A cleaning estate, not a residential one
Roughly 500 food companies operate at Park Royal, employing more than 14,000 people between them, which tells you what this place is for. It is the largest business park in London, about 1,200 acres of industrial units, cold stores and bakeries, and McVitie’s still bakes biscuits here the way it has for generations. This is not a residential district with a busy lettings market. We will be honest about that on a page meant to sell you a clean.
There are flats, though.
So who rents here? A thinner pool than almost anywhere else we cover, and that shapes the work. The flats around Park Royal are the fringe pockets where the estate meets Harlesden and North Acton, older houses split into units, lets above and behind the trading estate, and the new blocks rising on the Old Oak and Park Royal regeneration edge. We are a domestic cleaning company that has run move-out cleans across London since 2014, and on a Park Royal job that means a fixed-price end-of-tenancy clean of a flat in NW10, priced by the number of bedrooms rather than by the hour, worked to the 57-point list letting agents accept.
Where the lets actually sit around Park Royal
The Guinness brewery is the reason a lot of people know the name at all. The brewery opened in 1936, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott as a slab of Art Deco that became a west London landmark, and it brewed stout here until 2005 before the Art Deco buildings were knocked down in 2006. Diageo still keeps a site on the same ground. None of that is housing, but it is why the area reads as work rather than home, and it explains why the residential bits are scattered and easy to miss.
Three kinds of let make up most of our Park Royal rounds. First, the worker flats and conversions on the Brent fringe toward Stonebridge and Harlesden, older houses turned into units, often shared, often re-let room by room. Second, the new build going up on the regeneration line near North Acton, the build-to-rent blocks and mixed-use schemes that have arrived with the Old Oak plan. Third, the odd flat above a parade or behind the estate where someone has lived close to the job. The cleaning challenge differs sharply between an ex-council conversion and a two-year-old build-to-rent flat, and we price and plan for both.
The regeneration is the thing changing the picture. The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation, the Mayoral body set up in 2015 to run the area, is targeting around 25,000 new homes over the decades around the new High Speed 2 station at Old Oak Common. Some of those homes are already let. A build-to-rent scheme near North Acton put up more than 200 flats on its own, and tenancies in places like that turn over on a yearly cycle. As the homes arrive, the move-out cleans arrive with them, which is most of why this page exists.
The cleaning challenge differs sharply between an ex-council conversion and a two-year-old build-to-rent flat, and we price and plan for both.
What Brent licensing means for a Park Royal flat
If your flat is on the Brent side of Park Royal, it almost certainly needs a licence, and that raises the cleaning bar at check-out. Brent runs some of the tightest private-rented licensing in London, and a licensed property tends to come with a stricter agent and a more formal check-out.
The Brent side of Park Royal sits in Stonebridge ward, and that ward falls under the council’s selective licensing scheme. Designation 2 came into force on 1 April 2024 and covers every Brent ward except Wembley Park, so most flats let to one household or up to two people need a licence from the council. On top of that, Brent brought in a borough-wide additional HMO licensing scheme on 2 February 2026, running for five years, which catches shared homes of three or four people from two or more households. That additional scheme explicitly pulls in purpose-built flats in blocks of three or more, so a tenancy in one of the newer regeneration blocks can be caught even when an older street is not. You can confirm the current designations on the Brent Council property licensing pages.
Why does a tenant care who holds the licence? Because licensed landlords get audited, and audited landlords lean on their agents, and the agents lean on the check-out clerk. A licensing breach can cost a landlord an unlimited fine or a civil penalty plus a rent repayment order, so they do not want a report that flags anything looking like neglect. The flat has to read as properly kept, and a deep move-out clean is the cheapest way to make it read that way. The part of Park Royal that sits in Ealing has its own rules, so if you are unsure which borough your postcode falls in, ask the agent before you book.
- Selective licensing
- A council scheme that makes most privately rented homes in a named ward hold a licence, shared or not. Stonebridge ward, on the Brent side of Park Royal, has been covered since 1 April 2024 under Designation 2.
- Additional HMO licensing
- A scheme extending licensing to smaller shared houses, in Brent’s case three or four people from two or more households, and including purpose-built flats in blocks of three or more. The borough-wide scheme started on 2 February 2026.
- Check-in inventory
- The report made at the start of the tenancy that records the condition and cleanliness of every room. Per Shelter’s guidance on cleaning charges, you only have to give the home back as clean as that document recorded.
- End-of-tenancy clean
- A one-off deep clean of an empty property to handover standard, priced by property size. Not a fortnightly maintenance clean, and deeper than a domestic tidy.
What the 57-point clean covers here
The clean follows a 57-point checklist built around what letting agents actually inspect. It is the same kind of document the clerk works from, so there are no surprises at handover. We bring our own detergents and machines. You supply nothing.
In the kitchen the team degreases the oven inside and out, the hob and the extractor, wipes every cupboard inside and out, descales the sink and taps, and cleans behind and under the white goods where they pull out. The fridge and freezer get cleaned through once they are defrosted. Bathrooms get the scale off the taps, screen and tiles, the grout scrubbed, the toilet done top to bottom, and the mirrors and chrome polished. Through the rest of the flat we dust and wipe all surfaces, clean skirting, doors and frames, hoover and edge the carpets, clean the internal glass and sills, and clear cobwebs from the ceilings.
We ask for four things to be in place when we arrive: running hot water, electricity, a defrosted fridge and freezer, and the flat cleared of your belongings. Without hot water and power we cannot clean to standard, and a fridge full of food or a room full of boxes means the crew works around things and the result suffers. The team stays until the checklist is done rather than clocking off at an hour.
Our first-time pass rate on these cleans is 97%. For the small share where a clerk or agent raises something, the 48-hour re-clean guarantee covers it. Tell us within three days of the clean and we come back and put it right at no charge. That guarantee is most of why agents keep sending us their tenants.
Hard water, new-build quirks and what a clerk catches
Limescale is the quiet killer on a Park Royal check-out. This corner of north-west London sits in a hard-water zone, so kettles fur up, shower screens cloud over and the taps grow a chalky crust within months of a clean. Tenants stop noticing because it creeps in slowly. A clerk grades the bathroom on exactly that, and getting the chalky scale off a glass screen and the tap bases is one of the most common things we put right on a re-let. A household spray will not shift it. It needs a proper descaler and some elbow.
New build throws up a different set of problems, and the regeneration blocks near North Acton are full of them. Builders’ dust settles in the trickle vents and behind radiators for months after handover. Engineered floors mark and need the right product rather than a wet mop. The downlights, the extractor in a windowless bathroom, the inside of an integrated dishwasher, all of it gets graded on a modern inventory that was photographed in showroom condition. A flat that looked perfect at check-in is being measured against perfect.
Older conversions on the Brent fringe hide their dirt in the usual places, and a clerk knows every one. The grease on a kitchen extractor filter. The gap behind a freestanding cooker that has not been pulled out since the last tenant. Window runners and the tops of skirting in a bay. Inside the kitchen units, under the old liner paper. Where there is a painted-shut sash window it still has to be cleaned to the glass, and the runners want doing. We work to the parts of a flat people forget, because that is exactly where deposit money leaks.
There is also the matter of the air. Park Royal is an industrial estate wrapped around the A40 and the North Circular, and flats near the busiest roads pick up a fine grey film on the inside of the windows and on external sills faster than a quiet street would. It is not your fault and it is not permanent, but a clerk still notes a grimy sill, so the internal glass and the frames get proper attention on a job this close to the traffic. Little of this is glamorous, and none of it is hard once you know to look, but it is the difference between a pass and a deduction.
A flat that looked perfect at check-in is being measured against perfect.
Getting in and out, the A40 and the parking
Park Royal Underground sits on the Piccadilly line, just off Western Avenue, between Alperton and North Ealing. The 1936 station building by Welch and Lander, with its tall tower and the roundel near the top, is a listed bit of Art Deco that most people rush past on the way to work. For us the station matters in a duller way. A fair share of tenants near the estate do not run a car, so the flat is reachable for the crew by train and we plan jobs around that.
The roads are the bigger factor on a Park Royal job. The estate is hemmed in by the A40 and the A406 North Circular, with the Hanger Lane gyratory on the doorstep, so timing the van around the traffic is half the planning. Buses help: the 95 runs along Western Avenue past Gypsy Corner and the station toward Hanger Lane, with the 112 and 224 covering the inner roads. We mention it because a crew stuck on the gyratory is a crew not yet cleaning your kitchen.
Parking is the part we will be blunt about.
On the trading estate itself there are loading restrictions and red routes, and on the residential fringe the bays fill early and are controlled for much of the day. There is no easy overflow because the factories take up everything in between. We sort the van and the access before the day, and if loading is going to be awkward we say so up front rather than turning up and finding nowhere to stop. It is a small thing that saves a lot of wasted time.
Central Middlesex Hospital sits right in the middle of the estate on Acton Lane, which is a useful landmark when we are lining a job up, because half the lets we clean here describe themselves by how far they are from it. Move-out dates cluster at the end of the month and on weekends, when the roads are busiest and slots are tightest, so booking the clean a few days ahead of the check-out is worth doing. We work seven days, so a Sunday handover is fine. It just wants planning.
What it costs to hand back a Park Royal let clean
Prices are fixed by the size of the property, not by the hour, so you know the figure before we start. An end-of-tenancy clean is £156 for a studio, £207 for a one-bed, £243 for a two-bed, £339 for a three-bed and £425 for a four-bed. Those cover the full 57-point clean of an empty flat.
Pricing by the room rather than the clock matters most in the older conversions on the fringe, where a two-bed that has not been deep-cleaned in years can take a team the better part of a day. Charge that by the hour and the bill climbs while you watch the clock. Fixed pricing means the crew stays as long as the checklist needs. If you would rather book labour by the hour for a part-clean or a top-up, that runs at £30 per cleaner an hour, though for a move-out the size-based price is usually the better deal.
One honest note on the rate. It is not the cheapest number advertised around NW10, and we will not pretend it is. What you pay for is the checklist, the agent relationships and the re-clean guarantee, which is what actually protects the deposit. A £90 clean that fails the check-out and costs you £200 in deductions was never the cheaper option. We would rather quote a price that gets the flat over the line.
End of tenancy versus a deep or regular clean
People mix these up, and booking the wrong one wastes money. A regular clean is the fortnightly tidy most households have: hoover, surfaces, bathroom, kitchen wiped. A deep clean goes further into the build-up, the reset you book once or twice a year. An end-of-tenancy clean is a different job again, because it is measured against an inventory rather than against how the place looks to you.
That difference is the whole point. A flat can feel perfectly clean to live in and still fail a check-out, because the clerk is not asking whether it looks tidy. They are asking whether it matches the cleanliness recorded at check-in, line by line. So the end-of-tenancy clean targets the inventory’s blind spots: inside the oven, behind the appliances, the window runners, the limescale, the tops of the doors. It is done to an empty flat, which is why we ask for your things to be out first.
If your tenancy agreement names a particular standard, dig out the check-in inventory before you book and read what it actually says. Where it logged the flat as professionally cleaned at the start, the bar is higher; where it logged ordinary domestic cleanliness, the bar matches that. We work to whichever standard the document sets. On a regeneration-block flat that was photographed spotless at check-in, expect the higher bar, and book the extras that match it.
Deposits, deductions and the check-out clerk
Your deposit should be in one of the three government-backed protection schemes, with the money safeguarded and the prescribed information served. Under the government rules on tenancy deposit protection, the landlord has to protect the deposit within 30 days of getting it, through the Deposit Protection Service, mydeposits or the Tenancy Deposit Scheme. If they did not, that is a separate problem in your favour.
Cleaning is the deduction most likely to end up in dispute, and the rules around it are clearer than people think. A landlord cannot make you pay for professional cleaning as a blanket condition, and you are not on the hook for fair wear and tear. You only have to give the flat back as clean as the check-in inventory recorded. Shelter sets this out plainly on its page on cleaning and gardening charges. So the inventory is your reference point, and our clean is built to beat it room by room.
The standard clean does not cover everything, and the gaps are where deposits get caught. Carpets are the big one in conversions where one beige carpet has survived several lets; a vacuum lifts the surface, not the ground-in traffic marks, and a clerk grades carpet separately. We deep-clean carpets by hot-water extraction at £36 a bedroom, £43 for a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed flat; the detail sits on our carpet cleaning service page. Ovens are the other one. A move-out clean wipes the oven, but a heavily burnt-on oven needs stripping down, with the door split and the racks cleaned off the appliance, at £77 for a single, £110 for a double and £114 for a range, as set out on the oven cleaning service page.
The wider law is shifting too. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 reshapes how assured tenancies end and how possession works, which changes the timing of a lot of move-outs but not the underlying point that you hand the property back in inventory condition. Whatever the route out, the check-out clerk still walks the flat with the inventory in hand and grades each room. This is where our numbers come from. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents and have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions, because a clean that matches the clerk’s checklist leaves nothing to argue about. Keep your dated photos and your check-out report, and if a deduction still gets raised on cleaning we have done, the 48-hour re-clean sorts it before it ever reaches a dispute.
Booking a Park Royal clean
Booking is short. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with your Park Royal postcode, the number of bedrooms, and your check-out date. We quote the fixed price on the spot from the bedroom count, and we will tell you straight whether you need any of the extras. There is no survey visit and no booking deposit. The price is the price.
On the day the team arrives with everything and works straight off the checklist. You do not need to be there for the whole clean, though someone has to sort access at the start and the end, and we will need the heating or hot water on. If you have booked carpets or an oven strip-down as well, plan for the clean to run longer, because those are done thoroughly rather than rushed. When the team finishes they walk the flat against the list before they leave.
We clean seven days a week and we do not take days off, which matters when check-out dates land on weekends and bank holidays. Most tenants book the clean for the day before the inventory check, so the flat is fresh when the clerk arrives. Give us access, hot water, power and an empty flat, and the crew works through the 57-point list until it is done.
If your move is over one of the boundary lines, the neighbouring pages may fit better: see our end of tenancy cleaning in Harlesden coverage to the north-east, or end of tenancy cleaning in North Acton to the south where most of the new blocks sit. The wider end of tenancy cleaning in Brent hub lists the rest of the borough. We are based at 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS, and cover NW10 and the surrounding postcodes.
Questions Park Royal tenants ask
How much is an end of tenancy clean in Park Royal?
It is priced by property size: £156 for a studio, £207 for a one-bed, £243 for a two-bed, £339 for a three-bed and £425 for a four-bed. The price covers the full 57-point clean of an empty flat in NW10.
Do many people actually rent in Park Royal?
Fewer than in most areas we cover, because Park Royal is mainly an industrial estate of about 1,200 acres with around 500 food companies on it. The lets are the fringe pockets toward Harlesden and North Acton, worker flats and conversions, and the new regeneration blocks, so the residential pool is small but real and growing.
Is my Park Royal flat covered by Brent’s licensing rules?
If it is on the Brent side, very likely yes. The Brent part of Park Royal sits in Stonebridge ward, which falls under selective licensing from 1 April 2024 under Designation 2, covering every ward except Wembley Park. Brent’s borough-wide additional HMO licensing for shared homes of three or four people started on 2 February 2026 and includes purpose-built flats. The Ealing side has its own rules.
Do you charge by the hour?
No. The end-of-tenancy clean is a fixed price by the number of bedrooms, so the team stays until the checklist is finished rather than stopping at an hour. If you want labour by the hour for a smaller job it is £30 per cleaner, but for a move-out the size-based price is usually better value.
What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?
If the inventory clerk or your agent challenges any part of the clean, tell us within 48 hours and we come back and put it right at no charge. It is the reason most of the agents we work with keep sending us their tenants.
What is your first-time pass rate?
97% of our end-of-tenancy cleans pass the check-out inspection first time. For the small share that get a query, the 48-hour re-clean covers the fix.
What does the 57-point checklist include?
It covers the kitchen (oven, hob, extractor, cupboards inside and out, behind the white goods), the bathrooms (limescale, grout, toilet, chrome), and every room (surfaces, skirting, doors, internal glass, carpets and cobwebs). It is the same kind of list letting agents inspect against.
Do new-build regeneration flats need a different clean?
The checklist is the same, but the attention shifts. New blocks near North Acton hide builders’ dust in trickle vents and behind radiators, have engineered floors that need the right product, and were photographed in showroom condition at check-in, so the inventory bar is higher. We clean to whatever standard the check-in document set.
Do I need to provide cleaning products or equipment?
No. We bring all the detergents and machines. We only ask that the flat has running hot water and electricity, a defrosted fridge and freezer, and that your belongings are cleared out.
Can my landlord force me to pay for professional cleaning?
No, not as a blanket tenancy condition. You only have to give the flat back as clean as the check-in inventory recorded, and you are not liable for fair wear and tear. Many tenants book a professional clean anyway to avoid a dispute, but it is a choice, not an obligation.
Will I get my deposit back if I book this clean?
A clean that matches the clerk’s checklist removes the most common reason for a cleaning deduction. We have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on such charges. Keep your dated photos and check-out report as backup.
Is carpet cleaning included in the price?
No, carpet deep-cleaning is a separate add-on because not every flat needs it. Hot-water extraction is £36 a bedroom, £43 for a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed flat. Add it at booking and one team does everything in a single visit.
How much does oven cleaning cost on top?
A proper strip-down oven clean is £77 for a single oven, £110 for a double and £114 for a range. The standard clean wipes the oven, but a heavily burnt-on oven needs the full dismantled clean to pass.
Do you work weekends around the estate?
Yes. We clean seven days a week and do not take days off, so a Saturday or Sunday check-out is no problem, which helps when the roads around the A40 and the gyratory are quieter at weekends anyway.
What areas near Park Royal do you cover?
We cover NW10 and the surrounding postcodes, including Harlesden, North Acton, Willesden and the Old Oak regeneration edge. If your move is over a boundary line, see our Harlesden and North Acton end-of-tenancy pages.