Upper Walthamstow end of tenancy cleaning prices
Upper Walthamstow has more semi-detached houses than the rest of E17, alongside its terraces and flats, and our end of tenancy clean is priced by size: £156 for a studio, £207 for a one-bed, up to £425 for a four-bedroom house. The oven and carpets are added only when your inventory needs them, and anything raised within 48 hours is put right free.
Last updated October 2026.
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| One-bedroom flat or maisonette | £207 |
| Two-bedroom flat or house | £243 |
| Three-bedroom house | £339 |
| Four-bedroom house | £425 |
| Part job or unusual layout | £30 per cleaner per hour |
The fixed price covers every room of the empty home: kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms, living room, hall and stairs, cupboards inside and out, and the windows from the inside. If the only parking near you is paid, we add what it costs us to the quote and show it before you confirm. The calculator at the top of this page gives an instant quote, or call 0333 555 2076, 8am to 7pm, seven days a week.
The homes either side of Forest Road
End of tenancy cleaning
from £156
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
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Upper Walthamstow is also the name of a council ward, created in 2022. The Boundary Commission drew it around the more residential south end of Wood Street and the streets below the North Circular, crossing Forest Road, with the shops and the station core left in Wood Street ward.
Wood Street station’s entrance is on Upper Walthamstow Road, in fare zone 4 on the Weaver line to Liverpool Street, and Whipps Cross University Hospital is a short walk away.
Fewer homes here are privately rented than in the borough as a whole. At the 2021 census it had 2,900 households: 55.5% owned their home, 23.7% rented from the council or a housing association and 20.2% rented privately, against 27.8% renting privately across Waltham Forest. The housing is mixed. A third of households (33.5%) live in purpose-built flats, 29.4% in terraced houses and 25.2% in semi-detached houses.
That mix changes the job. A semi usually has more windows and more wall to wipe than a terraced house with the same number of bedrooms, so it takes the team longer. The purpose-built flats are quicker per room, but a clerk will check the communal bin store door and the entry-phone handset if they are listed on the inventory.
Much of the borough is old. Waltham Forest’s own housing report says its share of homes built before 1919 is the sixth highest in London, and before 1939 the third highest. North and east Walthamstow grew largely between 1870 and 1930, a lot of it built by the Warner company, whose red-brick houses with gables and recessed porches are still easy to spot.
Damp, disrepair and the check-out report
In December 2023 the council published a review of private rented housing to support its licensing case. Across the borough, 14.2% of privately rented homes had at least one disrepair complaint between May 2020 and September 2023. Upper Walthamstow had the highest rate of any ward, at 24%. The same report says Waltham Forest recorded the highest rate of damp and mould complaints in London in 2021 to 2022.
This matters at check-out because damp sits on the line between cleaning and repair. Surface mould on silicone, grout, window reveals and the corner of a bedroom ceiling can be cleaned off, and the cleaners treat it with a mould remover as part of the clean.
A damp patch that comes back, rotten sealant or blown plaster is a repair, and a fair clerk records it as the landlord’s issue. If you reported damp during the tenancy, keep a copy of the email and give it to the agent before the check-out. It helps the clerk tell old damage from cleaning.
Upper Walthamstow had the highest rate of disrepair complaints of any ward in Waltham Forest, at 24%.
Waltham Forest licensing and your tenancy
Almost every privately rented home in Upper Walthamstow needs a council licence. The selective licensing scheme came into force on 1 May 2025 and runs to 30 April 2030. It covers homes let to one household or to two sharers in every ward except Hatch Lane and Highams Park North, and Endlebury, so this ward is included.
A separate additional licensing scheme, in force from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2030, covers smaller shared houses borough-wide, and five or more sharers need a mandatory HMO licence.
You can look up whether your home is licensed on the council’s selective licensing page. In a shared house, people often move out on different dates. Whoever goes first can book their own bedroom plus part of the shared kitchen and bathroom at the hourly rate of £30 per cleaner; the final tenant to leave then books what remains.
What the clean covers in an Upper Walthamstow home
The 57 points run room by room. These are the parts clerks in older E17 houses look at most:
- Kitchen: inside every cupboard and drawer, worktops, tiles and splashback, the hob and extractor filter, behind and under the cooker and fridge where they pull out, fridge and freezer (switch them off a day early so they defrost), the washing machine’s soap drawer and rubber seal, sink and taps descaled.
- Bathroom: limescale off taps, shower head and screen, grout scrubbed, mould treated on silicone, toilet, bath and basin, the extractor fan cover and the mirror.
- Bedrooms and living room: skirting, door frames and the tops of doors, radiators, sockets and switches, window sills and runners, glass on the inside, inside wardrobes.
- Stairs and hall: banisters and spindles, every stair edge, the meter cupboard and the inside of the front door.
- Floors: vacuumed throughout, hard floors washed.
Thames Water supplies the area and says all the water in its region is hard, so scale builds on taps, screens and kettles. Descaling is part of the fixed price.
Carpet, oven and other add-ons
Check whether your tenancy agreement asks for the carpets to be professionally cleaned. Carpet cleaning added to the end of tenancy clean costs £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing; a two-storey semi often needs the stairs and landing as well as the rooms. Standalone prices are on our carpet cleaning page.
The oven is an add-on and never part of the fixed price: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. See oven cleaning for what the process involves. If you are staying in your home and only want a thorough clean, a deep clean is £26 per cleaner per hour, with a team of two for at least three hours, from £186.
Booking near Wood Street station
The cleaners bring the kit by van. If your road has permit bays, a visitor permit for the morning is the easiest way to park it; tell us when you book if you have one.
Give us the postcode, number of bedrooms, the check-out date, which floor the flat is on and whether a carpet or oven needs adding. Please leave the power and boiler on and take your things out beforehand; a kitchen cannot be degreased with cold water.
Month-end dates are the busiest of our calendar, so a check-out on the 28th or later is best booked seven days or more in advance. The team covers the whole borough, from the terraces of Wood Street to the converted flats around central Walthamstow, and every area is listed on our end of tenancy cleaning Waltham Forest page.
We have been doing end of tenancy cleans since 2014, more than 300 letting agents work with us, and we have helped tenants win back £1.2m in deposits.
Upper Walthamstow end of tenancy FAQs
My flat has had mould for months. Will the clean get rid of it?
Surface mould on sealant, grout, window reveals and ceilings is treated as part of the clean. Mould that has stained deep into silicone or plaster, or damp that keeps coming back, is a repair for the landlord. Give the agent copies of any damp reports you made during the tenancy.
Is a semi-detached house more expensive to clean than a terrace?
The price is fixed by bedrooms, so a three-bed semi is £339, the same as a three-bed terrace. The semi takes the team longer, and that is built into the fixed price.
Does my landlord’s licence affect my deposit?
No. The deposit rules are the same for licensed and unlicensed lets. What decides any deduction is the check-in inventory, so ask the agent for a copy before the clean and give it to the cleaners.
Can you clean while I am still moving boxes out?
It works best in an empty home, because the clerk inspects it empty. If the van is late, the cleaners start in the rooms already cleared and finish the rest once the boxes have gone.
How do I pay?
A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done.