Reigate end of tenancy cleaning, the easy way

The Robert Leech office on the High Street corner in Reigate sits three doors from where most of our check-out clerks start their walk, and the inventory report they hold was written the same week you moved in. We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, cleaning end-of-tenancy properties across Reigate and the rest of RH2 since 2014, worked to a 57-point agent-approved checklist with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee. Studio flats start at £156, a one-bed at £207. Ring 0333 555 2076 and we will have a price for you in a few minutes.

Last updated July 2026. We cover Reigate town, Reigate Hill, Wray Common, Woodhatch, Reigate Heath and the RH2 postcodes around Doods Road and the High Street. This page sits inside the county directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Surrey.

What the inventory clerk in Reigate is actually matching you against

Start with the document, because it decides everything else. On the day you moved in, a clerk walked the house and wrote up every surface, usually with photographs, usually with the oven, the taps and the grout marked “new” or “as new”. That was true on the day, because the house had just been handed over clean. At check-out a different clerk, or sometimes the same one, walks it again line by line against that report. Anything worse than fair wear and tear gets costed and charged to the deposit. You are not being marked against a tidy house. You are being marked against a professional one.

The money follows a pattern we see often enough to price it without looking. On a Reigate DIY check-out that goes wrong, the deductions tend to land like this: £70 to £110 on the oven and range, £60 to £140 on scaled taps and shower glass, £150 to £300 on carpets the tenancy agreement specified, £70 to £180 on skirting and wall marks nobody photographed until the empty house showed them. Set that against a family let with a deposit above £2,000 and the arithmetic is not close.

Reigate is a family-house borough more than a flat one, and a house that has been lived in by four or five people for three years carries a different kind of build-up to a one-bed flat. Grease behind a range cooker, scale in a second bathroom nobody used much, a scuff line along the hall where school bags went past every morning. None of it is dramatic. All of it gets written down.

1 May 2026, and what actually changed for a Reigate move-out

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone. Every assured shorthold tenancy already running in England converted automatically to a periodic one, and a tenant can now give two months’ notice whenever they choose rather than waiting on a fixed term.

Here is the part that gets muddled. The cleaning side of a move-out did not move an inch. The check-in standard is still the benchmark. The deposit maths is the same maths it was on 30 April. What changed is the calendar, and the calendar is what a commuter town like Reigate feels first.

Reigate already runs on short professional lets tied to the London Bridge and Victoria commute. Give those tenants a rolling two months’ notice instead of a fixed end date and check-outs stop clustering neatly around June and September. They spread across the year, unpredictably, which means the smart move is booking earlier than the old habit of “give it a fortnight”.

The cleaning side of a move-out did not move an inch.

Room by room: the 57 points we go through

Every Reigate booking runs to the same 57-point checklist, built over a decade of RH2 check-outs and tuned to what the local clerks actually flag first. It comes with the job, or we talk you through it before we start.

The kitchen, where the biggest number usually sits

The oven is stripped down, not wiped over. Racks and trays go into a soak, the door glass is split so the film between the panes comes out, and the cavity, fan and door seals are taken back to bare metal. In a range-cooker kitchen, which is common on the Reigate Hill and Wray Common houses, the burner crowns and grates come off and get done individually, because a clerk lifts every one of them. Hob rings, control knobs, the gap under the hob and the extractor filter follow. Cupboards are emptied and wiped inside and out, plinths and the tops of the wall units included, because that is exactly where the previous decade of dust sits. Fridge, freezer and dishwasher get pulled forward so the floor and the wall behind can be cleaned properly, then pushed back. The washing machine drum, detergent drawer and door seal are done by hand, since the seal is the first thing most clerks check. Sink, taps and the drainer are descaled, tiles and grout scrubbed, bins washed, floor lifted and mopped into the corners.

Bathrooms, and there are usually two or three

The main family bathroom gets the obvious attention. It is the guest en suite nobody used all year that catches people out, because the clerk opens both doors and expects the same standard behind each.

• Toilet cleaned properly: under the rim, base, cistern, hinges, and behind the pedestal where a mop never reaches
• Shower screen both sides, the runners and the sealant line, taken back past the cloudy film that hard water leaves
• Bath, taps and overflow, with the underside of period roll-top feet done on the older houses near the town centre
• Mirrors and cabinets, and behind them where they pull away from the wall
• Extractor fan vent lifted off, washed and refitted rather than wiped in place
• Floor into the corners, behind the pan and under the basin pedestal

Bedrooms, hallway and stairs

Every wardrobe, drawer and built-in cupboard is opened and wiped, and the fitted storage in the 1930s houses toward Wray Common is often deep enough to need real time. Skirting the whole way round, with the strip behind where a bed or a wardrobe stood for three years done properly rather than skipped. Doors, frames, handles and finger plates. Light fittings, switches and, on the older Doods Road and Blackborough houses, picture rails and ceiling roses that quietly collect years of dust. Radiators front, top and behind. Walls spot-cleaned for genuine marks, with a careful line drawn around scuffs and nail holes that are a decorator’s job rather than a cleaner’s. Stairs, spindles and the handrail. Carpets vacuumed through, including the strip under where furniture stood, and hard floors washed edge to edge.

Two jobs sometimes need their own pass on top of the standard clean. A house with a carpet clause in the tenancy gets professional shampoo, which is the add-on covered later on this page. Furnished lets with heavy sofa wear occasionally need dedicated upholstery work rather than a hoover pass, named separately at booking so nothing gets missed on the day.

Chalk water, and what it does to a Reigate bathroom

Reigate sits on the chalk and greensand under the North Downs, and most of the town is supplied by SES Water, whose own hardness readings for this area sit firmly in the very hard band. That single fact costs more Reigate deposits than almost anything except the oven. Calcium builds on taps, shower glass and grout joints faster than most tenants expect, and a cloth alone barely touches it.

A clerk who has done Reigate for any length of time checks for it without thinking. A thumbnail run down the tap. The shower screen held at an angle to the light. The grout line read from the doorway before anyone steps into the room. Once scale has set into chrome, wiping does nothing, and on the older houses around the Castle Grounds and the High Street the original chrome or brass fittings rule out anything abrasive that a newer bathroom could shrug off.

Grout is the quieter half of the same problem. We scrub it, we do not wipe it, and where it is genuinely past saving after years of the same hard water we photograph it before we start. That dated photo means a clerk cannot bill a tenant for grout that was already grey in the check-in pictures, and it is the single most useful piece of paper in a dispute.

From the High Street to the top of the Hill: how the housing changes

Reigate is a genuine market town, not a suburb that borrowed the name. A weekly market ran on the High Street from 1279 until 1895, and the Georgian and Victorian frontages that line it now, including the corner building the Robert Leech office sits in, date from that trading history rather than from any modern development. Below the town, Priory Park holds the site of Reigate Priory, a 13th-century foundation later granted to the Howard family; the mansion inside the park is a school today, and the grounds are open to anyone. Above the High Street, the Castle Grounds mark a Norman motte raised for William de Warenne, with a Victorian folly gatehouse standing where the keep once did and a network of sandstone caves cut into the hill below it.

Walk from there and the housing changes street by street. Around the town centre, Bell Street and Doods Road, the stock is Georgian and Victorian townhouses, several still whole rather than split into flats, with the kind of picture rails and ceiling roses a clerk will name individually on the inventory. Climb Reigate Hill and Wray Common and the houses get bigger: substantial detached and semi-detached builds from the 1930s, deep skirtings, room after room of fitted storage, the odd newer executive infill on the edges. Out toward Woodhatch and Reigate Heath, past the windmill that doubles as a church, the mix loosens into 1930s suburban streets and older cottages near the heath itself.

Redhill sits a short way east and is functionally the other half of this borough: the busier transport interchange and retail centre where Reigate is the quieter historic core, and plenty of our RH1/RH2 bookings straddle the line between the two. Reigate & Banstead Borough Council runs mandatory licensing for larger houses in multiple occupation, five or more people in two or more households sharing facilities, though the borough has not introduced a selective licensing area at the time of writing; check the council’s own licensing pages before assuming either way. It is worth saying plainly: this is a fast train town first. London Bridge and Victoria are around forty minutes away, the M25 sits two minutes from Junction 8, and most of our clients are already at work, or already gone, when we arrive to clean.

What it costs, and the sums nobody runs until the deduction lands

That is our standard rate: £30 per cleaner per hour, kit and products included, no call-out charge. Where only some rooms need doing rather than a full check-out, we quote by the hour instead of the fixed tier. A house with heavy wear, a pet in residence for years, or no deep clean since the tenancy started costs more, and we say so on the phone rather than in the small print afterwards.

Run the sum the way the deposit forces you to. A three-bed at £339 protecting a deposit above £2,500 is not really a decision once you write it down. Every Reigate booking carries the 48-hour re-clean guarantee: flag anything within 48 hours and the property is still empty and unchanged, we come back and fix it free. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, our first-time pass rate sits at 97%, and across the work we have done since 2014 we have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions.

Check-in inventory

The document written on day one, photographs included, that your check-out is judged against. It is the actual benchmark, not a general idea of tidy.

End-of-tenancy clean

Built to pass that inventory and protect the deposit, done to the empty property, backed by the 48-hour guarantee, at £30 per cleaner per hour.

Deep clean

A reset for a home you are staying in, no inventory to satisfy, priced the same way but with no deposit deadline behind it.

Regular domestic clean

Ongoing weekly or fortnightly maintenance rather than a one-off, from £22 an hour on a weekly visit.

A Wray Common four-bed, done in November

“Seven years in a 1930s semi off Wray Common, three kids, one dog. I genuinely thought the deposit was gone before Monster turned up. Two cleaners, most of a day, and the thing that worried me most was a hallway carpet the dog had been sick on more than once over the years. They shampooed it twice and it came up fine. Seymours did the check-out and the report came back with nothing on it beyond a nail hole in the study. Full £2,200 back inside three weeks.
Priya D., Wray Common RH2, November 2025″

That job is a fair snapshot of the middle band of this borough: a long family tenancy, a carpet clause that mattered, and a clerk who checks properly. The clean cost a small fraction of what was actually at risk, which is usually the case once someone runs the numbers instead of guessing.

Booking it, and the month-end squeeze

Reigate check-outs bunch at month-end the same way most commuter towns do, and the slots the day before an inventory appointment go first. Book as soon as you have a date, not the week before.

1. Ring 0333 555 2076. Postcode, property size, check-out date, and anything the original check-in report flagged as new.
2. We book the slot, ideally the day before your inventory appointment. Allow 5 to 7 days for a standard booking, longer over a month-end.
3. House empty for us. Furniture and personal items cleared, because the clerk photographs an empty property and a wardrobe still in place hides the wall behind it.
4. Photo record on completion. Every room, before and after, on an itemised invoice, which is your evidence if the check-out tries to deduct anyway.
5. Anything flagged inside 48 hours, we come back and put it right at no charge.

One practical note on access. A lot of our Reigate work happens while the tenant is already at work or already moved, given the commute, so a key safe, a concierge or the letting agent holding a set is the normal arrangement. Say which one applies when you book and we plan the visit around it rather than finding out on the doorstep.

Questions we get asked

How much does an end-of-tenancy clean cost in Reigate?

A studio is £156, a one-bed £207, a two-bed £243, a three-bed £339 and a four-bed £425. Where only some rooms need doing, we quote hourly at £30 per cleaner instead of a fixed tier.

Is the oven included in the standard price?

Yes, every end-of-tenancy clean includes a full strip-down of the oven and hob. As a standalone job it is £77 for a single oven, £110 for a double and £114 for a 90cm range cooker.

Do you guarantee the clean against the inventory check?

We work to a 57-point agent-approved checklist and back it with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee. If a clerk flags something that was on our list, we come back and fix it free.

Can you guarantee I get my deposit back?

No honest cleaner can, because an adjudicator weighs the whole inventory rather than the cleaning alone. What we guarantee is the standard of the clean itself, plus a dated photo record if you need it as evidence.

Why does Reigate’s water matter for the price?

Reigate sits on the chalk and greensand under the North Downs, and SES Water rates local supply as very hard. That scales taps, shower screens and kettles faster than most tenants expect, which is why every job includes proper descaling rather than a wipe.

Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change anything for Reigate tenants?

From 1 May 2026, Section 21 evictions are abolished and existing assured shorthold tenancies converted to periodic ones, so a tenant can give two months’ notice at any point. The cleaning standard you are held to has not changed at all.

Is there a licensing scheme I should know about as a landlord?

Reigate & Banstead Borough Council requires a mandatory HMO licence for houses with five or more people in two or more households sharing facilities. The borough has not introduced a selective licensing area at the time of writing, so check the council’s current pages before assuming otherwise.

Do you cover Reigate Hill, Wray Common and Woodhatch?

Yes, the whole of RH2: Reigate Hill, Wray Common, Woodhatch, Reigate Heath, the Castle Grounds and the streets around Doods Road and Blackborough.

Is carpet cleaning included in the standard price?

Vacuuming is included as standard. Professional shampoo is an add-on where the tenancy specifies it: £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed carpeted area done together.

How far ahead should I book before check-out?

As soon as you have a date. Allow 5 to 7 days normally, longer around month-end, since that is when Reigate check-outs cluster hardest and the best slots go first.

Do you clean while furniture is still in the property?

We can, but the clerk inspects and photographs an empty property, so a check-out clean works best once the house is cleared. We can also plan around a same-day removal if the timing is tight.

What if the landlord still disputes the clean afterwards?

You escalate through the deposit protection scheme, for example mydeposits, with our invoice and dated photo record as evidence. A documented professional clean rarely loses that argument outright.

Which letting agents do you work with in Reigate?

We are on the books of 300+ letting agents nationally, and locally that includes regular work through Robert Leech, Seymours and Hamptons, plus a number of Reigate independents. Agent-specific inventory quirks are briefed to the cleaning team where they apply.

Do you cover houses as well as flats?

Yes, everything from a town-centre studio to the larger detached houses on Reigate Hill. The checklist stays the same; the price follows the bedroom count and the property’s actual condition.

Get a price

Call 0333 555 2076 and we will price the job in a few minutes: postcode, property size, check-out date, and any known problem areas. Out of hours, email [email protected] and someone gets back to you first thing. A couple of photos of the kitchen and bathrooms sharpen the quote, and if your Reigate check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway. We will tell you honestly what is possible.