What a West Green end of tenancy clean actually involves
West Green is the slice of Tottenham wrapped around West Green Road, sitting in the N15 and N17 postcodes on the south Tottenham side of the London Borough of Haringey. End of tenancy cleaning here means a full deep clean of an empty flat, priced by the size of the property rather than by the hour, finished against a written checklist that letting agents accept. A studio runs to £156 and a three-bedroom flat to £339, supplies and labour included. That is the short version. The rest of this page is the detail that actually decides whether your deposit comes back whole, because the housing stock around here has its own quirks and the council has its own licensing rules.
The reason the size-based price matters is the local property itself. A two-bedroom conversion flat on Black Boy Lane is a different job from a new studio in one of the blocks near Seven Sisters, and an hourly quote punishes you for the older, grimier flats that need the most work. We would rather send a cleaner for as long as the flat needs and quote you one fixed figure up front.
West Green Road is the spine of all this, and it tells you who lives here. It is a mile of Turkish supermarkets and ocakbasi grills, Caribbean food shops and bakeries, Latin American stalls and money-transfer counters, the kind of high street that stays open late and serves three or four communities at once. Tottenham Town Bakery has traded from number 38 since 1973. The first Dyke and Dryden shop, the pioneering Black haircare business, opened on this same road. People rent here for years, and long lets in old flats are exactly the lets that leave the most behind at the end.
Pay attention to the check-out inventory. That single document, more than anything else, is what your money rides on.
The housing stock off West Green Road
Walk the streets between West Green Road and Philip Lane and you see the same thing again and again: two and three-storey Victorian and Edwardian terraces, brick fronts, bay windows, built in the 1880s and 1890s for single families and long since carved into flats. Black Boy Lane, Carlingford Road, Stanley Road, the streets running up towards Downhills Park, most of them. Haringey has one of the highest private-rental concentrations in London, and West Green is at the heavy end of that, with a dense mix of converted flats and houses in multiple occupation.
For a clean, the conversions throw up specific problems. Original features survive in a lot of them, and original features collect dirt in ways modern surfaces do not.
- Deep skirting boards and picture rails that hold a season of dust along the top edge.
- Sash windows in the front bays, where the runners and the glazing bars need doing by hand and the catch is usually painted half-shut.
- Original floorboards or worn parquet that has been varnished, then painted, then carpeted over by successive tenants.
- Tiled hallway floors near the front door, the encaustic Victorian sort, which need a gentle wash rather than a scour.
- Cupboards built into chimney breasts, dust traps that get skipped on a quick clean.
Hard water is the other constant. This corner of north London runs hard, so kettles fur up, taps cloud over and the bathroom builds a chalky film that a domestic spray barely touches. On an old flat that no tenant has descaled in two years, the bathroom alone can take an hour, and it is the first thing a sharp inventory clerk checks. We carry the proper descalers for it rather than hoping a supermarket spray will do.
HMOs are their own category. A house let room by room means shared kitchens and bathrooms that take a hammering, and a check-out clean on a room in an HMO is judged against the communal standard as well as the room. The grease in a kitchen used by five unrelated people is a different proposition from a single family’s hob, and we price and plan for that. The streets near Chestnuts Park and along St Ann’s Road carry a lot of this room-by-room letting, and the turnover is quick, so check-out cleans cluster there.
Newer stock exists too. West Green Place, the recent development on former council brownfield land that opened a new way into Downhills Park, added a run of contemporary flats to the area, and there are purpose-built blocks closer to Seven Sisters and the High Road. These clean faster, with flat surfaces and modern kitchens, but they have their own catch: developers and managing agents on new blocks often hold tenants to a sharper finish, and the inventory clerk will run a finger along things you would not expect. The finish has to match what the brochure promised.
Haringey licensing and why it affects your clean
This is the part that genuinely separates West Green from a flat two miles west in Crouch End, so it is worth getting right. West Green is a named ward inside Haringey’s selective licensing scheme.
Under that scheme, which the council brought in on 17 November 2022 for a five-year run, a landlord letting to a single household or to two unrelated sharers in West Green needs a selective property licence. The designated wards run across the Tottenham side of the borough: West Green, St Ann’s, Seven Sisters, South Tottenham, Tottenham Central, Tottenham Hale, Bruce Castle, Northumberland Park, White Hart Lane, Noel Park, Woodside, Bounds Green, Harringay and Hermitage & Gardens. On top of that, Haringey runs an additional HMO licensing scheme that went borough-wide on 17 June 2024, also for five years, catching shared houses and many converted blocks of flats. You can read the council’s rules on the Haringey property licensing pages.
Why does a cleaner care about any of this? Because a licensed property comes with conditions, and those conditions raise the bar at check-out. A licence holder has to keep the place in good repair and to a defined standard, and the inventory at the end of a licensed tenancy tends to be more thorough, because the landlord has more riding on getting it right. Agents managing licensed stock in Tottenham lean on a documented, checklist-based clean precisely so they can show the property was returned properly.
The wider law backs the tenant here. A deposit on an assured shorthold tenancy must sit in a government-approved protection scheme, and the rules on that, plus the changes coming through the Renters’ Rights Act 2025, mean a landlord cannot simply keep money for cleaning without evidence. If they want to deduct, they have to prove the flat came back dirtier than it went out, measured against the check-in inventory. A clean done to an agent checklist, with our paperwork behind it, is the counter-evidence.
One thing the rules will not let a landlord do is demand a professional clean as a blanket condition. The standard is that you return the flat as clean as it was when you moved in, fair wear and tear aside. We hear the confusion about this constantly. The honest position: if the flat was professionally cleaned at check-in, matching that without professional kit is very hard, which is why most tenants book the clean anyway.
There is a quieter reason licensing helps the tenant. Because a licensed landlord has to keep records and meet conditions or risk a fine, the better-run agents in West Green document the check-in properly, which gives you a clear baseline to be measured against later. A vague check-in favours the landlord. A detailed one, the sort licensing nudges agents towards, favours you, as long as your clean is up to scratch.
A licensed property comes with conditions, and those conditions raise the bar at check-out.
How cleaning deductions get disputed
Here is the process worth understanding before you hand the keys back, because most tenants only learn it after they have lost money. Cleaning is the most common single reason landlords try to deduct, and across the Tenancy Deposit Scheme it accounts for roughly 56% of all deposit disputes. It is not damage or missing furniture that trips people up. It is cleaning.
When a deduction is challenged, an adjudicator compares two documents: the cleanliness recorded at check-in and the cleanliness recorded at check-out. If the check-in report says the oven was spotless and the check-out says it was greasy, the landlord has a case. If the check-in was vague or undocumented, the landlord struggles to prove the flat came back worse. This is why a thorough check-in inventory protects you, and why our cleaning record sits neatly alongside it as evidence the other way.
You are not powerless if a deduction lands anyway. Each protection scheme runs a free alternative dispute resolution service, and you usually have three months from moving out to raise a claim. Photos, the check-in and check-out reports, and a receipt for a professional clean are the evidence that wins these cases. We give every customer the paperwork to show the flat was cleaned to an agent standard, which is precisely the document an adjudicator wants to see.
One pattern we see a lot in shared houses: a tenant cleans their own room to a high standard, then loses part of the deposit over the state of a communal kitchen they barely used. In an HMO the cleaning standard is read across the whole property, so a clean of the shared spaces matters as much as your own room. It is worth agreeing with housemates who handles what before everyone scatters.
Keep your own photos too. A few minutes on your phone the day you leave can be worth a few hundred pounds later.
Room by room, what the clean covers
The clean is a full deep clean of an empty flat, top to bottom, every room on site. Our cleaners bring all the supplies and equipment, and they work down the 57-point agent-approved checklist so nothing gets missed, because the items that get missed are the items that get charged. Here is roughly how it breaks down.
The kitchen. This is where most deposits are won or lost. Inside, outside and behind the oven, the hob and the extractor, the grill pan, the racks. Cupboards emptied and wiped inside and out, the tops degreased, the kickboards done. Sink and taps descaled, the splashback cleared, the floor scrubbed into the corners. In a hard-water area the kettle and the worktops scale up fast, and that limescale shows under an inventory clerk’s torch. The oven is the make-or-break item. A check-out will forgive a lot, but a greasy oven with baked-on carbon reads as neglect, and clerks open the door and look every single time.
The bathroom. Tiles and grout scrubbed, the showerhead and screen descaled, the toilet sanitised inside and out, the extractor fan dusted, the mirror and any glass left without a smear. Hard water again leaves a cloudy film on chrome and glass that a quick wipe never shifts; it takes the right product and some patience.
Living rooms and bedrooms. Every surface dusted from the picture rail down, skirting boards wiped, light fittings and switches cleaned, internal windows and sills done, mirrors and glass polished. Carpets hoovered thoroughly, including the edges by the bay where dust gathers. Wardrobes and any built-in cupboards cleared and wiped inside. In a period conversion the bay window is the slow part, with its sash runners, deep sill and the dust line that settles along the picture rail above head height.
Hallways and the rest. Cobwebs down, doors and frames wiped, banisters and any tiled hall floor cleaned, the front-door glass done. Skirting and switch plates throughout.
There are four things we need in place before we arrive, and they are the same four every reputable firm asks for. The flat needs working electricity and running hot water, so our equipment works and the bathroom can be done properly. The fridge and freezer need defrosting in advance, because a frozen, water-logged appliance cannot be cleaned on the day. And all personal belongings need to be out, since we clean an empty flat, not around your boxes. Meet those four and the 48-hour re-clean guarantee stands.
What it costs in West Green
Our end of tenancy prices are fixed by the size of the flat, not by the hour, and they include the cleaners, the products and the equipment. No surprise add-ons on the day.
- Studio flat: £156
- One-bedroom flat: £207
- Two-bedroom flat: £243
- Three-bedroom flat: £339
- Four-bedroom flat: £425
If you would rather book cleaners by the hour for a part-job, that is £30 per cleaner per hour, though for a check-out we usually steer people to the fixed price because it removes the risk of the clock running over.
Two add-ons earn their keep in these flats. Carpet cleaning is £36 a bedroom, £43 for a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bedroom flat, and it matters here because carpets in long-let conversions take a beating and the standard clean only hoovers them. Oven deep-cleaning runs to £77 for a single, £110 for a double and £114 for a range; on a kitchen shared by an HMO it is money well spent, given how much of the deposit decision hangs on that one appliance. You can read more on the oven cleaning service and the carpet cleaning service pages.
Why Tottenham tenants book us
We are on the books of 300+ letting agents, and a fair number of those manage stock across Tottenham and the wider Haringey patch. That matters in a practical way: when an agent already knows our checklist and our paperwork, the check-out goes smoothly, because they are not being asked to trust a stranger. Over the years we have helped tenants recover £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions. That figure is the whole point of the exercise.
The 48-hour re-clean guarantee is the part people ask about most, so to be plain about it: if the inventory clerk or the agent challenges the cleaning within three days of the check-out, we return and redo whatever they flagged, free. We can do that without flinching because the first-time pass rate is 97%, so the re-cleans are rare. The guarantee is there for the odd time a clerk is having a particularly thorough morning.
What the agent relationship really buys you is fewer arguments. A clerk who recognises the checklist tends to sign off cleanly, rather than hunting for reasons to query the work. We have built that recognition over a decade of jobs across north London, and Tottenham is a patch we cover constantly, so the agents managing flats off the High Road and around Seven Sisters have usually seen our cleans before.
We work seven days a week, weekends included, which suits the way tenancies actually end around here. Most check-outs land on a Friday or a Saturday, and a clean the day before is what you want. We will take a same-week booking when we have the slot, though at month-end the diary fills, so earlier is always safer.
Getting around West Green on the day
The practical headache in West Green is parking, and it shapes how we plan a job. Most of the terraced streets off West Green Road sit in controlled parking zones, and the bays fill early because so many of the houses are split into flats with more residents than kerb space. We tell cleaners straight which jobs are load-in-and-go and which have a bay nearby. If you are the tenant, clearing a permit or a visitor space for the morning genuinely speeds things up.
For cleaners who do not drive, the area is well connected. Seven Sisters is the nearest big interchange, with the Victoria line and the London Overground on the Lea Valley line, sitting between Stamford Hill and Bruce Grove. West Green Road itself is on the 41, 67, 230 and 341 bus routes, with the N41 running through the night, so a kit bag and a bus is a viable way to reach most of our jobs here.
West Green also sits at a junction of distinct areas, and which border your flat is near changes the run-in. To the north and west the streets climb towards the Harringay Ladder, the grid of parallel roads between Green Lanes and the railway. To the east lies Seven Sisters and the bottom of the High Road; to the north-east, Bruce Grove. Each has its own parking pattern, and a cleaner who knows the patch knows where a van can sit and where it cannot.
One more local quirk worth a mention. West Green Road shops keep long hours, the Turkish supermarkets especially, so on a Saturday clean the street outside is busy from early. It is not a problem, but it is the reason we like an early start and a cleared parking spot. Get those two right and the rest of the day looks after itself.
If your move crosses a boundary, our coverage runs straight into the neighbouring areas: end of tenancy cleaning in Seven Sisters and across South Tottenham, with the same checklist and the same prices. West Green sits inside the borough hub, so you can also see everything we cover on the Haringey end of tenancy page, or look further up the High Road in Tottenham.
End of tenancy versus a regular clean
People mix these up, and booking the wrong one costs money. A regular or one-off domestic clean is for a lived-in home: surfaces, floors, kitchen and bathroom freshened, the place left nice. An end of tenancy clean is different in purpose. It is judged against an inventory, it covers inside the appliances and cupboards, and it is built to pass a check-out, not to make a home feel tidy for the weekend.
A deep clean sits in between. It tackles built-up grime in a home you are staying in, the sort of reset you might book once a year, but it does not have to answer to a clerk with a checklist. If you are moving out of a West Green flat, the end of tenancy clean is the one tied to your deposit. If you have just moved in and the place was left rough, a deep clean is the better fit.
The short rule: moving out, book end of tenancy; staying put, book a deep or regular clean.
How to book, and what we need from you
Booking is a phone call. Ring 0333 555 2076 or email [email protected] with the flat’s size and postcode and roughly when your check-out is, and we will give you a fixed quote and a slot. We are based in south-west London at 255 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 8QS, and we cover West Green seven days a week.
Tell us a few things and the quote will be accurate. The number of bedrooms, whether you want the carpets and oven done as extras, and the date the keys go back. If a managing agent is involved and they have a particular checklist, mention it, because we will work to theirs as readily as our own.
Then it is on us. The cleaners arrive with everything, work the checklist, and if anything is flagged inside the 48-hour re-clean guarantee window we come back. You can also reach us through the contact page.
Moving-out jargon, explained
The end of a tenancy comes with its own vocabulary, and most of the arguments start with a word being misunderstood. A few of the ones that matter.
- Check-in inventory
- The report made at the start of the tenancy describing the flat’s condition and cleanliness, usually with photos. It is the baseline your check-out is measured against, so a detailed check-in is your friend.
- Check-out report
- The inspection at the end, comparing the flat to the check-in inventory. Cleaning deductions live or die on this document.
- Selective licence
- A Haringey requirement for many privately rented homes in West Green let to a single household or two sharers, in force since 17 November 2022, carrying repair and condition standards. Details on the council licensing pages.
- HMO
- A house in multiple occupation, let room by room to people who are not one household, with shared kitchen or bathroom. Most need an HMO licence, and in Haringey they fall under additional licensing borough-wide.
- Deposit protection
- The legal duty to hold your deposit in an approved scheme, with a free dispute service if you disagree with deductions. The basics are on GOV.UK.
West Green end of tenancy cleaning FAQs
How much does end of tenancy cleaning cost in West Green?
Prices are fixed by flat size, not by the hour. A studio is £156, a one-bedroom flat £207, two-bedroom £243, three-bedroom £339 and four-bedroom £425. Those figures include the cleaners, products and equipment, so there are no extras added on the day unless you book carpets or an oven deep-clean.
Do you guarantee I will pass the check-out inspection?
We hold a 97% first-time pass rate, and the clean is backed by our 48-hour re-clean guarantee. If the inventory clerk or letting agent flags the cleaning within three days of check-out, we return and redo whatever they raised at no charge.
Can my landlord force me to use a professional cleaning company?
No. The standard is that you return the flat as clean as it was at check-in, fair wear and tear aside, and a landlord cannot make a professional clean a blanket condition. In practice, if the flat was professionally cleaned when you moved in, matching that standard yourself is hard, which is why most tenants book it.
Why does Haringey selective licensing matter for my clean?
West Green is a named ward in Haringey’s selective licensing scheme, running since 17 November 2022. Licensed properties carry condition standards, so check-outs on them tend to be stricter and agents lean on a documented, checklist clean as proof the flat was returned properly.
Do you clean HMOs and shared houses in West Green?
Yes. A lot of the stock off West Green Road is let room by room, and we clean both individual rooms and the shared kitchens and bathrooms. Communal areas in a house in multiple occupation take heavy use, so we price and plan for the extra work they need.
What is included in the end of tenancy clean?
A full deep clean of the empty flat, top to bottom, against a 57-point agent-approved checklist. That covers inside and behind the oven and appliances, descaling the kitchen and bathroom, all cupboards inside and out, skirting boards, internal windows, light fittings, and hoovering carpets including the edges.
Is carpet cleaning included or is it extra?
The standard clean hoovers carpets but does not deep-clean them. Carpet cleaning is an add-on at £36 a bedroom, £43 for a living room, or £115 for a whole two-bedroom flat. In long-let conversion flats the carpets are often worn enough that the extra is worth booking.
How far in advance should I book?
As early as you can, especially for a Friday or Saturday slot, since most tenancies end at the weekend and those days fill first. A few days’ notice usually gets you the slot you want, but the diary tightens around month-end when several tenancies finish at once, so the more notice you give us the better. We will still take a same-week booking whenever we have the space.
Do I need to be there during the clean?
You do not have to stay, though someone needs to provide access and to collect the keys afterwards. Many tenants let us in, leave us to it, and come back to check at the end, while others hand the keys to the managing agent for us to collect on the day. Whatever suits your check-out arrangement is fine by us.
What do you need me to do before you arrive?
Four things: working electricity, running hot water, the fridge and freezer defrosted in advance, and all personal belongings removed. We clean an empty flat, so anything left behind cannot be cleaned around, and these four conditions also keep the 48-hour re-clean guarantee valid.
Do you clean the inside of windows or the outside too?
The end of tenancy clean covers the inside of windows and the sills as standard. Exterior window cleaning is a separate add-on for the times an inventory specifically calls for the outside of the glass to be done, which is more common on ground-floor flats and bays facing the street. Mention it when you book and we will quote for it.
How do I get my deposit back if the landlord still makes a deduction?
Your deposit must be held in a government-approved scheme, and each scheme runs a free dispute service. You usually have three months from moving out to raise a claim, and your check-in and check-out reports plus our cleaning record are the evidence that supports your case.
Do you cover the streets around West Green Road and Downhills Park?
Yes, the whole West Green area in N15 and N17, including the terraces around Black Boy Lane, Philip Lane and the streets near Downhills Park and Chestnuts Park. We also cover neighbouring Seven Sisters, South Tottenham, Bruce Grove and the rest of the Haringey borough, all on the same fixed prices and the same agent-approved checklist.
Are your prices the same for a converted flat as a new-build?
The price is set by the number of bedrooms, so a two-bedroom conversion and a two-bedroom new flat cost the same headline figure. Older conversions simply take our cleaners longer, which is built into the fixed price rather than charged on top.