End of Tenancy Cleaning Hoxton Square N1

Hoxton Square is the leafy garden square at the middle of it all, one of the oldest in London, and the flats that ring it are nothing like each other. A converted print warehouse on one corner, a tall Victorian building split into flats on the next, an ex-council block a street over.

A check-out clerk who works N1 6 knows the difference on sight and cleans their eye accordingly, which is exactly why a single generic clean does not pass here. We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, a family firm working London since 2014.

Last updated June 2026. We cover the square and the N1 6 grid around it, plus the N1 and E2 streets that spill toward Old Street and the Shoreditch border. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Hackney.

The check-in report is the exam paper, and nobody reads it twice

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The check-in report decides everything, and almost nobody looks at it until the deposit is already in dispute. Start with the mechanism.

When you moved in, a clerk walked the flat and wrote an inventory: every surface described, most of them photographed, the kitchen and bathroom logged as “clean” or “as new” because the flat had just been done professionally.
At check-out a clerk walks it again and compares the two, line by line.
Anything worse than the check-in entry, past fair wear and tear, comes off your deposit.

You are marked against a professional clean. A mop and a spare Saturday rarely reaches that bar.

Why is the clerk so thorough here? Because Hackney rents are high, the deposit is real money the agent has to account for to a scheme, and the inspection is genuinely adversarial. The clerk is paid to find faults.

That is not unfair. It just means you arrive with evidence rather than optimism.

One thing in law is worth knowing before you book anyone.

The Tenant Fees Act 2019: A Hackney landlord cannot write professional cleaning into the contract as a condition, so nobody can force you to hire us.
Why you hire us anyway: Matching the check-in standard without professional kit is hard, and a documented clean settles the deposit conversation fast.

What a warehouse conversion hides that a clerk always finds

The hook for this postcode is the warehouse-to-loft flat, and it fails a lazy clean in ways a standard flat does not. Hoxton and the Shoreditch fringe were light industry and print works until the creative scene moved in during the nineties, and much of that stock is now open-plan flats, the kitchen running straight into the living space.

Each feature is a deduction waiting to be written:

Exposed brick: Takes pencil scuff and furniture marks that a domestic spray smears rather than lifts. We take a soft approach on it.
Polished or sealed concrete floors: Concrete films with cooking grease under the island and needs a proper degrease and buff, not a mop and a hope, or it dries with a grey cast the clerk photographs.
Ducted extractors: They vent through the old wall openings, and the one over the hob is usually thick with grease at the vent because nobody cleans up there. We clean it at the vent.
Steel-framed Crittall-style windows: The glazing bars hold a year of dust along every edge.

We clean all of these to the surface.

Concrete films with cooking grease under the island and dries with a grey cast the clerk photographs.

Then there is the period flat, the other half of the square. Tall Victorian-age buildings carved into flats, some with picture rails, panelled doors, and older timber windows that need slow careful work rather than a wet cloth.

Picture-rail dust sits on top where you cannot see it without a stepladder, and it is one of the most reliable flags on a Hoxton inventory. The clerk runs a finger along the back edge and the deduction is on the email that afternoon. We do all of it.

Where Hoxton sits in Hackney’s 1 May 2026 licensing map

Hackney brought in new landlord licensing on 1 May 2026, and Hoxton sits in an unusual spot on the map, so it is worth getting right.

Selective licensing: Covers most privately rented homes across 17 of the borough’s 21 wards.
The four wards left out: Two of them are ours: Hoxton West, and Hoxton East and Shoreditch, which is the ward the square itself falls in. Haggerston and Woodberry Down are the other two.
Additional HMO licensing: Being outside the selective scheme does not mean no licensing at all. This scheme runs borough-wide, so a shared house or a flat let room by room to three or more people who are not one household still needs a licence here.
Mandatory HMO licensing: Applies on top, for larger shared houses.

Given how much of Hoxton is young creatives and tech workers sharing a converted flat, plenty of local addresses land in the HMO net.

What does any of this mean for a tenant handing keys back? Indirectly, quite a lot. A licensed landlord has the council reading their paperwork, so they read the inventory harder in turn, and a shared-house hand-back gets picked over more carefully than a single let.

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

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live the same day:

Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone.
Old fixed-term tenancies have converted to periodic, so notice is more flexible.
The cleaning duty at the end did not change one bit.

What changed is timing, and in a high-churn pocket like this that means move-outs are more frequent and less predictable.

The rules on shared houses sit on the gov.uk guide to houses in multiple occupation; check Hackney’s own licensing pages as well.

The 57 things, and the ones this postcode fails on

Every booking runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist built over a decade of local check-outs and tuned to what N1 clerks actually flag. Here is the shape of it, room by room.

The kitchen, where most of the deposit is won or lost

The oven, an add-on from £31, is done properly, not wiped. Racks go to soak, the interior, fan, element and seals all get scrubbed, and the door glass is opened up where the design allows, so the brown film between the panes goes as well. Then the rest of the room:

Hob rings and burners lifted off, control knobs off and washed, induction in the new-builds and gas in the older flats each handled its own way
The extractor hood degreased inside and out and the filter soaked or swapped; on the ducted units the vent itself gets wiped where the grease collects
Every cupboard inside and out, hinges included
Fridge and freezer cleaned through once defrosted, seals too; the integrated units in the new-build blocks have their own quirks we already know
Appliances pulled out so the gaps behind the fridge, dishwasher and washing machine are done, then put back
The washing machine drum, the detergent drawer scrubbed, and the door seal, which is the first thing a clerk opens
Sink, taps, drainer and aerator descaled, because the hard water never misses that
Tiles and grout scrubbed, bins washed
Floor pulled back where it lifts, and on a concrete loft the degrease-and-buff under the island

Bathrooms, the other place it goes wrong

Scale comes off the taps, shower head, screen and tiles first, then the rest in plain order.

Toilet done properly: inside, under the rim, base, cistern, hinges, and behind the pedestal where only the clerk looks
Shower screen both sides, the frame, tracks and the sealant bead
Bath, taps, the underside of the taps, overflow and plughole
Mirror and cabinet, inside and where it comes off the wall
Extractor fan grille off, washed, back on
Floor into the corners, behind the loo, under the basin

Bedrooms, living rooms and the rest

Picture rails where present
Window reveals top to bottom, and the steel Crittall bars in the lofts along every edge
Skirting on every wall
Inside wardrobes, on top, and behind the door swing where dust gathers
Sockets and switches wiped; light shades off, wiped, back on
Radiators front, the reachable back, and the bracket
Carpet hoovered both directions, rugs lifted and the floor underneath cleaned, hard floors mopped and dried so they do not streak
Cobwebs out of the ceiling corners

Then a final walk-through, every room photographed before and after. That photo set is the evidence you keep.

What N1 hard water does to a Hoxton bathroom

N1 sits at the very hard end of the Thames Water supply, and it loses more Hoxton deposits than almost anything except the oven.

Hardness: Around 338 mg per litre of calcium carbonate for the postcode, well into the very-hard band. You can check the hardness for your own postcode on thameswater.co.uk.
Scale: Calcium builds on taps, shower heads, screens and tile joints faster than tenants expect, and wiping does nothing to set scale.
Grout: The sibling problem. Kitchen and bathroom grout is the line between a pass and a deduction here more often than carpets are. We scrub it rather than wipe it.

The clerk checks for scale deliberately. They run a thumbnail down the tap, look at the screen edge-on against the light, pull the shower head in close.

Where grout is genuinely past saving, which happens in long tenancies, we photograph the state before we start, so the clerk cannot bill you for wear that was already grey in the check-in pictures. That dated photo has settled more arguments than any amount of arguing.

That dated photo has settled more arguments than any amount of arguing.

Because we are here anyway, it is worth naming what an end-of-tenancy clean is and is not, since three different jobs get muddled.

Check-in inventory: The report a clerk writes on day one, describing and photographing every surface. It is the benchmark your check-out is judged against, which is why we clean to it rather than to a general notion of tidy.
End-of-tenancy clean: Built to pass that inventory and get the deposit back, done with the flat empty, charged at a fixed price by bedroom count, with the 48-hour re-clean guarantee on it.
Deep clean: A reset for a home you are keeping, lived-in, no formal standard to hit. Same hourly rate, different aim.
Regular domestic clean: Ongoing upkeep, weekly or fortnightly, from £23 an hour on a retainer. Not a hand-back job.

Around the square: the stock changes corner by corner

The square is a garden ringed by flats that change character as you walk round: print-warehouse loft to period conversion to new-build to ex-council in a few hundred metres.

The garden: A public green in the middle, kept open in summer, with a Stik sculpture nearby.
The south side: Where the White Cube gallery ran from 2000 to 2012, the room that put the Young British Artists on the map and set the tone for the whole creative quarter.
Aviva: The insurance firm has been buying up buildings here for a corporate campus, which shifts the mix again.

Streets and stretches we work most weeks:

Hoxton Square itself, all four sides, loft and period flats alike
Coronet Street and Pitfield Street, where the warehouse conversions cluster
Hoxton Street, the market end, up toward the older shopfront flats and the social stock behind
Charlotte Road and Rivington Street, on the Shoreditch border
Old Street, the Hackney side, where a lot of the letting-agent offices sit
Hackney Road, the western end toward the Museum of the Home gardens
Geffrye Street and the streets by Hoxton Overground, on the Windrush line since it opened in 2010

Hoxton is a high-churn corner: young creatives, tech workers, professionals and students, a lot of one-year lets. The council parking is controlled almost everywhere and the CPZ hours are long, so tell us two things when you book:

Parking: The arrangement, whether a visitor permit or a bay
Access: How we get in, whether concierge, key safe or an agent drop

Not sure which side of the Shoreditch border your flat is on, or whether it counts as Hoxton or Haggerston? Ring 0333 555 2076 with the postcode and we will tell you in about ten seconds.

What it costs, and the sum most tenants run too late

Hoxton prices are fixed by the number of bedrooms, with kit and products included. The loft surfaces take skill and time, and we plan the hours for them.

The figures below are tenant-pays end-of-tenancy work, including all the kitchen and bathroom descaling and the before-and-after photos.

Property	Typical duration	Estimated cost
Studio (Pitfield Street, new-build blocks)	3-4 hours, 1 cleaner	From £156
1-bed flat or loft	4-5 hours, 2 cleaners	From £207
2-bed warehouse conversion or period flat	5-7 hours, 2 cleaners	From £243
3-bed flat or house	6-8 hours, 2 cleaners	From £339
4-bed house or large loft	8-10 hours, 2-3 cleaners	From £425

Those figures assume a flat in normal lived-in shape. These take longer, and we say so on the phone rather than after:

a long tenancy with heavy wear
a pet household
a smoker’s flat
a loft nobody has deep-cleaned in years

Hourly rate: £30 per cleaner where a flat is partly furnished or you only need certain rooms done.
Carpet shampoo: £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, or £94 for two bedrooms and a living room, which comes up a lot on the open-plan lofts off Coronet Street where one carpet runs through the living space.
Oven add-ons: £31 single, £62 double or a 90cm range.
Polished-concrete floor: The degrease-and-buff is in the end-of-tenancy price, not an extra.

Run the maths the way the deposit makes you. A one-bed at £207 to protect a deposit above two grand is barely a decision.

Every 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, provided you tell us in that window and nobody has moved in.

There is a reason the agents round here know us: we are on the books of 300+ letting agents across London, and over the last decade that work has helped tenants recover £1.2m deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions.

57-point

agent-approved checklist

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300+

letting agents on our books

£1.2m

deposits recovered for tenants

Booking it, and the month-end crush

Hoxton clusters its check-outs at month-end like the rest of inner London. The slots go, and ringing on the 29th for the 31st often means you are out of luck, so book early for those windows. The steps are simple.

Ring 0333 555 2076 or email office@monstercleaning.com. Price in about three minutes. Give us the postcode, the bed count, the check-out date, and any known problem areas, and mention anything the check-in report marked “as new”.
We book you in, ideally the day before hand-back with a buffer, against the Hoxton pricing above. The loft surfaces are in the price, and it stays as quoted.
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 genuinely helps on Hoxton’s tight permit-parking streets.
Two cleaners work the checklist room by room with their own kit.
Photo proof at the end. Every room, before and after, with an itemised invoice on company paper. Anything flagged inside 48 hours, we come back and fix it free.

A quick add-on note:

Carpet shampoo is the common one on the open-plan lofts; the detail sits on the carpet cleaning page.
A ducted extractor untouched for years sometimes wants a deeper degrease than the standard scope, covered on the oven and kitchen deep-clean page.
The older timber windows on a period flat benefit from the window cleaning service a week before hand-back if the outside has gone untouched.

For the wider borough and our N1, E2, E5 and E8 work, the Hackney directory linked at the top of this page has the rest.

Questions we get asked

How much does end-of-tenancy cleaning cost in Hoxton Square?

From £156 for a studio, £207 for a one-bed or loft, £243 for a two-bed warehouse conversion or period flat, £339 for a three-bed, and £425 for a four-bed. The price follows the bedroom count. The loft surfaces take skill and time, and the quote is confirmed on the phone.

Is a Hoxton warehouse loft priced like any other flat?

Yes. A warehouse loft off Coronet Street is priced by its bedroom count, even though the concrete and the ducted extractor take longer to clean. We plan the extra hours when you book.

Do you handle the polished-concrete floors in the warehouse lofts?

Yes, and it is one of the most-flagged items round here. Concrete films with cooking grease under the kitchen island and dries with a grey cast if it is only mopped. We degrease it and buff it so it does not film, as standard within the end-of-tenancy scope on those units. The price does not change for a concrete floor.

What about the exposed brick and the Crittall windows?

Exposed brick takes pencil scuff and furniture marks that a domestic spray smears rather than shifts, so we work it by hand with a soft approach. The steel Crittall-style glazing bars hold dust along every edge, and we do them edge by edge, inside, with the frames, fasteners and the inside of the glass. Outside glass on the upper floors is a separate job we can quote.

How long does an end-of-tenancy clean in N1 6 actually take?

A one-bed loft or period flat is usually 4 to 5 hours with two cleaners. A two-bed warehouse conversion off Coronet Street runs 5 to 7 hours, sometimes longer if the extractor and floor are bad. A studio in a new-build block is 3 to 4 hours. We quote the slot length when you book.

Will my Hoxton letting agent accept your clean?

We work with a lot of the agents whose offices sit along Old Street and the Shoreditch border, and we are on the approved-cleaner list with several of them. If the inventory clerk flags anything, the 48-hour re-clean guarantee brings us back to put it right at no extra cost. That is what agents actually want to see: not a promise, but a comeback.

Does the property need to be empty?

Fully empty is strongly preferred. Furniture left behind blocks access and creates uncertainty at the check-out. A single piece left for the next tenant can be worked around, but the more that stays, the less complete the clean can be.

What about the kettle and shower scale in N1?

N1 water is very hard, around 338 mg per litre, so scale sets on every kettle, shower screen, tap aerator and toilet bowl over a tenancy. We descale all of it with a proper scale remover, not a wipe-down. That is part of the standard end-of-tenancy scope for Hoxton, not an add-on.

Do you do same-day or next-day jobs?

Often, yes. We hold a slot or two in the East London diary for last-minute Hackney calls. Phone before noon for a same-day quote; otherwise next-day is almost always there unless the diary has run hard that week.

Does Hackney’s new licensing scheme affect tenants in Hoxton Square?

The licence sits on the landlord, not the tenant. Hoxton is unusual: the square’s ward, Hoxton East and Shoreditch, plus Hoxton West, are among the four Hackney wards left out of the selective scheme that started on 1 May 2026. The borough-wide additional HMO scheme still catches most shared Hoxton flats, though, and a licensed landlord reads the check-out more carefully because the council is reading their paperwork.

Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change my hand-back?

Only indirectly. From 1 May 2026 Section 21 evictions ended and old tenancies converted to periodic, so notice is more flexible. The cleaning obligation at the end is exactly what it was. The practical effect in a high-churn area like Hoxton is more frequent, less predictable move-outs, so book the slot earlier than you used to.

Will I get my deposit back if you clean?

Where the agent flags anything, the 48-hour re-clean guarantee covers a return at no extra cost. Over the last decade our work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits. If the agent still disputes after a re-clean, the scheme adjudicators at Tenancy Deposit Scheme and mydeposits are the route, and Shelter’s deposit guidance walks through it.

Can I book a part-clean instead of a full end-of-tenancy?

Yes. The rate is £30 per cleaner an hour. We get part-clean calls for a kitchen-only deep clean or a mid-tenancy refresh on a shared loft where someone left a room in a state. Quote on the phone.

What about pet hair in a Hoxton flat with carpets?

Pet hair on carpet is one of the most common disputes in N1. We hoover both directions and use a hair-lift roller on rugs and bedrooms. If the report flags odour we add a deeper carpet shampoo at the price above, and the 48-hour re-clean covers the return if anything is still flagged.

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