Merton end of tenancy cleaning prices
Merton stretches from Victorian villas in Wimbledon to the interwar cottage streets of the St Helier estate, and renters move out of all of them. Our end of tenancy clean anywhere in the borough is a fixed price from £156 for a studio up to £425 for a four-bedroom house, set by the number of bedrooms and the same in SW19 as in CR4 or SM4.
Last updated October 2026.
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| One bedroom | £207 |
| Two bedrooms | £243 |
| Three bedrooms | £339 |
| Four bedrooms | £425 |
| Part job, one room in a share, unusual layout | £30 per cleaner per hour |
Houses with five or more bedrooms are quoted from the room count. The price assumes an empty home in ordinary end-of-tenancy condition, and it covers the full checklist, descaling included. The oven and carpets are separate add-ons, priced further down.
The quickest route to a figure is the price calculator at the top of this page: postcode, bedrooms, done. If you would sooner talk it through, ring 0333 555 2076, any day from 8am to 7pm.
The homes we clean across the borough
Merton was put together in 1965 out of three older councils: the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon, the Municipal Borough of Mitcham and the Merton and Morden Urban District. You can still see the seams in the housing, and each part brings a different kind of job.
The St Helier estate is the biggest single block of rented homes we see here. The London County Council built it between 1928 and 1936 on what had been lavender fields, as a garden-city estate for families moving out of inner London. The part north of Green Lane and Bishopsford Road is in Merton; the rest is over the line in Sutton.
Its roads run in alphabetical order of abbeys and priories, from Aberconway Road at one corner to Woburn Road at the other, which makes it one of the few estates where a cleaner can find the house from the street name alone. The homes are cottage houses with front and back gardens, priced by bedrooms like anything else. Our St Helier page goes into the estate in more detail.
Merton Park is older. John Innes, a City merchant, bought farmland there in 1864 and laid out tree-lined roads of detached and semi-detached houses between 1870 and 1904, on the pattern of the garden suburbs of the day; the northern part either side of Kingston Road is a conservation area.
These houses have high ceilings, fireplaces and plenty of joinery, and a four-bed takes a full team most of a day. There is more on the area on our Merton Park page.
Then there are the estates being rebuilt. Clarion Housing is replacing the Eastfields, High Path and Ravensbury estates: High Path’s 600 homes are due to become about 2,200, Eastfields is planned at 800 and Ravensbury at 200, and the first finished homes are already lived in.
A new-build flat on one of these schemes has integrated appliances, sealed floors and large windows, and the clerk will hold you to the as-new photographs in the inventory. Around Mitcham and Pollards Hill the stock is mainly Victorian and interwar terraces, many let to sharers; see our Mitcham page for that side of the borough.
Rents explain why people care so much about the deposit. ONS figures put the average private rent in Merton at £2,172 a month in August 2026, up 5.4% in a year, with a one-bed at £1,639. At the 2021 census 29.1% of Merton households rented privately, up from 24.8% ten years earlier.
Licensing and Article 4 in Merton
End of tenancy cleaning
from £156
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
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Since September 2023 Merton has run selective licensing in four wards: Figge’s Marsh, Graveney, Longthornton and Pollards Hill. In those wards a home let to one household, or to two people sharing, needs a licence. Additional licensing, for homes shared by three or four people from different households, covers the same four wards plus Colliers Wood, Cricket Green and Lavender Fields. Both schemes run until September 2028. Larger HMOs need a mandatory licence anywhere in the borough.
Planning is the other change. Merton removed the right to turn a family house into a small HMO without planning permission in seven eastern wards in November 2022, and an immediate Article 4 direction dated 24 March 2026 added the remaining 13 wards, from Wimbledon Park to St Helier. Any new HMO in Merton now needs planning permission. The council’s Article 4 page lists the wards.
For a tenant, none of this changes the check-out itself. The clerk compares the home with the check-in inventory, allowing for fair wear and tear. What licensing does change is that a landlord in Figge’s Marsh or Graveney has licence conditions on property standards to answer for.
The clerk compares the home with the check-in inventory, allowing for fair wear and tear.
The clean, and two water suppliers
Most of Merton gets its water from Thames Water, and the SES Water area starts at Morden and runs south. Thames Water says all the water in its region is hard because it passes through chalk and limestone.
In practice that means white crust on taps, cloudy shower screens and a ring in the toilet pan, and a clerk writes all three down as dirt. Our cleaners descale every bathroom and the kitchen sink as part of the fixed price.
The cleaners are vetted (each one is interviewed in person), insured and trained on our 57-point checklist. The list covers:
- Kitchen: cupboards inside and out, worktops, hob, extractor hood and filter, splashback, sink and taps, fridge and freezer (defrosted before we arrive), dishwasher and washing machine seals and drawers.
- Bathrooms: limescale off taps, shower head, screen and tiles, grout scrubbed, bath, basin, toilet and extractor fan cover.
- All rooms: skirting boards, doors and frames, radiators, light switches, sockets, window sills, inside window glass, fitted wardrobes inside, floors vacuumed and mopped.
We have cleaned in London since 2014. Over 300 letting agents use us, tenants have had £1.2m in deposits returned on our cleans, and we are rated 4.7 on Google. If the agent or clerk finds something we missed and tells you within 48 hours, a cleaner goes back and puts it right at no cost.
Oven and carpets on the same day
The oven is an add-on. Booked with the clean, a single or single wide oven is £31, and a double or a 90cm range cooker £62. If the kitchen has a range cooker, measure the width before you book. The oven on its own is covered on our oven cleaning Merton page.
Carpets booked alongside the clean cost £29 per bedroom, £36 for a living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 for a hallway and £8 for a landing. In a St Helier cottage, count the stairs and the landing as well as the rooms. Read the tenancy agreement first: some ask for carpets to be professionally cleaned, many do not. Carpets without the full clean are on the carpet cleaning in Merton page.
Staying on in the home and wanting it done properly? A deep clean is £26 per cleaner per hour, two cleaners for at least three hours, from £186. Weekly or fortnightly help is on our domestic cleaning Merton page.
Booking from Morden, Mitcham or Wimbledon
Merton Council works from the Civic Centre on London Road in Morden, at the end of the Northern line, and the borough is easy to cross: the tram runs through Mitcham and Merton Park, and the District line and main-line trains meet at Wimbledon.
Parking is the variable. Many streets near the stations are in controlled parking zones. Where the cleaners have to pay to park, that cost is added to the quote at what we pay.
Send us the postcode, bedrooms, the floor, your check-out date and any oven or carpet add-ons. Leave the electricity and hot water on, and empty the fridge the night before. The end and start of each month fill first.
The rest of London, with every area we cover, is on our end of tenancy cleaning London page, and Wimbledon has a page of its own at end of tenancy cleaning Wimbledon.
Questions from Merton tenants
My flat is in Pollards Hill ward. Does selective licensing affect my end of tenancy clean?
No. The licence is your landlord’s obligation. Your deposit is judged against the check-in inventory, with fair wear and tear allowed, in exactly the same way as in a ward without a scheme.
How much is a three-bed house on the St Helier estate?
£339 for the clean. Carpets and the oven are extra if you need them, at the add-on prices above.
Do you clean the new Clarion flats at High Path and Eastfields?
Yes, priced by bedrooms like any other home. Mention the floor and any concierge or fob access when you book so the cleaners can get in.
I share a house in Colliers Wood and only my room needs doing. What do I book?
Book by the hour at £30 per cleaner for your room and your share of the kitchen and bathroom. The last person to leave can book the whole house at the fixed price.
Do I have to pay the full amount before the clean?
A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done.