End of tenancy cleaning in Myatts Field, from £156

On the regeneration flats around Foxley Road, the first thing the inventory clerk does is run a torch along the seal where the induction glass meets the worktop. A year of dishwasher overspill sets into that line, the last tenant wiped the surface and called it done, and the dark seam shows up under raking light every time. So an end-of-tenancy clean around Myatt’s Fields has to answer to the person writing the check-out report, not to a quick once-over. We are a local domestic firm, trading since 2014, and we price this in plain numbers: studios from £156, up to £425 for a four-bed, or £30 per hour per cleaner for a part job, all carrying a 48-hour re-clean guarantee. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price.

Last updated June 2026. We cover the SW9 streets around Myatt’s Fields Park, the Minet Estate and the Myatt’s Field North regeneration: Crawshay Road, Foxley Road, Mostyn Road, Calais Street, Cormont Road, Knatchbull Road and the new-build phases off them, plus the borders with Camberwell, Brixton, Oval and Loughborough Junction. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Lambeth.

The day-one report you are quietly marked against

Almost nobody reads the mechanism, and it is the whole game. When you moved in, a clerk walked the flat and wrote a check-in report describing every surface, nearly always with photos, nearly always with the words “good” or “as new” against the kitchen and bathroom. Those words were true on the 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 day-one entry, past fair wear and tear, can be charged against your deposit. You are marked against a professional standard, which is exactly why a mop and a free Saturday rarely gets a tenant there.

The money is not abstract. On the SW9 DIY check-outs we get called in to rescue, the deductions land in a familiar shape: roughly £80 to £120 on the oven, £70 to £150 on bathroom scale and grout, £60 to £100 for the gaps behind the appliances, more again on carpets and on marks up the walls. Put that against a deposit capped at five weeks’ rent and the sums make themselves. Most tenants only run them after they have tried, failed the check-out, and lost the first round. That is a pity, because the first round is the cheap one to win.

Why does the clerk push so hard? Because the deposit is real money in a protected scheme, and somebody has to account for it. The inspection is adversarial by design, the clerk is paid to find faults rather than wave you through, and on this side of Lambeth, where the paperwork tends to be tight, you turn up with evidence rather than optimism.

Two things in law pull in opposite directions here. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 means a landlord cannot write professional cleaning into the contract as a condition, so nobody can force you to book us. Damp and mould, on the other hand, are a landlord repair obligation, not a tenant cleaning failure. Where we find structural damp behind a wardrobe or in a cold bathroom corner, we photograph it and note it, so the charge sits where it belongs instead of on you.

What 1 May 2026 and a borough-wide licence changed here

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 give two months’ notice at any point in the year rather than waiting for a fixed term to end.

Here is the part people 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. The deposit maths is exactly what it was the week before. What shifted is timing, and timing is what bites in a high-churn patch like this one. SW9 already ran on short professional lets and shared houses. Let people leave on a rolling two months instead of a fixed date and the move-outs get more frequent and less predictable, so book the clean earlier than you used to.

There is a second local change worth knowing, because your landlord may not have mentioned it. Lambeth ran a selective licensing scheme across four wards from September 2024, then extended it to most of the borough on 1 September 2025, taking in 19 more wards. Myatt’s Fields sits in the Vassall ward, which is inside the scheme. In plain terms, most private landlords letting a flat to a single household or to no more than two sharers around Crawshay Road and Foxley Road now need a current licence to let legally, and from 1 April 2026 that licence costs £1,025 a property. None of it changes your duty to hand the flat back clean. It does tend to make the paperwork tighter, one more reason a documented clean settles things faster.

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

The 57 things we work through, room by room

Every booking here runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist, built over a decade of local check-outs and tuned to what SW9 clerks actually flag. The full list comes with the job, or we walk you through it first. Here is the shape.

The kitchen, where most of the deposit is lost

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 most-flagged oven fault on these check-outs. If the oven is the only thing your agent pulled you up on, standalone oven cleaning in Myatt’s Fields covers it on its own.

Then the rest of the room. On the regeneration flats the hob is induction, and the seal where the glass sits into the worktop is the line we work hardest, lifted with a fine plastic scraper and a degreaser that will not eat the silicone. The extractor on those kitchens vents behind a soft-close flap most tenants never open, so the filter goes unwashed for a year; we open it. In the older terraces the cooker is more often gas, the rings and knobs come off, and the hood is degreased inside and out. Every cupboard, inside and out. Fridge and freezer cleaned through once you have defrosted them, with the door-seal underside on integrated units, where food residue hides until the clerk tilts the door. Appliances pulled out so the gaps behind are reached, then put back. The washing machine drum, the drawer out and scrubbed, and the door seal, the first thing the clerk opens. Dishwasher filter, seals and spray arms. Microwave inside, out and underneath. Sink, taps, drainer and plughole descaled, because the hard water never gives those a miss. Tiles and grout scrubbed. Bins washed. Floor hoovered and mopped.

Bathrooms, the other place it goes wrong

Scale comes off the taps, shower head, screen and tiles first, with a soft descaler on chrome so nothing gets pitted. 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
• Mirror, cabinet and shaver socket, and behind the cabinet where it comes off the wall
• Extractor fan, which on the regen blocks is an inline unit that gathers a felt pad of lint inside the ceiling housing; the cover comes off and the housing is cleared out by hand, where a quick wipe leaves the pad behind
• Floor into the corners, behind the loo and under the basin

Bedrooms, living rooms and the bits in between

Inside every wardrobe, drawer and built-in cupboard, including the base lip of a fitted wardrobe where a year of dust drops in. Skirting, door frames, doors, handles and finger plates. Light fittings, shades, switches. Window sills, reveals and frames on the inside; on the bay-fronted terraces the painted timber cills take a separate careful pass. Radiators behind, under and on top. 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. Upholstery hoovered through. Then the picture rails and cornicing in the older front rooms, dusted top and underside, because a missed wall there is enough for a flag. A final walk-through, photographed before and after, every room. That photo set is the evidence you keep.

Two jobs often need their own pass. Professional hot-water extraction on carpets is written into a fair few local tenancies as a hard requirement, which is what the carpet cleaning in Myatt’s Fields add-on covers on the same visit. Hard-used sofas in shared lets sometimes want full upholstery cleaning too.

Hard water, and what the Minet Estate adds to the job

SW9 sits in Thames Water’s hard-water zone, and that one fact loses more deposits here than almost anything except the oven. The supply across south London runs high in dissolved chalk, so calcium builds on taps, shower heads, screens and tile joints faster than tenants expect, and a wipe with a cloth does nothing to it. The clerk checks for it deliberately: a thumbnail down the tap, the screen edge-on against the light, the shower head pulled in close. Scale set into the chrome is slow work, and we treat it as its own task rather than something to rush past.

Grout and the toilet waterline are the next two. The chalky ring just below the rim is one of the most reliable photographs in a south-London check-out, and it comes back fast if it is only wiped. We scrub the grout rather than wipe it, and where it is genuinely past saving, which happens in a long Crawshay Road tenancy, we photograph the state before we start, so the clerk cannot bill you for wear already there at check-in. That dated photo has settled more disputes than any argument has.

That dated photo has settled more disputes than any argument has.

The Minet Estate adds a different kind of work. This is a late-Victorian private estate from the 1870s, a conservation area now, laid out by the Minet family on land a Huguenot ancestor had bought from Sir Edward Knatchbull; the French roots are why you get street names like Calais Street and Cormont Road around the park. The terraces here carry deep skirting, cornicing, picture rails and original painted timber, and an inventory on a flat like that lists those features by name. So the check-out clean has to match them by name too, with nothing aggressive near original paint or plaster. We do that detail by hand, because a scratched original architrave is a bigger deduction than a missed oven. Specialist floors are a separate matter again: an original tiled hallway or the engineered board fitted in the new builds each takes its own product, which is what the floor cleaning add-on is for.

Three kinds of home, sometimes on one street

Myatt’s Fields is a small SW9 patch around its park, on the Camberwell and Brixton border, and the housing changes completely as you cross it. Three different cleaning briefs share these postcodes, sometimes within sight of each other, so one method does not pass all of it. We work it as three kinds of home, because the brief follows the building, not the address.

The first is the Myatt’s Field North regeneration. The estate north of the park was rebuilt under a 25-year housing PFI signed in 2012 and finished in 2017, run by the Regenter consortium, built by Higgins Construction, with a district heat-and-power plant feeding the whole site. Around 800 new homes went up alongside the refurbished blocks, on Foxley Road, Mostyn Road and the new-build phases around them. These flats come with induction hobs, integrated appliances and silicone seals around every fitted unit, and the corporate-style inventory that goes with managed stock is stricter than most private landlords bother with. Send us the operator’s spec sheet and we clean to it line by line. The induction-hob seal and the inline bathroom extractor are the two that fail a rushed clean, and both are in the checklist as standard.

The second is the period belt: the bay-fronted late-Victorian terraces on Crawshay Road and the eastern end of Foxley Road, and the Minet Estate streets running off the park. Long lets sit here, families who have stayed years, and that means decades of build-up in places nobody cleaned between tenants, into the grout of a tiled hall, behind the cooker, along a picture rail that runs round all four walls of a front room. We win these check-outs on the dull, slow work, not on anything clever.

The third is the retained ex-local-authority stock the council kept on through the regeneration so existing residents could stay, the 1970s blocks among the new builds. Plainer surfaces, fewer original features, but the same check-out standard and the same hard-water scale on the bathroom fittings. If your address sits between Camberwell and Brixton, on or off Brixton Road, we are on it most weeks. Not sure which of the three you are in, or even which side of a borough boundary? Ring 0333 555 2076 with the postcode and we will tell you in about ten seconds. The same teams also cover the patches next door: Brixton, Camberwell, Oval and Loughborough Junction.

What it costs, against what is sitting in the scheme

We price in plain numbers and we do not run a zone-1 surcharge here. A studio is £156, a one-bed flat £207, a two-bed £243, a three-bed flat or maisonette £339, and a four-bed townhouse £425. Part jobs and post-builders touch-ups are £30 per hour per cleaner. The common add-ons are simple too: carpet shampoo is £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for the whole carpeted area of a two-bed, and an oven on its own is £77 single, £110 double, £114 for a 90cm range. Kit, products and travel inside the patch are in the price, with no surcharge for evenings or weekends.

Those figures assume a flat in normal lived-in shape. A long tenancy with heavy wear, a pet household, 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 one-bed at £207 to protect a deposit worth five weeks’ rent is barely a decision. Every booking carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if the agent flags a cleanliness issue inside 48 hours, we come back and redo it free, as long as you tell us inside that window and nobody has moved in. Our pass rate across local jobs sits near a 97% first-time pass rate, but the guarantee is the real point, because a failed check-out is not a small thing to shrug off. There is a reason agents on this side of the borough know us. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, and over the years that work has helped tenants hold on to a running total of £1.2m deposits recovered, money that stayed with the tenant rather than going on cleaning deductions.

Worth being clear about which job you are booking, because three get muddled.

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, with the flat empty and the 48-hour guarantee on it, from £156 or £30 an hour for a part job.

Deep clean

A deep clean resets a home you are keeping, lived-in, with no formal standard to hit, from £30 an hour.

Regular domestic clean

A regular domestic clean in Myatt’s Fields is ongoing maintenance, from £22 an hour.

A Crawshay Road job from this spring

“We rented a two-bed in one of the bay-fronted terraces on Crawshay Road for three years, two of us sharing. The picture rails in the front room were the thing I’d never have thought to do, and they ran round all four walls. The oven was bad, honestly, mostly years of grease nobody had touched before us. Two cleaners came for about six hours, stripped the oven, scrubbed the bathroom scale off the taps, and dusted every rail and cornice in the place. The agent signed it off with no cleaning deduction, just a fiver for a cracked bin lid. Deposit back inside the fortnight.”
Priya, Myatt’s Fields SW9, April 2026

That is a fair example of the period belt: a long shared let, a neglected oven, picture rails on every wall, an agent who checks. 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 month-end crush

SW9 bunches its check-outs hard at month-end, the same way most of inner London does. The last two or three days fill first, 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 original check-in report marked “good” or “as new”. Out of hours, send us a message and someone calls back first thing.
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 on the regeneration streets where controlled parking makes several van trips 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. The regeneration estate is controlled-parking for most of the day, the bays are tight, and a few of the managed blocks want a concierge sign-in or a key from the agent. Tell us the arrangement when you book, and we sort it before the day rather than on it.

Questions we get asked

How much is end of tenancy cleaning in Myatt’s Fields?

Studios start at £156, a one-bed is £207, a two-bed £243, a three-bed £339 and a four-bed £425. Part jobs are £30 per hour per cleaner. SW9 is on our base pricing, not a premium zone-1 rate, and every price includes the 48-hour re-clean guarantee.

Do I really need a professional clean for an SW9 check-out?

You are allowed to do it yourself; the Tenant Fees Act 2019 stops a landlord making it a contractual condition. The catch is the benchmark. The check-in standard was set by a professional clean, and matching it without professional kit is hard. With a deposit worth five weeks’ rent sitting in a scheme, the maths usually points one way.

Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change anything for tenants here?

From 1 May 2026, Section 21 evictions are abolished and every existing assured shorthold tenancy in England converts to a periodic tenancy, so tenants can give two months’ notice at any point. The cleaning obligations at end of tenancy do not change. The real effect locally is more frequent and less predictable move-outs, so book as early as you can.

Is my flat covered by Lambeth’s selective licensing scheme?

Almost certainly. Myatt’s Fields sits in the Vassall ward, which is inside the borough-wide scheme that started on 1 September 2025. Most private landlords letting to a single household or up to two sharers need a current licence, and from 1 April 2026 it costs £1,025 a property. It does not change your deposit rights or the cleaning standard you owe at check-out, but it tends to mean tighter paperwork.

Do you cover the Myatt’s Field North regeneration flats?

Yes. The estate rebuilt under the 2012 housing PFI and finished in 2017, on Foxley Road, Mostyn Road and the new-build phases, is covered every week. The induction hobs, integrated appliances and inline bathroom extractors have specific quirks that are built into the 57-point checklist as standard.

What about the late-Victorian terraces on Crawshay Road and the Minet Estate?

Same coverage, different brief. The bay-fronted terraces and the conservation-area streets have picture rails, deep skirting, cornicing and bay-window cills the regeneration flats do not. We bring a step ladder and treat the original features carefully, with nothing abrasive on painted timber or cornice plaster.

What is the water like, and does it matter for the clean?

It is hard. South London sits in Thames Water’s hard-water zone, high in dissolved chalk, which is why chrome chalking and the toilet waterline are among the most common deductions in this patch. We descale every visible chrome and ceramic surface as part of the standard clean.

Is carpet cleaning always needed in SW9 rentals?

Not always, but often. Some local tenancies write in a clause requiring professional hot-water extraction with a receipt at check-out. If that clause is in your agreement and you skip it, the deduction is close to automatic. Carpet shampoo is £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for the whole carpeted area of a two-bed.

Does the property need to be empty?

Fully empty is strongly preferred. Furniture left behind blocks access and creates uncertainty at the check-out. A single piece left for the next tenant can be worked around, but the more that stays, the less complete the clean can be.

Do I need to be there on the day?

No. We collect keys from the agent or a key safe, do the work and return them. Most jobs here run that way, because tenants have usually moved out by the day of the clean.

What happens if the agent disputes the clean after a re-clean?

Escalate to the deposit scheme adjudication: TDS, the Deposit Protection Service or mydeposits. Our invoice, dated photo report and re-clean record are admissible evidence, and a tenant with a complete professional-clean paper trail very rarely loses.

How soon can you book me in?

Mid-month we can usually offer a slot within 48 hours, sometimes the next day if you are flexible on the start time. End-of-month and the last week before a bank holiday are the busiest, so give as much notice as you can.

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. A couple of WhatsApp photos of the kitchen and bathroom sharpen the quote, which helps most on the bigger terraces around the park. Monster Cleaning Ltd has done Lambeth check-outs since 2014, and if yours is tomorrow, ring anyway and we will do what we can.

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