landlord need a licence from Broxbourne Council?
Only if five or more people from two or more households live there. That is the national mandatory HMO licence; Broxbourne has no selective scheme.
Do you clean the big Victorian houses at the south end of the High Street?
Yes. Up to four bedrooms the fixed prices apply. Larger houses are quoted from the room count.