If your check-out is booked and you are reading this near midnight, here is the question that actually matters: will the clean pass a clerk standing in a south-facing flat at eleven in the morning, with the river light raking across the glass? That is the test on the South Bank, because every smear on a floor-to-ceiling window and every haze on a shower screen shows up in that light.
So this is what an end of tenancy clean here has to be: built for that room and that hour, checklist-driven, priced by bedroom count, with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee measured against the check-out report itself. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price in about three minutes.
Last updated June 2026. We cover the SE1 riverside on the Southwark side, the strip from Waterloo Bridge to Blackfriars Bridge and back to Stamford Street. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Southwark.
Why the river light is the clerk’s best friend
End of tenancy cleaning
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The report written on your first day is the standard you are held to on your last, and on the South Bank the river light is what exposes the gap. Match the report, document the match, and the deposit conversation is short.
- When you moved in, an inventory clerk walked the flat and wrote a report describing every surface, usually with photographs, usually with the word “new” or “as new” against the kitchen and the bathroom. Those words were true that day, because the flat had just been professionally cleaned.
- At check-out a clerk walks it again and compares the place line by line against that first report.
- Anything materially worse than the check-in entry, beyond fair wear and tear, can be charged against your deposit.
You are marked against a professional clean, which is why a mop and a free Sunday rarely gets you there.
On this stretch the light does half the clerk’s work. These flats were designed to look perfect, and the river bounces hard morning sun straight into the room:
- floor-to-ceiling glazing facing the Thames
- brushed-steel fittings
- open-plan kitchens
A clerk does not need a torch to find the dust along the top edge of a window frame or the film on a glass shower screen. They stand back, they look at the glass edge-on against the light, and the misses announce themselves.
We clean for that exact viewing angle, not for how the flat looks under the kitchen downlights at night.
Two things sit behind all of this in law, pulling in opposite directions.
- The Tenant Fees Act 2019
- Your landlord cannot make professional cleaning a contractual condition, so nobody can force you to book us.
- Damp and mould
- These are a landlord obligation under the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018, not a tenant cleaning failure. Where we find damp behind a wardrobe or in a cold bathroom corner, we photograph and document it so the charge sits where it belongs rather than on you.
The 1 May 2026 reset, and what it actually changed
The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live on 1 May 2026. For a move-out here it changed the timing and left the cleaning alone.
- Section 21
- No-fault evictions are gone.
- Existing tenancies
- Every existing assured shorthold tenancy in England has converted to a periodic tenancy.
- Notice
- A tenant can now give two months’ notice at any point rather than waiting for a fixed term to end.
- The cleaning
- It did not change. The Tenant Fees Act still applies, the check-in benchmark still applies, and the deposit cap is exactly what it was: five weeks’ rent where the annual rent is under £50,000, six weeks above.
Timing is what bites here. This was already a high-churn patch, full of one-year corporate lets, pied-a-terre flats and short professional tenancies.
Let tenants leave on a rolling two months instead of a fixed end date and the move-outs get more frequent and far less predictable. That gives you two reasons to ring early:
- The slot you want at the end of the month will be gone if you wait.
- On a concierge building you also need to book a service-lift window.
The cleaning side of a move-out did not change. What changed is timing.
Everything we clean, in one list
Every booking runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist, built over a decade of London check-outs and tuned to what these riverside clerks actually flag. The full version comes with the job, or we walk you through it before we start.
People ask for the room-by-room breakdown, so here is the whole thing in one list.
The kitchen
- Oven, cleaned not wiped. Interior, back wall, fan, element and seals; racks lifted out and soaked; the brown film between the panes cleared where the glass comes apart. A pyrolytic oven still gets done by hand, because the self-clean cycle leaves ash baked on the door glass.
- Hob and extractor. Burners and knobs off and washed on a gas hob; the gaps between the zones cleared on induction; the hood degreased inside and out and the filter soaked or swapped.
- Every cupboard and drawer, inside and out, fronts and handles, including the deep awkward corners of an island unit.
- Integrated appliances. Fridge and freezer through once defrosted, including the door gasket; dishwasher filter, seals and spray arms; washing-machine drum, detergent drawer out and scrubbed, and the door seal, which is the first thing a clerk opens. Microwave inside, out and underneath.
- Behind and under, appliances pulled out so the gaps behind the fridge, dishwasher and washing machine are done, then put back, plus the gap behind the kitchen kickboard.
- Sink, tap, drainer and splashback, descaled and polished, including the silicone bead at the worktop joint.
Bathrooms in full
- Shower glass on both sides descaled to the hinge
- Showerhead, hose and every face of the brushed fittings
- Grout scrubbed
- Toilet inside, under the rim, behind the cistern and round the base
- Bath, taps, overflow and plughole
- Mirror and cabinet streak-free
- Extractor cover wiped
- Floor into the corners
A separate WC gets the same run again.
Through the rest of the flat
- Wardrobes and storage, inside and out, including the top shelf where dust is the failure mode, and mirrored sliding doors descaled and streaked clear.
- Skirtings, door frames, doors, handles and finger plates, with the kitchen-to-living transition checked where the skirting changes material.
- Switches, sockets, thermostats, intercoms and the recessed downlights, dusted and wiped.
- Radiators front, top and behind.
- Glazing, inside. Floor-to-ceiling windows on the inner face, sills and reveals, and the bottom track under the sliding door where grit collects. Exterior tower glass is a separate job.
- Floors last, washed with the right product for the material so a polished timber floor takes no trail marks, carpet edges vacuumed in, and the hall floor finished as we walk out.
Two of those lines often need their own pass:
- Hot-water extraction on carpets is written into a lot of these tenancies as a hard requirement, which is what the carpet cleaning add-on covers on the same visit.
- A hard-used sofa in a shared professional let sometimes wants full upholstery cleaning rather than a hoover.
Every room is photographed before and after, and that dated photo set is the evidence you keep.
What Thames Water leaves on the glass
London sits in the very hard water band, and in the river light the scale it leaves is the first thing a clerk sees.
- Where it comes from
- Thames Water draws most of its supply through the chalk and limestone of the Chilterns and the North Downs, which loads it with calcium.
- SE1 hardness
- Roughly 300 mg/l calcium carbonate; Thames Water publishes the figure for your postcode.
- Shower glass
- A walk-in shower with a glass screen hazes visibly within a fortnight.
- Brushed fittings
- A brushed-nickel mixer films over almost as fast.
Scale that has set into the glass and the fittings is not a quick wipe. This is how we take it off:
- Glass and brushed metal: a non-acidic cream that will not etch the glass or dull the metal.
- The kettle and the iron: a weak descaler matched to the surface.
- Engineered stone or a composite worktop: never anything aggressive, because the repair invoice from the manufacturer runs well above the cost of the whole clean.
- Grout: scrubbed rather than wiped. Where it is genuinely past saving we photograph the state before we start, so a clerk cannot bill you for wear that was already there at check-in.
Scale that has set into the glass is not a quick wipe, and in the river light it is the first thing seen.
Specialist surfaces sit outside the scrub-and-go work. Each of these takes its own product, which is what the floor cleaning add-on is for:
- engineered board in a tower flat
- the original laminate in an older Coin Street kitchen
- tile in a converted warehouse hallway
The outer face of the glass on a high floor is a separate job again, handled by abseil teams the building approves, so an inventory line about exterior glass is one to flag with your agent rather than with us.
The strip, building by building
Most of our South Bank work sits in a half-mile of riverside between Waterloo Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge, with Stamford Street as the spine, a short walk from the National Theatre, the BFI and Tate Modern along the river path.
The cultural South Bank around the Southbank Centre and the London Eye is over the line in Lambeth, but the residential towers here, the ones with the deposits and the concierge desks, sit in SE1 and the London Borough of Southwark. The stock changes a lot across a few hundred metres, so we work it building by building.
The towers: South Bank Tower and One Blackfriars
- South Bank Tower, 55 Upper Ground
- The old King’s Reach Tower, the 1970s IPC Media block that Mace stripped back and extended from thirty storeys to forty-one, with around 190 flats above retained office floors. Floor-to-ceiling glass, polished concrete, engineered timber, open-plan kitchen-living layouts that need cleaning end to end.
- One Blackfriars
- At the bridge end, the curved Berkeley tower locals call the Vase runs to fifty storeys and 274 flats with marble bathrooms and brushed-bronze taps.
Both sign you in at a concierge desk and both run the service lift on a booked window, which we sort when we quote.
Oxo Tower Wharf and the Coin Street co-ops
Oxo Tower Wharf kept its 1929 shell over the riverside arcade on Bargehouse Street and fitted modern kitchens and glass shower screens inside during the Coin Street rebuild of the mid-1990s.
Behind it, the Coin Street Community Builders estate runs four housing co-ops, mostly two- and three-bed family homes around communal gardens between Stamford Street and Upper Ground:
- Mulberry
- Palm
- Redwood
- Iroko
The check-out standard there is set by the co-op rather than a commercial agent and leans on fair wear and tear, but the cleaning bar is still high and the job runs the same way.
The conversions and the older terraces
East along Stamford Street the Bankside stock turns to mid-rise brick blocks and warehouse-style conversions, and the infill behind, on Cornwall Road, Roupell Street and Theed Street, holds older terrace housing split into flats.
Those jobs are a different shape:
- smaller kitchens
- older floors
- often more scale in the bathroom, because the pipe runs are short and the heating runs hot
The price is the same.
If your tenancy straddles a boundary or your next flat is one stop along, we work the neighbours too: End of Tenancy Cleaning Waterloo, Bankside, Blackfriars and Borough.
One boundary note, because people guess wrong. The South Bank name covers both river banks of one borough line:
- Lambeth
- The arts venues.
- Southwark
- The towers and the Oxo flats.
Southwark runs borough-wide additional licensing for shared HMO flats, so a larger Coin Street or converted unit let to two or more unrelated adults usually needs a licence. That tends to mean tidier records and a check-out report that gets read carefully.
Not sure which side your flat sits? Ring 0333 555 2076 with the postcode and we will tell you.
What it costs, and the sum the deposit makes for you
| Property | Typical duration | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|
| Studio (Bankside, Oxo Tower Wharf) | 3-4 hours, 1 cleaner | From £174 |
| 1-bed flat (South Bank Tower, One Blackfriars) | 4-5 hours, 2 cleaners | From £225 |
| 2-bed flat or conversion | 5-7 hours, 2 cleaners | From £261 |
| 3-bed flat or Coin Street family home | 6-8 hours, 2 cleaners | From £357 |
| 4-bed home | 8-10 hours, 2-3 cleaners | From £443 |
| Carpet cleaning add-on | Same visit | From £29 per room |
| Oven-only clean | 1.5-2 hours | From £95 |
On the South Bank a part property or an unusual layout is £30 per cleaner per hour, with kit and products included. Those figures assume a flat in normal lived-in shape.
These cost more, and we say so on the phone rather than after:
- a long tenancy with heavy wear
- a pet household
- somewhere that has not had a deep clean in years
No surprise lines on the invoice.
Run the sum the way the deposit makes you. A one-bed at £225 to protect a deposit running into the thousands is barely a decision.
Every booking carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee. If the agent flags any cleanliness issue within 48 hours, we come back and redo it free, as long as:
- you tell us inside that window
- the flat is still in the state we left it, with nobody moved in
The guarantee is the point, because a failed check-out where deposits start high is not a small thing to shrug off. There is a reason agents along the river keep us on file.
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.
One thing worth booking the right job for, because three get muddled.
- 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 rather than to a vague 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 a fixed price by bedroom count.
- Deep clean
- A deep clean resets a home you are keeping, lived-in, with no formal standard to hit, from £204 for two cleaners and at least three hours, with the kit included.
- Regular domestic clean
- A regular domestic clean is ongoing upkeep, from £23 an hour on a weekly round.
Booking it around the concierge desk
The bottleneck here is rarely our diary. It is the building, so plan it backwards from the lift, not from the clean.
South Bank Tower, One Blackfriars and Oxo Tower Wharf all run a concierge sign-in and a service-lift booking, and on a busy month-end those windows go before the cleaning slots do. The steps are simple.
- Ring 0333 555 2076. Price in about three minutes. Give us the postcode, the bedroom count, the check-out date and any known problem areas, and mention anything the original check-in report marked “new” or “as new”.
- We book you in, ideally the day before check-out with a buffer, and we make the service-lift call to the concierge for you. Allow about ten days for a tower flat at month-end, three to five days mid-month for the smaller blocks.
- Flat empty when we arrive. Furniture out, personal things gone, rubbish cleared. If a piece is staying for the next tenant we work around it. We also handle removals if you want the move and the clean on one booking, which helps when the loading bay only takes one van at a time.
- 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.
- Check-out happens. Anything flagged inside 48 hours, we come back and fix it free.
If your check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway. Studios and one-beds can sometimes be done same-week or sooner once the lift window is free, and we will tell you straight on the phone what is possible rather than after you have paid.
Questions we get asked
What does end of tenancy cleaning cost on the South Bank?
Studio £174, one-bed £225, two-bed £261, three-bed £357, four-bed £443. Those prices include kit, products and travel. Partial or unusual jobs run at £30 per hour per cleaner. A heavily worn or pet-occupied flat is quoted on the phone.
Do you cover South Bank Tower and One Blackfriars?
Yes, regularly. We know the concierge sign-in at both and the service-lift booking window, and we account for both in the quote and make the lift call for you. South Bank Tower at 55 Upper Ground and One Blackfriars at the bridge end are core to our SE1 round.
Can you handle the Oxo Tower Wharf and Coin Street flats?
Yes. The Oxo Tower Wharf flats have a management entrance off the riverside arcade, and we clean for tenants across the Mulberry, Palm, Redwood and Iroko co-ops behind Stamford Street. The co-op check-out is set by the housing co-operative rather than a commercial agent, but the cleaning standard is still high.
Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change anything for South Bank tenants?
From 1 May 2026, Section 21 evictions are abolished and every existing assured shorthold tenancy in England converts to a periodic tenancy, so a tenant can give two months’ notice at any point. The cleaning obligations at end of tenancy do not change. The real effect here is more frequent and less predictable move-outs, so book as early as you can.
How hard is the water around the South Bank?
Very hard. The Thames Water supply across central London runs at roughly 300 mg/l calcium carbonate, which is why scale on shower glass and brushed fittings is one of the most common deduction reasons here. We descale with non-acidic creams matched to the surface so the glass and the metal are not etched.
What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?
If the inventory clerk flags any cleaning failure within 48 hours of our finish, we come back at no charge and put it right, as long as the flat is still in the state we left it with nobody moved in.
What does the 57-point agent-approved checklist cover?
Every inspection point the major riverside agents work to: kitchen interior, oven and extractor, all bathrooms top to bottom, every bedroom and living-area surface, the inside of the glazing, and the access points. We built it over a decade of working with 300+ letting agents, and the full list comes with the job.
Do I need to be there, and does the flat need to be empty?
You do not need to be there if the concierge or a key safe can let us in, which we confirm at booking. The flat should be fully empty, because furniture left behind blocks access and creates uncertainty at the check-out. A single piece left for the next tenant can be worked around, but the more that stays, the less complete the clean can be.
How long does a South Bank flat take?
A two-bed at South Bank Tower is about two cleaners for six hours. Studios and one-beds run three to five hours, three-beds and the Coin Street family flats seven to nine. The service-lift window can add time either side, which is why we book it in advance.
What happens if my landlord disputes the clean after a re-clean?
Escalate to your deposit scheme’s adjudication, whether that is TDS, DPS or mydeposits. Our invoice, dated photo report and re-clean record are admissible evidence, and a tenant with a complete professional-clean paper trail very rarely loses. Shelter’s guidance walks through the steps.
Is carpet cleaning included or extra?
Hot-water extraction is an add-on, from £29 a bedroom and £36 a living room, or £94 for two bedrooms and a living room, done on the same visit. A fair few riverside tenancies write a professional carpet clean in as a hard requirement with a receipt at check-out, so check your agreement, because skipping a written clause makes the deduction near-automatic.
Do you bring your own equipment?
Yes. Hoover, mop, microfibre system, surface-matched descalers and full kit. You leave the water and power on. Most of the towers already have us on the concierge approved-contractor list, and we can send insurance documents ahead if your building asks for them.
Do you take bookings from letting agents directly?
Yes. We invoice agents on thirty-day terms with our company number on the document, and a good share of our South Bank work comes through agents and building concierge teams who keep us on file.
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