A move-out on the green beside the airport
The green at Leaves Green straddles the A233, and most of the homes we clean here sit just back from that road, between the village green and the north-western fence line of Biggin Hill Airport. End of tenancy cleaning in Leaves Green means a deep, single-visit clean of a large semi-rural house, priced by its size and finished to a letting agent’s inventory standard, with a free re-clean inside 48 hours if the clerk flags anything. That is the short version. The rest of this page is the detail, because a green-belt house out here is not the same job as a flat in Bromley town, and the price and the timing both reflect that.
Leaves Green is a small place. It is roughly 5 miles south of Bromley and 2 miles north of Biggin Hill, deep in the Metropolitan Green Belt on the dip slope of the North Downs, and it sits in the Darwin ward, the largest ward in the whole of Greater London. The houses are spread out. Detached, often older, frequently extended, set in big plots with gravel drives and a lot of glass facing the green. When a tenancy ends on a house like that, the cleaning brief is longer than a townhouse brief, and the clerk who checks it knows the property was let at the top of the local market.
The houses on and around the green
Leaves Green barely registers as a place if you blow through it on the A233. A green, a scatter of houses, the King’s Arms on Leaves Green Road, and then the airport fence. The pub is a weatherboarded building from around 1700, popular with the Biggin Hill pilots in the war and bombed in the Battle of Britain, which tells you how long this hamlet has sat where it sits. The point for a move-out is that the housing here is old, large and individual, not a uniform estate where every flat cleans the same way.
The Darwin ward runs from this green down to Downe, Cudham, Berry’s Green, Single Street and Westerham Hill, all of it green belt, all of it sparse. Downe is the one most people have heard of, because Down House, where Charles Darwin lived for forty years and wrote On the Origin of Species, sits just south of here and now belongs to English Heritage. Keston Common and its ponds are a short way north. So the typical client is in a big detached or a converted period house on a generous plot, not a tenant in a block, and that shapes everything about the clean.
What does it mean on the day? More rooms, for a start, and rooms a town flat does not have. Boot rooms where the dog towels live. Utility rooms with a second sink and a chest freezer. Conservatories and garden rooms with a lot of glass that marks the moment the sun hits it. Older bathrooms with the kind of grout that needs scrubbing, not wiping. We have cleaned enough of these houses to know the layout before we walk in, and we quote on the real property rather than a postcode average.
It is also a quieter brief than a city one in a good way. Nobody is sharing a stairwell, there is no communal hallway to argue over, and the parking is your own gravel drive. The trade-off is that you are further from everything, so a forgotten step costs you a longer trip back. We plan around that.
Why green-belt houses cost more to hand back
Size is the whole story. A two-bed flat has maybe forty surfaces a clerk will run a finger along. A five-bed detached on Leaves Green Road has three or four times that, plus a utility room, a boot room, an Aga or a range cooker, a conservatory facing the green, and bathrooms on two floors. The clean takes longer because there is simply more house, and we price it by the property size rather than by the hour, so the figure does not creep while the team works.
There is a second reason, and it is about how these houses get lived in. Out here people garden, they keep dogs, and the back door is open half the year. So the floors carry more grit, the patio doors carry more smear, and the kitchen carries more cooking than a flat where the tenant eats out. None of that is a problem for an experienced team. It just means the job is heavier, and pretending otherwise would land you with a half-clean and a deductions letter.
A five-bed detached on Leaves Green Road has three or four times the surfaces a clerk will check, plus a utility room, a boot room, an Aga or a range cooker, a conservatory facing the green, and bathrooms on two floors.
We have cleaned for landlords and tenants across this corner of Bromley since 2014, from the airport-side houses here through Keston and down to Downe. The pattern repeats. The deposit on a large rural let is big, the inventory is detailed, and the clerk has the time to be thorough because they are not rushing between twenty flats that afternoon. A clean that would scrape a pass in a busy block gets picked apart on a quiet green-belt road. We clean for the second case, every time.
What a Leaves Green clean actually covers
Everything in the property, top to bottom, against a 57-point agent-approved checklist the team works through room by room. The list is the same one the local letting agents recognise, which is the point: it maps onto what their inventory clerks check, so nothing gets missed because nobody thought to look there.
In the kitchen that means inside and out of every cupboard and drawer, the splashbacks, the extractor and its filter, the sink and taps descaled, and the appliances done properly. Range cookers and Agas get the full treatment, hob, rings, control knobs and surround, and a separate oven clean strips the doors and racks if you add it. Worktops, tiles and grout, skirting, and the floor last so the team is not walking dirt back across it.
Bathrooms are scrubbed and sanitised, tiles and grout included, glass and screens left clear, and any hard-water marks taken off the taps and the shower. Living rooms and bedrooms get dusted from the picture rails down, cobwebs cleared from the high corners these old houses always have, mirrors and internal glass polished, wardrobes and units cleaned inside and out, and skirting boards, doors and frames wiped. Carpets are hoovered throughout; a hot-water extraction clean is a separate add-on if the inventory wants the pile lifted rather than just vacuumed.
The extras a big house tends to need sit outside that core list and get priced on their own. Internal windows and the inside of patio and conservatory glass are in the standard clean; the outside of upstairs glass on a tall detached is a water-fed-pole job we add separately. Carpets that have taken a dog and a garden all year usually want extraction rather than a hoover. A range cooker that has not been touched between tenancies wants a full strip-down. We will tell you on the quote which of these your property actually needs, rather than loading them on by default.
Two practical conditions, because they decide whether the visit can finish in one go. The property needs electricity and running hot water on the day. The fridge and freezer should be switched off and defrosted before we arrive, since a freezer full of ice cannot be cleaned and refilling the slot wastes a visit. And the place has to be empty of your belongings, because we cannot clean behind boxes and the clerk will mark down anything left in a cupboard. Clear those three and the team can work straight through.
What it costs, by the size of the house
The price tracks the number of bedrooms, full and not by the hour. A studio is £156, a one-bed flat £207, a two-bed £243, a three-bed £339, and a four-bed £425. Most Leaves Green houses land at the top of that ladder or above it, because a genuine five-bed detached with a conservatory and two bathrooms is more house than a four-bed, and we will quote it on what is actually there once we know the layout.
Because we charge by the property and not the clock, the team stays until the checklist is done. A flat-rate hourly job has the opposite incentive, and you can feel it when the cleaner watches the time instead of the grout. If you would rather book cleaners by the hour for a part-job, say a single room or a quick once-over, that is £30 per cleaner per hour, but for a deposit-grade end of tenancy clean the fixed quote is the sensible route.
Add-ons are priced on their own and bundle in at the same visit. Carpet cleaning by hot-water extraction runs £36 a bedroom, £43 for a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed’s worth of carpet. Oven cleaning is £77 for a single, £110 for a double, and £114 for a range, which on these airport-side houses is the common one. We will give you a single combined figure up front so there are no surprises after the team has packed up.
One thing worth saying plainly, since people ask: we do not discount the clean to win the job and then cut corners to make the maths work. The price you are quoted is the full price for the full checklist, and it buys a team that stays until a clerk would pass the property. A cheap quote on a five-bed usually means a fixed number of hours, and a fixed number of hours on a house this size means the team leaves before the high ledges and the range are done. That is how tenants end up paying twice, once for the clean and again in deductions.
If your tenancy agreement names a particular standard, send us the wording when you book. Some of the agents out here specify a professional clean with a receipt, a few attach their own inventory clerk’s checklist, and we are happy to work to either. The receipt we issue is the document the deposit scheme’s adjudicator will want to see if the landlord ever disputes the cleaning, so keep it with your check-out paperwork.
Agents, clerks and the Darwin-ward paperwork
We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, and the ones working this rural strip of Bromley behave a particular way. Stock is thin out here, so a single large house can sit with one agent for years, and the same independent clerk does the check-in and the check-out. They keep the original inventory, they photograph everything, and at the end they compare the two side by side. A vague “professionally cleaned” line does not satisfy that. A clean against the checklist, with a receipt, does.
The check-out itself is line by line. Clerks on these houses tend to start in the kitchen, because the cooker and the cupboards are where most deductions live, then work the bathrooms for limescale and the bedrooms for dust on the high ledges. Conservatories get scrutinised, since the glass and the frames mark badly and tenants forget them. We clean in the same order a clerk inspects, which is how we hold a 97% first-time pass rate, and on the rare miss the 48-hour re-clean guarantee means we are back to put it right before the report is finalised, at no charge, if the clerk or agent challenges the work.
If you want to know where the money actually goes on these houses, it is a short list and a predictable one. The oven and the range top, every time. Limescale on bathroom taps and shower screens, because the water round here is hard. Dust and cobwebs on the high ledges and beams in the older rooms, which a tenant cleaning their own place never thinks to reach. The inside of the conservatory glass. And the floors, because grit from the garden grinds into the edges and corners. Clear those and the report comes back clean; leave them and a clerk on a quiet rural round has all afternoon to write them up.
That guarantee is not a throwaway line. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents and have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions, and the way you do that is by being willing to come back. The agents keep using us because the re-clean almost never gets called; the tenants keep their money because, when it is, we turn up.
Deposits, the law and Bromley’s HMO position
Your deposit is protected, by law, in one of three government-backed schemes within 30 days of the landlord receiving it. Cleaning is the single most common reason money gets held back at the end of a tenancy, which is the whole reason a proper clean pays for itself. If there is a dispute, the scheme’s free adjudicator decides it on evidence, the inventory, the check-out report, and your cleaning receipt, so keeping that paperwork matters.
- Deposit protection scheme
- A government-approved holder of your deposit. Landlords must use one of the three approved schemes, such as the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, and tell you which within 30 days.
- Check-in inventory
- The signed record of the property’s condition and cleanliness at the start of the tenancy. The check-out is judged against it, so the standard you hand back to is the standard you took on, not “spotless”.
- Fair wear and tear
- The gradual ageing a landlord cannot charge you for. Dirt and grease are not wear and tear; they are cleaning, and they come out of your deposit if you leave them.
- HMO licence
- A council permission required to let a house in multiple occupation. In Bromley this is the mandatory scheme only, explained below.
On licensing, Bromley keeps it narrow. The council operates the mandatory HMO scheme and nothing wider, with no borough-wide additional or selective licensing in place, so a single-family let on the green needs no licence at all. A property let to five or more people forming two or more households who share a kitchen, bathroom or toilet is a mandatory HMO and does need one. You can read the council’s own position on houses in multiple occupation in Bromley, and apply through the mandatory HMO licence page; licences run for five years.
There is a planning twist that hits Leaves Green specifically, and it is worth knowing before anyone converts a big house into rooms. Bromley has made an Article 4 direction that strips the usual permitted-development right to turn a family house into a small HMO without planning permission. The immediate direction covers the Biggin Hill and Darwin wards, which is exactly where Leaves Green sits, so a conversion here needs a planning application that elsewhere might not. For most tenants on a normal let none of this applies, but it shapes the kind of housing on this green, which is large, single-occupancy and sparse.
The wider rules are tightening too. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 has begun changing how tenancies end and how deposits and conditions are handled, building on the deposit-protection duty that has sat in the Housing Act 2004 since it came in. None of it changes the basic deal at move-out: hand the house back clean, against the inventory, and the deposit comes home.
Add-ons worth booking with the clean
Four extras come up again and again on these houses, and booking them with the end of tenancy clean is cheaper and simpler than chasing separate trades.
Carpet cleaning by hot-water extraction lifts ground-in dirt the hoover leaves behind, which matters in houses where dogs and the garden come through the back door all summer. It is £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed’s worth, done at the same visit so the carpets are dry by the time you lock up.
Oven cleaning is the one clerks check first, and on the airport-side houses it is usually a range. We take the doors and racks apart and degrease the lot, so it comes back to the colour it was. Single £77, double £110, range cooker £114. Upholstery cleaning works the same way for sofas and armchairs the inventory lists, by extraction, and exterior window cleaning by water-fed pole reaches the upstairs glass on these tall detached houses without a ladder against the wall.
Booking, access and the rural-road bit
Booking is a phone call. Ring 0333 555 2076 any day of the week, weekends included, tell us the property and roughly its size, and we will give you a fixed quote and a slot. Email [email protected] if that is easier, and we will come back the same day. We work right across this part of Bromley, so if your move is in Biggin Hill or up at Keston we cover those too, and the wider hub for the borough is our Bromley end of tenancy cleaning page.
One honest word on access, because Leaves Green is not a tube-stop sort of place. There is no station; the A233 is the spine, and the buses are the 320 and the 246 along the Bromley to Westerham road. That is fine for us, but it means timing the visit around your removals matters more than in town, since you cannot pop back for a forgotten key on a whim. Most drives out here are gravel and plenty big, so parking the van is the easy bit. Leave the utilities on, the fridge defrosted and the house empty, and we handle the rest.
Timing is the thing to get right. On a large house we would rather come in after the removals van has gone and the place is properly empty, because an end of tenancy clean and a half-packed house do not mix, and a clerk wants to see clear floors and empty cupboards. If your check-out appointment is fixed, tell us the date and we will slot the clean a clear day before it where we can, so there is room for the 48-hour re-clean to land inside the window if anything ever needs a second look. Book early in a busy moving month; the good slots on a Friday and over a weekend go first.
If you want the property turned around for new tenants rather than checked out, our deep cleaning service is the same standard without the inventory framing. Tell us which one you need on the call.
That is the whole process. One visit, one fixed price, one checklist, and a re-clean in reserve if a clerk ever disagrees.
Frequently asked questions
How much is end of tenancy cleaning in Leaves Green?
It is priced by the size of the property, not by the hour: £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. Larger detached houses on and around the green are quoted on their actual layout, since a five-bed with a conservatory is more house than a four-bed.
Why does a clean out here cost more than a flat in Bromley town?
Because the houses are bigger. A green-belt detached has far more surfaces, more bathrooms and usually a range cooker, so the job is heavier and takes longer. We charge by the property size, which keeps the figure fixed however long the team needs to stay.
Do you guarantee I will pass the check-out inspection?
We hold a 97% first-time pass rate, and if the inventory clerk or agent challenges the work we come back within 48 hours and put it right at no charge. Keeping your cleaning receipt and the inventory helps if there is ever a deposit dispute.
What does the end of tenancy clean include?
The whole property against a 57-point agent-approved checklist: kitchen cupboards inside and out, appliances, bathrooms descaled and sanitised, all rooms dusted from the rails down, cobwebs cleared, internal glass and mirrors polished, skirting and doors wiped, and carpets hoovered throughout. Hot-water carpet extraction and oven cleaning are add-ons.
Is oven cleaning part of the price or extra?
It is a separate add-on, booked at the same visit. A single oven is £77, a double £110, and a range cooker £114, which is the common one on the larger houses here. We take the doors and racks apart and degrease everything.
Can you clean the carpets at the same time?
Yes. Carpet cleaning by hot-water extraction is £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed’s worth, done during the same visit so the pile is dry by the time you hand the keys back.
Do I need to be there during the clean?
No, as long as we can get in and the property is empty of your belongings. Many people hand us a key or a code and meet the removals elsewhere. Out here you cannot nip back for a forgotten key easily, so arrange access before the day.
What do you need from me before the visit?
Electricity and running hot water on the day, the fridge and freezer switched off and defrosted, and the property cleared of your things. A freezer full of ice cannot be cleaned, and we cannot clean behind boxes, so those three conditions let the team work straight through.
How long does it take to clean a large Leaves Green house?
It depends on the size and condition, and because we price by the property the team stays until the checklist is done rather than clocking off at an hour. A big detached can be most of a day; we will give you a realistic window when we quote.
Does my landlord need an HMO licence in Leaves Green?
Only if the property is let to five or more people forming two or more households who share a kitchen, bathroom or toilet, which is a mandatory HMO. Bromley runs the mandatory scheme only, with no additional or selective licensing, so a normal single-family let needs no licence.
Is it true Leaves Green has special HMO planning rules?
Yes. Bromley has an Article 4 direction covering the Biggin Hill and Darwin wards, and Leaves Green is in the Darwin ward, so converting a house into a small HMO needs planning permission that would be automatic elsewhere. For ordinary tenants on a single let this does not apply.
Will a clean help me get my full deposit back?
It removes the most common reason deposits get docked. Your deposit is protected in a government scheme, and at check-out the clerk compares the property to the check-in inventory; hand it back clean against that record and there is nothing to deduct for cleaning.
Do you cover Biggin Hill, Keston and Downe as well?
Yes, we clean across this rural corner of Bromley, including Biggin Hill, Keston and Downe near Down House. Leaves Green sits between them on the A233, so a team covering one is close to the others.
Can I book by the hour instead of a fixed price?
You can for a small or partial job, at £30 per cleaner per hour. For a full end of tenancy clean a tenant needs to pass, the fixed by-the-property price is better, because the team stays until the checklist is finished rather than watching the clock.
How do I book?
Call 0333 555 2076 any day of the week, weekends included, or email [email protected]. Tell us the property and its rough size and we will give you a fixed quote and a slot, usually the same day.