The Old Oak Estate at Wells House Road is the John Birch model artisan estate of 1908–1912, Grade II listed and built originally for Great Western Railway workers. We’ve cleaned end-of-tenancy in those tied cottages and the 2020s regen flats off Old Oak Lane since the first OPDC consents came through, and the two property stocks fail inspection for completely different reasons. This page tells you what your clerk will check, what we charge to make sure you pass, and how to book us.
Last updated April 2026. We run a Hammersmith and Fulham team out of our SW14 yard and dispatch to Old Oak NW10 and W3 daily, including Sunday and bank-holiday slots when HS2 contractor turnover spikes.
We charge from £207 for a 1-bed end-of-tenancy clean in Old Oak NW10, fixed price, 57-point checklist, 48-hour re-clean guarantee if the agent flags anything.
Why Old Oak deposits get deducted
Old Oak’s housing stock splits cleanly down two lines and the deduction patterns split with it. On the Wells House Road and Erconwald Street side you’ve got the Birch model cottages: small two-storey artisan houses with original wooden sash windows, deep painted skirtings, picture rails, tiled fireplace surrounds (some still working), and back kitchens with limescale-pitted Belfast sinks. Inventory clerks at Marsh & Parsons North Kensington flag soot blackening on the tiled hearths, dust banked above the picture rails, and the gap between the back of a freestanding cooker and the original tiled splashback. On the OPDC regen side — the new blocks behind Old Oak Common Lane and the early Catalyst Housing schemes off North Pole Road — the deductions hit matt-black tap fittings (water-spotted), induction hob surrounds, brushed-brass handles streaked from cleaning sprays, and the rubber gasket inside fridge-freezer doors.
Under the Renters’ Rights Act 2025, landlords still have to prove every deposit deduction in writing with a fair-wear-and-tear comparison 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 tenants are expected to leave a property in. A clean carried out before the check-out inventory still cuts the dispute risk to almost zero.
Most disputes go through one of three schemes. Tenancy Deposit Scheme and mydeposits are the two insured schemes; DPS is the custodial one. Shelter’s own guide on getting a deposit back at shelter.org.uk is the plain-English reference we point Old Oak tenants towards when an agent stalls.
OPDC and Hammersmith & Fulham licensing
Old Oak sits inside the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation footprint, which is a Mayoral Development Corporation handling planning across the regeneration area. For tenancy law, though, your landlord still answers to London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham private renting on the H&F side, and to Brent or Ealing if your front door faces a different street. H&F’s selective licensing scheme covers parts of the borough and the council publishes the conditions at gov.uk private renting. Check which authority covers your address before you accept a check-out report.
The water in Old Oak is hard. Thames Water classes the NW10 and W3 supply as 269 mg/l calcium carbonate, which is the upper end of hard for London. That matters at end-of-tenancy because every kettle, shower head, mixer tap and dishwasher in the property has been collecting scale for the length of the lease, and the inventory clerk’s job is to spot scale rings that weren’t there at check-in.
Bespoke local feature: the John Birch model estate
The Wells House Road conservation area is one of the earliest planned worker estates in London and it has rules that catch out cleaning firms used to standard rented stock. Original tiled fireplace surrounds cannot be scrubbed with abrasives. Painted picture rails (the ones that still survive) hold a band of dust that ordinary feather-dusters smear rather than lift. The original Belfast sinks in the back kitchens have limescale rings that have been there for forty years; an inventory clerk knows the difference between an old ring and a new ring, and the new ring is the one you’ll get charged for. We’ve worked the Wells House Road and Old Oak Lane houses long enough to know which is which.
John Birch designed the estate as a model for the Great Western Railway’s married workforce. The cottages came with front and back gardens, scullery sinks, and small front parlours. A hundred and seventeen years later, most of the original window joinery is still in place, most of the original tiled hearths have been left in by successive owners, and the floorboards under the modern carpets are pine. Cleaners who treat the houses like ordinary rented flats damage them.
The 2020s regen blocks at the other end of Old Oak are a different problem entirely. Many of the early lets came with manufacturer film still on appliances when tenants moved in and the cleaning film leaves a sticky residue that needs solvent removal, not water and a microfibre. The induction hobs scratch under wire wool. The matt-black finish on the tap fittings is a coating, not the metal, and scouring sprays strip it. We’ve seen tenants charged £180 to refit a single tap because a previous cleaner used a bathroom limescale spray on it.
Monster came on a wet Tuesday in March to a tied cottage on Wells House Road. Three-year tenancy, single tenant, original tiled hearth with two years of unattended soot deposits. Their lead spent ninety minutes on the hearth alone, using a soft long-bristle brush and a pH-neutral solution rather than abrasives, and the deposit came back in full. Five hours billed, £265 inclusive. The clerk from Foxtons Acton actually said the hearth looked better than at check-in.
— Daniel R., ex-tenant, Wells House Road NW10
Coverage — Old Oak streets and zones
We dispatch into every part of Old Oak that bills as NW10 or W3. Our van crosses from SW14 in about thirty-five minutes off-peak via the A4 and A40.
- Wells House Road and Erconwald Street — the Old Oak Estate conservation area (model cottages, Grade II listed)
- Old Oak Lane south of the Grand Union Canal
- Old Oak Common Lane and the HS2 super-station construction frontage
- North Pole Road and the streets behind it towards Scrubs Lane
- The new regen blocks off Atlas Road and Channel Gate Road
- Old Oak Court and the early Catalyst Housing schemes
- Steele Road and the streets bordering Wormwood Scrubs
- The OPDC strategic site frontages along the West London Line
We cover the addresses that fall on the Brent and Ealing sides of the OPDC line too — the same vans run the round.
Parking around Wells House Road is on-street and tight. The cottages were built without garages and the conservation status keeps it that way. We bring a small Transit Connect, not a long-wheelbase. On the regen-block side, most schemes have basement loading bays, but you usually need to book a slot through the building manager twenty-four hours ahead. Tell us at booking and we’ll line it up.
HS2 contractor turnover at Old Oak Common runs to roughly a hundred temporary tenancies a year cycling through the area, on top of the regular rental market. That’s why we hold Sunday and bank-holiday slots in the Old Oak diary specifically — most other London Tier 3 neighbourhoods don’t need those slots, Old Oak does. If you’ve been moved on at short notice by a contractor change of crew, ring the office and we’ll usually fit you in inside forty-eight hours.
What’s included
The 57-point checklist runs across kitchen, bathrooms, bedrooms, living areas and the general property fabric. Here’s the headline pass through each.
Kitchen
Every cupboard emptied, wiped inside and out, hinges and handles done. Behind the cooker pulled forward where the gas hose allows. Extractor hood filter pulled, soaked, scrubbed. Splashback and tiles fully descaled. Inside the oven door, the door seal, the racks, the trays. Hob rings, control knobs, the lip between the hob and the worktop where grease collects. Fridge and freezer pulled forward, defrosted, gasket cleaned. Washing machine drum, detergent drawer, rubber seal. Sink, taps, drainage. The Belfast sinks at Wells House Road get a careful descale on the rim, not the porcelain face.
Bathrooms
The tile grout. Yes, every line. Shower screen scale removed with a non-abrasive scale remover, not a scouring pad. Tap fittings. Loo, inside and out, behind the cistern, around the base, under the seat hinges. Extractor fan grille pulled and washed. Mirror, light fittings. Floor edges. We don’t bleach grout that’s gone grey from age in the listed cottages — that flags as a different deduction and the clerk knows it.
Bedrooms and living areas
Picture rails and cornicing in the Birch cottages get a soft-bristled brush before a microfibre wipe, not the other way round. Skirtings full circuit. Sash windows: glass, frame, sill, opening mechanisms. Inside wardrobes, drawers, on top of wardrobes. Light fittings and ceiling pendant. Carpets vacuumed twice, edges crevice-tooled. In the regen flats: laminate floors damp-mopped with neutral pH, never a wet mop on engineered boards.
Throughout
Hallway lights, banister, front door inside and out, letterbox, light switches, plug sockets, radiator tops, behind radiators where the brush will reach. Front-door key hole. The shoe-step inside the door. Anything the clerk’s torch will be pointed at.
If the property has a garden — the Wells House Road cottages mostly do — the cleaning brief stops at the back door. We don’t cut grass or sweep paths. We do clean the inside face of any back door, the threshold, and the kitchen window onto the garden.
What it costs
Old Oak prices to our base Tier 3 schedule. No premium loading on this postcode.
| Property | Fixed price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| 1-bed | £207 |
| 2-bed | £243 |
| 3-bed | £339 |
| 4-bed | £425 |
| Hourly (if you prefer) | £30 per cleaner |
| Carpet add-on per bedroom | £36 |
| Carpet living room | £43 |
| Whole 2-bed carpet | £115 |
| Single oven add-on | £77 |
| Double oven | £110 |
| Range 90cm | £114 |
Fixed price means fixed. No hourly creep.
Old Oak doesn’t carry a premium-postcode loading. Mayfair, Belgravia and Hampstead do; NW10 doesn’t, even with HS2 in the ground. If you’ve been quoted £220 for a 1-bed in Old Oak by another firm, that’s not the going rate. Our quote is the quote: £207 for a 1-bed, £243 for a 2-bed, all-in.
What your agent will actually check
- Cooker hood filter pulled and held up to the light. The Foxtons Acton clerks do this first.
- The gap between the back of the cooker and the wall — hot grease residue is the giveaway.
- Limescale at the base of mixer taps and at the shower-head flow holes.
- The rubber gasket inside fridge and freezer doors, pressed with a finger to check for stickiness.
- Picture-rail dust band in any Wells House Road cottage — a torch beam at 45 degrees catches it.
- Inside the washing machine detergent drawer and the rubber door seal.
- Top of wardrobes, top of door frames, top of kitchen wall units.
- Carpet edges and under furniture if anything was moved.
- Sash-window runners and the opening mechanism in the listed cottages.
- Bathroom extractor grille, pulled off and looked at.
- Skirting boards — the back edge, where a vacuum head doesn’t reach.
- Inside light fittings, especially the bathroom downlights.
EOT vs deep clean vs regular clean
End-of-tenancy cleaning is a specific product. It exists to satisfy a check-out inventory and return a deposit. A deep clean is what you book once or twice a year while you’re still living somewhere. A regular clean is the weekly or fortnightly visit that keeps a flat ticking over.
People muddle these up because the words sound similar, but the briefs are different and so is the price. An end-of-tenancy clean is empty-property work, done after the furniture’s gone, billed at fixed price against a checklist that mirrors what inventory clerks check. A deep clean is occupied-property work, billed against time. Booking the wrong one wastes money: nobody needs an end-of-tenancy clean six months before the lease ends, and nobody passes a check-out with a regular clean.
| Type | When | Price anchor | Goal |
|---|---|---|---|
| End of tenancy | Last day of a let, empty property | From £207 (1-bed) | Pass the inventory, recover deposit |
| Deep clean | Once or twice a year while in residence | From £243 (1-bed) | Reset everything top to bottom |
| Regular clean | Weekly or fortnightly | £23/cleaner/hr | Keep the place liveable |
Related services and neighbouring areas
If your Old Oak 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 Old Oak Estate cottages with old cast-iron range cookers often book the oven cleaning add-on separately because the range needs longer than a standard built-in. For sash-window restoration before a check-out on the listed houses, see window cleaning. For the new OPDC blocks where developers haven’t finished the snagging, the after-builders clean often comes before the end-of-tenancy clean on the first tenancy out.
Neighbouring areas we cover from the same yard: Hammersmith and Fulham hub, North Acton, Willesden Green, Shepherd’s Bush Green.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does end-of-tenancy cleaning cost in Old Oak NW10?
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 Wells House Road Old Oak Estate cottages?
Yes. The model estate at Wells House Road and Erconwald Street is our most-cleaned block in NW10. We know the listed-property quirks, the original tiled hearths and the picture-rail dust patterns.
Do you clean the new regen flats off Old Oak Common Lane and Atlas Road?
Yes. The early OPDC regen blocks and Catalyst Housing schemes are on our rota. Matt-black taps and induction hobs get the right cleaning agent, not the abrasive sprays that streak them.
What’s the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?
If your inventory clerk flags a cleaning issue within 48 hours of our visit, we come back and re-clean it free of charge. We’ve held a 97% first-time pass rate on Hammersmith and Fulham end-of-tenancy work for the last three years.
How long does an Old Oak end-of-tenancy clean take?
A 1-bed flat usually takes a two-cleaner team around four hours. A Wells House Road cottage with original features runs longer — five to six hours — because the listed surfaces can’t be hurried.
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 Foxtons Acton or Marsh & Parsons North Kensington?
We work to a 57-point agent-approved checklist that covers what those inventory clerks check. Over 300+ letting agents across our coverage area refer tenants to us.
Can you do same-day or Sunday slots in Old Oak?
Yes, subject to availability. HS2 contractor turnover and student move-outs in September push our diaries hard, so 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 separately if I just need that?
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 the Grade II listed cottages?
Soft-bristle brushes on tiled hearths, pH-neutral solutions on original surfaces, no abrasives on painted picture rails. Our leads have been working the Old Oak Estate for over six years.
Do you do end-of-tenancy cleans for HS2 contractor accommodation?
Yes. Contractor turnover at the Old Oak Common HS2 site is constant and we have a rolling diary for the temporary blocks and the early regen lets.
What if the property’s still partly furnished on the day?
Tell us at booking. We can either clean around the furniture or coordinate a removal first. We work with general removal firms in the area.
Ready to book your Old Oak 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.