End of tenancy cleaning in Imperial Wharf

An inventory clerk at Imperial Wharf opens the dishwasher door and runs a finger along the rubber gasket before anything else, then catches the floor-to-ceiling glazing edge-on in the river light. Those two checks decide more St George deposits here than the rest of the flat put together. We clean these riverside apartments to that running order, on the letting-agent benchmark, at £30 per hour per cleaner with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee measured against the check-out report. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price in three minutes.

Last updated June 2026. We cover the whole Imperial Wharf scheme in SW6, from Waterside Tower and Riverside Tower on The Boulevard to Mahogany House and the townhouses off Lensbury Avenue, plus the Chelsea Creek blocks next door. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Hammersmith & Fulham.

What the clerk checks first in a St George flat

Start with the mechanism, because it is the whole game and almost nobody runs it. When you moved in, a clerk walked the flat and wrote a check-in report describing every surface, with photos, and against the kitchen and bathroom they almost always wrote “new” or “as new”. Those words were true on the day, because St George hands a flat over professionally cleaned. At check-out a clerk walks it again and compares line by line. Anything materially worse than the check-in entry, beyond fair wear and tear, comes off your deposit. You are marked against a developer-standard handover, which is why a mop and a free Saturday rarely gets you there.

The deductions here land in a familiar shape: the hob trim seal and the integrated appliances catch the most, then the stone or glass in the en-suite, then the painted reveals around that long glazing, then the balcony deck. Put a clutch of those against a deposit north of £4,000 and the maths writes itself. Most tenants only do that sum after they have tried, failed the check-out, and lost the first round, which is a pity, because the first round is the cheap one to win.

Why so pointed here? The deposit is large and the agent is on the hook for protecting it, so the walk-through is genuinely adversarial. That is not unfair. You turn up with evidence, not optimism.

Two things sit behind this in law and pull in opposite directions. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 means your landlord cannot write professional cleaning into the contract as a condition, so nobody can force you to book us. Damp and mould, on the other hand, are a landlord obligation, not a tenant cleaning failure. Where we find genuine damp behind a wardrobe or in a cold bathroom corner, we photograph it so the charge sits where it belongs.

The 1 May 2026 shift, and the churn it speeds up

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone. Every existing assured shorthold tenancy in England has converted to a periodic tenancy, and a tenant can now give two months’ notice at any point in the year rather than waiting for a fixed term to end.

Here is the part people get wrong. The cleaning side of a move-out did not change at all. The Tenant Fees Act, the check-in benchmark and the five-week deposit cap all still apply. The deposit maths is exactly what it was the week before.

What changed is timing. Imperial Wharf was already a high-churn address, heavy with corporate lets and one-year tenancies booked by people who fly in and out. Let them leave on a rolling two months instead of a fixed end date and the hand-backs get more frequent and less predictable. The takeaway is dull but it pays for itself: book the clean earlier than you used to, because the slot you want will be gone if you wait until the week of check-out.

The cleaning side of a move-out did not change at all.

The integrated kitchen is where the money hides

Nearly every flat in the scheme came with the same kit: an integrated oven and induction hob, integrated extractor, integrated fridge-freezer and dishwasher, a washer-dryer in a utility cupboard, and a boiling-water tap at the sink. The larger laterals add a wine cooler. Three things let people down at hand-back, and they are always the same three.

The first is the trim seal under the edge of the glass hob. Grease creeps under it and sets, the clerk lifts the edge with a fingernail, and there it is. The second is the filter cassette behind the extractor hood, which clogs to a brown felt no surface wipe touches. The third is the rubber gasket inside the dishwasher door, the one the clerk opens first. We pull, soak and reseat all three on every clean. On one of our regular Riverside Tower flats, that hob seal alone has quietly saved the tenant on two separate deposits.

The boiling-water tap and the kettle are their own battle, because of the water. The oven gets stripped, not wiped: racks in the soaking tank, the door glass split so the film between the panels comes out, the fan and seals done. If the oven is the only thing your agent pulled you up on, standalone oven cleaning in Imperial Wharf covers it from £77.

The 57 things, room by room

Every Imperial Wharf booking runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist, built over a decade of London check-outs and tuned to what the clerks here actually flag. The full list comes with the job. Here is the shape of it.

The kitchen, beyond the appliances

Once the oven, hob, extractor and dishwasher are done, we work the rest of the room. Control knobs off and washed. Every cupboard inside and out, including the deep corner units. Fridge and freezer cleaned through once you have defrosted them. Appliances pulled so the gaps behind and under get done, then put back. Washer-dryer drum, detergent drawer, door seal. Sink, tap, drainer and plughole descaled. Splashback, bins, and the floor pulled back where it lifts.

The bathrooms and en-suites

Scale comes off the chrome shower head, screen, tap and tile joints first. The stone vanities, a single slab with an integrated basin in a lot of the en-suites, get a pH-neutral stone cleaner and a buff, never acid, because acid leaves a dull patch no clerk lets pass. Then the rest.

• Toilet done properly: inside, under the rim, base, cistern, hinges, and behind the pan where only the clerk looks
• Shower screen both sides, the track, and the sealant bead
• Bath or shower tray, the underside of the tap, the overflow and the plughole
• Mirrors and cabinets, and behind them where they come off the wall
• Extractor vent wiped, sealant cleaned to a usable state (re-sealing is a handyman job, not a cleaning one)
• Floor into the corners, behind the loo and under the basin

The river glass and the balcony

Two features here are not in a normal Fulham flat. The floor-to-ceiling glazing shows every drying streak under afternoon sun, so a cloth and a spray makes it worse; we do the inside face with a squeegee and deionised water, which dries clear, and the exterior above the fourth floor is the building’s job. The balcony is the surprise: the river-facing decks take a film of Thames silt off the spring tides, concrete holds it, and mopping just smears it. We rinse the deck and the underside of the rail, because the clerk lifts a planter or a lounger to check beneath. Where the inventory asks for the outside glass on a low-floor flat, that is window cleaning on the same visit.

Bedrooms, reception and the rest

Inside every wardrobe, drawer and built-in. Skirting, door frames, doors, handles and finger plates. The brushed-chrome and brass ironmongery shows fingerprints in any side-light, so it gets a dry microfibre on the way out. Light fittings, shades, switches, sockets and the thermostat. Window sills, reveals and the inside frames. Radiators behind, under and on top. Walls spot-wiped, with a realistic line drawn, because nail holes and scuffs are a decorator’s bill and not yours to scrub away. Engineered and parquet floors damp-mopped with a wood-safe cleaner, never a steam mop, because steam forces water between the planks and they lift. Upholstery hoovered; a hard-used sofa sometimes needs full upholstery cleaning instead. Then the door-entry handset, which a clerk tests connects to the concierge desk, the cobwebs, and a final walk-through photographed before and after. Where a tenancy writes in professional carpet cleaning, the carpet cleaning in Imperial Wharf add-on covers it the same day.

The river view is the selling point and the cleaning trap.

What Fulham hard water does to chrome and stone

Imperial Wharf sits in London’s hard-water zone, and that fact loses more deposits here than almost anything except the appliances. Thames Water runs the SW6 supply at the very hard end of its network, well above 300 milligrams of calcium carbonate a litre, off the chalk the Thames Valley sits on. Scale builds on the shower head, screen, tap and boiling-water tap faster than tenants expect, and a wipe with a cloth does nothing to it.

The clerk checks for it. They run a thumbnail down the tap, look at the screen edge-on, and pull the shower head in close. The boiling-water tap and the inside of the kettle are worse again, because boiling concentrates the mineral. We descale every fixture that was on the property for the tenancy, and keep acid off the stone vanities. The fittings on the river aspect catch the worst of it, because the afternoon sun bakes the last droplets dry on the glass and chrome.

Specialist floors sit outside the scrub-and-go work. The engineered board across the reception and the herringbone in the better laterals each take their own product, which is what the floor cleaning add-on is for.

The scheme, block by block, and the boundary muddle

Imperial Wharf is a single St George development, but it does not all clean the same way. It went up from 2004 on the brownfield of the former Imperial Gas Works, the riverside estate the Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company leased at Sandford Manor in 1824, and the name carries that history. Today it is roughly 1,800 flats, penthouses and townhouses along The Boulevard, between Townmead Road, the Overground station, Imperial Park and the Thames. We have worked these blocks since the early lets.

The river towers and the laterals

Waterside Tower and Riverside Tower on The Boulevard, and the high-floor flats facing the water, are where the glazing and balcony work matters most, and where the laterals get big enough that the integrated kit multiplies into two ovens, a wine cooler and a utility room of its own. These come with managed-building rules: concierge sign-in, a service lift you may have to book, an access card and a gym fob that both have to be signed back. A missing fob is usually billed at around £55, straight off the deposit.

The courtyard blocks, townhouses and Chelsea Creek

Mahogany House and the lower courtyard blocks off Lensbury Avenue and Central Avenue are more conventional flats, still integrated throughout, and the townhouses add stairs and more floor. Chelsea Creek, the newer St George scheme just north of the station, is a separate development people fold into Imperial Wharf by habit; its blocks carry their own names, Doulton House, Compass House, Fairwater House, Dockside House, Westwood House and The King’s Tower. We clean those too. East across the boundary lies Chelsea Harbour and the Design Centre, with the King’s Road and the older streets of Sands End just behind.

Not sure which scheme or postcode you are actually in? Ring 0333 555 2076 with the block name and we will tell you in about ten seconds.

What it costs against a five-week deposit

Imperial Wharf runs at our standard London pricing: £30 per hour per cleaner, kit, products and travel into SW6 included. Despite the address, there is no riverside surcharge on these figures. They assume a flat in normal lived-in shape. A long corporate let with heavy wear costs more, and we say so on the phone rather than after. No surprise lines, and no charge for an evening slot that fits the concierge.

Now run the maths the way the deposit makes you. A two-bed at Waterside Tower lets for around £2,800 to £3,500 a month, the river laterals push past that, and a five-week deposit at those rents lands at £3,500 to £6,000. A £243 clean against a £5,000 deposit is the cheapest insurance going. 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, as long as you tell us in time and nobody has moved in. Our 97% first-time pass rate is why the agents here know us, but the guarantee is the point. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, and over the years that work has helped tenants recover £1.2m deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions. That is really the whole job: money that stays with the tenant, not the landlord.

Three jobs get muddled here, and it pays to book the right one.

End-of-tenancy clean

Built to pass the inventory and get a deposit back, against the letting-agent benchmark, with the flat empty and the 48-hour guarantee on it, at £30 per hour per cleaner.

Deep clean

A deep clean resets a home you are keeping, lived-in, with no formal standard to hit, also from £30 an hour.

Regular domestic clean

Ongoing maintenance, the same cleaner kept on the home, from £22 an hour weekly. That round is the bulk of what we run at Imperial Wharf week to week.

A Waterside Tower job from February

“We had eight days between landing back from Dubai and the hand-back on our two-bed in Waterside Tower. Twenty months in the flat, river view, and a stone vanity in the en-suite a previous cleaner had left streaked white. The dishwasher seal was black and the hob had that grease line under the glass edge. Two cleaners came on the Wednesday, eight until four, did the lot including the double oven. Our Hamptons clerk released the full deposit on the Friday and wrote ‘returned to specification’ on the report. It cost £243 plus £110 for the oven. We had braced for losing nearly two grand.”
Daniel, Imperial Wharf SW6, February 2026

That is a fair example of the pattern in the river towers: an absent tenant, a short window, a stone surface a previous clean had damaged, and an agent who checks against a developer-standard handover. The clean cost a fraction of what was at stake. What turned it was the scrubbing plus the dated photo set with the invoice, the part most do-it-yourself check-outs lack when the agent pushes back.

Booking it around the concierge and the lift

A managed riverside block adds a couple of steps, so plan for them.

1. Ring 0333 555 2076. Price in about three minutes. Give us the block, the flat size, the check-out date, any known problem spots, and the agent doing the inspection, because Hamptons, Foxtons, Knight Frank, Marsh & Parsons and John D Wood each run their walk-throughs a little differently.
2. We book a slot that finishes at least two hours before your hand-back, so the flat dries before the clerk arrives. Allow more notice for an end-of-month date, because they cluster.
3. We sort the lift and the access. Where the service lift needs booking with the building manager, we book it; concierge can hold the access card and gym fob for us to collect, so you need not be there.
4. Two cleaners arrive with our own equipment, including the deionised-water glazing kit and stone-safe descalers. You provide nothing.
5. You pay on completion and get an itemised invoice with before-and-after photos. Anything flagged inside 48 hours, we come back and fix it free.

One honest note on access. What slows a move-out day at Imperial Wharf is never the cleaning, it is the lift and the loading bay, so tell us the arrangement when you book and how we get in: concierge, key safe or an agent drop-off. We also do removals if you want the move and the clean on one booking, which helps when the bay is shared and every van trip has to be timed. Behind all this is Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House 9919639, run from south-west London since 2014.

Questions we get asked

How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost at Imperial Wharf?

A studio is from £156, a one-bed from £207, a two-bed from £243, a three-bed from £339 and a four-bed or townhouse from £425, at £30 per hour per cleaner. A single oven add-on is £77, a double £110, a 90cm range £114, and whole-flat carpet shampoo on a two-bed £115. Paid on completion.

Is Imperial Wharf charged at a premium because it is a smart riverside address?

No, and we hear that assumption a lot. Our SW6 pricing is the same standard London tier we use across most of the city, so a two-bed at Waterside Tower is priced the same as a two-bed anywhere on the base tier. The address does not load the figure.

Do you cover all the Imperial Wharf and Chelsea Creek blocks, and fit around the lift?

Yes to both. We work every Imperial Wharf block, from Waterside Tower and Riverside Tower to Mahogany House and the townhouses, plus the Chelsea Creek scheme to the north. Where the building manager wants a service-lift booking for the higher floors, we sort it, and time the clean to finish two hours before your agent walks the inventory.

Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change anything for Imperial Wharf tenants?

From 1 May 2026, Section 21 evictions are abolished and assured shorthold tenancies convert to periodic, so a tenant can give two months’ notice at any point. The cleaning obligations and the five-week deposit cap do not change. The real effect here is more frequent, less predictable hand-backs, so book as early as you can.

What about the stone vanities in the en-suites?

St George specifies a single-slab stone vanity with an integrated basin in most of the en-suites. We use a pH-neutral stone cleaner and a microfibre buff, and keep acidic descalers off it, because acid leaves a permanent dull patch on that stone that no clerk will pass.

How hard is the water, and does it matter at hand-back?

It is very hard. Thames Water runs the SW6 supply above 300 milligrams of calcium carbonate a litre, off the chalk under the Thames Valley. That scales the chrome shower heads, the screens, the boiling-water tap and the kettle quickly, so we descale every fixture that was on the property for the tenancy.

Do you clean the floor-to-ceiling river glass and the balcony?

The inside face, yes, with a squeegee and deionised water so it dries without streaks; the exterior above the fourth floor is the building’s job. The balconies we rinse rather than mop, because the river-facing decks pick up Thames silt off the spring tides and the clerk checks under a planter or a lounger.

What about the integrated appliances, and do you need us there?

We do the oven, hob, extractor filter cassette, dishwasher gasket, fridge-freezer seals and the wine cooler, pulling, soaking and reseating the parts that come out; the trim seal under the glass hob is the biggest deduction trap here and gets done every clean. You need not be there: concierge holds the access card and gym fob, and we send timestamped photos of every room when we leave.

What happens if the landlord disputes the clean after a re-clean?

Escalate to the adjudication run by whichever deposit scheme holds the money: the TDS, the DPS or mydeposits. Our invoice, dated photo report and re-clean record are admissible evidence, and a tenant with a full paper trail rarely loses; Shelter’s guidance walks through the steps. Hammersmith and Fulham runs property licensing across the borough and will accept the clerk’s report as evidence of condition, one more reason the paper trail matters.

How fast can you turn a last-minute booking around?

Usually within 24 hours in SW6, because we keep a team in the postcode through the week on the maintenance round. Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings are the tightest, so book those a couple of days ahead.

Other Monster Cleaning services in Imperial Wharf

Staying put rather than moving out? We also offer carpet cleaning in Imperial Wharf, oven cleaning in Imperial Wharf and domestic cleaning in Imperial Wharf. Nearby you can also book End of Tenancy Cleaning Sands End, End of Tenancy Cleaning Chelsea Harbour, End of Tenancy Cleaning Fulham and End of Tenancy Cleaning Parsons Green.