End of tenancy cleaning in Wimbledon’s rented streets
From the period houses of Hillside on the slope below the Ridgway to the terraces around Dundonald Park and the new flats along The Broadway, our end of tenancy cleaning in Wimbledon is priced by bedrooms: £156 for a studio up to £425 for a four-bedroom house. If the letting agent or check-out clerk flags anything within 48 hours, the cleaners go back and clean it again at no charge.
Last updated October 2026.
Wimbledon rents more than almost anywhere else in the borough. A housing stock study done for Merton Council in 2022 estimated that 46.9% of homes in Hillside ward were privately rented, the highest share of Merton’s 20 wards; Wimbledon Town and Dundonald came in at 39.2%, against 34% for Merton overall.
The ONS put Merton’s average rent at £2,172 a month in August 2026, 5.4% up on a year earlier, with flats at £1,931 and terraced houses at £2,462. Lots of lets means lots of check-outs, and a clerk on a let at those rents reads the inventory line by line.
Hillside: tall houses on the Ridgway slope
End of tenancy cleaning
from £156
For a studio, fixed by property size, agreed before we start.
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Hillside ward takes in much of the slope between the Ridgway and Worple Road, west of the town centre. Merton’s conservation area appraisal dates the first roads south of the Ridgway (Hillside, Sunnyside and Berkeley Place, all cul-de-sacs) to the 1850s, and the slope is the reason they stop where they do: further west it got too steep to build down to Worple Road.
Thornton Road followed in the 1870s and 1880s, and its lower end has pairs of four-and-a-half storey houses whose front doors sit at the top of long flights of steps.
That is the Hillside job in one picture. Tall Victorian houses, some now split into flats, plus villas, terraced cottages and mansion blocks on the rising streets west of Worple Road, as Merton’s 2021 character study describes them.
A top-floor flat means carrying the vacuum, the steam kit and the products up three or four flights, and a basement flat often means a kitchen with little daylight where grease is easy to miss until the clerk turns on a torch. Tell us the floor when you book; it changes how long the job takes more than the bedroom count does.
Dundonald, The Broadway and the newer flats
South of the railway the streets flatten out. Dundonald is the residential pocket around Dundonald Park and Dundonald Road tram stop, which opened in 2000 on the line from Wimbledon to Croydon. Merton’s character study calls it quiet Victorian and Edwardian streets, with the biggest plots and greenest feel to the south east, and the Wimbledon College of Arts campus on its edge.
In a terrace of that age the kitchen is usually in the back addition with the bathroom above it, and that back half of the house is where the clean takes longest.
Nearer the station, the gridded terraces south of The Broadway mix with blocks of flats on and behind the main road. The newest is Wimbledon Place at 200 The Broadway, on the stretch heading towards South Wimbledon, where Thornsett built a new YMCA (finished in 2023) and is completing 135 flats in 2026.
New-build check-outs have their own habits: fob access, a managing agent’s list of what must be done, integrated appliances behind matching doors and a lot of glass in the shower. Send us the building’s check-out list if you have one and the cleaners will work to it.
Wimbledon end of tenancy prices
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| Studio | £156 |
| One bedroom | £207 |
| Two bedrooms | £243 |
| Three bedrooms | £339 |
| Four bedrooms | £425 |
| Five bedrooms or more | Quoted from the room count |
| Part job | £30 per cleaner per hour |
The price is the same in Hillside, Dundonald or the town centre. Add-ons cost less with the end of tenancy clean than on their own. Carpets are £29 a bedroom, £36 a living room, £47 a through lounge, £35 a flight of stairs, £20 a hallway and £8 a landing. The oven is never part of the base price: £31 for a single, £62 for a double, £31 for a single wide oven, £62 for a 90cm range cooker.
If the street needs paid parking, we add what it costs us on the quote. The price calculator at the top of the page gives your figure in a minute, or call 0333 555 2076 from 8am to 7pm, any day. For carpets or the oven on their own, see carpet cleaning Wimbledon and oven cleaning Wimbledon.
Room by room, in very hard water
Thames Water supplies SW19, and the water is very hard, around 255 mg/l of calcium carbonate by the published figures for the postcode. In practice that means a white crust on the shower screen within weeks, scale round the base of every tap and a kettle that rattles. Clerks write scale up as dirt, so the cleaners descale as standard, on glass, chrome, tiles and the toilet bowl’s waterline.
The rest of the 57 points follow the order a clerk checks. In the kitchen: inside every cupboard and drawer, the hob, the extractor and its filter, tiles behind the cooker, the sink, the fridge and freezer (switched off and defrosted beforehand), the washing machine seal and drawer. In the bathroom: grout, screen tracks, the extractor cover, under the rim.
Then every room in turn, top down: light switches, door frames, skirting, radiators, sills, inside wardrobes, and the floor last. The home needs to be empty with the electricity and hot water on. A clean cannot remove damage; a burn or a chipped tile goes on the report as a repair.
Clerks write scale up as dirt, so the cleaners descale as standard.
Deposit rules and Merton’s licensing
Your landlord must protect your deposit in one of the government-backed schemes within 30 days of receiving it. If a cleaning deduction looks unfair, each scheme runs a free dispute service, and the adjudicator compares the check-in and check-out reports. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 stops a landlord insisting you pay for a professional clean; what you owe is a home as clean as it was when you moved in, less fair wear and tear.
Licensing in Wimbledon is lighter than people expect. Merton’s additional HMO licensing (from 24 September 2023 for five years) covers only seven wards in the east of the borough, Colliers Wood among them, and selective licensing only four; none of them is a Wimbledon ward. The mandatory licence still applies anywhere to a house of five or more sharers. Planning is where things moved this year.
An immediate Article 4 direction took effect on 24 March 2026 across 13 more wards, including Hillside, Village, Wimbledon Park and Wimbledon Town and Dundonald, so turning a family house into a small shared house there now needs planning permission. The consultation on making it permanent closed on 19 June 2026 and Merton is still reviewing the responses; the council’s Article 4 page has the current position.
Booking round the tennis and Wimbledon’s CPZs
Wimbledon station has the District line, South Western Railway, Thameslink and the tram, so getting a team here is easy. Parking is harder. Merton runs 15 controlled parking zones in and around the town centre; most operate Monday to Saturday, 8.30am to 6.30pm, while W3 and W4 run until 11pm and on Sunday afternoons. If you have a visitor permit, keep one back for the van.
The Championships fortnight at the turn of June and July is the other thing to plan round. Roads near the All England Club fill with visitors and the queue for the grounds. If your check-out falls in those weeks, book early and ask for a morning start. The last few days of any month go first too, so allow a week.
Merton’s character study describes Worple Road as the spine from the town centre out to Raynes Park; the price there is the same as in town. Every other area we cover in the borough is on the end of tenancy cleaning Merton page. Staying in your home and just want it kept on top of? Regular visits are on the domestic cleaning Wimbledon page, from £23 an hour weekly.
Wimbledon tenants’ questions
Does a large Hillside house cost more than the bedroom price?
A four-bedroom house is £425. Houses with more bedrooms, extra reception rooms or a basement flat let separately are quoted from the room count, and we give you the figure before you book.
My tenancy ends during the Wimbledon fortnight. Can you still come?
Yes. Book as early as you can, ask for a morning slot and tell us the nearest place a van can stop. Roads close to the grounds are the slowest to reach in those two weeks.
Does my shared house in Dundonald need an HMO licence?
Only if five or more people from more than one household live there, which brings in the mandatory licence. Merton’s additional licensing does not cover Wimbledon Town and Dundonald. A new shared house there now needs planning permission under the March 2026 Article 4 direction.
What happens if the agent says the clean was not good enough?
Tell us within 48 hours of the clean and we send a cleaner back to put right whatever the agent or clerk flagged, free. If a deduction still looks wrong after that, use your deposit scheme’s dispute service.
Do I need to be there while you clean?
No. As long as the cleaners can get in and the home is empty, you can be elsewhere. A 50% deposit holds your date, and the rest is due once the clean is done.