Streatham end of tenancy cleaning

End-of-tenancy cleaning in Streatham, done to the standard a Lambeth inventory clerk will actually sign off. We have worked the SW16 postcodes since 2014, from the shop-over-flats along Streatham High Road to the bay-fronted semis off Streatham Vale and the 1930s mansion blocks on Streatham Hill. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a fixed price in about ten minutes, or read on for how we get deposits back in one of south London’s busiest lettings markets.

Last updated May 2026. We cover SW16 across Streatham, Streatham Hill, Streatham Common, Streatham Park and Streatham Vale. Parent hub: end of tenancy cleaning in Lambeth.

The deposit on a Streatham let, and what decides it

A two-bedroom flat in Streatham asks somewhere around £2,000 a month on current SW16 listings, with cheaper stock down in Streatham Vale near £1,600 and the better Streatham Common flats up towards £2,300. That spread sets up the whole check-out. Deposits are capped at five weeks’ rent, so the scheme is usually holding £2,300 to £2,750 of your money on a standard two-bed, and a landlord sitting on that much wants evidence the flat was cleaned properly before any of it goes back. The clerk is paid to find the difference between a quick wipe-round and a professional finish, and the housing here makes that difference easy to photograph.

Streatham churns. The rental market is one of the biggest in this part of Lambeth, the High Road is lined with letting boards, and flats turn over fast in summer when the school year ends. A churny market means clerks who check dozens of these flats a month and know exactly what a properly done SW16 kitchen looks like.

Most of our Streatham rounds sit along the spine of the High Road and the streets running off it, from Streatham Hill station in the north down past Streatham Common to the Norbury end. Streatham High Road is one of the longest high streets in London, and the residential roads hanging off it run to every kind of stock this area built: late-Victorian and Edwardian terraces cut into flats, purpose-built mansion blocks, interwar semis, and a scatter of newer blocks behind the High Road shops. A bigger flat means more skirting, more picture rail and more window reveal, which is simply more surface for a clerk to run a finger along.

The clerk is paid to find the difference between a quick wipe-round and a professional finish, and the housing here makes that difference easy to photograph.

From the High Road to Streatham Vale: the housing that gets checked

Streatham is not one kind of flat, and that matters at check-out. Walk the area and you cross four or five distinct pockets, each with quirks a clerk knows to look for. The clean that passes on Streatham Hill is not quite the clean that passes in Streatham Vale, and a firm that has only ever done one of them tends to find out the hard way.

Up at the top end, Streatham Hill runs to big Victorian and Edwardian houses split into flats, plus the purpose-built mansion blocks the area is known for. Pullman Court, the listed 1930s modernist block by Streatham Hill station, is the famous one, but the streets around it carry plenty of 1930s blocks with the same period fittings inside. These flats keep their original detail: sash windows, picture rails, the odd cast-iron fireplace, parquet under the carpet. Original detail is exactly what a landlord lists as to be returned clean and undamaged, so it is exactly where deductions start.

The middle, around the High Road and Streatham Common, is mixed. Flats over the shops, conversions in the terraces off Mitcham Lane and Gleneldon Road, mansion blocks near the Common itself. The Common and The Rookery gardens sit right behind these streets, which is lovely to live by and irrelevant to a clerk, who is looking at your extractor filter, not the view.

Then there is Streatham Vale, out to the south-west, which is a different animal again. The Vale is mostly interwar semis and terraces, 1920s and 1930s, built when the railway came through, with bay windows, tiled hall floors and decent-sized kitchens. These are family lets more than sharer flats, so the check-out tends to cover a whole house, which means more floors, more rooms, a garden the inventory will mention, and an oven a family of four has used hard for two years. Streatham Park sits next to it, a quieter grid of semis with the same handover pattern.

The Vale jobs teach you something the High Road flats do not. A tenant on a road off Greyhound Lane called us last summer after four years in a three-bed semi, deposit just over £2,600, with a garden the check-in inventory had photographed in detail. They had cleaned the inside themselves and assumed the garden did not count. It did. The clerk had a photo of a tidy patio from move-in day and a shed listed by contents, and the report was going to flag both. We did the house and tidied the patio and shed store in the same visit, the clerk signed off, and the full deposit came back inside nine days. On a family let here the inventory almost always runs past the back door, and people forget that.

One thing runs through all of it. Lambeth sits on hard water, and SW16 shower screens and kettles scale up within weeks of a clean, so limescale is a running theme on every Streatham check-out no matter which pocket the flat is in. We carry the descalers for it as standard.

Why a Lambeth licence makes your check-out stricter

Two things have tightened the deposit conversation in Streatham lately, and both work in your favour if the flat is genuinely clean. One is the law. The other is the licence your landlord now has to hold to let to you at all.

Start with the law. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 received royal assent on 27 October 2025 and is rolling out across existing tenancies through 2026. Section 21 no-fault eviction is going, fixed-term assured shorthold tenancies become periodic, and a landlord can only seek possession on the Section 8 grounds. For a tenant moving out, that quietly raises the stakes on the inventory, because a landlord can no longer dangle non-renewal to soften you up on deductions, which leaves the check-out report as the whole of the argument. A single photo of grease shadow behind a hob is now what stands between you and the £2,500 sitting with the scheme, so it pays to get the clean right rather than spend six weeks disputing it.

Now the licence. Lambeth has put nearly the whole borough under selective licensing, and Streatham is squarely inside it. The first phase went live on 2 September 2024 across the Knights Hill, Streatham Common and Vale, Streatham Hill East and Streatham St Leonard’s wards. A second phase followed on 1 September 2025, adding Streatham Hill West and Thornton and Streatham Wells, so every Streatham ward is now covered. The scheme runs for five years and applies to nearly all privately rented homes let to a single household or two unrelated sharers, with only the Vauxhall and Waterloo and South Bank wards left out at the far north of the borough. A licence costs the landlord around £1,025 a property from April 2026, and letting without one is a criminal offence that can bring a civil penalty of up to £30,000.

On top of that sits a borough-wide additional HMO licence for any house shared by three or more unrelated people, which Lambeth brought in on 9 December 2021 and runs for five years. A fair slice of Streatham’s sharer flats fall under it.

So what has a licence got to do with cleaning? More than you would think.

The licence holder is usually the same person who signs off your deposit, and a landlord who has just been through a Lambeth inspection, paid the fee and accepted conditions on the property has very little patience for anything that might come back as the next tenant’s complaint. A finish that would have slipped through in 2019 does not slip through now. The licensing has made landlords here fussier about handover condition, not because the rules mention cleaning, but because a licensed landlord is a landlord paying close attention to the state of the flat.

If it does come to a dispute, the deposit scheme decides it on evidence, free of charge, and the evidence is the check-in inventory set against the check-out photos. The adjudicator is not standing in your kitchen. They are reading a report, so a clean flat that photographs badly can still cost you, and a clerk’s close-up of a greasy filter frame carries more weight than your word that you wiped it. That is the real reason a professional finish pays for itself in Streatham. It gets the flat clean in the exact spots a camera goes, which is where a DIY clean tends to fall down.

Check-in inventory

The report and photos taken the day you moved in. Your check-out is judged against it, so the flat has to come back to that condition, fair wear and tear aside.

Deposit-protection scheme

Your deposit is held by one of three government-backed schemes, TDS, DPS or mydeposits. If you and the landlord disagree over a cleaning deduction, that scheme adjudicates. The rules are on gov.uk.

Selective licensing

A Lambeth rule that most private rentals across Streatham must be licensed by the landlord. It does not touch your tenancy, but it tends to make landlords stricter about handover condition.

End of tenancy versus deep clean

An end-of-tenancy clean is scoped to pass an inventory check, against our 57-point list. A deep clean is a thorough reset with no inventory to satisfy, usually booked when moving in or after building work.

The clean, room by room

Every Streatham job runs against our 57-point checklist, built over eleven years of handing flats back to the agents along the High Road. The list is long, and it is the same list whether you are in a studio above a shop or a four-bed semi in the Vale. Here is what it covers in each room, and why a few items matter more on this stock than others.

Kitchen

The kitchen is where most deductions start, and the extractor is the worst offender. On a family let in Streatham Vale that has cooked daily for two years, the filter frame and the housing above it are the single items clerks flag most.

• Oven degreased inside and out, base, roof, sides and both panes of the door glass, racks soaked separately
• Extractor filters taken out and degreased, with the frame and the housing above it included
• Hob, knobs, burner caps and splashback polished
• Fridge and freezer emptied, defrosted, interior and seals washed
• Dishwasher filter, spray arms and door gasket cleaned
• Washing-machine drawer, filter and rubber seal cleaned
• Cupboards emptied and wiped inside, fronts degreased, tops and plinths done
• Worktops polished and the grout between tiles scrubbed
• Sink descaled, taps and waste polished, scale lifted off the spout threads
• Tiled splashbacks scrubbed, then buffed dry so they do not streak
• Kick-boards, skirting, radiators and valves left dust-free
• Floor vacuumed and mopped with the right product for wood, tile or vinyl

Bathrooms

Lambeth water is hard, and SW16 shower screens scale up within weeks. Limescale is the whole bathroom theme.

• Scale lifted off the shower glass, fittings, rose and hose
• Bath, basin and WC descaled, sanitised and polished
• Grout scrubbed, silicone checked and any mould spot treated
• Extractor vent off, filter dusted, grille washed
• Mirror, cabinets and chrome rails polished streak-free
• Tiles top to bottom, the tile tops and the tile-to-ceiling joint included
• Floor mopped, skirting wiped, door frame and handle sanitised

Bedrooms and living rooms

This is where the period detail lives in the older flats, so it is where we slow down. Damp cloth on the boards, never a soaked mop, because original floorboards in a Streatham Hill flat do not forgive standing water, and a warped board is the kind of damage no clean can undo. The instinct on moving day is to rush these rooms once the furniture has gone and the space looks bare, and that is exactly when the dust on a picture rail or the soot in a window runner gets missed, so we treat the empty rooms as the careful ones.

• Carpets vacuumed on high suction, with hot-water extraction available as an add-on
• Wood and laminate floors wiped with a damp cloth, not a wet one
• Skirting wiped on the top and the face, down to the joint with the floor
• Picture rails dusted, since most older flats here have them and every clerk checks them
• Window runners vacuumed and wiped, because the grooves on an original sliding window hold years of soot
• Window interiors and sills polished, exteriors done where we can reach them safely
• Fireplace surrounds and tiled hearths dusted and polished with a neutral cloth, no bleach
• Cornicing and ceiling roses dusted with a soft brush
• Internal doors, frames, handles and finger plates cleaned
• Light switches, sockets and thermostats wiped
• Radiators front, sides, top and behind where we can get to them
• Wardrobes and drawers emptied, wiped inside, tops dusted
• Mirrors, glass shelves and fitted storage polished
• Curtain rails and blinds dusted, curtains hung properly for the final photo

Throughout the home

• Every pane of internal glass left streak-free, windows, mirrors, screens and glazed doors
• Light fittings and shades dusted, blown bulbs swapped if spares are left out
• Hall and porch tile cleaned with a pH-neutral product, common in the Vale semis
• Stairs vacuumed, risers and bannisters hand-wiped
• Rubbish out, recycling split, bin wiped inside and out
• A final walk-through with our lead cleaner before sign-off

What it costs in SW16, and the items clerks flag

Pricing is by the size of the property, not by the hour, so you know the figure before we start. These are starting prices, and they all include VAT, products, equipment and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee. We do not charge for travel inside SW16.

A whole-flat carpet clean on a two-bed runs about £115 if you book it with the end-of-tenancy job, and a living-room carpet on its own is £43. Bigger five-bed houses we scope on-site.

Why book us rather than chance it yourself? Because the numbers back the work. Our first-time pass rate across Lambeth is 97%, we are on the books of 300+ letting agents, and since 2014 we have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions. The 57-point checklist and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee are how we hold that pass rate where it is.

The agents along Streatham High Road and around the Common, the likes of Foxtons, Barnard Marcus, Eden Harper, Pedder and KFH, all instruct clerks who check the same things on this stock again and again. Here is the running order they tend to work through.

1. Oven door glass, the inner pane most of all, which DIY cleans skip
2. Extractor filter frames and the fan housing above them
3. Scale on the kettle, taps, shower glass and rose
4. Grease shadow on the tiles behind the hob
5. Dust on picture rails and cornicing in the older flats
6. Window runners and the frame grooves
7. Skirting tops and the thin gap between skirting and floor
8. Radiator tops, valves and the wall behind
9. Inside wardrobes and drawers, corners and undersides especially
10. Mould spots on bathroom silicone, flagged even after treatment
11. Streaks on any mirror or glass you can see from the hall
12. Handprints at handle height on internal doors
13. Dust along the tops of internal doors
14. Tiled hall floors in the Vale semis
15. Light-switch plates and sockets
16. The bin store and any garden or shed named in the inventory

None of these are obscure. The trouble is that a tenant cleaning after a long day of moving works top-down and front-facing, while the clerk works the other way, into the corners and behind the things you stopped noticing months ago. We clean the way the clerk inspects, which is the only way to clear all sixteen of those in one pass.

The maths usually settles it. A two-bed clean here runs £243, against a five-week deposit of roughly £2,300 to £2,750 sitting with the scheme. A single cleaning deduction on that flat, the sort a clerk writes up for a greasy oven and a scaled shower, commonly lands between £150 and £350 once an agent has added their cleaning contractor’s fee. Spend £243 once and the deduction risk on the part you control goes away, which is why most of our Streatham bookings come from tenants who have read a check-out report before and would rather not read another like it.

We clean the way the clerk inspects, which is the only way to clear all sixteen of those in one pass.

Coverage across Streatham and the rest of south London

We cover every residential street in SW16, from Streatham Hill station down to the Norbury boundary and out west to Streatham Vale. Core roads include the length of Streatham High Road and Streatham Hill, Mitcham Lane, Gleneldon Road, Leigham Court Road, Sunnyhill Road, the streets around Streatham Common and The Rookery, Pinfold Road, Greyhound Lane, and the grid of avenues across Streatham Park and the Vale near Streatham Common station. If your road runs off the High Road, we clean it.

Parking is the one honest headache here, and we would rather say so. The controlled zones run through most of the working day across much of Streatham, and the one-way system around St Leonard’s Church is no fun in a van, so the team unloads the kit, sorts a spot, and gets on with the job rather than circling. It changes nothing about the price or the time on site. We mention it only because a clean on a delivery-and-move day in SW16 takes a little planning, and we have done enough of them to plan it. The whole borough is inside the ULEZ, so our vans are compliant as standard.

A fair few jobs come with extras, usually the item the clerk is about to flag anyway. We book these alongside the main clean so it all happens in one visit.

• Oven deep clean, the single item flagged most at check-out
• Carpet steam cleaning for any flat with fitted bedroom carpet
• Upholstery cleaning on the furnished lets around the High Road
• Window cleaning, exteriors where the access is safe
• Hard floor restoration for the tiled hallways in the Vale semis
• Removals, which we run as a sister service out of south London

Moving somewhere else nearby? We clean the neighbouring areas on the same checklist and the same guarantee. Nearest first: Streatham Hill and Streatham Common, then Balham, Tooting and Tooting Bec to the west, Brixton and Dulwich to the north and east, and Crystal Palace up the hill. The full borough picture sits on our Lambeth borough hub page.

Booking a Streatham clean

Booking is quick. Most people are sorted inside ten minutes.

1. Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with your Streatham postcode, bedroom count and check-out date.
2. We send a fixed price in writing, usually within ten minutes, covering labour, products, equipment and the 48-hour guarantee.
3. You pick the date. We can cover any day, Sundays and bank holidays included.
4. The team turns up with vacuums, mops, steam cleaners, eco-certified products and hard-water descalers, and works through the 57-point checklist.
5. You or the clerk sign off. Anything flagged within 48 hours, we come back at no cost and fix it before your landlord sees the final inventory.

Not sure which clean you actually need? The end-of-tenancy job is the one scoped to pass an inventory, and it carries the 48-hour re-clean guarantee. A deep clean suits a move-in, a post-renovation reset or an annual once-over, charged at £30 an hour per cleaner. Regular domestic work, weekly or fortnightly, runs at £22–£19 an hour with the same cleaner each time. If you are moving out and a deposit is on the line, it is the end-of-tenancy clean you want.

Frequently asked questions

How much is end of tenancy cleaning in Streatham?

Studios from £156, one-beds from £207, two-beds from £243, three-beds from £339 and four-beds from £425. Every price includes products, equipment, VAT and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee.

Do you guarantee I get my deposit back?

We guarantee the clean against our 57-point checklist. If your inventory clerk flags anything cleaning-related within 48 hours, we return and fix it at no charge. Our first-time pass rate across Lambeth is 97%.

Which letting agents do you work with in Streatham?

We work around clerks instructed by the agents along Streatham High Road and the Common, including Foxtons, Barnard Marcus, Eden Harper, Pedder, KFH and Streets Ahead, plus independent inventory firms. We are on the books of 300+ letting agents across London.

How long does a Streatham clean take?

Typical timings are studio 3 to 4 hours, one-bed 4 to 5 hours, two-bed 5 to 7 hours, three-bed 7 to 9 hours and a four-bed Vale house 9 to 12 hours. Bigger houses we scope on-site.

Do I need to be licensed, or does the Lambeth scheme affect me as a tenant?

The selective licensing scheme is the landlord’s responsibility, not yours. It does not change your tenancy, but it does tend to make Streatham landlords stricter about handover condition, which is why a professional clean is worth it here.

Can you clean original sash windows and fireplaces without damaging them?

Yes. On the period flats around Streatham Hill we use pH-neutral products on original tile and a soft brush with a dry cloth on cast-iron fireplaces, never bleach or acid descalers, and we vacuum and wipe the runners on every window.

Do you bring your own equipment and products?

Always. We bring commercial vacuums, steam cleaners, mop systems, ladders, microfibre stacks and a full product kit, including hard-water descalers suited to Lambeth’s water.

Do you handle carpets and the oven on the same visit?

Yes. Carpet steam extraction goes on as an add-on, £36 a bedroom and £43 a living room, and the oven deep clean runs alongside the standard clean in one visit.

Can you do Sundays or bank holidays?

Yes, at no extra charge. Streatham check-outs often land on awkward days, especially over the summer, so we schedule for it.

What if my check-out is delayed?

We rebook without charge as long as you give us 24 hours’ notice. Same-day cancellations carry a 50% fee.

Do you clean for landlords and agents as well as tenants?

Yes. A good share of our Streatham work comes straight from landlords or letting agents, usually where a flat has to be turned around between tenancies in 48 hours.

What if I have already started cleaning the flat myself?

Not a problem. We scope and price on what is left, not what is done. Plenty of Streatham tenants book us for the kitchen and bathrooms only, which brings the price down.

Are you insured?

Yes. We carry £5m public liability cover and full treatment cover, and we send proof on request.

How does payment work?

Bank transfer on the day, or card payment over the phone. We issue a VAT invoice straight away for landlord and agent bookings.

What is your lead time in Streatham?

Usually 48 to 72 hours. In the busy stretch from June to September, book about a week ahead for a weekend slot.

What if a deduction has already been proposed by my landlord?

If the deduction is about cleaning, we can often re-attend and resolve it, and the deposit scheme’s free dispute service weighs the check-in inventory against the check-out photos. A documented professional clean is strong evidence in that process.

Ready when you are. Ring 0333 555 2076 with your Streatham postcode and check-out date, and we will protect your deposit with the 48-hour re-clean guarantee, the same way we have for tenants across Lambeth since 2014. Tell us the agent and the clerk if you know them, give us the date, and we will take it from there.