The North Acton check-out, room by room
Nearly half the households in North Acton were renting privately at the 2021 census, and that count was taken before the four towers of One West Point were finished beside the station. Most of those lets are flats, and we clean them at the end of a tenancy for a fixed price by bedrooms: from £156 for a studio, £207 for a one-bed and £243 for a two-bed.
Last updated October 2026.
The clerk who does your check-out walks the flat with the check-in inventory in hand and compares each room with what it says, allowing for fair wear and tear. In a new-build flat near the station that walk usually starts at the front door, with the hallway cupboard. In new-build flats that cupboard often holds the washer-dryer, the boiler or heat unit and sometimes a ventilation unit, and the clerk opens it to look for fluff, dust and water marks on the floor. We clean inside it, wipe the machine and empty the filter drawer.
Then the hallway itself: the entry phone handset, light switches, the top edge of the front door and the skirting. Smoke alarms and ceiling vents get a dust, because a clerk who looks up sees the grey ring round a ventilation grille straight away.
Kitchens with integrated appliances
A tower flat kitchen is usually a run of gloss or matt doors with the fridge, freezer, dishwasher and oven behind or under them. The clerk opens all of them. Our cleaners do the same, working through the list:
- Every cupboard and drawer inside and out, including the door edges and the plinth along the floor, where crumbs collect.
- The hob (often induction, which shows every smear), the splashback and the extractor, with the grease filter taken out and degreased.
- The integrated fridge and freezer, defrosted the night before, with the seals and drawers washed.
- The dishwasher filter, door seal and the spray arms, and the sink, taps and plughole descaled.
The oven is an extra, never part of the fixed price: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. Our oven cleaning page covers it.
The bathroom
Acton’s water comes from Thames Water, which says all the water in its region is hard because it passes through chalk and limestone. In a flat with a frameless glass screen and chrome taps, that shows within days as a white film, and a clerk notes it as dirt. Our cleaners descale the screen on both sides, the shower head, taps, tiles and the drain cover, scrub the grout and silicone, clean the toilet including the base and the flush plate, and wipe the mirror cabinet inside and out. In a bathroom with no window, the extractor grille is cleaned inside the cover as well as out.
Bedrooms, living space and balcony doors
In the bedrooms the clerk checks inside the wardrobes, the shelves and rails, the tops of doors and the skirting. In the living room, the glass. Tall windows and sliding balcony doors are the hardest part of a high-rise clean: the inside of the glass is ours, along with the frames, handles and the track the door runs in, where grit and dead leaves collect. Blinds are dusted slat by slat.
Carpets are a separate add-on, cheaper with the clean than on their own: £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. Check the tenancy agreement before you book them, and see carpet cleaning for the method.
At the end, floors are vacuumed and washed, and the cleaner walks the flat against the 57-point checklist we train every cleaner on. All our cleaners are interviewed in person, then insured and trained. If the agent or clerk spots something we missed and lets us know within 48 hours, we go back and redo it free.
Prices by property
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| One-bed flat | £207 |
| Two-bed flat | £243 |
| Three-bed flat or semi | £339 |
| Four-bed house | £425 |
| Five bedrooms or more | quoted from the room count |
| One room in a shared house, or part of a home | £30 per cleaner per hour |
The calculator at the top of the page gives your figure. Some buildings ask contractors to book a loading bay or the goods lift with the concierge; let us know the rules when you book. If we have to pay to park, the cost goes on your quote at what it costs us.
Renting in North Acton now
North Acton became a ward of its own in 2022, made from parts of the old Acton Central, East Acton and South Acton wards. At the 2021 census it had 7,058 households: 3,229 renting privately, 1,201 in social housing and 2,458 owners. By building type, 2,723 households were in purpose-built flats, 1,519 in semi-detached houses, 1,400 in flats in converted houses and 962 in terraces. So away from the towers, the job is often a semi or a split house with stairs.
The towers came after. One West Point, by City & Docklands, has four buildings round a courtyard with 668 one-, two- and three-bed apartments, and when it was finished in November 2022 its tallest block, at 184 metres, was the tallest residential building in London outside Canary Wharf. Imperial College has two big halls a few minutes from the station, Woodward Buildings on Victoria Road (689 beds, up to 19 storeys) and Kemp Porter Buildings on Wales Farm Road, with about 1,250 students between them. The Costume Store, a student block for the University of the Arts, opened in 2012 on the site of the old BBC costume store. The halls are the universities’ own business; the private shares that students move into afterwards are ordinary lets.
The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation, set up by the Mayor of London in 2015, leads the regeneration of an area that reaches into North Acton. The Central line runs from North Acton station in zones 2 and 3, and North Acton Square opened outside it in 2020.
Ealing’s landlord licensing is drawn on the ward map from before May 2022, and all three of the old wards that make up North Acton are covered. The old East Acton ward has needed a selective licence since 1 April 2022, in the same scheme as Southall Broadway and Southall Green. Acton Central and South Acton joined on 3 January 2023, in a designation that runs to 2 January 2028. Shared homes of three or more unrelated people have needed an additional HMO licence across the borough since 1 April 2022. You can check an address on the council’s licensing page. Whatever the licence, your check-out is judged on the inventory.
Rents explain why that matters. The ONS put Ealing’s average rent at £2,109 a month in August 2026, with one-beds at £1,629 and two-beds at £2,033. With the deposit capped at five weeks’ rent on tenancies under £50,000 a year, an average two-bed carries a deposit of about £2,350. We have cleaned rented homes since 2014, more than 300 letting agents use us, tenants have won back £1.2m in deposits, and our Google rating is 4.7. Neighbouring East Acton and South Acton have their own pages, and the whole borough is on our Ealing page. Call 0333 555 2076, 8am to 7pm, seven days.
North Acton end of tenancy FAQs
How much is a two-bed at One West Point?
£243, fixed. A single oven adds £31, and a 90cm range cooker £62.
Do you clean the inside of the balcony doors and floor-to-ceiling windows?
Yes, the inside glass, frames, handles and the door track. Outside glass on a high floor is a job for the building’s own window contractor.
My flat has a cupboard with the washer-dryer and heat unit. Is that included?
Yes. We clean inside the cupboard, wipe the machine and clear the filter drawer, because the clerk opens it.
I am moving out of a shared semi near the station before my housemates. What should I book?
Your room plus a share of the kitchen and bathroom, by the hour at £30 per cleaner. The last person out can book the whole house at the fixed price.
Does my landlord need a licence in North Acton?
Very likely. All of the ward falls inside one of Ealing’s two selective licensing designations, and shared homes need an additional HMO licence.
