Roxeth end of tenancy cleaning

Roxeth is the old hamlet at the foot of Harrow-on-the-Hill, the crossroads the maps still mark as Roxeth Corner, where the roads meet below Roxeth Hill and Christ Church looks down Northolt Road. A clerk walking a let here is reading the building before they read the contents, and on the bay-fronted terraces that climb the hill that means the high, quiet surfaces nobody dusts while they live somewhere. Get those right and the deposit conversation is short.

Last updated June 2026. We cover Roxeth, South Harrow and the rest of HA2, plus the HA1 edge towards Harrow-on-the-Hill. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Harrow.

What a Roxeth clerk reads before they read the rooms

Start with the mechanism, because hardly anyone does. When you moved in, an inventory clerk walked the flat with a camera and wrote down the state of every surface, usually with the words “good” or “clean” against the kitchen and bathroom because the place had just been turned over between tenants. At check-out a clerk walks it again and compares, line by line, photo by photo. Anything materially worse than that first report, past fair wear and tear, can come off your deposit. You are not being marked against a tidy home. You are being marked against a file.

Three faults drive most of the deductions we see on the South Harrow rounds, and they barely change from one let to the next. Hard-water scale on the bathroom chrome and the shower glass, because the supply here is genuinely heavy and a wipe does nothing to it. Grease film on the kitchen units and the extractor, the slow kind that builds in any home where people cook. And dust on the surfaces nobody looks at, which in the older Roxeth terraces means the picture rails, the cornice and the tops of the doors. None of the three is hard to clean. All three are easy to miss on the same week you are carrying boxes down to a van on Northolt Road.

It helps to be honest about why this keeps happening. A tenant cleans the way they have lived in a place, at eye level and floor level, the surfaces a hand actually touches. A clerk does the opposite on purpose. They were handed a set of check-in photographs months or years back, and their whole task at the end is to find where today does not match that record. So they look up, they look behind, they open the cupboard you forgot had a back wall. The grey fur along a Roxeth picture rail did not arrive in the last fortnight. It settled slowly, invisibly, across the whole tenancy, and it only becomes money the moment a clerk raises a torch to it with a printed photo in the other hand. That mismatch is the entire game.

You are not being marked against a tidy home. You are being marked against a file.

What 2 May 2026 changed for a Roxeth landlord

Two separate things landed in spring 2026, and people in HA2 keep blending them into one. They are not the same, and only one touches your clean.

The national one first. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault eviction is gone, and every existing assured shorthold tenancy in England has shifted onto a periodic, rolling footing, so a tenant can give two months’ notice at any point in the year rather than waiting out a fixed term. Read the deposit rules, though, and nothing moved. Your deposit still sits in a government-backed scheme. A landlord still cannot make a blanket cleaning charge. Any deduction still has to be evidenced against the check-in inventory and reflect fair wear and tear, not a wish for the flat to look newer than the day you arrived. The effect of the Act on a Roxeth move-out is timing and churn, not the standard of the clean.

The local one is the quirk that catches landlords here, and tenants should know it sits in the background too. Harrow Council has brought in fresh selective licensing, and the Roxeth ward is one of the wards covered, with the designation starting on 2 May 2026 and running for five years. An older scheme covering Roxbourne and Roxeth ran from 2018, lasted its five years and lapsed, so this is the council coming back to the area rather than a first attempt. Under selective licensing a privately rented home in the ward let to a single household, or to two unrelated sharers, needs a licence from the council, and that sits on top of the borough-wide additional licensing for smaller shared houses, whose current designation is itself up for renewal during 2026. The practical link to cleaning is simple. A licensed landlord is an inspected landlord, and inspected landlords tend to hold the end of tenancy clean to the letter, because their own paperwork leans on the property’s condition. Harrow’s licensing pages block automated readers, so we will not link them here, but the council’s housing team will confirm whether a given Roxeth address is in scope.

So book a touch earlier than you used to. That is the whole takeaway.

Why the bathroom loses more deposits than the kitchen here

This is the single most common reason a Roxeth landlord who cleaned the place themselves rings us afterwards. The supply across HA2 comes from Affinity Water, drawn through chalk, and the Harrow South zone runs at roughly 363 mg/l of calcium carbonate, well into the very-hard band and harder than most of London. In a flat that means the bathroom is the battleground. Chrome taps haze over, a shower screen goes a permanent milky white, the kettle furs, and the inside of the dishwasher crusts. A quick spray and a cloth shifts almost none of a year of that.

What we actually do is slower than a spray. We work the screen, the taps, the grout lines and the appliance with a proper descaler, leave it to dwell, and go back to it twice, until the glass reads clear against the check-in photo rather than just a bit less foggy. Where it has etched into old chrome, which happens on the period fittings up towards the Hill, we say so rather than promise a miracle, because honest beats optimistic when a clerk is going to look anyway. The kettle and the dishwasher get the same treatment if the inventory lists them.

The 57 points, room by room, tuned to this stock

Every booking runs to the same 57-point checklist, built over a decade of these check-outs and weighted towards what Harrow clerks actually flag. The full list comes with the job, and we will walk you through it before we start. Here is the shape of it.

The kitchen

Oven cleaned inside, the door glass split apart so the brown film between the panes comes out, racks and trays done. Hob, splashback and the grille behind it degreased. Extractor housing and filter, which is the part an agent checks first in a compact South Harrow flat. Fridge and freezer cleaned inside, defrosted, doors and seals wiped. Cupboards emptied and cleaned inside and out, including the greasy run beside the cooker that gets skipped most. Sink and taps descaled, scale taken off the spout and the base. Floor washed and edged.

The bathroom

Shower screen, tiles and grout descaled until the glass is clear, not cloudy. Taps, mixer and showerhead brought back to bright metal. Toilet done around the base, the cistern and the hinges, the bowl being the easy part. Bath and basin scrubbed, the sealant checked for mould. Extractor vent dusted, mirror and shelves cleaned, floor washed into the corners.

Bedrooms and living rooms

This is where the Roxeth terraces are won or lost. Picture rails, cornice, dado and the tops of doors and skirting all hand-dusted, because that is where a period-property check-out fails. Inside the airing cupboard if there is one, slatted shelves and the back wall, since the clerk opens it and the tenant rarely does. Skirting wiped, wardrobes and drawers cleaned inside, marks lifted off paintwork where they come away without taking the colour. Windows cleaned inside, sills and frames wiped. Carpets vacuumed right to the gripper edge, hard floors washed.

Throughout

Light switches, sockets, radiators, skirting and door frames through the whole place. Internal glass, cobwebs off the ceiling line, the hallway and any stairs in a split house, and the inside of the front door, which clerks do check. Bin store left clean where it is yours to deal with.

Check-in inventory

The report a clerk writes on day one, surface by surface, with photos. It is the benchmark the whole check-out is judged against, which is why we clean to it rather than to a vague idea of clean.

End of tenancy clean

The clean built to pass that inventory and get a deposit back, done with the flat empty, carrying the 48-hour re-clean guarantee.

Deep clean

A heavy reset for a home you are staying in, kitchen and bathroom hit hard, but measured against nothing and with no deposit riding on it.

Regular domestic clean

Ongoing upkeep week to week, a different service with a different rate.

Christ Church to the station: how the report changes street by street

We clean across the whole of Roxeth and South Harrow. The patches we are on most weeks:

• Roxeth Hill and the older houses climbing towards Harrow-on-the-Hill
• Christ Church Roxeth and the terraces immediately around it
• Northolt Road and the flats above the parade shops
• Roxeth Corner and the roads fanning off the crossroads
• Lower Road, down by the old brickworks line
• Roxeth Green Avenue and the streets off it
• Kingsley Road and the roads by Roxeth Recreation Ground
• The interwar semis between Northolt Road and South Harrow station
• The flats near South Harrow tube on the Piccadilly line

What a clerk flags here splits cleanly by the age of the brick, and after enough years on these rounds we can almost call the report before it lands. The name itself is a worn-down “Rooks Heath”, and the crossroads at the foot of the Hill was built up early on brick from the works in Lower Road, so the oldest stock here is properly old. In the Victorian and Edwardian terraces near Christ Church and along the lower end of Northolt Road it is the period detail every time: the picture rail, the cornice, the dado, the tops of the deep skirting and the original doors, all collecting a film the tenant never sees because nobody looks up at home. In the 1930s bay-fronted semis up towards the Hill it is the bays and the airing cupboard, because the clerk opens that cupboard and checks the slatted shelves and the back wall. In the conversions and the flats above the Northolt Road shops, and the newer blocks by the station, it is the hard-water marking on the shower glass and the chrome, plus the oven, because small kitchens get worked hard.

One more local wrinkle worth knowing. The ground tilts hard here. Roxeth Hill climbs steeply from the crossroads up towards Harrow-on-the-Hill and Harrow School, and the older terraces sit on that gradient, so a fair number have a half-cellar or a deep void under the stairs that the inventory lists and the tenant forgets exists. We check it. The flats over the parade by contrast are flat-floored and compact, and there it is the kitchen and the bathroom that decide the deposit, never the floor space. Knowing which Roxeth street you are on usually tells us where the report is going before we have read a line of it. This is also where Roxeth and its neighbours genuinely differ on the ground: the streets around Roxbourne and out towards Rayners Lane are more uniformly between-the-wars suburban, while the Roxeth core mixes that interwar belt with a much older Victorian hamlet, which is why the two ends of HA2 throw up different faults.

Knowing which Roxeth street you are on usually tells us where the report is going before we have read a line of it.

What it costs, and the sum people run too late

Pricing is flat by property size and we quote it straight, with no per-room surprises sprung on the day. Studios start at £156. One-beds are £207. Two-beds £243. Three-beds £339. Four-beds £425. Roxeth sits at our standard HA2 rate, with none of the central-London premium some London postcodes carry, so those are the figures full stop, never dressed up as a discount. If you would rather book by time, it is £30 per cleaner per hour. Carpet shampoo is an add-on at £36 a bedroom, £43 for a living room, or £115 for whole-flat carpet on a two-bed. Oven cleaning is already inside the end of tenancy clean, but as a standalone it is £77 for a single, £110 for a double, or £114 for a 90cm range. A converted one-bed off Roxeth Hill with light carpet, then, comes to £207 plus £36, settled before we start so there is nothing to argue about after.

Run the sum the way the deposit makes you. A one-bed at £207 to protect a deposit that on a Roxeth let is commonly five weeks of rent is not really a decision, and most tenants only do that arithmetic after they have tried, failed the check-out, and lost the cheap first round. Over the years that work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions, we hold a 97% first-time pass rate on the inventory checks we are told the result of, and we are on the books of 300+ letting agents across London, a fair few of them firms running lets along Northolt Road. The 57-point checklist is the one clerks inspect against, which is the entire reason we use it.

We are Companies House registered as Monster Cleaning Ltd, number 9919639, working since 2014. The point of the figures is dull but real: a Roxeth landlord who has had three flats cleaned this way knows the check-out tends to go through, and that is what brings the next booking, not the marketing.

A flat off Roxeth Hill, back in May

“I had a converted one-bed just off Roxeth Hill, near Christ Church, ten months on my own, and I thought I had it covered after a weekend on the kitchen and bathroom. What I had completely missed was the dust. The cornice, the picture rail and the tops of every door had a grey fur I could not see at all until the cleaner ran a torch along it, and the check-in report had close-ups of the lot. One cleaner spent the best part of an hour just on the rails and the door tops, then touched in the scuffed paint behind the sofa. The agent on Northolt Road ran the inventory the next morning and signed it off with nothing taken. I had braced to lose a couple of hundred pounds and lost none of it.”
Priya M., Roxeth HA2, May 2026

That job is a fair example of the pattern down by the church: a tidy single tenant, a clean-looking flat, and a check-out that turned entirely on the high surfaces and a dated photo set going out with the invoice. The clean cost a fraction of the deposit. It usually does.

Booking it without losing the slot

1. Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the Roxeth or South Harrow postcode and the number of bedrooms.
2. We give a fixed price on the call. No survey visit, no vague estimate.
3. We book a slot, ideally the day before your check-out so the flat is clean when the clerk walks in.
4. The team cleans to the 57-point checklist. Most one and two-bed flats here are a half to a full day.
5. Anything the clerk flags that we cleaned, tell us inside 48 hours and we come back and put it right at no charge, as long as nobody has moved in.

One honest note on the day itself. Northolt Road and the streets off it are controlled parking in stretches, and the older terraces up the hill are narrow, so tell us the arrangement when you book, whether that is a bay, a visitor permit or a drop-off, and confirm how we get in. Sorting that in advance takes the sting out of a move-out morning. If you want the move and the clean on one booking, our removals team can take that on too, which helps a lot where several van trips down a tight street turn into a problem.

End of tenancy against the cleans people confuse it with

People book the wrong one all the time, so it is worth being plain. A regular clean keeps a home you live in ticking over. A deep clean is a heavy reset for a home you are staying in, kitchen and bathroom worked hard but measured against nothing. An end of tenancy clean is the only one of the three judged against a document, the check-in inventory, with your deposit riding on the comparison. It is the most thorough and the only one that gets the money back, which is why it costs what it costs and why the others are not a substitute for it.

Questions we get asked

Do you guarantee my deposit back?

We guarantee the clean, not the landlord’s decision. We work to the 57-point agent-approved checklist and back it with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee, so if the inventory clerk flags anything we cleaned we come back and redo it free. Deductions for damage, unpaid rent or items we were not asked to touch sit outside our control, but the cleaning standard is on us.

How much is end of tenancy cleaning in Roxeth?

Studios start at £156, one-beds £207, two-beds £243, three-beds £339 and four-beds £425. Roxeth is charged at our standard HA2 rate with no central-London premium. Carpet shampoo and standalone oven cleaning are add-ons, and you get a fixed price on the phone before anyone turns up, with nothing added per room on the day.

Is the oven included or charged separately?

It is included in the end of tenancy clean as standard, cleaned inside with the door glass split and degreased. It is only a separate charge if you want the oven done on its own without the full tenancy clean, in which case it is £77 single, £110 double, or £114 for a 90cm range.

Why does hard water keep coming up for South Harrow flats?

Because it is the most common reason a Roxeth check-out fails on a flat the tenant cleaned themselves. The Affinity Water supply across HA2 runs around 363 mg/l of calcium carbonate, very hard, and it hazes chrome and shower glass in a way ordinary spray will not shift. We descale it properly so the glass reads clear against the check-in photo.

Does the Roxeth selective licensing scheme affect my clean?

Not the clean itself, but it affects how strictly it is enforced. The Roxeth ward falls under selective licensing from 2 May 2026, so most privately rented homes there need a council licence. Licensed landlords are inspected and tend to hold the end of tenancy clean to the exact standard in the inventory, which is the standard we work to anyway.

Do you bring your own equipment and products?

Yes. The team arrives with all the machines, cloths and products, including the descaler we need for the very-hard Harrow water. You do not need to leave anything behind, and we would rather use our own kit so the result is consistent.

How long does a Roxeth clean take?

A studio or one-bed is usually a half day. A two or three-bed is most of a day. A larger or heavily used house, or one with a lot of scale and period detail to hand-dust up towards the Hill, can run longer, and we would rather take the time than rush a check-out clean.

Do I need to be there during the clean?

No. Most tenants give us access and go and deal with the move. We can collect and return keys with a local agent on Northolt Road if you have already handed them over, as long as that is arranged in advance.

Can you clean the carpets in the same visit?

Yes. Carpet shampoo is an add-on at £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for whole-flat carpet on a two-bed, done in the same visit so the carpets are visibly clean and dried for the inventory check rather than booked as a separate trip.

Do you clean inside the kitchen cupboards and the fridge?

Yes, both, inside and out, emptied first. The fridge and freezer are cleaned and defrosted, seals included. Cupboards are done inside as well as the doors, including the greasy strip next to the cooker that gets missed most often.

What if the landlord still disputes a deduction after a re-clean?

Take it to the deposit scheme’s free adjudication. Our dated invoice, the before-and-after photos and the re-clean record are admissible evidence, and a tenant with a full professional-clean paper trail rarely loses. Shelter’s guidance on getting a deposit back walks through the steps, and your deposit will be held with a scheme such as the Tenancy Deposit Scheme.

Which areas around Roxeth do you cover?

All of Roxeth and South Harrow, the streets off Northolt Road, Roxeth Hill and Roxeth Corner, up to Harrow-on-the-Hill, across HA2 and the wider London Borough of Harrow, including the roads out towards Roxbourne and Rayners Lane.

How do I book and how fast do you reply?

Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with your postcode and bedroom count. We reply the same day in most cases, give a fixed price on the spot, and can usually fit a clean in within a few days, sooner around the busy month-end check-out dates if you call early.

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