A Westminster check-out, room by room
At the 2021 census 43.3% of households in the City of Westminster rented privately, against 30% across London, and most of them live in flats: mansion blocks in Maida Vale and Marylebone, stucco conversions in Bayswater and Pimlico, council-built estates and new towers by the canal. We clean them at fixed prices by size, from £156 for a studio to £425 for four bedrooms, with the oven and carpets as add-ons.
Last updated October 2026.
The ONS put Westminster’s average private rent at £3,196 a month in August 2026, and a one-bed at £2,548. A deposit of five weeks’ rent on a one-bed is close to £3,000, and the check-out report decides how much of it comes back. Below is a check-out in the order most inventory reports run, from the front door inwards, with what we clean in each room.
- Front door and hall
- The door both sides, the letterbox, the entryphone handset, light switches, the coat cupboard and the top of the door frame.
- Kitchen
- Inside every cupboard and drawer, the hob, the extractor hood and its filter, the splashback, the fridge and freezer, the dishwasher filter and the washing machine seal. Galley kitchens in older blocks are small, which makes grease on the wall cupboards easy to see.
- Bathroom
- Westminster is supplied by Thames Water, whose water passes through chalk and limestone and is hard. Scale builds on the shower screen, taps, shower head and the tiles at the waterline, and descaling them is part of the fixed price.
- Reception rooms and bedrooms
- Period flats carry cornices, picture rails, panelled doors, fireplaces and sash windows with deep sills. We clean the sills, the sash frames and the glass from inside, the shutters where there are any, skirting, radiators and inside the wardrobes.
- Floors
- Hard floors vacuumed and mopped, carpets vacuumed. If the tenancy has a carpet clause, add carpet cleaning to the booking (prices below).
The cleaners are vetted (each one is interviewed in person), insured and trained on our 57-point checklist. We have been cleaning London homes since 2014, more than 300 letting agents use us, and tenants have recovered £1.2m in deposits after our cleans. Our Google rating is 4.7. If the agent or clerk raises anything on our work within 48 hours, we come back and re-clean it free.
Prices for a flat or house in Westminster
The price is fixed by bedrooms. It covers an empty home in normal end-of-tenancy condition.
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio or bedsit | £156 |
| One-bed flat | £207 |
| Two-bed flat | £243 |
| Three-bed flat or maisonette | £339 |
| Four-bed flat or house | £425 |
| Five bedrooms or more | Quoted from the room count |
| Part job, one room in a share, unusual layout | £30 per cleaner per hour |
The calculator at the top of the page gives your total with add-ons, or call 0333 555 2076 between 8am and 7pm, any day. A large flat in Belgravia or a house in St John’s Wood with five or more bedrooms gets a fixed quote once we know the bedrooms, bathrooms and reception rooms.
Mansion blocks, estates, stucco conversions
Maida Vale is mansion-flat country. Lauderdale Mansions were finished in 1897, Elgin Mansions and Leith Mansions in 1900, Castellain Mansions in 1902 and Randolph Court in 1910, red brick on tree-lined avenues with shared gardens behind; more than nine in ten households in the area live in flats.
These flats have long corridors, high ceilings and original doors, and the clerk will look at the door tops and the picture rails as closely as the kitchen. Our Maida Vale page covers the blocks there in more detail.
Pimlico has two of the best-known council estates in Britain. Churchill Gardens, built between 1946 and 1962 to designs by Powell and Moya, has about 1,600 homes in 32 blocks, and its district heating system still supplies heat and hot water; it was first fed by waste heat from Battersea Power Station across the river.
Lillington Gardens, by Darbourne and Darke, went up in phases from 1961 to 1971 and is listed Grade II*. A flat on the district heating has no boiler of its own, so check the estate’s hot water is running on the day. More on that side of the city is on our Pimlico page.
Between them sit the stucco terraces of Bayswater and Pimlico, mostly cut into flats, and the Georgian streets of Marylebone, where a let may be a mews house or a flat over a shop. The council has designated 56 conservation areas, so original joinery and fireplaces are common on inventories.
North of Paddington station, the newer blocks round Paddington Basin have none of that period detail, and in a Paddington new build the work is in the fitted kitchen and the glass.
A three-person flat share in Vincent Square ward still needs an HMO licence even though the selective scheme does not reach it.
Licensing in 15 of the city’s 18 wards
Westminster City Council started selective licensing on 24 November 2025. Landlords of privately rented homes in 15 of the city’s 18 wards now need a licence for each property. Designation 1 covers Abbey Road, Church Street, Harrow Road, Knightsbridge and Belgravia, Little Venice, Maida Vale, Queen’s Park and Westbourne. Designation 2 covers Bayswater, Hyde Park, Lancaster Gate, Marylebone, Pimlico North, Regent’s Park and the West End. That leaves St James’s, Vincent Square and Pimlico South outside the selective scheme.
Separately, the council renewed its additional HMO licensing for five years from 31 August 2026. It applies across the whole city wherever three or more people from two or more households share a kitchen or bathroom, which takes in flat shares, bedsits and some converted flats. A three-person flat share in Vincent Square ward still needs an HMO licence even though the selective scheme does not reach it.
None of this changes your check-out. The licence is the landlord’s duty, and you are still judged against the check-in inventory, with fair wear and tear allowed. The council’s announcement of the scheme sets out the wards.
No visitor permits: parking and access on the day
Westminster does not run an on-street visitor permit scheme. The council tells visitors to use pay-to-park bays, or single yellow lines outside controlled hours, so you cannot buy a permit for our van as you can in most boroughs. Much of the city also falls inside the Congestion Charge zone. Where we pay to park or pay the charge to reach you, the cost goes on the quote at what it costs us.
Many blocks have rules of their own. Tell us when you book if the porter needs a name in advance, if the service lift has to be reserved, or if contractors may only arrive after a set time. Tell us too how the cleaner gets into the building. The flat should be empty, with the electricity and hot water on and the fridge defrosted the night before.
End-of-month dates book up first, so a week’s notice helps. Westminster is one of the boroughs on our end of tenancy cleaning London page, which lists every area we cover.
Adding the oven or carpets
The oven is never part of the fixed price. Added to the end of tenancy clean, a single or single wide oven is £31, and a double or a 90cm range cooker £62. If you only need the oven, the standalone service is on our oven cleaning in Westminster page.
Carpets booked with the clean cost £29 per bedroom, £36 for the living room, £47 for a through lounge, £35 for a flight of stairs, £20 for a hallway and £8 for a landing. A mansion flat’s long hallway counts as one hallway. Carpet-only jobs are on the carpet cleaning Westminster page, and if you are staying in the city and want a regular cleaner, see domestic cleaning in Westminster, from £69 for a three-hour visit.
Westminster end of tenancy FAQs
My flat is in Vincent Square ward. Does selective licensing apply?
No. Vincent Square, St James’s and Pimlico South are the three wards outside the 2025 selective scheme. If you share with two or more people from other households, the citywide HMO licensing still applies to your landlord.
The porter wants contractor details before anyone arrives. Can you give them?
Yes. Tell us the building’s rules when you book, including any service lift booking or start time, and we plan the day around them.
My Churchill Gardens flat has no boiler. Is that a problem?
No. Hot water comes from the estate’s district heating, so the cleaner only needs it running when they arrive. Leave the electricity on too.
Do you clean shutters and sash windows in a period flat?
Yes. Shutter faces, sash frames, sills and the glass from inside are on the checklist and in the fixed price.
Our Belgravia house has six bedrooms. How is it priced?
Homes above four bedrooms are quoted from the room count. Give us the bedrooms, bathrooms, reception rooms and floors, and we fix the price before you book.