“The shower screen track on the Longlands Road semi was the one we knew was going to lose the deposit” – Aisha, ex-tenant. We have been working the Sidcup-east patch since 2014, the whole stretch from the High Street feed-in past Sidcup Place along the Longlands Road spine to the Albany Park station turn, taking in Burnt Oak Lane, Days Lane, Halcot Avenue and the Wates-style estates south of the bypass. Phone 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected]. Three-bed Sidcup East 1930s pebbledash semi from £339, full agent-approved.
Last updated April 2026. We cover DA14 6 and the DA15 7 fringe across the Longlands Road spine, Burnt Oak Lane, Days Lane, Halcot Avenue, Albany Park station ward and the post-war Wates estates between Penhill Road and the A20 Sidcup Bypass.
“We were ending four years on a 1930s pebbledash semi off Longlands Road, just me and my daughter who is in Year 11 at Cleeve Park. The over-bath shower screen had been the running argument of the tenancy. The lower channel filled up with chalk and the silicone bead at the bath edge had gone pink in patches. We had taken a brush to it twice and both times the channel still showed grey under daylight. The Acorn Sidcup clerk who came on the check-out had been doing Longlands Road since before I moved in, and she sat on the bath edge to look at the screen frame before she opened her clipboard. Monster came on a Wednesday morning. The four of them worked in a sensible order, the screen and silicone went last so the tile spray would not reset on the seal, and the clerk passed the bathroom on a single walk-through. I got the full £1,725 back through tenancydepositscheme on the Friday after. They were polite, they were quick, and the daughter slept through the whole thing.” – Aisha, single mother, four-year tenancy on a three-bed pebbledash semi off Longlands Road, Sidcup DA14 6, let through Acorn Sidcup, deposit £1,725 returned in full April 2026.
Sidcup-east three-bed pebbledash semi, £339 base, four-person team, Bexley agent-approved checklist done in inventory order, 48-hour re-clean covered. That is the answer to the question you came here for.
Why Sidcup East deposits get deducted
Six weeks of rent on a London-Bridge commuter let in Bexley is real money. The ONS Bexley March 2026 series has the borough median rent at £1,531 a month, up 7.6% on the year against a London-wide 1.7%, so a three-bed Longlands Road semi at the upper end of the local market sits closer to £1,800. Six weeks of that is £2,490. That is the figure the Robinson Jackson, Acorn Sidcup and Mann clerks are checking against when they walk a check-out.
Bexley clerks read houses east of the High Street differently from the Halfway Street and Lamorbey side. The stock is older council-permitted private letting on a Wates-style post-war estate south of the bypass, plus the long band of 1930s pebbledash semis along Longlands Road, Burnt Oak Lane and the Days Lane junction. The clerk knows the bathroom in a 1934 Longlands Road semi will have a 1990s over-bath shower screen retrofitted into a side-galley layout, and she knows which screen channel turns first.
Renters’ Rights Act 2025
The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 finished off Section 21 in October. A landlord on a Longlands Road semi cannot any longer end a periodic tenancy without a Section 8 ground, and the deposit dispute side has tightened with it. If the deduction is not properly evidenced through one of the three statutory schemes, the tenant wins on the tenancydepositscheme.com adjudication. The clerk knows this. The fight is now over photographic evidence at check-out, and the photo is taken in the order the inventory is written. We work the same order.
Bexley Council licensing position
The London Borough of Bexley operates a selective licensing regime in Belvedere ward only, in force 13 January 2025 to 12 January 2030. Sidcup-east sits outside it. The borough still keeps a 16 September 2016 Article 4 Direction live across the whole council area, which means a single-let three-bed on Longlands Road cannot quietly become a small HMO without planning permission. Bexley Council records show 139 properties licensed across the borough by March 2025. The practical consequence for a check-out clean east of the High Street is that the property will be inspected as a single private let, with the bathroom, kitchen and main reception read against the original inventory rather than against any HMO room schedule.
The Albany Park station three-minute corridor
Albany Park station sits on the Sidcup loop of the Southeastern network. The clerk and the cleaner are getting in by train from Charing Cross via Lewisham, the timings are tight, and the bus 51 from Woolwich runs straight along the Bexley spine through Sidcup. We schedule check-out cleans on the Wates-estate side for a 9am start so the team is on the bay before the school run finishes on Burnt Oak Lane. If a job is on the Longlands Road side near the Days Lane junction we time it against the 233 from Swanley, which the clerks tend to use coming from the Bexleyheath direction.
Coverage – Streets and zones
Our Sidcup-east round walks the spine from the Sidcup Place green at the High Street feed-in eastwards. Streets we are on most weeks:
- Longlands Road from the Days Lane junction to the Sidcup station bridge.
- Burnt Oak Lane between Lamorbey Park and the Longlands roundabout.
- Days Lane and Halcot Avenue, the 1930s pebbledash run.
- The Wates-style post-war three-bed semis on Lyndon Avenue, Penhill Road and the side roads off Park Mead.
- Albany Park station ward, both sides of the line.
- Riverdale Road and the band of small Edwardian cottage rows behind it.
- The interwar bungalow run on Faraday Avenue and the side cuts off the bypass.
- The DA14 6 fringe along the A20 toward Foots Cray.
What’s included on a Sidcup East end-of-tenancy clean
End of tenancy is the hand-back clean. Deep clean is the once-a-year reset for staying. Regular weekly is for keeping a place tidy. The list below is the first one. The 57-point agent-approved checklist follows the order an inventory clerk reads a house, and our team works it room-by-room while one cleaner stays on the kitchen and one on the bathroom from start to finish. The Bexley clerks check what is actually in front of them, not a brand of cleaner, so this section reads as the actual scope.
Kitchen
Behind and under the cooker, gas pipe knee included. The hood filter goes in a tray with the descaler we use; the housing internal panel where the grease yellows on Longlands Road kitchens gets a separate pass. Oven door glass split, both sides, plus the seal channel. Hob trim ring, splashback grout line, sink waste under the rim, plug strainer, tap base scale ring. Worktop laminate behind the kettle. Cupboard interiors top shelf where the inventory still lists what was on it in 2022. Fridge defrosted, seal mould, freezer drip tray. Bin store sluiced, bin lid hinge.
Bathrooms
The over-bath shower screen is the inspection line item. Lower channel pulled, descaled, dried; the silicone bead at the bath edge re-checked for pink biofilm and scrubbed dry; the screen frame top edge where the dust line gathers gets a microfibre with a slim card behind it. Tile grout corners. Bath panel kick at the floor where the carpet edge meets the panel. Toilet pan rim under the seat hinges, cistern lid dust ground, behind the loo. Basin overflow port, mirror clip, shaver socket. Extractor fan grille pulled and rinsed.
Bedrooms and living rooms
Picture rail dust line in the through-rooms, all four edges. Skirting top dust, behind the radiator with a long-reach. Carpets vacuumed in two passes against the pile. Window reveals, sash horns where the pebbledash semis kept the original windows, casement track where they did not. Light fittings dusted and bulb socket dry-rubbed. Wardrobe and chest interiors, drawer runners. Curtain hanging dust along the rail.
Throughout
Hallway tile or carpet runner, front door letterbox flap inside and out, doorframe top dust, internal door handle and finger plates. Stair spindles. Loft hatch frame if accessible. Windows internal pane and frame. Light switch and socket faceplates wiped, not sprayed.
What it costs
Pricing is base Sidcup-east, paid on agent sign-off, no premium loaded. We do not pre-bill. If the clerk queries something in 48 hours we send a cleaner back the next morning at no extra cost.
| Property | EOT base | With carpet shampoo | With single oven |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | £156 | £180 | £207 |
| One-bed flat | £207 | £200 | £243 |
| Two-bed flat or semi | £243 | £230 | £339 |
| Three-bed semi (Longlands, Burnt Oak Lane, Days Lane) | £339 | £360 whole-house carpet | £280 double oven |
| Four-bed | £425 | £505 whole-house carpet | £420 range 90cm |
Hourly rate, where the client wants a half-job rather than a full check-out, is £30 per cleaner. Carpet add-on prices are £36 per bedroom shampoo, £43 for the through-living room, £115 for whole-flat carpet on a two-bed. Oven add-ons are £77 single, £110 double, £114 range 90cm. The 1930s Longlands semis usually run a single oven; the post-war Wates estates south of the bypass have more doubles fitted in the 1990s refits.
What your agent will actually check
The Bexley clerks east of the High Street walk a check-out in roughly this order:
- Front bay window external pebbledash sill, render chalking, reveal corner.
- Hallway carpet wear strip from the front door to the foot of the stairs.
- Kitchen: hood internal panel, hob trim, oven door glass split, sink rim.
- Bathroom: shower screen lower channel and silicone bead, tile grout corner, extractor grille.
- Through-living room: picture rail dust line, behind the radiator, carpet pile pass.
- Bedrooms: window reveal, wardrobe interior top shelf, light fitting dust.
- Boiler cupboard floor scale ring on the Longlands Road semis with the 1990s back-boiler swap.
- Loft hatch frame and the cupboard under the stairs.
The clerk’s photo log is the file the deposit dispute will be argued from, and the photos are taken at eye-level on a phone. We work to the same eye-level standard.
How booking works
- You send an email to [email protected] or phone 0333 555 2076 with the postcode, the property type and the check-out date.
- We quote against the price table above. If your check-out is on a Wates estate south of the bypass we add the Penhill Road note for parking; if it is on Longlands Road we ask whether the screen channel has been re-siliconed.
- You confirm. We schedule the four-person team, two on kitchen and bathroom, two on bedrooms and throughout.
- On the day, we work the 57-point checklist in inventory order. The clerk’s check-out can run alongside if the timings line up.
- Agent sign-off triggers the invoice. If the clerk flags anything in 48 hours, we re-clean at no charge.
Related services and neighbouring areas
The same team covers deep oven cleaning across Bexley for the double-oven Wates kitchens that need a separate visit, plus carpet shampooing across the borough for the through-living room pile in 1930s semis where the inventory still lists the original carpet from the start of the tenancy. For the side gables on the older Longlands stock the external window cleaning round handles the pebbledash sill chalking. Other Sidcup neighbourhoods we cover include end of tenancy cleaning along Halfway Street for the Lamorbey Park edge and end of tenancy cleaning in Foots Cray for the Cray Road interwar detached homes. The full Bexley end of tenancy hub lists every street and ward we are on.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much is end of tenancy cleaning for a three-bed Sidcup East semi?
£339 base for a three-bed pebbledash semi on Longlands Road, Burnt Oak Lane or Days Lane, four-person team, Bexley agent-approved 57-point checklist, 48-hour re-clean covered. Add £110 for a double oven on a Wates-estate kitchen and £360 for whole-house carpet shampoo if the clerk has flagged the through-living room pile.
Can you do an end of tenancy clean the same day as the check-out?
Yes for a three-bed or smaller, provided we have the keys by 9am. The clerk usually walks the inventory at 1pm or 2pm; that gives the four-person team a clear five hours on the property. For a four-bed we want the keys the night before.
Do you guarantee the deposit will come back?
We guarantee the work matches the agent-approved 57-point checklist and we cover any clerk-flagged item with a free re-clean inside 48 hours. The deposit decision is the clerk’s, not ours, but our 97% first-time pass rate and £1.2m deposits recovered for tenants since 2014 are the honest numbers.
Which letting agents in Sidcup do you work with?
The big three on Sidcup High Street: Robinson Jackson, Acorn Sidcup and Mann. We are on the Robinson Jackson Longlands Road book and the Acorn Sidcup approved-cleaner list. Mann books direct. Across the borough we work with 300+ letting agents, from the corporate offices in Bexleyheath to the small independents along Crayford Road.
What if my landlord uses a different inventory firm?
Most Sidcup-east lets are clerk-led through the agent. If yours uses an independent inventory firm such as No Letting Go or VeriSmart we ask for the original inventory PDF before we quote, so the team works against the actual schedule rather than a generic Bexley template.
Do you handle the over-bath shower screen on a 1930s pebbledash semi?
That is the line item our team rehearses on. The lower channel is descaled, dried and re-checked under daylight. The silicone bead at the bath edge is scrubbed dry to remove any pink biofilm; if the bead has gone visibly stained beyond a clean we will tell you it needs re-siliconing rather than pretend a clean will fix it. The screen frame top edge is microfibred with a slim card behind it.
Can you clean the kitchen extractor housing on a Wates-estate three-bed?
Yes. The internal grease panel on the Wates-style post-war kitchens yellows under the housing, and a panel-only wipe will leave the inside still smeared. We pull the filter and access the housing inside face. If the panel is rivet-fixed we will say so and not try to force it.
What about the textured ceiling and the gas-fire soot ring on the older Longlands semis?
If the original textured ceiling has a soot ring around a gas-fire flue we use a low-pressure dry brush, not a wet wipe. Wet on textured plaster will pull the texture off. The Bexley clerks know the difference and we do not pretend otherwise.
Do you cover Albany Park station ward?
Yes. The whole DA14 6 ring around Albany Park station, plus the DA15 7 fringe along Penhill Road. The same team that walks Longlands Road covers the Wates-style estates south of the A20 Sidcup Bypass.
Is the price list above what I will actually pay?
Yes. Sidcup-east is a base-pricing area in our schedule. We do not load a premium for postcode, and the price quoted on the email reply is the price on the invoice. The premium pricing applies in central London neighbourhoods, not in Bexley.
How long does a three-bed clean take?
Four to five hours with a four-person team for a three-bed Longlands Road or Burnt Oak Lane semi. A four-bed runs six to seven. Whole-house carpet shampoo adds an hour. Single oven add-on adds 45 minutes; a double oven on a Wates-estate kitchen adds an hour and a quarter.
Do you do hourly work for half-jobs?
Yes. £30 per cleaner per hour, two-cleaner minimum, three-hour minimum on the visit. Useful if the previous tenant left the place in a reasonable state and the clerk only flagged two or three rooms.
What is your re-clean policy if the clerk queries something?
If a Robinson Jackson, Acorn or Mann clerk emails us inside 48 hours of sign-off with a flagged item we send a cleaner the next working morning at no charge. The 48-hour re-clean guarantee is unconditional and is in our written agent agreements.
Do I need to be at the property?
No. Most of our Sidcup-east clients are already moved out and on a London-Bridge commute by the time we arrive. We collect keys from the agent or the meter cupboard if the agent has set that up. We sign the team in and out by photograph.
What is the water like in DA14 and DA15?
Hard. Thames Water classifies the supply across Bexley as hard at around 290 mg/l calcium carbonate. That is why the over-bath shower screen channel and the kitchen tap base scale ring are the first two things the clerks check.
How quickly can you book?
Usually within 48 hours for a three-bed and same-week for a one-bed flat. Half-term weeks and the last working day of the month are the busiest, especially the Friday before a 1st-of-the-month rent cycle. Booking three days out is usually fine for Sidcup-east.
Ready to book?
Phone 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the Sidcup-east postcode, the property type and the check-out date. We reply with a quote against the table above. Three-bed Longlands Road semi from £339, four-person team, 57-point Bexley agent-approved checklist, 48-hour re-clean. We have been on the Sidcup-east round since 2014 and we will be there on the Friday before your 1st-of-the-month rent cycle.