Putney Bridge end of tenancy cleaning, done properly

By the bridge, the first thing the inventory clerk reaches for is the shower screen, because Putney’s water leaves a chalky film on glass that a quick wipe does nothing to. Get that wrong and the deduction is written before they leave the bathroom. So an end of tenancy clean around Putney Bridge has to be built for the person holding the check-out report: checklist-driven, deposit-focused, £30 per hour per cleaner, with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee against that report. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price in about three minutes.

Last updated June 2026. We cover the Putney side of SW15 around the bridge and the river, with the same pricing across the rest of SW15. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Wandsworth.

The shower screen decides it before the kitchen does

Start with the mechanism, because hardly anyone does, and it runs the whole thing. When you moved in, a clerk walked the flat and wrote a report on every surface, usually with the word “clean” or “as new” against the bathroom and kitchen. Those words were true that day, because the flat had just had a professional clean. At check-out a clerk walks it again and compares, line by line. Anything worse than the move-in entry, past fair wear and tear, comes off your deposit. You are judged against a professional standard, which is why a mop and a spare evening rarely gets you there.

The money is not vague. On the Putney check-outs we get called in to rescue, the deductions land in a pattern: £80 to £150 on the oven, £80 to £200 on grout and the chalky scale on the glass, £60 to £100 for the gaps behind the appliances, £150 to £350 on carpets. Set that against a two-bed near the river carrying a deposit of £3,000 or more, and the sum makes itself. Most tenants only run it after they have failed the check-out and lost the first round, which is the expensive order to do it in.

Why is the clerk so exacting? The deposit is large and the agent has to account for it, so the inspection is genuinely adversarial. That is not unfair. It just means you turn up with evidence rather than hope.

Two laws sit behind this. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 means your landlord cannot make professional cleaning a contractual condition, so the booking is your choice. Damp and mould are a landlord’s job to fix, not a tenant’s to scrub away, so where we find real damp behind a wardrobe or in a cold corner we photograph it and write it up, so the charge lands where it belongs.

What 1 May 2026 did to Putney move-out dates

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone. Every assured shorthold tenancy in England has converted to a periodic tenancy, and a tenant can now give two months’ notice at any point in the year instead of waiting out a fixed term.

Here is the bit people get wrong. The cleaning side of a move-out did not change at all. The Tenant Fees Act and the move-in benchmark both still apply, and the deposit maths is what it was the week before. What changed is timing, and timing is what bites around the bridge.

This was already a high-churn corner of Wandsworth, full of one-year professional lets and short tenancies near the station. Let people leave on a rolling two months instead of a fixed date and the move-outs get more frequent and less predictable, so the month-end pile-up that already clogs Putney is not going to ease. The takeaway is dull but it pays for itself: book earlier, because the slot you want will be gone if you leave it.

The cleaning side of a move-out did not change at all.

Why the licence on your landlord tightens the check-out

One local rule is worth knowing before you hand back. On 1 April 2026 Wandsworth Council started its second selective licensing scheme, running five years across the Putney wards, which takes in most of the rented flats around the bridge. It puts a duty on the landlord, not the tenant, to hold a property licence, currently £885. You can check whether an address falls inside it on the council’s property licence check.

Why does it matter to the person moving out? A licensed property is held to condition standards the council can check at re-let, and a landlord who falls short risks a heavy penalty. So the clerk inspecting your check-out tends to be more thorough. Our 57-point clean already clears those standards, which is the practical reason agents in licensed stock keep using us.

The 57 things we work through, room by room

Every booking near the bridge runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist, built over a decade of local check-outs and tuned to what the Putney clerks flag. Here is the shape of it.

The kitchen, where the bulk of the deposit goes

The oven is stripped, not wiped. Racks go in a soaking tank, the door glass is split apart so the brown film between the panes comes out, and the cavity, fan, element and seals all get done. That film is the single most flagged oven fault in Putney check-outs. If the oven is the only thing your agent pulled you up on, standalone oven cleaning covers it on its own. After that we work the rest: hob and burners off, the extractor hood degreased and the filter soaked, every cupboard inside and out. Appliances get pulled out so the gaps behind the fridge, dishwasher and washing machine are done, then put back. The washing machine drawer comes out and the door seal gets scrubbed, since that is the first thing the clerk opens. Sink, taps and plughole descaled, because the hard water never misses that. Tiles and grout scrubbed, bins washed, floor hoovered and mopped.

Bathrooms, the other place it goes wrong

The chalky scale comes off the taps, shower head, screen and tiles first, carefully on the original chrome you still find in the Edwardian flats off Lower Richmond Road. The London supply here runs near 302 mg/l of calcium carbonate, which Thames Water rates very hard, so the glass scales fast. Grout is scrubbed back as far as honest effort takes it, and photographed where it is clearly past saving. Then the rest, in plain order.

• Toilet inside and out: under the rim, base, cistern, hinges and behind the pedestal where only the clerk looks
• Shower screen both sides, the tracks and the sealant bead
• Bath, taps, the underside of the taps, the overflow and the plughole
• Mirrors and cabinets, and behind them where they come off the wall
• Extractor vent wiped and the silicone cleaned, since re-sealing is a handyman job not a cleaning one
• Floor into the corners, behind the loo and under the basin

Bedrooms, living rooms and the rest

Inside every wardrobe, drawer and built-in cupboard, and the storage in the bigger mansion-block flats can be huge. Skirting, door frames, handles and finger plates. Light fittings, switches and the ceiling roses, which in a period Putney flat hold years of dust. Window sills, reveals and frames on the inside, with the original timber boxes in the older terraces needing slow careful work. Radiators behind, under and on top. Walls spot-wiped for marks, with a realistic line drawn, because nail holes and scuffs are a decorator’s bill and not yours to scrub away. Two jobs often need their own pass: hot-water extraction on carpets, which the carpet cleaning add-on handles on the same visit, and hard-used sofas in shared lets, which sometimes want full upholstery cleaning rather than a hoover. Then a final walk-through, photographed before and after, every room. That photo set is the evidence you keep.

Putney by the river: the stock changes as you leave the bridge

The bridge end of SW15 is small but it is not one thing. Walk it and the housing turns over completely, and the clerk looks for different faults in each kind of flat. One method does not pass all of it, so we work in three bands.

The waterfront: Putney Wharf Tower and the modern blocks

Right by the bridge and Putney Pier, the riverside towers and the newer blocks around Brewhouse Lane put a lot of rental flats on the map: floor-to-ceiling glass, engineered-wood floors, integrated appliances and a concierge who signs you in. These come with operator inventory checklists stricter than most private landlords bother with, so send us the spec sheet and we clean to it line by line. The flats come up quicker than a conversion, because the surfaces are flat and the glazing is sealed, but the building rules on lift use and the loading bay slow a move-out down if you have not planned for them.

The Embankment streets: Edwardian terraces off Lower Richmond Road

Turn west along the river and you are on the Putney Embankment, the row of boathouses the rowing clubs have used since the 1850s, with Thames Rowing Club among the big timber clubhouses and the University Stone set into the towpath where the Boat Race starts each spring. Behind them, the large old houses on Lower Richmond Road and the side streets, Festing Road and Erpingham Road among them, are mostly Edwardian and late-Victorian terraces split into flats. Long lets mean decades of build-up nobody cleaned between tenants, and there is always a band of dust at picture-rail height the clerk knows to check. We win these on the slow, dull work.

Putney High Street and the streets behind it

Inland from the bridge, Putney High Street runs up past St Mary’s Church, the riverside church by the southern approach where the Putney Debates were held in 1647. The flats above the shops and on the streets behind, Disraeli Road, Felsham Road and Lacy Road, are a mix of conversions and mansion-block flats: professional renters and families, high turnover near the station, the usual period detail in cornicing and ceiling roses to mind. West of here the streets climb into bigger family houses, some of them prime, where the clean stretches to a full day with three cleaners. Putney Bridge tube, on the District line, is actually over the water in Fulham, so a flat can sit a street apart yet fall in a different borough.

Not sure which side of the river or which borough your flat is on? Ring 0333 555 2076 with the postcode and we will tell you in about ten seconds. We also clean the Fulham side: End of Tenancy Cleaning Fulham.

What it costs, and the sum nobody does until the check-out

Putney runs at our standard London pricing: £30 per hour per cleaner, with kit, products and travel included. Those figures assume a flat in lived-in shape. A long tenancy with heavy wear, a pet household or a smoker’s flat costs more, and we say so on the phone. No surprises on the invoice.

The maths is blunt.

A two-bed at £243 to protect a deposit above £3,000 is barely a decision.

Every booking near the bridge carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if the agent flags any cleanliness issue inside 48 hours, we come back and redo it free, as long as the flat is still as we left it with nobody moved in. Our 97% first-time pass rate is the reason agents keep our number, but the guarantee is the real point. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, and over the years that work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions. That number is the whole job: money that stays with the tenant.

A two-bed at £243 to protect a deposit above £3,000 is barely a decision.

A Disraeli Road job from this spring

“Handed back a one-bed conversion on Disraeli Road after three years, just me and the cat. The agent had warned me the kitchen and the bathroom scale would be the sticking points, and they were right, the shower glass was a state by then. Monster sent two for half a day, did the oven and the carpets too, and Dexters signed it off with no deductions. Deposit back the next week. Best £230-odd I spent on the move.”
Priya, Putney SW15, April 2026

That is a fair example of the pattern near the bridge: a few years in a period conversion, hard-water scale nobody kept on top of, a carpet to see to, and an agent who checks. The clean cost a fraction of what was at stake. It usually does. What turned it was the dated photo set that went out with the invoice, the part most do-it-yourself check-outs never have.

Booking it round the rowing season and the month-end rush

Putney bunches its check-outs at month-end, the slots go, and people who ring on the 29th for the 31st are often out of luck. Book early. The steps are simple.

1. Ring 0333 555 2076. Price in about three minutes. Give us the postcode, property size, check-out date and any known problem areas, and mention anything the move-in report marked “new”.
2. We book you in, ideally the day before check-out. Allow 7 to 10 days for an end-of-month slot, 3 to 5 days mid-month.
3. Flat empty when we arrive. Furniture out, personal things gone, rubbish cleared. We also handle removals if you want the move and the clean on one booking, which helps on the narrow riverside streets.
4. Photo proof at the end. Every room, before and after, with an itemised invoice on company paper. That is your evidence pack if the check-out tries to deduct.
5. Check-out happens. Anything flagged inside 48 hours, we come back and fix it free.

One honest note on access. Parking near the bridge is tight, the riverside roads clog during the spring rowing season and on Boat Race weekend, and several blocks run on a concierge or key safe. Tell us the arrangement and how we get in when you book. It takes the sting out of the day.

Add-ons, the jobs people muddle, and the areas next door

A move-out near the bridge often pulls in more than the core clean. Carpet cleaning is the common one, sometimes a contractual line rather than an extra. Oven cleaning is standard in every job, and stands alone from £77 if that is all the agent flagged. Removals puts the move and the clean on one booking, upholstery cleaning covers furnished lets, and window cleaning handles the river-facing glass an inventory sometimes asks for.

Four different jobs get muddled, and it is worth booking the right one.

Check-in inventory report

The document the 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 generic idea of “clean”.

End of tenancy clean

Built to pass that inventory and get a deposit back, with the flat empty and the 48-hour guarantee on it.

Deep clean

A deep clean resets a home you are keeping, lived-in, with no formal standard to hit.

Regular domestic clean

A regular domestic clean is ongoing upkeep, from £22 an hour on a weekly visit.

We work the areas around Putney too, which matters when a tenancy straddles a boundary: End of Tenancy Cleaning Putney, East Putney, West Putney, Wandsworth Town and Fulham over the bridge.

Questions we get asked

Do I actually need professional end of tenancy cleaning around Putney Bridge?

You can clean it yourself. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 stops a landlord making it a contractual condition. The catch is the benchmark: the flat was professionally cleaned the day you moved in, and that is the line you are measured against. With Putney deposits often north of £3,000, the sum tends to point one way.

How much is end of tenancy cleaning in Putney Bridge?

A studio is £156, a one-bed £207, a two-bed £243, a three-bed £339 and a four-bed £425. That covers the full 57-point clean and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee, with carpet shampoo and oven cleaning as add-ons. A part job is £30 per cleaner per hour.

Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change my end of tenancy clean?

No. From 1 May 2026 Section 21 evictions are gone and every assured shorthold tenancy in England became periodic, so you can give two months’ notice at any point. The cleaning side did not change. What changed is timing: move-outs near the bridge are more frequent now, so book earlier than you used to.

Does Wandsworth’s selective licensing affect me as a tenant?

Not directly. The second selective licensing scheme started on 1 April 2026 across the Putney wards, and it puts a duty on the landlord, not the tenant, to hold a £885 licence. Licensed landlords are held to condition standards, though, so their clerks inspect more carefully. Our checklist already clears those standards.

Do you cover Putney Wharf Tower and the riverside flats by the pier?

Yes, the riverside towers and the modern blocks around Brewhouse Lane are some of the addresses we clean most in SW15. The concierge buzzes the team in when the slot is booked ahead. Their sealed glazing comes up faster than a period conversion, and the river-facing glass can go on the same visit.

How long does a two-bed near the bridge take?

Five to seven hours with a team of two or three. The Edwardian conversions off Lower Richmond Road run longer, because of the picture-rail dust and the high cornicing. The riverside flats finish quicker. We give you the realistic figure on the phone, not a hopeful one.

What does Putney’s hard water do to the bathroom?

It scales everything. Thames Water runs the London supply near 302 mg/l of calcium carbonate, which is very hard, so the shower glass clouds and the taps fur. The clerk checks for it first. We descale wet, let it dwell, work it with a soft brush and rinse twice, gentler on the original chrome.

Do I have to be there while you clean?

No. Most Putney landlords and agents leave a key with us or in a key safe by the door. We photograph the flat before and after, every room, and that set goes on file. If anything is flagged in the 48 hours after we leave, the photos show the state at handover.

What about the oven and the kitchen extractor?

The oven is stripped, not wiped. Racks soak, the door is split so the film between the panes comes out, and the cavity, fan and seals all get done. The extractor filter soaks in degreaser and goes back scrubbed. The oven add-on is £77 single, £110 double and £114 for a 90cm range.

What if my landlord still tries to deduct after a Monster clean?

Three things hold the line. Our before-and-after photos go to you on request. Our invoice is dated, itemised and shows the address, which agents accept as evidence. And if it goes to the deposit scheme adjudicator, your photos weigh against the check-out report. A full paper trail rarely loses.

Do you bring everything, and are you insured?

Yes to both. We carry the vacuums, mops, chemicals, microfibre and the ladders for the high cornicing in the period flats, so you need leave nothing in the cupboard. Monster Cleaning Ltd has carried public and employer’s liability cover since 2014, certificate by email on request.

Do you work weekends near Putney Bridge?

Saturdays, yes. Sundays only by arrangement, because the Putney clerks rarely sign off on a Sunday. End of month is the busy window, especially the last three days, and the riverside roads clog during the spring rowing season, so an earlier slot is the safe call.

Get a price

Call 0333 555 2076 and we price the job in about three minutes. Postcode, property size, check-out date, any known problem areas. Out of hours, send us a message or email [email protected] and someone calls you back first thing. A couple of WhatsApp photos of the kitchen and bathroom sharpen the quote. And if your check-out near the bridge is tomorrow, ring anyway.

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