Renting in Ware now
Ware’s rented homes range from flats in converted maltings by the River Lea to Victorian terraces off New Road and family houses on the newer estates. Whichever one you are leaving, our end of tenancy clean costs a fixed £176 for a studio up to £445 for four bedrooms, with the oven and carpets as add-ons.
Last updated October 2026.
At the 2021 census Ware parish had 19,627 people in 8,525 households. The town’s biggest employer is GSK, which runs large manufacturing and research plants here on the site Allen & Hanburys opened in 1898. Ware station is on the Hertford East branch, with two trains an hour each way to London Liverpool Street.
Rents in East Hertfordshire are above the regional average. The ONS put the district’s average private rent at £1,533 a month in August 2026, up 3.5% on a year earlier, against £1,289 for the East of England. Flats averaged £1,255 and terraced houses £1,423, and a three-bedroom home £1,673. Tenancy deposits are capped at five weeks’ rent, so on a typical three-bed around £1,930 depends on the check-out.
Licensing is light. East Herts Council’s housing pages list only the national mandatory licence for houses in multiple occupation, needed where five or more people from two or more households share. The council notes that other districts also run additional or selective schemes; East Herts does not. That leaves the tenancy agreement and the check-in inventory as the measure your clean is held to, with fair wear and tear allowed.
More homes are on the way. The East Herts District Plan allocates the land north and east of Ware, under policy WARE2, for a mixed development of 1,000 homes, with a further 500 if the road improvements can be made. The hybrid planning application was validated by the council on 6 January 2023.
Ware homes, from malt kilns to Bluecoat Yard
Ware was a malting town. The council’s conservation area appraisal counts 33 maltings in 1788 and about 65 by 1839, probably more than any other town in the country, and the first Ordnance Survey map in 1880 showed 107 malt kilns. The last working maltings closed in 1994. Many of the buildings that survived are now homes.
On New Road, the north range of the Grade II listed maltings by Kibes Lane has been converted to homes. It is three storeys of yellow-grey stock brick, each malting originally with three floors and three double kilns.
Down at Viaduct Road the old Ware Flour Mill buildings were converted to flats, and by the station the mid-19th-century goods shed, also Grade II, is now homes known as The Carriages, with semicircular windows under brick arches along its nine-bay front. Conversions like these tend to have deep window reveals, exposed brick and beams, and odd-shaped rooms, which all add dusting time even though the price stays the same.
Some of Ware’s rented homes are much older. Bluecoat Yard holds a Grade II* terrace of ten houses built around 1687 to 1689 as nurses’ cottages for the Bluecoat School, timber-framed and plastered, with dormers in the roof. Western House on Collett Road was the town workhouse, built in 1839 to 1840 and turned into flats in 1993 and 1994.
The 19th-century streets are the bread and butter of Ware lettings. New Road has a terrace of yellow brick houses with slate roofs and chimneys, and High Oak Road a mix of two-storey terraces and semis, one with a date plaque of 1894. In terraces of this age the two front rooms are often knocked through into one, which counts as a through lounge if you add carpet cleaning.
How hard is the water in Ware?
Very. Affinity Water’s 2025 report for its Ware supply zone, which serves about 18,560 people, gives an average total hardness of 388 mg/l as calcium carbonate, with readings up to 418. For a tenant that means scale building up quickly on taps and shower screens, a white crust round the base of taps and in the shower tray, and furred-up kettles and shower heads.
Clerks look for that crust when they check a bathroom. Our cleaners use descaler on every tap, shower head, screen and tile, then rinse and dry them so marks do not come straight back before the clerk arrives.
The clean itself
Every clean follows our 57-point checklist. These are the parts that take the time:
- Kitchen: cupboards and drawers inside and out, worktops and tiles, the hob and extractor (filter degreased), sink and taps descaled, fridge and freezer, kettle, and the floor behind free-standing appliances.
- Bathroom: limescale removed everywhere it shows, grout and sealant scrubbed, bath, basin and toilet cleaned inside and out, mirror polished, extractor grille dusted.
- Living rooms and bedrooms: skirting, doors and frames, radiators, switches, built-in wardrobes, sills, and every window from the inside.
- Stairs and floors: each tread and spindle wiped, carpets vacuumed, hard floors washed.
Our cleaners are vetted in person, insured and trained on that list. We have been cleaning since 2014 across London, Liverpool and Manchester and the counties around them, 300+ letting agents use us, tenants have recovered £1.2m of deposits, and our Google rating is 4.7. If anything is flagged by the agent or clerk within 48 hours, we come back and fix it without charge.
Ware end of tenancy prices
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio flat | £176 |
| One-bed flat, for example in a converted maltings | £227 |
| Two-bed flat or terraced house | £263 |
| Three-bed house | £359 |
| Four-bed house | £445 |
| Five bedrooms or more | quoted from the room count |
| A single room, or part of a home | £30 per cleaner per hour |
The oven is an add-on: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. Our oven cleaning page explains what is included.
Carpets cleaned with the end of tenancy clean cost £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. Check the tenancy agreement for a carpet clause before you book. The carpet cleaning page has the full details.
Booking and parking
Use the calculator at the top of the page for an instant price, or call 0333 555 2076 between 8am and 7pm, any day of the week. A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done.
If the cleaner has to pay to park, we add what it costs us and no more. We also clean across the rest of Hertfordshire and in London, at the other end of the Hertford East line.
Questions from Ware tenants
I rent a flat in the converted maltings on New Road. Do the beams and brickwork cost more?
No. The price is set by bedrooms, so a one-bed is £227 and a two-bed is £263, beams and all.
How much is a two-bed terrace off New Road with carpeted stairs and a living room?
The clean is £263. Carpets in both bedrooms add £29 each, the living room £36 and the stairs £35.
The bathroom is covered in limescale. Can it be cleaned in one visit?
Yes. Ware’s water is very hard, so we descale every tap, screen and tile as part of the standard clean, at no extra cost.
My landlord takes in three sharers. Does East Herts require a licence?
Not from the council. East Herts only requires the mandatory HMO licence, which starts at five people from two or more households.
Can you do the clean on the day I give the keys back?
Yes, if the flat is empty. Most people book the clean for the morning and hand the keys over to the agent after it is done.
