End of Tenancy Cleaning | Absolute Environmental Solutions

We are a waste management company, not a cleaning firm with a van full of mops. We arrange a vetted, insured local cleaning team and manage the job for you, from quote to handover. You deal with one point of contact, and we are accountable for the team that turns up.

What a standard clean includes

It goes well past a weekly tidy, and it is done once the property is empty so the team can reach behind and underneath everything. A standard clean covers:

• Kitchen: worktops and splashbacks, inside and outside every cupboard, sink and taps descaled, hob and extractor degreased, oven cleaned inside.
• Bathrooms: bath, basin, shower screen, tiles, grout and toilet cleaned and descaled, taps and shower heads treated for limescale, mirrors wiped.
• All rooms: skirting boards, door frames, doors and handles, switches and sockets, radiators and the tops of doors.
• Floors: hard floors washed, carpets vacuumed including edges and under where furniture stood.
• Windows: sills, frames and tracks.
• Finishing: cobwebs removed, wardrobes wiped out, bin areas cleaned.

What usually costs extra

Some work sits outside a standard clean because it needs different equipment, more time or a specialist route, and it is priced separately so you are not paying for it if you do not need it. The extras table below covers the common ones, including internal window glass, carpet cleaning and oven deep cleaning. Gardens, garages, sheds and lofts are a clearance job rather than a cleaning job, external windows are normally the landlord's responsibility rather than the tenant's, and anything left behind in the property is waste removal and is quoted separately.

Prices

These are starting prices for an empty property in reasonable condition, with the work above included.

Prices exclude VAT. VAT at the standard rate, currently 20 per cent, is added to your written quote, so a studio from £100 is £120 including VAT.

A From price is the lower end of the range, and it assumes an empty property in reasonable condition for its size. One that has been neglected, or that still has belongings in it, takes longer and costs more. We give you a firm price once you have answered a short set of questions about the property, or once someone has had a look at it, and that firm price is the one you pay.

Optional extras

Landlords and letting agents with several properties can ask about fixed price packages. Once we know your sizes and the standard you work to, we can agree a rate card in advance so there is no quoting on every changeover. We work to your changeover date, can let a team in by key or key safe, and a clean between tenancies also gives you a photographed baseline for the next check in inventory.

Tenants: your deposit, and what you can and cannot be asked to pay

In England, since 1 June 2019, the Tenant Fees Act 2019 means a landlord or letting agent cannot require you to pay for a professional clean, and cannot require you to use a particular cleaning company. A clause in your tenancy agreement saying you must pay for a professional clean at the end of the tenancy requires a prohibited payment and is not binding on you.

What they can do is ask for the property to be returned clean to a professional standard. Your obligation is to hand it back in the condition recorded at the start of the tenancy, allowing for fair wear and tear. If it falls short, the landlord can claim the actual cost of putting it right from your deposit, and they need evidence: the check in inventory, the check out report, photographs and receipts.

So booking a clean is your choice, not something that can be forced on you. Tenants choose it because cleaning is the most common reason deposits get claimed against. The Deposit Protection Service reported cleaning as the leading cause of deposit claims in 2025 for the fifth year running, at 29.38 per cent of claims. The Tenancy Deposit Scheme reported that cleaning featured in 54 per cent of the disputes its adjudicators handled in its 2024 to 2025 reporting year.

Wales has its own rules under the Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act 2019, in force from 1 September 2019, so if you rent in Wales check your position with Rent Smart Wales rather than assuming the English rules apply.

How we arrange it

We choose and oversee the contractor rather than carry the cleaning kit, exactly as we have run waste projects for commercial clients since 2019.

• Tell us the property size, the postcode, the date and anything we should know about its condition
• We confirm a firm price in writing, including any extras you have asked for
• We book a vetted, insured local cleaning team for your date
• The team works to an end of tenancy checklist rather than a general clean
• If anything is not right, you raise it with us and we deal with the contractor

If there is anything left to take away

Properties are rarely handed over completely empty. There is often a mattress, a broken wardrobe, bags of odds and ends or a shed nobody emptied. A cleaning team is not a waste carrier, so that is handled separately, and it is the part we do best.

Absolute Environmental Solutions is a registered waste broker and dealer with the Environment Agency, registration CBDU309472. We arrange a licensed carrier, make sure the load reaches a permitted facility and send you the waste transfer documentation afterwards. For a few items, see household waste removal. For a property that is still full, see house clearances: we can run the clearance and the clean as one job, in the right order.

Book an end of tenancy clean

Tell us the property size, the postcode and the date you need it done by. We will confirm a firm price, book a vetted team and stay with the job until the property is handed over.