Crew sized to the job
One cleaner for a flat; two for a house, so the property is finished in one visit rather than split across a day. Narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton.
Southwark · SE22 · Pre-move-in cleaning
Professional Pre-move-in cleaning in East Dulwich, SE22
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local East Dulwich fitters · Fixed written pricesPre-move-in cleaning in East Dulwich SE22, Southwark, from £95. Lordship Lane's shops and rows of bay-fronted Victorian family houses, which is why our SE22 quotes account for narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton. You get a fixed price in writing, an insured fitter and a tidy finish.
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SE22
- Pre-move-in cleaning in East Dulwich SE22 from £95, fixed in writing
- Most booked here: a home before move-in day
- Completion dates move, so we hold flexible same-week slots and can usually confirm the exact time once contracts are exchanged.
- London Borough of Southwark permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge itemised, never hidden
- Trustpilot 4.5· 3,100+ reviews
- Google 3.9· 1,426 reviews
- £5m public liability
- Licensed waste carrier CBDU300454
- Since 2019
- From, studio or one-bedroom flat
- £95From, studio or one-bedroom flat
- East Dulwich homes are flats
- 43%East Dulwich homes are flats
- Privately rented
- 25%Privately rented
- Households in East Dulwich
- 3,337Households in East Dulwich
Overview
Pre-move-in cleaning in East Dulwich SE22, explained
Pre-move-in cleaning in East Dulwich SE22 is a fixed-price visit for owner-occupier-led homes in Southwark, most of them mainly Victorian. 3,337 households sit inside this SE22 patch, 43% of them flats, so we quote on access near Dulwich Park rather than a London average.
How it works
How pre-move-in cleaning works in East Dulwich
Five steps, the same on every SE22 job, so you know what happens before you commit. East Dulwich gives us terraced houses with solid London stock brick and later plasterboard linings, and with 25% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is what we plan for here.
Step 1
Confirm the completion window
We work to your solicitor's likely key-release time, not a fixed morning or afternoon slot, so the clean lands before the van does.
Step 2
Empty-property clean
Every room cleaned from the top down while there is nothing to work around — the fastest and most thorough order to do it in.
Step 3
Kitchen and bathroom detail
Cupboards, appliances, tiling and sanitaryware get the time a standard weekly clean never allows.
Step 4
Final checklist
Skirting, switches, sills and floors checked room by room against a written list before we sign off.
Step 5
Handover
Photos of the finished property sent the same day, so you have a record of the condition you moved into.
Why choose us
Why East Dulwich customers book us
Local knowledge is not a slogan on this page — it is what stops a bracket coming out of a East Dulwich wall.
Booked around your day
Completion dates move, so we hold flexible same-week slots and can usually confirm the exact time once contracts are exchanged. East Dulwich (Thameslink) is the nearest station, so a SE22 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
East Dulwich walls, not generic walls
We expect solid London stock brick in SE22, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — where 58% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year in SE22, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in SE22, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — measured on the walk in from East Dulwich (Thameslink) rather than assumed from a map.
Insured and documented
Cleaners carry £5m public liability and work to COSHH sheets for every product, which is what most managing agents ask for before a first inspection.
Fixed prices
Pre-move-in cleaning prices in East Dulwich
Fixed prices for SE22 and the rest of Southwark. Bedroom count and whether the property is empty set the price. Furniture still in place, or a heavy inherited kitchen, adds time a truly empty property does not need.
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio or one-bedroom flat | £95 | 2–3 hrs | Kitchen, bathroom and every cupboard cleaned inside before a single box comes in, including the previous tenant's dust and grease. |
| Two-bedroom flat or maisonette | £140 | 3–4 hrs | Two bathrooms or an en suite add time, and empty rooms mean skirting and window sills get a proper first-fit clean. |
| Three-bedroom house | £195 | 4–6 hrs | More floor area and usually a garage or utility room that a standard clean would skip. |
| Four-bedroom house or larger | £260 | 6–8 hrs | Two cleaners working room by room so the property is ready before the removal van is booked to arrive. |
| Oven, hob and extractor add-on | £65 | 1–2 hrs | New-build show ovens and inherited appliances both need a dip-tank clean before first use, not a wipe-over. |
| Carpet clean add-on, per room | £35 | 30–45 min | Hot-water extraction on the carpets left behind by a previous occupant, before furniture goes down on them. |
| Internal window and sill clean, whole property | £45 | 1 hr | Sills and internal glass throughout, so the light coming into an empty room isn't through someone else's fingerprints. |
Studio or one-bedroom flat
£95 · 2–3 hrs
Kitchen, bathroom and every cupboard cleaned inside before a single box comes in, including the previous tenant's dust and grease.
Two-bedroom flat or maisonette
£140 · 3–4 hrs
Two bathrooms or an en suite add time, and empty rooms mean skirting and window sills get a proper first-fit clean.
Three-bedroom house
£195 · 4–6 hrs
More floor area and usually a garage or utility room that a standard clean would skip.
Four-bedroom house or larger
£260 · 6–8 hrs
Two cleaners working room by room so the property is ready before the removal van is booked to arrive.
Oven, hob and extractor add-on
£65 · 1–2 hrs
New-build show ovens and inherited appliances both need a dip-tank clean before first use, not a wipe-over.
Carpet clean add-on, per room
£35 · 30–45 min
Hot-water extraction on the carpets left behind by a previous occupant, before furniture goes down on them.
Internal window and sill clean, whole property
£45 · 1 hr
Sills and internal glass throughout, so the light coming into an empty room isn't through someone else's fingerprints.
Prices include VAT with a £95 minimum charge per visit. Properties are cleaned empty wherever possible — furniture in situ takes longer and is quoted on survey. Completion-day bookings are held to the timescale conveyancers actually work to, not a fixed calendar slot.
Scope
What's included in East Dulwich
The same scope across SE22, whether the job is a single item or a full room.
Included in the price
- Kitchen cupboards, drawers and worktops cleaned inside and out, checked on every SE22 visit
- Standard on Southwark bookings: bathroom, sanitaryware and tiling limescale-treated and disinfected, with 3,337 households in this neighbourhood, it is the question we are asked most
- On SE22 jobs: skirting boards, door frames, switches and internal glass throughout, local pre-move-in cleaning included
- In East Dulwich: floors vacuumed and mopped, ready for furniture the same day, sized for the narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a luton
- A move-in checklist so nothing is missed before keys are handed over, noted on the East Dulwich job sheet so the next visit starts from it
Not included
- Removal of rubbish or furniture left behind by a previous occupant — quoted separately as a clearance, quoted separately if you need it arranged in SE22
- External window cleaning or exterior brickwork and render, which we refer on to the right trade in East Dulwich
- Carpet and upholstery cleaning unless added to the booking, and we will say so before the SE22 visit rather than on the day
- Repairs, redecoration or making good beyond a clean, outside the fixed price on East Dulwich bookings
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Coverage
Where we work around East Dulwich SE22
Pre-move-in cleaning across Southwark and the SE22 district, mapped below.
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Other handyman work in East Dulwich
Same fitters, same SE22 rounds, same fixed-price approach.
Upholstery and sofa cleaning in East Dulwich
Sofas, armchairs, dining chairs and mattresses cleaned in place and dried the same day.
Carpet cleaning in East Dulwich
Hot-water extraction for wool, synthetic and sisal, with stain and odour treatment.
Commercial cleaning in East Dulwich
Contracted office, retail and clinic cleaning on a schedule, out of hours if the site needs it.
One-off deep cleaning in East Dulwich
The whole-property version, top of the wardrobes down to the skirting.
Patio and decking cleaning in East Dulwich
Natural stone patios and timber or composite decking cleaned at the right pressure for each.
Driveway cleaning in East Dulwich
Block paving, resin-bound and imprinted concrete driveways cleaned, resanded and sealed.
Flat and apartment clearance in East Dulwich
Flats and apartments cleared with stair, lift and parking access planned in advance.
Most booked alongside this in East Dulwich SE22
Working in East Dulwich
East Dulwich SE22 at a glance
Published figures for the neighbourhood that covers East Dulwich — the numbers that actually change a pre-move-in cleaning quote.
Census 2021 puts East Dulwich at 3,337 households with a median age of 36. The mainly Victorian stock is owner-occupier-led, which is why 57% houses and 43% flats need different handling in SE22.
25% of households rent privately and 58% own, which is why pre-move-in cleaning demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Walls are solid London stock brick in SE22, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — where 58% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year, so the fixing that matters in East Dulwich is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in SE22, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — measured on the walk in from East Dulwich (Thameslink) rather than assumed from a map.
Anyone who knows East Dulwich knows the pattern near Dulwich Park: lordship Lane's shops and rows of bay-fronted Victorian family houses. We plan the SE22 visit around it. East Dulwich sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton. Nearest station is East Dulwich (Thameslink), and one cleaner for a flat; two for a house, so the property is finished in one visit rather than split across a day.
Area at a glance
East Dulwich SE22 by the numbers
Who lives in East Dulwich and what they live in decides how pre-move-in cleaning is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the East Dulwich neighbourhood itself — not Southwark-wide averages, and not estimates.
8,296
Residents
East Dulwich neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,337
Households
Median age 36
Flats vs houses
Flats 43%Houses 56.8%
Residents by sex
Male48.6%
Female51.4%
Single-person households
25.6%
Privately rented
25.3%
- Median age
- 36
- Owner-occupied
- 58.2%
- Social rented
- 16.4%
- Postcode districts
- SE22
- Nearest station
- East Dulwich
- Parking
- CPZ + C-Charge + ULEZ
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood East Dulwich (E02000836) — the published geography that covers East Dulwich, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE22 district: 51.4544, -0.0724 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Common questions
Pre-move-in cleaning in East Dulwich SE22 — your questions.
How much does pre-move-in cleaning cost in East Dulwich SE22?
Studio or one-bedroom flat starts at £95 in East Dulwich around East Dulwich (Thameslink), with 26% one-person households here, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Bedroom count and whether the property is empty set the price on SE22 jobs. Furniture still in place, or a heavy inherited kitchen, adds time a truly empty property does not need on the East Dulwich rounds, with 58% owner-occupation locally.
Can you clean a property in East Dulwich on the day of completion?
Yes — completion times move, so for SE22 bookings near Dulwich Park we hold a flexible same-week slot and confirm the exact time once contracts exchange, rather than a fixed calendar appointment across SE22, with 57% of East Dulwich homes being houses.
Do you clean new-build flats as well as older houses in Southwark?
Both. 43% of East Dulwich homes are flats and the rest mostly houses; a new-build show kitchen still needs its cupboards and oven cleaned before first use for East Dulwich (SE22) addresses, with this being a short walk from East Dulwich (Thameslink) — and this being London Borough of Southwark territory, and an older East Dulwich house gets the same room-by-room detail.
Will London Borough of Southwark or my managing agent expect proof the property was cleaned before I moved in?
Some Southwark managing agents ask new leaseholders for a condition record across SE22. We send photographs of the finished East Dulwich SE22 property the same day on this side of Southwark, with this being London Borough of Southwark territory, which stands as that record.
Who books pre-move-in cleaning in East Dulwich SE22 — tenants, landlords or owners?
All three. With 25% of East Dulwich privately rented and 58% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE22 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door on Southwark bookings, with 58% owner-occupation locally — and Dulwich Park a few streets away.
How quickly can you reach East Dulwich from your Southwark round?
Dulwich Park is the marker we route to across SE22, with 26% one-person households here, and narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton. A SE22 slot added to an existing Southwark round usually lands the same week rather than the next on this side of Southwark, with Southwark parking rules in play.
Is same-day or evening pre-move-in cleaning available in Southwark?
Completion dates move, so we hold flexible same-week slots and can usually confirm the exact time once contracts are exchanged on the streets near Dulwich Park, with a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood. East Dulwich sits close to East Dulwich (Thameslink) for East Dulwich (SE22) addresses, with this being London Borough of Southwark territory, so we can usually add a SE22 job to an existing Southwark round at short notice.
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