An inventory clerk checking out a White Oak maisonette heads for the kitchen extractor before anything else. Lift the metal filter out and either it is clean or it has not been touched since move-in, no argument either way.
Swanley’s rental stock is mostly post-war estate housing and 1930s to 1970s semis rather than period flats, so a proper end-of-tenancy clean here is built around one greasy kitchen and a hard-water bathroom, not a dozen small period faults. We clean for hand-back across Swanley and the BR8 area from £156 for a studio up to £425 for a four-bed, every job worked against a 57-point agent-approved checklist and backed by a 48-hour re-clean guarantee. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price.
Last updated July 2026. We cover Swanley town and the whole BR8 postcode, plus Hextable, Crockenhill, Swanley Village and Maypole around it. This page sits inside the Kent directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Kent.
How the check-in report decides what you get back
End of tenancy cleaning
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The check-in report sets the standard, and that explains everything else on this page. Nobody is marking you against tidy. You are marked against a professional standard set on day one.
- When you moved into your Swanley flat or maisonette, an independent clerk walked it room by room and wrote down its condition, almost always with dated photographs.
- The kitchen extractor, the oven and the bathroom grout all went in as “clean” or “as new”, because the letting agent had paid for a professional clean before you got the keys.
- At check-out a clerk, often a different one, walks the property again and compares it line by line against that first document.
- Anything worse than fair wear and tear gets noted as a cleaning deduction.
The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 tightened how disputed deductions have to be evidenced, so a photographed, itemised clean now carries more weight in a dispute than it used to, not less.
We have recovered £1.2m in deposits for tenants by cleaning to that standard, not to what looks fine under a kitchen strip light at six in the evening.
What 1 May 2026 changed for Swanley move-outs
The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live on 1 May 2026. For a Swanley move-out it changed the timing and left the cleaning alone.
- Section 21
- No-fault eviction is gone.
- Existing tenancies
- Every existing assured shorthold tenancy in England converted automatically to a periodic tenancy.
- Notice
- A tenant can now give two months’ notice at any point rather than waiting for a fixed term to run out.
- The cleaning
- It did not change at all. The agent still holds you to the check-in standard, and the deposit still sits in a protected scheme.
Swanley already has a fair amount of churn, because a good number of tenants here are commuters trying the town out before deciding whether to buy locally or move on.
Periodic tenancies mean move-outs can now land on any date in the month rather than clustering around a fixed renewal. The old habit of booking a fortnight before month-end is a less reliable plan than it was, so book earlier than you think you need to.
The cleaning side of a move-out did not change at all.
Sevenoaks licensing, and why White Oak gets a closer look
Swanley sits inside the Sevenoaks district, and Sevenoaks District Council runs licensing across the whole area, Swanley included. Most shared houses in Swanley fall under the national mandatory HMO rules only.
- Selective licensing
- The council has not designated a selective licensing area here.
- Additional HMO licensing
- Not adopted.
- Mandatory HMO
- Five or more occupants forming more than one household, sharing a kitchen or bathroom.
Licensed or not, a mandatory HMO still gets inspected against condition standards, and that makes shared kitchens and bathrooms a stricter check-out than a single-family let. A good share of that shared housing sits in the larger ex-council stock around White Oak and Swanley New Town.
The district has two quite different halves:
- Sevenoaks
- A few miles south, the affluent market town most people picture when they hear the district’s name, all timbered high street and preserved core.
- Swanley
- An ordinary, working commuter town that grew up through the 20th century around market gardening and then around the railway, not somewhere trading on a historic centre it does not have.
Right-to-Buy sold a lot of the White Oak and Swanley New Town maisonettes into private hands over the decades, and plenty of those are let out now. Licensed or not, the hand-back standard is the same: inventory-clean, not lived-in-clean.
Chalk water and the Swanley bathroom problem
Swanley sits on the North Downs chalk, and South East Water, which supplies the town, rates the area firmly in the hard band. You see it quickly:
- Shower screens go cloudy within weeks.
- Mixer taps crust white at the spout.
- Kettles fur up fast enough that people actually notice.
None of that is dramatic on its own, but the clerk sees a scaled shower screen and writes it down, because the move-in photos show clear glass and bright chrome.
We treat every bathroom with a dedicated descaler rather than an ordinary spray, working the screen back to clear glass and the taps and grout back to where the check-in report had them. How long that takes depends on the fittings:
- Newer infill flats near the station
- The scale lifts fast, because the fittings are recent.
- Older Swanley Village suites
- The same taps might have gone unscaled through several tenancies, so it takes longer, which is worth knowing before you book too short a slot.
Swanley street by street: the job changes with the housing
We cover the whole of Swanley town and BR8, plus the villages around it. The rounds we run most:
- White Oak and the roads off New Barn Road
- Swanley New Town, towards St Mary’s
- The newer infill flats near the station and the town centre
- Hextable and the roads towards the A20
- Crockenhill and the lanes towards the Darent valley orchards
- The inter-war semis on the Swanley Village side
- The streets around Swanley Park and its boating lake
- Maypole and the edge towards the M25 at junction 3
What the clerk flags follows the housing type:
- White Oak or Swanley New Town maisonette
- Much of it is ex-council and now privately let. The kitchen is the whole story: the extractor canopy, the filter, the splashback behind the hob, because these are small, well-used kitchens where grease builds fast.
- Inter-war semis around Swanley Village
- The bathroom carries more of the risk, older suites where scale has had years to set in.
- Station-side new-build
- Usually one modern kitchen and a scaled shower screen, a quicker job but still checked line by line against the report.
Not on that list but still in BR8? Ring and ask. We very likely already clean a flat two streets from you.
The 57 points, room by room
Every Swanley booking runs against a 57-point agent-approved checklist, built from years of local check-outs and tuned to what clerks working this district actually flag. Here is the shape of it.
Kitchen
- Oven cleaned properly: door glass split and cleaned between the panes where the model allows, trays, racks and runners out and soaked, the cavity roof and back done by hand, the seal wiped clean
- Hob and burner caps degreased until clean
- Extractor canopy degreased inside and out, and the metal filter lifted out and soaked rather than wiped, because on these estate kitchens the filter is almost always the line item that gets flagged
- Splashback tiles degreased and the grout worked, not just the tile faces
- Every unit, inside, on top and behind
- Sink and taps descaled
- Fridge and freezer cleaned and defrosted where left running
- Washing machine drum, drawer and door seal done
- Kickboards wiped and the bin cupboard cleared
Bathroom
A full descale. On the older Swanley Village suites this is the part that runs long.
- Shower screen back to clear glass
- Tiles and grout scrubbed
- Taps and shower head descaled
- Toilet done inside the rim, behind the pan and around the base
- Extractor vent dusted
- Mirror and any cabinet cleaned inside and out
- Sealant cleaned and any black spotting treated
Bedrooms and living areas
- Skirting, doors, frames, handles, light switches and sockets
- All sides of the radiators
- Inside every wardrobe and built-in cupboard
- Window glass, frames and sills
- Behind and under any furniture left in place
- Carpets vacuumed thoroughly
- Hard floors washed, not just gone over with a mop
Throughout
- Cobwebs from ceilings and corners
- The top of every internal door
- Stairs and spindles on the maisonettes that have them
- The airing cupboard and any boiler cupboard
- Vents and trickle vents
- A final pass on anything above head height that holds dust nobody notices from the floor
The whole property is worked against the 57-point checklist before anyone leaves.
The cost, and why the maths is not close
Pricing is flat by property size, and no survey is needed for a standard let. Studios start at £156. One-beds are £207. Two-beds are £243. Three-beds are £339. Four-beds are £425.
- Billed by the hour
- Prefer it billed by the hour instead of as a fixed job? That is £30 per cleaner per hour, for a part property or an unusual layout only.
- Carpet add-on
- £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, or £94 for two bedrooms and a living room done together.
- Oven add-on
- An add-on to every fixed price: £31 for a single and £62 for a double or a 90cm range.
| Property | Typical duration | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|
| Studio flat (station side, town centre) | 3-4 hours, 1 cleaner | From £156 |
| 1-bed flat | 4-5 hours, 2 cleaners | From £207 |
| 2-bed maisonette (White Oak, Swanley New Town) | 5-6 hours, 2 cleaners | From £243 |
| 3-bed semi (Swanley Village, Hextable) | 6-7 hours, 2 cleaners | From £339 |
| 4-bed house | 7-9 hours, 2-3 cleaners | From £425 |
| Carpet add-on, two bedrooms and a living room | Same visit | From £94 |
Run the maths the way a deposit dispute actually runs it. A two-bed clean at £243 protecting a deposit worth several thousand pounds is not a close call once you say it out loud like that. Most people only run that sum after a failed check-out, not before one.
The guarantee is the part that matters most. If the clerk flags anything cleaning-related within 48 hours of us finishing, we come back and put it right at no charge.
On Swanley jobs the rare callback tends to be something small near a hard-water tap rather than a missed room.
We built that checklist from what 300+ letting agents across the South East actually deduct for, including agents working Swanley itself:
- Robinson Jackson on the High Street
- Mann along London Road
It is not a guess. It is the rooms and the specific faults that come up often enough at check-out to be worth writing down.
Booking it, and the commuter squeeze
Swanley pulls in tenants who work in London but want the M25 and Bluewater on the doorstep rather than a longer commute further out into Kent. The station explains why.
- Into London
- Southeastern runs from Swanley into Victoria in around half an hour, quicker than most people expect for a town this far out, with a longer ride into Blackfriars on the cross-London route.
- Down the valley
- The Maidstone line splits off at the station too, running down the Darent valley through Eynsford and Otford towards Maidstone East and on to Ashford.
That mix means move-outs cluster the way they do in most commuter towns. Book earlier than feels necessary for these windows:
- end of month
- end of the school year, for family lets around Hextable and Crockenhill
The steps themselves are short.
- Ring 0333 555 2076. Give us the property size, postcode and move-out date, and mention anything the check-in report marked “new” or “as new”.
- We give you a fixed price on the spot for that size, guarantee included, with the oven as an add-on from £31.
- We book the slot, ideally after the van has gone and before the check-out is due.
- We clean to the 57-point checklist, and to the inventory firm’s own report if you can send it over.
- Anything cleaning-related flagged within 48 hours, we come back free.
No survey. No sales visit.
One clean, three different names
People book the wrong one more often than you would think.
- End-of-tenancy clean
- Built to pass the check-out inventory and get the deposit back, checked against the letting agent’s report, from £156 and backed by the 48-hour guarantee.
- Deep clean
- For a home you are staying in and want reset properly, from £186 (£26 per cleaner per hour for two cleaners and at least three hours, plus £30 for kit), but with no inventory report to satisfy.
- Regular domestic clean
- Ongoing upkeep on a home you already live in, weekly or fortnightly, from £23 an hour. Not what you want the week you hand keys back.
Moving out? It is the first one, every time. A deep clean or a regular clean is not built around an inventory report, and the clerk will know within minutes of walking in.
Questions we get asked
How much is end of tenancy cleaning in Swanley?
From £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. The oven is an add-on to the fixed price, from £31, and every job carries the 48-hour re-clean guarantee.
Is the oven included in the price?
No, it is an add-on to the fixed-price job, from £31. Alongside the extractor, the oven is one of the biggest deductions in Swanley kitchens, so it pays to add it to the booking.
What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?
If the check-out report raises any cleaning issue within 48 hours of us finishing, we come back and fix it at no extra cost. You do not pay twice for the same clean.
Can you guarantee I get my deposit back?
No honest cleaner can, because deposits also get deducted for damage, unpaid rent and missing items, none of which are a cleaning matter. What we guarantee is the cleaning standard: if the clerk flags anything cleaning-related within 48 hours, we come back free and put it right.
Why does the kitchen extractor matter so much on a White Oak or Swanley New Town maisonette?
Estate maisonette kitchens are compact and well used, so grease builds up fast inside the extractor canopy and on the metal filter. Clerks working this area itemise the filter specifically and lift it out to check it rather than glancing at the canopy face, so a quick wipe over is not enough.
Why is limescale such a common deduction in Swanley?
The water here comes off the North Downs chalk through South East Water and sits in the hard band. Scale builds on shower glass, taps and kettles, and at check-out the clerk compares it against the clear glass in the move-in photos. We descale every bathroom properly so it goes back to that condition.
Do you cover HMOs and shared houses in Swanley?
Yes, including mandatory-licensed HMOs around White Oak and Swanley New Town. We can clean a single room plus the shared kitchen and bathroom to inventory standard, or the whole house. Shared spaces get checked harder at a licensed HMO check-out, so book it properly.
Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change how end of tenancy cleaning works?
Not the cleaning side. From 1 May 2026, Section 21 evictions were abolished and existing tenancies converted to periodic ones, so tenants can leave with two months’ notice at any point. The check-in standard your clean is judged against has not moved. The real change in Swanley is more frequent, less predictable move-outs, so book earlier than you used to.
Should the property be empty before you arrive?
Ideally yes. We clean inside and behind units, wardrobes and under furniture, so an empty flat gets a better result, and you do not need to be there if access is left with the agent or in a key safe. If some furniture has to stay we work around it, but tell us in advance so we book the right length of slot.
How long does a Swanley clean take?
A studio or one-bed is usually a half day. A two or three-bed is most of a day. A four-bed, or an older Swanley Village semi with years of built-up scale on the bathroom, can run longer, which is why we ask about the property when you book.
Can you do the carpets at the same time?
Yes. Carpet cleaning is an add-on: £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, or £94 for two bedrooms and a living room booked together. Doing it alongside the end-of-tenancy clean saves a second visit, and ground-in marks are a common deduction on their own.
Do you cover Hextable, Crockenhill and Swanley Village as well as the town?
Yes. Hextable, Crockenhill, Swanley Village, Maypole and the roads around Swanley Park are all standard rounds for us, on the same pricing as central Swanley. The older Swanley Village semis in particular tend to need longer on the bathroom, so we plan the slot for that.
My flat is a newer build near the station. Does it still need a full clean?
Yes. A modern flat gets marked down exactly like an older maisonette if the oven, the kitchen and the hard-water marks are not back at check-in standard. Newer kitchens often clean up faster, which helps, but the clerk still checks against the original report line by line.
What if I have already cleaned it myself?
That is most people, and it rarely changes much. The issue is not effort, it is what the clerk measures against. A tenant cleans to the eye in daylight; the clerk lifts the extractor filter, checks the oven glass between the panes and runs a finger along the shower screen. We can clean the whole property or just the kitchen and bathroom if that is where you are exposed, though the fixed price usually beats an hourly part-job.
Get a price for your Swanley clean
Booking takes three steps
- Your postcode and the property. The form gives the price.
- A date that suits you. Seven days a week.
- We confirm it with you by phone or WhatsApp.
0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm
Call 0333 555 2076 or email office@monstercleaning.com. We are Monster Cleaning Ltd, cleaning rented homes since 2014.
Give us:
- the property size
- the postcode
- the move-out date
- the inventory firm’s name, if you have it, so we clean to their report rather than to a general idea of clean