A two-bed flat in a converted terrace off The Green, in the UB2 part of Southall, lets for about £1,600 a month, and the deposit held against it is usually five weeks of that rent sitting in a protection scheme. Southall Green is the ward south of the railway, around The Green itself, South Road and the Broadway, and the housing is mostly older terraces split into flats and rooms. People moving out of them lose money for one reason ahead of all the others: the clean at the end did not match what the inventory clerk wrote down on the way in.
We do end of tenancy cleaning across Southall Green and the rest of UB2 from £156 for a studio and £243 for a two-bed, worked to a 57-point agent-approved checklist with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee.
Last updated April 2026. The pricing, the checklist and the guarantee on this page apply to Southall Green, the wider Southall area and the rest of the UB1 and UB2 postcodes under the London Borough of Ealing.
Why Southall Green deposits get deducted
A tenancy deposit is not the landlord’s money to keep, and it is not yours to write off before you have tried. It is held in one of the government-backed schemes, and at the end of the tenancy the landlord can only take from it for genuine, evidenced breaches: unpaid rent, damage beyond fair wear, or the flat being handed back dirtier than the check-in inventory recorded it. Cleaning is the single most common deduction, and it is also the most winnable, because a clean flat is a fact you can demonstrate with photographs rather than argue about. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 tightened how landlords have to evidence and itemise a claim against your money, which in practice means a vague “needs a clean” line no longer holds up the way it once did, but a clerk’s dated check-in photo of a clean oven still does. So the contest is narrow and concrete. You match the inventory or you do not.
Most disputes in Southall Green are not about big damage. They are about the oven, the extractor over the hob, limescale on the bathroom taps and screen, dust on the picture rails and tops of doors, and skirting marks in the hallway. None of that is dramatic. All of it gets photographed by the clerk on the way in, clean, and compared line by line on the way out.
Ealing Council licensing and the HMO rules around The Green
This matters here more than in most of London, and it shapes the kind of flats we clean. Southall Green sits inside Ealing’s selective licensing area. The council’s first selective licensing scheme covers the old Southall Green and Southall Broadway wards, it started on 1 April 2022, and it runs until 31 March 2027, so it is live right now. If a property is let to a single household or two sharers in this ward, the landlord needs a selective licence, currently £750 for the five years. Larger shared houses need an additional HMO licence on top, around £1,300 a property. On 4 September 2024 Ealing also brought in Article 4 directions covering Southall, which now require planning permission before a family house can be carved into a small HMO at all. You can check a specific address against the schemes on the council’s own portal at ealing.gov.uk. Why does this matter for the clean? Because a licensed HMO is inspected against the licence as well as the inventory, and a tenant leaving one room in a shared house off South Road or Western Road is judged on that room and the shared kitchen and bathroom, not on the whole building. We clean to whichever applies. A whole-flat hand-back is one job; a single room plus a share of the communal kitchen is a different, more careful conversation, and we will tell you which you actually need before we quote.
It is worth being clear about how a room hand-back actually gets judged in one of these shared houses, because it trips a lot of tenants up. The clerk does not assess the whole building against your name. They assess your room against the inventory line for that room, and then they look at the shared kitchen and bathroom and decide whether the state they are in is reasonable given how many people use them. The real risk for you is the shared bathroom, because scale builds there fastest and nobody in a six-person house feels it is solely their job. If you leave your room immaculate and the shared bathroom is hazed with scale, a clerk can still note a cleaning concern that lands on the deposit of whoever is moving out. We have done enough of these around Hortus Road and Western Road to know that getting the communal bathroom and kitchen genuinely clean, on top of your own four walls, is what actually protects the money. So when you call, tell us how many rooms share the bathroom and the kitchen and roughly how heavily they get used, and we will scope the shared spaces into the quote properly rather than under-do them and leave you exposed.
Hard water, the Broadway, andthe new flats by the canal
Southall is supplied by Affinity Water, and the water here is hard, around 280 parts per million by their own hardness figures, which you can confirm on affinitywater.co.uk. In day-to-day terms that means a chalky film builds on taps, the shower screen, the kettle and the inside of the toilet faster than tenants expect, and it is one of the first things a clerk checks because it photographs badly. A bathroom that looks fine to you in passing can still show a dull scale haze under the clerk’s close-up light. We treat that properly with a scale remover and a lot of patience rather than a quick wipe, because a wipe just smears it. The stock here splits a few ways and we clean all of it: the long late-Victorian and Edwardian terraces around The Green, Hortus Road and Park Avenue, most of them long since split into flats and bedsits; interwar maisonettes and the odd ex-council block; and now the new Green Quarter flats on the old Southall Gasworks site by the Grand Union Canal, the Berkeley scheme behind Southall station off the Elizabeth line. The new blocks have no period detail to worry about but their own end-of-tenancy quirks, mostly engineered floors, glass balustrades and integrated appliances that inventory clerks check hard because they were spotless on day one.
“I had a room in a shared house on Hortus Road for nearly four years, six of us in the place, all working, and the bit I genuinely dreaded was the bathroom we all used. The water here is so hard the taps and the screen had gone cloudy with scale however much I wiped them, and the check-in photos showed the lot sparkling clean. Monster came on a Wednesday, two of them, and they spent most of the time just on that bathroom and my room, taking the scale off the screen and the taps properly rather than smearing it about. The agent signed the room off two days later with nothing taken. I had £780 held and got all of it back.” — Harpreet K., former tenant, Hortus Road, Southall Green
Coverage across Southall Green and UB2
We cover the whole of Southall Green and the streets around it. The Green and the Broadway through the middle. South Road down past where the old Glassy Junction pub stood on the corner of Park Avenue, on towards the station. Western Road, Park Avenue, Hortus Road and the terraces off them. Norwood Road and the run towards Norwood Green. The Green Quarter blocks by the canal and the Gasworks site. The grid of converted terraces between the railway and Norwood Road. If you are a few streets outside this ward, in Norwood Green, Dormers Wells or towards Hayes, we still cover you under the same UB2 pricing, so call and ask rather than assume the postcode is out of range.
A practical note on getting to you. The streets off The Green and around South Road are tight, a lot of them are permit-controlled, and the Broadway itself is busy most of the day, so we plan the round so a clean is not eating into your handover slot because a van could not get near. If your flat is one of the Green Quarter blocks the access is different again, usually a concierge or a fob and a loading bay rather than street parking, so tell us which building and floor when you book so we bring the right kit up in one trip. None of that changes the price. It just means the clean starts on time.
What an end of tenancy clean includes
End of tenancy is the hand-back clean, the one you do once when you leave so the inventory check-out passes. It is not a regular tidy and it is not a deep clean for staying on. Everything below is done on a standard two-bed; bigger flats and shared houses take more cleaners and more hours, not a different list.
Kitchen
The kitchen is where most of the deduction risk sits in these flats, because Southall cooking is proper cooking and the oven and extractor take the brunt of it. We pull the oven apart as far as it sensibly goes, get the door glass clear, take the racks and trays back, degrease the interior, and clean behind and down the sides of the cooker where the grease has run and set. The extractor hood comes down, the filter goes out and gets degreased in the sink rather than wiped over on the wall. Hob, splashback, all worktops, tiles and grout, sink and taps descaled, the inside and outside of every cupboard and drawer, and the back of the kickboards. Fridge and freezer cleaned out and defrosted if they are staying. Washing machine drawer and seal, which is a common scale and mould spot here given the water.
Bathrooms
Because the water is hard, the bathroom is the second big one. Bath, basin, toilet inside and out and around the base, taps, shower head, screen and tiles all descaled rather than wiped over. Grout scrubbed and any surface mould on the silicone treated. Extractor vent dusted. Mirror, glass and any chrome polished so it does not show the haze under the clerk’s light. Floor washed into the corners and behind the door.
Bedrooms and living rooms
Skirting, picture and dado rails, the tops of doors and door frames, light fittings and switch plates, every windowsill, the inside of the glass and the frames. Wardrobes and any fitted units cleaned inside. Marks lifted off paintwork where they come away without scrubbing the colour off. Carpets vacuumed thoroughly, and shampooed where you have added the carpet option. Wood and laminate floors mopped, including the engineered floors in the Green Quarter flats, which mark and need doing carefully.
Throughout
Every internal door top and frame, the full run of skirting, light switches and sockets, radiators including the backs where a brush reaches, banisters and the stairs in a maisonette, cobwebs off the ceilings and corners, and the inside of all the windows. Communal hallway flooring in a shared house where it is part of what you are handed back on. We leave the flat smelling clean rather than of chemicals.
What it costs in Southall Green
Flat pricing, no survey needed for a standard occupancy. These are the Southall Green and UB2 rates.
| Property | End of tenancy price |
|---|---|
| Studio flat | £156 |
| 1-bed flat | £207 |
| 2-bed flat | £243 |
| 3-bed flat or house | £339 |
| 4-bed flat or house | £425 |
If you would rather book by the hour, for a part clean or a single room in a shared house, that is £30 per cleaner per hour. Carpet shampoo is an add-on: £36 a bedroom, £43 for a living room, or £115 for the carpets through a whole two-bed. Oven deep-clean is included in the end of tenancy price; as a standalone it is £77 for a single, £110 for a double, and £114 for a 90cm range. A single room hand-back in a licensed HMO is usually the hourly rate plus a share of the kitchen and bathroom, and we will give you a flat figure for it before we start.
What your agent will actually check
This is the order an inventory clerk tends to work in around Southall Green, give or take. It is worth knowing, because it is exactly what we clean to.
- Oven interior, door glass, racks, and the gap and wall behind the cooker.
- Extractor hood and its filter over the hob.
- Bathroom scale: taps, shower screen, head, tiles and toilet, against the check-in photos.
- Kitchen cupboards and drawers inside, and the kickboards.
- Limescale on kitchen taps and around the sink.
- Tops of doors, picture rails and any dado rail for dust.
- Skirting and paintwork in the hall and behind doors for scuffs.
- Windows inside, frames, sills and the runners.
- Carpets and floors, including engineered floors in the newer blocks.
- Inside wardrobes, fitted units and the airing cupboard.
- In an HMO, the shared kitchen and bathroom against the licence and the inventory.
It is rarely the dramatic stuff. It is the oven, the scale and the dust on things people forget are at eye level for a clerk with a checklist.
End of tenancy vs deep clean vs regular clean
| Type | What it is for | When you book it |
|---|---|---|
| End of tenancy | Passing the check-out and getting the deposit back | Once, when you move out and the flat is empty |
| Deep clean | Resetting a flat you are staying in | When you move in, or once a year on a tenancy |
| Regular clean | Keeping on top of it week to week | Weekly or fortnightly while you live there |
The work on this page is the first one. If you want a deep clean for a flat you are keeping, or a regular round, that is a different booking and we do both.
How booking works
- Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the postcode, how many bedrooms, and whether it is a whole flat or a room in a shared house.
- We give you a fixed price on the call and a slot, usually within a few days, and we work around the check-out time and the agent’s key handover.
- The flat should be empty of your things so we can clean every surface; tell us if it will not be.
- We clean to the full 57-point agent-approved checklist and send you confirmation when it is done.
- If the clerk or landlord flags anything cleaning-related within 48 hours, we come back and put it right under the 48-hour re-clean guarantee, no second charge.
Related services and nearby areas
Most end of tenancy bookings in Southall Green also want the oven deep-clean service counted in, and flats with carpet through the bedrooms usually add professional carpet cleaning at the same visit. If you are clearing furniture before the clean we can line up house removals on the same day so the flat is empty when we arrive. For the full picture across the borough see our end of tenancy cleaning in Ealing hub, and we also cover the neighbouring ward at Southall Broadway.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much is end of tenancy cleaning in Southall Green?
It is £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. Those are flat prices for a standard occupancy in UB2, with the oven deep-clean already included.
Do you guarantee the clean will pass the inventory check?
We work to a 57-point agent-approved checklist and back it with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee. If the clerk or landlord flags anything cleaning-related within 48 hours of the clean, we come back and fix it at no extra charge. Our first-time pass rate across Ealing is 97%.
Can you clean just my room in a shared house or HMO?
Yes. A lot of Southall Green properties are licensed shared houses, and you are judged on your own room plus a share of the communal kitchen and bathroom, not the whole building. We quote that as the hourly rate plus a fair share of the shared spaces, with a flat figure given before we start.
Why is limescale such a big deal on Southall bathrooms?
Southall is on hard water from Affinity Water, around 280 parts per million, so scale builds quickly on taps, shower screens and tiles. Inventory clerks photograph the bathroom clean at check-in and a scale haze shows up badly against that, so we descale properly rather than wipe over it.
Does the price include the oven and the extractor?
Yes, the oven deep-clean and the extractor hood and its filter are part of the end of tenancy price, not an add-on. We pull the oven apart, take the racks back, degrease the inside, and clean behind the cooker where grease has run down.
Do you do carpets as well?
We do. Carpet shampoo is an add-on at £36 a bedroom, £43 for a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bed’s carpets, done at the same visit so you only book once.
How quickly can you come?
Usually within a few days of the call. We work around your check-out date and the agent’s key handover on the Broadway, so tell us the deadline when you book and we will fit it.
Does the flat need to be empty?
Ideally yes, so we can clean every surface, inside cupboards and behind furniture. If it cannot be fully empty, tell us what is staying and we will work around it, though anything we cannot reach is not covered by the inventory comparison.
What is the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 and does it help me?
It tightened how a landlord has to evidence and itemise a deduction from your deposit. A vague cleaning claim is now harder to sustain, but the landlord’s dated check-in photos still count, which is exactly why the clean has to match them.
Do you cover the new Green Quarter flats by the canal?
Yes. The Berkeley flats on the old Southall Gasworks site by the Grand Union Canal are within our UB1 and UB2 coverage. They have no period detail but engineered floors, glass balustrades and integrated appliances that clerks check closely, and we clean for that.
Are you insured and how do I pay?
Monster Cleaning Ltd is a fully insured company, Companies House 9919639, trading since 2014. You pay after the clean once you are happy, by card or bank transfer.
How do I actually book?
Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the postcode, the number of bedrooms, and whether it is a whole flat or a single room. We confirm the price and the slot on the spot.
Ready to book your Southall Green clean?
If your check-out is coming up around The Green, South Road or the Green Quarter, get it booked now and take the cleaning argument off the table. Call 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with your postcode and bedroom count. Monster Cleaning Ltd, 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS London, rated 3.1 out of 5 across 128 Trustpilot reviews, working with 300+ letting agents and with £1.2m in deposits recovered for tenants. A 57-point agent-approved checklist, a 48-hour re-clean guarantee, and a 97% first-time pass rate across Ealing.