Rushey Green’s end of tenancy cleaning team

The first thing the clerk does on a Rushey Green flat is run a thumbnail across the bathroom taps, because the water here leaves a chalky crust that a damp cloth will not shift. You are a few hundred yards from the giant fibreglass cat grinning over the Catford Centre, in the part of Catford where the high street, the gyratory and the Broadway Theatre all sit on top of each other, and the flats above and behind that din turn over fast. We clean end-of-tenancy flats and houses right across Rushey Green and the SE6 streets around it, to a 57-point agent-approved checklist, from £156 with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price.

Last updated June 2026. We cover the SE6 streets around Rushey Green and the Catford town centre, and the edges toward Hither Green, Catford South and Bellingham. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Lewisham.

How the check-out report quietly settles your deposit

Start with the document, because almost nobody does, and it decides everything. When you moved in, a clerk walked the flat and wrote an inventory: every surface described, usually photographed, the kitchen and bathroom marked clean or as new because the place had just been done. At the end a clerk walks it again and reads the new state against the old one, line by line. Anything materially worse than the check-in entry, past fair wear and tear, can come off your deposit. You are being measured against a professional clean, which is why a mop and a free Saturday rarely gets you over the line.

The money is not vague. Cleaning has been the single most common deposit deduction at the end of an assured tenancy for years, and it is also the easiest one to argue about, because the words “not professionally cleaned” are a judgement one person writes against an inventory another person took, often two or three years before you started packing boxes. Your deposit was placed in one of the three government-backed schemes within thirty days of you paying it, by law. When you hand the keys back the landlord or agent proposes any deductions, and if you disagree the scheme’s free adjudicator decides, weighing the check-in report, the check-out report and the evidence each side puts up.

Here is the part that pays for itself. The burden of proving a deduction sits with the landlord, not with you, and a dated, photographed check-out clean is the thing that wins those adjudications. You only have to return the property in the condition it was checked in at, less fair wear and tear. A carpet thinning along a hallway over two years is wear. A carpet that was never cleaned, scale left to set hard, an oven nobody opened between tenancies: that is the property not handed back as it was found, and it is chargeable. The deposit rules, and how to dispute a deduction, are set out by the Tenancy Deposit Scheme and mydeposits, and Shelter’s guidance on deposits walks a tenant through the steps.

What hard water does to a bathroom on the A21

Rushey Green is the stretch of the A21 that runs north to south through the middle of Catford, meeting the A205 South Circular at the gyratory by the Town Hall, and the whole of SE6 is supplied by Thames Water. The water here is hard, drawn off chalk, around 300 parts per million of calcium carbonate, which is firmly in the very hard band. You see the proof on every kettle, every shower screen and every tap from one end of the high street to the other.

That single fact loses more deposits in this corner of Lewisham than almost anything except the oven. Scale builds on taps, shower heads, screens and tile joints faster than tenants expect, and a wipe with a cloth does nothing to it. A clerk who works SE6 knows this and goes looking. They run a nail down the tap, they look at the shower screen edge-on against the light, they check around the toilet base where a chalky ring sets. Cloudy glass and a crust round the taps are a near-certain deduction if they are still there at check-out, so we strip them back with a proper scale remover rather than a once-over that lasts a fortnight.

The descaling is part of the standard clean here, not an extra, because in SE6 it is not optional.

Grout is the quieter version of the same problem. Kitchen and bathroom grout is the line between a pass and a deduction more often than anything to do with carpets, so we scrub it rather than wipe it, and where it has genuinely gone past saving on a long let we photograph the state before we start. A dated photo settles more disputes than any argument does, because a clerk cannot bill you for grey grout that was already grey in the check-in pictures. The descaling is part of the standard clean here, not an extra, because in SE6 it is not optional.

Why a Rushey Green address gets inspected harder than most

Rushey Green sits in the London Borough of Lewisham, and the Rushey Green ward is specifically named inside the council’s selective licensing scheme. Central government approved that scheme on 30 November 2023, it came into force on 1 July 2024, and it runs to 30 June 2029. It sits in the first of three designations, alongside Brockley, Catford South, Lewisham Central, New Cross and Perry Vale, and it means a privately rented home let to a single household or two sharers needs a licence. Running underneath it is an additional HMO licensing scheme that has covered every ward in the borough since 5 April 2022 and runs to 4 April 2027, catching the smaller shared houses.

Why does that matter to you on the way out? Because where a property is licensable the landlord carries enforceable duties on its condition and standards, and a landlord already inside a licensing regime tends to be stricter about hand-back, and the clerks who work those addresses inspect harder. It does not change a single thing we clean. It changes how closely the clean gets read, which suits a checklist clean fine. Lewisham keeps the licensing position for a specific address on its own pages, though the council site sometimes blocks automated visits, so it is worth checking the exact street yourself or asking your agent.

One honest note on the law itself. A landlord cannot make professional cleaning a written condition of your tenancy, so nobody can force you to book us. What they can do is hold you to the check-in standard, and on a licensed SE6 flat that standard is read carefully. That is the whole reason a documented clean is worth more here than most tenants expect when they first start filling boxes.

Town centre, then terraces: how the stock shifts street by street

Rushey Green is the central, high-street part of Catford, and the housing changes completely depending on which way you walk off the gyratory. That matters, because a flat above a shop and a bay-fronted terrace half a mile away fail a check-out on entirely different things, and one method does not pass both.

The high street and the town centre

Right in the middle you have flats over and behind the shops, mansion-block flats, and conversions on the roads either side of the Catford Centre and the Broadway Theatre. The famous fibreglass cat has grinned over the entrance to the centre since 1974, and locals saw off a plan to take it down a few years back, so it is going nowhere. Flats this close to the high street and the two stations, Catford and Catford Bridge, pick up far more foot traffic and carpet wear than the quieter streets, and a clerk reads a ground-in traffic line as a cleaning failure unless it has visibly been dealt with.

The terraces and the older houses

Step back from the high street and you are into late-Victorian and Edwardian terraces, many long ago split into two or three flats, plenty of them still carrying the original picture rails, deep skirting and tall ceilings. Those features hold a band of high-level dust no tenant reaches with an ordinary hoover, and a clerk with a torch finds it in about thirty seconds. The big Corbett streets, laid out south of Hither Green station from the 1890s, run off the eastern edge toward Hither Green and Catford South rather than through the town centre itself, but we work them on the same rounds, and the period houses there fail on dust and detail where a high-street flat fails on scale and wear.

The estates and the newer blocks

Threaded through both you get council and ex-council estates and post-war blocks, plus a scatter of newer flats. These usually fail check-out on marked walls and scuffed white skirting rather than on grease and scale. The River Pool joins the Ravensbourne just above Catford and the green runs of Mountsfield Park sit up to the east, and the streets nearer the park are calmer than the ones hard against the South Circular. We clean the period houses and the newer flats differently because they fail differently, and knowing which one you are in is half of getting it right.

If your road is not one we have named but you are in SE6, or right on the edge toward Hither Green, Catford South or Bellingham, ring and ask. We are in this corner of Lewisham most weeks, and a street we have not listed is almost certainly still on the round. For an address the other side of the railway we also work the nearby Hither Green end of tenancy rounds, and the wider borough is on the Lewisham end of tenancy hub.

The 57 things, room by room

This is the full hand-back clean, not a regular tidy and not a deep clean for someone staying put. It is the one the agents and clerks around SE6 expect, built to the same 57-point agent-approved checklist on every job, whether it is a studio over the high street or a four-bed terrace toward Hither Green. The full list comes with the job, or we walk you through it first. Here is the shape of it.

The kitchen, where most of it is decided

The kitchen wins or loses more deposits than any other room, so it gets the most time. The oven comes apart rather than getting wiped: racks out, door glass split so the brown film between the panes comes out, the inside, fan, element and seals all degreased back to clean. Hob, splashback, extractor and the filter behind it, which on a long-shared terrace is often the single worst thing in the flat. Every cupboard emptied and wiped inside and out, fronts and handles done. Fridge and freezer cleaned and defrosted if you have switched them off. Appliances pulled out so the gaps behind and under the fridge, dishwasher and washing machine get done, then put back. The washing machine drum, the detergent drawer scrubbed, and the door seal, which is one of the first things a clerk opens. Sink, taps and drainer descaled hard, because the water here demands it, and the floor done last, edges and the bit behind the bin included.

Bathrooms, the other place it goes wrong

The other room a clerk takes apart. Scale off the glass, the screen, the taps, the shower head and around the toilet base, properly rather than a quick going-over. Tile grout scrubbed, sealant cleaned, surface mould treated and flagged where it is structural rather than dirt. Toilet done inside, under the rim, the base, the cistern and behind the pedestal where nobody looks but the clerk. Mirror, cabinet, extractor vent and any radiator, and the floor into the corners and behind the basin.

Bedrooms, living rooms and the rest

Skirting, the picture rails the older terraces almost always still carry, door tops, switches and sockets, and the dust that gathers on the high ledges of a tall Edwardian room. Wardrobes and any fitted storage cleaned inside. Windows cleaned internally, sills and frames wiped, and the glazing bars on the older houses done one at a time rather than waved at. 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 off. Carpets vacuumed thoroughly throughout, with a separate machine shampoo where it is booked.

Throughout the property

Every internal door and frame, the full run of skirting, light fittings and switches, the staircase including the spindles and the dust on the string that everyone forgets, hard floors washed with the right product for the material, cobwebs out of the ceiling corners, and a last walk-through against the checklist so nothing gets handed back half done. We hold a 97% first-time pass rate on these jobs, and the way we keep it is that final check, not optimism.

What it costs, and the sum nobody runs in time

Flat pricing, no in-person survey, no surprises on the day. These are the standard SE6 rates, the same ones we quote right across this part of Lewisham.

If you would rather book by time it is £30 per hour per cleaner, though for a full move-out the fixed price almost always works out better and removes the argument about how long it took. Carpet shampoo is £36 a bedroom, £43 for a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed done together. Ovens, if you want that itemised rather than rolled into the full clean, are £77 for a single, £110 for a double and £114 for a 90cm range. On the older terraces the carpet and the oven are the two add-ons that come up most.

Now run the sum the deposit makes you run, which most people only run after they have failed a check-out and lost the first round. A two-bed flat at £243 set against a deposit of two or three thousand pounds is not really a decision. Every Rushey Green booking carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if the clerk’s check-out report flags a cleaning point on something we were responsible for, tell us inside 48 hours and we come back and put it right at no extra cost, provided nobody has moved in. The pass rate is why agents here know us, and across the work we have done we have helped tenants recover £1.2m deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents across London, so the standard we clean to is the standard they expect.

Telling one kind of clean from another

Three different jobs get muddled when people ring, and booking the right one saves money and argument.

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 vague idea of clean.

End-of-tenancy clean

Built to pass that inventory and get a deposit back, against the letting-agent standard, with the flat empty and the 48-hour guarantee on it, from £156 or £30 an hour for a part job.

Deep clean

A reset of a home you are keeping, lived-in, with no clerk and no formal standard to hit. No inventory, no re-clean guarantee.

Regular domestic clean

Ongoing maintenance of an occupied home, booked weekly or fortnightly from £22 an hour, a different service again.

If you are moving out of a flat off the high street or anywhere across SE6, the end-of-tenancy clean is the one you want. The other two do not get inspected and do not carry the guarantee.

This all sits against a backdrop that shifted on 1 May 2026, when the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 came into force. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone, and almost every existing assured shorthold tenancy in England has converted to a periodic tenancy, so a tenant can give two months’ notice at any point rather than waiting out a fixed term. The cleaning side of a move-out did not change at all: you still hand the property back in its check-in condition, less fair wear and tear. What changed is timing. In a high-churn pocket like central Catford, move-outs are now more frequent and less predictable, so the dull but useful takeaway is to book the clean earlier than you used to, because the slot you want goes first.

A job off Bargery Road in March

“We handed back a two-bed conversion off Bargery Road in March after just over a year, a young couple both working in town. The bathroom was the worry. The shower screen and the taps had gone properly cloudy with limescale, the sort you cannot shift by hand, and the agent on Rushey Green had told us the clerk would mark it. Monster sent two cleaners, stripped the scale right back, did the carpets while they were there, and the full deposit came back inside two weeks. It cost a fraction of what we had braced for.”
Megan, Rushey Green SE6, March 2026

That is a fair example of the high-street pattern: a shorter let, hard-water scale as the one real problem, a carpet that had seen a year of traffic from the station, and an agent who checks. What turned it was the dated photo set that went out with the invoice as much as the scrubbing itself, and that is the part most do-it-yourself check-outs never have when the agent pushes back.

Questions we get asked

How much is an end-of-tenancy clean in Rushey Green?

A studio is £156, a one-bed £207, a two-bed £243, a three-bed £339 and a four-bed £425. Carpet shampoo and separately itemised ovens are add-ons. These are flat SE6 rates with no in-person survey and no day-of surprises.

Do you guarantee the clean will pass the check-out?

Yes, within reason. We work to a 57-point agent-approved checklist and hold a 97% first-time pass rate. If the inventory clerk flags something we cleaned, we come back inside 48 hours and put it right at no extra cost under the 48-hour re-clean guarantee.

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

If the check-out report flags a cleaning point on something we were responsible for, tell us within 48 hours of the clean and we return to redo that work free. It covers cleaning, not pre-existing damage or wear, and it is the reason the pass rate stays where it is.

Is hard water really an issue in SE6?

Yes. The whole of SE6 is supplied by Thames Water and the water is hard, around 300 parts per million, so scale builds fast on glass, taps and around the toilet. Clerks in this part of Lewisham check for it specifically, so descaling is part of every clean we do here rather than an optional extra.

Do you cover the streets near the Catford Cat and the two stations?

Yes. Our Rushey Green round covers the high street and the gyratory, the flats over and behind the Catford Centre and the Broadway Theatre, the roads by Catford and Catford Bridge stations, the terraces toward Hither Green and the quieter streets up by Mountsfield Park. If your road is not named, ring and ask, because it is very likely still on the round.

Will you clean a flat in a licensable HMO?

Yes. The Rushey Green ward sits inside Lewisham’s selective licensing scheme, and many of the larger split houses also fall under the borough-wide additional HMO licensing, so landlords here tend to inspect hand-back condition harder. The clean is the same; it just gets read more closely, which suits a checklist clean fine.

How does my deposit actually get protected and returned?

Your deposit was placed in a government-backed scheme within thirty days of you paying it. At the end, the landlord proposes any deductions and, if you disagree, the scheme’s free adjudicator decides on the inventory and the evidence. A dated, photographed check-out clean is what wins those decisions, because the landlord, not you, has to prove a deduction.

Has the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 changed deposit deductions?

It changed how tenancies end, abolishing Section 21 and converting assured shorthold tenancies to periodic ones from 1 May 2026, but the core principle is unchanged: you return the property in its check-in condition, less fair wear and tear, and the landlord must prove any deduction. A proper clean still settles most of it.

How long does a clean take?

A studio or one-bed is usually a few hours; a three or four-bed terrace toward Hither Green is most of a working day, longer with full carpet shampoo. We send enough cleaners to finish in one visit rather than stretching it, and the fixed price does not change with the clock.

Do I need to be there during the clean?

No. Most people leave a key or arrange access through the agent, and we send confirmation when the work is done. If you can be there for the final walk-through it is useful, but it is not required.

Why does the kitchen extractor get singled out on shared houses here?

On a long-shared terrace the hood filter over the oven often carries years of grease nobody ever cleaned, and a clerk lifts and checks it. We strip and degrease the extractor and filter as part of the standard kitchen clean, because left as found it is one of the most common single deductions in SE6.

Can you move furniture or clear the flat too?

The clean assumes an empty property for the best result. We can work around some furniture, and a part clearance can be arranged separately so the place is empty before we start. Mention it when you book so the visit is scheduled correctly.

Which letting agents do you work with around Rushey Green?

We clean to standards accepted by the agents active on Rushey Green and the high street, and we work with 300+ letting agents across London in total. You do not need your agent to instruct us; most tenants book us directly and hand the invoice and photos over afterwards.

How do I get a price and book?

Tell us the property size and the rough condition and we give you the fixed price straight away, with no in-person survey. Booking is by phone or email, and a couple of photos of the kitchen and bathroom sharpen the quote.

Other Monster Cleaning services in Rushey Green

Staying put rather than moving out, or only need one job handled? We also offer carpet cleaning in Rushey Green, oven cleaning in Rushey Green and domestic cleaning in Rushey Green. To book the end-of-tenancy clean, ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected], and we will confirm a fixed price and a slot, usually the same day.