A Sheerness check-out, room by room
More than a third of Sheerness households rented privately at the 2021 census, and nearly half of all the homes in the town are terraced houses. That makes the typical check-out here a two- or three-bed terrace in Mile Town or Marine Town, and our end of tenancy clean for one is a fixed £263 or £359; a studio flat is £176, with the full list below.
Last updated October 2026.
The inventory clerk works through the house in the same order the check-in report did, comparing each room with what was written and photographed on the day you moved in. This is the order in a typical Sheerness terrace, and what we do in each room before they arrive.
- Hall and stairs
- The front door inside and out, the letterbox, skirting all the way up, banisters and spindles, the light switches and the meter cupboard door. Narrow terrace stairs are vacuumed by hand, step by step.
- Front room
- Window sills, inside the glass, radiators and the pipes behind them, skirting, door and frame, any fireplace surround. Picture rails and ceiling corners get the long duster.
- Kitchen
- Every cupboard and drawer inside and out, worktops, tiles, hob, extractor and filter, fridge and freezer, sink and taps descaled. We pull out the cooker or washing machine where it slides, and clean the floor behind.
- Bathroom
- Bath, basin, toilet, screen and shower head descaled, tiles and grout, mirror, fan cover and the floor round the pedestal.
- Bedrooms
- Inside wardrobes and drawers, skirting, sills, radiators, doors, and under where the bed stood.
- Floors throughout
- Vacuumed and mopped last, landing and stairs included.
All of that is on our 57-point checklist, and the cleaners who carry it out are vetted (interviewed in person), insured and trained on it. If the clerk or the agent flags anything within 48 hours, we come back and clean it again for free.
Prices for Sheerness homes
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio or bedsit flat | £176 |
| One-bedroom flat | £227 |
| Two-bedroom terrace or flat | £263 |
| Three-bedroom terrace or semi | £359 |
| Four-bedroom house | £445 |
| Five bedrooms or more | quoted from the room count |
| One room in a shared house, or part of a home | £30 per cleaner per hour |
The fixed price covers the whole checklist above. Ovens and carpets are add-ons, priced further down. Use the calculator at the top of the page for your exact total; if we have to pay to park outside, that cost is added at what it costs us.
Blue Town, Mile Town and Marine Town
Sheerness grew in three pieces. Blue Town came first, beside the naval dockyard from about 1738: workers built clinker-boarded houses from yard timber and painted them with the dockyard’s blue-grey paint, which gave the place its name. Most of those houses were demolished after the Royal Navy left in 1960. What survives of the dockyard’s own housing is grander: Dockyard Terrace (1827) and Naval Terrace (1833), both listed Grade II*, rescued by the Spitalfields Trust from around 2011.
Mile Town, a mile from the dockyard, became the town centre in the late 18th century, and Marine Town grew to the east, with Victorian terraces near the seafront. Swale Borough Council designated both as conservation areas on 6 August 1976, and Blue Town with the dockyard in 1970. All three are now on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk register, each with a deteriorating trend; Mile Town’s condition is rated poor.
For a tenant that history matters in practical ways. Older terraces have more wood to clean: panelled doors, deep sills, skirting with layers of gloss. Many flats here are conversions: the census counted 282 homes in Sheerness that were part of a converted or shared house, bedsits included, plus 117 in commercial buildings such as flats over shops. Those are the jobs where stairs, small kitchens and shared hallways set the pace.
Older terraces have more wood to clean: panelled doors, deep sills, skirting with layers of gloss.
Water that comes over the Swale
Sheppey’s water is supplied by Southern Water and piped across from the mainland. The island found out how much it depends on that main in July 2022, when bursts on the pipeline left around 30,000 people across Sheerness, Minster, Queenborough and Leysdown without water for days. Southern Water says most of the water it supplies is hard, because it comes from chalk aquifers rich in calcium, and it does not soften it before it reaches your taps.
In practice that means a ring of scale around the bath taps, a cloudy shower screen and a kettle-white crust on the shower head by the end of most tenancies. The clerk notices all three. Descaling them is part of every clean, at no extra cost.
Renting in Swale: rents and licensing
Sheerness is in the Borough of Swale. The ONS put the average private rent in Swale at £1,114 a month in August 2026: £869 for a flat, £1,151 for a terraced house and £1,243 for a semi. Deposits are capped at five weeks’ rent for tenancies under £50,000 a year, so on an average terrace about £1,330 is held until the check-out is signed off.
Swale’s licensing pages list the house in multiple occupation licence, which is needed where five or more unrelated people share a kitchen or bathroom in a home that is not self-contained. It lasts five years, and the council charges £896, or £761 for an accredited landlord. That is the landlord’s paperwork. For your deposit, what counts is how the house compares with the check-in inventory, with fair wear and tear allowed.
Ovens, carpets and booking
The oven is an add-on and never part of the fixed price: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. Our oven cleaning page has more on it.
Carpets booked with the clean are £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. If your terrace has had its front and back rooms knocked into one, that is the through-lounge price. The carpet cleaning page explains the process.
Sheerness-on-Sea station is the end of Southeastern’s Sheerness Line, which crosses the Kingsferry Bridge to Queenborough, Swale, Kemsley and Sittingbourne, where it meets the main line to London.
We have been cleaning rented homes since 2014, more than 300 letting agents use us, tenants have won back £1.2m in deposits, and our Google rating is 4.7. Book with the calculator at the top of the page or call 0333 555 2076, 8am to 7pm, every day. The rest of the county is on our Kent page.
Sheerness end of tenancy FAQs
How much is the clean for a three-bed terrace in Marine Town?
£359 at the fixed price. A single oven adds £31.
I rent a bedsit in a converted house in Mile Town. What do I book?
A self-contained studio is £176. If you share the kitchen or bathroom with other tenants, book your room and your share of the shared rooms at £30 per cleaner per hour.
Can you get scale off a shower screen that has never been descaled?
Most of the time, yes. Hard water leaves heavy deposits, and descaling is included. Glass that is already etched will not come back, and we will say so if we find it.
Do you clean in Minster, Queenborough and Halfway as well?
Yes, across the Isle of Sheppey at the same prices. Enter your postcode in the calculator.
When do I pay?
A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done.
