Renting in Swanscombe today
Swanscombe sits on chalk that fed local cement works for over a century, and today it is two places side by side: the older village around the High Street, and the quarried land next to it, now being built up as Ebbsfleet Garden City. Our end of tenancy clean costs the same in both, a fixed price by the number of bedrooms that starts at £156 for a studio flat.
Last updated November 2026.
The garden city is the biggest change in the area’s renting. Ebbsfleet Development Corporation marked its 5,000th completed home in December 2025, out of up to 15,000 planned across the Ebbsfleet Valley. The new estates were part of Swanscombe parish until 2 May 2019, when the Ebbsfleet area was taken out to become unparished, but to a tenant they are one patch: the same shops at Bluewater, which stands in the old Western Quarry, and the same stations.
Older Swanscombe is a different stock of homes. The streets around the High Street and down towards the river grew with the cement industry, and the town has had its own town council, Swanscombe and Greenhithe, since 1981. Swanscombe station, on the North Kent Line, has Southeastern and Thameslink trains, and the present station opened in 1930.
Rents follow Dartford borough. In September 2026 the ONS average was £1,580 a month, with one-beds at £1,095, two-beds at £1,424 and three-beds at £1,716. Five weeks’ rent is the most a landlord can take as a deposit, so on an average two-bed you have about £1,640 waiting on the check-out report.
Leaving works differently since 1 May 2026. Most tenancies are now periodic, and you end yours by giving two months’ notice; book the clean for a day near the end of that notice, once your furniture has gone.
Dartford Borough Council HMO rules
Dartford’s houses in multiple occupation page says a licence is needed for an HMO with five or more people in two or more households, and a five-year licence costs £905. It describes no additional or selective licensing scheme, so an ordinary family let or a flat with one or two sharers needs no licence.
The bigger change is in planning. Since 9 December 2025, any new HMO north of the A2, where Swanscombe and Greenhithe sit, needs planning permission, and the same rule reaches the rest of the borough on 10 December 2026. That affects landlords converting a house, not tenants leaving one.
If you rent a room in an existing shared house, your agreement says which shared areas you clean at the end; we can do a single room and your part of the kitchen by the hour.
The end of tenancy checklist
End of tenancy cleaning
from £176
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
Get your price0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm
Every clean follows our 57-point checklist. Cleaners are vetted by an in-person interview, insured, and trained on the checklist before their first job. In outline:
- Kitchen: cupboards inside, outside and on top, worktops, splashback and wall tiles, hob and controls, extractor canopy and filter, sink and taps, the fridge and freezer after you have defrosted them, washing machine drawer and seal, and the floor behind movable appliances.
- Bathroom: limescale removed from taps, shower, screen and tiles, grout and sealant, toilet inside and out to the base, basin, bath panel, mirror and extractor grille.
- All rooms: skirting boards, doors and handles, switches and sockets, radiators, inside windows, sills and frames, wardrobes and built-in cupboards, light fittings, then carpets vacuumed and hard floors washed.
The chalk shows up in the taps. Thames Water supplies Swanscombe (it sent tankers to hundreds of homes when the Galley Hill cliff came down in 2023), and its guidance on hardness says the water across its region is hard because it passes through chalk and limestone. Scale on a shower screen or a tap is an easy line for a clerk to write up, so we descale on every job.
In a new-build let in the garden city, the check-in photos may show a kitchen and bathroom that had never been used, so the hob, the oven glass and the shower tray get compared closely. In the older houses, more of the work is in the corners: behind cookers, under fridges and along skirting.
Please leave the electricity and hot water switched on. We bring all the cleaning equipment and products but rely on the supply in the property.
Swanscombe end of tenancy cleaning prices
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| One-bed flat | £207 |
| Two-bed flat or house | £243 |
| Three-bed house | £339 |
| Four-bed house | £425 |
| Five or more bedrooms | quoted from the room count |
| A room in a shared house or a part job | £30 per cleaner per hour |
Each price is for the full checklist, however long it takes. The calculator at the top of the page works out your total with extras, and it adds parking only where we have to pay for it, at our cost.
The oven is not part of the standard clean. Add it on the same visit for £31 (single or single wide) or £62 (double, or a 90cm range).
We soak the racks, trays and other removable parts separately and clean the cavity, glass and seals by hand, normally in your kitchen; the inner door glass gets done where the door design allows. Booked alone, oven cleaning is £77 for a single, £110 for a double, £114 for a single wide oven and £143 for a 90cm range cooker.
Carpet add-ons cost less with the clean than as a separate booking: £29 for a bedroom, £36 for a living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 for a flight of stairs, £20 for a hallway and £8 for a landing. More detail on the carpet cleaning page.
Access while Galley Hill Road is closed
Part of the chalk cliff under the A226 Galley Hill Road collapsed in April 2023 and the road has been shut ever since. Kent County Council has bid for government money to rebuild it, but no reopening date had been announced by November 2026, and the closure has added traffic and cut bus routes for Swanscombe, Greenhithe and Ebbsfleet.
If you are on the Northfleet side of the gap, the drive between the two is longer, so give us the exact address when you book and we will plan the arrival time around it.
Book on 0333 555 2076, open 8am to 7pm every day, or by WhatsApp on the same number for messages and photos. The calculator at the top of the page gives a price without a call.
If the letting agent or the clerk raises anything about the clean within 48 hours, we send a cleaner back and fix it free. We have been doing end of tenancy work since 2014, more than 300 letting agents use us, and our cleans have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits.
Our Google rating is 4.7. We also cover Greenhithe, which shares Swanscombe’s town council, and Ebbsfleet, the garden city around the international station; the rest of the county is on our Kent end of tenancy page.
Swanscombe end of tenancy FAQs
What does a two-bed new-build flat near Swanscombe cost to clean?
£243 at a fixed price, the same as an older two-bed house. A single oven adds £31.
Does Dartford’s HMO planning rule change anything for me as a tenant?
No. It decides whether a landlord can create a new HMO. Your move-out standard is set by your tenancy agreement and the check-in inventory.
Is Galley Hill Road open again?
Not as of November 2026. It has been closed since the cliff collapse in April 2023, and Kent County Council’s repair bid had not produced a reopening date.
Why is there so much limescale in Swanscombe bathrooms?
Thames Water’s supply here is hard water from chalk and limestone. Descaling is part of our standard clean, so there is no extra charge for it.
How is the clean paid for?
A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done.
