End of tenancy cleaning in North Ealing, with no hidden fees

On the Castlebar Road slopes the clerk looks up before they look anywhere else. The deep plaster cornice and the picture rail below it gather a grey shadow of dust a tenant never notices and an inventory clerk always does, and on these tall Edwardian rooms that one line decides more deposits than the oven does. So that is what an end of tenancy clean in North Ealing answers to: the report, room by room, at £30 per hour per cleaner, fixed before we start, with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee measured against the check-out itself. Ring 0333 555 2076 with the postcode and the size for a price.

Last updated June 2026. We cover the W5 3 slopes north of Ealing Broadway: Castlebar Road and Castlebar Hill, Carlton Road, Mount Park Road and Mount Park Crescent, Argyle Road, and the flats around North Ealing station up to the edge of Pitshanger Lane. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Ealing.

The check-in report is the only opinion that counts

Start with the document, because almost nobody reads it until it is too late. When you moved in, a clerk walked the place and wrote down the state of every surface, usually with photos, usually with the kitchen and bathroom marked "clean to a professional standard". That was true on the day, because the flat had just been professionally cleaned. At check-out a clerk walks it again, line by line against that first report, and anything clearly worse than the move-in entry, past fair wear and tear, can come off your deposit. You are not judged against tidy. You are judged against a professional clean, which is why a mop and a free Saturday rarely gets a North Ealing flat over the line.

The money here is not small. Average private rent across the borough was £2,057 a month in April 2026, and the Castlebar Road and Mount Park houses sit well above that, so the deposit in scope is large and the clerk is paid to account for every pound of it. On the local rescues we get called into after a failed check-out, the deductions land where you would expect: the oven, grout and scale in the bathroom, the gaps behind appliances nobody moved, and marks on the walls. The inspection is genuinely adversarial. That is not unfair, it is the job.

Two bits of law sit underneath this and pull opposite ways. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 stops a landlord writing professional cleaning into the contract as a condition, so nobody can force you to book us. Damp and black mould, though, are the landlord's problem to fix, not a tenant cleaning failure, so where we find genuine damp behind a wardrobe or in a cold corner we photograph it, and the charge stays where it belongs.

What the 1 May 2026 changeover did, and what it left alone

The Renters' Rights Act 2025 came into force 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 now give two months' notice at any point rather than waiting out a fixed term.

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 month before. What moved is timing.

North Ealing was already a slow-churn pocket by London standards, long family lets in the big houses and steadier professional tenancies in the mansion blocks by the station, but rolling notice makes the move-outs that do happen land less predictably. The dull, paying takeaway: book the clean earlier than you would have a year ago, because the slot you want for a Friday hand-back will be gone if you leave it.

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

Castlebar Road to the Hanger Lane edge: one round, four kinds of house

North Ealing is the leafy ground that climbs north from Ealing Broadway, and the housing changes as you walk up it, so one method does not pass all of it. We work the patch in four bands, and the checklist gets applied a little differently to each.

The signature stock is the grand Edwardian and late-Victorian housing on and around Castlebar Road and Castlebar Hill, much of it inside the Mount Park Conservation Area. The council designated Mount Park in 1991 and extended it westwards in 1995 to take in the ground between Eaton Rise and Castlebar Road, then again in 2004. The estate was laid out on the old Wood family land through the 1870s and 1880s, which is why the houses sit on such generous plots, in stock and red brick in Flemish bond, with stucco trimming, slate and clay-tile roofs and white-painted timber sash boxes. The clerks read those features as line items in their own right: the boundary walls and gate piers, the bay joinery, the cornices, the moulded roses. A scratched original architrave is a bigger deduction than a missed oven, so we do the detail by hand. Mount Park Road and Mount Park Crescent are the same era at the same scale, the conservation-area core.

Drop east and south a little and you reach the terrace cousin: Carlton Road and the streets either side, three-storey Edwardian houses on tighter plots, the same cornice-and-picture-rail vocabulary at family scale, usually with a rear extension where the kitchen lives and grease has crept behind a hob nobody has pulled out. Argyle Road on the way up toward Pitshanger Lane is the 1930s strip, half-timbered gables, leaded fanlights and hipped clay-tile roofs, and the clerks there lean on the leaded glazing and the latch handles more than the plasterwork. Then the eastern fringe by the station and the North Circular: the inter-war mansion blocks along the Hanger Lane edge, with parquet, painted radiator pipework and original steel-framed landing windows, plus a band of newer infill flats tight to the tube.

North Ealing station anchors that eastern end. It opened in 1903 and sits on Station Road, near the corner of Queen's Drive and Hanger Lane, on the Uxbridge branch of the Piccadilly line in Zone 3, one stop in from Park Royal and one out from Ealing Common. Ealing Broadway, with the District, Central and Elizabeth lines, is a short walk south. A grand-house belt and a commuter flat market in one small area.

One boundary note, because people guess and get it wrong. The village end of Pitshanger Lane, with its shops, Sir John Soane's manor and the Brentham garden suburb, is its own place and we keep it on the Pitshanger page. This page is the slopes below it. If your flat sits on the line between the two, ring with the postcode and we will tell you which side you are on. Four kinds of house, one checklist, applied with a different emphasis at each door.

The 57 points, room by room

Every booking runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist, built over a decade of local hand-backs and tuned to what the clerks up here actually flag. The full list comes with the job. Here is the shape of it.

The kitchen, where the first deduction usually lands

The oven is stripped, not wiped. Racks go into a soak tank, the door glass is split apart so the brown film between the panes comes out, and the interior, fan, element and seals all get done. The extractor canopy comes off where it lifts, and the baffle and mesh go into a hot soak in the sink rather than getting sprayed in place. Hob and burner crowns off and washed. Every cupboard inside, outside and along the top, including the dust line the clerk checks first. The washing-machine drum, the detergent drawer pulled out and scrubbed, and the door seal, which is the first thing a clerk opens. Dishwasher filter, microwave inside and underneath. Sink, taps and plughole descaled, because the hard water never misses that. Tile grout brushed back, bins emptied and washed. On the Carlton Road back extensions we pull the cooker out, because the grease trap behind a heavy range is where the clerk's torch goes.

Bathrooms, the other place it goes wrong

Scale comes off the taps, shower head, screen and tiles first, with a careful hand on the original chrome and brass in the period houses. Grout is scrubbed back as far as honest effort takes it, and photographed first where it is clearly past saving, so you are not billed for wear that was already there at check-in. Then the rest, in plain order.

• Toilet done properly: inside, under the rim, the base, the cistern, the hinges, and behind the pedestal where nobody looks but the clerk
• Shower screen both sides, the tracks and the silicone bead, with black mould cut out and the bead wiped back where it is still serviceable
• Bath, taps, the underside of the taps, the overflow and the plughole; a cast-iron bath in one of the older houses gets its feet and underside done too
• Mirrors and cabinets, and behind them where they come away from the wall
• Extractor vent grille pulled off and washed where reachable, floor into the corners and under the basin

Bedrooms, receptions and the bits between

Inside every wardrobe, drawer and built-in cupboard, top shelf included. Skirtings hand-wiped the full length, including behind the bed and the wardrobe, because the clerks pull furniture out to look. Door frames, architraves, handles and finger plates. The picture rail in every reception and bedroom, lifted with a soft brush then a dry cloth, never a wet pass, and the cornice run and ceiling roses by hand off a step-ladder. Window glass both sides where it opens, sills, reveals and the box-frame runners, with the original brass bay lifts and pulleys polished back on the front rooms. Radiators behind, under and on top. Walls spot-wiped for marks, with a realistic line drawn, because nail holes are a decorator's bill and not yours to scrub away.

Two of these often want their own pass. Original parquet or a stair runner takes more than a mop, which is what the carpet cleaning add-on covers on the same visit; a tired sofa in a furnished let sometimes needs full upholstery cleaning rather than a hoover. Then everything else: switches, sockets and entryphones; the stairs and bannisters, with the original oak newel and turned spindles dusted one by one and waxed; cobwebs out of the ceiling corners; a final walk-through, photographed every room. That photo set is the evidence you keep.

Hard water on a hundred-year-old chrome tap

West London sits in a hard-water belt, drawn off the chalk, and that one fact loses more deposits up here than anything except the oven. Affinity Water, which supplies this part of Ealing, classes the supply as hard to very hard. 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 knows this: they run a thumbnail down the tap, look at the screen edge-on against the light, and pull the shower head in close.

Set scale is not a quick job, and on a hundred-year-old bathroom where the original chrome sits over older brass it is a careful one, because the brute-force descalers a new flat would shrug off will pit period metal. So we descale rather than skim: a low-pH solution worked into the joints with a soft brush, left to do its work, then rinsed and dried by hand. No spray-and-walk-away. Bleach stays off the period chrome, and nothing acidic goes near the original brass.

Grout is the other one. Kitchen and bathroom grout is the line between a pass and a deduction here more often than carpets are. We scrub it rather than wipe it, and where it is genuinely past saving we photograph the state before we start. That dated photo has settled more disputes than any argument has, because a clerk cannot bill you for grout that was already grey in the move-in pictures.

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

Specialist surfaces sit outside the scrub-and-go work. Original parquet in a Mount Park reception, a tiled Edwardian hallway, engineered board in a new-build by the station: each takes its own product, which is what the floor cleaning add-on is for. Exterior glass on a tall bay is a separate job through window cleaning when the inventory asks for it.

What it costs, in plain pounds

The slopes are grand but the postcode is not a Mayfair premium, so North Ealing runs at our standard West London base. A studio is £156 and a one-bed flat £207. A two-bed comes in at £243, a three-bed terrace at £339, and a four-bed house at £425. The large five and six-bed semis on Castlebar Road and Mount Park Road we look at before we price. Those numbers assume a flat in normal lived-in shape; heavy wear, pets or a place not deep-cleaned in years costs more, and we say so on the phone.

Add-ons sit on top at the same flat rates everywhere we work: carpet shampoo is £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room or £115 for a whole two-bed's carpeted area, and a single oven on its own is £77, a double £110, a 90cm range £114. When you just want extra finish, the hourly rate is £30 per cleaner, kit and travel included.

Now run the maths the way the deposit makes you. A one-bed at £207 to protect a deposit several times that is not really a decision. Every booking carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if the agent flags any cleanliness issue inside two days, we come back and redo it free, provided you tell us inside the window and nobody has moved in. Our pass rate across local jobs sits near 97%, and there is a reason the agents up here know us. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, and that work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on deductions.

Three different jobs get muddled when people ring, 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 standard, with the place empty and the 48-hour guarantee on it.

Deep clean

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

Regular domestic clean

A regular domestic visit is ongoing upkeep, from £22 an hour on a weekly booking.

A Castlebar Road job from March

"We handed back a five-bed Edwardian on the Castlebar Road slope after nine years, two kids and a big dog, and I had braced for a fight over the deposit. The clerk had warned me the cornice work and the brass on the front bays were what he would not let go. Monster sent three cleaners for a full day, did every cornice and picture rail by hand off ladders, polished the bay brass back, and cleaned an ancient range cooker without wrecking it. He passed it on the first walk on the Friday. Full deposit back the following week."
Theo, Castlebar Road W5 3, March 2026

That is a fair example of the pattern on the grand stock: a long tenancy, a lot of original detail the clerk names individually, and an oven nobody had dealt with in years. The clean cost a fraction of what was at stake, as it usually does. What turned it was not the scrubbing alone but the dated before-and-after set that went out with the invoice.

Booking it around a Friday hand-back

Friday is the busy slot up here, because agents line check-outs up for the end of the week so a deposit can be released before the weekend. Ring on the Wednesday for a Friday and we can usually fit it in; ring earlier for first pick of the morning.

1. Ring 0333 555 2076. Price in a couple of minutes. Give us the postcode, the property size, the hand-back date and which agent, and mention anything the check-in report marked as new.
2. We book you in, ideally the day before the check-out with a buffer. A four or five-bed off Castlebar Road we look at first; standard flat sizes we quote down the phone.
3. Empty when we arrive. Furniture out, belongings gone, rubbish cleared. We also do removals if you want the move and the clean on one booking, which helps on the tighter conservation streets where several van trips become a parking problem.
4. Photo proof at the end. Every room, before and after, with an itemised invoice on company 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 parking. The slopes are controlled through the working day and the bays are tight, so tell us the arrangement when you book and confirm how we get in: a key, an agent drop-off, or a concierge on the mansion blocks. If your hand-back is tomorrow, ring anyway and we will do what we can.

If your next flat is one stop over, we work the neighbours too: End of Tenancy Cleaning Ealing Broadway for the Eaton Rise stock to the south, End of Tenancy Cleaning Hanger Hill for the Garden Estate to the west, and End of Tenancy Cleaning West Ealing down the hill.

Questions we get asked

How much is end of tenancy cleaning in North Ealing?

A studio is £156 and a one-bed flat £207. A two-bed runs to £243, a three-bed to £339 and a four-bed house to £425. Bigger Castlebar Road and Mount Park Road semis we price on a quick look. Everything is fixed in advance, carried out against the 57-point agent-approved checklist, with the 48-hour re-clean guarantee on it. Ring 0333 555 2076 with the postcode and the size for a number in a couple of minutes.

Is North Ealing inside Ealing's selective licensing scheme?

No. The Castlebar Road and Mount Park slopes sit in Walpole ward, which the council left out of its selective licensing designations. Hanger Hill ward, right next door to the west, is inside the 2023 scheme, so a flat one street over may be licensed while yours is not. Mandatory HMO licensing still bites on any house shared by five or more people in two or more households, wherever it sits. None of that changes the hand-back clean itself.

Does the Renters' Rights Act 2025 change the cleaning at the end of a tenancy?

No, the clean is the same. Since 1 May 2026 Section 21 no-fault notices are gone and every assured shorthold tenancy has rolled onto a periodic footing, so a tenant can give two months' notice whenever they like. The standard you are judged against at check-out has not moved. What has changed is timing: move-outs land less predictably now, so the slot you want goes sooner. Book earlier than you used to.

Do you clean the plaster cornices and ceiling roses on the Castlebar Road houses?

Yes, and they are the first thing a clerk looks up at in a reception room. We work the cornice run by hand off a step-ladder with a barely-damp microfibre, then go back along it dry, because a wet pass leaves a streak that reads worse than the dust did. The moulded roses get a soft brush first. On a four-bed off Castlebar Road that is a lot of rooms of slow overhead work, and we cost the time in rather than rush it.

Can you handle the original bay windows and the sash boxes?

Yes. The front bays on the Edwardian stock often keep their original brass lifts and pulleys, and those get a non-acidic metal polish, never anything that pits the finish. The cobweb in the top of a bay where nobody reaches comes out with a long-handled brush before we touch the glass. The old box-frame windows get the runners and frame as well as the glass, both sides where the design lets us open them.

What does the hard water do, and how do you deal with it?

West London water is hard, off the chalk, so scale builds on taps, shower heads and screens fast and a quick wipe does nothing to it. We descale instead: a low-pH solution worked in with a soft brush, left to do its job, then rinsed and dried by hand. On a period bathroom where the original chrome sits over older brass we stay gentle and keep anything harsh well away from the metal. The clerk runs a thumbnail down the tap, so that is where the time goes.

Do you work with Foxtons, Hamptons, Sinton Andrews and Goodfellows on hand-back?

Yes. We have handed flats and houses back through Foxtons and Hamptons in Ealing, Sinton Andrews on Spring Bridge Road, Goodfellows and Marsh & Parsons, plus a number of the local independents. Each clerk runs a slightly different checklist on the iPad, and we are happy to deal with them directly on the day so a query gets answered there and then rather than turning into a deduction.

How long does a four-bed off Castlebar Road take?

Plan for two to three cleaners across most of a day, eight to ten hours, depending on how much cornice and picture-rail work the reception rooms carry and whether there is original parquet that needs the slow damp mop. The large five and six-bed houses are sometimes a two-day job, which is why we look at those before quoting rather than guessing down the phone.

What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?

If the inventory clerk flags anything off our checklist within two days of us finishing, we come back and put that item right at no extra cost, as long as you tell us inside the window and nobody has moved in or changed the place since. We do not argue the call. Our first-time pass rate sits at 97%, and the guarantee covers the rest. The years of that work add up to £1.2m in deposits handed back to tenants who would otherwise have lost a slice of it to cleaning.

How does parking work on the Castlebar Road slopes?

Most of the streets up there are in a controlled zone through the working day and the bays are tight, so we sort the parking out when you book rather than circling on the morning. Tell us whether there is a visitor permit, a meter or a residents' bay, and how we get in: a key, a concierge on the mansion blocks by the station, or a drop-off from the agent.

Which station and roads do you actually cover?

We work the slopes north of the Broadway: Castlebar Road and Castlebar Hill, Carlton Road, Mount Park Road and Mount Park Crescent, Argyle Road, and the streets around North Ealing station on the Piccadilly line, up to where Pitshanger Lane begins. The station sits on Station Road near the Queen's Drive and Hanger Lane corner, in Zone 3. The Pitshanger Lane village end and Brentham are covered on our Pitshanger page.

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