“I had six hours between handing the Liverpool Grove keys to Acorn and starting a new contract in Bermondsey. The boys turned up at 7am, did the oven, descaled the taps, hoovered the picture rails, and the clerk signed off at 2pm with zero deductions.” That is Tom, who rented a top-floor flat off Liverpool Grove for three years, and that is what we do in North Walworth. We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, Companies House 9919639, trading since 2014, and our SE17 work covers the strip from Elephant & Castle station down to East Street Market, taking in Liverpool Grove, Larcom Street, Crampton Street, Walworth Road, the Aylesbury Estate decants on Thurlow Street, and the new builds inside Elephant Park. End of tenancy cleaning in North Walworth from £156 for a studio, with our 57-point agent-approved checklist and a 48-hour re-clean guarantee baked in. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected].
Last updated April 2026. Pricing fixed for SE17 1, SE17 2 and SE17 3 postcode sectors. Walworth Road, Liverpool Grove, Larcom Street, Crampton Street, Thurlow Street, Browning Street and the Elephant Park development included. South of East Street Market falls under our Walworth Central page.
“Monster came on a Wednesday at 8am to do my Liverpool Grove conversion before the Acorn check-out at 1pm. The thing I had given up on was the limescale around the kitchen mixer tap. It had been there since I moved in two and a half years earlier. They got it off, descaled the shower screen, did the oven door glass which I had not opened the inner pane on in months, and pulled the fridge out. The agent signed me off without a single deduction. I had budgeted £200 to lose on the deposit. I lost nothing.” Tom, two-and-a-half-year tenant, two-bed flat off Liverpool Grove, March 2026.
Why North Walworth deposits get deducted
Most SE17 deductions land in the same three places. The kitchen, because tenants run out of time, and oven trays and extractor filters are the first thing the inventory clerk opens. The bathroom, because scale builds quickly on the hard south London water supply, and clerks photograph the mixer tap, the shower screen and the toilet seat hinge in that order. And the windows, because the Liverpool Grove top-floor flats have tall reveals that go unwiped for the whole tenancy and the Elephant Park new-builds have floor-to-ceiling glazing with smear marks the clerk sees from across the room.
We have recovered £1.2m in deposits for tenants since 2014 by cleaning to the inventory clerk’s checklist rather than to a tenant’s eye. 97% of our jobs pass the first inventory inspection. The other 3% we return for under our 48-hour re-clean guarantee at no charge.
Renters’ Rights Act 2025
The Renters’ Rights Act 2025, which received Royal Assent in October 2025, abolished Section 21 no-fault evictions and brought every assured shorthold tenancy in England under a periodic structure (see the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 on legislation.gov.uk). Two practical effects in SE17. First, landlords cannot deduct from a deposit for fair wear and tear, and what counts as fair wear and tear is now narrower than agents like to admit, with the Tenancy Deposit Scheme’s adjudication notes giving cleaning specifically as a deduction category only where the property is materially below check-in standard. Second, the deposit must still be protected in one of the three government schemes (TDS, mydeposits, DPS), and any dispute over a cleaning deduction goes to free adjudication. A photographic record of a professionally cleaned flat at check-out, with our 57-point sign-off, gives you the strongest possible case if it gets that far. See the TDS adjudication digest for the kinds of cleaning evidence that wins.
Southwark Council licensing
Southwark Council operates a borough-wide selective licensing scheme for privately rented homes, alongside additional licensing for HMOs of three or more unrelated tenants. The scheme requires landlords to meet property condition standards at the start of every tenancy, which feeds straight into how strict check-out inspections are around Walworth Road. Details on Southwark Council’s landlord licensing page. The licensing condition that bites at end of tenancy is the requirement for kitchens and bathrooms to be in a fit and clean state for the next occupant. Which is why Acorn Walworth and Foxtons Bermondsey have both tightened their check-out cleaning bar over the last eighteen months.
The Aylesbury Estate handover quirk
If you are decanting from one of the remaining Aylesbury Estate blocks under the Notting Hill Genesis-led redevelopment, the handover process is different from a private check-out. The council’s clerk uses a longer checklist that includes balcony decking, communal-facing door reveals and the storage cupboard inside the front door. We have done seven of these in the last year. The single most-flagged item is the kitchen extractor hood filter, followed by the bathroom tile grout. We bring a separate descaler for the grout and a degreaser strong enough for the hood. Different product.
Coverage in North Walworth: streets and zones
We work the whole SE17 1, SE17 2 and SE17 3 patch. Where most of our bookings come from:
- Liverpool Grove and Larcom Street: Victorian terraces split into upper and lower flats, often two-bed with a small back yard or roof terrace. The kitchens are usually rear-extension galley layouts and the bathrooms are tucked between bedrooms. Acorn Walworth and Burnet Ware & Graves manage most of these.
- Aylesbury Estate (Thurlow Street, Bradenham Close, Wendover): post-war system-built flats and maisonettes, currently being decanted block by block under the Notting Hill Genesis programme. Two and three-bed flats, brick-floor balconies, single-glazed metal windows on the older blocks.
- Crampton Street and Browning Street: 1970s and 1980s local authority infill blocks, some now leasehold. Studios, one-beds and small two-beds. Frequently let through Galliard’s lettings desk.
- Elephant Park (Sayer Street, Ash Avenue, Heygate Street): 2017 onwards new builds replacing the demolished Heygate Estate. Integrated Bosch and Siemens appliances, engineered oak floors, full-height glazing onto courtyards. Foxtons Bermondsey runs the bulk of these lets.
- Walworth Road frontage flats: above the high-street shops, accessed via separate side doors. Mixed era stock, often single-aspect, often with kitchen extractors that vent into the wall cavity rather than outside.
- Newington Library and Cuming Museum end: the northern strip closer to Elephant & Castle station. Mostly one-beds and studios for young professionals.
- East Street Market southern edge: the boundary with our Walworth Central page. We cover the north side of East Street up to but not past the market itself.
- SE17 borders with SE1: anything north of New Kent Road technically falls under Elephant & Castle proper; we’ll still take the booking, the team is in the area.
What’s included in a North Walworth end of tenancy clean
End of tenancy is the hand-back clean. Deep clean is for tenants staying put. Regular clean is for keeping the flat tidy between tenancies. The work described below is the hand-back version: a full top-to-bottom against a 57-point agent-approved checklist that mirrors what the inventory clerk holds on their clipboard. Roughly six to nine hours for a one-bed, with two cleaners; longer for the Elephant Park flats with integrated everything, shorter for an empty Crampton Street studio.
Kitchen
This is where two thirds of deductions get assessed. Oven inside, including the door inner pane and the rubber seal. Oven trays and shelves degreased and dried. Hob and extractor hood, with the metal filter degreased separately. Splashback and grout line behind the cooker. Fridge and freezer pulled out, defrosted if needed, wiped inside and outside including the rubber door seal where mould collects. Dishwasher filter cleaned. Washing machine drawer pulled out and soaked. Kitchen cupboards inside and out, including the top edge above eye-level which agents check by running a finger along. Skirting boards and switch plates. Floor mopped under the cooker and the fridge.
Bathrooms
Hard-water limescale build-up on every tap, mixer, shower head and screen (south London supply runs hard (see Thames Water’s water hardness page, SE17 sits in the very-hard band). Toilet base, hinge and pan. Shower tray drain and grout. Extractor fan vent cleaned. Mirror polished. Floor mopped behind the toilet pedestal where dust mats together.
Bedrooms and living areas
Hoover under the bed, behind freestanding furniture, into the corners. Picture rails and dado rails dusted top-down in the Liverpool Grove conversions where they survive. Skirting boards damp-wiped. Doors and door frames including the top edge. Light switches and plug sockets. Internal window frames, sills and reveals. Wardrobe interiors emptied and wiped. Carpets vacuumed; carpet shampoo available as an add-on.
Throughout
Light fittings dusted. Smoke alarm dusted. Communal-side of the front door wiped. Letterbox interior. Radiators wiped front, back and ribbed top. Hallway and stair carpets in the split-flat conversions hoovered. Internal glass (doors, oven doors, shower screens) polished. We do not do exterior windows above ground floor; we do every interior pane.
What it costs
North Walworth sits in our base pricing band. SE17 is not a premium postcode. Mayfair and Belgravia are.
- Studio flat: £156
- One-bed flat: £207
- Two-bed flat: £243
- Three-bed flat or house: £339
- Four-bed: £425
- Hourly rate (if you want a partial scope rather than full end of tenancy): £30 per cleaner per hour
Add-ons:
- Carpet shampoo, per bedroom: £36
- Carpet shampoo, living room: £43
- Whole two-bed flat carpet shampoo: £115
- Single oven deep clean (if booked separately): £77
- Double oven: £110
- 90cm range cooker: £114
No VAT added. No call-out charge inside zones 1 and 2. No surge pricing for Friday or Saturday slots. The price you are quoted on the phone is the price you pay.
What your inventory clerk will actually check
From watching 300+ letting agents across south London since 2014, here is the order most clerks work in. We clean to this order.
- Front door, internal side. Smudges around the handle, condition of the spy-hole.
- Hallway floor and skirting boards. The clerk walks in and looks down first.
- Kitchen: oven, hob, extractor in that order. The metal mesh filter on the extractor hood is the most-failed item we see across SE17.
- Kitchen cupboards, top edge of doors and inside the unit above the fridge. Foxtons Bermondsey clerks specifically open these.
- Bathroom mixer taps, shower head, shower screen for mineral deposits.
- Toilet base and hinge. Acorn Walworth’s clerks photograph this.
- Window reveals and sills throughout. The deeper the reveal, the more dust.
- Behind freestanding furniture in the bedrooms.
- Skirting boards in every room, run a finger along the top edge.
- Light fittings and pendant flexes for dust.
- Carpets: visible stains noted; pile direction checked.
- Final check: any single missed item gets noted on the inventory and held against you.
How booking works
- Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the postcode, the bedroom count, and the check-out date and time.
- We quote a fixed price on the spot for studios, one-beds, two-beds and three-beds; four-beds and large maisonettes get quoted within an hour after a couple of follow-up questions.
- You book the slot. We confirm by email with the team lead’s mobile number.
- We turn up at the agreed time. Same-day Saturday slots are fine, no surcharge. The team works on the 57-point checklist and texts you when they are an hour from finishing so you can be there for the agent’s inspection if you want to be.
- If anything fails the inventory inspection within 48 hours, we come back and re-clean the flagged item at no charge. That is our 48-hour re-clean guarantee.
Related cleaning services in SE17
Some North Walworth tenants book the end of tenancy clean on its own. Some pair it with carpet shampoo for the bedrooms, a separate oven clean if they have already cleaned the rest of the flat, or after-builders cleaning if the flat had a refresh between tenants. Browse our carpet cleaning service, our oven cleaning service, and our after-builders cleaning service. For the wider area see our Southwark end of tenancy cleaning hub, or sibling pages for Elephant Park and East Street.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost in North Walworth?
Studio £156, one-bed £207, two-bed £243, three-bed £339, four-bed £425. Fixed prices, no VAT, no call-out charge inside SE17. Add-ons for carpet shampoo (£36 per bedroom) and oven (£77 single) on top if you want them. The price quoted on the phone is the price you pay.
Do you cover the Aylesbury Estate?
Yes. We have done seven Aylesbury Estate decant cleans in the last year, on Thurlow Street, Bradenham Close and Wendover. The council clerks use a longer checklist than private agents: balcony decking, communal-facing door reveals and the front-door storage cupboard get specific attention. We bring kit for both the kitchen extractor hood filter and the bathroom tile grout because they need different products.
Do you cover Elephant Park new-build flats?
Yes. Sayer Street, Ash Avenue, Heygate Street, all the Lendlease-built blocks. The integrated Bosch and Siemens kitchens take longer to clean than a freestanding set-up because the dishwasher and fridge are behind cabinet fronts that need wiping front and back. Engineered oak floors get a damp mop, never a wet one. Floor-to-ceiling glazing onto the courtyards needs the interior pane polishing edge-to-edge; the clerk sees smears from across the room.
What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?
If your letting agent or inventory clerk flags anything on our 57-point checklist within 48 hours of our visit, we come back and re-clean the flagged item at no charge. The guarantee runs from the moment we finish, not from the moment you hand the keys back. About 3% of our SE17 jobs trigger a re-clean. The other 97% pass the inventory inspection first time.
Which letting agents do you work with around Walworth Road?
We don’t have exclusive deals with any agent, but our cleans regularly get checked off by Acorn Walworth, Foxtons Bermondsey, Burnet Ware & Graves and Galliard. We know how each clerk sequences their inspection. Foxtons go to the kitchen extractor first, Acorn open the oven door inner pane, Burnet Ware & Graves photograph the toilet hinge. Our checklist matches every one of them.
Do you bring all your own equipment and products?
Yes. Hoover, mop, buckets, microfibre cloths, descaler for the SE17 hard-water scale build-up, degreaser for the oven and extractor, glass cleaner for the Elephant Park glazing, grout cleaner for the bathrooms. You provide nothing except access. If you’ve already moved out, just give us the keys or the lockbox code.
How long does it take?
Studio flat: three to four hours with one cleaner. One-bed: five to seven hours with two cleaners working in parallel. Two-bed: six to nine hours, two cleaners. Three-bed: full day, two cleaners. Elephant Park new-builds at the top end of that range; empty Crampton Street studios at the bottom.
Can you do it on a Saturday?
Yes. Same price as a weekday. We run Saturday teams across Southwark and Lambeth specifically because most check-outs land on Fridays and Saturdays. Sunday slots are possible but please ask early. We don’t run a full Sunday rota in SE17.
What if the flat is still partly furnished?
We clean around remaining items, hoover and dust the room as much as access allows, and note on our checklist anything we couldn’t reach. If you let us know the furniture stays, we plan the scope around it. If you tell us it’s all gone and we arrive to a half-packed flat, that’s fine too. We adapt.
What if I’ve already started cleaning myself?
Book us hourly at £30 per cleaner per hour rather than the fixed end of tenancy price. We come in, finish the bits you haven’t got to (usually the oven, the bathroom descaling, and the window reveals) and you save on the difference. Be honest about what you’ve done; we’d rather quote accurately than rebook.
Will you handle the keys to and from the agent?
Yes. We can pick up keys from Acorn on Walworth Road or Foxtons on Bermondsey Street first thing, do the clean, and drop them back, or hand them to the inventory clerk directly if you’ve coordinated a same-day check-out. Add this to the booking notes and we’ll plan the team’s arrival accordingly.
What’s the parking like for your team?
Southwark Council operates CPZ rules across SE17 from Monday to Saturday. We carry a visitor permit code where the tenant has one, otherwise we use the pay-by-phone bays on Liverpool Grove or Crampton Street, and we factor the cost into the quote so it doesn’t come back to you afterwards. For Elephant Park flats the basement parking is residents-only and we don’t try to access it; the team walks in from the courtyard entrance.
Do you do carpet shampooing as part of the end of tenancy?
It’s an add-on, not standard. £36 per bedroom, £43 for the living room, or £115 for the whole two-bed flat if you want the lot done. Hot-water extraction, low-moisture so it dries in three to four hours. If your inventory check-in noted the carpet condition specifically, we strongly recommend adding it on.
What about pet smells in the carpet?
The hot-water extraction lifts a lot, an enzyme pre-treatment lifts more. If the carpet has been heavily soaked and the smell is in the underlay, no shampoo will fully clear it and you should talk to your landlord about replacement and a deposit deduction rather than spend on a clean that won’t pass.
Does my deposit have to be in a protection scheme?
Yes. Every assured shorthold tenancy in England requires the deposit to be protected in TDS, mydeposits or DPS within 30 days of being paid (see the mydeposits tenant guide). If your landlord hasn’t done that, the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 protections still apply and you can claim compensation. For wider tenant advice see Shelter’s deposit guide.
What happens if my agent still tries to deduct for cleaning after you’ve cleaned?
You dispute it. Photograph the flat the moment we finish, and we’ll wait while you do it. The agent has to provide itemised evidence of what they say wasn’t clean. Send it to us, we’ll match it against our 57-point sign-off. If it’s a fair flag we come back within 48 hours and re-clean. If it’s not, you have grounds to take it to free TDS/mydeposits/DPS adjudication, where our checklist sign-off is the evidence that wins.
Ready to book?
Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the postcode, the bedroom count and the check-out date. Fixed-price quote on the spot. Same-day Saturday slots available. 48-hour re-clean guarantee on every booking.