End of tenancy cleaning in St John’s Wood, NW8
Our end of tenancy clean in St John’s Wood is a fixed price set by the size of the home, mansion block or not: £156 for a studio and up to £425 for a four-bedroom house. The oven and the carpets are extras you add only if the inventory calls for them. If the letting agent or clerk flags anything within 48 hours, we come back and re-clean it free of charge.
Last updated October 2026.
Renting in the Eyre estate streets in 2026
End of tenancy cleaning
from £156
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
Get your price0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm
Private renting is the normal way to live in this part of London. At the 2021 census 43.3% of Westminster households rented from a private landlord, up from 39.7% in 2011; across London the figure was 30%. The rents are high and have held steady. The ONS put Westminster’s average private rent at £3,196 a month in August 2026, with a one-bed at £2,548 and a two-bed at £3,305, while London as a whole averaged £2,332. Rents in the borough barely moved over the year.
High rent means a large deposit. The Tenant Fees Act caps a deposit at five weeks’ rent where the annual rent is under £50,000, so on an average Westminster two-bed that is roughly £3,800 sitting in a protection scheme until the check-out report is agreed.
The streets were planned. Henry Samuel Eyre bought about 500 acres here in 1733, and the estate’s 1794 plan laid out pairs of semi-detached villas, which the Eyre Estate describes as the first of their kind in any town or city. Westminster designated the St John’s Wood conservation area in 1967 and extended it in 1979 and 2007.
The council’s own summary splits it into two characters: large detached and semi-detached Victorian villas in gardens along wide, tree-lined roads to the north and on the edges, and a busier south-eastern corner with Edwardian and early 20th-century mansion blocks. Many of the villas have since been divided into flats.
There is a third kind of home too. The red-brick blocks of the Barrow Hill Estate sit a few minutes from the High Street, and some of those purpose-built flats now come up through St John’s Wood letting agents as private lets.
The American School in London, with around 1,350 pupils from kindergarten to grade 12, is also in St John’s Wood; if your move is tied to the end of a school year, give us the date early.
Westminster’s licensing schemes and NW8 lets
Since 24 November 2025 most private landlords in Westminster have needed a licence for each rented home. The selective licensing scheme covers 15 of the city’s 18 wards and runs until 23 November 2030, at £995 per property.
Abbey Road ward, which takes in most of St John’s Wood, sits in the first designation, made for poor housing conditions. Regent’s Park ward, its neighbour to the south-east, sits in the second, which adds antisocial behaviour. Either way, a flat let to one household here now needs a licence.
Shared homes have their own rules. Westminster renewed its additional HMO scheme across the whole city from 31 August 2026, for five years: three or more people from two or more households who share a kitchen or bathroom need a licence, and the national mandatory licence still applies to larger shared houses. The council sets out both designations on its selective licensing page.
For a tenant the licence does not change what you owe at check-out. You still hand the home back as clean as it was at check-in, allowing for fair wear and tear. What changes is that the landlord is on the council’s register and can be inspected, so a landlord with a licence to keep has more reason to read the check-out report closely.
Cleaning a villa flat, a mansion flat or an estate flat
The water comes first, because it affects every bathroom in NW8. Thames Water supplies St John’s Wood from its St Johns Wood & Mayfair supply zone, where samples taken in 2025 ran from 264 to 273 mg/l total hardness and averaged 271. That is hard water.
It leaves a white crust round tap bases, clouds a glass shower screen and furs the kettle, and an inventory clerk writes scale down as dirt. Descaling is part of every clean we do here, with no extra charge.
- Villa flat
- A floor or two of a Victorian house. Tall rooms with cornices, picture rails and ceiling roses that collect a grey line of dust, deep sash windows with reveals to wipe, and often a garden door. The high plasterwork is where the extra time goes.
- Mansion block flat
- Edwardian or early 20th-century, usually with a porter, a lift you may need to book and bin rules set by the managing agent. Long corridors, fitted wardrobes and older bathrooms where the scale has built up around the fittings.
- Estate or purpose-built flat
- Compact kitchen, one bathroom, sometimes a balcony. Quicker to clean, though the kitchen grease and the bathroom scale are just as visible on the report.
In every one of them the cleaners follow the same list:
- Kitchen: inside and outside every cupboard and drawer, worktops, splashback and tiles, hob, extractor hood and its filter, sink and taps descaled, fridge and freezer cleaned (switch them off to defrost the night before), washing machine drawer and seal, and the floor behind any appliance that slides out.
- Bathrooms: shower screen, taps, shower head and tiles descaled, grout scrubbed, bath, basin and toilet cleaned, mirror and extractor cover wiped.
- Living rooms and bedrooms: cornices and picture rails dusted, skirting boards, doors and frames, switches and sockets, radiators, window sills and inside glass, inside built-in wardrobes, then floors vacuumed and mopped last.
A stain that has set into stone or a chip in a basin is damage. The clerk records it as damage, and cleaning cannot take it off the report.
St John’s Wood end of tenancy prices
The price is fixed by the size of the home, so a long day in a villa flat costs the same as a quick one.
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| One-bedroom flat | £207 |
| Two-bedroom flat | £243 |
| Three-bedroom flat or house | £339 |
| Four-bedroom house | £425 |
| Part job or unusual layout | £30 per cleaner per hour |
Carpet cleaning booked with the end of tenancy clean costs less than on its own: £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. Check your tenancy agreement for a carpet clause first. The standalone service is on our carpet cleaning page.
The oven is never included in the fixed price. Added to the clean it is £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker; the oven cleaning page covers an oven on its own.
The price is fixed by the size of the home, so a long day in a villa flat costs the same as a quick one.
If the van needs a paid bay or a visitor permit, we add what that costs us and show it on the quote. Staying on in the flat? Weekly or fortnightly visits are on our domestic cleaning page, from £69.
Booking around Lord’s, porters and resident bays
Lord’s holds 31,100 people. On a big match day the roads round the ground fill up, and during some events St John’s Wood station on the Jubilee line becomes exit only. If your check-out falls on a fixture, tell us when you book and we will plan an early start.
Mansion blocks bring their own access rules. Give us the block name, the floor and the porter’s or managing agent’s contact, and we will check lift bookings and where rubbish has to go before the day. St John’s Wood is inside Westminster’s controlled parking zones, and the cleaners come by van with the kit, so tell us about any off-street space or visitor bay you can offer.
To book, ring 0333 555 2076 (8am to 7pm, seven days) or use the price calculator at the top of the page. We need the postcode, the bedrooms, the check-out date and any carpet or oven extras. The home should be empty, with power and hot water on. Month-end dates fill first, so a week’s notice helps.
The same cleaners work the streets around you. West of Hamilton Terrace the Maida Vale page covers the red-brick mansion flats running on into W9, and across Finchley Road in Camden the Swiss Cottage page picks up the blocks round the station. Every area in the borough is listed on our end of tenancy cleaning Westminster page.
End of tenancy cleaning St John’s Wood FAQs
Does Westminster’s selective licence change what I have to clean?
No. Your duty is the same as before 24 November 2025: hand the home back as clean as the check-in inventory shows, allowing for fair wear and tear. The licence is the landlord’s obligation, though it does mean the property can be inspected by the council.
Can my St John’s Wood landlord insist I pay for a professional clean?
Not as a condition of the tenancy. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 stops a landlord charging you for a professional clean or making you use a named company. If the home is left dirtier than at check-in, the landlord can claim the cost of cleaning it from your deposit.
Will the hard water make my clean more expensive?
No. Descaling taps, screens, tiles and the kettle is part of every end of tenancy clean in NW8, and you pay the fixed price for the size of the home.
Can you work around the porter in a mansion block?
Yes. Send us the porter’s or managing agent’s details when you book. We confirm the lift, the service entrance and the bin store with them in advance, so the cleaners are not held in the lobby.
My check-out is on a Lord’s match day. Can you still come?
Yes. We start early on match days and allow extra time for the roads near the ground. Tell us the fixture when you book.