The big-family let that decides an N15 deposit
End of tenancy cleaning
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A check-out clean in South Tottenham costs £156 for a studio and runs up to £425 for a four-bed.
- The price is fixed on the size of the home, no hourly meter runs while the team works.
- A 48-hour re-clean guarantee covers anything the inventory clerk picks up.
The rest of this page is the N15 detail: the terraces, the licensing, the parking and the trains that shape a move here.
In South Tottenham the housing sets the size of the job. The streets between West Green Road and the Stamford Hill edge are lined with late-Victorian terraces. A whole house handed back after years of family life has more rooms and stairs to get through, and more wear on its surfaces, than a one-bed flat.
So a move-out here can take longer than the bedroom count on the booking suggests.
South Tottenham runs from the High Road, which follows the line of the Roman Ermine Street, east toward Markfield Park and the River Lea, with the Suffragette line cutting across the middle.
Much of the housing in between is terraced, put up in a rush after the Great Eastern opened its Edmonton branch in 1872 and cheap workmen’s fares brought in lower-middle-class and skilled working families. Those houses decide what a move-out clean here involves, far more than the postcode on the booking.
It helps to know how people move in and out, because that shapes when a clean is wanted.
- South Tottenham station
- Its own Overground station on the line that used to be the GOBlin and is now the green Suffragette line, four trains an hour each way between Gospel Oak and Barking Riverside, step-free.
- Seven Sisters
- With the Victoria line and the Weaver-line Overground, it is about 350 metres away to the north-west and counts as an official out-of-station interchange.
Whichever way you travel on the last day, a clean on a Sunday evening before a Monday check-out is easy to arrange.
What a deposit clean costs on an N15 terrace
Here are the figures, set by the number of bedrooms. You get the price on the phone before anything is booked, and it stays put once the team is inside the house and has seen the state of the oven.
- Studio flat: £156
- One-bed: £207
- Two-bed: £243
- Three-bed: £339
- Four-bed: £425
Each figure is the whole job. It covers all of this, cleaned to the standard the check-out report will use:
- every cupboard and wardrobe
- the inside of each window
- skirting boards, switches and door frames
- By the hour
- For a small part-job, such as a single bathroom a clerk has flagged, we can work by the hour at £30 per cleaner. On a full move-out from an N15 terrace the fixed price nearly always comes out lower, because the job ends when the clerk’s standard is met, however long that takes.
- Past four bedrooms
- Our published list stops at four bedrooms. Where a house goes past that, for example after a loft conversion, we quote from the room count and the condition you describe on the phone, and the quote is still one fixed figure for the property.
- Flats above shops
- A two-bed flat above a shop on the High Road is £243.
The point of paying for this is a smaller chance of losing money at the end. Across London we have helped tenants get back £1.2m of deposit money that would otherwise have gone on cleaning charges.
A weekend of scrubbing on your own can work, but it rarely matches what a clerk looks for.
The 57-point list and the 48-hour promise
The team follows a 57-point checklist on every South Tottenham move-out, and the letting agents we work with already know it. It fixes the order of the work room by room, so a corner does not get missed when the light fades on a winter afternoon or the van is due somewhere else.
The order matches how an inventory clerk walks a property:
- We start in the kitchen, since that is where most money is lost: inside the oven, the hob and the extractor hood, behind and beside the fridge, inside every unit and along the tops, then the splashback and the scale around the sink.
- The bathroom comes second, with the grout, the silicone, the shower glass and the taps.
- Living rooms and bedrooms follow, and on an 1890s terrace that means the dust along picture rails and coving, the top edge of every door frame and the back of each radiator.
- Door handles and light switches get done too. Clerks do write them up.
Most check-out reports are built from photographs, so we clean for the camera as well as the eye: the oven door glass, the tops of the door frames and the shower screen in hard light.
You do not need to buy anything. The team arrives with its own products and equipment, so nothing has to be left behind in the house for us. What we do need:
- the power on
- hot water running
- every belonging gone
A bathroom cannot be cleaned properly with the water off, and a floor stacked with boxes cannot be cleaned at all, which is why a clear house matters more than any spray.
The guarantee is what protects you if a clerk is strict on the day. Should the inventory clerk or the agent raise anything about the clean within 48 hours, we go back and fix it free of charge.
We are on the supplier books of 300+ letting agents in London as well, so there is a fair chance the agent handling your N15 let has seen our reports before.
Why these terraces hold the dirt
Tottenham grew at a speed that still shows in its streets. Its population rose from 13,240 in 1861 to 97,174 in 1891, and the terraces behind the High Road around Page Green went up between about 1880 and the 1894 Ordnance Survey.
Plenty of those houses are rented now. Where the original features survive, they make a house a pleasure to live in and a chore to hand back, because each one gives dust a place to sit that a new-build flat simply lacks.
A clerk checking a house of that age knows the ledges to test:
- the picture rail and the top of the skirting come first
- then the recesses in the panelled doors
- the ceiling rose
- any cast-iron fireplace surround left in place
A front bay means three panes where a flat window would have one, and old sash windows collect grit in the runners and along the glazing bars. None of it needs special kit. It needs time, and time is the first thing a cheap clean cuts.
The water adds its own layer. Thames Water supplies N15 and says all of its supplies are generally classed as hard, because the water picks up carbonates from chalk and limestone on its way to the tap. In a South Tottenham bathroom that shows as:
- a white crust round the tap bases
- a dull film on the shower glass
- scale inside the showerhead
We descale every bathroom and kitchen here as part of the standard clean, since clerks mark scale down as dirt however recently it formed.
Wear from a long tenancy is normal, and a clerk is supposed to allow for it. Dirt is a different matter. These go down as cleaning:
- grease on the cupboard doors
- marks on the stair wall where bags were carried up
- a grey line along the hallway skirting
They get priced against the check-in photos, which may have been taken years ago in an empty, freshly painted house. Closing that gap is most of what we do on an N15 move-out. The furniture has gone by then; the evidence of daily life is still on the surfaces.
Flats are part of the mix too. Along the High Road there are flats above the shop units, and some of the terraces behind were divided up long ago. A flat usually takes less time than a house, with fewer rooms and often newer fittings.
The clerk’s standard stays exactly the same, though, and a one-bed over a shop on the A10 gets the same checklist as a family terrace off Broad Lane.
The kitchen, the bathroom and a house that was lived in
The kitchen decides more South Tottenham check-outs than any other room. One that has fed a household every day for the length of a tenancy carries grease on the hob, the extractor and the cupboard fronts. Where there are two ovens or two hobs, there is twice the baked-on residue to shift before the clerk arrives.
The inspection of a kitchen is quick, over in a couple of minutes. The clerk:
- pulls the oven door down
- looks at the hob
- runs a finger along the worktop edge
- opens the cupboard under the sink
Where a house has two ovens, both doors get opened. We take that same route slowly, soaking each oven’s racks and scrubbing the cavity instead of wiping the glass, so the kitchen still looks right once somebody opens the doors.
Bathrooms are the second place deposits leak away. A bathroom used by a whole household all tenancy tends to show it:
- in the grout, which turns grey
- in the silicone, where black mould gathers in the corners
- in hard-water scale on the screen and the taps
Together that is most of a bathroom deduction. We clean the grout and sealant back as far as they will go, clear the scale, and leave the room dry and aired, because a damp smell is often the first thing a clerk records.
None of this is a reason to dread the check-out. It is a reason to have it cleaned by people who have done the big N15 houses and know where the marks hide.
That experience is part of why we have helped tenants across London recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions. The houses here are bigger and busier than most. The standard we clean to does not change.
Who signs off the check-out in South Tottenham
Your landlord rarely does the check-out personally. On most N15 lets the agent books an independent inventory clerk, who takes the check-in report room by room and compares it with what is in front of them.
- Everything is photographed.
- Normal wear gets a pass.
- Dirt never does, and cleaning tends to fill more pages of the report than anything else.
Who manages the let changes the tone of the check-out. In N15 some homes are handled by high-street agents, some by managing agents who rarely visit, and some directly by a private landlord.
- A landlord on site
- A landlord who walks round in person may take a practical view of a scuffed skirting.
- A managing agent
- A managing agent reading a clerk’s report in an office will usually go by the photographs and little else, and those same photographs are what the deposit scheme’s adjudicator sees if a deduction is disputed.
For that reason we clean with the lens in mind:
- glass without smears
- chrome without water marks
- the tops of frames and units, which a flash picks out in every shot
Four terms in the paperwork decide how much of the deposit you see again.
- Check-in inventory
- The record made when you moved in, room by room and usually with photographs, of how clean the home was and what condition it was in. The check-out is scored against it, so a house that was spotless on day one has to be spotless again at the end.
- Fair wear and tear
- Ageing a landlord has to accept, like carpet worn along a walkway or paint faded by the sun. Grease, limescale and grime do not count, and that is why cleaning is the most common deduction of all. Shelter’s deposit guide explains what a landlord can and cannot keep.
- Professional clean clause
- Wording in some older agreements asking for the home to be professionally cleaned at the end. Since the Tenant Fees Act 2019 a landlord cannot make you pay for a professional clean as a condition of the tenancy, yet the home still has to go back at the check-in standard, and reaching that standard is the job you are paying us for.
- Deductions
- The amounts a landlord wants to keep from the deposit. You can agree, haggle, or send them to the scheme’s free dispute service.
A clean house keeps that conversation short. We build each check-out clean around the questions the clerk’s report will ask, and that is why work done to the 57-point checklist so seldom needs a second visit.
Licensing and deposit law on a South Tottenham tenancy
South Tottenham sits in the London Borough of Haringey, and unlike the west of the borough it falls inside the council’s selective licensing area. The penalties for letting without a licence are steep, so it is worth checking your address is covered before a tenancy ends.
- Selective licence
- Haringey runs a selective licensing scheme covering privately rented homes in fourteen mostly eastern wards, and the South Tottenham ward is one of them. The scheme runs from 17 November 2022 to 16 November 2027, and it means an ordinary house or flat let to a single household, or to two unrelated sharers, needs a selective licence from the council.
Shared houses have their own rules:
- Additional HMO licence
- Haringey’s additional HMO licence has applied in every ward since 17 June 2024 and runs to 16 June 2029. It covers homes shared by three or four people who are not all related, plus certain converted blocks of flats known as section 257 HMOs.
- Mandatory HMO licence
- Five or more sharers making up two or more households must hold a mandatory licence anywhere in the borough.
South Tottenham is also one of the 14 wards under Haringey’s Article 4 direction, in force since 30 November 2013, so turning a family house into a small shared house here needs planning permission.
The council publishes the details of its selective licensing scheme online; confirm the current ward list and dates with Haringey before relying on them.
Deposit protection works the same way across England:
- Within 30 days of receiving your deposit, the landlord has to place it in one of three government-approved schemes and give you the scheme’s details in writing.
- The gov.uk page on deposit protection covers the rules.
- The Deposit Protection Service is one of the three: it holds deposits and runs a free adjudication service when landlord and tenant disagree.
A deduction you think is unfair can be challenged. The schemes’ dispute services cost nothing, the landlord has to justify every amount, and the two inventory reports carry most of the weight.
The rules for ending a tenancy have also changed. Under the Renters’ Rights Act 2025, from 1 May 2026 Section 21 notices ended and tenancies became periodic, so most tenants now leave by giving two months’ notice. That notice period is your window to book the clean.
Keep the invoice from a professional clean. It is written evidence of what was done and when, and if the clerk’s report says otherwise, an adjudicator can weigh one document against another instead of your memory against a photo.
Booking a clean around the Suffragette line
Booking takes three steps
- Your postcode and the property. The form gives the price.
- A date that suits you. Seven days a week.
- We confirm it with you by phone or WhatsApp.
0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm
To book, call 0333 555 2076 with the postcode and the number of bedrooms, and you get a fixed price and a date on the same call. We work every day of the week, so a clean on the day the keys go back, or the evening before, is easy to arrange.
Parking decides how smoothly the day goes. Haringey runs two zones here:
- South Tottenham CPZ
- Controlled Monday to Friday from 10am to 12 noon.
- Seven Sisters CPZ
- Controlled Monday to Saturday from 8am to 6.30pm.
Tell us which zone your street is in when you call. A visitor permit, or a clear bay once the controlled hours end, gets the van unloaded quickly, and on a full house that can save the best part of an hour.
Timing is worth settling early. The diary fills up, so the sooner you fix a slot, the more choice of date you get. If the clean has to land on a Sunday or a weekday evening, say so when you call and we will sort it.
Book the clean for the gap between the removal van leaving and the clerk arriving: ideally the same day, or the day before the check-out. The house has to be:
- completely empty
- still connected to electricity
- still connected to hot water
If you are only moving a short way, perhaps across the Lea or further up the High Road, our separate removals service can be booked to run just ahead of the cleaners, which saves juggling two firms and two arrival times on the last day.
Let us know about stairs and access when you book. A house where the bedrooms are up two flights, or a flat reached through a narrow stair beside a High Road shop, takes longer to load kit into, especially the carpet and upholstery machines, and knowing in advance helps us send enough people.
Extra jobs worth adding to the quote
Some jobs sit outside the standard price because plenty of homes do not need them. These are the add-ons a South Tottenham check-out report asks for most often.
- Ovens
- Ovens come first. A clerk opens the oven before almost anything else, and grease inside it is one of the surest deductions there is. Our oven cleaning soaks the racks and trays and cleans the door glass and cavity by hand: £31 for a single and £62 for a double or a range. Where a kitchen has two ovens, both need doing, and booking both deep cleans usually decides whether the kitchen page of the report comes back clean.
- Carpets
- Stairs and bedrooms carry years of traffic in a family terrace, and vacuuming alone will not shift it. Our carpet cleaning uses hot-water extraction and costs £29 per bedroom, £36 for a living room, or £94 for all the carpet in a two-bed flat. Check the check-in report first: if it says the carpets were professionally cleaned when you moved in, expect the clerk to want the same at the end.
- Upholstery
- Furniture that came with the let can need attention as well. If the sofa or a mattress on the inventory looks tired, our upholstery cleaning uses the same extraction method to lift dirt and smells.
- Exterior windows
- Some inventories also list the outside of the windows. We clean those with water-fed poles and purified water, which reach the upper panes of a two-storey bay from the pavement and dry without streaks.
Not sure what your check-out will need? Read us the relevant lines of the check-in report and we will say which extras matter and which you can skip.
South Tottenham end-of-tenancy questions
How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost in South Tottenham?
Prices are fixed by the size of the home: £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. Larger family houses are quoted on the number of rooms, and the figure is set before we book, covering the whole property cleaned to the check-out standard rather than charged by the hour.
Do you guarantee the clean will pass the check-out inventory?
Our 48-hour re-clean guarantee covers anything flagged at check-out. If the clerk or agent raises the cleaning within 48 hours, we return and fix it for free.
What is the 57-point checklist?
It is the room-by-room, agent-approved list our cleaners follow on every move-out, from the inside of the oven and the bathroom silicone to door handles and switch plates. Letting agents we work with know it, so the clean follows the same order their clerks use when they check.
Do you clean the large family houses in South Tottenham?
Yes. A house bigger than our four-bed tier, for example after a loft conversion, is quoted on the number of rooms and the condition, and the price still stays fixed on the property rather than running by the hour.
Does a rented home in South Tottenham need a licence?
Usually, yes. South Tottenham is one of the 14 Haringey wards in the selective licensing scheme that runs from 17 November 2022 to 16 November 2027, so a home let to one household or to two sharers needs a selective licence. A shared house may need an additional or mandatory HMO licence instead.
What if my South Tottenham house is a shared HMO?
It depends on how many people live there. Three or four unrelated sharers bring it under Haringey’s additional HMO scheme, which covers every ward from 17 June 2024 to 16 June 2029. A mix of five or more people from at least two households needs a mandatory HMO licence. Check the current rules with Haringey Council.
Do I need to provide cleaning products or equipment?
No. The team brings everything with them, from cloths and products to the vacuums and ladders. All you need to arrange is working electricity, hot water, and a house cleared of your belongings.
How long does an end of tenancy clean take in a South Tottenham house?
It varies with size and condition. A one or two-bed flat is normally done in half a day, while a full terrace over two or three floors can take all day or longer. The price is fixed on the property, so the team works until the standard is met and does not stop when a set number of hours runs out.
Can you clean a house with two kitchens or two ovens?
Yes. Whether the house has two kitchens or one kitchen with two ovens and two hobs, we clean all of it fully. Each oven is an add-on, so two ovens means two oven cleans, which we factor into the quote.
Can you clean around my furniture or belongings?
No. The house has to be empty. We cannot get inside cupboards, behind the cooker or across a floor stacked with boxes, and the clerk will be judging an empty house anyway.
Can you do the clean at the weekend?
Yes, we work seven days a week. Sunday and weekday-evening slots go quickly, so we recommend booking early to get the date you want.
Is the oven included in the end of tenancy price?
The oven is an add-on to the standard clean: £31 for a single and £62 for a double or a range. In South Tottenham kitchens that see daily cooking, the oven is the item clerks mark down most, so it is usually worth adding.
Should I clean the carpets for the check-out?
Look at what the check-in report says. If it records the carpets as professionally cleaned, you will usually need to hand them back the same way. Ours are cleaned by hot-water extraction at £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, or £94 for a two-bed.
What happens if the agent still disputes a deduction?
Then it goes to the scheme holding your deposit. Each government-backed scheme offers free dispute resolution, and the landlord must prove every deduction. Your invoice for a professional clean gives the adjudicator a dated document to set against the check-out report, so keep it.
Do you cover N15 from the High Road across to Markfield Park?
Yes, we cover the whole of N15, from West Green Road and the High Road across to the streets running down toward Markfield Park and the River Lea, and up to the Stamford Hill edge. We also work the neighbouring areas, so a move between South Tottenham and the next postcode is no problem.
What is the quickest way to book a South Tottenham move-out clean?
Phone 0333 555 2076, or email office@monstercleaning.com, with your postcode and the number of bedrooms. You get a fixed price during the call and a slot that fits the check-out date, any day of the week. Our contact page lists the other ways to reach us.
Moving just outside N15? The same service runs across the borough from our Haringey end of tenancy cleaning hub, and next door in Seven Sisters, Tottenham and Stamford Hill.