On an Ashburnham Triangle flat the clerk goes straight for the picture rail and runs a finger along the top of it, because that grey line of dust is the most reliable deduction in the conservation streets west of Greenwich town centre. Two years of it welds into the paint and a Sunday wipe never lifts it. So this is what end-of-tenancy cleaning across West Greenwich has to do: match the early-Victorian detail the inventory itemises, beat the hard-water film on the chrome, and stand up to a clerk with a torch, at £30 per hour per cleaner with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee. Ring 0333 555 2076 for a price in about three minutes.
Last updated June 2026. We cover the SE10 streets west of the town centre: the Ashburnham Triangle, the roads off Greenwich High Road, the approaches to Greenwich station and the band running toward Deptford Creek. This page sits inside the borough directory at End of Tenancy Cleaning Greenwich.
A flat off Ashburnham Grove, last spring
Start with a real job, because it tells you more than a list of services does.
“We had the upper flat of an 1850s terrace just off Ashburnham Grove for three years, both of us out at work all week. I thought we had cleaned it properly. The clerk John Payne sent spent the first ten minutes on the picture rails and the cornice with a torch, then on the parquet in the front room, which had two years of grime ground into the grain. Those were the exact things I had skated over. Monster sent two cleaners, took the mouldings down with detail brushes, brought the floor back without flooding the boards, and photographed the lot. Full deposit back, no argument. About the price of a single week of our rent.”
Hannah, West Greenwich SE10, March 2026
That job is the West Greenwich pattern in one go. A long let, period detail the tenant never thinks about, original timber, a careful independent clerk, and a deposit worth a great deal more than the clean. What turned it was not only the scrubbing. It was the dated photo set that went out with the invoice, the thing a DIY check-out almost never has when the report comes back disputed. We will come back to each thread: the flat first, then the law, then the money.
How the check-in report quietly decides your deposit
Almost nobody is told the mechanism, and it is the whole game. When you moved into your West Greenwich flat, a clerk walked it and wrote a check-in report describing every surface, usually with close photographs, usually with “clean” or “as new” against the kitchen and bathroom. Those words were true that day, because the flat had just had a professional clean. At check-out a clerk walks it again and compares line by line. Anything materially worse than the check-in entry, past fair wear and tear, comes off your deposit. Cleaning is not wear and tear. A scuffed skirting after two years is arguable. A skirting with two years of dust baked into the paint is logged as a cleaning failure, plainly.
The money is not abstract. On the West Greenwich DIY check-outs we get called in to rescue, the deductions land in a familiar shape: roughly £85 to £130 on the oven, £80 to £160 on grout and hard-water scale, £60 to £110 for the gaps behind appliances, £150 to £350 on carpets where they are fitted, £80 to £200 for marks on walls and skirting. A two-bed upper flat in the Triangle lets for around £1,750 a month, the deposit is five weeks of that, and the sums make themselves. Most tenants only run them after they have tried, failed the check-out, and lost the first round. That order is a shame, because the first round is the cheap one to win.
Why does the clerk press so hard here? Because in West Greenwich the check-out is very often handled by an independent inventory clerk rather than the agent in person. The period stock and the long check-in reports mean the offices on Greenwich High Road lean on specialist clerks for the move-out visit. An independent clerk has no relationship with you and no reason to wave anything through. They work the report line by line and photograph what they flag. That is the standard our checklist is set against, not a friendly walk-round.
Why a Triangle terrace is harder to hand back than a new flat
The Ashburnham Triangle is the grid of streets bounded by Greenwich High Road, Blackheath Road and Greenwich South Street, made a conservation area in 1980 and named after the family who sold the land for housing in the mid-1800s. Ashburnham Grove, Ashburnham Place, Egerton Drive and the terraces around them are yellow London stock brick under slate, the earlier ones plain and parapet-fronted, the later ones with stuccoed door-cases and ornate window surrounds. Most have been carved into upper and lower flats over the decades. That history is exactly what makes the clean harder.
Every picture rail, dado, cornice, ceiling rose and panelled door is a ledge or a moulded recess that holds dust, and every one of those features gets named in a careful inventory. A flat in one of the newer infill blocks by the station or the creek has flat plaster and modern surfaces. A period terrace flat off Ashburnham Place has perhaps three times the dust-trapping detail, and the clerk knows it, so they look harder and they look higher. The original timber and parquet floors are the other trap: years of ground-in grime in the grain, on boards that warp or lift if you soak them, so they cannot be brought back with a mop and a bucket.
A studio behind Greenwich station and a four-storey terrace conversion off Egerton Drive share SE10 and almost nothing else about the clean. One method does not pass both, which is why the team that walks into a Triangle flat is briefed for the mouldings and the timber before they arrive.
A period terrace flat has perhaps three times the dust-trapping detail of a new flat, and the clerk looks higher.
What Thames Water leaves on a West Greenwich bathroom
SE10 is supplied by Thames Water, and the supply is hard. London water runs around 290 parts per million of calcium carbonate, well into the very-hard band, because it has soaked through the chalk under the Thames valley before it reaches your tap. You can read Thames Water’s hardness figures for the supply on thameswater.co.uk. What it means for a deposit is simple. Calcium builds on taps, mixer spouts, shower heads, screens and tile joints faster than tenants expect, and a cloth does nothing to it once it has set.
The clerk checks for it deliberately. They run a thumbnail down the tap, they look at the shower screen edge-on against the light, they pull the head in close, they lift the rim of the loo where the chalky ring hides. Hard-water scale that has bonded to chrome is not a quick job. It needs a proper descaling solution and dwell time, applied and left to work, then drawn off, which is one of the clearer differences between a normal clean and an end-of-tenancy clean. In the older flats up around the Triangle some of the fittings are original, so you cannot reach for the most aggressive descaler and walk away; it goes on carefully and gets watched.
Grout is the partner problem. Kitchen and bathroom grout decides more West Greenwich check-outs than anything to do with carpets. We scrub it back rather than wipe it, and where it is genuinely past saving, which happens in the long lets, we photograph the state before we touch it so the clerk cannot bill you for staining that was already there at check-in. That dated photo has settled more disputes than any argument has.
The 57 things we go through, room by room
Every West Greenwich booking runs to a 57-point agent-approved checklist built over a decade of local check-outs and mapped onto the line items clerks here actually work through. The flat gets cleaned in the order it gets inspected, not the order that feels natural. The full list comes with the job. Here is the shape of it.
The kitchen, where most of the deposit is decided
The oven is stripped, not wiped. Racks go in a soaking tank, the door glass is split apart so the brown film between the panes comes out, and the cavity, fan, element and seals are all done. Hob rings and burners come off, control knobs off and washed. The extractor hood is degreased inside and out and the filter soaked or swapped. Every cupboard inside and out, including the greasy strip along the top of the wall units that tenants never see and clerks always check. Fridge and freezer cleaned through once defrosted, and left open. Appliances pulled out so the gaps behind and under them are done, then put back. The washing machine drum, the detergent drawer out and scrubbed, and the door seal, which is the first thing a clerk opens. Dishwasher filter, seals and spray arms. Sink, taps, drainer and plughole descaled, because the hard water never gives that a miss. Tiles and grout scrubbed, then the floor.
Bathrooms, the second battleground
Scale comes off the taps, head, screen and tiles first, with dwell time and a careful hand on any original chrome. Grout is scrubbed back as far as honest effort takes it, and photographed first where it is clearly past saving. Then the rest, in plain order.
- Toilet done properly: inside, under the rim where the limescale ring hides, base, cistern, hinges, and behind the pedestal where nobody looks but the clerk
- Shower screen both sides, the tracks, and the sealant bead
- Bath, taps, the underside of the taps, overflow and plughole
- Mirror and cabinet, and behind them where they come away from the wall
- Extractor vent wiped and the silicone cleaned to a usable state (re-sealing is a handyman job, not a cleaning one)
- Floor into the corners, behind the loo and under the basin
Bedrooms, living rooms and the period detail
This is where a Triangle flat is won. Picture rails, dado rails, cornices, ceiling roses and the tops of door frames are taken down by hand with detail brushes, because these are the surfaces a clerk reaches up and runs a finger along in an early-Victorian flat. Inside every wardrobe, drawer and built-in cupboard. Skirting, door frames, doors, handles and finger plates. Light fittings, shades and switches. Window sills, the frames, and the deep period reveals on the inside; sash windows in the older terraces need slow careful work and there are a fair few of them. Radiators behind, under and on top, and the cast-iron ones take longer than a modern panel. Walls spot-wiped for marks, with a realistic line drawn, because nail holes and scuffs are a decorator’s bill and not yours to scrub away. Original timber and parquet washed with the right product for the board, lifting grime without flooding wood. Upholstery hoovered through.
Two of these often need a pass of their own. Professional hot-water extraction on carpets is written into a fair few SE10 tenancies as a hard requirement, which is what the carpet cleaning add-on covers on the same visit, though plenty of Triangle flats have stripped timber rather than carpet. Tired sofas in shared professional lets sometimes need full upholstery cleaning rather than a hoover.
One West Greenwich thing people forget: the threshold
In the split terraces around the Triangle your flat usually opens onto a shared communal stair. The inside face of your own front door, the architrave around it and the strip of skirting in the entrance lobby are all on your inventory even though they feel like communal space, and clerks photograph them on the way in. We clean that threshold zone as part of the job, not as an afterthought. Then a final walk-through, photographed before and after, every room. That photo set is the evidence you keep.
What 1 May 2026 changed for SE10 move-outs
The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 went live on 1 May 2026. Section 21 no-fault evictions are gone. Every existing assured shorthold tenancy in England has converted to a periodic tenancy, and a tenant can now give two months’ notice at any point rather than waiting for a fixed term to run out.
Here is the part people get wrong. The cleaning side of a move-out did not change at all. The check-in benchmark still applies. Your deposit is still held in a government scheme, a cleaning dispute is still settled on the documentary evidence, and the maths is exactly what it was the week before. What changed is timing. West Greenwich was already a high-churn pocket, full of one and two-year professional lets, and rolling notice makes the move-outs more frequent and less predictable. The month-end pile-up that already clogs SE10 is not going to ease. The dull takeaway pays for itself: book the clean earlier than you used to, because the slot you want will be gone if you wait.
One licensing note while we are on the law, because tenants ask. Royal Borough of Greenwich runs a borough-wide additional HMO licensing scheme that started on 1 January 2024, so a shared house in West Greenwich let to three or more unrelated people usually needs a licence. The council’s selective licensing of ordinary single-family rentals only covers the Woolwich and Plumstead wards, not the SE10 streets here, so a standard flat let in West Greenwich does not fall under it. None of that changes the clean, but it is worth knowing which side of the line your let sits on.
The cleaning side of a move-out did not change at all. What changed is timing.
What it costs, and the maths nobody runs in time
One flat rate by size. No survey, no per-room creep on the day.
| Property | Typical duration | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|
| Studio (infill flat near the station) | 3-4 hours, 1 cleaner | From £156 |
| 1-bed flat off Greenwich High Road | 4-5 hours, 1-2 cleaners | From £207 |
| 2-bed terrace conversion, Ashburnham Triangle | 5-7 hours, 2 cleaners | From £243 |
| 3-bed house or large period flat | 6-8 hours, 2 cleaners | From £339 |
| 4-bed terrace, Egerton Drive end | 8-10 hours, 2-3 cleaners | From £425 |
| Carpet add-on, where fitted | Same visit | From £36 a room |
| Oven-only, standalone | 1.5-2 hours | From £77 |
West Greenwich runs at our standard London pricing: £30 per hour per cleaner, with kit, products and travel inside SE10 included. Carpet cleaning, where a flat is carpeted, is £36 a bedroom, £43 a living room, or £115 for the whole carpeted area of a two-bed. Many period flats here have stripped timber and no carpet, so that add-on often does not apply. Those figures assume a flat in normal lived-in shape. A long tenancy with heavy wear, a pet household or somewhere that has not had a deep clean in years costs more, and we say so on the phone, not after.
Run the maths the way the deposit makes you. A two-bed at £243 to protect five weeks of West Greenwich rent is not really a decision. Every booking carries a 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if the clerk or agent flags any cleanliness issue inside 48 hours, we come back and redo it free, provided the flat is still as we left it with nobody moved in. Our 97% first-time pass rate is the average; the guarantee is the safety net, because a failed check-out where the deposit is over £2,000 is not a small thing. We work to the inventory standard of 300+ letting agents, including the West Greenwich names on Greenwich High Road like John Payne, Conran Estates and Peter James, and over the years that work has helped tenants keep £1.2m in deposits that would otherwise have gone on cleaning deductions.
Booking it, parking, and the shared-stair problem
The steps are short and we keep them short on purpose.
- Ring 0333 555 2076. Price in about three minutes. Give us the postcode, property size, check-out date, the floors (timber or carpet) and any known problem areas, and mention anything the check-in report marked “clean” or “as new”.
- We book you in, ideally the day before check-out with a buffer. Allow 7 to 10 days for a month-end slot, 3 to 5 days mid-month, because SE10 turns over hard at month-end.
- Flat empty when we arrive. Furniture out, belongings gone, rubbish cleared, so we can reach inside cupboards and wardrobes the inventory covers. We also do removals if you want the move and the clean on one booking.
- Photo proof at the end. Every room, before and after, with an itemised invoice on company paper. That is your evidence pack if the check-out tries to deduct.
- Check-out happens. Anything flagged inside 48 hours, we come back and fix it free.
Two practical notes for West Greenwich. First, parking. Much of the area west of the town centre is permit-controlled and the Triangle streets are narrow, so tell us the arrangement when you book, whether that is a visitor permit, a meter bay or a controlled-parking-zone slot. Greenwich station and the DLR sit on Greenwich High Road if the team comes in by rail, often the easier call on a tight terrace street. Second, access on a shared stair: confirm how we get in, whether that is a key with you, a key left with the agent, or a clerk who lets us in.
Add-ons, the pockets next door, and what is what
A West Greenwich move-out often pulls in more than the core clean. Carpet cleaning is the common one, sometimes a contractual line rather than an optional extra. Oven cleaning is in every end-of-tenancy job as standard, and also stands alone from £77 if that is all the agent flagged. The floor cleaning add-on is the one to ask about for the original timber and parquet in the Triangle period flats, one of the first things a clerk scrutinises. Window cleaning handles exterior glass an inventory sometimes asks for, and removals puts the move and the clean on one booking.
Three different jobs get muddled, and it is worth booking the right one.
- Check-in inventory report
- The document the clerk writes on day one describing every surface, with photos. It is the benchmark your check-out is judged against, which is why we clean to it and not to a general idea of “clean”.
- End-of-tenancy clean
- Built to pass that inventory and get a deposit back, against the agent’s benchmark, with the flat empty and the 48-hour guarantee on it, at £30 an hour per cleaner.
- Deep clean
- A deep clean resets a home you are keeping, lived-in, with no formal standard to hit, also from £30 an hour.
- Regular domestic clean
- A regular domestic clean is ongoing maintenance, from £22 an hour on a weekly visit.
West Greenwich is one pocket of a much bigger SE10. The World Heritage centre, the market and the Cutty Sark side is its own page at End of Tenancy Cleaning Greenwich Town, and the shops-and-Gloucester-Circus pocket is at End of Tenancy Cleaning Royal Hill. If your tenancy straddles the western edge toward the creek, we also cover End of Tenancy Cleaning Deptford and End of Tenancy Cleaning Greenwich Peninsula.
Questions we get asked
How much is an end of tenancy clean in West Greenwich?
A studio is £156, a one-bed £207, a two-bed £243, a three-bed £339 and a four-bed £425. That is a flat rate by size for SE10, not a from-price that climbs on the day, and it includes the oven. The usual extra is carpet cleaning where a flat is carpeted, priced separately.
Do you clean the period detail in Ashburnham Triangle flats?
Yes, and it is the part we focus on. Picture rails, dados, cornices, ceiling roses and the tops of door frames are taken down by hand with detail brushes, because in the early-Victorian terraces around Ashburnham Grove and Egerton Drive those are the surfaces a clerk checks by finger.
Can you bring back original timber and parquet floors?
Yes. Ground-in grime is lifted with the board in mind, without flooding old timber that warps or lifts if you soak it. On the conversions common in the Triangle the floor is one of the first things a clerk scrutinises, so it is treated carefully rather than simply mopped.
Why does hard water matter to my deposit here?
West Greenwich is on Thames Water and the supply is very hard, around 290 parts per million, so taps, screens, shower heads and the loo rim build a chalky film that shows up in close inventory photos. We descale those surfaces with a proper solution and dwell time, which a wipe-down does not do.
Is the oven included in the price?
Yes. A full oven clean, including the film between the door glass, is part of the end-of-tenancy price. As a standalone job it is £77 for a single, £110 for a double and £114 for a 90cm range, but inside an end-of-tenancy clean it is included.
What is the 48-hour re-clean guarantee?
If the clerk or agent flags a cleaning point within 48 hours of our clean, we come back and put it right at no charge, provided the flat is still as we left it with nobody moved in. That covers the window where the check-out actually happens, so a flagged item does not become a deduction.
Does the property need to be empty?
Yes, fully empty is strongly preferred. Furniture left behind blocks access and creates uncertainty at the check-out. A single piece left for the next tenant can be worked around, but the more that stays, the less complete the clean can be, and the inventory covers inside cupboards and wardrobes too.
Does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 change my deposit position?
From 1 May 2026 it ended Section 21 and moved existing assured shorthold tenancies onto periodic agreements, so notice is more flexible. It did not change the cleaning test. Your deposit is still scheme-held and a cleaning dispute is still decided on the check-in and check-out evidence. The practical effect in SE10 is more frequent, less predictable move-outs, so book early.
Do you work with my West Greenwich letting agent?
Most likely. We work to the inventory standard of 300+ letting agents across London, and in West Greenwich that includes the Greenwich High Road offices behind names like John Payne, Conran Estates and Peter James, plus several independents. The clean is built around their reports, not a generic idea of clean, and agent-specific requirements are briefed to the cleaners where they apply.
What happens if my landlord disputes the clean after a re-clean?
Escalate to the deposit scheme’s adjudication, whether that is the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, the DPS or mydeposits. Our invoice, dated photo report and re-clean record are admissible evidence, and a tenant with a complete professional-clean paper trail rarely loses. Shelter’s deposit guidance walks through the steps.
Do I need a property licence to let in West Greenwich?
If you are letting a shared house to three or more unrelated people, usually yes, under the borough-wide additional HMO scheme Royal Borough of Greenwich brought in on 1 January 2024. An ordinary single-family flat let in West Greenwich is not covered by the council’s selective licensing, which applies to the Woolwich and Plumstead wards rather than SE10. It does not affect the clean either way, but it is worth checking before you let.
How long does it take?
A studio or one-bed is usually a few hours; a three or four-bed period flat with full mouldings and original floors takes most of a day. We bring a team sized to the property so it is done in one visit, not spread over two days.
What if I only need part of the flat done?
We can work hourly at £30 per cleaner for partial jobs, say just the kitchen and bathroom. For a full inventory check-out the fixed end-of-tenancy price is usually better value and carries the 48-hour guarantee, which an hourly job does not.
How far ahead should I book in SE10?
Mid-month, three to five days is usually fine. The end and start of the month is busy across SE10 because tenancies turn over then, so for those windows give us 7 to 10 days. If your check-out date is fixed, booking a week ahead is the safe call.
Get a price
Call 0333 555 2076 and we price the job in about three minutes. Postcode, property size, check-out date, the floors, any known problem areas, that is the lot. Out of hours, send us a message or email [email protected] and someone calls you back first thing. A couple of WhatsApp photos of the kitchen and bathroom sharpen the quote on the bigger Ashburnham Triangle conversions. And if your check-out is tomorrow, ring anyway and we will do what we can.
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