Waterloo end of tenancy prices
Renting near Waterloo station nearly always means a flat: a Peabody block off Stamford Street, a converted warehouse on Theed Street, a co-op home on Coin Street or a new apartment by York Road. Our end of tenancy clean for any of them has a fixed price set by bedrooms, starting at £174 for a studio and topping out at £443 for four bedrooms, with the oven and carpets priced separately as extras.
Last updated October 2026.
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £174 |
| One bedroom | £225 |
| Two bedrooms | £261 |
| Three bedrooms | £357 |
| Four bedrooms | £443 |
| Five bedrooms or more | quoted from the room count |
| A room in a shared flat, or part of a home | £30 per cleaner per hour |
Type your postcode and room count into the calculator at the top of the page and the figure it gives you is the one you pay. Bedrooms set the price, so a top-floor flat with no lift costs the same as a ground-floor one.
Flats, co-ops and cottages around Waterloo station
Waterloo is a station with a neighbourhood squeezed round it. The Office of Rail and Road counted 70.4 million entries and exits there between April 2024 and March 2025, second only to Liverpool Street, and before the Elizabeth line opened Waterloo had been the busiest station in Britain for 17 of the previous 18 years. The homes sit in the few streets between the tracks, The Cut and the river, and they come in a surprising range of ages.
The oldest are in the Roupell Street conservation area, which Lambeth designated in November 1976: Roupell Street, Theed Street and Whittlesey Street, laid out between the 1820s and 1840s as uniform terraces with corner shops and a pub.
A few minutes north, Lambeth’s Waterloo conservation area statement describes Aquinas Street as unaltered red brick terraces, three storeys with full-height bays and timber sashes on the north side, and two-storey neo-Georgian houses from 1911 on the south side. Stamford Street keeps its Regency terraces of 1829, and the warehouses along Theed Street have been converted into offices and flats.
The biggest single block of rented homes is the Peabody Trust’s Stamford Street Estate, built in 1875: 16 blocks of yellow stock brick, five storeys each, set in shared grounds. The statement notes that the original sashes have been swapped for modern units. For the cleaner that means plastic frames, tracks and window boards that collect black dust along every sill.
Coin Street Community Builders run the four co-ops on their own estate, Mulberry, Palm, Redwood and Iroko. Iroko, finished in 2001 on Coin Street and Cornwall Road, has 59 homes: 32 five-bedroom houses over four storeys with roof terraces, six three-bedroom maisonettes and 21 smaller flats and maisonettes.
The co-ops let to people in housing need, and their homes change hands rarely. When one does, a five-bedroom house is quoted from the room count, like any home of that size.
The newest layer is Southbank Place, the Braeburn Estates scheme on the old Shell Centre site between York Road and Belvedere Road. Its final building, Seven, has 92 apartments with floor-to-ceiling windows, which is a lot of glass to clean from the inside. King’s College London also has buildings around Stamford Street, including Cornwall House, so students sharing flats are part of the mix too.
The Cut runs from Waterloo Road, with the Old Vic on its Lambeth corner, past the Young Vic to Blackfriars Road in Southwark. Its flats sit over shops and restaurants, and the further east you go along it the more likely the home is in Southwark, which has its own licensing rules. We clean both ends at the same prices.
Licensing in the Waterloo and South Bank ward
End of tenancy cleaning
from £174
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
Get your price0333 555 2076 · 8am to 7pm
Lambeth now runs selective licensing in 23 of its 25 wards. Phase 1 began on 2 September 2024 in four Streatham and Norwood wards, and phase 2 followed on 1 September 2025 across 19 more. The council’s own wording is that the scheme applies to every ward “excluding Vauxhall and Waterloo & South Bank”. So a landlord letting a one-bed off Lower Marsh to a couple needs no selective licence, while the same flat a short walk south in Kennington would need one.
Shared homes are different. Lambeth’s additional HMO licensing covers the whole borough, Waterloo included: any home with three or more people from two or more households that is not already caught by the mandatory scheme. The current designation came into force on 9 December 2021 and runs to 8 December 2026. A student flat with three King’s sharers on separate tenancies is the typical case. Homes with five or more sharers need the national mandatory licence wherever they are.
None of this changes how the flat is judged at the end. The clerk compares it to the check-in inventory, with fair wear and tear allowed. What licensing changes is how much is riding on it. The ONS put the average one-bedroom rent in Lambeth at £1,882 a month in August 2026, and with deposits capped at five weeks’ rent that is roughly £2,170 held back until the check-out report is signed.
The clean, room by room
Every Waterloo clean follows our 57-point checklist. In practice the hours go here:
- Kitchen: inside and outside every cupboard and drawer, worktops, splashback, hob, extractor hood and filter, sink and taps, fridge and freezer (defrosted beforehand), and the floor under anything that slides out.
- Bathroom: limescale off the taps, shower head, screen and tiles, then grout, bath or tray, basin, toilet, mirror and the extractor grille.
- Living rooms and bedrooms: skirting, doors and frames, switches and sockets, radiators, wardrobes inside, window boards and the inside of every window, frames and tracks included.
- Floors: vacuumed throughout, then hard floors washed, including any internal stairs.
The limescale line matters in SE1. Thames Water, which supplies Lambeth, says all the water in its region is hard: about 65% comes from rivers and 35% from underground sources, and it passes through chalk and limestone on the way. Glass shower screens in the newer blocks show every mark when a clerk shines a torch across them, so the screen gets descaled and dried, never just wiped.
Our cleaners are vetted at an in-person interview, insured and trained on that checklist. We have cleaned in London since 2014, more than 300 letting agents work with us, tenants have recovered £1.2m in deposits after our cleans, and our Google rating is 4.7. Should the agent or the inventory clerk list anything within 48 hours of the clean, a cleaner goes back and puts it right at no charge.
Oven and carpet extras
The oven is never in the fixed price. Added to the clean, it costs £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. Racks, trays, door glass and the cavity are all done. Our oven cleaning page covers the service on its own.
Carpets booked with the clean are cheaper than a separate visit: £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. Most Waterloo flats have hard floors in the living space and carpet only in the bedrooms, so a two-bed often needs just the two bedroom carpets. Check the tenancy agreement for a carpet clause, and see our carpet cleaning page for more detail.
Parking, the congestion charge and booking
Waterloo is Lambeth’s parking zone W, controlled from 8.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday and from 8.30am to 1pm on Saturday. It is also inside the central London Congestion Charge zone, where TfL charges £18 a day for driving between 7am and 6pm on weekdays and from noon to 6pm at weekends. If your clean needs paid parking or the congestion charge, we add what it costs us to the quote and nothing more.
Lower Marsh market trades from 11am to 3pm on weekdays, so a morning start on the streets behind the station is easier for loading. Book online with the calculator or call 0333 555 2076, 8am to 7pm, seven days a week. A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done. We cover the rest of Lambeth and the whole of London at the same prices.
Waterloo end of tenancy FAQs
I rent a one-bed in the Peabody blocks on Stamford Street. What will the clean cost?
£225 for the flat. If you want the oven done as well and it is a standard single, add £31.
My flat is above a restaurant on The Cut, on the Southwark side. Do you cover it?
Yes, at the same prices. Tell us the floor and whether there is a lift, since some flats over shops have narrow stairs from a street door.
We are handing back a five-bedroom house on Coin Street. How is that priced?
Homes above four bedrooms are quoted from the room count. Call us with the number of bedrooms, bathrooms and floors and we will give you a fixed figure.
Does my landlord need a selective licence for a flat off Lower Marsh?
Not for a single household, because the Waterloo and South Bank ward is outside Lambeth’s selective scheme. If three or more of you share from different households, the additional HMO licence applies.
Can you clean on a Saturday morning?
Yes, we work seven days. Parking controls in zone W end at 1pm on Saturday, and the congestion charge only starts at noon at weekends.
