‘Monster came on a Wednesday morning, lifted the original Georgian floorboards in the hallway to check for dust dropouts into the void, and worked the kitchen mixer with a proper scale paste for forty minutes before they touched the bedroom.’ That’s Marcus, a GWR commuter on a Grade II flat above an antiques shop on the High Street, April 2026. Monster Cleaning Ltd has been doing end of tenancy work across Hungerford, Kintbury, Inkpen, Eddington and the wider RG17 postcode since 2014. Companies House number 9919639. Phone 0333 555 2076, email [email protected], head office at 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS.
Last updated April 2026. We update this page after every Romans, Carter Jonas, Knight Frank and Strutt & Parker inspection cycle so the pricing, the agent list and the West Berkshire Council notes stay current.
“Fourteen months on a one-bed above an antiques shop on the High Street, single bloke, GWR season ticket to Paddington and back five days a week. The Grade II listing meant I couldn’t touch the original Georgian boards or the lath-and-plaster ceiling rose, and the check-out clerk from Carter Jonas was a stickler. The killer was the kitchen mixer. Hungerford water is Affinity, 280-something ppm, and after a year of me filling the kettle twice a morning the chrome had gone white. Monster came on the Wednesday before the Tutti Day weekend, blocked the kettle filter for a soak, paint-brushed scale paste onto the tap fittings, and let it sit while two of them did the bedroom and the bathroom. Walked it back the next morning. I got the full £1,425 back on the Friday.” – Marcus, ex-tenant, Hungerford High Street, April 2026.
Here’s the answer first. End of tenancy cleaning in Hungerford from £156 studio to £425 four-bed, 57-point checklist, 48-hour re-clean if anything fails inspection. Book on 0333 555 2076.
Why Hungerford deposits get deducted
Three reasons, all RG17-specific.
The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 and what changed
The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 abolished Section 21 evictions in England and tightened the rules on what landlords can hold back from a deposit. The headline change for tenants is that any deduction now has to be itemised against a check-out report that references the original inventory, and the landlord has to be able to show fair wear-and-tear was not the cause. In practice this has made the inventory clerks on Hungerford High Street more, not less, thorough. They know a disputed claim that gets dragged into the Tenancy Deposit Scheme adjudication process now goes against a landlord with patchy documentation, so the documentation has got better. That tilts the burden of proof on visible cleanliness back toward the tenant. The clean has to be photographically defensible.
West Berkshire Council selective licensing
Hungerford sits inside West Berkshire Council, which does not run a borough-wide selective licensing scheme but does run mandatory HMO licensing on any property let to five or more unrelated tenants. The High Street flats above the antiques shops near the Town Hall are mostly singletons or couples and fall outside HMO, but the larger Victorian terraces off Church Street and the three-storey 1930s semis on Park Street sometimes sit at the threshold. If your tenancy was an HMO let the inspection bar is higher because the council has already been through. We treat HMO check-outs as inspection-grade by default.
Hungerford Tutti Day and the canal frontage
This is the bit that doesn’t apply anywhere else. Hungerford holds the Tutti Day Hocktide ceremony on the second Tuesday after Easter, which closes the High Street for most of the morning and means anyone moving in or out that week loses half a working day to road closures. The Kennet and Avon Canal runs along the south edge of town, and the flats and cottages with canal frontage between Bridge Street and the Kintbury Wharf path get a particular form of damp on the riverside elevation that inventory clerks know to look for. Black spot on the sash-frame bottoms, salt deposits on the brick reveals around the towpath-facing windows, and a soft greenish film on the lower 200mm of any exposed plaster. None of that is cleaning, strictly, but it can be presented as cleaning if you don’t deal with it before the inspection. We do.
Hungerford streets and zones we cover
We work the whole of RG17 and the spillover into RG20 around Kintbury. The streets that come up most often on our rota:
- The High Street and Bridge Street, Grade II Georgian and Tudor frontages, mostly one and two-bed flats above retail.
- Church Street and Charnham Street, larger Victorian terraces and the small parade of period semis.
- Park Street and Salisbury Road, 1930s detached and semis, gardens to the rear, garage at the side.
- The new estate off Salisbury Road built out from 2014 onward, two and three-bed townhouses with combi boilers and pressed-bamboo floors.
- Eddington, the small ribbon north of the railway, post-war infill bungalows and 1970s semis.
- Hungerford Newtown and the lanes toward Inkpen, period cottages and converted farm buildings.
- Kintbury proper, the wharf cottages and the modern small estate behind the village.
- The canal-side flats between Bridge Street and the Wharf, all with the riverside-damp signature above.
If your address is in RG17 or the bordering RG20 villages, we cover it. Two-team visits start from the SW14 head office at 5am and we’re on site for an 8am start.
What’s included in a Hungerford end of tenancy clean
Quick framing before the detail. End of tenancy is the hand-back clean, the one that has to pass an inventory check against the day-one inventory. A deep clean is what you book when you want to live with the place afterwards. A regular weekly or fortnightly clean is just for keeping it ticking over. The work below is the first one. It’s priced to pass the inspection, not to be cosmetically perfect for living in.
Kitchen
Oven base, sides, roof, door inner glass, door outer glass, oven racks soaked separately. Extractor canopy removed where the bracket allows it, mesh filter soaked in a degreaser bath, replaced. Hob top, hob trim, splashback. Inside of every cupboard, including the drawer runners. Inside of every drawer including the corner traps. Behind the freestanding cooker if it can be pulled out without snapping the gas hose. Sink, tap, mixer trim, drainage strainer, plug, overflow. Floor, including the strip behind the kick plate. Microwave inside and door seal. Fridge and freezer empty, defrosted, wiped, gasket pulled and cleaned.
Bathroom
Bath, basin, taps, shower head and hose. Shower screen both sides including the runner. Loo bowl, cistern, hinge, base. Tile grout where the Affinity Water has stained the lower courses around the bath. Extractor grille pulled and dust-vacuumed. Mirror, light switch, towel rail, radiator. Floor, behind the loo, behind the bath panel where the panel comes off without breaking the seal.
Bedrooms and living areas
Windows inside, frame, reveal, sill. The sash boxes on the Georgian flats get a soft brush and a vacuum, not a wet wipe, because the original boards split if they get soaked. Skirting top edge, picture rail, door frame, door top, light fitting. Wardrobe inside, including the top. Floor edge against the skirting, the strip the mop never reaches. Cobwebs from the ceiling corners. Carpets vacuumed twice in opposing directions. Hard floors mopped with a microfibre, no soap residue.
Throughout the property
Every plug socket, every light switch, every door handle. Every radiator top, side and back including the brackets. The hallway floor, the stair treads, the riser fronts. Fingerprints on door frames. The thing letting agents go for first in RG17 is the white woodwork around door frames and skirting boards, because the chalk in Affinity Water leaves a faint mineral bloom on any surface that gets wiped with a wet cloth and not dried. We dry-buff every white surface as the last step.
What it costs in Hungerford
| Property | Base EOT price | Carpets add | Oven add |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | £156 | £36 single room | £77 single |
| 1-bed flat | £207 | £36 bedroom + £43 living | £77 single |
| 2-bed flat or terrace | £243 | £115 whole 2-bed | £110 double |
| 3-bed semi or townhouse | £339 | £36 per bedroom + £43 living | £110 double or £114 90cm range |
| 4-bed detached | £425 | quoted on site | £114 range 90cm |
Hourly rate when you want partial work rather than a full EOT: £30 per cleaner per hour. We send a two-team minimum on Hungerford bookings because the journey out from SW14 doesn’t justify a single cleaner. Payment on completion, BACS or card, invoice issued by email the same evening.
What your letting agent will actually check
Romans Hungerford, Carter Jonas, Knight Frank and Strutt & Parker all use the same broad inventory format, but each has a clerk’s habit. Based on the last two years of check-outs we’ve done in the postcode:
- Kitchen mixer and kettle base, for Affinity Water scale.
- Oven door inner glass, between-the-panes streak.
- Extractor mesh filter, grease film and grease drips on the cabinetry below.
- Bath and shower screen runner, mould and scale combined.
- Loo base, behind the cistern, the bit you can’t see from standing.
- Window reveals, particularly the canal-side elevation on Bridge Street and Wharf flats.
- Skirting top edge in every room, mineral bloom from Affinity Water.
- Carpet edge against the skirting, especially in bedrooms.
- The boxed-in pipework under stair cupboards.
- Inside of wardrobe tops, the bit nobody dusts in a tenancy.
- Light fittings, ceiling rose if there is one, dust on the upturned edges.
- Garage if there is one, and any external bin store.
If the clerk flags something we missed, we come back inside 48 hours and put it right. That’s the 48-hour re-clean guarantee, and it’s the reason we hold a 97% first-time pass rate on the agent inspections we get scored on.
How booking works
- You call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the postcode, the bed count and the move-out date.
- We quote inside an hour, fixed price not estimate, against the table above.
- You confirm by email or text and we hold the slot. No deposit. Booking confirmed in writing within the same day.
- We arrive at 8am on the day, two cleaners minimum, four to six hours on site for a typical two-bed flat.
- We email a completion photograph set and the 57-point agent-approved checklist signed off, the same evening, before the inventory clerk turns up.
If the agent inspection flags anything inside 48 hours, we come back at our cost. We’ve helped clients claw back over £1.2m deposits recovered across the postcodes we serve, and we work with 300+ letting agents nationally including everyone on the Hungerford High Street.
Related services and neighbouring areas
Most Hungerford bookings include a carpet shampoo because of the long pile in the Park Street and Salisbury Road properties, and an oven deep on the larger range cookers in the 2010s estate kitchens. See the dedicated carpet cleaning service, the oven cleaning service, and the upholstery cleaning service for the standalone bookings. For move-in/move-out logistics see our removals option.
We cover the rest of the county from the same head-office team. The Berkshire end of tenancy hub lists every town and village we run. Neighbouring towns we work most often: Newbury end of tenancy ten miles east, and the smaller villages of Kintbury and Inkpen on the way out toward Wiltshire.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much is end of tenancy cleaning in Hungerford for a two-bed flat?
£243 for the base clean, £115 if you add a whole-flat carpet shampoo, £110 if you add a double oven deep. So a two-bed flat with everything is £400 in total. Fixed price, paid on completion, BACS or card.
Do you cover the Grade II listed flats on the High Street?
Yes. We bring soft brushes for the original Georgian floorboards and the lath-and-plaster ceiling roses, and we don’t wet-clean any original woodwork. The Tudor and Georgian frontages around the Town Hall and the antiques shops get the same 57-point checklist as everywhere else, with handling notes added.
What about the canal-side flats with the damp signature?
The damp on the riverside elevation between Bridge Street and Kintbury Wharf is a building issue, not a cleaning issue, and we can’t fix it. What we do is photograph the affected areas before we start, so it’s documented as pre-existing. We then clean back what cleaning can clean. The inventory clerk gets the photo pack the same evening.
Can you handle the hard water staining from Affinity Water?
That’s the main thing we do in this postcode. Hungerford runs on the Affinity main at 280-310 ppm of dissolved chalk, near the top of the very-hard band on the Affinity Water map. We carry a proprietary scale paste for the kettle bases, kitchen mixers, shower heads and bathroom tile grout. Not a vinegar wipe, not a kettle descaler. A paste that sits on a vertical surface without running.
What’s the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?
If the inventory clerk flags any specific item on the 57-point checklist inside 48 hours of our visit, we come back at our cost and put it right. We hold a 97% first-time pass rate on the inspections we get scored on, so this gets triggered on roughly one in thirty jobs. It still exists because we’d rather come back than argue.
Do I have to be there on the day?
No. Most Hungerford clients give us key access through the letting agent on the High Street. We collect from Romans, Carter Jonas, Knight Frank or Strutt & Parker in the morning and return at the end of the day, with the agent’s permission noted on the booking confirmation.
What’s the latest you can book for a same-week clean?
Tuesday for a Friday is comfortable. Wednesday for a Friday is workable. Same-day bookings depend on whether we have a Hungerford slot open already, which we sometimes do because of cancellations. Always worth a call.
Do you do the Tutti Day Tuesday or do you avoid that week?
We work the Tutti Day week. We don’t work the High Street between 9am and 1pm on the Tuesday itself because the road is closed for the Hocktide procession, but we’ll book a Wednesday or Thursday in that week with no surcharge. If you have to move out on the Tuesday morning we can park behind the property off Church Street and walk the kit in.
Does the price include carpets?
The base price does not include carpet shampoo. The base price covers a vacuum and an edge-pass. A wet shampoo with a heated extractor is an add-on, £36 per bedroom or £115 for a whole two-bed flat. Most Park Street and Salisbury Road tenants book the shampoo because the carpets are long-pile.
What about the cleaning products you use?
We bring everything. Cloths, mop, vacuum, scale paste, oven foam, glass spray, microfibre buffing pads, dust sheets for Grade II frontages. The only thing we use from the property is the hot water tap. You don’t have to leave anything behind. If you’ve already moved your kit out, we still complete the clean to the 57-point standard.
What if the property is a 1930s detached on Park Street with a galvanised loft tank?
The galvanised cold-water tanks in the Park Street semis and detached are usually scaled inside and that’s a plumber’s job not a cleaner’s. We don’t open the tank. We do clean the tank cupboard, the dust on the tank lid, and the access hatch frame. If the clerk asks about the tank itself, that goes back to the landlord.
Are you VAT registered? Will I get an invoice for the deposit dispute file?
Yes to both. Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House number 9919639, VAT registered, head office at 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS. The invoice and the 57-point sign-off arrive by email the same evening, ready to drop into your deposit-dispute pack if needed.
What about the 2010s estate off Salisbury Road – any quirks?
Pressed-bamboo floors in the open-plan kitchen-livings get faint white scuff marks from rubber-soled chair feet, and the integrated dishwashers usually have a build-up around the base of the spray arm that we have to lift and soak. The combi boilers don’t need cleaning but the boiler cupboard usually has a dust shelf nobody touched in the tenancy. We do.
Is there anything you won’t do?
We don’t do exterior windows above ground floor without a separate window-cleaner booking. We don’t move heavy furniture you haven’t pre-moved. We don’t open galvanised water tanks or touch consumer units. Everything else, yes.
How do I book?
Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the postcode, bed count and move-out date. Quote inside an hour, slot held the same day, no deposit. Or read more about end of tenancy cleaning across Berkshire first.
Ready to book your Hungerford end of tenancy clean
Phone 0333 555 2076. Email [email protected]. Quote in an hour. Fixed price. 57-point agent-approved checklist, 48-hour re-clean guarantee, the same team that works the Romans, Carter Jonas, Knight Frank and Strutt & Parker check-outs across RG17.