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Marshalswick check-outs in brief
Marshalswick was built as a family suburb, first round Marshals Drive in the 1920s and then on the old farm north of Marshalswick Lane, and the homes that come up to let are mostly its semis and detached houses, with flats near The Quadrant. Whatever the size, the end of tenancy clean has a fixed price by bedrooms: £176 for a studio, £227 for one bedroom, £263 for two, £359 for three and £445 for four.
Last updated October 2026.
77.2%of Marshalswick West households in a detached or semi-detached house (2021 census)338 mg/lwater hardness in Affinity Water’s St Albans zones, 2025£2,169average monthly rent for a semi in St Albans district, August 2026£176studio clean, fixed price
The check-out at the end is a walk-through. The clerk takes the check-in inventory round the house and compares each room with what it says, allowing for fair wear and tear. Below is that walk-through as it usually goes in a Marshalswick semi, with what our cleaners do in each room.
Room by room: what the clerk checks
Check-in inventory
The report made when you moved in, room by room, usually with photographs. The check-out is measured against it.
Fair wear and tear
The normal ageing of a home through ordinary use, which cannot be charged to the tenant.
In the hall, the clerk starts at the front door: the door itself, the letterbox, the meter cupboard, the skirting up the stairs and the banister. These are the most handled surfaces in a family house. We wipe the door both sides, the frame and the glass panels, dust and wipe every step’s skirting and the spindles, and vacuum the stairs one tread at a time.
In the living room, the clerk looks at the window sill, the radiator under the window and the glass, bay or not. We clean all three, plus switches, sockets, door handles and the skirting all the way round.
The kitchen is where most deductions come from. The clerk opens cupboards, the fridge and the oven, and looks at the hood, the tiles behind the hob and the sink. We clean inside every cupboard and drawer, degrease the hob, hood and splashback, defrost and wash the fridge and freezer, and descale the sink and taps. The oven is an add-on, priced in the next section.
In the bathroom, St Albans water is hard, so the clerk will find limescale if it is there: on the shower screen, round the base of the taps, on the shower head and in the toilet bowl. We descale all of it, clean the tiles and grout, the bath or tray, basin, mirror and the fan cover.
In the bedrooms, the clerk opens the wardrobes and looks at the tops of doors, the sills and the radiators, small rooms included. We clean every bedroom to the same list.
Last comes the garden side. In a house with a garden, the clerk checks the back door, the patio doors and the floor inside them. We clean the doors, frames and runners from inside, and the floor up to them.
Prices for a Marshalswick home
Property
Price
Studio
£176
One-bed flat near The Quadrant
£227
Two-bed flat or house
£263
Three-bed semi
£359
Four-bed detached house
£445
Five bedrooms or more
quoted from the room count
One room, or part of a home
£30 per cleaner per hour
Ovens added to the clean: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. There is more on the stand-alone service on our oven cleaning page.
Carpets added to the clean: £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. If the front and back rooms of your house have been knocked into one, the through-lounge price applies. See our carpet cleaning page for carpets on their own. The calculator at the top of the page adds everything up.
Marshals Drive, The Ridgeway and the post-war estate
Marshalswick, about a mile and a half north-east of St Albans city centre, grew on the land of a mansion of the same name. The house was pulled down in the 1920s, and its old driveway became Marshals Drive, the road at the heart of the first estate.
T F Nash Homes bought Marshalswick Farm at auction in 1933. Before 1940 only The Ridgeway West, from Marshalswick Lane to just short of where Sandringham School now stands, and parts of Kingshill Avenue and what is now Queen’s Crescent were finished. The local history society records a Nash brochure offering a “Type 6” semi with shutters on the upstairs windows. After the war the plan for 1,500 homes was enlarged so the estate could hold up to 10,000 people, with blocks of flats near the shops. The Quadrant was built as its centre, with shops, St Mary’s Church, a community centre and a library.
The census shows that mix today. In Marshalswick West ward, 43.2% of households were in semis and 34.0% in detached houses in 2021, and 8.5% rented privately. Marshalswick East and Jersey Farm, which takes in Jersey Farm, had more flats and terraces (20.3% and 20.1%) and more renters, at 16.2% of households.
After the war the plan for 1,500 homes on Marshalswick Farm was enlarged to house up to 10,000 people.
Our cleaners' work in Hackney.
Water, rent and licensing in St Albans district
Affinity Water supplies St Albans, and its 2025 results for both the St Albans North and St Albans South supply zones show a hardness of 338 milligrams of calcium carbonate per litre. That is higher than 65 of the 92 supply-zone results Affinity published for the year. On a shower screen it shows as a white film that a wipe will not shift, so our cleaners descale screens, taps and heads as standard.
From one of our jobs in Hackney.
Rents in the district are high. The ONS put the St Albans average at £1,931 a month in August 2026: £2,169 for a semi, £2,667 for a detached house and £1,486 for a flat. With a deposit of up to five weeks’ rent, the money held on an average semi is about £2,500.
St Albans City and District Council licenses houses in multiple occupation under the national mandatory scheme only, for five or more people from two or more households. There is no selective or additional licensing, so a family semi let to one household needs no licence. For the city centre side of things, our St Albans page covers the Victorian terraces near the station.
Booking a clean
Booking takes three steps
Your postcode and the property. The form gives the price.
Our cleaners are vetted at an interview in person, insured and trained on the 57-point checklist. We have been cleaning homes since 2014, more than 300 letting agents use us, and tenants have recovered £1.2m in deposits after our cleans. Our rating on Google is 4.7.
When the agent or the clerk raises something within 48 hours of the clean, we return and fix it free of charge. If the van needs a paid parking space, it goes on the quote at what it costs us. Ring 0333 555 2076 from 8am to 7pm, any day, or get a price from the calculator. Marshalswick is one of the areas in our Hertfordshire cover.
Marshalswick end of tenancy FAQs
We are leaving a three-bed semi off The Ridgeway. How much is the clean?
£359. If the front and back rooms have been knocked through and you want the carpet done, that is £47 for the through lounge.
Is the hard water really that bad in Marshalswick?
Affinity Water’s 2025 tests for its St Albans zones gave 338 mg/l, at the hard end of the company’s range. Shower glass and taps are the first things a clerk checks for scale, and we descale them in every clean.
I rent a flat by The Quadrant. Do you clean the communal stairs?
We clean your flat, priced by bedrooms. Communal areas are usually the block’s managing agent’s job and are not part of your check-out.
Do I need a licence for my Marshalswick let?
Only for a house in multiple occupation with five or more people from two or more households. St Albans council runs no selective scheme.
Our detached house on Marshals Drive has five bedrooms. What will it cost?
Homes above four bedrooms are quoted from the room count. Give us the bedrooms, bathrooms and reception rooms on 0333 555 2076.
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