North Greenford’s end of tenancy cleaning team

The clerk doing a North Greenford check-out goes out of the back door before they open a single cupboard. Almost every hand-back up here is a house with a garden and a side passage, and the state of that passage tells them how carefully the rest of the job was done. So that is where we start. End-of-tenancy work across the ward runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist, at £30 per hour per cleaner, with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee measured against the check-out report itself. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price.

Last updated June 2026. We cover UB6 0 across the ward, from the Whitton Avenue spine out to the Horsenden Hill edge, plus the North Greenford ends where the streets run into UB5 and UB6 8. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Ealing.

Why the clerk goes out of the back door first

This is the bit that surprises people who have only rented flats. In a flat the clerk starts at the kitchen. In a North Greenford semi they open the back door, look down the side passage, look at the patio, look at the shed, and form an opinion about you before they have touched a work surface. It is not fair and it is completely predictable, so we work with it rather than complain about it.

The reason is that the check-in report on a house has entries a flat never has. Garden left tidy. Side passage clear. Shed empty and swept. Outside tap and drain clear. Those lines were written on your first day, when the landlord had just had the place turned over, and they are the lines a tenant moving out of a house forgets exist, because for five years the shed was just where the bikes went. The clerk has not forgotten. They have a list.

Then they come back in and check the things a house has that a flat does not: the airing cupboard, the loft hatch surround, the meter cupboard, the internal garage door, the porch. On the 1930s stock up here the airing cupboard is the one we get called back on more than any other single item, because it is warm, it is dusty, it has a slatted shelf, and it is genuinely unpleasant to clean properly. Which is exactly why the clerk opens it. None of this is clever. It is just knowing the report was written about a house, and cleaning the house rather than the rooms.

Whitton Avenue, Horsenden Hill and the stock in between

North Greenford is the northernmost ward in Ealing and it runs the length of Whitton Avenue, picking up the top end of Greenford and the top end of Northolt as it goes. That shape matters more than it sounds. It means the ward is a corridor rather than a blob, and the housing along it is remarkably consistent: 1920s and 1930s suburban stock, built out as the arterial roads went in, and never really redeveloped since.

So the stock we work is semis. Bay-fronted, pebbledashed or rendered or half-tiled depending on which builder got the plot, most of them three-bed, a good number with a rear addition put on in the 1990s and a fitted kitchen that is either brand new or two decades old with nothing in between. Larger semis and some detached sit on the corner plots and the roads nearer the hill. Maisonettes and a thin band of flats sit at the ends of the ward.

The east side is where the ward gets its character. Horsenden Hill sits in the south-east corner, 84 metres up, the highest point in the whole borough and at around 100 hectares its biggest nature conservation area. Grove Farm, with its local nature reserve and ancient woodland, sits along the ward too. Horsenden Hill Golf Club has been on Woodland Rise since 1935, nine holes, council-owned, clubhouse just off Whitton Avenue East. The houses backing that green edge are the larger end of what we clean here.

That green edge is not decorative, it is a cleaning problem. Houses backing onto a hill, a golf course and 100 hectares of woodland get more of the outside brought inside than an ordinary suburban street does. Mud in the hall. Leaf litter down the side passage. Seed heads worked into the stair carpet. Spiders in the porch corners, every autumn, without fail. If your back gate opens onto that side of the ward, the hall floor, the stair carpet and the porch are what we put extra time against, because they are what the clerk notices on the way in.

Houses that back onto a hill get more of the outside brought inside than an ordinary street does.

The transport pattern shapes the tenancies as well. There is no station in the ward with the ward’s name on it, whatever the property listings imply. What people actually use is Sudbury Hill on the Piccadilly line at the north-east end, and Greenford on the Central line at the south end. Both are a walk or a short bus for most of the corridor. That is a slower, longer commute than a zone 2 flat, and it selects for the tenants who take it: families, longer lets, people who wanted a garden and were willing to trade travel time for it. Long tenancies in family houses are the whole local pattern, and long tenancies are the ones with the most built up behind the appliances when the day comes.

What Designation 2 put on your landlord’s file

North Greenford is inside Ealing’s second selective licensing designation. It came into force on 3 January 2023 and it runs to 2 January 2028. It is not borough-wide, whatever you may have read, and this is worth getting right because plenty of pages have it wrong. Designation 2 names twelve wards: Acton Central, Dormers Wells, Greenford Broadway, Greenford Green, Hanger Hill, Hobbayne, Lady Margaret, North Greenford, Northolt Mandeville, Northolt West End, Perivale and South Acton, on the pre-May-2022 boundaries. Between them they cover a bit over half the borough by area. A separate earlier designation covers East Acton and the two Southall wards, and separately again there is the additional HMO licensing Ealing brought in across the whole borough from 1 April 2022 for five years. Three schemes, three footprints. North Greenford is in the second.

What that means for a hand-back is indirect but real. A selective licence puts conditions on the landlord and puts the property on a register the council can inspect against. Condition complaints attach to that record. So a landlord in this ward has a reason to care about the state of the property at hand-back that goes past the deposit: it is a licence they will be renewing, and a file they would rather stayed thin. In practice that means agents in the twelve designated wards push harder on the photographic trail than they did five years ago, and they push earlier.

Ealing publishes the designations and the ward schedules on its own site, and that is the primary source worth reading if you want it. For a tenant, the honest summary is that none of this changes what you owe. It changes how carefully the other side documents it.

What 1 May 2026 changed for a North Greenford move-out

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 came into force on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault eviction is abolished. Every assured shorthold tenancy in England has converted to a periodic tenancy, and a tenant can give two months’ notice whenever they like instead of waiting for a fixed term to run down.

The cleaning did not change. Not one line of it.

Your deposit is still protected in a scheme, still capped at five weeks’ rent, still judged against the check-in report, still subject to fair wear and tear. The official guidance on deposit protection reads the same as it did in April. What changed is timing, and timing lands differently in a ward like this one than it does in a high-churn flat market.

North Greenford has always run on long family tenancies keyed to the school year, which meant move-outs bunched into July and August and everybody knew it. Take the fixed term away and some of that predictability goes with it. We are already seeing hand-backs land in months that used to be quiet. The advice is dull and it works: if you know your date, book the clean then, not the week before, because the Friday and Saturday slots in this corner of UB6 went early even before the Act.

The 57 things we go through, room by room

Every booking here runs to a 57-point checklist, built over a decade of local check-outs and tuned to what the clerks working these wards actually write down. The full list comes with the job. Here is the shape of it.

The kitchen, which is where the money is

The oven is stripped rather than wiped. Racks go into a soaking tank, the door glass comes apart so the brown film trapped between the panels comes out, and the interior, fan, element and seals are all done. Hob rings and burners lift off, control knobs come off and get washed. The extractor hood is degreased inside and out and the filter soaked or replaced. Every cupboard inside and out, including the awkward corner carousel that half the 1990s rear-addition kitchens up here have. Fridge and freezer through, once you have defrosted them. Appliances pulled out so the gaps behind and under the fridge, washer and dishwasher get done, then put back, and on a seven-year family tenancy that gap is the single most photographed thing in the room. Washing machine drum, drawer, and the door seal. Dishwasher filter, seals and spray arms. Sink, taps, drainer and plughole descaled. Tiles and grout scrubbed. Bins out and washed. Floor pulled back where it lifts, hoovered, mopped.

Bathrooms, and the airing cupboard next to them

Scale comes off the taps, shower head, screen and tiles first. Grout is scrubbed as far as honest effort takes it, and photographed first where it is plainly past saving. Then the rest, in plain order.

• Toilet properly: inside, under the rim, base, cistern, hinges, behind the pedestal
• Shower screen both sides, tracks, sealant bead. This is the line we get re-called on most, if we are honest about it
• Bath, taps, the underside of the taps, overflow, plughole
• Mirrors, cabinets, and behind them where they stand off the wall
• Extractor vent wiped and the sealant taken back to a usable state, since re-sealing is a handyman’s job and not a cleaner’s
• Floor into the corners and under the basin pedestal
• The airing cupboard: inside, the cylinder lagging, the slatted shelf, the floor of it

Bedrooms, living rooms, hall and stairs

Inside every wardrobe, drawer and built-in cupboard. Skirting, door frames, doors, handles. Light fittings, shades, switches, and the ceiling rose, which on the 1930s stock is often the original and holds a lot of dust. Window sills, reveals and frames on the inside, and the bay is a slow job because a 1930s bay has more frame per square metre of glass than anything built since. 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 rather than yours to scrub off. Hard floors washed with the right product for the material, and there is more original parquet under carpet along this corridor than people expect. Upholstery hoovered through. Then the stairs, and on a house backing the hill the stair carpet is where the garden ends up, so it gets its own pass rather than a run over with the rest.

Outside, because it is on the report

Side passage cleared and washed down. Patio swept. Shed emptied and swept out. Garage interior swept on the plots that have one, and the internal garage door done both sides. Outside tap and gully clear. Porch corners, a cobweb job every autumn on the green edge of the ward. Bins to the kerb if collection is the next morning. Garden left as you found it, which does not mean landscaped, it means tidy.

Then a final walk-through with a torch, photographed before and after, every room and the outside too. That photo set is the evidence you keep, and it wins arguments.

Hard water, and the fingernail test on the mixer tap

Ealing sits in Thames Water’s supply area and every drop of it is hard. On their own published scale, anything from 200 to 300 mg/l of calcium carbonate is hard and anything over 300 is very hard, and the London supply sits at that end of the table because the water has come through chalk to get here. That single fact costs tenants in UB6 more deposit money than anything except the oven.

Here is what it looks like in practice. Seven years of a family bathroom in a 1930s semi puts a set band of scale on the shower screen, into the tile joints, around the base of the taps and inside the shower head. It is not dirt and a cloth and a spray will not move it. It has to be dissolved, slowly, with the right product for the finish. On newer chrome that is straightforward. On the older fittings that survive in some of these houses it needs care, because the aggressive descalers take the finish off along with the scale, and then you have a real deduction rather than a cosmetic one.

The clerk’s test is not sophisticated. They run a thumbnail down the kitchen mixer tap where it meets the base, and they look at the shower screen edge-on into the light. Both of those take about two seconds and both are unarguable. Limescale in the kettle nobody minds. Limescale welded round a tap base at check-out is a line item.

The clerk runs a thumbnail down the mixer tap where it meets the base. That takes two seconds and it is unarguable.

What it costs, and the sum nobody does until the report lands

North Greenford runs at our standard pricing, no borough premium, no local loading. A studio is £156 and a one-bed £207, though neither is common up here. A two-bed flat or maisonette is £243. The three-bed semi, which is what most of this ward is, is £339. A four-bed semi or a detached on one of the bigger plots is £425. If the property does not fit a bracket, and the rear-addition houses sometimes genuinely do not, it is £30 per hour per cleaner and we tell you the estimate before we start rather than after.

Add-ons price separately and simply. Carpet shampoo is £36 a bedroom, £43 for a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed’s carpeted area. Ovens are £77 for a single, £110 for a double, and £114 for a 90cm range, and the range cookers turn up more often in the rear-addition kitchens than you would guess. The common North Greenford booking is a three-bed semi at £339 with the stair and bedroom carpets shampooed and a single oven on top.

Now the sum. A five-week deposit on a three-bed family house in this ward is a large number sitting in a scheme, and the clean that protects it is £339. Most people run that comparison after they have failed a check-out, which is the expensive order to do it in. 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 the window and nobody has moved in. Our 97% first-time pass rate is the number we are proud of, but the guarantee is the one that matters, because it means the 3% costs you nothing. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents across London, and over the years that work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions.

Four jobs get muddled together on the phone and it is worth booking the right one.

End of tenancy clean

Built to pass an inventory check-out and get a deposit back. Property empty, judged against the check-in report, 48-hour guarantee on it, £30 per hour per cleaner.

Deep clean

A full reset of a home you are staying in. Same thoroughness, no inventory clerk, no formal standard to hit, also £30 per hour per cleaner.

Regular domestic clean

Ongoing maintenance with the same cleaner kept on the house, weekly at £22 an hour or fortnightly at £24.

One-off team clean

A different thing again: a team in for a single visit, £26 per cleaner an hour with a £186 minimum, which is two cleaners for three hours plus the £30 kit charge. Good before a viewing, not built for a check-out.

A job off Whitton Avenue East in March

“Seven years in a three-bed semi off Whitton Avenue East, two of us and two spaniels the whole time. The back gate opens onto the green and the dogs used the garden hard, so the hall floor and the stair carpet were the problem, not the kitchen. Dog hair had gone right into the stair carpet and I could not shift it. Three cleaners, most of a Saturday, and they did the side passage and the shed without me asking, which I had genuinely forgotten was even on the inventory. The stairs came up better than when we moved in. Full deposit back, no deductions, no argument.”
Priya, North Greenford UB6 0, March 2026

That job is a fair sample of the pattern here. A long family tenancy, a house rather than a flat, an outside space doing most of the damage, and a check-in report with lines on it the tenant had stopped seeing years ago. The kitchen was never the risk. The shed was.

Booking it, and the one good thing about parking up here

Start with the good news, because there is not much of it in this trade. Most of the residential streets in this ward are not in a controlled parking zone, so the van goes on the kerb outside the house and stays there for the length of the job. That sounds trivial. It is not. A six to eight hour job with the van at the door is a better clean than the same job with the van four streets away, because the kit that gets carried is the kit that gets used. It tightens up around the school gates, and a couple of the roads have restrictions, so tell us the address when you book.

1. Ring 0333 555 2076. Postcode, property size, check-out date, and anything you already know is a problem. Price in about three minutes.
2. We book you in, ideally the day before the check-out so there is a buffer. Allow 7 to 10 days in July and August, 3 to 5 days the rest of the year.
3. Property empty when we arrive. Furniture out, rubbish gone. The shed and the garage empty too, which is the one people forget every single time.
4. Photo proof at the end, every room and the outside, with an itemised invoice on company paper. That is your evidence pack.
5. Check-out happens. Anything flagged inside 48 hours, we come back and fix it free.

Monster Cleaning Ltd has been doing this since 2014, Companies House 9919639. Out of hours, send the details to [email protected] and someone rings you back first thing.

Questions we get asked

How much is end of tenancy cleaning in North Greenford?

Studios £156, one-beds £207, two-beds £243, three-bed semis £339, four-bed semis and detached £425. Most of this ward is the three-bed semi at £339. Carpet shampoo and oven cleans are priced separately, and if the property does not fit a bracket it is £30 per hour per cleaner.

Is North Greenford in Ealing’s selective licensing scheme?

Yes, in the second designation, which came into force on 3 January 2023 and runs to 2 January 2028. It is not borough-wide. Designation 2 names twelve wards including North Greenford, on the pre-May-2022 boundaries. There is a separate earlier designation covering East Acton and the two Southall wards, and a borough-wide additional HMO licensing scheme that started on 1 April 2022 for five years.

Does the licensing scheme change what I have to do at hand-back?

No. Your obligation is the same as it ever was: return the property in the condition the check-in report describes, allowing for fair wear and tear. What the scheme changes is the landlord’s incentive, because condition complaints attach to a licence record they have to renew. In practice agents in the designated wards document the hand-back more carefully than they used to.

Which station do you mean when you say North Greenford?

There is no station called North Greenford, despite what some property listings suggest. The ward is served by Sudbury Hill on the Piccadilly line at the north-east end and Greenford on the Central line at the south end. It catches people out when they are arranging a key handover around a train.

Why does the garden matter for a cleaning job?

Because it is on the check-in report. A house inventory has entries for the garden, the side passage, the shed, the garage and the outside tap, and those entries are exactly the ones a tenant of five or seven years has stopped noticing. We clear and clean the outside as part of the job. Left as found means tidy, not landscaped, and we are not gardeners.

How hard is the water, and what does it do to a hand-back?

Hard. Thames Water supplies Ealing and classes anything over 200 mg/l of calcium carbonate as hard and anything over 300 as very hard, and the London supply sits at that end. On a long tenancy that means set scale on the shower screen, in the tile joints, round the tap bases and inside the shower head. It has to be dissolved rather than wiped, with the right product for the finish, because the harsh descalers will strip an older chrome fitting and turn a cosmetic problem into a real deduction.

What about the houses backing onto Horsenden Hill and the golf course?

They are the ones where the outside comes indoors. Mud in the hall, leaf litter down the side passage, seed heads and clippings worked into the stair carpet, cobwebs in the porch every autumn. On those addresses we put extra time against the hall floor, the stairs and the porch, because that is the order the clerk walks the house in.

Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change the clean?

Not at all. From 1 May 2026 Section 21 is abolished and every assured shorthold tenancy converts to a periodic one, so tenants can give two months’ notice at any point. Deposit protection, the five-week cap and the check-in benchmark are untouched. The real effect here is that move-outs no longer bunch neatly into the school holidays, so book earlier than you would have done.

Do you do the airing cupboard?

Yes, and we do it properly, because it is the item we get called back on more than any other on the 1930s stock. Inside the cupboard, the cylinder lagging, the slatted shelf and the floor of it. It is warm, it is dusty and it is unpleasant to clean, which is precisely why the clerk opens the door.

Does the property have to be empty?

Yes, and that includes the shed and the garage. Furniture blocks access and creates uncertainty at the check-out. One piece left for the next tenant can be worked around. Half a garage of things you have not decided about cannot, and it will be photographed.

What if my landlord disputes the clean after a re-clean?

Take it to the deposit scheme’s adjudication. Our invoice, the dated photo report and the re-clean record are all admissible, and a tenant with a full professional paper trail very rarely loses. Shelter’s guidance on tenancy deposits walks through the steps in order.

How far ahead should I book?

July and August want 7 to 10 days, because this ward still runs on the school year and the family houses all change hands in the same fortnight. The rest of the year 3 to 5 days is usually enough. Saturday slots go first. If your check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway and we will do what we can.

Get a price

Ring 0333 555 2076 and we will price it in about three minutes. Postcode, how many bedrooms, the check-out date, and anything you already know will be a fight. If it is a house with a garden and a shed, say so, because that is a different job to a flat and we would rather quote it properly than surprise you. The 48-hour re-clean guarantee is on every job we do here.