Welwyn Garden City end of tenancy prices
Rented homes in Welwyn Garden City run from 1920s garden-city houses set back behind grass verges to the new flats on the old Shredded Wheat site next to the station. We clean them at the end of a tenancy for a fixed price set by the number of bedrooms: £176 for a studio, £227 for one bedroom, £263 for two, £359 for three and £445 for four.
Last updated October 2026.
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £176 |
| One bedroom | £227 |
| Two bedrooms | £263 |
| Three bedrooms | £359 |
| Four bedrooms | £445 |
| Part job or unusual layout | £30 per cleaner per hour |
A house with five or more bedrooms is quoted from the room count. The oven and carpets are not in these prices; they are add-ons, priced further down. If the cleaner has to pay to park, we add that cost and show it on the quote.
For your own figure, the calculator at the top of the page takes the postcode and bedroom count, and our phone line, 0333 555 2076, is open 8am to 7pm seven days a week.
Rents here sit below London’s but are rising. The ONS put the average private rent in Welwyn Hatfield at £1,512 a month in August 2026, 3.5% higher than a year before. In the 2021 census 16.4% of households in the borough rented privately, up from 13.6% in 2011, and another 25.4% rented from a social landlord.
Garden city houses and the new town estates
Ebenezer Howard founded Welwyn Garden City in 1920, after Letchworth, and Louis de Soissons drew up the plan. The town was laid out along tree-lined boulevards around a neo-Georgian centre, with a wide grass verge on every road and Parkway, almost a mile long, as its spine. The town still has its own rules for protecting that look, the Scheme of Management.
In 1948 the town was designated a new town, and from then until 1966 a development corporation ran its growth. Many lets in AL7 and AL8 are therefore one of two kinds of house: a house from the original garden city, or a terrace or semi from the new town years.
Either way, the inventory tends to list the same details: painted timber doors and frames, deep window sills, fireplaces in some of the older houses, and wooden floors where carpets have been lifted.
For us, the practical points are the stairs, the window sills and the kitchen. Where a kitchen has been extended at the back, the join between the old and new cupboards collects grease. A three-bed house takes the £359 price, extension or not.
The Wheat Quarter and the newer flats
The Shredded Wheat factory by the station, designed by de Soissons and built in 1924, is Grade II listed. Production moved to Wiltshire in 2007, and the land has become the Wheat Quarter. The first phase on the south side, built for Metropolitan Thames Valley, has 208 flats in blocks of up to eight storeys: 106 for affordable rent, 52 for shared ownership and 50 for the over-55s.
The masterplan approved for the rest of the site adds 578 homes, among them 133 houses with gardens, 141 retirement homes and 304 flats built for rent, and the white silos are to become a sky bar and restaurant.
In flats this new, integrated appliances, glass shower screens and pale worktops show every mark, so we spend more of the time on the kitchen and bathroom. Other offices have gone the same way: Xerox’s former building in the town closed in 2016 to make way for housing.
The masterplan approved for the rest of the Shredded Wheat site adds 578 homes, among them 304 flats built for rent.
Licensing rules in Welwyn Hatfield
Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council has no selective or additional licensing scheme. A house or flat let to one household needs no licence, and only the national mandatory licence applies, to shared houses with five or more people from two or more households. The council’s Article 4 direction on houses in multiple occupation, confirmed in April 2011, covers Hatfield and not Welwyn Garden City. The council’s HMO licence page sets out who needs one.
The bigger change this year is national. From 1 May 2026, under the Renters’ Rights Act 2025, private tenancies in England became periodic, and tenants give notice instead of waiting for a fixed term to run out. The cleaning standard did not change. The deposit is still protected in a government-backed scheme, and the check-out still compares the home with the check-in inventory.
What the clean covers in a Welwyn Garden City home
Welwyn Garden City has its own Affinity Water supply zone. Affinity’s 2025 report for it gives an average hardness of 320 mg/l as calcium carbonate, from 40 samples, with readings from 263 to 383. That is very hard water, and it shows in every bathroom: a white crust round the taps, a fog on the shower screen, scale in the toilet bowl and on the shower head. We remove it as part of the clean, with no extra charge.
- Kitchen: cupboards and drawers inside and out, worktops and splashback, the hob, extractor hood and filter, fridge and freezer, washing machine seal and soap drawer, and the sink and taps descaled.
- Bathroom: shower screen, tiles and grout, bath, basin, toilet, taps, shower head, mirror and fan.
- Throughout: skirting, doors and frames, sills, radiators, light switches, inside fitted wardrobes, inside window glass, stairs and banisters, floors vacuumed and mopped.
The checklist has 57 points in all. Cleaners are interviewed in person, insured and trained on it before they take a job. We have been cleaning since 2014 around London, Liverpool and Manchester and the towns near them, more than 300 letting agents use us, and tenants have recovered £1.2m in deposits after our cleans. We are rated 4.7 on Google. Should the agent or clerk raise anything within 48 hours, we return and re-clean it free.
Oven and carpet add-ons
Ovens are cleaned only when you add them: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. The oven cleaning page covers an oven clean without the rest of the home.
Carpets added to 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. Add them if your tenancy agreement or check-in report mentions professionally cleaned carpets. On their own, carpets are on our carpet cleaning page.
Booking the 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
Book once you know your check-out date, and tell us the bedroom count, the oven and carpets, and whether the property is a house or a flat with a lift. The home should be empty on the day, with the electricity and hot water on and the fridge defrosted. Welwyn Garden City station is in the town centre, built into the Howard Centre, with Great Northern trains to King’s Cross and Moorgate.
For towns across the county, see our end of tenancy cleaning in Hertfordshire page.
End of tenancy FAQs
I am leaving a 1920s house in the old part of the town. Is it charged differently?
No. It is priced by bedrooms like any other home, so a three-bed house is £359. Tell us about fireplaces, wooden floors or a cellar when you book.
Do you clean flats in the Wheat Quarter?
Yes. A one-bed flat is £227 and a two-bed £263. Let us know how the cleaner gets into the building, and whether the concierge or building manager holds a key.
Does my landlord need a licence in Welwyn Garden City?
Only for a shared house with five or more people from two or more households. Welwyn Hatfield has no selective or additional scheme.
How do I pay?
A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done.
Will the hard water cost me extra?
No. Descaling the taps, screen, toilet and shower head is part of the fixed price.