Local end of tenancy cleaning in Streatham Common

The clerk on this side of Streatham Common opens the bathroom silicone seal and the kitchen extractor housing before anything else, because those two lines decide more SW16 deposits than the rest of the report put together. So an end of tenancy clean around the Common has to be built for the person writing that report, not for a tidy-looking flat: checklist-driven, deposit-focused, £30 per hour per cleaner if you only want a part job, and carried by a 48-hour re-clean guarantee measured against the check-out itself. Two-bed flats hand back from £243. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price in about three minutes.

Last updated June 2026. We cover the SW16 streets either side of Streatham Common and the bleed up Streatham High Road, from Streatham Common North to the back streets around Penistone Road and the mansion blocks on Conyers Road. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Lambeth.

How the check-in report quietly decides the whole thing

Start with the document, because almost nobody does. When you moved in, a clerk walked the flat and wrote down every surface, usually with photos, usually with “new” or “as new” against the kitchen and bathroom. Those words were true that day, because the place had just been cleaned to a professional standard. At check-out a clerk walks it again and compares line by line. Anything materially worse than the check-in entry, past fair wear and tear, is chargeable against your deposit. You are being marked against a professional clean. That is why a mop and a spare Saturday so rarely gets you over the line.

The money is not abstract on the streets around Streatham Common. On the DIY check-outs we get called in to rescue, the deductions land in a familiar shape: roughly £85 to £120 on the oven, £80 to £150 on grout and scale in the bathroom, £60 to £100 for the gaps behind the appliances, more again on carpets where the tenancy asked for them done. Set that against a two-bed on the Common-facing side, where rents have pushed deposits well past £2,000, and the sums make themselves. Most tenants only run those sums after they have failed the check-out and lost the first round, which is a shame, because the first round is the cheap one to win.

Why does the clerk care so much here? Because the deposit is real money sitting in a scheme, and the agent is on the hook for accounting for it. The inspection is genuinely adversarial. You turn up with evidence, not optimism.

Two things in law pull against each other behind all this. The deposit protection rules mean your landlord cannot bill you for fair wear and tear, and cannot make professional cleaning a contractual condition, so nobody can force you to book us. Damp and mould, on the other hand, are the landlord’s problem, not a tenant cleaning failure. Where we find damp behind a wardrobe or in a cold bathroom corner, we photograph it so the charge lands where it belongs instead of on you.

What 1 May 2026 did, and what Lambeth licensing added

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone. Every existing assured shorthold tenancy in England has converted to a periodic tenancy, so a tenant can give two months’ notice at any point in the year rather than waiting out a fixed term.

Here is the part people read wrong. The cleaning side of a move-out did not change. The deposit cap, the check-in benchmark, the fair-wear principle: all exactly as before. What changed is timing. Streatham was already a high-churn patch of one-year lets and shared professional flats, and rolling notice makes the move-outs more frequent and far less predictable. The month-end pile-up that already clogs SW16 is not going to ease.

Lambeth licensing sharpened the other end of it. Streatham Common and Vale was one of four wards the council switched on first, on 2 September 2024, alongside Knight’s Hill, Streatham Hill East and Streatham St Leonard’s. The rest of the borough followed on 1 September 2025. Any home let to a single household or two unrelated sharers needs a selective licence, the fee is £1,025 from 1 April 2026, and letting a licensable property without one can carry a financial penalty up to £30,000, as the Lambeth selective licensing scheme sets out. A licensed landlord is now inspected against fixed standards on the hygiene of kitchens, bathrooms and common parts. A failed clean risks a re-let delay, and that risk gets pushed straight back onto the deposit. Two clerks we work with on the south end of the High Road now write a separate extractor line and a separate silicone line on every report.

The cleaning side of a move-out did not change. What changed is timing.

The two lines that fail Streatham Common hand-backs

If you learn two things off this page, learn these. The kitchen extractor and the bathroom silicone are where SW16 deposits go, and both are easy to wipe over and miss completely.

The extractor housing, where the Conyers Road flats stand or fall

On the interwar mansion blocks especially, the cooker extractor has often not been opened since the flat was converted. Grease cooks onto the underside of the housing and into the filter mesh, and a clerk pulls it forward to look. We take the housing off the wall, soak it in hot water with a degreaser overnight where the build-up has had years to set, strip and soak the baffle on the older units, and scrub the mesh through. Then the rest of the kitchen follows it: oven interior, the brown film split out from between the door glass, hob and trim off and washed, splashback and worktop joints lifted with a flat scraper along the line where the upstand meets the surface.

The silicone strip, where the en-suites go wrong

The newer bathrooms retrofitted into the period and mansion stock use a thin silicone bead behind the shower screen and along the bath, and it catches mould inside eighteen months if nobody has wiped it weekly. We do not just bleach the face of it. Where the mould has gone in behind the bead and the tenancy allows it, we strip it back and re-seal. Grout is scrubbed line by line, not smeared. The chrome gets a heavy descale, because of what the water does to it, which is the next section.

What 300 mg/l water does to a SW16 bathroom

Streatham sits in Thames Water’s hard-water zone, drawn off the chalk, and the supply runs near 300 mg/l calcium carbonate, the upper end of the London range. You can check your own postcode on the Thames Water water quality page. That hardness loses more deposits around the Common than anything except the oven. Calcium builds on taps, shower heads, screens and tile joints faster than tenants expect, and a cloth does nothing to it. The clerk knows this. They run a thumbnail down the tap, they look at the screen edge-on against the light, they pull the shower head in close.

So we treat it as a timed job, not a wipe. A descaling paste goes on the chrome and the aerator and sits for a long ten minutes before anyone scrubs, which is the difference between a clean head and a callback. On the older fittings in the Conyers Road blocks, original chrome that brute-force descalers would ruin, the approach is gentler and slower, and we budget the time for it rather than rushing the bath taps. The kettle and the shower rail get the same treatment. None of it is clever. It is just done properly, which scale does not forgive.

That hardness loses more deposits around the Common than anything except the oven.

Specialist surfaces sit outside the scrub-and-go work. The original encaustic and tiled hall floors in the Streatham Common North houses get mopped and then dry-buffed so they do not look hazy under the torch, which is what the floor cleaning add-on is for. Exterior glass and the catch hardware on the older timber frames are a separate job, folded into the same visit when the inventory asks for it through our window cleaning.

The Common as a dividing line: the stock changes street by street

Streatham Common itself is the line everything sorts around: a sloping green with woodland behind it and the Rookery, the Grade II ornamental gardens with their old cedars and cascade of ponds, in the south corner. The kite day on the Common each spring is the one weekend the whole neighbourhood turns out for. The housing changes completely as you walk away from the green, so we work it as three groups.

The frontage: Streatham Common North facing the green

The terraces looking straight at the Common, running from the Streatham Common station end up towards Greyhound Lane and the Rookery gates, are the premium end of SW16. Edwardian and late-Victorian three- and four-storey houses, mostly split into upper and lower flats by the late 1980s, with picture rails, original cornicing and tiled hall floors still in even where the kitchens were ripped out years ago. The inventory report on a flat like this names those features individually, so the clean has to match them individually, and nothing aggressive goes near original plaster or paint. We do that detail by hand, because a scratched cornice is a bigger deduction than a missed shelf.

The back streets: Penistone Road and the quieter terraces

Step back from the green and the streets between Penistone Road, Aldrington Road and Streatham Common Gardens are the same period on smaller plots: family terraces, single-conversion upper flats, looser inspection than the frontage but the same 57-point sheet and the same fixed price. Average rents on these back streets sit a couple of hundred pounds below the Common-facing side, which is the whole reason agents inspect the two halves of this neighbourhood differently in the first place.

The mansion-block ring and the 1930s belt

Then the interwar blocks around Conyers Road and Sandmere Road, running west towards Mitcham Lane, plus a scatter of 1930s semis on the southern edge towards Streatham Vale and Norbury. Older fittings, longer descales, painted radiator pipework, en-suite silicone in the retrofitted bathrooms. If your next flat is one over, or your tenancy straddles a boundary, we also work Streatham proper, Streatham Hill up past Streatham Hill station, Tulse Hill and Norbury on the southern border.

Boundaries get blurry here and people guess wrong about which side of a road they are on. Not sure whether your flat counts as Streatham Common, Streatham Vale or Norbury? Ring 0333 555 2076 with the postcode and we will tell you in about ten seconds, and quote the job while you are on.

The 57 things we go through, and what they cost

Every booking around the Common runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist, built over a decade of local check-outs and tuned to what these clerks flag. The full sheet comes with the job, signed off room by room on a tablet. The extractor and the silicone are covered above; the rest runs through the cupboard insides and kickboards, the fridge and freezer once defrosted, the dishwasher filter, behind the cistern, the shaver socket and mirror light, every wardrobe and drawer pulled out, skirting tops, door frames and hinges, light switches, sockets and ceiling cobwebs, and a final photographed walk-through. Carpets are vacuumed with the edges done by hand on the brush attachment, not just centre passes.

On price, the package is fixed, not an hourly meter. A studio is £156 and runs three to four hours; a one-bed is £207 over four to five; a two-bed flat is £243; a three-bed flat or terrace is £339; and a four-bed terrace is £425 across a long day. Those assume a flat in normal lived-in shape. A long tenancy with heavy wear, a pet household or a kitchen nobody has touched in three years costs more, and we say so on the phone, not on the invoice. A part job rather than a full sign-off is £30 per hour per cleaner.

Run the maths the way the deposit makes you. A two-bed at £243 to protect a deposit north of £2,000 is not really a decision. Every booking carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if the agent flags any cleanliness issue inside 48 hours, we come back and redo it free, provided you tell us in that window and nobody has moved in. Our pass rate across these jobs sits near a 97% first-time pass rate, but the guarantee is the actual point, because a failed check-out where deposits start above £2,000 is not a small thing to shrug off. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, and over the years that work has helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions.

A flat near the Rookery gates, back in February

“Two of us had shared a converted upper flat on Streatham Common North for three years, both nurses doing shifts at St George’s, with the Rookery gates more or less across the road. The picture rails had not been touched the whole tenancy, the kitchen extractor was original to the conversion and clearly never opened, and the shower mixer had a crust of scale on the head you could feel. Pedder were the agents and the clerk had told us on check-in they inspect the dust line on this side of the road harder than the back streets. Monster sent two cleaners for six hours, went round every rail with a fine brush, took the extractor housing off and soaked it, and left a paste on the chrome before scrubbing it back. Signed off the next day. Our £1,800 deposit came back in full inside a fortnight.”
Priya, Streatham Common North SW16, February 2026

That is a fair example of the pattern on the frontage: a sharing tenancy, original features nobody had cleaned in years, scale on the chrome, and an agent who checks the dust line. What turned it was as much the dated photo set that went out with the invoice as the scrubbing, and most DIY check-outs never have that paper trail when the agent pushes back.

Booking it round the month-end crush

Streatham bunches its check-outs hard at month-end, the slots go, and people who ring on the 29th for the 31st are often out of luck. Book early for those windows. The steps are short.

1. Ring 0333 555 2076. Price in about three minutes. Give us the postcode, property size, check-out date and any known problem areas, and say if the check-in report marked anything “new” or “as new”. Out of hours, [email protected] reaches the desk and someone calls you back.
2. We book you in, ideally the day before check-out with a buffer. Allow seven to ten days for an end-of-month slot, three to five mid-month.
3. Flat empty when we arrive. Furniture out, personal things gone, rubbish cleared. We schedule for the day after the Lambeth weekly collection so the bins are empty when the clerk walks the side return.
4. Keys or access sorted. Tell us whether it is concierge, a key safe or an agent drop-off, and the parking, because the side streets back towards Mitcham Lane have permit-only bays the agent often forgets. We carry a visitor permit where one is confirmed, or walk in from Streatham Common station. We also do removals if you want the move and the clean on one booking.
5. Photo proof at the end. Every room, before and after, with an itemised invoice. Anything flagged inside 48 hours, we come back and fix it free.

Telling four cleans apart, and the areas next door

Four jobs get muddled, and booking the right one saves a wasted visit.

Check-in inventory report

The document a clerk writes on day one describing every surface, with photos. It is the benchmark your check-out is judged against, which is exactly why we clean to it rather than to a vague idea of tidy.

End of tenancy clean

Built to pass that inventory and get the deposit back, against the agent’s benchmark, with the flat empty and the 48-hour guarantee on it. Fixed price, or £30 an hour for a part job.

Deep clean

A deep clean resets a home you are keeping, lived-in, with no formal standard to hit, from £30 an hour.

Regular domestic clean

A regular domestic clean is ongoing upkeep, weekly or fortnightly, from £22 an hour.

A Streatham Common move-out often pulls in more than the core clean. Carpet cleaning is the common add-on, sometimes a contractual line rather than an option. Oven cleaning is in every end of tenancy job as standard, and also stands alone from £77 if the oven is all the agent pulled you up on. And we work the patches around the Common too: up the High Road into Streatham Hill, west towards Mitcham, and south into Norbury and Streatham Vale.

Questions we get asked

How much does end of tenancy cleaning in Streatham Common cost?

Prices are fixed, not metered by the hour. A studio is £156, a one-bed £207, a two-bed £243, a three-bed £339 and a four-bed £425, with kit, products and travel inside SW16 included. A part job billed by the hour is £30 per cleaner. A two-bed mansion flat on Conyers Road whose extractor has not been opened since the conversion still hands back at £243, because the price is the price.

Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change end of tenancy cleaning here?

Not the clean itself. From 1 May 2026 Section 21 no-fault evictions ended and every assured shorthold tenancy in England became periodic, so a tenant can give two months’ notice at any point. The cleaning standard and the deposit maths are exactly what they were. What it changes around Streatham Common is timing: move-outs are more frequent and harder to predict, so book the slot earlier than you used to.

Does my Streatham Common landlord need a Lambeth licence?

If the home is privately rented to a single household or two unrelated sharers, almost certainly yes. Streatham Common and Vale ward has been inside Lambeth’s selective licensing scheme since 2 September 2024, and the rest of the borough joined on 1 September 2025. The licence costs £1,025 from 1 April 2026, and letting a licensable home without one can mean a financial penalty up to £30,000.

Why is the water around Streatham Common so hard on chrome?

SW16 sits in Thames Water’s hard-water zone, fed off the chalk, and the supply runs near 300 mg/l calcium carbonate. Scale sets on the shower head, the tap aerator and the kettle within weeks of a wipe. An inventory clerk runs a thumbnail down the tap and looks at the screen edge-on, so we leave a descaling paste on the chrome for a long ten minutes before scrubbing rather than smearing the film about.

Do you cover the period terraces facing the Common on Streatham Common North?

Yes, that frontage is everyday work for the SW16 team. The Edwardian and late-Victorian houses along there were carved into upper and lower flats decades ago, and the picture rails, cornice lines and tiled hall floors are usually still in. We carry soft brushes for the cornice dust line and fine-bristle tools for the picture rails, because that is exactly where the clerks on this stretch put the torch first.

What about the mansion-block flats on Conyers Road?

Yes. The interwar blocks around Conyers Road, Sandmere Road and the streets running west towards Mitcham Lane are a different job from the period frontage. The fittings are older, so the bath and kitchen taps need a longer descale, the radiator pipework is often painted in and takes extra time, and the en-suite silicone behind the shower screen is the line that decides those hand-backs.

Is carpet cleaning included, or is it extra?

It is a separate add-on, booked onto the same visit. A bedroom carpet is £36, a living room £43, and a whole two-bed’s carpeted area £115. Where a tenancy writes in professional hot-water extraction with a receipt at check-out, skip it and the deduction is near-automatic, so it is worth checking your agreement before the clerk does.

Do I have to be there on the day?

No. Most Streatham Common hand-backs run on keys collected from the agent’s branch on the High Road. We collect, clean, photograph every checklist line, and drop the keys back. You approve the job from the photos, so you can already be in the next place.

How long before the check-out should I book?

Same week is usually fine here, but month-end is the crush. Two days’ notice works on a one-bed; give three to five days on a four-bed, and longer if your check-out lands on the last two or three days of a month. Streatham move-outs bunch hard at month-end and the good slots go first.

Does the flat need to be empty before you clean?

Yes, empty is strongly preferred. Furniture left behind blocks access to the skirting, the wardrobe backs and the floor under the bed, and an inventory clerk marks down what cannot be reached. One piece left for the next tenant can be worked around. A half-cleared flat cannot be finished to a sign-off standard.

Which Streatham letting agents do you work with?

We are on the books of 300+ letting agents across London, and around Streatham that means regular work with Pedder, Foxtons, Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward and a string of SW16 independents. Where an agent has a particular line on their report, the kitchen extractor and the bathroom silicone being the usual two here, the cleaners are briefed against it before they start.

What happens if the clerk flags something after you have finished?

Tell us inside 48 hours and we come back and put it right at no charge, as long as nobody has moved in and the flat is as we left it. That is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee. A return is normally a couple of hours on the one room that was flagged, not the whole job again.

What if my deposit was never protected?

Your landlord has 30 days from receiving the deposit to protect it in a government scheme. If they did not, you can ask the county court for one to three times the deposit. The three schemes are TDS, mydeposits and DPS, and Shelter’s housing advice walks through the steps if you want to check where you stand before raising it.

Can you do the move and the clean together?

Yes. We run removals as well, so the load-out and the end of tenancy clean can sit on one booking. That helps on the permit-only side streets back towards Mitcham Lane, where several separate van trips turn into a parking problem the agent rarely warns you about.

Get a price

Call 0333 555 2076 and we price the job in about three minutes. Postcode, property size, check-out date, anything the agent has already flagged, that is the lot. Out of hours, send us a message and someone calls you back first thing. A couple of photos of the kitchen and the bathroom sharpen the quote on the bigger Streatham Common North conversions. And if your check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway and we will do what we can.

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