End of tenancy cleaning in South Wimbledon
Between the terraces either side of Merton High Street, the High Path estate and the new blocks towards Plough Lane, South Wimbledon has every kind of let, and the end of tenancy clean is priced the same way for all of them: by bedrooms, from £156 for a studio to £425 for four. A clerk’s note within 48 hours means a free return visit.
Last updated October 2026.
South Wimbledon is a rented corner of Merton. A housing stock study done for the council in 2022 counted 1,791 privately rented homes in Abbey ward, the ward around the station, which is 38.5% of its homes against 34.0% for the borough. The same study predicted 76 shared houses in the ward. Plenty of tenants, then, and plenty of check-outs.
The check-out walk-through, room by room
An inventory clerk starts at the front door with the check-in report in hand and compares each room with what it says. Cleanliness gets its own line, and dirt that was not there on day one is what turns into a deduction. This is the order a clerk usually follows in a South Wimbledon flat, and what the cleaners do at each stop.
Hall and stairs. Many terraces here are split into an upper and a lower flat behind one front door. The communal hall is often on nobody’s inventory, but your own entrance is: the inside of your front door, the meter cupboard, light switches and the skirting along the stairs. The cleaners wipe each tread and the banister, because dust collects on the edges where a vacuum does not reach.
The front room. Merton’s character study describes the Victorian streets north and west of the station as two-storey terraces in yellow London stock brick, with half bays at the front and small front gardens. A bay gives the clerk three panes of glass, three sills and a curtain track to look at. The cleaners wash the glass from the inside, wipe the frames and sills, and clean the radiator under the window, front and back.
The kitchen. Conversion kitchens are small, so a clerk can check all of it in a minute. They open the oven, look up at the extractor filter, run a hand along the top of the wall cupboards and pull out the washing machine drawer.
The cleaners do cupboards inside and out, the hob, tiles, extractor and filter, sink, fridge and freezer (switch them off and defrost the night before), and the floor behind anything that slides out.
The bathroom. Thames Water supplies SW19, and the water is very hard. White scale on a chrome tap or a cloudy shower screen goes down on a report as dirt, so the cleaners descale the taps, shower head, screen, tiles and the waterline in the toilet as part of every clean here.
Grout gets scrubbed. Mould that has stained the sealant is another matter; it can be lightened, though a stain inside silicone usually needs the sealant replaced.
Bedrooms. Inside every wardrobe and drawer, skirting, door frames, switches, sockets and radiators, then carpets vacuumed or hard floors washed, with the floor done last in every room. If the check-in report says the carpets were professionally cleaned, read your tenancy agreement before you move out, because that is where any carpet clause will be.
White scale on a chrome tap goes down on a report as dirt.
Prices for a South Wimbledon flat or house
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| One-bedroom flat | £207 |
| Two-bedroom flat or house | £243 |
| Three-bedroom house | £339 |
| Four-bedroom house | £425 |
| Part job or odd layout | £30 per cleaner per hour |
The fixed price is for the whole empty home and every point on the checklist. The oven and carpets are add-ons, and both cost less when booked with the end of tenancy clean than on their own.
- Oven: £31 single or single wide, £62 double or 90cm range cooker.
- Carpets: £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway, £8 a landing.
If the street needs paid parking or a visitor permit for the van, we add what it costs us and it shows on the quote. You can get your figure from the price calculator at the top of the page, or call 0333 555 2076 between 8am and 7pm, any day of the week. For carpets or an oven without the full clean, see our carpet cleaning and oven cleaning pages.
Terraces, High Path and the Plough Lane blocks
End of tenancy cleaning
from £156
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The streets north of Merton High Street sit on what was Merton Place, the house Nelson lived in from 1801. It was pulled down in 1823 and by the 1890s the land was covered with terraces; Victory Road, Trafalgar Road, Hardy Road and Hamilton Road keep the names, and a block of flats called Merton Place stands on the site of the house.
West of the station, the study notes a looser grid of Edwardian and interwar terraces in red brick, with gabled double bays and canopy porches. Same bedroom count, more glass: a double bay adds windows and sills to the job, and the Edwardian houses tend to have taller rooms.
South of the High Street is the High Path estate, council housing that went up from the early 1950s in multi-storey blocks between Merton High Street, Morden Road and Abbey Road. Clarion Housing Group is rebuilding it with Hill. The first phase, 134 homes (125 flats and 9 houses), was finished in 2021 and went to existing Clarion residents and leaseholders.
When the whole scheme is done there will be about 1,700 homes where there were just over 600. A new flat on the estate is quick to clean per room. The extra time goes on integrated appliances, which need their doors opened and the seals wiped, and on a lot of glass in the shower.
North up Haydons Road, the old greyhound stadium at Plough Lane is now AFC Wimbledon’s ground, opened in November 2020, with Galliard’s 602 flats in three blocks around it. These buildings run on a managing agent’s rules: a fob, sometimes a lift to book, and often the agent’s own check-out list. Send us that list and the cleaners work to it.
Licensing and planning in Abbey ward
Merton’s additional HMO licensing and its selective licensing both started on 24 September 2023 and run for five years, and both stop short of South Wimbledon. Additional licensing covers seven wards in the east of the borough; selective licensing covers four of those (Figge’s Marsh, Graveney, Longthornton and Pollards Hill).
One stop north at Colliers Wood, a smaller shared house does need a council licence. In Abbey ward a flat let to one household needs none, and only a house with five or more sharers from more than one household needs the national mandatory licence.
Planning moved this year. On 24 March 2026 Merton made an immediate Article 4 direction across 13 more wards, Abbey among them, so turning a family house into a small shared house now needs planning permission. The consultation on it ran to 19 June 2026, and the council’s Article 4 page has the current position.
For the clean, the practical point is shared houses. Sharers rarely leave on the same day, and the communal kitchen and bathroom are where a shared-house check-out is won or lost. One sharer can book their room and a share of the communal rooms by the hour, at £30 per cleaner, and the last one out books the rest.
Parking zones and getting the van in
South Wimbledon station opened on 13 September 1926, one of Charles Holden’s Portland stone stations on the Northern line extension to Morden, and it sits on the corner of Merton High Street and Morden Road. It is on the boundary of fare zones 3 and 4.
The tram stops at Morden Road and Merton Park are on the western edge of the area. None of that helps with a van full of kit, which is why parking is the thing to sort out before the day.
Merton lists five controlled parking zones for South Wimbledon. S1, S2 and SW operate Monday to Saturday, 8.30am to 6.30pm; S3 runs Monday to Friday over the same hours, and SW1 is permit holders only, Monday to Friday.
Saturday is controlled in most of them, and Saturday is a common moving day, so if you have visitor time left on your permit, keep some back for the van. Morden Road itself is a TfL road with heavy traffic, so the van will use a side street.
When you book, give us the postcode, the bedrooms, the check-out date, the floor and any carpets or oven to add. The home needs to be empty, with power and hot water on. Merton Road runs west from the station into Wimbledon town centre, and every other area we cover in the borough is on our end of tenancy cleaning Merton page.
South Wimbledon end of tenancy questions
My flat is one half of a converted terrace off Merton High Street. Do you clean the shared hallway?
The fixed price covers your flat, including your own front door and stairs inside it. If your tenancy makes you responsible for a shared hall as well, tell us when you book and we add it by the hour at £30 per cleaner.
Does my shared house in Abbey ward need a licence?
Only if five or more people from more than one household live there, which brings in the national mandatory licence. Merton’s additional and selective schemes do not cover Abbey ward. Since 24 March 2026, turning a family house there into a small shared house needs planning permission.
Is the oven part of the fixed price?
No. The oven is always an add-on: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. Open the oven door before you book; after a long let it is usually the worst thing in the kitchen.
Can you clean a new flat on the High Path estate or at Plough Lane?
Yes. Tell us the building and floor, book the lift if the managing agent asks for that, and send over any check-out list the building uses. Integrated appliances are cleaned inside with their doors open.
Which day is hardest for parking near South Wimbledon station?
Saturday. Zones S1, S2 and SW are controlled from 8.30am to 6.30pm on Saturdays as well as weekdays, while S3 and SW1 are weekdays only. If your street needs a paid bay or a visitor permit, the cost goes on the quote.