Kensington and Chelsea · SW7 · End of tenancy
South Kensington End of Tenancy Cleaners — SW7, Kensington and Chelsea
End of tenancy cleaners for South Kensington (SW7) in Kensington and Chelsea. We take on tenant, landlord and letting-agent bookings across SW7, and we price the job around what this stock is: grand stucco terraces in lateral flats, mansion blocks and embassy buildings.
- 72-hour deposit-back re-clean guarantee
- Agent-approved checklist and photo record
- Oven deep clean included — never an add-on
- Fixed price: parking, permits and ULEZ inside it
The service, locally
End of tenancy cleaning in South Kensington SW7
Kensington and Chelsea is one of London's higher-churn rental boroughs at 39.6% private rented, so SW7 tenancy cleans are booked around the agent's inventory slot and often turned around in a single day.
Access and parking here: Museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions.
- Studio check-out from
- £165Studio check-out from
- Kensington and Chelsea privately rented
- 39.6%Kensington and Chelsea privately rented
- Re-clean guarantee
- 72hrRe-clean guarantee
- Households in borough
- 66,884Households in borough
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Your fixed price band
£285–£330
Typically 5–7 hrs on site. Oven deep clean is always included.
- Congestion Charge and ULEZ both apply at this address — both are already inside the band above.
- Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea parking permits are arranged and paid for by us, not added to your invoice.
- Includes the 72-hour re-clean guarantee if the check-out report flags cleaning.
Check-out cleaning in this postcode
How an South Kensington SW7 check-out actually works
- Tell us the property size and check-out datePick studio to 5-bed, say whether it is furnished or empty, and give us the date the keys go back. No survey and no site visit.
- Get a fixed price, on screenThe price is fixed against the property size and add-ons you choose. Parking, permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge are already inside it.
- Book your slot, often within 48 hoursMost London check-outs are booked within 48 hours, including weekends. Peak weeks in late June to September fill fastest.
- Full room-by-room clean against the agent checklistA DBS-checked team works the inventory list: oven interior, appliance seals, limescale, cupboard interiors, skirtings, sockets, window tracks, floors.
- Photos, checklist and a free re-clean if flaggedYou get a photo record and the completed checklist to send your agent. If the check-out report flags cleaning within 72 hours, we return and re-clean those items free.
Why Hello Services
What South Kensington tenants and landlords get from us
Deposit-back re-clean guarantee
If the check-out report raises a cleaning issue within 72 hours of our visit, send us the report and we return to re-clean those items free of charge. No quibbling, no second invoice.
Agent and landlord approved checklist
We clean to the same room-by-room list independent inventory clerks work from, and you get the completed checklist plus a photo record to forward to your agent.
DBS-checked, insured cleaners
Every cleaner is identity-checked, reference-checked and DBS-screened, and we carry £5m public liability plus treatment risk cover. Certificates on request before the visit.
All equipment and products included
Teams arrive with an oven dip tank, HEPA vacuum, steam unit, acid-safe descaler and a colour-coded microfibre system. You do not need to leave anything behind for us.
Oven and appliance deep clean as standard
The oven interior, racks, door glass, hob and extractor filters are inside the price on every tenancy clean — never a bolt-on, because it is the first thing the clerk opens.
Kensington and Chelsea turnarounds, inventory-clerk standard
With 39.6% of Kensington and Chelsea households privately renting, we work to the check-out report itself — appliance interiors, seals, filters, tracks and limescale — and can turn a SW7 flat around between tenancies in a single day.
The checklist
Everything we clean room by room
Kitchen
- Oven interior, roof, sides and base degreased
- Racks, trays and shelf runners dip-tank cleaned
- Oven door glass split and cleaned inside
- Hob, burners, pan supports and control knobs
- Extractor hood, canopy and filters degreased
- Fridge and freezer defrosted, drawers, shelves and seals
- Washing machine drawer, seal and filter
- Dishwasher filter, seal and spray arms
- Microwave inside, outside and turntable
- All cupboard and drawer interiors and runners
- Worktops, splashback tiles and grout
- Sink, drainer, taps and plughole descaled
- Bin recess and under-sink area
- Kickboards, skirtings and floor edges
Bathroom and WC
- Limescale removed from shower screen and glass
- Taps, shower head and hose descaled
- Tiles and grout scrubbed and rinsed
- Bath, basin and shower tray
- Toilet bowl, rim, seat, hinges and cistern
- Extractor fan cover and vent
- Mirrors, cabinet interiors and shelves
- Towel rails, radiators and pipework
- Sealant lines wiped and checked
- Floor washed to the edges and behind the pedestal
Bedrooms and living areas
- Skirting boards wiped along their full length
- Sockets, switches and thermostat faces
- Doors, frames, handles and top edges
- Wardrobe, drawer and shelf interiors
- Radiators front, back and valves
- Cobwebs, ceiling corners and light fittings
- Picture rails, cornices and dado where fitted
- Mirrors and internal glass
- Behind and under freestanding furniture
Floors
- Full HEPA vacuum including edges and under furniture
- Hard floors mopped with the right product for the finish
- Carpet traffic-lane treatment (steam extraction as an add-on)
- Stairs, landings and stair edges
- Door thresholds and floor vents
Windows and doors
- Internal glass cleaned streak-free
- Window frames, sills and handles
- Window tracks and drainage channels cleared
- Trickle vents wiped
- Front and back door glass, frames and letterplate
Not included
- Exterior windows above ground floor without access equipment
- Garden clearance, jet washing and green-waste removal
- Mould caused by damp or disrepair — that is a landlord repair, not a clean
- Items, furniture or rubbish left in the property (we can quote a clearance)
- Repainting, filling holes or making good damage
- Loft, cellar or garage contents unless booked as an add-on
- Communal hallways, stairs and bin stores outside your demise
- Curtain and blind laundering (blinds are dusted, not washed)
Fixed prices
End of tenancy prices in South Kensington SW7
| Property size | Furnished | Unfurnished | Typical time | What's included |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | £185 | £165 | 3–4 hrs | Full check-out clean: oven interior, hob, extractor filters, fridge and freezer, all cupboard interiors, bathroom descaled, floors, skirtings and internal glass. |
| 1 bedroom | £225 | £199 | 4–5 hrs | Everything in the studio clean plus wardrobe and drawer interiors, bedroom skirtings, sockets and switches, window tracks and sills. |
| 2 bedroom | £285 | £255 | 5–7 hrs | Two-cleaner team, both bedrooms, all appliances inside and out, second WC or ensuite where present, hallway and internal doors. |
| 3 bedroom | £350 | £315 | 6–8 hrs | Team clean to inventory standard including stairs, landings, two bathrooms, radiators, cobwebs and full appliance strip-down. |
| 4 bedroom | £425 | £385 | 8–10 hrs | Full team, whole house, every appliance, all internal glass, utility room, loft-room bedrooms and second kitchen where fitted. |
| 5 bedroom+ | £495 | £445 | 9–12 hrs | Large-house and HMO check-out clean: all bedrooms, shared kitchens, multiple bathrooms, communal hallways inside the demise. |
All prices are in GBP and are the price you pay. Domestic end-of-tenancy cleaning is supplied VAT-free where the cleaner is self-employed; landlord and letting-agent contracts invoiced through the company are quoted plus VAT at 20%.
Add-ons and local costs
What can change the price in South Kensington SW7
| Add-on | From | Time | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carpet steam cleaning | £45 | 30–45 min / room | Hot-water extraction with pre-spray, traffic-lane and pet treatment; the receipt agents ask for. |
| Upholstery cleaning | £75 | 45–60 min | Extraction clean with fabric test patch and deodoriser; armchairs from £35. |
| Exterior window cleaning | £60 | 1–2 hrs | Reach-and-wash glass, frames and sills to third floor. Above that needs access equipment. |
| Balcony or patio clean | £45 | 45–60 min | Decking or tile wash-down, railings, glass balustrade and drain clear. |
| Single oven deep clean | Included | included | Dip-tank clean of racks and trays, door glass split and cleaned — standard on every tenancy clean, never an add-on. |
| Double oven or range | £35 | +45–90 min | Range cookers, double ovens and Agas need extra dip time and a second technician pass. |
| Fridge-freezer defrost | £25 | +60 min | Defrost, drawer and seal clean, drip-tray flush. Turn it off 24 hours before if you can. |
| Heavy limescale treatment | £30 | +45 min | Extended acid-safe descaler contact time on screens, taps, tiles and toilet — London water is hard everywhere. |
| Mattress clean | £40 | 30–45 min | Extraction clean and sanitising both sides; often requested for furnished lets. |
| Garage, loft or store | £55 | 1–2 hrs | Sweep-out, cobwebs, shelving wipe-down. Waste removal is quoted separately. |
- Parking and permits
- Museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions. Any permit, suspension or dispensation in Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's zone is arranged and paid for by us.
- Controlled parking hours
- Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea operates controlled parking across most of Kensington and Chelsea; we check the exact street's hours at booking so the team is not moving the van mid-clean.
- Congestion Charge
- Part of Kensington and Chelsea sits inside the Congestion Charge zone. The charge is inside your fixed price — it is never added afterwards.
- ULEZ
- Every Hello Services vehicle is ULEZ-compliant, so there is no ULEZ line on your invoice anywhere in London.
- Walk-up access
- Lift or ground-floor access here, so no stair-carry allowance is needed in the timing.
- Concierge and lift booking
- No managed-building sign-in needed at most addresses here; tell us at booking if yours differs.
- Same-day and next-day
- Next-day slots carry no premium. Genuine same-day call-outs are +£40 when a check-out moves at short notice, subject to a team being free.
Deposit protection
What loses deposits in South Kensington and how we stop it
- Oven interior, racks and door glass — the single most flagged item on any check-out report
- Limescale on shower screens, taps and toilets; London's water is hard in every borough
- Extractor filters and appliance seals, checked closely on fast agent-run turnarounds
- Cupboard and drawer interiors, where the previous tenancy's crumbs get logged as 'not cleaned'
- Window tracks and sills, the fastest place an inventory clerk finds a fault
Your rights at check-out
Under the Tenant Fees Act 2019, a tenancy signed on or after 1 June 2019 cannot require you to pay for professional cleaning as a condition of the tenancy. What the landlord can require is that the property is returned as clean as it was at check-in, evidenced against the inventory. Your deposit must be in a government-approved scheme, and a disputed deduction goes to that scheme's free adjudication — which weighs photographic evidence heavily. That is why we hand you a dated photo record with the completed checklist on the day. General guidance, not legal advice.
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Related services
Other cleaning we run in South Kensington SW7
Deep cleaning
A full reset for South Kensington homes that are staying lived in — same detail, no inventory report.
Regular domestic cleaning
Weekly or fortnightly visits with the same cleaner across SW7, from two hours.
After builders cleaning
Fine-dust removal after a South Kensington refurbishment, before the property is re-let or photographed.
Oven cleaning
Standalone dip-tank oven clean in SW7 when the rest of the property is already done.
Carpet cleaning
Extraction cleaning for SW7 flats where the carpet is the last thing on the report.
Upholstery cleaning
Sofas and mattresses in furnished South Kensington lets, cleaned and deodorised on the same visit.
Window cleaning
Internal glass is in the tenancy clean; exteriors to third floor are booked here for SW7.
Airbnb changeover
Short-let turnarounds in South Kensington with linen change, restock and a photo report before check-in.
Communal area cleaning
Blocks around South Kensington: entrance glass, corridors, stairs, lift interiors and bin stores.
Office cleaning
Commercial leases in SW7 that need the same check-out standard when the lease ends.
About the area
South Kensington in context
Museum quarter, French lycée and cream-stucco crescents. That is South Kensington, a SW7 neighbourhood of Kensington and Chelsea with South Kensington (Circle, District, Piccadilly) as its link into central London. Market gardens turned into the Great Exhibition's Albertopolis, then estate-built stucco terraces for the Victorian wealthy.
Tenure is what shapes the check-out workload here. Across Kensington and Chelsea, 39.6% of households rent privately, 32.7% own and 27.6% rent socially (ONS Census 2021) — against a London-wide private-rented share of 30%. Grand stucco terraces in lateral flats, mansion blocks and embassy buildings.
Access decides how a check-out is scheduled. Museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions. Part of Kensington and Chelsea sits inside the Congestion Charge zone and all of it is inside ULEZ. We confirm Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's controlled parking position for the exact street before the booking is fixed, so nobody arrives to a bay they cannot use — and that cost sits inside the quoted price.
Kensington and Chelsea agents run high volumes of check-outs and use independent inventory clerks, so the report is photographic and itemised. Clerks here go straight to the oven, the extractor filter, the fridge seal and the window tracks, and they compare every photograph against the check-in report.
- Postcode districts
- SW7
- Nearest station
- South Kensington (Circle, District, Piccadilly)
- Housing stock
- Grand stucco terraces in lateral flats, mansion blocks and embassy buildings.
- Landmark
- The Victoria and Albert Museum
- Access, parking and permits
- Museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions.
- Charging zones
- ULEZ and Congestion Charge
Area at a glance
South Kensington SW7 by the numbers
Who lives here and what they live in decides how a clean is priced and how long it takes. These are the published figures for Kensington and Chelsea, not estimates.
143,375
Residents
Kensington and Chelsea, Census 2021
66,884
Households
Median age 38.6
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
43.7%
Privately rented
39.6%
- Median age
- 38.6
- Owner-occupied
- 32.7%
- Social rented
- 27.6%
- Postcode districts
- SW7
- Nearest station
- South Kensington
- Parking
- CPZ + C-Charge + ULEZ
Source: ONS Census 2021, borough totals via Nomis (table TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003). Figures describe the whole borough, the smallest area ONS publishes every one of these tables for. Coordinates for the SW7 district: 51.4963, -0.1770 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Questions
South Kensington SW7 end of tenancy questions, answered
A 2-bedroom end of tenancy clean in South Kensington starts at £255 unfurnished and £285 furnished, and normally takes a two-cleaner team five to seven hours. That price includes the oven deep clean, appliance interiors, limescale removal, all cupboard interiors and internal glass, plus every parking, permit and ULEZ cost in Kensington and Chelsea.
We guarantee the cleaning element, which is the most commonly disputed part of a check-out. If the report flags cleaning within 72 hours we return and re-clean free. We cannot cover damage, missing items or wear and tear — deposit schemes assess those separately from cleanliness.
A tenancy signed on or after 1 June 2019 cannot require you to pay for professional cleaning as a condition of the tenancy under the Tenant Fees Act 2019. What the landlord can require is that the property is returned as clean as it was at check-in. If it is not, a deduction can be claimed at check-out and evidenced against the inventory. This is general guidance, not legal advice.
Yes. Send us the check-out report within 72 hours of our visit and we return to re-clean the flagged items at no cost, usually within 48 hours. We also give you a photo record and completed checklist on the day, which resolves most Kensington and Chelsea queries before a re-clean is needed.
Carpet steam cleaning is an add-on at £45 per room using hot-water extraction, and it is booked on the same visit so you get one receipt for the agent. Vacuuming and traffic-lane treatment are already included in the tenancy clean itself.
Seven to ten days is comfortable for SW7, and month-end Fridays are the busiest slot in Kensington and Chelsea by a wide margin. We can often cover a next-day booking, and same-day when a check-out moves at short notice.
No. Museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions. Where Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea operates a controlled parking zone at your address we check the hours at booking and arrange a visitor permit, a suspended bay or a dispensation ourselves. You are never asked to buy a permit and it is not added to your invoice.
South Kensington is inside the ULEZ and part of Kensington and Chelsea falls inside the Congestion Charge zone. Both are already inside the fixed price we quote — there is no separate line on your invoice.
Yes. Tell us the access process at booking and we register the team, book the service or goods lift where the managing agent requires it, and send ID and insurance documents to the concierge in advance. Key-safe and agent key release both work too.
Yes, and it matters here: London's water is hard in every borough, and scale on screens, taps and toilets is the second most common reason a check-out clean gets rejected. We use acid-safe descaler with proper contact time rather than abrasives, so chrome and glass are not scratched.
Often, yes. Genuine same-day bookings carry a £40 premium and depend on a team being free; next-day slots carry no premium at all. Call 020 3633 4555 for same-day availability — the online form covers everything from tomorrow onwards.
Yes — every street in SW7, including South Kensington and the neighbouring Kensington and Chelsea areas. Boundary postcodes are covered too; enter the full postcode in the quote form and it confirms coverage instantly.
You do not need to be there — key collection, a key safe or agent key release all work. The property should be empty of your belongings and furniture where possible, because we clean inside cupboards, behind appliances and along skirtings. Utilities need to be on: no hot water or power means no proper clean.
Source: ONS Census 2021, borough totals via Nomis (table TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003). Figures describe the whole borough, the smallest area ONS publishes every one of these tables for.
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