Lewisham · SE23 · End of tenancy
End of Tenancy Cleaning SE23 — Forest Hill
Forest Hill check-out cleans, SE23, Lewisham. Every booking covers the whole property to inventory standard — appliance interiors, limescale, cupboards, tracks and floors — across SE23.
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- £5m public liability
- Licensed waste carrier CBDU300454
- Since 2019
- 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 Forest Hill SE23
Conversion flats around The Horniman Museum and Gardens bring sash boxes, original boards, older bathrooms and decades of hard-water scale — exactly the items Lewisham check-out reports flag, and exactly where a SE23 tenancy clean earns its hours.
- Studio check-out from
- £165Studio check-out from
- Forest Hill privately rented
- 27%Forest Hill privately rented
- Re-clean guarantee
- 72hrRe-clean guarantee
- Households in Forest Hill
- 6,684Households in Forest Hill
Instant estimate
Price your Forest Hill check-out clean in under a minute
Forest Hill SE23
Your fixed price band
£285–£330
Typically 5–7 hrs on site. Oven deep clean is always included.
- ULEZ applies here and is inside the band above. Lewisham is outside the Congestion Charge zone.
- London Borough of Lewisham 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 a Forest Hill SE23 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.
The checklist
Everything we clean room by room
Kitchen
- Oven interior, roof, sides and base degreased
+ 13 more kitchen items on the printed checklist.
Bathroom and WC
- Limescale removed from shower screen and glass
+ 9 more bathroom and wc items on the printed checklist.
Bedrooms and living areas
- Skirting boards wiped along their full length
+ 8 more bedrooms and living areas items on the printed checklist.
Floors
- Full HEPA vacuum including edges and under furniture
+ 4 more floors items on the printed checklist.
Windows and doors
- Internal glass cleaned streak-free
+ 4 more windows and doors items on the printed checklist.
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
Fixed prices
End of tenancy prices in Forest Hill SE23
| Property size | Furnished | Unfurnished | Typical time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | £185 | £165 | 3–4 hrs |
| 1 bedroom | £225 | £199 | 4–5 hrs |
| 2 bedroom | £285 | £255 | 5–7 hrs |
| 3 bedroom | £350 | £315 | 6–8 hrs |
| 4 bedroom | £425 | £385 | 8–10 hrs |
| 5 bedroom+ | £495 | £445 | 9–12 hrs |
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 Forest Hill SE23
| Add-on | From | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Carpet steam cleaning | £45 | 30–45 min / room |
| Upholstery cleaning | £75 | 45–60 min |
| Exterior window cleaning | £60 | 1–2 hrs |
- Parking and permits
- Steep gradients, narrow hill roads and permit bays around the station. Any permit, suspension or dispensation in London Borough of Lewisham's zone is arranged and paid for by us.
- Controlled parking hours
- London Borough of Lewisham operates controlled parking across most of Lewisham; we check the exact street's hours at booking so the team is not moving the van mid-clean.
Deposit protection
What loses deposits in Forest Hill 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
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. It can require the property back as clean as at check-in, evidenced against the inventory — which is why we hand you a dated photo record with the completed checklist. General guidance, not legal advice.
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Check-out cleans around Forest Hill SE23
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Related services
Other cleaning we run in Forest Hill SE23
Appliance and oven cleaning
Every appliance in a SE23 let cleaned to inventory standard, including the parts the clerk photographs.
Hoarder clean-up
Heavily overloaded Forest Hill properties cleared with care before the tenancy clean can even begin.
Jet washing
Paths, patios and bin stores at Forest Hill addresses jet washed so the exterior matches the check-out standard inside.
Pre-sale cleaning
Selling rather than re-letting in SE23? The photography-day presentation clean instead of the inventory one.
Deep cleaning
A full reset for Forest Hill homes that are staying lived in — same detail, no inventory report.
Regular domestic cleaning
Weekly or fortnightly visits with the same cleaner across SE23, from two hours.
After builders cleaning
Fine-dust removal after a Forest Hill refurbishment, before the property is re-let or photographed.
Oven cleaning
Standalone dip-tank oven clean in SE23 when the rest of the property is already done.
Carpet cleaning
Extraction cleaning for SE23 flats where the carpet is the last thing on the report.
Upholstery cleaning
Sofas and mattresses in furnished Forest Hill 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 SE23.
Airbnb changeover
Short-let turnarounds in Forest Hill with linen change, restock and a photo report before check-in.
Communal area cleaning
Blocks around Forest Hill: entrance glass, corridors, stairs, lift interiors and bin stores.
Office cleaning
Commercial leases in SE23 that need the same check-out standard when the lease ends.
About the area
Forest Hill in context
Forest Hill sits in Lewisham, served by Forest Hill (Overground). The Horniman Museum, the hill views and a compact village centre. Kentish villages absorbed by railways from the 1840s; Deptford's naval dockyard and Deptford Creek shaped its industrial edge.
Where Forest Hill sits in our coverage
Forest Hill sits inside the coverage published on our end of tenancy cleaning in Lewisham page, which sits under end of tenancy cleaning across London. Same-week crews working this postcode also cover end of tenancy cleaning in Honor Oak SE23 (under ½ mile), end of tenancy cleaning in Sydenham SE26 (1.0 miles), end of tenancy cleaning in East Dulwich SE22 (1.3 miles), end of tenancy cleaning in Catford SE6 (1.4 miles) and end of tenancy cleaning in Crystal Palace SE19 (2.3 miles). If your address sits on the boundary, book the closest page — the price and the crew are the same. For every trade we run at this postcode, see all services in Forest Hill.
Most booked alongside this in Forest Hill
- Postcode districts
- SE23
- Nearest station
- Forest Hill (Overground)
- Housing stock
- Victorian and Edwardian terraces and villas, many split into flats.
Area at a glance
Forest Hill SE23 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 Census 2021 figures for the Forest Hill East and Forest Hill West neighbourhood itself — not Lewisham-wide averages, and not estimates.
15,955
Residents
Forest Hill East and Forest Hill West neighbourhood, Census 2021
6,684
Households
Median age 36
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
28.3%
Privately rented
26.9%
- Median age
- 36
- Owner-occupied
- 54.4%
- Social rented
- 18.6%
- Postcode districts
- SE23
- Nearest station
- Forest Hill
- Parking
- CPZ + ULEZ
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Forest Hill East, Forest Hill West (E02000673, E02000676) — the published geography that covers Forest Hill, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE23 district: 51.4415, -0.0491 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Questions
Forest Hill SE23 end of tenancy questions, answered
A 2-bedroom end of tenancy clean in Forest Hill starts at £255 unfurnished and £285 furnished on the streets near The Horniman Museum and Gardens, with 54% owner-occupation locally — and 19% social-rented stock nearby, and normally takes a two-cleaner team five to seven hours.
We guarantee the cleaning element, which is the most commonly disputed part of a check-out on the streets near The Horniman Museum and Gardens. If the report flags cleaning within 72 hours we return and re-clean free on SE23 jobs.
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 on Lewisham bookings — and Lewisham parking rules in play, with 19% social-rented stock nearby. With 58% of homes in Forest Hill being flats, we plan the route up front.
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 on the Forest Hill rounds, with The Horniman Museum and Gardens a few streets away.
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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