End of tenancy cleaning in Old Coulsdon, booked online

How do you stop a Park & Bailey clerk taking £200 off a deposit for a limescale ring you didn’t even notice on a chrome shower mixer? You don’t take chances on a CR5 hand-back. Old Coulsdon water is hard, the housing stock splits across three different eras with three different deduction patterns, and the inventory clerks who work this patch have been working it for fifteen years. This page is the answer to the question above: what they check, what we charge, and how to book us.

Last updated April 2026. We run a Croydon team out of our SW14 yard and dispatch to Old Coulsdon CR5 daily, including Sunday slots when school-catchment turnover spikes in late August.

We charge from £207 for a 1-bed end-of-tenancy clean in Old Coulsdon CR5, fixed price, 57-point checklist, 48-hour re-clean guarantee if the clerk flags anything.

Why Old Coulsdon deposits get deducted

Old Coulsdon is the southern village half of Coulsdon, the part the railway didn’t grow around. The 12th-century St John the Evangelist church on Coulsdon Road and the village green at Bradmore Green mark the original settlement; the chalk grassland of Farthing Downs and Coulsdon Common runs along the eastern flank. Housing splits three ways. Coulsdon Road and Marlpit Lane have the larger 1930s detached and semi-detached, mostly four-bed family homes built between 1928 and 1938 with cast-iron baths and original chrome plumbing. Tollers Lane, Caterham Drive and Rickman Hill carry post-war local-authority semis and 1960s-70s ex-LA stock around Bradmore Green. The western end has the Cane Hill regeneration, the new-build estate on the footprint of the former Cane Hill Hospital that came out of the ground in stages from 2014 onwards.

Each archetype fails inspection for different reasons. The 1930s Coulsdon Road and Marlpit Lane houses get flagged for limescale at the base of chrome mixer taps in the family bathroom, scale rings inside cast-iron baths around the overflow, and grease residue in the original tiled kitchen splashback at the back of the cooker. The Bradmore Green post-war semis and ex-LA flats get flagged for kitchen extractor-hood filters that look unwashed, painted-skirting scuffs in the hallway, and dust banked on the top edges of door frames in the bedrooms. The Cane Hill flats fail on matt-black tap fittings that have been wiped with a limescale spray (the coating strips), induction-hob surrounds with water-spot marks, brushed-brass cabinet handles smeared from cleaning sprays, and the rubber gasket inside the fridge-freezer door.

Under the Renters’ Rights Act 2025, landlords still have to evidence every deduction in writing against the check-in inventory, so an unevidenced “professional clean required” charge can be challenged at the deposit scheme directly. The Act tightened the evidence burden on landlords; it did not loosen the cleaning standard you’re expected to leave a property in. A clean carried out before the check-out inventory cuts the dispute risk to almost zero, which is the whole point of paying a firm like ours to do it.

Most disputes go through one of three schemes. Tenancy Deposit Scheme and mydeposits are the insured schemes; the Deposit Protection Service is the custodial one. Shelter’s tenancy-deposit guide at shelter.org.uk is the plain-English reference we point Old Coulsdon tenants towards when an agent stalls on a return.

Croydon Council licensing and CR5 rules

Old Coulsdon falls under the London Borough of Croydon. The council’s private-rented-sector enforcement and selective-licensing information is published at croydon.gov.uk private renting. Coulsdon East and Old Coulsdon were specifically excluded from the most recent ward designations under the Croydon selective licensing scheme; check the live map at the council page before you assume your address is in or out. National private-renting rules at gov.uk private renting still apply across CR5 either way.

The water out of every tap in Old Coulsdon comes from SES Water, not Thames. Their published water-hardness data classes the CR5 supply at 280-310 ppm calcium carbonate. That’s well into the very-hard bracket. Every kettle, shower head, mixer, dishwasher and washing machine in the property has been collecting scale across the length of the lease, and the clerk’s job is to spot scale that wasn’t there at check-in.

Bespoke local feature: Farthing Downs chalk and Cane Hill heritage

Two things shape end-of-tenancy work in CR5 that don’t shape it elsewhere. The first is the chalk geology. Old Coulsdon sits on the North Downs chalk escarpment, with Farthing Downs and Coulsdon Common as the surviving open chalk-grassland strips at the eastern edge. Chalk groundwater is what makes the SES supply so hard, and very-hard water is the single biggest deduction driver on CR5 deposits. Anything chromed, anything glass-screened in a shower, anything with a flow restrictor in a tap aerator, has been pitting and ringing for years. A standard wipe with a kitchen spray will not remove a scale ring that’s been forming since 2019; an inventory clerk knows that and will charge accordingly.

The second is the Cane Hill heritage. The Cane Hill Hospital site on the western edge of CR5, a Victorian asylum closed in 1991, was demolished in stages through the 2000s and the regeneration scheme delivered the first new homes around 2014. The Grade II listed water tower and the chapel were retained as landmarks within the new estate. Most of the housing is modern 2010s and 2020s flats and houses with the design language of the period: matt-black taps, brushed-brass or matt-nickel cabinet handles, induction hobs, integrated appliances. The brief on those properties is the opposite of the brief on a Coulsdon Road 1930s detached, and a cleaner who treats both the same way will hand you a damaged finish on one and a missed scale ring on the other. We send different leads to the two stocks.

The new Cane Hill estate has its own private roads off Brighton Road and Marlpit Lane, with a community management company that books building-manager slots for loading. The 1930s side has on-street parking outside, mostly free, with a small CPZ around Old Coulsdon Park. The post-war Bradmore Green semis sit on quieter cul-de-sacs and parking is rarely an issue except at school run.

“Two years on a one-bed flat in one of the early Cane Hill phase-one blocks off Marlpit Lane, retired couple downsizing from a Caterham semi, the wife had been ill for the last six months and the kitchen extractor canopy above the induction hob had two winters of light cooking on it that nobody had touched. Cubitt & West sent a Coulsdon clerk who’d done the block before and she told me on the phone the canopy mesh was what she’d be checking. Monster came on a Thursday morning, sent a two-cleaner team that knew the matt-black tap rules, pulled the canopy mesh, soaked it in the kitchen sink in a non-abrasive degreaser, and put it back looking like the day we moved in. Four hours billed, £218 inclusive of the carpet add-on on the bedroom. The deposit came back in full nine days later.”

— Margaret W., ex-tenant, Cane Hill phase one, CR5 3FE

Coverage — Old Coulsdon streets and zones

We dispatch into every part of CR5 1, CR5 2 and CR5 3 that falls inside the Old Coulsdon ward boundary. Our vans cross from SW14 in about forty-five minutes off-peak via the A23 and the Coulsdon bypass.

• Coulsdon Road north and south, including the village frontage by St John the Evangelist church
• Marlpit Lane from the Cane Hill phase-one entrance through to the Bradmore Green junction
• Caterham Drive, Tollers Lane and the Tollers Estate cul-de-sacs
• Rickman Hill, Mead Way and the streets north of the village towards Stoats Nest
• Bradmore Green itself, the village green frontage and the parade of shops
• Cane Hill Park — phase one through to the later phases, including the retained water tower and chapel block
• Canon’s Hill, Fairdene Road and the post-war Bradmore Green semis
• Greenwood Gardens, Park View and the 1960s-70s ex-LA stock
• Stites Hill Road and the streets backing onto Coulsdon Common

We also cover the addresses on the Caterham Valley fringe of CR5 that bill as Coulsdon postally but sit just inside Tandridge. Same van, same crew, same fixed price.

Parking is usually straightforward. The 1930s side has on-street, no permit, most of the day. Cane Hill has visitor bays inside each phase, bookable through the building manager twenty-four hours ahead. Bradmore Green is quiet outside school run. We bring a short-wheelbase Transit, not a long-wheelbase, so we fit into the tighter cul-de-sacs without blocking driveways.

What’s included — the 57-point checklist

End of tenancy is the hand-back clean, top to bottom, empty property, billed at fixed price against a 57-point checklist that mirrors what Park & Bailey, Cubitt & West, Bairstow Eves Coulsdon and Foxtons Caterham clerks check in this area. Below is the headline pass through the property; the full list runs in writing on the receipt we hand you on the day.

• Kitchen cooker: Behind the cooker pulled forward where the gas hose allows, sides and back wiped, splashback descaled, hob rings and control knobs, the lip between hob and worktop where grease collects.
• Oven and hood: Inside the oven door, the door seal, racks, trays, hood mesh filter pulled and soaked in degreaser, hood underside wiped, hood lights checked.
• Fridge and freezer: Pulled forward, defrosted, all shelves and drawers out, gasket cleaned with finger-press check for stickiness, behind and underneath vacuumed.
• Dishwasher: Filter pulled and rinsed, spray arms checked, door seal wiped, salt and rinse-aid reservoirs topped where the tenancy expects it.
• Washing machine: Drum, detergent drawer dismantled and washed, rubber door seal, filter at the bottom of the front face.
• Kitchen cupboards: Every cupboard emptied, wiped inside and out, hinges and handles, the top edge of every wall unit where a hand doesn’t reach.
• Kitchen sink and taps: Sink fully descaled, drainage strainer pulled, mixer tap base scale-treated with non-abrasive remover, aerator unscrewed and rinsed.
• Worktops and tiles: Worktops disinfected, edge joints picked clean, tile grout above worktop level scrubbed line by line.
• Bathroom shower: Shower screen scale removed with a non-abrasive scale remover not a scouring pad, shower head unscrewed and soaked, hose flushed, tray edge sealant inspected.
• Bathroom bath: Cast-iron bath in the 1930s houses gets careful chrome-fitting treatment, no abrasives on enamel, scale rings around the overflow given a soak rather than a scrub.
• Bathroom basin and taps: Basin descaled, mixer base scale-treated, plug pulled and overflow wiped.
• Toilet: Inside and out, behind the cistern, around the base, under the seat hinges, the underside of the rim.
• Bathroom extractor: Grille pulled off and washed, fan body wiped where reachable, ceiling around the grille checked for damp blooms.
• Mirrors and light fittings: Mirror polished streak-free, downlights wiped inside the rim where they collect dust.
• Bedroom windows: Original 1930s casements or Cane Hill double-glazed units, glass inside and outside where access allows, frames and sills wiped, opening mechanisms checked.
• Bedroom wardrobes: Inside, drawers out, on top of wardrobes — the dust band a clerk catches with a torch beam at 45 degrees.
• Bedroom skirtings and door frames: Skirting full circuit including back edge, door frame top edge, architraves.
• Bedroom carpets: Vacuumed twice, edges crevice-tooled, under bed if anything was moved.
• Living room flooring: Engineered boards on the Cane Hill side damp-mopped with neutral pH not a wet mop; carpets on the 1930s side full crevice and edge.
• Living room radiators: Tops, sides, behind where the brush will reach, valves checked.
• Picture rails and cornicing: In the 1930s houses, picture rails get a soft-bristled brush before a microfibre wipe, not the other way round.
• Light switches and sockets: Faceplates wiped, switch fingers checked.
• Hallway: Banister, newel post, stair-rod gaps if present, front door inside and out, letterbox flap, key hole.
• Loft hatch and airing cupboard: Hatch underside, airing-cupboard shelving wiped, immersion-tank surround in the older stock checked for dust.
• Garden threshold: Inside face of any back door, threshold, kitchen window onto the garden — cleaning brief stops at the back door, we don’t cut grass or sweep paths.

What it costs

Old Coulsdon prices to our base Tier 3 schedule. No premium loading on CR5.

Fixed price means fixed.

If you’ve been quoted £260 for a 2-bed in Old Coulsdon by a firm working out of Caterham or Purley, that’s not the going rate for CR5. Our quote is the quote: £243 for a 2-bed, all-in.

What your agent will actually check

1. Cooker hood filter mesh pulled and held up to the light — Park & Bailey clerks do this first.
2. Scale at the base of every mixer tap in the property, kitchen and bathroom.
3. Scale rings around the overflow inside a cast-iron bath in the 1930s houses.
4. The rubber gasket inside the fridge-freezer door, pressed with a finger for stickiness.
5. Picture-rail dust band in any Coulsdon Road or Marlpit Lane 1930s detached — torch beam at 45 degrees.
6. Inside the washing-machine detergent drawer and the rubber door seal.
7. Top of wardrobes, top of door frames, top of kitchen wall units.
8. Skirting boards — the back edge where a vacuum head doesn’t reach.
9. Bathroom extractor grille, pulled off and looked at.
10. Matt-black tap fittings in the Cane Hill flats for spray streaking and coating wear.
11. Induction-hob surround on the Cane Hill side for water spotting.
12. Carpet edges and under furniture if anything was moved.

Common reasons we get re-called

Five years of CR5 work and the re-call patterns are consistent. Sharing them because they’re what to watch.

• Mixer-tap base scale on the second mixer: The cleaner descales the kitchen mixer, the family bathroom basin mixer, the shower mixer, and forgets the en-suite basin mixer that nobody uses much. SES water at 280-310 ppm marks every mixer the same way, used or not. The en-suite is the one that bites.
• Picture-rail dust on the side that faces the bedroom door: Picture rails in the Coulsdon Road 1930s detached are wiped from the doorway and the band that faces away from the door gets missed. A clerk shines a torch from the opposite corner.
• Matt-black tap streaking from a bathroom limescale spray: A new cleaner uses a CR5-standard descaler on a Cane Hill matt-black tap and strips the coating. The remediation is a full re-fit, charged out at £180-£220 a tap. We use only pH-neutral on matt-black; the rule is non-negotiable.
• Oven-door seal grease in a 1930s kitchen extension: Older ovens in the extended 1930s kitchens on Marlpit Lane have a thicker door seal than modern builds. The seal hides a band of cooked-on residue under the lip. A clerk pulls the door open and runs a finger along the underside; we run a microfibre along the same line.
• Scale at the shower-head flow holes: The shower head is unscrewed and soaked, but the flow holes need a fingernail or a pin through each hole to clear scale plugs. Skip that and the spray pattern is wrong; a clerk turns the shower on and looks.

How booking works

1. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the property address, the check-out date, the number of bedrooms, and whether you need carpets or the oven on top.
2. We confirm the fixed price the same day and book the slot. Sunday and bank-holiday slots are available subject to crew rota.
3. We arrive on the day with vacuums, microfibres, mops, scale remover, oven products, glass solution and a sealed 57-point checklist on the receipt pad.
4. We work the checklist front-to-back, photograph each room on arrival and on completion, and leave the property in handover condition.
5. You receive a dated receipt and a copy of the worked checklist by email within twenty-four hours. If the clerk flags anything inside 48 hours, we come back free.

Related services and neighbouring areas

If your Old Coulsdon property needs a carpet shampoo on top of the end-of-tenancy clean, the price scales as above; for full info see our carpet cleaning service page. Tenants in the Marlpit Lane and Coulsdon Road 1930s detached often book the oven cleaning add-on separately because the older ovens need longer than a modern built-in. For the Cane Hill flats where the developer’s snagging crew has just left, the after-builders clean often precedes the end-of-tenancy clean on a first-tenancy out. Upholstery and three-piece-suite cleaning is available through our upholstery service for tenants with furnished lets.

Neighbouring CR5 and CR3 areas we cover from the same yard: Croydon hub, Coulsdon Town, Kenley, Chipstead, and Warlingham.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does end-of-tenancy cleaning cost in Old Coulsdon CR5?

From £156 for a studio, £207 for a 1-bed, £243 for a 2-bed, £339 for a 3-bed, and £425 for a 4-bed. Fixed price, 57-point checklist, no hourly creep.

Do you cover the Cane Hill regeneration estate?

Yes. The phases off Brighton Road and Marlpit Lane, including the blocks around the retained Cane Hill water tower and chapel, are on our regular rota. We send leads who know the matt-black tap rules and the induction-hob cleaning brief.

Do you clean the 1930s detached on Coulsdon Road and Marlpit Lane?

Yes. The pre-war detached and semi-detached on Coulsdon Road, Marlpit Lane, Caterham Drive and Rickman Hill are our most-cleaned stock in CR5. Cast-iron bath chrome fittings, original tiled kitchen splashbacks and picture-rail dust are what we look for first.

What’s the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?

If your inventory clerk flags a cleaning issue inside 48 hours of our visit, we come back and re-clean it free. We hold a 97% first-time pass rate on Croydon end-of-tenancy work across the last three years.

How long does an Old Coulsdon end-of-tenancy clean take?

A 2-bed flat usually takes a two-cleaner team around four to five hours. A four-bed 1930s detached on Coulsdon Road runs longer — seven to eight hours — because there’s more square footage and more original fittings.

How hard is the water in CR5?

Very hard. SES Water supplies Old Coulsdon at 280-310 mg/l calcium carbonate. Every mixer tap, shower head, kettle, dishwasher and washing machine in the property has been collecting scale across the lease.

Do you bring your own equipment and products?

Yes. Vacuums, microfibres, mops, scale remover, oven products, glass solution, the lot. You don’t need to leave anything behind.

Will the clean satisfy Park & Bailey, Cubitt & West or Bairstow Eves Coulsdon?

We work to a 57-point agent-approved checklist that covers what those inventory clerks check on this patch. Over 300+ letting agents across our coverage area refer tenants to us, and Foxtons Caterham is on the same list.

Can you do same-day or Sunday slots in Old Coulsdon?

Yes, subject to availability. School-catchment turnover around the Coulsdon C of E Primary and Woodcote High School pushes our late-August diary hard. Book a week ahead when you can.

Do you do carpets at the same visit?

Yes. Carpet shampoo is £36 a bedroom, £43 for a living room, £115 for a full 2-bed flat. We bring an extraction machine on the same van.

Will you do the oven on its own?

Yes. A single oven is £77, a double £110, a 90cm range £114. We can do that without the full end-of-tenancy clean.

What happens if the landlord still tries to deduct cleaning?

We issue a dated receipt and a copy of the 57-point checklist we worked to. Combined with the property photos we take on arrival and departure, that’s the evidence pack you give the deposit scheme. We’ve helped recover over £1.2m deposits for tenants this way.

Are you insured?

Yes. Monster Cleaning Ltd carries public liability and treatment-risk insurance. Companies House number 9919639. Trading since 2014.

How do you handle matt-black taps and induction hobs in the Cane Hill flats?

pH-neutral solutions only on matt-black coatings. No abrasive sprays, no scouring pads, no standard bathroom descaler. Induction-hob surrounds get a soft microfibre and an alcohol-based glass solution to lift water-spot marks.

Do you work the school-catchment turnover in August?

Yes. Late-August is the busiest CR5 window because families moving for the Coulsdon C of E Primary and Woodcote High School catchments tend to time the move around it. We hold extra crew slots that week.

Ready to book your Old Coulsdon end-of-tenancy clean

Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the property address, the check-out date, and whether you need carpets or the oven on top. We confirm the fixed price the same day. Monster Cleaning Ltd, 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS London. Trustpilot 3.1/5 over 128 reviews. Companies House 9919639. Since 2014.