End of tenancy cleaning in Slough, from £156

The clerk who signs off a Slough check-out runs a finger along the top of the kitchen wall units before they open anything else, because two years of cooking fat settle up there and nobody in the flat ever looks that high. We are Monster Cleaning, doing end of tenancy work across Slough since 2014, and the money question has a short answer: £30 per hour per cleaner for part-property work, or a fixed tier from £156 for a studio, cleaned to a 57-point agent-approved checklist with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee behind it. Ring 0333 555 2076 and we will have a price for you inside a few minutes.

Last updated July 2026. We cover the whole of Slough: SL1, SL2 and SL3, from the town centre out through Chalvey, Langley, Cippenham and Britwell. This page sits inside the county directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Berkshire.

The Trading Estate sets Slough’s moving calendar

Slough Trading Estate is the largest industrial estate under single private ownership in Europe, and it sits a short walk from the station. SEGRO owns and runs it: roughly 500 businesses, a working population near 20,000, and household names on the units, Mars, GSK, DHL, Ferrari’s UK operation, O2, plus a growing cluster of data centres behind the older sheds. People take a job on the estate, sign a year’s tenancy nearby, then move again when the contract changes or the role does. That churn does not follow a school year or a tidy season. It follows postings, secondments and notice periods, so check-out dates land whenever the employer says they land.

The trains cut both ways into that pattern. Great Western fast services can put you into Paddington in about fifteen to eighteen minutes, and the Elizabeth line runs the same route on more stops, closer to half an hour, but straight through to Bond Street and beyond without changing. A tenant working in Slough and commuting into the City is entirely normal here. So is the reverse: someone renting in Slough because the office is on the Trading Estate and the M4 and M25 are both minutes away.

Slough is also the most ethnically diverse local authority in England outside London, and the housing turnover reflects that mix. A lot of the check-outs we do are someone’s first UK tenancy ending, not their fifth. They rented the first decent flat they found near the station or the estate, stayed a year or two, and are now doing a hand-back with no real feel for how forensic an inventory clerk gets. That is exactly the tenant an unfair deduction lands hardest on, and exactly who a clean done to the report protects.

Check-out dates in Slough land whenever the employer says they land, not whenever the season suits a cleaning firm.

The licensing gap landlords are watching

This is the part worth reading even if you think you already know the rules, because it moved this spring.

Slough ran two landlord licensing schemes for years: a selective scheme covering the central Slough and Chalvey wards, and a borough-wide additional scheme for smaller houses in multiple occupation with three or four sharers. Both designations lapsed on 30 June 2024 and were not renewed at the time, though any licence granted before that date runs on until it expires. Since then there has been no discretionary licence requirement across most of the borough.

That gap is closing. A cabinet report on 20 April 2026 set out plans to bring both schemes back and widen them across every ward, with a proposed footprint of roughly 14,686 privately rented homes under selective licensing and about 2,024 under additional HMO licensing. The council’s own figures link suspected HMOs to 801 of 2,752 recorded antisocial-behaviour incidents between 2020 and 2025, which is the case it is making. A ten-week public consultation follows, then the proposal goes back to cabinet in the autumn for a decision. Nothing is in force yet. The current position, and any update once the consultation closes, sits on slough.gov.uk.

Mandatory HMO licensing for the larger house-shares is a separate, national requirement and has not gone anywhere regardless of what Slough decides locally. If your tenancy is a room in a shared house near the centre, expect the clerk to check the communal kitchen and bathroom as hard as your own room.

Why any of this touches your deposit is simple enough. A landlord who held a licence, or expects to need one again within the year, tends to run things tighter. Inventories are kept properly, agents are briefed to be thorough, and a borderline check-out is less likely to get waved through. The wider the scheme gets, the fewer sloppy hand-backs the town sees.

What the Renters’ Rights Act changed, and what it did not

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone, and every existing assured shorthold tenancy in England has converted to a periodic one, giving tenants the right to leave on two months’ notice at any point rather than waiting for a fixed term to end. The full text is on legislation.gov.uk. What the Act did not touch is cleaning. The deposit scheme still weighs the check-in inventory against the check-out report, and a clean that matches the day-one photos is still what settles the argument. The practical effect for Slough is timing, not standard: with notice periods more flexible, hand-back dates are less predictable than they used to be, and the sensible move is to book earlier than habit suggests.

Three Sloughs, three different check-outs

Slough’s housing does not read as one town. It reads as three, and the clerk’s eye moves to a different spot in each.

Chalvey, Upton and Salt Hill: the older terraces

Close to the centre, off the Bath Road end and around Salt Hill, sit the older terraces, plenty of them split into flats or run as shared houses. Here the kitchen decides the outcome. A two-bed flat carved out of one of these terraces usually takes a two-person team five to seven hours and lands at the standard £243 two-bed tier, sometimes with grease on the wall units above head height that the last tenant genuinely never noticed. If the property is a room in a shared house rather than a self-contained flat, we more often price it as part-property work at £30 per cleaner, since the shared areas belong to more than one tenancy and the scope varies job to job.

Langley, Cippenham and Britwell: the interwar and post-war semis

Out toward the Buckinghamshire edge, the stock turns to 1930s semis, pebbledash fronts and former council houses, often let to families or sharers for two, three, four years at a stretch. A three-bed semi in this band, with a longer tenancy’s worth of wear on the stair carpet and the hallway, usually runs the £339 three-bed price, and if the carpet pile has worn thin rather than just dirty we say so honestly rather than shampooing something that will not come back. A four-bed version of the same house, family-sized with a garage that has quietly become a storeroom, sits at £425 and often picks up an hour or two of the £30-per-cleaner rate on top to clear that extra space.

Horlicks Quarter, Future Works and the station regeneration: the new-builds

Then there is the Slough that has gone up in the last decade. The old Horlicks factory near the station, which made malted milk on that site from 1906 until production stopped in 2017, is now Berkeley Group’s Horlicks Quarter, a mix of one, two and three-bedroom flats with a gym, a concierge and balconies looking out over the courtyards. Around it stand the Future Works block and the rest of the town-centre regeneration that arrived alongside the Elizabeth line. A one-bed corporate let here, integrated appliances, glass balcony rail, engineered floor throughout, is a tidy £207 job that turns on finish rather than elbow grease: spotless white goods, clean ventilation grilles, unmarked glass, sockets and trickle vents in every room. There is no old grime to hide behind in a flat like this. It either comes back looking factory-new or the inventory flags exactly where it does not.

One thing crosses all three Sloughs regardless of postcode or the age of the building, and it is the water rather than the walls.

The chalk aquifer problem

Affinity Water supplies Slough off a chalk source, and the water across its region runs hard to very hard, typically over 200 parts per million of calcium carbonate. You do not need the figure to know it. You have seen the cloudy film on a shower screen, the white crust ringing every tap, the dull kettle, the tide-mark round the loo that a quick wipe just smears sideways instead of shifting.

An inventory clerk sees the same thing, and reads it the same way: not cleaned. Scrubbing harder does not touch scale, because it is a mineral build-up rather than dirt, so we treat it with a proper descaler and give it the dwell time it needs on the taps, the screen and the showerhead until the glass runs clear and the chrome shows its shine again. On a Slough job that time is budgeted in from the start rather than hoped for at the end. You can check the hardness reading for your own postcode on the Affinity Water hardness page, though frankly the shower screen already tells you.

The 57 things the checklist covers

An end of tenancy clean is the full hand-back: top to bottom, an empty property, done to a standard the next tenant could walk into the same day. It is not a weekly tidy and it is not a deep clean for someone staying on. We work to a 57-point agent-approved checklist built from years of Slough check-outs, and here is the shape of it.

Kitchen

Most Slough deposits are won or lost here, so it gets the most time on the job. The oven is cleaned inside, racks and trays out and soaked, the door glass split and cleaned between the panes where it separates. The hob, splashback and extractor hood are degreased, and the metal filter comes out for a proper soak rather than a wipe. We move the cooker and the fridge where they are not fixed in place, clean the floor and wall behind and beside them, then put everything back. Cupboards and drawers are done inside and out, including the high ones nobody reaches day to day. Sink, taps and worktops are descaled and finished, and the bin area gets done too.

Bathrooms

The other half of the Slough problem, on account of the water. The shower screen comes back to clear glass, tiles and grout are scrubbed, taps and showerhead descaled, and the toilet is done properly, base and behind included. The extractor grille is wiped, mirror and any cabinet cleaned, floor washed into the corners. The aim is plain: no white film and no tide-mark anywhere a camera might point.

Bedrooms and living areas

Skirting, sockets, switches and door tops are dusted and wiped. Window frames, sills and the inside of the glass are cleaned. Wardrobes and any fitted units are done inside. Carpets are vacuumed thoroughly and shampooed as an add-on where the pile will genuinely come back. Radiators, picture rails and mantelpieces get done, cobwebs come off the corners, and paint marks lift where they will come away clean.

Throughout

Light fittings, switches and trickle vents wiped, internal glazing cleaned, every floor vacuumed and washed, stairs and landings done, internal doors and handles cleaned on both sides. That checklist, run the same way on every job, is how we hold a 97% first-time pass rate across the properties we clean.

What it costs, and what that actually buys

Slough sits on our standard county pricing, not a premium band, so the figures below are the same ones we quote across Berkshire.

Beyond the room count, the add-ons scale the same way everywhere in the county: carpet shampoo runs £36 per bedroom, £43 for a living room or £115 for the whole carpeted run of a two-bed, and oven detailing outside a full booking is £77 for a single oven, £110 for a double, or £114 for a 90cm range. Every figure assumes the property is empty when we arrive; tell us if it is still part-furnished and the quote gets adjusted before the day, not after.

The paperwork side is the bit people forget, and it is the bit that pays. Across our work we have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions, built up job by job with the 300+ letting agents whose reports our cleans have to satisfy. Under-booking the job to save a few pounds on the day is the single most expensive false economy in this whole process, because the gap between an hourly patch-up and the right tier is nearly always smaller than the deduction it risks.

End of tenancy clean

The full hand-back of an empty property, judged against the check-in inventory, with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee behind it and priced from £156.

Deep clean

A heavier one-off reset for a home someone is staying in, with no inventory riding on it, also from £30 an hour.

Regular domestic clean

Ongoing weekly or fortnightly maintenance for a lived-in home, from £22 an hour.

Check-in inventory

The dated, photographed record made on your first day. It is the benchmark your check-out gets measured against, which is why we clean to it rather than to a general idea of tidy.

A Langley job from March

“Three years in a two-bed semi off the Langley Road, me and my partner, plus a cat who treated the stair carpet like her own project. I knew the carpet was the problem before anyone told me. Monster sent two cleaners for six hours, shampooed the stairs and both bedrooms, and stripped an oven that had not seen a proper clean since we moved in. The agent’s inspector came round two days later, found one mark on the landing wall we had missed, and Monster came back the next morning and sorted it under the guarantee, no argument, no extra charge. Full £2,650 deposit back about three weeks after that.”
Marcus, Langley SL3, March 2026

That job is a fair snapshot of the middle band of Slough stock: a multi-year tenancy, a pet in the mix, a carpet clause worth honouring properly, and an agent who inspects rather than skims. The guarantee did the actual work at the end, not the first visit alone.

Booking it before the keys go back

Booking is plain, and it runs in this order.

1. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the postcode, bedroom and bathroom count, and your check-out date.
2. We give you a fixed price from the tiers above. No survey visit needed for a standard flat or house.
3. We book a slot that lands before your check-out, ideally with the property already cleared.
4. A team cleans to the 57-point checklist, then we confirm when it is done.
5. If the inventory clerk flags anything within 48 hours, we come back and put it right at no charge.

Most bookings come in about a week ahead of the date. We can sometimes manage next-day, and that matters here more than in most towns, because a Trading Estate relocation or a sudden posting does not always give much notice. Slots near month-end go fastest, since that is when most tenancies end regardless of the reason, so the earlier you call the better the choice of times. One honest note on access: a lot of Horlicks Quarter and Future Works bookings need a concierge sign-in arranged in advance, so mention it when you call and we will have it sorted before the team arrives.

Questions we get asked

How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost in Slough?

From £156 for a studio, £207 for a one-bed, £243 for a two-bed, £339 for a three-bed and £425 for a four-bed house, all at our standard £30 per hour per cleaner rate for anything priced by time instead. Those figures are for an empty property; tell us if furniture is still in place and the quote gets adjusted first.

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

We hold a 97% first-time pass rate on a 57-point agent-approved checklist. If the inventory clerk flags anything within 48 hours of the clean, our 48-hour re-clean guarantee means we come back and fix it at no charge, provided the flat is still in the state we left it.

Why does hard water matter so much for a Slough check-out?

Slough is on Affinity Water’s chalk supply, which runs hard to very hard. It leaves scale on taps, kettles and shower screens and a tide-mark in the loo, and clerks photograph every bit of it. We descale the kitchen and bathroom as standard, not as an extra you have to ask for.

Is Slough Borough Council currently running a landlord licensing scheme?

Not right now. The selective scheme for central Slough and Chalvey and the borough-wide additional HMO scheme both lapsed on 30 June 2024. A cabinet report in April 2026 proposed bringing both back across every ward, a ten-week consultation was due to follow, and a decision sits with cabinet in the autumn. Mandatory HMO licensing for larger house-shares applies nationally regardless. Check slough.gov.uk for the current position.

Is the oven included in the price, or charged separately?

It is included in every end of tenancy booking: cavity, racks, door glass and the extractor filter. As a standalone job it is £77 for a single oven, £110 for a double and £114 for a 90cm range. The oven and the extractor hood are usually the first two things a Slough clerk checks.

Do you clean the new flats around Horlicks Quarter and Future Works?

Yes, regularly. There is no period wear to hide behind in those flats, so the check-out turns on finish: spotless integrated appliances, clean ventilation grilles, unmarked balcony glass and every socket and trickle vent wiped. Building access is usually concierge-controlled, so let us know when you book.

How far ahead should I book?

About a week is comfortable. We can often manage next-day, which matters in a town with as much job-driven movement as Slough, but slots near month-end fill fastest because that is when most tenancies end. Call as early as you can for the better choice of times.

What if I only need part of the property done?

That is fine. Hourly work is £30 per cleaner, which suits a half-cleared flat or a job where only the kitchen and bathroom are the real problem. Tell us which rooms when you call and we price it on time rather than the flat tier.

Do you move appliances and furniture to clean behind them?

We move the cooker and fridge where they are not fixed in place, and clean the floor and wall behind and beside them, since that gap is a common deduction in the older Chalvey and Upton terraces. We do not shift heavy built-in units or anything that risks damage.

Which parts of Slough do you cover?

All of it: the town centre, Chalvey, Upton, Salt Hill, Langley, Cippenham, Britwell, Wexham and the Manor Park and Stoke side above the railway, across SL1, SL2 and SL3.

What happens if the deposit is disputed over cleaning?

Your deposit sits in a government-backed scheme, and if cleaning is the sticking point, the scheme’s free adjudicator compares the check-in inventory with the check-out report. A clean that matches the day-one photos is what settles it. Shelter’s guidance walks through the process, and we can re-attend within 48 hours if a genuine issue is flagged.

Can you take on a short-notice clean for a Trading Estate relocation?

Often, yes. A good share of our Slough work comes from people moving for a role on the Trading Estate or a job reachable by the Elizabeth line, so short notice is normal for us. Call 0333 555 2076 with your date and we will tell you honestly what is left that week.

Get a price

Give us the postcode, the size of the place and the date the keys go back, and we will give you a fixed price and a slot that lands before the clerk turns up. We clean to the report, we descale as standard because this is Slough, and we stand behind the work for 48 hours. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected].