End of tenancy cleaning in Hoxton, booked in minutes

Moving out of a flat in Hoxton, N1

End of tenancy cleaning in Hoxton starts at £156 for a studio and runs to £425 for a four-bed, charged on the size of the flat and never by the hour, with a 57-point checklist worked through against your check-in inventory. That is the short answer. Most people reading this have a deposit on the line and a moving date that is already too close, so the rest of the page is the detail behind that sentence.

Hoxton is an odd patch to clean, in a good way. You have Georgian terraces along Hoxton Street that have been chopped into flats, a thick layer of warehouse and printworks conversions left over from the area’s light-industry days, and newer blocks thrown up during the Old Street tech boom. The postcode here is N1 7GF, the ward is Hoxton West, and the next stop is Hoxton on the Overground. Each of those flat types fails an inventory check in its own particular way, and a cleaner who has never worked the area tends to find that out the hard way.

We have been at this across Hackney for over a decade, since 2014, and the move-out clean is the bulk of what we do here. It is its own job, not a bigger version of a weekly tidy. A regular clean keeps a lived-in flat fresh; an end of tenancy clean is graded by a stranger against a report and a row of photographs, with money riding on the result. The two need a different mindset, and most of the trouble we are called in to fix comes from someone treating the first as if it were the second.

The licensing line that runs through Hoxton

Here is the local quirk that catches Hoxton landlords out, and it is worth knowing as a tenant too. Hackney brought in a borough-wide property licensing regime on 1 May 2026, running for five years. Most of the borough, seventeen of its twenty-one wards, fell under selective licensing, which means nearly every private rented home needs a licence whatever the number of tenants. Hoxton did not.

Both Hoxton West and the neighbouring Hoxton East and Shoreditch ward sit among the four wards that Hackney left out of the selective scheme, alongside Haggerston and Woodberry Down. In those four wards only the borough-wide additional HMO licensing applies, which bites on houses in multiple occupation, the shared flats let to three or four people from two or more households. That is the standard sharer let around Hoxton Square, so in practice a great many Hoxton flats still need a licence; they just reach it by the HMO route rather than the selective one. You can check the current position on Hackney Council’s licensing pages.

Why does any of this matter for a clean? Because a licensable HMO is inspected, and a landlord whose flat is on the council’s radar is far less likely to wave through a soft final clean. The check-in inventory on a licensed HMO is usually more thorough, the deductions more closely argued, and the cleaning standard the clerk expects sits a notch higher than on an unlicensed single let. The licence and the deposit are separate things, but the same scrutiny tends to land on both.

It also changes who is on the other side of the table. On a licensed sharer flat the landlord is often a company or a portfolio holder rather than a single owner, and they use a professional inventory clerk for check-out, not a quick walk-through. A clerk works to a written standard and photographs everything, so a clean that would pass an absent-minded landlord can still pick up a line or two from a clerk. We have done enough work in the four excluded wards to know the difference, and we clean a Hoxton HMO to the harder of the two standards every time.

The deposit itself sits in one of the three government-approved schemes, and the timeline after you leave is tight. Once you and the landlord agree the deductions, the protected money has to come back within ten days. If you cannot agree, the scheme runs a free dispute service, and the landlord then has to prove the flat was left worse than the check-in photos show. A solid final clean is what keeps you out of that process altogether, which is the quietest and cheapest way through a move.

What a Hoxton flat does to an inventory check

The honest truth is that the building decides most of the job. We see three broad types of home around N1, and each leaves its own mess for the clerk to find.

The warehouse and printworks conversions are the showpieces and the headache. A loft on a street like Drysdale Street or in one of the old factory blocks near Hoxton Square will have exposed brick, steel beams, polished concrete or wide stripped boards, and ceilings high enough that you need steps to reach the cobwebs. Exposed brick holds dust in a way painted plaster never does, and it cannot be scrubbed wet or it stains. Mezzanine bedrooms collect grime on the underside of the rail and along the joists. These are the flats where a domestic clean looks fine from the sofa and falls apart the moment a clerk shines a torch up at the steelwork.

A loft with exposed brick and a mezzanine has more dust traps than a new-build ever will.

Then there are the Georgian and early terraces along Hoxton Street and the side roads off it. Period flats mean original sash windows with deep glazing bars, picture rails, ceiling roses, and skirting that has been painted over so many times the brush marks hold dirt. Sash windows are slow to clean properly because the dust gathers in the runners and behind the meeting rail, and a clerk will run a finger along the bottom rail every time. We keep our sash work careful and unhurried for exactly that reason.

The third type is the new-build flat behind Old Street, the glossy blocks that went up with the tech money. They are quicker, but they fail on different points: the gloss kitchen units show every smear, the integrated appliances hide grease behind the fascias, and the underfloor-heated bathrooms grow lime fast around the screen and tap base. Limescale is the recurring enemy in the N1 new-builds because the water here is hard, and it comes back on the chrome within weeks even after a good descale. We carry the proper descalers for it rather than a kitchen spray that just smears the deposit around.

Location plays into the job in a plain, practical way too. A lot of these flats are a short walk from Hoxton station on the Overground, which since 2024 has been part of the Windrush line, and renters without a car are the norm rather than the exception. That is handy for us, because it means the cleaners can reach most of the patch on the 243 or 394 down Kingsland Road without fighting for a parking space. When a job does need a van outside, the side streets off Hoxton Street are tight and the bays fill early, so we plan the loading around it. Parking is the one genuinely annoying part of working N1, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.

One thing ties all three together. Whatever the flat, the standard you are held to is the standard recorded at check-in. Shelter is clear on this: you only have to return a home to the cleanliness it had when you moved in, fair wear and tear excepted, and a landlord cannot force you to pay for professional cleaning as a blanket tenancy clause. That is the bar. We clean to it.

The 57-point check, room by room

Our cleaners carry a 57-point agent-approved checklist, and it is built around the lines an inventory clerk actually marks rather than a generic tidy-up. Every room is covered top to bottom, because dust falls and a clerk inspects in the same direction.

In the kitchen the oven comes apart so the door glass, racks and trays are degreased separately, the extractor and filter are cleaned, and the hob, splashback and the tops of the units get the same attention as the fronts. We pull out freestanding appliances where it is safe to, clean behind and beneath, and wipe down the inside of the fridge and freezer once you have defrosted it. The sink, taps and drainer are descaled.

Bathrooms are about lime and mould. The shower screen, tiles, grout, taps and showerhead are descaled, the seals checked for the black mould that grows in a windowless N1 bathroom, the toilet done inside and behind, and mirrors and chrome left without a streak. Extractor fans get a wipe too, because a furred-up bathroom fan is exactly the kind of small thing a clerk notes when the rest of the room looks done. Living areas and bedrooms are dusted from the picture rail down: light fittings, cobwebs in those high loft corners, skirting, switches, sockets, the insides of fitted wardrobes, and the marks on the wall where furniture stood. Carpets are hoovered thoroughly, hard floors mopped, and the windows cleaned inside.

It is the spots out of eye-line that lose deposits, not the obvious ones. The top of a kitchen wall unit, the gap behind the toilet, the runner of a tall window, the underside of a mezzanine rail, the seal inside the washing machine drawer. A renter cleaning their own flat the night before the van comes almost always does the visible surfaces well and forgets these, and a clerk knows precisely where to look. The 57-point list exists so none of them gets skipped, whoever is holding the cloth that day.

If a clerk does propose a cleaning deduction, the deciding factor is evidence. The check-in report and its photos set the baseline, and the check-out is compared against them line by line, so a flat returned to its move-in condition leaves nothing to argue. That is the whole point of cleaning to the inventory rather than to a general idea of clean. We would rather you never reach the dispute stage, and on the figures most of our customers do not.

The checklist is why we hold a 97% first-time pass rate. It is also why, on the rare flat where a clerk does flag something, the 48-hour re-clean guarantee exists: tell us within seventy-two hours and we come back and put it right at no cost, before the deduction is ever agreed. Over the years that approach has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have been swallowed by cleaning charges.

What it costs to clean a Hoxton flat

Prices go on the size of the property, not the clock. That matters more in Hoxton than in most places, because a high-ceilinged loft can take a cleaner far longer than its bedroom count suggests, and an hourly job would punish you for that. With us the quote is the quote.

• Studio flat, £156
• One-bed, £207
• Two-bed, £243
• Three-bed, £339
• Four-bed, £425

Those are full end of tenancy prices, supplies and detergents included, with the team staying on site until the checklist is done. If you would rather book cleaners by the hour for a part-job or a top-up, that runs at £30 per cleaner per hour, though for a move-out the fixed price almost always works out better and carries the guarantee. A two-person sharer studio off Hoxton Square is the cheapest case; a three-bed warehouse conversion with a mezzanine is where the four-bed-style effort can creep in, and we will tell you that on the quote rather than spring it on the day.

To get a price, we ask the number of bedrooms, whether there are carpets, the state of the oven, and whether it is one of the loft conversions, because that last point changes the time on site. The flat needs electricity, running hot water, a defrosted fridge and your belongings gone before we start, or the team cannot finish the job properly.

People sometimes ask why they cannot just pay for two hours and have us race round. The honest answer is that a proper move-out clean on a Hoxton flat does not fit two hours, and an hourly job tempts everyone to cut it short and skip the awkward corners that the clerk checks. The fixed price removes that pressure. The cleaners stay until the list is done, the guarantee stands behind it, and you are not watching a clock while someone decides whether the oven is worth finishing. For most renters that is the difference between a returned deposit and a deduction, so it is the option we steer people towards.

Compared with paying a deduction, the maths is usually easy. A clerk’s cleaning charge on a two-bed can run past the cost of the clean itself, and unlike the deduction the clean is something you control. Spend £243 on a guaranteed two-bed clean, or risk a similar sum coming off the deposit with carpets and oven added on top; put like that, most people book the clean.

The churn around the Square

Hoxton turns over faster than almost anywhere we work. The streets around Hoxton Square sit on the Old Street creative and tech fringe, the so-called Silicon Roundabout, and the tenancies follow the work: a designer here for a two-year contract, three developers sharing a converted print floor, a studio that becomes a desk because someone moved cities. People leave when a job ends, often at short notice, which means move-out cleans get booked late and on awkward days.

The Square itself has a long arts history that still colours the area. White Cube ran its Hoxton Square gallery there through the 2000s, the room that gave so many of the Young British Artists their first solo shows, and although that space closed at the end of 2012 the creative pull never really left. Hoxton Street Market, going since 1687 and the oldest in Hackney, still runs its Saturday stalls a few minutes north. The Museum of the Home, the old Geffrye almshouses, sits on Kingsland Road right by Hoxton station on the eastern edge. None of this is trivia for a cleaner; it is why the flats here are full of creative renters on short, sharp tenancies who need a fast, reliable move-out clean and have no day off to do it themselves.

We work seven days a week for that reason. A Saturday checkout the same day the market is on, a Sunday handover, a clean squeezed between one sharer leaving and the next arriving, we have done all of it around N1. Booking ahead helps in summer, when half the area seems to move at once.

The sharer flats throw up a wrinkle worth flagging. When three people are named on one agreement, the deposit is usually held jointly, and the deductions come off the lot of you together, not split neatly by room. So if one housemate’s bedroom drags the check-out down, everyone feels it. Booking a single end of tenancy clean for the whole flat, rather than each person tidying their own patch, is the cleaner way to protect a shared deposit, and it is how most of the Hoxton shares we work with handle it.

Furnished lets add to the work as well, and a lot of the flats near the Square come furnished for the contract crowd. That means tired sofas, mattresses that have seen a few tenants, and kitchen kit that builds up grime in places nobody thinks to clean. A clerk inventories furniture as carefully as fabric and fixtures, so the dust on top of a wardrobe and the marks on a sofa arm are both fair game at check-out. We factor the furniture into the quote rather than treating it as an afterthought.

People leave when a job ends, often at short notice, which means move-out cleans get booked late and on awkward days.

Carpets, ovens and the jobs people forget

Some end of tenancy lines need their own kit, and they are the ones renters most often skip and then lose money on. We can fold any of these into the same visit.

Carpets take the worst of a sharer flat: foot traffic in the hall, a wine ring in the living room, the flattened patch under a bed. A hoover does not lift ground-in dirt, so we use hot water extraction, which rinses the pile and pulls the dirt back out. Deep carpet cleaning is charged at £36 a bedroom, £43 for a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed flat. A clerk who finds a marked carpet on the check-in photos will deduct for it, so this is rarely money wasted.

Ovens are the other classic. Daily cooking bakes grease and burnt-on residue onto the door glass and the element, and it is the appliance a clerk opens first. Our oven cleaning takes the unit apart, soaks the racks and trays, and degreases the interior, the glass and the seals: £77 for a single oven, £110 for a double, £114 for a range. We also handle upholstery cleaning for the tired sofas that come with a lot of furnished Hoxton lets, again by hot water extraction, which lifts both the marks and the smell a flatful of housemates leaves in a fabric three-seater. And for the period flats and warehouse conversions where the panes face a courtyard or the street, exterior window cleaning by water-fed pole leaves the outside glass clear for the inspection.

None of these add-ons is compulsory, and we will say so plainly. If your flat has hard floors throughout there is no carpet to clean, and if you barely used the oven it may only need a light going-over inside the main service rather than a full strip. We quote the add-ons separately so you can see what each one costs and decide, instead of being handed a single padded figure. The aim is to cover the lines a clerk will actually mark, not to sell you cleaning you do not need.

Booking the clean around your move

Booking is meant to be simple. Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected], tell us the size of the flat, the postcode and your checkout date, and we give you a fixed quote there and then. No survey visit, no hourly meter.

Time the clean for after the van has gone and the flat is empty, ideally the day before your inventory check-out or the morning of it, so the place is still fresh when the clerk walks through. Cleaning a week early and then living in the flat for another six days rather defeats the point; a clerk inspects what is there on the day. If your agent has sent the original check-in report, pass it on, because that is the document we clean against and it tells us exactly which marks were already logged. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, several of them working the Hoxton and Shoreditch patch, so there is a fair chance we already know your agent’s clerk and what they look for.

For those without an agent, where the landlord runs the let directly, the advice is the same. Ask for the check-in inventory if you have not kept your copy, get the clean booked for the empty flat, and keep our invoice. A dated professional cleaning invoice is useful evidence in a deposit dispute, because it shows the flat was cleaned to a standard on a known day, and it is the kind of paper a scheme adjudicator likes to see. We send one as a matter of course.

One practical note on access. If you have already handed your keys back, we will need someone to let the cleaners in, whether that is you, the agent or the incoming tenant, so it helps to sort that out when you book rather than on the morning. The Hoxton flats with shared front doors and entry phones can be fiddly, and a wasted trip with a van outside on a tight street is the last thing anyone wants on moving day.

After the clean, the 48-hour re-clean window runs from when we finish. If anything is queried at the inspection inside those seventy-two hours, we return and redo it free. That guarantee, plus cleaning to the inventory rather than to a guess, is how we keep the pass rate where it is. If you want a sense of the wider area first, the Hackney end of tenancy hub covers the whole borough, and we run the same service in next-door Shoreditch and Haggerston.

Words your clerk and agent will use

Move-out paperwork is full of terms that decide who keeps your money. A few worth knowing before the inspection:

Check-in inventory

The report and photos taken at the start of your tenancy recording the condition and cleanliness of the flat. Your final clean is judged against it, not against a fresh standard.

Check-out report

The clerk’s inspection at the end, compared line by line with the check-in. Differences beyond fair wear and tear become proposed deductions.

Fair wear and tear

The normal ageing of a home over a tenancy. A landlord cannot charge your deposit for it, only for damage or for cleanliness below the check-in level.

Deposit protection scheme

The government-approved scheme holding your deposit, with a free dispute service if deductions are unfair. The rules are set out on gov.uk, and the Deposit Protection Service is one provider at depositprotection.com.

Additional HMO licence

The Hackney licence that applies to most shared Hoxton flats let to three or four people, the route by which a home in an excluded ward like Hoxton West still needs licensing.

Hoxton end of tenancy questions

How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost in Hoxton?

It runs from £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 price is fixed on the size of the flat, not charged by the hour, and includes all supplies.

Do you charge by the hour or a fixed price?

A fixed price for an end of tenancy clean, set on the number of bedrooms. We do offer cleaners by the hour at £30 per cleaner for smaller jobs, but for a move-out the fixed price is usually cheaper and it carries the re-clean guarantee.

What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?

If your inventory clerk or letting agent flags anything about the clean within seventy-two hours of us finishing, we come back and put it right free of charge, before any deduction is agreed.

Will my flat pass the inventory check-out?

We hold a 97% first-time pass rate because we clean against your check-in inventory using a 57-point checklist. On the rare occasion something is queried, the 48-hour re-clean covers it.

Do you clean warehouse and loft conversions around Hoxton Square?

Yes, and they are a big part of our N1 work. Exposed brick, steel beams, high ceilings and mezzanines need careful handling and steps to reach the cobwebs, so we allow the time for it on the quote rather than rushing.

Can you clean the original windows in the Georgian terraces?

We clean the insides of the period windows, including the runners and the meeting rail where dust gathers, as part of the standard service. Exterior glass is an add-on done with a water-fed pole.

Does my Hoxton flat need a property licence?

Hoxton West and Hoxton East and Shoreditch are excluded from Hackney’s selective licensing, so a single let may not need a licence. But most shared flats here fall under the borough-wide additional HMO licensing, which began on 1 May 2026.

Can a landlord deduct cleaning costs from my deposit?

Only to return the flat to the cleanliness recorded at check-in, and not for fair wear and tear. A landlord cannot make you pay for professional cleaning as a standard clause, which is why cleaning to the inventory matters.

How far in advance should I book?

A few days is usually fine, but Hoxton turns over fast and summer is busy, so book earlier if your checkout lands on a weekend. We work seven days a week, including the Saturdays the market is on.

What needs to be ready before the cleaners arrive?

The flat should be empty of your belongings, with electricity and running hot water on and the fridge and freezer defrosted. With those in place the team can work through the whole checklist.

Do you bring your own cleaning supplies?

Yes. The cleaners bring all the products and equipment, including the descalers needed for the hard water in N1 and the hot water extraction machine for carpets and upholstery.

Do you clean carpets and ovens as part of the move-out?

We can fold both into the same visit. Carpet cleaning by hot water extraction is £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room or £115 for a whole two-bed; oven cleaning is £77 single, £110 double and £114 for a range.

Do you work with letting agents in Hoxton?

We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, including firms covering Hoxton and Shoreditch, so we often already know the standard a given agent’s clerk inspects to.

What areas near Hoxton do you cover?

The same service runs across Hackney, including Shoreditch, Haggerston, Dalston and Hackney Central. The Hackney hub page links the lot if you are just over a ward boundary.