Royal Hill end of tenancy cleaning, done properly

The first thing an inventory clerk does in a Royal Hill flat is look up. Tenants clean what they can reach standing in the room; the clerk gets back, finds the picture rail and cornice nobody has touched in two years, and photographs the grey line against the check-in shot. So an end of tenancy clean here, from Monster Cleaning Ltd, is built around detail at ceiling height, the original timber underfoot and the hard-water scale in these period bathrooms. A two-bed period flat off Royal Hill is £243, a studio £156 and a four-bed townhouse £425, all to a 57-point agent-approved checklist with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee, and £30 per hour per cleaner on a part job. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price in about three minutes.

Last updated June 2026. We cover Royal Hill and central Greenwich across SE10, from SE10 8AA. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Greenwich.

How the check-in report quietly decides your deposit

Start with the mechanism, because hardly anyone does, and it is the whole game. When you moved into your Royal Hill flat, a clerk walked it and wrote a report describing every surface, usually with photos, often with the words “good” or “as new” against the joinery, the bathroom and the cornice. Those words were true on the day, because the place had just been turned around and cleaned to a standard. At check-out a clerk walks it again and compares the flat line by line against that report. Anything materially worse than the check-in entry, past fair wear and tear, is chargeable against your deposit. You are marked against a recorded professional standard, which is why a tidy flat and a free weekend rarely get you there in a house like these.

The clerk does not grade effort. They photograph the surface, set the shot next to the check-in picture, and write a line. Cleaning is the single most disputed category in the deposit-scheme figures year after year, and the one a proper clean settles, because the dispute turns on evidence rather than opinion. On the Greenwich hand-backs we get called in to rescue, the deductions land in a familiar pattern: the picture rail and cornice, the tops of the doors, the scaled bathroom fittings, the gaps behind the appliances, and the carpet edge against the skirting.

The money here is not small. Central-Greenwich rents make these deposits worth arguing over, and the agent is on the hook for protecting one that sits in a scheme, which makes the inspection genuinely careful. It just means you turn up with a clean that matches the report, and the evidence to prove it did.

Two things sit behind this in law. A landlord cannot make professional cleaning a contractual condition, so nobody can force you to book us. Damp and mould, though, are a landlord’s repair obligation rather than a tenant cleaning failure, so where we find something structural in a cold corner we photograph it and the charge sits where it belongs. The deposit has to be protected in a government-backed scheme, and the government’s deposit-protection guidance sets out where the fair-wear line falls.

Why the money is at ceiling height on Royal Hill

The period stock here makes a check-out harder than a new-build, and it does it in a specific way. These are tall rooms. The flats carved out of the Georgian and early-Victorian houses on Royal Hill, Crooms Hill and the Gloucester Circus crescent have high ceilings, deep plaster cornice, picture rails and tall doors, and that is precisely the run of surfaces a tenant never reaches on a normal week. Two years of dust settles on top of the picture rail, along the cornice and on the architrave above the doors, and it reads grey against white plaster in the long afternoon light these rooms get. The clerk knows it, and checks it first.

Then the rug comes up. Original boards and parquet are common in this conservation stock, kept rather than replaced because the West Greenwich rules discourage ripping them out, and the strip that lived under a rug is a different colour to the strip everyone walked on. A clerk lifts the rug, gets down with a torch, and that worn track is one of the most reliable deductions in SE10. We bring the height work and the floor back to one finish: cornice and architraves dusted and wiped, boards and parquet cleaned along the grain and buffed so the protected patch and the walked patch match.

Tenants clean what they can reach standing up; the clerk looks up with a torch.

None of this is clever work. It is slow work at height and on hands and knees, done in the clerk’s order. We win these check-outs on the dull detail, not on anything flash.

What Thames Water hardness does to a Greenwich bathroom

SE10 sits in London’s hard-water zone, and that one fact loses more deposits in a Greenwich bathroom than almost anything except the oven. The supply across Royal Hill is Thames Water, which runs very hard, around 290 milligrams of calcium carbonate per litre on the London average. Scale builds on taps, the showerhead, the screen and the tile joints faster than tenants expect, and a wipe with a cloth does nothing to it. The clerk checks for it: a thumbnail down the tap, the shower screen held edge-on against the light, the showerhead pulled in close.

Scale that has set into chrome is not a quick job, and a clouded screen or a chalky tap line is an easy, photographable deduction. We take the screens, taps, showerhead and tile grout back to clear with a proper scale remover and physical effort rather than a sponge and hope, then dry and buff so nothing returns a film by the afternoon walk-through. Where the grout or sealant is genuinely past saving in a long tenancy, we photograph its state before we start, so the clerk cannot bill you for wear that was there at check-in. That dated photo has settled more disputes than any argument has.

Specialist surfaces sit outside the scrub-and-go work. Original parquet in a Crooms Hill flat or a Victorian tiled hallway takes its own product, which is what floor cleaning is for, and exterior glass on a tall flat is a separate job, folded into the same visit through window cleaning when the inventory asks.

Room by room, top to bottom, in a period flat

Every Royal Hill booking runs to a 57-point checklist tuned to what this borough’s clerks flag, and the full list comes with the job. Here is the shape of it, in the order the work goes.

The kitchen is where a lot of Greenwich deposits go, so it gets the most time. The oven is stripped, not wiped: racks into a soaking tank, the door glass split apart so the brown film between the panels comes out, and the interior, fan and seals all done. The hob, splashback and extractor are degreased, the filter soaked or swapped, and every cupboard and drawer cleaned inside and out. Fridge and freezer are cleaned through once defrosted, appliances pulled out so the gaps behind and under them are done, then put back, and the washing machine drum, drawer and door seal scrubbed, because the seal is the first thing some clerks open. Sink, taps and plughole are descaled, tiles and grout scrubbed, and the floor mopped.

Bathrooms are the other place it goes wrong, and the work there is mostly the descaling already described, taken methodically through every fitting: the toilet inside, under the rim, around the base and behind the pedestal where nobody looks but the clerk; the shower screen both sides, tracks and sealant bead included; the bath, taps, overflow and plughole, with the careful approach on any original chrome; mirrors and cabinets cleaned, the extractor vent wiped, and the floor taken into the corners.

Bedrooms and living rooms are where the height work earns its keep. Inside every wardrobe, drawer and built-in cupboard is wiped, and skirting, door frames, handles and finger plates are done. Light fittings, switches and the ceiling roses these period flats carry are cleaned, because a ceiling rose holds years of dust and always gets checked. Sills, reveals and the inside of the box-sash frames need slow, careful work, and radiators are done behind, under and on top. Walls are spot-wiped for marks, with a realistic line drawn, because nail holes and scuffs are a decorator’s bill and not yours. Hard floors are washed with the right product, original timber and parquet along the grain, and carpets hoovered through, with a deeper treatment available where the check-in report calls for it. Then the stairs and bannister, cobwebs out of the high corners, and a final walk-through photographed before and after. That photo set is the evidence you keep.

Royal Hill, the crescent and the hill: the stock changes street by street

Royal Hill is the village-feel street climbing south out of the town centre, and it is not the tourist Greenwich. Drings the butcher at 22 Royal Hill, the Cheeseboard at number 26 with thirty-odd years behind it, and the Richard I a few doors up at 52 to 54 are the giveaway: this is a residential pocket with its own independent parade, not the market and the river. Most of what we clean here is the housing people actually rent, and it changes as you move across the few hundred yards of it. One method does not pass all of it, so we treat it street by street.

Around the Royal Hill shops the stock is period flats and conversions: the upper- and garden-floor flats above and behind the shopfronts, a run of mansion flats near the town centre, and the smaller cottages off the main street. These are dense and high-churn, and the inventory schedules name the original cornice, the joinery and the box-sash windows individually.

Gloucester Circus is the showpiece, the Georgian crescent laid out by the architect Michael Searles from 1790, its southern terrace of twenty-two stock-brick houses Grade II listed and wrapped round a private communal garden. The flats inside carry the grandest period detail in the pocket, plaster cornice, ceiling roses, tall windows and original boards, and nothing aggressive goes near original paint or plaster on a job like this. The crescent is closely watched: the council’s planning committee refused an extension to the last single-storey house on the southern side in March 2026, to keep the historic gap in the terrace. A scratched original architrave is a bigger deduction than a missed oven.

Crooms Hill runs up the west side of Greenwich Park towards Blackheath, the oldest residential street here, with houses built piecemeal from the seventeenth century onwards, the Fan Museum in a pair of 1721 houses and Greenwich Theatre at the top end. The flats along it are tall, old and individual, and reward slow, surface-by-surface work. Circus Street runs between, with older terraces and a newer development at its market end. Pick your patch: the streets feeding off Greenwich Town centre next door, the riverside flats over at Greenwich Peninsula, the period and ex-council mix in Deptford, or the grand houses up the hill in Blackheath.

Not sure which side of a boundary your flat sits, or whether it counts as central Greenwich? Ring 0333 555 2076 with the postcode and we will tell you in about ten seconds.

What it costs, and the sum the deposit makes for you

Royal Hill runs at our standard SE10 pricing, set out below. A two-bed period flat is £243 and a four-bed townhouse £425, with kit, products and travel inside the area included, and the full tiers are in the table. Those are flat prices agreed before we start, not a day rate that creeps, and part jobs billed by time run at £30 per hour per cleaner. Central Greenwich is not cheap, but the figure here is the same SE10 rate we quote everywhere; we would rather win the work than pad the quote.

Add-ons sit on top, only if you want them. Carpet shampoo is £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for the whole carpeted area of a two-bed in the same visit, and a standalone deep oven is £77 for a single, £110 for a double and £114 for a 90cm range cooker. Those figures assume a flat in normal lived-in shape. A long tenancy with heavy wear, a pet household, or somewhere not deep-cleaned in years costs more, and we say so on the phone rather than after, with no surprise lines on the invoice.

Run the sum the way the deposit makes you. A two-bed clean at £243 to protect a deposit running into the thousands on central-Greenwich rents is not really a decision. Every Royal Hill booking carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if the clerk flags any cleanliness issue inside 48 hours, we come back and put it right free, as long as you tell us inside that window and the flat is in the state we left it. Our pass rate across SE10 jobs sits near 97%, and the guarantee is the safety net under it. 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.

A flat near Gloucester Circus, earlier this year

“We rented the top two floors of a Georgian house near Gloucester Circus for three years, a professional couple, no pets, and we genuinely thought we had it covered after a full weekend of cleaning. What we had completely missed was the fine dust along the cornice and the picture rails, which we honestly could not see from the floor, and a band of grime worked into the original boards by the front windows. That floor was exactly where the John Payne clerk got down with a torch. Two Monster cleaners spent most of a day on it, took the rails and cornice back to clean plaster and brought the boards back so the worn strip and the rest matched. Full deposit back, not a penny held on cleaning.”
Hannah, Royal Hill SE10, March 2026

That is the pattern here: a long tenancy, tall rooms with detail nobody had cleaned at height, an original floor under a rug, and an agent whose clerk checks properly. The clean cost a fraction of what was at stake. What turned it was the dated photo set that went out with the invoice, the part most do-it-yourself check-outs never have when the agent pushes back.

Booking it, access, and the month-end pinch

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

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 check-in report marked “good” or “as new”.
2. We book you in, ideally the day before check-out with a buffer. 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, belongings gone, rubbish cleared. We also do removals if you want the move and the clean on one booking, which helps on Royal Hill’s permit-parking streets where several van trips turn into a problem.
4. Photo proof at the end. Every room, before and after, with an itemised invoice on company-headed 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.

Access here is its own job. Many of these are upper-floor conversions with a shared period stair and no lift, parking is permit-controlled or metered around the town centre, and the one-way streets near the market are slow. Confirm how we get in, whether that is a key, a key safe or an agent drop-off, and flag a tight handover slot. On foot, Greenwich rail and DLR, Cutty Sark on the DLR and the buses on the high road all land within a short walk.

Which clean is which, and the rest of the work

A Royal Hill move-out often pulls in more than the core clean, and three jobs get muddled, so it is worth booking the right one. Carpet cleaning is the common add-on, sometimes a contractual line in a Greenwich tenancy rather than an extra. Oven cleaning is in every end of tenancy job as standard, and also stands alone from £77 if that is all the agent flagged. Upholstery cleaning covers furnished lets.

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 and not 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, at £30 an hour where billed by time.

Deep clean

A deep clean resets a home you are keeping, with no formal standard to hit, also from £30 an hour.

Regular domestic clean

A regular domestic clean is ongoing upkeep, weekly or fortnightly, from £22 an hour.

If a Greenwich agent or landlord has asked for an end of tenancy or check-out clean, a deep clean is not the same product and a clerk will treat it differently. Book the end of tenancy one.

Questions we get asked

How much is an end of tenancy clean on Royal Hill?

A studio is £156, a one-bed £207 and a two-bed £243, which is where most of the period flats around Royal Hill sit. A three-bed is £339 and a four-bed townhouse £425. Those are flat prices for a property in normal lived-in shape, with kit, products and travel inside SE10 included, and part jobs billed by time run at £30 per hour per cleaner. Royal Hill is central Greenwich, but the figure is our standard SE10 rate, not a postcode loading.

Do you clean the period conversions on Royal Hill and Gloucester Circus?

Yes, they are most of what we do here. The upper-floor and garden-floor flats carved out of the Georgian and early-Victorian houses on Royal Hill, around the Gloucester Circus crescent and along Crooms Hill are the bread and butter of our SE10 work. The tall rooms, the plaster cornice, the original joinery and the box-sash windows are exactly the surfaces an inventory clerk checks first, and they are what we clean by hand and slowly.

Is Royal Hill on hard water, and does that change the clean?

Yes, and it does. The whole of SE10 is supplied by Thames Water, which runs very hard across London, around 290 milligrams of calcium carbonate per litre. Scale builds on shower glass, tap bases, the showerhead and inside the toilet faster than people expect, and a Greenwich clerk checks those points early. We descale every wet area with a proper scale remover, then dry and buff the chrome clear, because a clouded screen photographs as neglect.

How long before the check-out should I book?

The clean sits best the day before the inventory check, so nothing is used after we finish and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee has room to work. Move-outs cluster on the last few days of the month, and a tall period flat needs more cleaner-hours than a compact modern one, so the day-before slots at month-end go first. Give us a week to ten days for a month-end Royal Hill booking, and three to five days mid-month.

Which Greenwich letting agents do you work with?

We clean to inventory-clerk standard rather than to one agent’s house style, so the bar is the same whoever manages your SE10 flat. John Payne on Greenwich High Road and Felicity J Lord on Greenwich South Street both run a lot of the period lettings around Royal Hill, their clerks work to the original schedule of condition, and we are on the books of 300+ letting agents across our patch.

Is my Royal Hill let covered by a Greenwich licensing scheme?

Possibly, and it does not change the clean. The Royal Borough of Greenwich runs a borough-wide additional HMO licensing scheme from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2028, covering houses shared by three or more people from more than one household. Its selective licensing for single-household lets sits in the eastern wards around Woolwich and Plumstead, not central Greenwich. A period house off Royal Hill split into enough flats can still need that HMO licence, but the hand-back standard is the same either way.

Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change my deposit position?

Not the cleaning side. From 1 May 2026 it ended fixed terms and Section 21 no-fault evictions, and existing assured shorthold tenancies converted to periodic ones. Your deposit still sits in a government-backed scheme, the cap is unchanged, and a clean below the check-in standard can still be charged for. The effect in Greenwich is timing: more frequent, less predictable move-outs, so the slot you want is harder to get if you leave it late.

What does the 48-hour re-clean guarantee actually cover?

It covers anything on the 57-point agent-approved checklist that the inventory clerk marks as not clean within 48 hours of us finishing. We come back and re-do that item free, as long as nobody has moved in and the flat is in the state we left it. It does not cover damage or wear that is not a cleaning fault. That guarantee is part of why we hold a 97% first-time pass rate in SE10.

Do I need to be there while you clean, and does the flat need to be empty?

You do not need to be there; most clients leave a key or arrange access through the agent. The flat does need to be empty, because the surfaces a clerk checks are the cornice line, the window reveals, the insides of cupboards and the floor edges, and a half-furnished room blocks the lot. On the upper-floor conversions with a long shared stair and no lift, tell us at booking so we plan the kit and timing around it.

How do I get a price for my Royal Hill clean?

Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with your SE10 postcode, the property size and your check-out date. You get a fixed price from the figures on this page, not an hourly guess that drifts on the day. A couple of photos of the kitchen, the bathroom and the ceiling detail sharpen it, and if your check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway and we will do what we can.

Get a price

Call 0333 555 2076 and we price the job in three minutes. Postcode, property size, check-out date, any known problem areas, that is the lot. Out of hours, email [email protected] and someone calls you back first thing. A couple of photos of the kitchen, the bathroom and the worst of the ceiling detail sharpen the quote, which helps most on the bigger flats around Gloucester Circus and Crooms Hill. If your check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway and we will do what we can.

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