End of tenancy cleaning in and around Palace Riverside

On a riverside flat down here the inventory clerk goes straight for the run of engineered oak between the lounge and the balcony doors, and they photograph it head-on against the river light, which is the least kind angle there is. That one strip of floor takes the grit walked in off the Thames Path all tenancy, so it dulls faster than an identical flat two streets inland, and it is where deposits quietly go at Palace Riverside. We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, and we do end of tenancy cleans across the Palace Wharf and Rainville Road blocks in W6, cleaned to the check-out clerk’s report, at £30 per hour per cleaner with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a fixed price.

Last updated June 2026. We cover the riverside pocket of W6 either side of Rainville Road, plus the Fulham Reach and Crabtree stretch running into SW6. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Hammersmith and Fulham.

How the check-in report decides a riverside deposit

Start with the mechanism, because it is the whole game and almost nobody explains it. When you moved into a flat at Palace Wharf or one of the Rainville Road blocks, a clerk walked it with a tablet and logged every surface, usually with thirty or forty close-up photos, usually with “new” or “as new” written against the kitchen, the bathroom and the floors. Those words were accurate that day, because the flat had just been professionally cleaned for handover. At check-out a clerk walks it again and compares line by line. Anything measurably worse than the check-in entry, fair wear and tear aside, is chargeable against your deposit. You are marked against a professional clean, which is precisely why a mop and a spare Saturday rarely gets you there.

Down here the finishes are expensive and recent, so the inventory is unusually detailed. These are not flats an agent inventories in a paragraph. The clerk photographs the underside of the extractor canopy, the seal where the induction hob meets the stone worktop, the balcony balustrade from both faces, the mirrored wardrobe doors, the trickle vents in the window frames. Every one of those is a listed item with a move-in photo behind it. That is the standard the adjudicator applies if it ever goes to dispute: returned to the documented check-in condition, not lived-in-but-tidy. The gap between those two states is the entire job, and on a high-value riverside flat the gap is wider than tenants expect because the move-in photos were so crisp.

The deposit sits in a scheme, and that matters for what a landlord can actually keep. Most corporate and relocation lets in these blocks protect the money through the Tenancy Deposit Scheme or one of the other government-backed schemes, and under their rules an agent cannot deduct a penny for cleaning unless the flat is demonstrably worse than it was at move-in. The check-in inventory is the proof, and your clean plus a dated invoice is the counter-proof. Shelter’s guidance on getting a deposit back is worth reading before you argue anything, because the burden of proof is on the landlord, not you.

You are marked against a professional clean, which is precisely why a mop and a spare Saturday rarely gets you there.

Why the stock down here is not period London

The housing decides what the clerk flags, so it is worth being specific about what these riverside flats actually are. This is not the picture-rail-and-cornice London of Brackenbury Village up the hill. Palace Wharf is a 1907 riverside building on Rainville Road, once the Rathbone Works of the fibrous-plaster firm George Jackson and Sons, now sixteen loft-style apartments at W6 9UF with high ceilings, exposed brick and steel, Crittall glazing and integrated German kitchens. Either side of it, the Rannoch Road, Crabtree Wharf and Fulham Reach blocks are premium 1990s-to-2010s new-build: engineered timber and large-format stone floors, glass-balustrade balconies over the Thames, Miele and Siemens appliances, mirrored fitted wardrobes and AV panels sunk into the walls.

Then there is the older riverside London that most people picture when they think of this stretch: the grand Georgian and Victorian terraces along Upper Mall and Lower Mall, past the Dove and the Blue Anchor, and the period conversion flats and mansion blocks set back from Furnival Gardens and the old boat sheds. We clean those too, and they flag differently again, on original timber, on painted sash frames and on the kind of fireplace an inventory names line by line. A Mall terrace with original floorboards and a working shutter is not a flat you attack with a steam mop and an aggressive descaler, and the check-in report on one of those names the period detail individually, so the clean has to match it individually. So the area is really two archetypes sharing a towpath: expensive modern apartments where the deductions are grease and scale and scuffed engineered board, and older terraces near the Mall where the deductions are about not damaging what is original.

The riverside location itself shapes the clean in a way that catches people out. These blocks sit directly on the Thames Path, the working towpath that runs from Hammersmith Bridge down past Crabtree Wharf towards Fulham Reach Boat Club and on to Putney. Dog walkers, rowers hauling boats to the water, joggers and river silt on a wet day, all of it travels in on shoes through the lobby and the lift. That is why the engineered floors scuff along one predictable line, and why the river throws spray and the gulls leave their mark on anything glass and facing the water. A clean written for a normal inland W6 flat misses both. The clerk does not.

The 57 things we work through in these blocks

Every booking runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist, built over a decade of London check-outs and tuned to what these particular riverside blocks lose deposits on. The full list comes with the job. Here is the shape of it, and where the money actually sits.

The floor, which is the single biggest one

Almost every modern flat down here is laid with engineered oak or large stone tile through the open-plan living space, and there is always a visible traffic line from the front door or the lift lobby through to the balcony. Grit off the towpath works into it, so it micro-scratches and dulls, and a clerk photographs it against the window light where it reads worst. We clean it with the right product for the board and buff it even so it looks consistent, rather than only mopping it, which often looks worse wet than dry. Get the product wrong on an engineered surface and you leave a haze that fails on its own.

The kitchen, where grease hides in plain sight

These are integrated German kitchens, and the deduction is almost never the visible oven door. It is the underside of the extractor canopy, the metal baffle or mesh filters, the top lip of the splashback and the seal where the induction hob meets the worktop. A film of cooking grease there shows up instantly under a phone torch, and clerks know exactly where to point it. We pull out the integrated fridge and the dishwasher slot so the gaps behind and beneath get done, because the inventory was taken with everything pristine. The oven interior, fan and door glass are stripped, not wiped.

Bathrooms, glass and the riverside extras

Bathrooms come down to hard-water scale and the shower screen, which gets its own section below because the water here earns it. Beyond that, the riverside-specific items are the ones a standard clean forgets. Balcony glass is flagged on most of these flats, because river spray and bird mess sit on the outside face and the move-in photo was taken spotless, so both sides get done where it is safe to reach. Mirrored wardrobe doors show every fingerprint and need a streak-free finish. The Crittall and aluminium frames collect dust in the trickle vents and along the bottom rail. AV panels, intercom screens and the underfloor-heating thermostats get a careful wipe, because they are all listed items.

It is worth being honest about why these flats fail check-out when they look fine to the eye. A tenant in a Palace Wharf loft or a Fulham Reach apartment is usually a professional on a company or relocation let, and the flat genuinely is tidy day to day. That is the trap. The clerk is not assessing tidiness. They are assessing whether forty close-up photos taken at move-in can be reproduced now. A worktop wiped a thousand times still carries a faint grease ring round the hob seal. A screen rinsed daily still films with scale that only shows when it dries fully. Lived-in-and-tidy and inventory-clean are two different standards, and the deposit is settled on the second one.

What 337 ppm does to a W6 bathroom

West London water is hard, and W6 is at the harder end of it. Thames Water supplies this postcode from chalk and limestone aquifers, and the measured hardness here runs to around 337 parts per million of calcium carbonate, roughly 23.6 Clark degrees, which is squarely in the “very hard” band. You can check the position on Thames Water’s own hardness page. That number is not trivia. It is why a rainfall shower head firing at a large glass panel leaves a cloudy film after nine months that no quick wipe shifts, and why the chrome and the tap bases scale up.

The clerk checks for it deliberately. They run a thumbnail down the tap, they look at the screen edge-on against the light, they pull the shower head in close. Scale that has set into the chrome is a slow job, and in the Mall terrace conversions the fittings are sometimes original chrome, which rules out the brute-force descalers a new-build would shrug off. We fully descale the screen, the chrome and the head, then clean the underfloor-heated stone so it does not dry patchy, because a stone floor left to air-dry over that water leaves tide marks a clerk will photograph. Grout lines and the shower drain get done too.

They run a thumbnail down the tap, they look at the screen edge-on against the light, they pull the shower head in close.

What 1 May 2026 changed for a riverside let

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 came into force on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone, and every existing assured shorthold tenancy in England has converted to a periodic one, so 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 check-in benchmark still applies, the deposit maths is exactly what it was the week before, and nobody can make a professional clean a contractual condition. What changed is timing. This riverside pocket already runs on one-year company lets and short professional tenancies, and rolling two-month notice makes those move-outs more frequent and far less predictable. The dull, practical takeaway pays for itself: book the clean earlier than you used to, because the slot you want at month-end will be gone if you wait.

One local wrinkle sits alongside the national law. Hammersmith and Fulham runs a borough-wide additional HMO licensing scheme that began on 5 June 2022 and runs five years, alongside a selective licensing scheme covering a specific list of 24 named streets. Rainville Road, Crabtree Wharf and the Fulham Reach streets are not on that selective list, and most of these riverside flats are single-household lets outside additional licensing anyway. But if a flat in one of the blocks has been sublet room by room, the licensed landlord tends to be stricter at check-out, because their own compliance file is being watched. Worth knowing before you negotiate.

Check-in inventory report

The document a 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 rather than to a general idea of clean.

End of tenancy clean

Built to pass that inventory and release the deposit, on an empty flat, backed by the 48-hour re-clean guarantee, at £30 per cleaner per hour.

Deep clean

A hard reset for a flat you are staying in, thorough but not measured against any inventory.

Regular clean

Ongoing upkeep for a lived-in flat, week to week, a different job with no deposit riding on it.

What it costs, and the maths nobody runs in time

Plain numbers, no quote form. Most of the flats down here are one- and two-beds, so the great majority of jobs land at £207 or £243. If you would rather book by time it is £30 per cleaner per hour, though for a check-out the fixed price is almost always better value, because we do not stop until it passes.

Add-ons are priced the same way, up front. Carpet shampoo is £36 a bedroom and £43 for a living room, or £115 for whole-flat carpet on a two-bed, though plenty of these riverside flats are hard-floor throughout and skip it. An oven deep-clean is £77 for a single, £110 for a double and £114 for a 90cm range, and the integrated Miele and Siemens ovens down here are usually single or double. Everything is fixed and quoted before we arrive. We do not add a line on the day for a flat being more lived-in than expected.

Run the maths the way the deposit makes you. A two-bed at £243 to protect a deposit of five weeks’ rent on a riverside flat is not really a decision. What you get for it is the full clean against the 57-point agent-approved checklist, backed by a 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if the clerk flags a cleaning item within three days of us finishing, we come back and put it right at no cost. That guarantee is why our first-time pass rate sits at 97%. Over the years the work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions, and we are on the books of 300+ letting agents, including the agencies running the Fulham Reach and Distillery Wharf blocks.

A Rannoch Road job from March

Two-bed apartment on Rannoch Road, backing onto the river. I had been there eighteen months on a relocation let for work, just me, so it was tidy but barely used. The thing I was sure would cost me was the oak floor from the kitchen out to the balcony doors, gone dull and scuffed against near-mirror check-in photos, and the shower screen had properly clouded over. Two cleaners spent most of the day, buffed the floor even, descaled the screen and the chrome, did the balcony glass on both sides. The clerk signed it off with no floor deduction and the relocation firm got the full deposit back. Best money the company spent all move.
Priya S., Rannoch Road, W6, March 2026

That job is a fair example of the pattern down here: a short professional let, a flat that looked fine but photographed badly against a crisp inventory, and an agent who checks the floor and the screen first. The clean cost a fraction of what was riding on it. What turned it was the scrubbing plus the dated photo set that went out with the invoice, and that photo set is the part most own-cleans never have when the agent pushes back.

Booking it, and the Hammersmith Bridge problem

Booking is a phone call. Give us the block or street, the number of bedrooms and your check-out date, and we price it on that call, no survey visit and no vague “from” figure. We only really need to know two things: whether the flat is carpeted or hard-floor, and whether the oven is single, double or range, because on these riverside flats those are the only variables that move the number.

1. Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the block, the bedroom count and the date.
2. We give you a fixed price on the call and hold a slot, ideally the day before check-out so the flat is photographed clean and stays that way overnight.
3. Empty is best, because the clerk inspects inside every cupboard and behind the appliances. We can work around a few boxes.
4. Our team cleans to the 57-point checklist. A two-bed riverside flat is usually most of a day with two cleaners.
5. If the clerk flags any cleaning item within 48 hours, we return and fix it free under the guarantee.

One genuine local factor to plan around: the bridge. Hammersmith Bridge has been shut to motor traffic since 2019, and as of mid-2026 the full restoration is on hold, with the council now pursuing a smaller repair, so it is not reopening to cars any time soon. Our base is in SW14 on the south side of the river, so we route via Putney or Wandsworth Bridge and build the extra time into the booking. It does not change your fixed price or the slot we hold. If you are moving within the area, we also cover the neighbouring riverside pages, from Fulham Reach end of tenancy cleaning and Imperial Wharf along the water, to Hammersmith Broadway and Ravenscourt Park inland. We work directly with tenants, with landlords and with the agents whose check-outs we already know. If yours has a particular inventory house style, tell us, because we have very likely cleaned to it on this stretch of the river before.

Questions we get asked

How much is an end of tenancy clean for a two-bed on Rainville Road or at Palace Wharf?

A two-bed is £243, a one-bed £207 and a studio £156, which covers most of the flats in these riverside blocks. That is a fixed price quoted before we arrive, not a “from” figure, and it includes cleaning to the 57-point agent-approved checklist.

Do you guarantee it passes the inventory check-out?

We back it with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee. If the clerk flags any cleaning item within three days of us finishing, we come back and put it right at no cost. Our first-time pass rate is 97%, and over the years the work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits.

The flat has an engineered oak floor with a scuffed traffic line. Can you sort it?

Yes, and it is the most common deduction we deal with on this stretch. We clean the engineered timber with the correct product and buff it even so it reads consistently against the check-in photos, rather than only mopping it, which often looks worse under the window light.

Can you descale the rainfall shower screen and the hard-water marks?

Yes. W6 water runs to about 337 ppm calcium carbonate, so a glass screen films up over a tenancy. We fully descale the screen, the chrome and the head, and clean the underfloor-heated stone so it does not dry patchy.

Do you clean the balcony glass over the river?

We do, on both faces where it is safe to reach, because river spray and bird mess on the outside are routinely flagged. The check-in photo was taken with the balustrade spotless, so it has to go back that way.

Will you clean the integrated Miele or Siemens oven and extractor?

Yes. The oven is included in the end of tenancy clean, and a deeper oven deep-clean is £77 single, £110 double and £114 for a 90cm range. We always do the extractor canopy and the filters, which is where the grease deduction usually sits, rather than the oven door alone.

How long does a riverside flat take?

A two-bed is usually most of a working day with two cleaners. A studio or one-bed is shorter. We do not clean to a clock on a check-out. We clean until the flat clears the checklist.

Should I book the clean before or after the check-out inspection?

Before, ideally the day before. The flat is photographed clean at check-out, so cleaning afterwards is pointless for the deposit. Book the slot for the day before hand-back and leave it untouched overnight.

Does the flat need to be empty?

Empty is best, because the clerk inspects every surface, including inside cupboards and behind the appliances. We can work around a few remaining boxes, but a fully cleared flat cleans and photographs better.

My deposit is in the Tenancy Deposit Scheme. Does a professional clean help a dispute?

It helps a great deal. Under the schemes an agent cannot deduct for cleaning unless the flat is worse than the documented check-in state. A clean to that standard, with our invoice as evidence, removes the cleaning argument. Shelter’s deposit guidance explains the rest.

Do you work with the letting agents handling the Fulham Reach and Rainville Road blocks?

Yes. We have cleaned check-outs for 300+ letting agents, including the agencies operating the Fulham Reach and Distillery Wharf side of W6. If your agent has a specific inventory house style, tell us and we will clean to it.

Hammersmith Bridge is shut to traffic. Does that delay you?

We plan around it. The bridge is still closed to motor traffic and the full repair is on hold as of 2026, so we route via Putney or Wandsworth Bridge from our SW14 base and build the extra time in. It does not affect your fixed price or the slot we hold.