End of tenancy cleaning in Kidbrooke Village, from £156

“Who actually checks the flat, and how clean does it have to be?” That is the first question every Kidbrooke Village tenant asks, and the honest answer is that a clerk walks your Berkeley apartment against the spotless hand-over report it started life with, then opens the integrated oven and lifts the extractor canopy before they look at anything else. So an end-of-tenancy clean here has to be built to satisfy that hand-back, room by room, against the developer finish, at £30 per hour per cleaner with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee measured on the check-out report itself. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price in about three minutes.

Last updated June 2026. We cover Kidbrooke Village and the wider SE3 9 postcode, plus the streets around Sutcliffe Park and Kidbrooke Park Road. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Greenwich.

Why a Berkeley hand-back is a different job

Start with the stock, because it sets everything that follows. Kidbrooke Village is the Berkeley Homes regeneration built on the cleared site of the old Ferrier Estate, the 1970s council scheme that came down between 2009 and 2014. Nothing on the estate is period. No parquet, no plaster cornice, no original chrome to nurse. Every flat and townhouse came out of the ground after 2010, finished to one developer specification: integrated kitchens, induction hobs, engineered-oak floors in the open-plan run, floor-to-ceiling glazing on the park-facing rooms, quartz worktops and walk-in showers behind low-iron glass.

That spec is the standard you are held to. When you moved in, a Berkeley Living clerk walked the flat, wrote it up and photographed it against the developer hand-over finish. At check-out a clerk walks it again and compares, line by line. Anything materially worse than that first report, beyond fair wear and tear, comes off your deposit. You are marked against the day the keys were handed over, which is why a free Sunday with a mop rarely gets there.

The law sits behind this and pulls two ways. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 means nobody can force a professional clean into your contract as a condition, so this is your choice, not an obligation. Damp and mould, on the other hand, are the landlord’s responsibility, not a tenant cleaning failure, so where we find a cold-corner mould bloom behind a wardrobe on a north-facing flat we photograph it and note it, so the charge lands where it belongs.

One checklist, room by room

Every Kidbrooke booking runs to the same 57-point agent-approved checklist, scaled to the property and tuned to what the clerks on this estate actually flag. The full list comes with the job. Here it is in one place, so you can see exactly what a hand-back clean covers rather than guessing at it.

• Integrated oven: cavity, racks soaked, the inner door glass split and worked both faces where the brown film collects at the bottom corner, seals, control fascia, the underside of the door
• Induction hob lifted and the silicone bead around it cleaned, worktop and splashback behind it
• Extractor canopy: mesh filter out and soaked, canopy interior degreased by hand, light glass wiped, filter re-fitted
• Integrated fridge-freezer through once defrosted, drawers, door seals; dishwasher and washer-dryer filter, drum, detergent drawer and the door seal the clerk opens first
• Handle-less unit faces wiped, including the greasy under-edge that catches finger oil over a long let
• Quartz worktops polished streak-free, sink, taps and waste descaled, splashback joints brushed
• Walk-in shower: both faces of the low-iron glass, scale lifted off the screen, tile joints and the silicone bead checked
• Bath where fitted, taps and the underside of the taps, overflow, plughole, then the WC inside the rim, the hinges, the flush plate and the floor behind the pan
• Heated towel rail and chrome polished, mirror and demister edge, vanity drawers and soft-close hinges, extractor vent dusted
• Wardrobe interiors top to bottom, drawer runners, the bed-frame base lifted, shelving in the airing and utility cupboards
• Skirting, door tops, hinges, handles, finger plates and the threshold strips between rooms
• Light switches, sockets, the thermostat and the video-entry intercom panel wiped down
• Floor-to-ceiling glazing on the park-facing rooms: inner face, frame channels, weather-strip runs and the balcony patio-door track
• Juliette openings on the Cator Park side: rail top, the inner face of the balustrade glass, the frame channel below the rail
• Engineered-oak floor cleaned with a wood-safe product and hand-buffed, never an abrasive pad; carpeted bedrooms vacuumed top to tail
• Communal heat-interface-unit cupboard and riser tidied (the estate runs on district heating), cobwebs out of the ceiling corners, smoke-alarm housings dusted, internal doors both sides
• Floors mopped or buffed last, on the way out, so there are no footprints left behind

Two of these often want their own pass. Where a bedroom has been carpeted as an aftermarket choice and the tenancy asks for it, carpet cleaning on the same visit covers the hot-water extraction. Where a furnished let leaves a tired sofa, upholstery cleaning does more than a vacuum will. And the exterior face of the glass on a lower-floor flat, when the inventory asks for it, is a window cleaning job folded into the booking.

The five lines deposits actually go on

Twelve years of Berkeley hand-backs, and the deductions cluster on the same short list. The kitchen extractor canopy, where a mesh filter nobody lifted for eighteen months has gone amber with bonded grease. The oven inner door glass, with that film in the bottom corner. The induction-hob silicone, the fridge gasket and the dishwasher seal. The engineered floor along the patio-door threshold, where grit walks in off the Cator Park side and the gloss wears in a line. And the glazing: the inner face of the wide glass at chair-back height, and the shower screen, edge-on to the light.

Get those five right and the rest of the inspection tends to wave through. Miss the canopy and the oven glass on a long let and you have handed the clerk their first two deductions before they have left the kitchen.

Miss the canopy and the oven glass on a long let and you have handed the clerk their first two deductions before they have left the kitchen.

None of this is guesswork. The clerks here work to the Berkeley resident hand-over pack, the same one across City Point, Blackheath Quarter and Meridian Gate, so the bar holds from block to block. We clean to that pack, which is why the photo set we leave with the invoice settles most arguments before they start.

What changed on 1 May 2026, and what did not

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 came into force on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone. Every assured shorthold tenancy in England has become a periodic tenancy, and a tenant can give two months notice at any point rather than waiting out a fixed term.

Here is the part people get wrong. The cleaning side of a move-out did not change one bit. The Tenant Fees Act still applies. The hand-over benchmark still applies. The deposit sum is exactly what it was. What changed is timing.

Kidbrooke was already a high-churn estate, heavy on twelve to eighteen-month corporate lets and relocations through the on-site lettings team. Let those tenants leave on rolling notice instead of a fixed end date and the hand-backs get more frequent and far less predictable, so the month-end clustering that already grips the estate is not going to ease. The takeaway is dull and it pays for itself. Book the clean earlier than you used to, because on an estate this size the good slots vanish first.

Hard water, and the shower glass the clerk lifts to the light

SE3 sits in Thames Water very-hard-water territory, around 290 to 300 parts per million of calcium carbonate, and on a new-build estate full of chrome and low-iron glass that detail loses deposits. Scale builds on tap necks, shower heads and the screen faster than tenants think, and a wipe with a cloth does nothing to it. The clerk knows exactly where to look. They run a thumbnail down the tap. They turn the shower screen edge-on against the light. They pull the head in close.

The trick is lifting that scale without harming the spec finish. We use a glazing-safe descaler on the chrome and the glass, keep it off the porous tile and the stone, and hand-buff the screen dry so no cloud is left on the low-iron glass. On a new-build the temptation is a harsh acid, and on this stock that is the fast way to a worse problem than the limescale you started with. Slow and careful beats brute force here.

They turn the shower screen edge-on against the light, so that is where the work goes.

Floors are the other careful job. The engineered oak in the open-plan run is sealed with a lacquer the inventory clerk torch-tests for haze, so it gets a wood-safe cleaner and a microfibre, never a scouring pad, and a dry hand-buff the same day. That is what floor cleaning as an add-on covers when a job needs more than the standard pass.

The estate, block by block

Kidbrooke Village runs to thousands of homes across roughly 4,800 planned units, laid out as named neighbourhoods around two parks: the new Cator Park and the restored wetland of Sutcliffe Park, where the River Quaggy was lifted out of its concrete culvert and put back into a meandering channel in 2004. The stock varies enough that one method does not pass all of it, so we work the estate by neighbourhood.

City Point and the central blocks around Pegler Square

The mid-rise apartment blocks frame the village centre at Pegler Square, where the Sainsbury’s Local, the Tesco Express, the Starbucks and the medical centre sit, with Kidbrooke station a two-minute walk over the road. These are the highest-churn flats on the estate: one and two-beds on corporate and relocation lets, concierge sign-in, loading-bay booking and a resident-services team that runs a tight hand-back. Floor-to-ceiling glass, integrated kitchens and engineered floors throughout. Send us the operator checklist and we clean to it line by line.

Blackheath Quarter, up against Cator Park

The northern neighbourhood, next to Cator Park and closest to the Blackheath bus runs along the 132 and the 178. A collection of apartments with the same spec, but more of the park-facing units with the wide glazing and the Juliette openings that catch a winter’s grime on the rail tops. The proximity to Blackheath proper, and to the schools, pulls in more family lets here, so the two and three-beds run longer and pick up more wear before they hand back.

Meridian Gate and the townhouses between the parks

The newer central neighbourhood, sitting between Cator Park and Sutcliffe Park, and the part of the estate with the most townhouses and mews. These are the bigger jobs: two floors, a second bathroom, a staircase and an open-plan kitchen-reception with the integrated extractor and the engineered floor that set the tail of the clean. A three or four-bed townhouse here is a full day’s work and we price it as one.

Streets and squares we are in most weeks include Pegler Square, Weigall Road, Kidbrooke Park Road, Cranfield Walk and the apartment blocks off them. Building access runs through concierge and the loading bay rather than the street, which matters for how we plan the day.

Not sure which neighbourhood your address falls in, or whether you are on the Kidbrooke Village side of the railway? Ring 0333 555 2076 with the postcode and the block, and we will tell you in about ten seconds.

What it costs, and the sum nobody runs in time

Kidbrooke runs at our standard London pricing: £30 per hour per cleaner, with kit, products and travel inside SE3 included. Those figures assume a flat in normal lived-in shape. A long let with heavy wear, a pet household or a kitchen nobody has deep-cleaned in two or three years costs more, and we say so on the phone rather than springing it on the invoice. No surprise lines.

Now run the sum the deposit forces on you. Advertised one-bed rents on the estate sit around £1,750 a month, so a five-week deposit is comfortably over £2,000, and a two-bed more again. Set a £243 clean against a £2,500 deposit and it stops being a real decision. Most tenants only run that sum after they have failed the check-out and lost the first round, which is a shame, because the first round is the cheap one to win. Every Kidbrooke 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 inside that window and the flat is still as we left it. Our 97% first-time pass rate across these jobs is the reason agents on the estate know us, and over the years that work has helped tenants hold on to £1.2m deposits recovered that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, which is why a clerk will often sign off on the strength of our photo pack alone.

A Meridian Gate job from March

“We were handing back a two-bed townhouse near Cator Park after a sixteen-month corporate let, both of us in the City, both worried about the kitchen. Sixteen months of stir-fries had baked an amber film inside the extractor canopy and the same film had crept into the bottom corner of the oven door glass. The on-site team had told us at the pre-inspection those were the two lines they dock townhouses on after a long let. Monster sent two cleaners for six hours, pulled the canopy mesh and soaked it, split the oven door glass and worked both sides, then did the engineered floor and the second bathroom. The clerk passed us first time, and the full deposit was back in the bank the next week.”
Maya and James, Kidbrooke Village SE3, March 2026

That is a fair example of the Meridian Gate pattern: a long corporate let, an integrated kitchen nobody had stripped, a townhouse with the work over two floors, and an agent who checks against the developer pack. The clean cost a fraction of what was at stake, which it usually does. What turned it was the dated photo set that went out with the invoice, the thing most DIY hand-backs do not have when the agent pushes back.

Booking it, and the loading-bay problem

Booking is quick. The wrinkle on this estate is access, not the clean.

1. Ring 0333 555 2076. Price in about three minutes. Give us the block, the floor, the move-out date and any known problem areas, and say if the original hand-over report marked anything as new.
2. We book you in, ideally the day before check-out with a buffer. Allow seven to ten days for an end-of-month slot, three to five mid-month.
3. Flat empty when we arrive. Furniture out, boxes gone, rubbish cleared. We also do removals if you want the move and the clean on one booking, which genuinely helps when the loading bay is the bottleneck.
4. Photo proof at the end. Every room, before and after, with an itemised invoice on company-headed paper. That is your evidence pack if the check-out tries to deduct.
5. Check-out happens. Anything flagged inside 48 hours, we are back to fix it free.

One honest note on access. Most of the kerb on the estate is footway and loading-only, and parking inside Kidbrooke Village is managed privately by the estate office, not the surrounding Royal Greenwich controlled-parking zone. So tell us the arrangement when you book: the loading bay behind the block, a permit code from the building manager, and how we get in, whether that is concierge, a key safe or an agent drop-off. The concierge will want the move-out van logged in advance. Sorting that the day before takes the sting out of the day itself.

Three cleans people muddle into one

People ring asking for one thing and meaning another, so it is worth booking the right job.

Hand-over inventory report

The document the clerk writes on day one, describing every surface with photos, almost always against the developer finish here. It is the benchmark your check-out is judged against, which is why we clean to it rather than to a generic idea of clean.

End-of-tenancy clean

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

Deep clean

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

Regular domestic clean

A domestic clean is ongoing upkeep through a tenancy, from £22 an hour on a weekly visit.

We also work the areas around Kidbrooke, which matters when your next flat is one neighbourhood over or your tenancy straddles a boundary: End of Tenancy Cleaning Blackheath, End of Tenancy Cleaning Eltham, End of Tenancy Cleaning New Eltham and End of Tenancy Cleaning Greenwich Peninsula over on the other side of the borough.

Questions we get asked

Do I actually need a professional clean to get my deposit back at Kidbrooke Village?

You can clean it yourself; the Tenant Fees Act 2019 stops your landlord writing a professional clean in as a contractual condition. The snag is the standard you are judged against. Your flat was handed over spotless, photographed and signed off, and the check-out clerk compares your hand-back to that. Matching a developer finish with a domestic mop is hard, and with most deposits here capped at five weeks rent, the maths usually favours booking us.

Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change the clean when I move out of Kidbrooke?

From 1 May 2026 Section 21 no-fault evictions ended and every assured shorthold tenancy in England turned into a periodic one, so you can give two months notice whenever you like. The cleaning side did not move at all: the benchmark, the deposit rules and the inventory check are the same as the week before. What changed is timing. Kidbrooke is a high-churn corporate-let estate, and rolling notice makes move-outs more frequent and harder to predict, so book your slot earlier than you would have done.

What does the inventory clerk look at first in a Berkeley flat here?

The integrated kitchen, every time. The extractor canopy gets lifted and the mesh filter checked for baked-on grease, the oven inner door glass is inspected for the brown film that collects in the bottom corner, and the silicone bead round the induction hob is checked for splash. After that it is the engineered floor along the patio-door threshold, the inner face of the floor-to-ceiling glass at chair-back height, and the shower screen and tile joints for hard-water scale. Those are the lines deposits go on at Kidbrooke Village.

How much is end of tenancy cleaning at Kidbrooke Village?

A studio is £156, a one-bed apartment £207, a two-bed apartment or townhouse £243, a three-bed £339 and a four-bed townhouse £425. Those are full prices with kit, products and travel inside SE3 included. If you only need a partial job rather than a full hand-back, we charge £30 per hour per cleaner. A long let with heavy wear costs more, and we tell you that on the phone, not on the invoice.

Are your products safe on the engineered-oak floors and the spec finishes?

Yes. The Berkeley lacquer on those floors does not like acid or an abrasive pad, so we use a wood-safe cleaner and microfibre and hand-buff it dry the same day. We never take a blade to the induction hob, because the spec glass scratches. On chrome, shower glass and taps we lift scale with a glazing-safe descaler and keep it off porous tile and stone. The clerk runs a torch sideways across the floor looking for haze, and that is what we clean to.

Do you clean inside City Point, Blackheath Quarter and the Meridian Gate blocks?

Yes, all of them, plus the townhouses and mews in between. We are inside the Kidbrooke Village blocks most weeks, the concierge logs the move-out van into the loading bay on the day, and the team already knows the layouts: the open-plan kitchen run, the second bathroom in the townhouses, the Juliette openings on the Cator Park side and the floor-to-ceiling glazing on the park-facing rooms.

Is Kidbrooke Village covered by Royal Greenwich selective licensing?

No. The Royal Borough of Greenwich selective licensing scheme runs from 1 October 2022 to 30 September 2027 and only covers single-household and two-sharer lets in parts of Plumstead, Glyndon, Shooters Hill, Woolwich Common and Woolwich Riverside. Kidbrooke Village sits well outside that, in the Kidbrooke Village and Sutcliffe ward. Mandatory HMO licensing still applies to qualifying multi-occupant homes anywhere in the borough, including here.

How long before my check-out should I book?

For an end-of-month or Friday slot, give us seven to ten days, because those go first across the whole estate at once. Mid-month and midweek is usually three to five days, and a Tuesday-to-Thursday booking is often possible at short notice. The month-end pile-up is real on a corporate-let estate where leases cluster, so the earlier you ring, the better the slot.

What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?

If your clerk or letting agent flags anything on cleanliness within 48 hours of the clean, we come back and put it right at no charge. The conditions are simple: tell us inside the window, and the flat is still as we left it with nobody moved in. It is on every booking, in every postcode we work, and at Kidbrooke it is the reason an agent will sign you off on the strength of our photo pack.

Does the flat need to be empty before you arrive?

Empty is strongly preferred. Furniture and boxes block the skirting, the floor edges and the wardrobe interiors, which are exactly the spots the clerk checks, and anything left behind makes the hand-back less certain. One stick of furniture for the next tenant can be worked around, but the more that stays, the less complete the clean is. If the move and the clean are clashing, ask about removals on the same booking.

How do you handle the hard water in SE3?

Kidbrooke is in Thames Water very-hard-water territory, around 290 to 300 parts per million of calcium carbonate, and scale builds on chrome, shower glass and tap necks fast. We lift it with a glazing-safe descaler, keep it off the spec tile and stone, and hand-buff the low-iron screen dry so no cloud is left. The clerk checks the screen edge-on against the light, so that is where the work goes.

What happens if my landlord still disputes the clean?

Escalate to your deposit scheme, whether that is the TDS, the DPS or mydeposits. Our dated before-and-after photo set, the itemised invoice and the re-clean record are accepted as evidence, and a tenant with that full paper trail rarely loses an adjudication. Shelter sets out the steps if it gets that far.

Can you do the carpets and the oven on the same visit?

Yes. Carpet is the common add-on where a bedroom is carpeted as an aftermarket choice, at £36 a bedroom, £43 a reception and £115 for a whole two-bed. A standalone oven is rarer here because most kitchens run a single integrated oven, but a double in the larger townhouses is £110 and a 90cm range is £114. We quote add-ons separately and never fold them in without telling you.

Do you work with the agents and the on-site lettings team?

We are on the books of 300+ letting agents across London, and at Kidbrooke that means the Berkeley Living on-site resident-services team and high-street agents like Hamptons and Foxtons in Blackheath who list across the estate. Some book us on the tenant’s behalf; more often the tenant books and we copy the agent on the photo pack. Where an agent has its own inventory checklist, we clean to it.

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