Central London · London Borough of Islington
Pre-sale cleaning in Islington before the photographs
Photography-day presentation cleans and full pre-sale resets across 11 Islington areas. Fixed prices from £135, DBS-checked teams, and parking, permits and ULEZ already inside the quote.
- £1m public liability
- Basic DBS-checked teams
- Since 2019
- Booked to your photography or open-house date
- Two tiers: photo-ready presentation or full pre-sale reset
- 72-hour promise — anything missed, we come back free
The service, locally
Selling in Islington? present it properly first
Selling in Islington? Our pre-sale teams work to the photographer's date rather than to a diary slot, across all 11 Islington areas and every street in N1, N4, N5, N7, N19, EC1.
Georgian squares and canal basins around Angel, giving way to dense estates and Arsenal crowds further north. That housing stock — four-storey georgian terraces with basements, victorian conversions and large council estates around finsbury park. — decides where a presentation clean earns its money here, and our Islington pricing already carries wall-to-wall cpzs, red routes on holloway road and city road, and terraces with no off-street parking at all.
- Islington areas covered
- 11Islington areas covered
- Photo-ready clean from
- £135Photo-ready clean from
- Homes that are flats
- 83.6%Homes that are flats
- Borough population
- 216,000Borough population
Why sellers book it
What a pre-sale clean in Islington actually buys you
Photographs sell the viewing
Presentation is priced into offers
Timed around the agent, not the diary
One team, one fixed price
Each of these is explained in full on the London pre-sale cleaning hub.
In buyer order
The rooms a buyer judges and the order we clean them
Front door and hallway
The first ten seconds of a viewing.
Kitchen
Worktops, splashbacks, cupboard fronts, handles, extractor and the oven interior.
Bathrooms and en-suites
Limescale off screens, taps and tiles, grout brightened, silicone treated for mould and chrome polished.
Windows and light
Glass, frames, cills, tracks and trickle vents inside, plus external glass as an add-on.
Floors and traffic lanes
Correct product for the finish, edges by hand, and extraction on carpets to lift traffic lanes and the dark edging along skirtings..
Smell
Bins, drains, waste traps, soft furnishings and pet areas treated at source.
Fixed prices
Pre-sale cleaning prices in Islington borough-wide
| Property | Photo-ready | Full pre-sale reset | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio / 1-bed flat | £135 | £215 | 1–2 cleaners |
| 2-bed flat or house | £175 | £285 | 2 cleaners |
| 3-bed house | £235 | £365 | 2 cleaners |
| 4-bed house | £295 | £455 | 2–3 cleaners |
| 5-bed / large house | £365 | £585 | 3 cleaners |
Prices include VAT, all products and equipment, parking, permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge where it applies. Nothing is added on the day.
What each tier includes, room by room, is set out on the London pre-sale cleaning hub.
Add-ons
What else sellers add in Islington priced up front
External window and frame clean
£75 per propertyCarpet and upholstery extraction
£55 per roomKerb appeal wash-down
£95 per propertyDeclutter and staging tidy
£90 per half dayRemoval of unwanted items
£90 per van loadOdour and pet treatment
£65 per propertyViewing-day touch-up visit
£85 per visit
Not the same job
Pre-sale clean or deep clean which one you need
A deep clean is judged by the people living in the home; a pre-sale clean is judged by buyers, photographers and valuers. The full side-by-side comparison sits on the London pre-sale cleaning hub.
Not selling yet? One-off deep cleaning in London is the right service, and end of tenancy cleaning covers a let coming to an end.
How it works
Booking a Islington pre-sale clean around the listing date
- Tell us the listing date, not just the bedroomsPhotography day, first open house and completion are three different jobs.
- Get a fixed price in about a minuteChoose the property size and the tier — photo-ready presentation or the full pre-sale reset — and the price on screen is the price on the day, with parking, permits and ULEZ already inside it..
- The presentation clean, in buyer orderA DBS-checked team works the rooms in the order buyers judge them: entrance, kitchen, bathrooms, light, floors and odour, top down, with the styling tidy last..
- Photography-day check and touch-upWe can hold a short visit for the morning of the shoot or the open house so glass, worktops and floors are put back to photograph condition after a week of living in the property..
- Walk-round, snag sheet and the 72-hour promiseWe walk the property with you before we leave.
Coverage
Every area of Islington we cover
Related services
Other cleaning we run in Islington across the borough
One-off deep cleaning
Staying put a while longer in Islington? The same detail, without the photography deadline.
End of tenancy cleaning
Selling with a tenant in situ across N1, N4, N5, N7, N19, EC1? The inventory-standard check-out clean.
Carpet cleaning
Hot-water extraction lifts the traffic lanes that make Islington listing photographs look tired.
Appliance and oven cleaning
Buyers open the oven. Dip-tank cleaning for Islington kitchens before the viewings start.
After builders cleaning
Refurbished to sell in N1, N4, N5, N7, N19, EC1? Fine construction dust cleared before the photographer arrives.
Jet washing
Kerb appeal first: driveways, paths and frontages around Islington pressure washed for the exterior shot.
Regular domestic cleaning
Keep an Islington home viewing-ready week after week with the same cleaner.
Hoarder clean-up
Where a Islington property has to be cleared before it can be marketed, we start there — discreetly.
Office cleaning
Marketing a N1, N4, N5, N7, N19, EC1 commercial unit? Presentation cleaning and ongoing contracts for workplaces.
About the place
Islington at a glance Central London
Georgian squares and canal basins around Angel, giving way to dense estates and Arsenal crowds further north.
A spa and pleasure-garden suburb that filled with Georgian and early Victorian terraces, then gentrified hard from the 1970s.
Access for our teams: Wall-to-wall CPZs, red routes on Holloway Road and City Road, and terraces with no off-street parking at all.
Questions
Pre-sale cleaning in Islington answered
From £135 for a photo-ready presentation clean in a studio or 1-bed to £585 for a full pre-sale reset in a large house. A 2-bed is £175 to £285 and a 3-bed house £235 to £365. The price is the same in every Islington area and includes VAT, products, parking, permits and ULEZ.
The day before the shoot is ideal. Book the full pre-sale reset ahead of photography and add a short viewing-day touch-up (£85) for the morning of an open house so the property returns to photograph condition.
Yes — all 11 named Islington areas and every street in N1, N4, N5, N7, N19, EC1. Boundary postcodes are covered too; enter your full postcode in the quote form to confirm instantly.
We hold keys through the agent, work to the photography schedule and send photographic sign-off per room, which matters when a vendor has already moved out of Islington.
Internal glass, frames, cills and tracks are included. External glass to third floor is £75 and the kerb appeal wash-down — path, steps, bin store, porch and front door — is £95. Wall-to-wall CPZs, red routes on Holloway Road and City Road, and terraces with no off-street parking at all.
Get your Islington property photograph-ready
Tell us your listing date and property size and we will hold the team, the price and the touch-up visit around it.
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