Lee Green end of tenancy cleaning

In a Lee Green conversion the inventory clerk reaches for a torch and runs it along the picture rail and the top of the deep skirting, because in a tall split house off the grid that high-level band is where a year of dust nobody could reach has settled. Find it and a deduction follows. So an end of tenancy clean here is not a tidy-up: it is built to satisfy the person writing the check-out report, run off a 57-point agent-approved checklist, priced from £156 for a studio to £425 for a four-bed, at £30 per hour per cleaner where an hourly job suits better, and carried by a 48-hour re-clean guarantee measured against that report. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price in about three minutes.

Last updated June 2026. We cover Lee Green and the streets around the SE12 crossroads: the Lee and Manor Park grid behind Manor House Gardens, Burnt Ash Road toward Grove Park, Lee High Road and Lee Road both sides of the junction, the roads down to Lee station, and out toward the Hither Green and Blackheath edges. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Lewisham.

What a clerk finds with a torch in a Lee conversion

Start with the document, because almost nobody does, and it decides the whole thing. When you moved in, a clerk walked the flat and wrote a report on every surface, usually with photos, usually with “new” or “as new” against the kitchen and bathroom. Those words were true that day, because the place had just had a professional clean. At check-out a clerk walks it again and compares the two 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 professional standard, which is why a mop and a free Sunday rarely gets a flat over the line in this part of Lewisham.

The money is not abstract. On the SE12 DIY check-outs we get called in to rescue, the deductions fall into a pattern: £85 to £120 on the oven, £80 to £150 on grout and scale, £150 to £350 on carpets, £80 to £200 for marks on walls and skirting. Put that against a flat carrying a five-week deposit and the sums make themselves. Most tenants only run those sums after they have tried, failed the check-out, and lost the first round. The order is nearly always that way around, which is a shame, because the first round is the cheap one to win.

It helps to know what fair wear and tear actually covers, because it is the phrase landlords and tenants argue about most. A carpet thinning along a hallway over a normal tenancy is wear. A carpet never cleaned and ground with stains, or scale left to harden for two years, is not wear, it is the flat not coming back in its check-in condition. A clerk on a Lee grid flat draws that line on nearly every job, and the side you land on turns largely on whether the place was properly cleaned at hand-back.

Two things sit behind all of this in law, pulling opposite ways. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 means your Lewisham landlord cannot make a professional clean a condition of the tenancy, so nobody can force you to book us. Damp and mould, though, are a landlord repair duty, not a tenant cleaning failure. Where we find structural damp behind a wardrobe or in a cold bathroom corner, we photograph it so the charge sits where it belongs instead of on you.

One date in May, and what it left alone

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 rather than waiting out a fixed term.

Here is the part people around the crossroads get wrong. The cleaning side of a move-out did not change at all. The Tenant Fees Act still applies. The check-in benchmark still applies. What changed is timing, and timing is what bites in SE12.

Lee Green already turns over steadily, families on longer lets and professionals on shorter ones. Let tenants leave on a rolling two months instead of a fixed end date and the move-outs get more frequent and harder to predict, so the month-end pile-up around the junction is not going to ease. The takeaway is dull but it pays for itself: book the clean earlier than you used to.

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

Lewisham wrote Lee Green into its licensing map

This is the local detail that catches people out, and it is worth getting right. Lee Green is one of the wards named in Lewisham’s selective licensing scheme, which began in July 2024 and runs to 30 June 2029, sitting alongside a borough-wide additional scheme for smaller houses in multiple occupation that runs to April 2027. Many of the bigger Lee and Manor Park houses were carved into flats and bedsits over the years, and where a property is a licensable HMO or sits under selective licensing the landlord carries condition duties the council can enforce. You can check the position for a specific address on the council’s own site at lewisham.gov.uk.

Why does that matter to you, the outgoing tenant? A landlord already inside a licensing regime tends to be stricter about hand-back condition, and the clerk working those flats inspects harder. Licensing does not change what we clean. It changes how closely the clean gets looked at, and a checklist clean built to the report is exactly the thing that holds up under a close look.

The 57 things we go through, room by room

Every Lee Green booking runs to a 57-point checklist, built over a decade of local check-outs and tuned to what SE12 clerks actually flag, whether the job is a studio behind the old Leegate precinct or a four-bed on the grid. The full list comes with the job. Here is the shape of it.

The kitchen, where most SE12 deposits go

The oven is stripped, not wiped. Racks go in a soaking tank, the door glass is split apart so the brown film between the panels comes out, and the interior, fan, element and seals all get done. That film is the single most-flagged oven fault in these check-outs. If the oven is the only thing your agent pulled you up on, standalone oven cleaning covers it on its own. After that we work the rest of the room. Hob burners and control knobs come off and get washed; the extractor hood is degreased inside and out and the filter soaked or swapped. Every cupboard inside and out, including the deep awkward-cornered ones in the older grid kitchens, and on the 1930s semis the wall and floor behind a freestanding cooker, which is where the grease line gets written up. Fridge and freezer cleaned through once you have defrosted them. Appliances pulled out so the gaps behind and under them are done, then put back. The washing machine drum, the drawer out and scrubbed, and the door seal. Sink, taps and plughole descaled, because the water here never gives that a miss. Tiles and grout scrubbed, bins washed, floor hoovered and mopped to the edges.

Bathrooms, the other place it goes wrong

Scale comes off the taps, shower head, screen and tiles first. Grout is scrubbed back as far as honest effort takes it, and photographed first where it is clearly past saving. Then the rest, in plain order.

• Toilet done properly: inside, under the rim, base, cistern, hinges, and behind the pedestal where nobody looks but the clerk
• Shower screen both sides, the tracks and the sealant bead included
• Bath, taps, the underside of the taps, overflow and plughole
• Mirrors and cabinets, and behind them where they come away from the wall
• Extractor fan vent wiped, and surface mould along the sealant treated rather than wiped over, because in a cold bathroom it shows straight back up in the check-out photos
• Floor into the corners, behind the loo and under the basin pedestal

Bedrooms, living rooms and everything between

This is where the high-level work earns its keep on the period stock. Inside every wardrobe, drawer and built-in cupboard. Skirting, the deep moulded kind on the grid houses, door frames, doors, handles and finger plates. Picture rails and the dust band above them. Light fittings, switches, and the ceiling roses, which in a tall Lee room hold years of dust and always get checked. Window sills, reveals and frames inside, with the older sash windows needing slow careful work and the glazing bars done one at a time rather than waved at. Radiators behind, under and on top; an original cast-iron one takes longer than a modern panel. Walls spot-wiped for marks, with a realistic line drawn, because nail holes and scuffs are a decorator’s bill and not yours to scrub away. Hard floors washed with the right product for the material. Two of these often need their own pass: hot-water extraction on carpets, written into a lot of SE12 tenancies as a hard requirement, which the carpet cleaning add-on covers on the same visit, and a tired sofa left behind, which sometimes needs full upholstery cleaning rather than a hoover.

Then everything else: switches, sockets and entryphones; internal doors both sides; the staircase, spindles and the dust on the string, which the bay-fronted grid houses nearly all have. 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.

Off the chalk: what hard water leaves in an SE12 bathroom

Lee Green sits in London’s hard-water zone, and that one detail loses more deposits here than almost anything except the oven. Thames Water supplies SE12 at around 287 parts per million of dissolved chalk off the aquifer, so calcium builds on taps, shower heads, screens and tile joints faster than tenants expect. A wipe with a cloth does nothing to it. The clerk checks for it: a thumbnail down the tap, the shower screen edge-on against the light, the shower head pulled in close. Scale set into chrome is not a quick job, and on the older fittings in some grid conversions a brute-force descaler would do more harm than good, so it gets the careful approach.

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 rather than wipe it. Where it is genuinely past saving, which happens on a long Lee tenancy, we photograph the state before we start, so the clerk cannot bill you for wear that was already there at check-in. That photo has settled more disputes than any argument has, dated and timestamped, because a clerk cannot charge a tenant for grout that was already grey in the check-in pictures.

That photo has settled more disputes than any argument has.

Specialist surfaces sit outside the scrub-and-go work. An original tiled hallway, parquet under an old carpet, engineered board in a new infill flat: each takes its own product, which is what the floor cleaning add-on is for. Exterior glass on an upper-floor flat is a separate job too; that is window cleaning, folded into the same visit when the inventory asks for it.

From the crossroads outward: the stock changes street by street

Lee Green is the corner where Lee High Road meets Burnt Ash Road, marked by the Old Tiger’s Head on one quadrant and the New Tiger’s Head facing it, and the housing changes as you walk out from that junction. One method does not pass all of it, so we read each flat for what it actually is. There are three patterns worth knowing.

The period grid behind Manor House Gardens

The Lee and Manor Park terraces went up between roughly the 1880s and the 1910s, and a lot of the bigger bay-fronted houses were split into two or three flats decades ago. Those conversions kept their original picture rails, deep skirting and tall ceilings, so the high-level dust band and the staircase detail are where they fail. The greenery here is Manor House Gardens, with its 200-year-old ice house and the Grade II* Georgian villa that is now the Manor House Library. We win these check-outs on the dull, slow work, not on anything clever.

The 1930s semis toward Grove Park and Eltham

Head south down Burnt Ash Road and the stock turns to 1930s semis: lower ceilings, more fitted units, bay windows with leaded top lights. These fail on the kitchen, specifically the grease behind and beside a freestanding cooker and the units either side of it, so that is where the time goes. Lee station sits on Burnt Ash Road on the Sidcup line between Hither Green and Mottingham, which is the route a lot of these tenants take into town and the reason the streets near it turn over quickly.

The new infill flats by the old precinct

Around the Leegate Centre, the 1960s precinct now finally coming down to make way for several hundred new homes and a tower, a band of modern infill flats has gone up and is still going up. These fail check-out on different things to the period houses, usually marked walls and scuffed white skirting rather than scale and grease, and a few come with developer inventory checklists stricter than most private landlords bother with. Send us the spec sheet and we clean to it line by line.

If your tenancy straddles a boundary or your next flat is one over, the neighbouring rounds pick up where this one stops: Hither Green, Lee, Blackheath and the wider Lewisham coverage. If your road is not named above but you are in SE12 or on the edge of it, ring and ask, because a street we have not listed is almost certainly still on the round.

What it costs, and the sum nobody runs until it is too late

Lee Green runs at our standard London pricing: £30 per hour per cleaner, with kit, products and travel inside the borough included. Those figures assume a flat in normal lived-in shape. A long tenancy with heavy wear, a pet household or a smoker’s flat costs more, and we say so on the phone rather than after. No surprise lines on the invoice. Hard-water descaling is part of the standard clean, not an extra, because here it is not optional.

Run the maths the way the deposit makes you. A two-bed at £243 to protect a five-week deposit is not really a decision. Every Lee Green 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 nobody has moved in. Our pass rate across these jobs sits near 97%, but the guarantee is the point, because a failed check-out is not a small thing to shrug off. There is a reason the agents here 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.

A job off Manor Lane in April

“We rented the top two floors of a big Victorian conversion off Manor Lane, near Manor House Gardens, for just over a year before work moved us out of London. It looked clean to us, but the inventory was brutal: dust on the picture rails and the ceiling rose we had never even looked at, and limescale on the shower screen we had given up on. Monster sent two cleaners for the best part of a day, got up to the high stuff by hand, and took the bathroom back to how the check-in photos showed it. Peter James passed it with nothing against us and the full deposit came back inside a fortnight. I had braced for losing a chunk of it.”
Daniel, Lee Green SE12, April 2026

That is the pattern on the grid: a tall conversion, a high-level dust band nobody thinks about, hard-water scale on the glass, and an agent who inspects properly. The clean cost a fraction of what was at stake. It usually does. What turned it was not the scrubbing alone but the dated photo set that went out with the invoice, the part most DIY check-outs lack when the agent pushes back.

Booking it, and the crossroads on a moving day

Moves around the crossroads cluster onto the last two or three days of the month, the slots go, and people who ring on the 29th for the 31st are often out of luck. Book early for those windows. The steps are simple.

1. Ring 0333 555 2076. Price in about three minutes. Give us the postcode, property size, check-out date and any known problem areas, and mention anything the check-in report marked “new” or “as new”. Out of hours, send us a message and someone calls you back.
2. We book you in, ideally the day before check-out with a buffer. Allow 7 to 10 days for an end-of-month slot, 3 to 5 days mid-month.
3. Flat 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 when the junction and the narrower grid streets make several van trips a headache.
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 come back and fix it free.

One honest note on the day itself. The crossroads is busy and the bays on the grid are tight, so tell us the parking arrangement when you book, and confirm how we get in: key safe, concierge on the newer blocks, or an agent drop-off. Sorting that in advance takes the sting out of a moving day.

Telling one clean from another

Four different jobs get muddled here, and it is worth booking the right one.

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 and not 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, with the flat empty and the 48-hour guarantee on it, at £30 an hour.

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

A regular domestic clean is ongoing maintenance, from £22 an hour.

A Lee Green move-out often pulls in more than the core clean, carpet shampoo most of all, given how many grid houses are fully carpeted on the stairs and bedrooms and how often it is a contractual line rather than an optional extra. We also work the boroughs around Lewisham, which matters when a tenancy straddles a boundary: End of Tenancy Cleaning Greenwich, End of Tenancy Cleaning Bromley and End of Tenancy Cleaning Southwark.

Questions we get asked

How much is an end of tenancy clean in Lee Green?

A studio is £156, a one-bed £207, a two-bed £243, a three-bed £339 and a four-bed £425. Where a flat is part-let or an odd shape, we work by the hour at £30 per cleaner instead. Carpet shampoo and a standalone oven are priced before we start, never sprung on you on the day.

Does Lewisham’s selective licensing affect my SE12 move-out?

It can. Lee Green is named in the council’s selective licensing scheme, which runs to 2029 and sits alongside borough-wide HMO licensing. A licensed property has a condition standard the landlord has to meet before re-letting, so on a licensed Lee or Manor Park flat the bar at hand-back is higher. The clean itself does not change. It just gets looked at harder, which suits a checklist clean fine.

Do I still need a professional clean now Section 21 has gone?

Nothing about the cleaning side changed on 1 May 2026. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 still stops a landlord writing a professional clean into the tenancy as a condition, so the choice stays yours. What changed is that move-out evidence carries more weight in a dispute now, and the check-in report is still the standard your flat is marked against.

Is hard water really an issue in SE12?

Yes. Lee Green is on Thames Water, and the supply here runs about 287 parts per million of dissolved chalk, which is genuinely hard. Scale sets fast on taps, shower screens and the inside of the toilet, and a clerk in this part of Lewisham checks for it. Cloudy chrome reads as a flat that was not properly cleaned, so we take every metal and glass surface back to bright.

Do you clean the period conversions on the Lee and Manor Park grid?

All the time, and they need a particular eye. The big bay-fronted houses off Manor Lane and Lee Road went up between the 1880s and the 1910s and were split into flats decades ago, keeping their picture rails, deep skirting and tall ceilings. That leaves a band of high-level dust no normal hoover reaches and a clerk with a torch finds in seconds, so we work it by hand on every job.

What about the 1930s semis out toward Grove Park?

Those fail differently, so we clean them differently. Lower ceilings, more fitted units, and the line that gets written up is usually the grease behind a freestanding cooker and along the wall by the hob. We pull the cooker out, degrease the wall and the unit sides, and do the floor edges underneath that a mop never reaches.

Is the oven included, or is it an add-on?

It is in the price as standard: racks, runners, the inner and outer door glass, the roof of the cavity, the fan housing and the seals, all stripped back to bare metal. Booked on its own, oven cleaning is £77 for a single, £110 for a double and £114 for a 90cm range, worth knowing if the oven is all your agent flagged.

How far ahead should I book?

As soon as you have a check-out date. Allow 7 to 10 days for an end-of-month slot and 3 to 5 days mid-month. Moves around the Lee Green crossroads bunch onto the last days of the month, and the rolling notice periods that came in on 1 May 2026 only make the diary harder to call, so the slot you want goes if you sit on it.

What if there is damp on a flat near the Quaggy?

Some low-lying streets near the Quaggy, the little river that runs through Manor House Gardens, pick up edge damp that is a building fault rather than dirt. We clean what is cleanable and flag the rest in writing, with photos, so you can show the clerk it is not a cleaning failure instead of having it counted as one.

What happens if my landlord disputes the clean afterwards?

Your deposit sits in a protected scheme, and the landlord has to prove a deduction is fair against the check-in inventory. Our dated invoice, the before-and-after photo set and the re-clean record are admissible at adjudication, and a tenant with a full professional-clean paper trail very rarely loses.

Who is Monster Cleaning?

Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House number 9919639, cleaning London since 2014. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, including the agencies working the Lee Green crossroads, and over the years that work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions.

Get a price

Call 0333 555 2076 and we price the job in about three minutes. Postcode, property size, check-out date, any known problem areas, that is the lot. 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 on the bigger grid conversions. And if your Lee Green check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway and we will do what we can.

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