End of tenancy cleaning in Whetstone, N20
Whetstone’s lets are mostly of two kinds, flats in the converted office towers on the High Road and the inter-war semis behind it, and the end of tenancy clean for either is a fixed price by size: £156 for a studio, £243 for a two-bed flat, £425 for a four-bedroom house. Below is the check-out inspection room by room; if the agent or clerk flags anything within 48 hours, we send the cleaners back free.
Last updated October 2026.
What the check-out clerk looks at, room by room
End of tenancy cleaning
from £156
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
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An inventory clerk walks the home with the check-in report in hand and notes every difference. Most start in the kitchen, so we do too.
In the kitchen the clerk opens the oven, lifts the hob grates and pulls the extractor filter. They check the fridge seals, the freezer drawer, the cutlery tray, the washing machine soap drawer and the floor where the bin stood.
In a newer flat with integrated appliances behind matching doors, every door front and handle gets the same scrutiny as the oven. In a 1930s semi the kitchen has often been extended at the back, and grease builds up on the tops of the wall units and around the garden door.
In the bathroom, scale is the first thing a clerk sees in N20, because the water is hard (more on that below). Taps, shower head, screen, tiles and the toilet bowl all get descaled; grout is scrubbed and the extractor grille wiped. A flat with an internal bathroom and no window usually has mould in the silicone, and the clerk will photograph it.
Bedrooms and the living room come next: skirting boards, door tops, switches, sockets, radiators, sills and the inside of the glass. In a flat high up a tower, the clerk checks the window tracks and frames as well as the panes. Wardrobes and drawers get emptied and wiped inside, and carpets are vacuumed while hard floors are washed last.
On the way out, in a semi, the clerk runs a hand along the banister and looks at each stair edge, where dust and fluff gather against the carpet gripper. In a block, they open the meter cupboard and the storage cupboard by the front door.
What the clerk records as damage stays on the report however well the home is cleaned. A scorch on the worktop or a chipped bath is a repair, and fair wear and tear is not a cleaning matter at all.
Whetstone end of tenancy prices
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| One-bedroom flat | £207 |
| Two-bedroom flat or house | £243 |
| Three-bedroom house | £339 |
| Four-bedroom house | £425 |
| Part job, single room or unusual layout | £30 per cleaner per hour |
The fixed price covers the empty home, including cupboards inside and out and descaling. If the van needs a paid bay on the day, we add what it costs us and show it on your quote. You can work out your own figure on the price calculator at the top of this page, or ring 0333 555 2076 any day from 8am to 7pm.
The rents behind the deposits are high. The ONS put Barnet’s average private rent at £1,949 a month in August 2026, with a one-bed at £1,500, a two-bed at £1,858 and a three-bed at £2,256. Deposits are capped at five weeks’ rent, so on an average Barnet two-bed the deposit at stake is over two thousand pounds.
High Road towers and inter-war semis
Barnet’s own character study puts the original village around Swan Lane and the High Road, the old Great North Road (now the A1000). Away from that strip, most of the housing is inter-war: two-storey semis on ordinary connected streets with front and back gardens. Those are the family lets, and at three or four bedrooms they are the longest cleans in the area.
The High Road also has two 1960s office towers, one converted to flats and one approved for conversion. Northway House, near the North Finchley end, was converted by Redrow into 148 flats, completed in May 2017, with one, two and three-bedroom apartments and a penthouse.
Barnet House, the 12-storey Richard Seifert tower at 1255 High Road that was once Barnet Council’s offices, won planning approval on appeal in May 2022 to become 260 flats, 32 of them affordable. Between them they add a few hundred flats to the High Road. Tell us the building and the floor, and book the lift if the managing agent asks for that.
Renting has grown faster here than across London. At the 2021 census 32.7% of Barnet households rented privately, up 7.1 points in a decade and above the London figure of 30%.
Water is the other local factor. Barnet is split between Affinity Water and Thames Water, and the supply from both is hard. White scale builds on chrome and glass within weeks, and an inventory clerk writes it down as dirt, so descaling is part of every Whetstone clean at no extra charge.
Scale is the first thing a clerk sees in N20, because the water is hard.
Barnet licensing for N20 lets
Barnet runs a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for houses in multiple occupation, in force since 27 October 2022 for five years. It covers homes let to three or more people from two or more households, plus some converted blocks of flats; the national mandatory licence still covers the larger HMOs. Since 29 May 2016 a borough-wide Article 4 direction has also meant that turning a family house into a small shared house needs planning permission.
There is no selective licensing in Whetstone. Barnet consulted from 15 June to 15 September 2026 on a scheme for ten wards, and the neighbouring Friern Barnet ward is on that list; Whetstone ward, created in 2022 from parts of the old Brunswick Park, Oakleigh and Totteridge wards, is not.
A house or flat let to one household here needs no council licence, though the landlord should watch for the council’s decision on Friern Barnet if they let across the boundary. For a shared house, book each room and a share of the kitchen and bathroom by the hour, and let the last sharer out book the rest.
Parking and access around the station
Totteridge and Whetstone station, on Totteridge Lane, is on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line in zone 4. It still has flights of stairs to both platforms and no step-free access, which matters if you are moving boxes by Tube. Oakleigh Park station, on the east side, has Great Northern trains to Moorgate and Welwyn Garden City.
Our cleaners arrive by van, and the streets near the station are in a permit zone. Barnet extended the Totteridge and Whetstone controlled parking zone on an experimental basis in March 2025 and made it permanent from 31 May 2026.
On the streets added in 2025, including Swan Lane, The Mount, Baxendale, St Margarets Avenue, Manus Way and Blakeney Close, permit restrictions apply from 2pm to 3pm, Monday to Friday, and pay-by-phone bays run from 8am to 6.30pm, Monday to Saturday. If you live inside the zone, a visitor permit for the van covers that afternoon hour; otherwise we use a pay bay and add the cost.
If you are moving between Whetstone and Totteridge, across the Dollis Brook, or one stop south to Woodside Park, the same booking details apply. Give us the postcode, the number of bedrooms, your check-out date, the floor and whether there is a lift.
Oven, carpet and other extras
The oven is an add-on: £31 for a single or a single wide oven, and £62 for a double or a 90cm range cooker. See our oven cleaning page if you only need the oven.
Booked with the clean, carpet cleaning costs £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing, less than our standalone carpet cleaning prices. Read your tenancy agreement for a carpet clause first. In a semi, the stairs and landing are where wear shows.
Not moving out? A deep clean is £26 per cleaner per hour (two cleaners for at least three hours, from £186), and domestic cleaning visits run from £69 for three hours. We have been cleaning since 2014 and work with more than 300 letting agents; the end of tenancy cleaning Barnet page covers the rest of the borough.
Whetstone end of tenancy FAQs
Can you clean a flat in Northway House or the Barnet House conversion?
Yes. Tell us the building, the floor and the flat number when you book, and check with the managing agent whether the lift needs booking. A one-bed is £207 and a two-bed £243.
Does my Whetstone landlord need a selective licence?
Not at present. Barnet has no selective scheme in force, and Whetstone ward was not among the ten wards in the 2026 consultation. Shared houses need an HMO licence under the borough-wide scheme.
How do you park near Totteridge and Whetstone station?
The permit hour on the zone streets is 2pm to 3pm on weekdays. A visitor permit from you is the simplest answer; otherwise we use a pay bay and put the cost on the quote.
What does a four-bed semi off the High Road cost?
£425 for the clean. Add the oven and any carpets the inventory lists, such as £35 for a flight of stairs and £8 for the landing.
What happens if the clerk is not happy?
Send us what the agent or clerk flagged within 48 hours and the cleaners come back and re-clean it free.