The old St Mary and All Saints up on Old Church Hill is a private house now, and the 1876 church that replaced it still stands on the High Road, which tells you most of what you need to know about Langdon Hills: things here get handed on, reused, and inspected closely. An inventory clerk does the same with a rental.
End of tenancy cleaning in Langdon Hills is the one clean built to be graded against the check-in report, not a generic tidy, and we price it from £176 for a studio up to £445 for a four-bed, each job against a 57-point agent-approved checklist with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee on it. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price.
Last updated June 2026. We cover Langdon Hills and the SS16 postcode, including SS16 6AA, the estate roads off the High Road, the streets climbing towards Westley Heights and One Tree Hill, the plotland roads down by Dunton, and across to Laindon. This page sits inside the county directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Essex.
How the check-in report quietly decides the deposit
End of tenancy cleaning
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Start with the document, because almost nobody does, and it is the whole game. The deposit comes down to two walks of the same property.
- When you moved into your Langdon Hills flat or house, a clerk walked it and wrote a report describing every surface, usually with photos, usually with the kitchen and bathroom marked clean or as new. They were clean on the day, because the place had just been done professionally.
- At check-out a clerk walks it again and compares line by line.
- Anything materially worse than the check-in entry, past fair wear and tear, is chargeable against your deposit.
You are being marked against a professional clean. That is why a mop and a free Saturday rarely gets you there.
Why is the clerk so thorough here? Because the deposit is real money the agent is on the hook for, and it has to be returned in full or explained, so the inspection is genuinely adversarial. The clerk is paid to find faults, not to wave you through.
That is not unfair. It just means you turn up with evidence rather than optimism.
Two things sit behind all of this in law, and they pull in opposite directions.
- The Tenant Fees Act 2019
- A landlord cannot make professional cleaning a condition of the tenancy, so nobody can force you to book us.
- Damp and mould
- Where we find genuine damp or mould behind a wardrobe or in a cold corner, that is a landlord repair obligation under the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018, not a tenant cleaning failure. We photograph it and note it for you rather than scrubbing past it.
What 337 ppm water does to an SS16 bathroom
Langdon Hills runs on some of the hardest water in the country, and you can read it off every kettle, every chrome tap and every shower screen on the estate.
- Supplier
- Essex & Suffolk Water
- Hardness
- The SS16 supply comes out at roughly 337 parts per million.
- The wider area
- Basildon sits among the top ten hardest in the UK.
Scale builds on glass and metal faster than tenants expect, and a wipe with a cloth does nothing to it. White film that has set into the chrome is not a quick job.
The clerk knows exactly where to look:
- a thumbnail run down the tap
- the shower screen held edge-on to the light
- the shower head pulled in close
We descale all of these as standard, with a proper scale remover that is worked and rinsed rather than smeared over:
- the taps
- the shower head
- the screen
- the tile joints
- the inside of the kettle
Then, and this is the part DIY cleans miss, we dry and buff every glass surface as the last thing we do. A freshly descaled screen that is left to air-dry clouds back over as the hard water evaporates, and a clerk reads that faint cloud as still dirty.
A freshly descaled screen left to air-dry clouds back over, and the clerk reads that cloud as still dirty.
Grout is the other one. Kitchen and bathroom grout is the line between a pass and a deduction here more often than anything to do with carpets. We scrub it back as far as honest effort takes it.
Where it is genuinely past saving, which happens in the longer estate tenancies, we photograph the state before we start, so a clerk cannot bill you for staining that was already grey in the check-in pictures. That dated photo has settled more disputes than any argument has.
Specialist surfaces sit outside the scrub-and-go work:
- Floors
- A tiled hall floor, original timber in a plotland cottage, or laminate in a newer infill house each take their own product, which is what the floor cleaning add-on is for.
- Exterior glass
- On a bungalow with low windows this is a separate job too, folded into the same visit when the inventory asks for it as window cleaning.
The 57 things we go through, room by room
Every Langdon Hills booking runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist built over a decade of local check-outs and tuned to what this area’s clerks actually flag. The full list comes with the job, or we walk you through it first.
The kitchen, where most of the deposit goes
The oven, booked as an add-on from £31, gets cleaned properly, not wiped round. Racks go to soak, the door glass is done by hand with the panels reached on doors that come apart, and the cavity, fan, element and seals all get done.
That film between the glass is the single most-flagged oven fault we see, because the clerk tilts the door to the light and the grease line shows up at once. If the oven is the only thing your agent pulled you up on, standalone oven cleaning covers it on its own from £97.
After the oven we work the rest of the room:
- Hob, control knobs and surround degreased; gas in the older estate kitchens, induction in the newer infill, each handled its own way
- The extractor canopy degreased inside and out, and the filter soaked or swapped
- Every cupboard and drawer emptied and wiped inside and out, including the tops of the wall units where grease dust settles
- Fridge and freezer cleaned through once you have defrosted them
- Appliances pulled out so the gaps behind and under the cooker, fridge and washing machine are done, then put back
- The washing machine itself: drum, the detergent drawer out and scrubbed, and the door seal, which is the first thing a clerk opens
Then the smaller fittings and the floor:
- Dishwasher filter and seals if there is one
- Sink, taps, drainer and plughole descaled, because the hard water never gives those a miss
- Tiles and grout scrubbed
- Bins washed
- Floor pulled back where it lifts, vacuumed and mopped into the corners
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, the base, the cistern, the hinges, and behind the pedestal where nobody looks but the clerk
- Shower screen both sides, the tracks and the sealant bead, then dried and buffed so it does not cloud back over
- Bath, taps, the underside of the taps, the overflow and the plughole
- Mirrors and cabinets, and behind them where they come away from the wall
- Extractor grille wiped and the sealant cleaned to a usable state, with anything past re-sealing flagged rather than bodged
- Floor into the corners, behind the loo and under the basin pedestal
Bedrooms, living rooms and the bits between
- Inside every wardrobe, drawer and built-in cupboard
- Skirting, door frames, doors, handles and finger plates
- Light fittings, shades, switches and pull cords
- Window sills, reveals and frames on the inside, with the runners and tracks cleared of grit
- Radiators behind, under and on top
- Walls spot-wiped for marks, with a realistic line drawn, because nail holes and a decorator’s bill are not yours to scrub away
- Hard floors washed with the right product for the material
- Carpets vacuumed throughout, with visible stains and traffic lanes spot-treated
Two things often need their own pass.
- A set-in carpet stain
- A lounge stain that looked lifted while damp will wick back as the pile dries, which is the classic problem in the older carpeted estate semis. The honest fix is a full machine shampoo rather than a gamble, which is what the carpet cleaning add-on covers on the same visit.
- A tired sofa
- One left for the next tenant sometimes needs full upholstery cleaning instead of a vacuum.
Then the textured ceilings. A lot of the estate stock here has the bumpy 1970s artex-style ceiling that holds dust, and upstairs it is a known checkpoint. The clerk goes up, runs a finger along the landing ceiling and the top of the fitted wardrobe, and a missed strip there is a soft but real deduction.
In a single-storey plotland bungalow that problem disappears, but there is more floor and more original timber to do by hand instead.
Last of all, cobwebs out of the ceiling corners, then a final walk-through, photographed before and after, every room. That photo set is the evidence you keep.
Langdon Hills street by street: the stock changes as you climb
Langdon Hills sits on the high south-west edge of Basildon, the ground rising towards the Country Park, Westley Heights and One Tree Hill, where the view runs out over the Thames estuary to the Kent hills. The housing changes as you go up the hill, and one method does not pass all of it.
There is a quirk worth knowing too: the boundary runs right through the area.
- The residential streets
- Basildon Borough
- The Country Park at the top
- The 400-acre Langdon Hills Country Park is actually run by Thurrock, the next authority over.
The estate roads: post-war Basildon new-town stock
Most of our work here is in the estate semis and terraces off and around the High Road. This is genuine Basildon new-town housing, post-war through to the 1980s, much of it privately let now after being bought from the council. Expect:
- three-bed semis
- a fair amount of carpet rather than hard floor
- kitchens that are either six months old or last touched in 1987
- those textured upstairs ceilings
Long tenancies mean build-up in the places nobody cleans between tenants: behind the cooker, under the fridge, into the grout. We win these check-outs on the dull, slow work, not on anything clever.
The roads climb, so a lot of these are two-storey with bedrooms over a textured landing, and we bring a stable platform for the high ceilings and the tops of fitted wardrobes.
The plotland survivals: bungalows and chalets down towards Dunton
Drop down the south side towards Dunton and Lower Dunton Road and the stock changes completely. These are the inter-war plotland properties, the self-built cottages, chalets and bungalows on long plots that Londoners put up between roughly 1900 and 1940, the history of which the Haven Plotland Museum keeps.
What that means for the clean:
- A lot have been extended or part-modernised in stages over decades, so you get a 1930s core with a newer kitchen or bathroom bolted on.
- Mixed floor levels and odd corners, which a clerk knows to check precisely because they are not standard.
- Usually there is no upstairs at all, which removes the landing-ceiling problem but adds single-storey floor area and more original timber, skirting and frames to wipe down by hand.
We price these by the number of bedrooms, the same as anything else, not by how awkward the layout is.
The commuter belt: streets towards Laindon station
The residential roads running down towards Laindon station and the A176 are heavily commuter-let, and for one reason.
- The line
- Laindon station has run since 1888 and puts you into Fenchurch Street in about 33 minutes on c2c, four trains an hour.
- The hand-backs
- People here clear out around a job move at short notice and hand back keys mid-week between trains.
Where the size allows we turn a vacant property around in a single day, so the keys go back on schedule rather than the clean holding up the chain.
If your tenancy straddles the line into Laindon, or your next place is over towards Basildon town, Vange or Pitsea, we are usually in those postcodes the same week anyway.
Not sure which side of the borough boundary you are on, or whether your road counts as Langdon Hills or Laindon? Ring 0333 555 2076 with the postcode and we will tell you in about ten seconds.
What it costs, and the sum nobody runs until it is too late
Every price is flat for the whole property, with kit, products and travel within the area included.
| Property | Typical duration | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|
| Studio flat | 3-4 hours, 1 cleaner | From £176 |
| 1-bed flat or bungalow | 4-5 hours, 2 cleaners | From £227 |
| 2-bed house or plotland chalet | 5-7 hours, 2 cleaners | From £263 |
| 3-bed estate semi off the High Road | 6-8 hours, 2 cleaners | From £359 |
| 4-bed house | 8-10 hours, 2-3 cleaners | From £445 |
| Carpet shampoo add-on, per bedroom | Same visit | From £29 |
| Oven-only spec, standalone | 1.5-2 hours | From £97 |
- Unusual or part jobs
- Charged at £30 per hour per cleaner where a job is unusual or only part of a property.
- Carpet shampoo
- Over and above the spot-treat already in the clean: £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, or £94 for two bedrooms and a living room. It is the add-on asked for most here, given how much of the older estate stock is carpeted.
- Oven with the clean
- An add-on to the headline price: £31 for a standard single and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker.
- Oven booked alone
- A double is £130 and a range £163.
The figures assume a property in normal lived-in shape. These cost more, and we say so on the phone rather than after, with no surprise lines on the invoice:
- a long tenancy with heavy wear
- a pet household
- a smoker’s place
Run the sum the way the deposit makes you. A two-bed at £263 to protect a deposit of two or three thousand pounds is not really a decision.
Every Langdon Hills booking carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee. If the agent or inventory clerk flags any cleanliness issue inside 48 hours, we come back and redo it free, provided:
- you tell us inside that window
- nobody has moved in
There is a reason agents around Basildon know us. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, and over the years that work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions. That number is really the whole job: money that stays with the tenant instead of the landlord.
It is worth keeping three jobs apart, because booking the wrong one wastes your money.
- Check-in inventory report
- The document the clerk writes on day one describing every surface, with photos. It is the benchmark your check-out is judged against, which is why we clean to it rather than to a vague idea of clean.
- End-of-tenancy clean
- Built to pass that inventory and get a deposit back, against the letting-agent benchmark, property empty, with the 48-hour guarantee on it, at a fixed price by bedroom count.
- Deep clean
- A deep clean resets a home you are keeping, lived-in, with no formal standard to hit, from £206 for two cleaners and at least three hours, with the kit included.
- Regular domestic clean
- A regular domestic clean is ongoing upkeep, from £23 an hour on a weekly visit.
Questions we get asked
How much is end of tenancy cleaning in Langdon Hills?
From £176 for a studio, £227 for a one-bed, £263 for a two-bed, £359 for a three-bed and £445 for a four-bed. Those are flat prices for the whole property. A standard oven clean is inside that figure; carpet shampoo and a standalone range cooker are extra. Part jobs are £30 per hour per cleaner.
Do I really need a professional end-of-tenancy clean here?
You are allowed to do it yourself, and the Tenant Fees Act 2019 stops a landlord making it a condition. The catch is the benchmark. The check-in standard was set by a professional clean, and matching it without professional kit, especially against 337 ppm hard water, is genuinely hard. With deposits commonly running to two or three thousand pounds, the sum usually points one way.
Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change anything for tenants?
The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone, and existing assured shorthold tenancies have converted to periodic ones, so a tenant can give two months’ notice at any point. The cleaning obligations at the end of a tenancy did not change. The real effect in a commuter area like this is more frequent and less predictable move-outs, so book as early as you can.
Do you deal with the hard-water marks in SS16?
Every clean. Langdon Hills is on very hard water from Essex & Suffolk Water, around 337 ppm, so scale on shower glass, taps and tiles is the most common thing flagged here after the oven. We descale with a proper scale remover, worked and rinsed, then dry and buff every glass surface as the last step so it does not cloud over again as it dries.
Can you clean a former plotland bungalow or chalet?
Yes. We clean the inter-war and ex-plotland bungalows and chalets down towards Dunton and Lower Dunton Road as well as the post-war estate semis off the High Road. A single-storey property skips the upstairs ceiling and stair checks but gets the same 57-point standard everywhere else, with the extra single-floor area and original timber done by hand.
Is the inside of the oven included?
No, it is an add-on to the headline price, from £31. A standard oven is cleaned in full, with the door glass degreased by hand, between the panels too where the design allows; a double oven is £62 and a 90cm range cooker £62. The oven is the first thing most Basildon-area clerks open.
Is carpet cleaning included or extra?
A spot-treat of visible stains and traffic lanes is included. A full machine shampoo is an add-on at £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, or £94 for two bedrooms and a living room. With set-in stains in the older carpeted estate semis a full shampoo is often the honest answer, because a stain that looks lifted while damp can wick back as the pile dries, and we will tell you straight rather than gamble the deposit.
Which letting agents do you work with around here?
We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, and around Basildon that includes regular work with the branches covering SS16 such as Bairstow Eves and Abbotts, plus local independents like Let’s Nest on New Avenue. Where an agent has its own inventory requirements, the cleaning team is briefed against them.
Does the property need to be empty?
Fully empty is strongly preferred. Furniture left behind blocks access and leaves 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.
How quickly can you come?
Often within a few days, and we can usually turn a vacant property around in one day where the size allows. Langdon Hills is heavily commuter-let through Laindon station, so a lot of hand-backs are short-notice and mid-week, and we plan around that.
Do I need to be there?
No. Most clients leave a key or arrange access through the agent. We send a dated invoice naming the property once we are finished, so you have the evidence for the deposit scheme whether you were present or not.
What if my landlord still tries to deduct for cleaning?
Raise a dispute with the scheme holding the money, commonly the Tenancy Deposit Scheme or mydeposits, and submit our dated invoice, checklist and before-and-after photos. An adjudicator decides on the evidence, and a complete professional-clean paper trail very rarely loses. Shelter’s guidance walks through the steps.
Do you cover the rest of SS16 and the Basildon area?
Yes. We cover Langdon Hills, Laindon and the wider SS16 and Basildon area, and we work across the rest of Essex. Ask for your postcode even if it is not named on this page, because we are usually nearby in the same week.
Booking it, around Laindon’s mid-week hand-backs
Booking is short, and there is no long form. The steps are simple.
- Ring 0333 555 2076 or email office@monstercleaning.com with your Langdon Hills postcode, the property size and your hand-back date, and mention anything the original check-in marked clean or as new.
- We book you in against your check-out date, so the clean lands before the inventory appointment, not after. Allow a little more notice for an end-of-month slot.
- Property 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 helps on the steeper estate roads where several van trips up the hill turn into a problem.
- Photo proof at the end. Every room, before and after, with a dated invoice naming the property on company-headed paper. That is your evidence pack if the check-out tries to deduct.
- Check-out happens. Anything cleaning-related flagged inside 48 hours, we come back and fix it free.
One honest note on timing. Because so much of Langdon Hills commutes from Laindon, hand-backs cluster at short notice and at month-end, and the slot you want goes if you wait.
- If your check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway and we will do what we can.
- Out of hours, send us a message and someone calls you back first thing.
- A couple of WhatsApp photos of the kitchen and bathroom sharpen the quote.
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