The Broadway clean most Hornsey moves forget
End of tenancy cleaning
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Hornsey move-out cleans cost £156 for a studio and £425 for a four-bed, with every price set by the size of the flat or house, never by the hour, and a 48-hour re-clean guarantee behind it if the inventory check-out raises anything.
The rest of this page covers what makes N8 different:
- period conversions
- a licensing position unlike east Haringey’s
- the parking around the station
Hornsey is an odd shape to clean for. The old borough’s 1935 Town Hall stands up the hill on The Broadway in Crouch End: Reginald Uren’s Grade II*-listed building, the first major Modernist public building in the country.
It reopened in 2025 after Make Architects turned it into an arts venue, community rooms and a hotel of serviced flats.
From there the streets fall north to the old village on Hornsey High Street, then climb again toward the ridge below Alexandra Palace, and the New River threads through the middle on its old course down from Hertfordshire.
The rented homes scattered across those slopes are mostly tall Victorian and Edwardian terraces, many split into two or three flats, and that age is exactly what makes a deposit clean here harder than a quote over the phone suggests.
Hornsey lies in the valley of the River Moselle, which now runs in a culvert, with Crouch End up the slope to the south and the railway along its eastern side.
The High Street is the old village centre, and the surviving tower of St Mary’s, a parish church first recorded in 1291, still stands just off it. Around that core, builders such as John Farrer put up late-Victorian terraces, and many have since been divided into flats. Those conversions set the terms for most move-out cleans in N8.
Getting in and out
It helps to know how people get in and out, because that shapes when a move happens.
- Rail
- Hornsey station, opened on the Great Northern line in 1850 and now four miles up from King’s Cross, runs Great Northern trains into Moorgate and out to Hertfordshire, so a lot of tenants here commute by rail and book their move-out around a working week.
- Tube
- There is no tube in Hornsey itself; the nearest is Turnpike Lane on the Piccadilly line, a walk or a short bus east.
- Buses
- The 41 and the W5 thread up to Crouch End, the 144 runs out to Muswell Hill one way and across to Wood Green the other, and the night buses keep going when the trains stop.
We mention it because a Sunday-night hand-back with no parking and a flat at the top of a terrace is a very Hornsey sort of job, and it pays to plan the logistics rather than discover them on the day.
What a deposit clean actually costs in N8
The only variable is the number of bedrooms, and the figure we give you on the phone is the figure on the invoice. No surcharge appears on the day.
- Studio flat: £156
- One-bed: £207
- Two-bed: £243
- Three-bed: £339
- Four-bed: £425
Each price includes the full clean to check-out standard:
- every cupboard and wardrobe inside and out
- inner window glass
- skirtings, sockets, switches and door frames
- The oven
- An add-on from £31
- A partial job
- For something like one room flagged on a report, we can charge by the hour instead, at £30 per cleaner.
A whole move-out almost always works out cheaper on the fixed price, since the clerk’s standard decides when the job is finished, and in a period conversion with deep skirtings and tall sash windows that can take a while.
We have not loaded Hornsey rates above the rest of the network. A two-bed conversion off Middle Lane is the same £243 as a two-bed anywhere else we cover, which feels only fair given the rents people are already paying around here.
Add-ons are separate and priced per item, so an oven or the carpets only appear on the bill if you ask for them.
What you are paying for is a better chance of the full deposit coming back. We have helped tenants win back £1.2m that would otherwise have been lost to cleaning charges, which makes a stronger case for hiring a team than any promise we could print.
The 57-point list and the 48-hour promise
On every Hornsey job the team follows our 57-point checklist, the same one the agents we work with already recognise. It fixes the order room by room, so nothing is skipped on a dim afternoon in a lower-ground flat or when a job runs late.
The list is ordered the way an inventory clerk moves through a flat.
- The kitchen, which causes the most deductions: the oven, hob and extractor, the gap beside the fridge, each cupboard inside and on top, the splashback and the limescale round the sink.
- The bathroom follows: grout, sealant, screen and taps.
- Last come the bedrooms and the living room, where a converted Victorian flat collects dust on picture rails, coving, the top edge of door frames and behind radiators.
Switches and door handles are cleaned too, and clerks mention them more often than you might expect.
The inventory clerk sees your flat through a camera lens, so we clean with that in mind: glass, chrome and the tops of frames are what a photograph shows first.
There is nothing to buy or leave out. The team brings every product and every machine, so the cleaning cupboard under your sink can go in the removal van with everything else.
On the day, the flat needs:
- electricity
- hot water
- nothing of yours left in it
Boxes block floors and cupboards, and without hot water the bathroom cannot be done to a check-out standard.
A re-clean promise is worth most when the clerk turns out to be picky. If the inventory clerk or the agent flags any cleaning within 48 hours, we come back and redo it for free.
We also sit on the books of 300+ letting agents around London, and when an agent already knows our reports, a disagreement about the standard of the clean is less likely to start at all.
Why Hornsey flats fight back
Age is the main reason Hornsey flats take longer than their size suggests. The streets between the High Street and Priory Park, which opened as the Middle Lane Pleasure Grounds in 1896, are lined with late-Victorian and Edwardian terraces, many of them now split into flats.
Houses of that period carry features that trap dust in places a new-build simply does not have.
High ledges and old windows
A clerk who knows period property checks the high ledges first. These all hold two years of dust quite happily:
- the picture rail
- the top of a deep skirting
- the recessed panels of an old door
- the ceiling rose
- a surviving fireplace surround, which holds more
Original sashes trap grit in the runners, and a front bay puts extra glass on the list. There is no trick to any of it. The work is slow, which is exactly why it gets skipped when a clean is rushed.
Hard water and the New River
Hornsey has its own waterworks. The New River Company set them up here in the mid-1800s, beside the channel that has carried water from Hertfordshire since 1613.
- The site today
- Thames Water still treats water on part of the site; the rest became New River Village, 622 flats built between 2005 and 2007.
- Hardness
- Thames Water classes all its supplies as hard, and N8 bathrooms show it as scale on taps, screens and showerheads. We descale as standard, because a clerk reads limescale as dirt.
Grit from the railway lands
There is a dustier side to the eastern edge of Hornsey as well. The Ferme Park railway lands and the carriage sidings beside the station have been working ground since the 1890s, when an eight-track engine shed went up east of the line, and the train depot is still there.
Flats backing onto that corridor pick up a fine grit on sills and window glass that a domestic wipe leaves behind, so we go harder on the exterior-facing surfaces of a flat near the tracks. It is the kind of thing you only know if you have cleaned a few of them.
The galley kitchen
The kitchen is where all of this lands at once. In a converted Hornsey terrace:
- the cooker is often wedged into a narrow galley with units either side
- the extractor is greasy because nobody cleans the filter
- the splashback behind the hob has a film of cooking residue that has been baking on for months
A clerk opens the oven, checks the hob, runs a hand along the worktop edge and looks under the sink, all in about ninety seconds. We work that same path in reverse, deep, so the room reads clean from the doorway and stays clean when someone actually looks.
Damp
Damp is the third thing. A fair number of these conversions have a basement or lower-ground flat. Where a flat has been shut up during a move, condensation settles fast, and a musty bathroom or a patch of mould on a window reveal will show up in the report.
Airing the place and getting the bathroom properly dry is part of how we hand it over.
Shared entrances
One more local quirk. Plenty of Hornsey conversions share a front path, a bin store and sometimes a hallway, so the bit of the flat a clerk sees first is a communal space you do not fully control.
We focus on what is inside your own front door, since that is what the inventory measures, but it is worth a word with neighbours before a check-out so the shared entrance is not the first thing the clerk frowns at.
Newer blocks
The newer stock changes the job slightly:
- purpose-built blocks near the station and along the New River path, the kind of low-rise flats that went up in the last couple of decades
- the redeveloped Town Hall, which now holds dozens of serviced flats of its own
These are quicker to clean than a draughty conversion, with fewer ledges and modern fittings, but the check-out standard is no softer, and a managed block often hands its inventories to a firm that grades hard.
Whether the flat is a 1900 terrace or a 2015 block, the report is the report, and we clean to it either way.
Who checks the work and what they mark
Expect a professional at your check-out rather than the landlord. For most N8 tenancies the agent appoints an independent inventory clerk, who:
- goes through the check-in report line by line
- takes photos of each room
- marks it against how it was when you moved in
Fair wear and tear is allowed for; dirt is not, and the cleaning notes are normally the longest part of the report.
If your flat is managed from an office in Crouch End, Muswell Hill or further off, the agent may know it only through the clerk’s photographs, and has little reason to give you the benefit of the doubt.
Those photographs travel further than the clerk does. They go:
- to the agent
- then the landlord
- in a dispute, to the adjudicator at the deposit scheme
So we treat every surface a lens will catch as part of the job, starting with mirrors, taps, tiles and the fronts of the kitchen units.
A short glossary of the report language that affects your money.
- Check-in inventory
- The move-in report, usually with photographs, noting how clean each room was and what condition it was in. At check-out the flat is compared against it, so a flat that was spotless on arrival needs to be spotless when you hand the keys back.
- Fair wear and tear
- The natural decline that comes with normal use, such as a carpet worn in a doorway or sun-faded paint, which a landlord cannot charge for. Grease, dirt and limescale are not included, so cleaning is where most deductions come from. Shelter explains what a landlord can charge for cleaning.
- Professional clean clause
- A clause found in some older tenancy agreements that asks for a professional clean at the end. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 stopped landlords making tenants pay for that kind of service, yet the flat still has to meet its check-in standard, and meeting it is exactly what our clean is for.
- Deductions
- What the landlord proposes to take out of your deposit. Accept it, negotiate, or put it to the deposit scheme’s free adjudicator.
A cleaner flat means a shorter list of deductions. Our check-out clean is designed around what the clerk’s report will ask, so work done to the 57-point checklist rarely has to be repeated.
Licensing, deposits and the law on an N8 tenancy
Hornsey sits in the London Borough of Haringey, and the licensing picture here is not the same as in the east of the borough, which catches a lot of tenants out.
- Selective licensing
- Haringey runs a selective licensing scheme covering all privately rented homes, but only in fourteen mostly eastern wards, from 17 November 2022 to 16 November 2027. Hornsey is not one of them.
- Why Hornsey is outside it
- The ward was looked at and dropped from the selective scheme because it did not meet the deprivation criteria the council used, so an ordinary self-contained flat let to one household in Hornsey does not need a selective licence.
- Additional HMO licensing
- The licence that can apply in Hornsey. Haringey’s scheme covers all 21 wards from 17 June 2024 to 16 June 2029 and catches homes where three or four sharers are not all from one family.
- Section 257 HMOs
- The additional scheme also takes in some converted blocks of flats where the conversion did not meet building regulations and fewer than two-thirds of the flats are owner-occupied, which matters in an area with so many split houses.
- Mandatory licensing
- A house with five or more occupants forming two or more households needs a mandatory licence anywhere in the borough.
- Article 4
- Hornsey also falls outside the 2013 Article 4 direction that controls small HMO conversions in the eastern wards.
The council describes its additional HMO licensing scheme online; check the ward list directly.
Deposits and disputes
Deposit protection follows national rules. The landlord has 30 days from receiving your deposit to lodge it with a government-backed scheme (there are three) and must give you the details in writing. The gov.uk guidance on deposit protection explains the process and what each scheme does.
You do not have to accept a deduction you think is wrong:
- Every scheme offers a free dispute service.
- The landlord has to prove the claim.
- The inventory reports carry most weight.
Citizens Advice sets out how to challenge a deduction and which evidence helps.
An invoice from a professional clean is evidence in its own right. When the clerk’s report and your receipt tell different stories, the adjudicator has a dated document to weigh, which counts for far more than your recollection against a photo.
Notice under the new law
Ending a tenancy has changed too: under the Renters’ Rights Act 2025, Section 21 ended on 1 May 2026 and tenancies became periodic, so anyone leaving a Hornsey flat now usually serves two months’ notice. Use that time to book the clean for the right day.
Booking a clean around the Ferme Park lines
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
Booking takes one call to 0333 555 2076. Give us the size of the flat and the postcode, and we will fix the price and a slot before you hang up.
We work every day, weekends included, so a clean on the Saturday or Sunday before a Monday hand-back is easy to arrange.
Parking zones
Parking in N8 depends on the zone. Haringey runs three Hornsey CPZs:
- Hornsey South
- Controlled Monday to Friday from 11am to 1pm
- Hornsey North East
- From 10am to 2pm
- Hornsey North
- From 8am to 6.30pm on weekdays
Tell us which one covers your street when you book, and if a visitor permit is possible. The team then loses less time to parking, and on a three-bed conversion with several flights of stairs that time matters.
Some addresses are easier than others:
- The roads off Middle Lane and around Priory Park tend to have a bit of room mid-morning.
- The terraces packed in near the station and along the New River path can be a squeeze all day.
- Where the New River runs behind the gardens there is no rear access at all, so everything goes in and out through the front, up the stairs, past whatever the neighbours have left in the shared hall.
None of that stops the work. It just changes how long it takes, and we would rather know before we quote a slot than find out when the van is double-parked on a Saturday.
Timing it
Time the clean for after the removal van and before the check-out, on the same day or the one before, so the flat is empty, cleaned and inspected in one tight sequence. Everything must be out, and the power and hot water must stay on.
If you are moving within Hornsey or up the hill to Crouch End, our separate removals service can be scheduled to finish just as the cleaners arrive.
Tell us about the stairs when you book. A top-floor flat in a converted terrace, with no lift and a shared hall, means extra trips for the carpet and upholstery machines, and knowing that lets us send the right number of people.
Extra jobs worth adding to the quote
The standard price leaves out a few jobs that only some flats need. These are the extras a Hornsey check-out report tends to ask for.
The oven
Start with the oven. A clerk opens it early, and a greasy interior is close to a guaranteed deduction. Our oven cleaning soaks the racks and trays separately and cleans the door glass by hand.
In the galley kitchens of Hornsey conversions, a built-in oven that has gone a year without a proper clean usually needs it.
Carpets
Carpets follow, particularly on the stairs and in the bedrooms of the taller terraces. Hot-water extraction lifts dirt a vacuum leaves in the pile, and that is what our carpet cleaning uses.
If your check-in report records a professional carpet clean before you moved in, the clerk will expect the same at the end.
- Oven
- £31 for one oven, £62 for a double or a range cooker
- Carpets
- £29 per bedroom and £36 per living room, or £94 for the carpets in a whole two-bed flat
Upholstery and windows
- Furnished flats bring upholstery into it. A sofa or mattress on the inventory that looks tired can be revived by our upholstery cleaning, using the same extraction method to remove dirt and smells.
- If the inventory lists the outside of the windows, our exterior window cleaning uses water-fed poles and purified water to leave the glass streak-free, which suits the tall bays on Hornsey’s Victorian fronts.
Unsure which extras your check-out needs? Tell us what the check-in report says about the oven, carpets and furniture, and we will recommend only what is needed.
Hornsey end-of-tenancy cleaning questions
How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost in Hornsey?
Prices are fixed by the size of the flat: £156 for a studio, £207 for a one-bed, £243 for a two-bed, £339 for a three-bed and £425 for a four-bed. The figure is set before we book, and it covers the whole property cleaned to the check-out standard rather than being charged by the hour.
Do you guarantee the clean will pass the check-out inventory?
Every Hornsey clean carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee. Should the clerk or agent query the cleaning within 48 hours, a team comes back and puts it right at no cost.
What is the 57-point checklist?
It is the agent-approved order of work our cleaners follow on every move-out, 57 points running from the oven and the bathroom sealant down to door handles and switches. Agents we work with recognise it, so the clean covers what their clerks check.
Does a rented home in Hornsey need a licence?
An ordinary self-contained flat let to one household does not. Hornsey was dropped from Haringey’s selective licensing scheme because it did not meet the deprivation criteria, so selective licensing does not apply here, unlike in the eastern Tottenham wards. Shared houses are different, as set out below.
Is my Hornsey house an HMO that needs a licence?
If it has three or four occupants who are not one family, Haringey’s additional HMO licence applies; the scheme covers every ward, Hornsey included, from 17 June 2024 to 16 June 2029. A house with five or more occupants forming two or more households needs a mandatory HMO licence. Confirm the details with Haringey Council.
Do I need to provide cleaning products or equipment?
No. Our team arrives with all the products and equipment. Before we come, please make sure the electricity and hot water are on and your belongings are out of the flat.
How long does an end of tenancy clean take in a Hornsey flat?
It depends on size and condition. Most one or two-bed conversions take about half a day, a larger terrace a full day. Since the price is fixed on the property, the team stays until the flat meets the check-out standard instead of watching the clock.
Can you clean around my furniture or belongings?
No, the flat has to be cleared first. With boxes and furniture in place we cannot clean inside cupboards, behind appliances or across the floor, and the clerk will be inspecting an empty flat.
Can you do the clean at the weekend?
Yes, we work seven days a week, including weekends. Saturday and Sunday check-outs are common in Hornsey because hand-backs cluster at the start of the week, so a weekend slot is usually available if you book ahead.
Is the oven included in the end of tenancy price?
No, the oven is an add-on: a single oven is £31, and a double or a range £62, and in older Hornsey kitchens the oven is the most common reason a clerk marks the cleaning down, so it is usually worth adding.
Should I clean the carpets for the check-out?
Only if the check-in report says they were professionally cleaned when you moved in; in that case the clerk will expect the same at the end. Our hot-water extraction is £29 per bedroom and £36 per living room, with a whole two-bed at £94.
What happens if the agent still disputes a deduction?
Your deposit scheme runs a free dispute service, and the landlord must prove each deduction with evidence. Keep the invoice from your professional clean: it gives the adjudicator something concrete to set beside the check-out report.
Do you cover the streets around the Town Hall and Priory Park?
Yes, we cover the whole of N8, from Hornsey High Street and Tottenham Lane up to The Broadway in Crouch End, and across to the roads around Priory Park and Hornsey station. We also work the neighbouring areas, so a move between Hornsey and the next postcode is no problem.
What is the booking process for an end of tenancy clean in N8?
Call 0333 555 2076 or write to office@monstercleaning.com with the flat size and postcode. The price is fixed on that call and the slot is set around your check-out, seven days a week. You can also use the contact page.
For a move just beyond N8, our Haringey end of tenancy cleaning hub covers the whole borough, and we work in Crouch End, Harringay and Muswell Hill as well.