Mare Street end of tenancy cleaning

On a Mare Street flat the inventory clerk opens the oven and the washing machine door seal before they look at anything else, because in a shared E8 terrace those two are where the grease and the black mould hide. 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 flat, at £30 per hour per cleaner where an hourly job suits better, and carried by a 48-hour re-clean guarantee measured against the report itself. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price in about three minutes.

Last updated June 2026. We cover Mare Street and the E8 streets around it: Hackney Central, the Narrow Way, Well Street and Well Street Common, the London Fields and Lido side, the warehouse conversions by the railway, and the Frampton Park and Pembury estates. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Hackney.

The report nobody reads decides the deposit

Start with the document, because almost nobody does, and it is the whole game. When you moved in, a clerk walked the flat and wrote a report describing every surface, usually with photos, usually with “new” or “as new” against the kitchen and bathroom. Those words were true that day, because the flat had just had a professional clean. 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, comes off your deposit. You are being marked against a professional clean. That is exactly why a mop and a free Sunday rarely gets a shared Mare Street flat over the line.

The money is not abstract. On the E8 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, £60 to £100 for the gaps behind appliances, £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.

Why is the clerk so thorough in this part of Hackney? Because the deposit is real money somebody has to account for, and the agent is on the hook for protecting it. So the inspection is genuinely adversarial. The clerk is paid to find faults, not 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, pulling in opposite directions. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 means your Hackney landlord cannot write a professional clean into the tenancy as a condition, 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 of a split terrace, we photograph it and document it so the charge sits where it belongs instead of on you.

One date in May, two changes for E8 landlords

The first of May 2026 was a busy day in Hackney. Two separate things landed at once, and tenants around Mare Street keep muddling them, so here they are straight.

First, the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live. 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.

Second, and this is the local one, Hackney’s new property licensing began the very same day. Borough-wide additional licensing now catches most houses in multiple occupation, and a ward-based selective scheme covers single-household and small shared lets across seventeen wards. Hackney Central and London Fields are both on that list, which takes in a large share of the flats this page is about. A licensed property has a condition standard the landlord must keep to between tenancies, and they will hold your hand-back clean to that bar before they re-let.

Here is the part people get wrong. None of this changed the cleaning side of a move-out. The Tenant Fees Act still applies. The check-in benchmark still applies. The deposit maths is exactly what it was in April. What changed is timing and standard: more frequent, less predictable move-outs on rolling notice, and a higher floor on the licensed shared flats. Both point the same dull, money-saving way: book the clean earlier than you used to, and do it properly the first time.

None of this changed the cleaning side of a move-out.

The 57 things, room by room

Every Mare Street booking runs to a 57-point checklist, built over a decade of local check-outs and tuned to what Hackney clerks actually flag. The full list comes with the job, or we walk you through it before we start. Here is the shape of it.

The kitchen, where most E8 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 on these streets. If the oven is the only thing your agent pulled you up on, standalone oven cleaning covers it on its own. After the oven 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, the deep awkward-cornered ones in the older Well Street kitchens, and the greasy tops of the wall units a clerk checks standing on a chair. Fridge and freezer cleaned through once you have defrosted them. Appliances pulled out so the gaps behind the fridge, dishwasher and washing machine are done, then put back. And the washing machine itself: drum, drawer out and scrubbed, and the door seal, which is the first thing the clerk opens. Sink, taps and plughole descaled, because the hard water never gives that a miss. Tiles and grout scrubbed, the grease film cleared off the wall behind the hob, bins washed, floor hoovered and mopped.

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 the sealant cleaned to a usable state, mould along the seal treated rather than wiped over, because in a poorly ventilated split-terrace 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

Inside every wardrobe, drawer and built-in cupboard. Skirting, door frames, doors, handles and finger plates. Light fittings, switches, and the ceiling roses, which in a period Hackney flat hold years of dust and always get checked. Window sills, reveals and frames on the inside, with the old sash windows in the larger terraces needing slow careful work. Radiators behind, under and on top; a 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 is written into a fair few Hackney tenancies as a hard requirement, which is what the carpet cleaning add-on covers on the same visit, and a hard-used sofa in a shared let sometimes needs full upholstery cleaning rather than a hoover.

Then everything else: switches, sockets, intercoms; internal doors both sides; the stairs and bannisters where the flat has them. 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.

What Thames Water leaves on an E8 bathroom

Mare Street sits in London’s hard-water zone, and that one detail loses more deposits here than almost anything except the oven. Thames Water supplies E8, and the water carries a lot of dissolved mineral, 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 of these terraces 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 more often than anything to do with carpets. We scrub it rather than wipe it. Where it is genuinely past saving, which happens in a long Mare Street 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. It is dated, it is timestamped, and 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 in a Georgian terrace, engineered board in a regeneration new-build, parquet under an old carpet: 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.

Along the street: the stock changes as you walk it

Mare Street is the long spine of Hackney Central, running from the Town Hall and the Hackney Empire down past the Narrow Way to St John-at-Hackney church, with the Hackney Picturehouse and the markets a minute either side. It is a short street to name and a varied one to clean. The housing is not one thing, and one method does not pass all of it, so we read each flat for what it actually is.

The grandest stock is the Georgian and Victorian terraces and townhouses off Well Street and the London Fields side, a lot of them carved into two, three or four flats decades ago and run now as shared houses or licensed HMOs. The check-out problem here is build-up nobody touched between tenants: grease behind the cooker, dust in the grout of a tiled hall, the seal on a bathroom that never had decent extraction. We win these on the dull, slow work, not on anything clever. Then the flats above the shops along the Narrow Way, the pedestrianised old high street that runs down by St Augustine’s Tower, the medieval tower that is the oldest building in Hackney. These are smaller, often single lets and studios, high-churn, with awkward stair access, so the practical side of the day matters as much as the clean.

Two more bands round it out. The big ex-local-authority estates, Frampton Park and Pembury among them, where the flats are solid and the kitchens and bathrooms take the wear. And the new-build apartments from the recent regeneration around the station and the railway, which come with corporate inventory checklists stricter than most private landlords bother with: floor-to-ceiling glass, engineered floors, integrated appliances, sometimes a concierge sign-in. Send us the operator’s spec sheet and we clean to it line by line.

Most of these flats are a short walk from Hackney Central or Hackney Downs Overground, which is how our teams reach them, and it matters for booking because there is no easy parking on Mare Street. If you are one street over or your tenancy straddles a boundary, the neighbouring rounds pick up where this one stops: Hackney Central, London Fields, Well Street and Dalston.

What it costs, against what a deduction costs

Mare Street 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, a smoker’s flat, or somewhere that has not had a deep clean in three or four years costs more, and we say so on the phone rather than after. No surprise lines on the invoice.

Run the maths the way the deposit makes you. A two-bed at £243 to protect a five-week deposit on an E8 rent is not really a decision. Every Mare Street 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 London Fields job from March

“Three of us shared an upper-floor flat in a split terrace off Mare Street, near London Fields, for about eighteen months. None of us had touched the oven properly and the kitchen grease was genuinely bad, and the clerk had already flagged a mould patch on the bathroom seal at the pre-checkout. Monster sent two cleaners for most of a day. The grease came off the units and the wall behind the hob, the mould was gone, and they descaled taps I had given up on. Clerk passed it with nothing against us and the full deposit came back. The kitchen was the bit I was sure we’d lose money on.”
Priya, London Fields E8, March 2026

That job is a fair example of the pattern on these streets: a shared flat, an oven nobody had dealt with, a mould patch already on the clerk’s radar, and hard-water scale on every tap. 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 never have when the agent pushes back.

Booking it, and the parking nobody warns you about

Hackney clusters its check-outs 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 genuinely helps when several van trips down a street with nowhere to stop turn into a problem.
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 access. There is no easy parking on or near Mare Street, so our teams nearly always arrive by Overground from Hackney Central or Hackney Downs. That makes an empty flat with confirmed access the thing that keeps the day on time. Tell us when you book how we get in: key safe, concierge or an agent drop-off. Sorting that in advance takes the sting out of the day.

Sorting one job 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 Mare Street move-out often pulls in more than the core clean. Carpet shampoo is the common one, frequently a contractual line in Hackney tenancies rather than an optional extra. Oven cleaning is in every end-of-tenancy job as standard, and also stands alone from £77. Removals lets you put the move and the clean on one booking. We work the boroughs around Hackney too, which matters when a tenancy straddles a boundary: End of Tenancy Cleaning Islington, End of Tenancy Cleaning Tower Hamlets and End of Tenancy Cleaning Waltham Forest.

Questions we get asked

How much is an end of tenancy clean on Mare Street?

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

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 means your landlord cannot make a professional clean a condition of the tenancy, so the choice is 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.

Does Hackney’s new licensing affect my E8 check-out?

Borough-wide HMO licensing and selective licensing in Hackney Central and London Fields both began on 1 May 2026. A licensed property has a condition standard the landlord must meet before re-letting, so on a shared E8 flat the bar at hand-back is higher than it was. We clean licensed houses on these streets every month and know that bar room by room.

Why does hard water matter so much for a Hackney flat?

Thames Water supplies E8 and the water is hard, so scale sets fast on taps, shower heads, screens and the inside of the toilet. A clerk runs a thumbnail down the tap and looks at the screen edge-on against the light. Cloudy chrome reads as a flat that was not properly cleaned, so we take every metal and glass surface back to bright.

Can you clean a shared HMO off Well Street or the Narrow Way?

Yes, and a lot of our Mare Street work is exactly that. The big terraces here were split into three or four flats decades ago and run now as shared houses, and a kitchen four people cooked in for a year carries grease a domestic wipe will not shift. We degrease the units, the wall behind the hob and the tops of the wall cupboards a clerk photographs from a chair.

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

It is in the price as standard: racks, side runners, the inner and outer door glass, the roof of the cavity, the fan housing and the door seal, 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, which is worth knowing if that is all your agent flagged.

Do I have to be there while you clean?

No. Most Mare Street tenants leave a key or set up access through the agent. There is no easy parking on or near the street, so our teams usually come in on the Overground from Hackney Central or Hackney Downs, and an empty flat with confirmed access runs fastest.

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. Hackney bunches its hand-backs onto the last few days of the month, and the periodic tenancies that came in on 1 May 2026 only make the move-outs harder to predict, so the slot you want goes if you sit on it.

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 inventory. Our dated invoice, the before-and-after photo set and the re-clean record are admissible evidence, and a tenant with a full professional-clean paper trail rarely loses at adjudication.

Do you cover London Fields and the Lido side as well?

Yes. This page runs to Mare Street, the Narrow Way, the streets around Well Street and Well Street Common, the London Fields and Lido side, the warehouse conversions near the railway, and the Frampton Park and Pembury estates. Anything wider across the borough is on our Hackney end of tenancy hub.

Can you do a same-day or next-day clean on Mare Street?

Often, depending on the slot, though end-of-month dates are tight. Ring 0333 555 2076 early and we will tell you straight what is genuinely free rather than promise a slot we cannot hold. If your check-out is tomorrow, call anyway and we will do what we can.

Is carpet cleaning included or charged separately?

Thorough vacuuming throughout is included. A full carpet shampoo is an add-on at £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed carpeted area. If your agreement names hot-water extraction with a receipt at check-out, skip it and the deduction is near-automatic.

Who is Monster Cleaning?

Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House number 9919639, cleaning London flats since 2014. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, including the agencies working the Narrow Way and Mare Street, and our 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, which helps most on the bigger Well Street and London Fields places. And if your Mare Street check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway and we will do what we can.

Other Monster Cleaning services in Mare Street

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