End of Tenancy Cleaning Southfields SW18 | 48-Hour Guarantee

The fortnight clean and the rest of the year

End of tenancy cleaning

from £156

For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.

0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm

A Southfields end of tenancy clean costs from £156 for a studio. We price on the size of the property rather than the time on site, so the team does not leave until the checklist is complete.

Most people who find this page are trying to protect a deposit, and in SW18 the argument at check-out is far more often about cleaning than about damage.

The tennis fortnight

The tennis is the part outsiders know. Southfields station, on the District line between East Putney and Wimbledon Park, is about a 15-minute walk along Wimbledon Park Road from the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, so for the Championships fortnight it becomes the main route in.

The station gets dressed up.
Stewards line the road, and the queues run past the front gardens.
Households along that walk let spare rooms and driveways to spectators for a fortnight, then have to reset the place afterwards.

Those short summer lets matter for a cleaning page because they end the same way a year-long tenancy does. Keys go back, someone inspects, and a deposit or a damage retention is on the line. We clean both kinds.

The rest of the year the work is ordinary Southfields: families and professionals moving out of terraced houses and converted flats on the Grid, booking a clean to clear the final inspection.

Green space, and what it does to a flat

Geography is on the tenant’s side here in one way. Southfields is hemmed by green space, so the flats are light and the gardens real:

Wimbledon Park and its lake to the south
the golf course beyond
King George’s Park running north along the line of the Wandle

None of that helps the clean, and the clerk checks both of these:

A garden flat tracks more mud through in winter.
A top-floor conversion bakes dust onto the picture rails in summer.

Who books the clean

The outgoing tenant: Usually the one who calls, organising the clean for the day after they have moved their things out so the place is empty when we arrive.
The landlord or the agent on the parade: Sometimes the one booking the clean between tenancies.

Either way the brief is the same: get the property back to the standard in the check-in inventory so the deposit is not docked for cleaning, which is the one deduction that is entirely avoidable.

The Grid, and what its terraces do to a clean

Locals call the core of Southfields the Grid. It is a block of streets laid at right angles:

Replingham Road in the north and Revelstoke Road in the south
Elsenham Street in the west, running across to Astonville Street
Merton Road as the eastern edge

Builders put up these terraces after the station opened in 1889, and the bulk of them are Edwardian, three to five bedrooms, brick fronts with bay windows.

Houses split into flats

Plenty of those houses were split into flats years ago. Wandsworth’s Local Plan now guards family homes: a house of 130 square metres or less, as originally built, may be converted into flats only where it is clearly unsuitable for families.

From the street the terraces still read as single houses, even though one front door might hide two tenancies.

The Grid was never only family houses. When building finished in 1906 it held 1,766 houses, maisonettes and shops, so some front doors here have opened onto a maisonette from the start, and many more houses were divided later.

For a clean it means two common patterns:

a whole-house move-out where one family hands back four or five bedrooms;
a converted flat, where you are cleaning a maisonette carved out of an old terrace with the original layout half-intact.

A one-bed here often keeps the original bay at the front, a long hallway and a kitchen in what was the back parlour. It is a lovely flat to live in and a slow one to clean, with higher ceilings, more joinery and more corners than a new-build flat of the same size.

What the age of the stock adds

The age of the stock is the thing that catches tenants out. These are not new-build flats with flat surfaces and a fan oven that wipes clean. Walk into a typical Grid room and the work is plain to see:

a cast-iron fireplace with a tiled hearth
a picture rail and a moulded cornice
a tall skirting
a timber sash with its beading

Each of those holds dust, and each appears on a detailed check-out report. A clerk checks the ledges that a hurried end-of-let clean never touches, and in a Grid house there is one of those ledges in every room.

A clerk checks the ledges that a hurried end-of-let clean never touches, and in a Grid house there is one of those ledges in every room.

Who hands back keys around Replingham Road

Replingham Road is the high street, such as it is, with Wimbledon Park Road running off it toward the tennis. The shops, cafes and estate agents on that parade are where most Southfields tenancies are arranged. If you have rented here, you have walked that stretch.

It is a small parade and a tight catchment, which is partly why tenancies here are sought after and why landlords hold tenants to a clean check-out.

There is not a glut of rental stock, so a flat that shows badly at the inventory is the landlord’s problem only briefly before the next tenant takes it; the deduction lands on whoever left it dirty.

That is the practical reason a paid move-out clean pays for itself on the Grid more reliably than in areas with looser turnover.

Three kinds of let, three kinds of mess

The renter mix is steady, and each type of let leaves a different kind of mess. We price all three the same way, by rooms and condition, after a few quick questions on the phone.

Young professionals and couples: A lot of them share the converted flats because the commute into the City and the West End is quick off the District line. Sharers are usually tidier, though the oven and the bathroom sealant give them away.
Families: They take the whole terraced houses on the Grid, drawn by the catchment and the gardens, and tend to stay for years before a job or a school move ends the tenancy. A family who stayed several years leaves worn carpet, marked walls and a kitchen that has cooked thousands of meals.
Seasonal tennis lets: Short and self-contained, they come and go in July. They have hardly been lived in, yet the owner still wants everything back to the inventory before the next arrival.

Timing

The agents matter for timing as well as standard. Tenancies on the Grid often turn over in summer, around the school year and the tennis, so late June and July are the busiest weeks for check-outs in SW18.

If everyone on your street is moving in the same fortnight, the inventory clerks are stretched and the appointment slots go fast, which is the real reason to book the clean ahead rather than the day before.

Being on the books of 300+ letting agents across south London means a clerk who sees our paperwork on a Southfields check-out usually knows the standard already, which makes the sign-off quicker for everyone.

End of tenancy cleaning in Wandsworth by Monster Cleaning — A job our cleaners finished in Wandsworth.

What the 57-point clean covers

Every move-out clean we do runs off a 57-point checklist drawn up around the things inventory clerks and agents actually note. A studio flat and a five-bedroom house on Engadine Street get the same list, and the team carries a printed copy so nothing drops off it.

Kitchen

The kitchen is the longest job.

Every cupboard and drawer is cleaned inside and out, along with worktops, splashback and extractor.
The sink and taps are descaled.
The oven racks and trays soak while the door glass and cavity are cleaned by hand.
Where it is safe we ease freestanding appliances forward, because the floor behind the fridge and in the slot beside the washer turns up on inventory reports all the time.

Bathroom

Scale comes off the taps and shower screen.
The grout is scrubbed.
The toilet, basin and bath are cleaned.
Mirrors and tiles are left clear and the fan is dusted.

Room by room

Then comes the dusting.

Cobwebs come down from the cornices.
Skirtings and picture rails are wiped, and so are switches, sockets, doors, frames and the inside of fitted cupboards.
Hard floors are vacuumed and washed; carpets get a full vacuum.
Sills and inside glass are done as standard, with outside glass as an extra if the inventory calls for it.

Radiators, light fittings and door tops sit above eye level where a tired tenant gives up at midnight, which is exactly why clerks check them and why they are on our list.

After the clean

The price is set by the size of the property before we arrive, so the team works on until the full list is done.

If the clerk or agent flags something within 48 hours, our 48-hour re-clean guarantee kicks in: we return within 48 hours and fix it at no charge, and that is the part that protects your deposit.

Put the guarantee and the checklist together and the total so far is £1.2m of deposit money recovered for tenants, money that cleaning deductions would have swallowed.

57-point

agent-approved checklist

300+

letting agents use us

48-hour

free re-clean guarantee

£1.2m

tenant deposits recovered

The jobs in a Southfields flat that take longest

Some jobs eat the clock in a Southfields property more than they would in a modern block, and it is worth knowing which before you book.

Scale: Thames Water’s own guidance is that the supply across its area is hard, a result of the chalk the water travels through, and scale builds up on taps, kettles and shower screens and around the foot of mixer taps. It will not wipe away; it needs a descaler and some elbow work. A clerk will often scrape a thumbnail across a tap to see whether it has been done, so the bathrooms and the kitchen sink take real time.
Sash windows: The original joinery is slow too. A sash window gathers grit in the channel its sashes slide in and along the sill below, and the glass is often split into smaller panes, so there is far more edge to work than on a modern double-glazed unit.
Fireplaces: A cast-iron fireplace and its tiled hearth need care to lift soot without smearing it into the tiles.
Picture rails and door tops: Picture rails and the tops of tall Edwardian doors sit above the eye line, which is why tenants forget them and why clerks look.
Whatever has not moved in years: After a long family tenancy there is fluff and the odd forgotten hair clip under a wardrobe that never shifted, and the check-in photographs will show that floor clean. We clean behind and under furniture where it can be moved safely.
Sealant mould: Mould along bath and shower sealant, common in older flats where ventilation is poorer, is treated rather than covered up, and a clerk can tell which was done.

This work asks for time more than skill, and time is what people underestimate when they plan to do the clean themselves over a moving weekend.

A tenant’s own clean of a three-bed Grid house can take all day and still miss the sash runners and the cooker hood, and those are the gaps a paid clean is there to close.

Licensing in Wandsworth, and whether it touches your let

Wandsworth Council brought in two new landlord licensing schemes on 1 July 2025, and where your Southfields property sits decides whether either one applies.

This is worth getting right, because an unlicensed let that needs a licence is a problem for the landlord, not the cleaner, but tenants ask us about it constantly on move-out.

Selective licensing: This covers ordinary private rented homes and does not currently include Southfields. The first phase from July 2025 named Furzedown, Tooting Bec, Tooting Broadway and South Balham; a second phase added East Putney, West Putney and Northcote from 1 April 2026. Southfields ward is in none of those designations as things stand.
Additional HMO licensing: This is the one that can reach a Southfields property. It runs borough-wide from 1 July 2025 and applies to houses in multiple occupation, the kind of shared, room-by-room let that some of the larger Grid houses become. If a terrace has been let to three or more people from more than one household, the landlord may need an additional licence even though selective licensing does not apply here.

The council runs an interactive map and licence check by postcode if you are unsure which scheme, if any, covers an address.

What licensing means for a tenant

Wandsworth set out its reasons when it announced its licensing schemes in July 2025, describing them as protection for private renters and a way to act against rogue landlords.

Where a licence should have been held and was not, tenants can apply to the tribunal for a rent repayment order, and for offences from 1 May 2026 the most it can order has doubled from 12 months’ rent to 24.

For a Southfields houseshare that is worth knowing, even though it has no bearing on how clean the house must be at the end.

Your deposit

How your deposit is handled sits inside the same framework. The landlord must protect it in a government scheme and can deduct only for genuine problems, such as a home left less clean than it was at check-in.

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025, law since October 2025, brought its tenancy reforms in on 1 May 2026:

section 21 evictions ended;
private lets moved onto periodic tenancies.

The test a clerk applies at check-out is the same as before.

What a Southfields move-out clean costs

Size is the only thing that sets the price, so you know it before the team turns up. Our standard end of tenancy rates are below.

Studio flat, £156.
One-bedroom flat, £207, including the one-beds carved out of Grid terraces.
Two-bedroom, £243.
Three-bedroom, £339.
Four-bedroom house from £425; the bigger five-bedroom Grid terraces are priced room by room on the same basis.

Paying by the hour

Some tenants want a pair of cleaners for a set number of hours, perhaps working alongside their own packing. Where that covers only part of the property, it is charged at £30 per cleaner per hour.

For a complete move-out the fixed price by size is nearly always better value, since the team finishes the whole 57-point list whatever the clock says.

How the quote works

Quotes cost nothing and take one phone call. We ask three things, and then the figure is fixed:

how many bedrooms and bathrooms there are;
if the carpets or the oven need extra work;
roughly what state the place is in.

There is no booking deposit. The team brings all its own products and kit, so on the day the property needs only electricity and hot running water.

Tenants often ask if the price goes up once we are inside. It does not. The quote is based on the size you give us, and unless the property is much worse than described or you add something like carpet extraction, that is the bill.

An honest figure on the phone is better than a cheap one that grows after the team arrives, a habit that has given this trade a poor name.

Carpets, ovens and the extras clerks flag

The standard clean vacuums the carpets. Deep carpet cleaning and the oven are add-ons, and they are the two items Southfields clerks mark most often.

Carpets

Years of family life on the Grid press grit deep into stair carpets and bedroom pile, well beyond what a vacuum can reach. Our deep carpet cleaning draws it out with hot water extraction. Book it with the move-out clean and both happen on the same visit.

£29 a bedroom
£36 a living room
£94 for two bedrooms and a living room

Ovens

Check-in photographs nearly always show the oven spotless, which makes a greasy one an easy charge to raise. The standard clean degreases it, but a badly neglected oven, or a range cooker in one of the larger houses, is better booked as a separate deep oven clean.

Racks and removable parts are soaked separately, the door glass is cleaned by hand, and the inside is brought back up.

Single oven: £31
Double or range: £62

Upholstery and outside window cleaning can be added the same way when the inventory lists them.

Which extras you need

The check-in report and the condition of the place decide it. Carpets that were new when a four-year let began will need extraction, while an oven wiped every week will be fine with the standard clean.

Describe the state of things on the phone and we will say which extras a Southfields property like yours needs, and which it can do without. One visit that clears the inventory is the goal, and padding the bill is no part of that.

Booking around the District line and the crowds

We work in Southfields every day of the week, weekends too. That matters because a lot of tenancies finish on a Friday or a Saturday with the check-out booked straight after. In an ordinary week two days’ notice usually lets us fit the clean in ahead of your inventory appointment.

The Championships fortnight

The one window to plan around is the Championships. For that fortnight:

the area around the station and Wimbledon Park Road is busier;
parking is tighter;
the 39 bus from Clapham Junction to Putney Bridge and the 156 along Merton Road get slower in the crowds.

If your tenancy ends in late June or early July, book the clean earlier in the week and earlier in the day, and we will sort access and parking around it. The rest of the year access is straightforward.

Resetting a spectator let

If you are one of the residents who has let a room or a driveway for the tennis, the reset is its own small job. Spectator lets are usually clean enough day to day, but a fortnight of strangers through a hallway leaves:

marks on the paintwork;
a kitchen used hard for quick breakfasts;
a bathroom that needs the scale knocked back off the taps before the next arrangement or your own routine resumes.

We can do that as a one-off rather than a full end of tenancy clean, priced the same way by size.

Parking the van

For a normal van, the Grid streets are residential and permit-controlled, so the team parks where it can and carries in. That is fine outside the tennis.

During the fortnight the closer streets to the station fill early, and the simplest thing is a morning slot before the crowds arrive, which we will arrange around your inventory time.

Booking

Call 0333 555 2076 to book, or email the details to office@monstercleaning.com and we will come back with a fixed price and a time. The contact page works too.

We will also tell you how to leave the property ready:

empty of belongings;
fridge defrosted;
the power and hot water left on.

Our Southfields work sits among several neighbouring areas, so for a move that spans more than one we also clean in:

Putney to the north
Earlsfield to the east
Wimbledon, across the borough boundary

For the whole borough, see our Wandsworth end of tenancy cleaning page.

End of tenancy terms for Southfields renters

Five terms turn up at almost every Southfields move-out, and it helps to know them before the clerk rings the bell.

Check-out inventory: Written by the clerk on your last day and checked item by item against the check-in report and its photographs. Cleaning is scored on it, and any deposit dispute is argued from it.
Deposit deduction: An amount a landlord holds back from your deposit for a real problem, such as a home returned dirtier than it was at the start. Citizens Advice lists a receipt for professional cleaning among the evidence to send if you challenge one.
Deposit protection scheme: The legally required home for your deposit, run by a government-approved scheme that also offers free adjudication if you and the landlord disagree over cleaning. The GOV.UK guidance explains how the protection works.
Additional HMO licence: Wandsworth’s borough-wide licence, in force since 1 July 2025, for homes shared by three or more people from more than one household, including shared flats in purpose-built blocks.
Hot-water extraction: How we clean carpets: hot water and solution go into the pile and are pulled back out with the loosened dirt, which suits carpet worn down by a long family let.

Questions Southfields tenants ask

How much is end of tenancy cleaning in Southfields?

We charge by the size of the property. A studio costs £156 and a one-bed £207; two bedrooms are £243, three are £339, and a four-bedroom house starts at £425. Five-bedroom Grid terraces are quoted per room on the same basis, and the figure is fixed before we come.

Do you guarantee I will pass the inventory check?

If the clerk marks anything down, our 48-hour re-clean guarantee brings us back to fix it within 48 hours at no charge, which keeps your deposit safe.

What is the 57-point checklist?

It is our agent-approved list for every move-out, based on the items clerks mark down most. A printed copy comes on site and the team works through it in a studio or a five-bedroom house alike, so nothing is missed.

Can you clean a converted flat on the Grid?

Yes. Plenty of the Edwardian houses between Replingham Road and Revelstoke Road were divided into flats, and some Grid homes were built as maisonettes in the first place. We clean those as readily as whole houses and price them by rooms and condition.

Do you clean the short tennis lets near the station?

We do. Rooms and flats let to spectators for the Championships fortnight end the same way any tenancy does, with an inspection and a deposit or retention on the line, and we reset them to the inventory for the next tenant.

Is my Southfields rental covered by Wandsworth selective licensing?

Selective licensing does not currently include Southfields. The scheme covers Furzedown, Tooting Bec, Tooting Broadway and South Balham from July 2025, plus East Putney, West Putney and Northcote from April 2026. Southfields ward is in none of those designations.

Does my landlord need an HMO licence here?

Possibly. Additional HMO licensing has covered the whole of Wandsworth since 1 July 2025 and can apply to a Southfields home shared by three or more people from different households. Put the postcode into the council’s online licence check to see what applies to your address.

How far in advance should I book?

A day or two is usually enough in normal weeks, and we work seven days a week including weekends. During the Championships fortnight, book earlier in the week and earlier in the day, because the streets around the station get busy and parking is tighter.

Do I need to provide cleaning products or equipment?

You do not. Our team arrives with every product and piece of equipment. All the property needs is power, hot running water, the fridge thawed out and your belongings gone, so each room can be cleaned fully.

Should I add carpet cleaning?

Probably, if the carpet has seen years of family use. Vacuuming leaves ground-in dirt behind and clerks note it. Hot water extraction costs £29 per bedroom, £36 per living room or £94 for two bedrooms and a living room, and we can do it during the same visit.

Is the oven included or is it extra?

It is extra. Degreasing the oven is an add-on to the standard clean, done as a deep oven clean with the removable parts soaked and the door glass cleaned where the door design allows, priced at £31 (single) or £62 (double or range). That suits a very neglected oven or a range in one of the larger terraces.

Why does hard water make the clean harder?

Thames Water classes its supply as hard throughout, so scale builds on taps, screens and kettles and does not come off with a wipe. It has to be treated and worked, and clerks check taps closely, so bathrooms and the kitchen sink need extra time.

Can you clean if I have already moved out?

Yes, and an empty property is the best starting point, because we can get behind and under everything and do every floor. If some packing is still there we will work around it, but a clear home gives the strongest result against the check-in photographs.

Do you cover the rest of the area around Southfields?

Yes. We also work in Putney, Earlsfield and, across the borough line, Wimbledon, and our Wandsworth end of tenancy cleaning hub lists the whole borough. For a price anywhere in SW18 or the postcodes around it, call 0333 555 2076.

End of tenancy cleaning in and around Southfields