End of Tenancy Cleaning Nottingham | Nottingham

End of tenancy cleaning is a full, top to bottom clean carried out when a tenancy ends. It covers everything an inventory clerk inspects: inside the oven, inside kitchen cupboards, limescale on taps and shower screens, skirting boards, window interiors, extractor filters, and every surface behind and underneath the furniture.

It matters because cleaning is the single most common reason deposits get reduced. Deposit Protection Service data reported in June 2026 shows cleaning accounted for 29.38% of all deposit claims across the year, and it has topped the list for five years running.

Your landlord cannot require you to buy professional cleaning as a condition of the tenancy. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 stopped that in England. What they can do is hold you to the standard recorded at check-in, and that is the standard we clean to.

We do a lot of this work in Beeston, where the student belt near university park empties inside a fortnight, and every house on the street wants the same three days in late june. See end of tenancy cleaning in Beeston, across Lenton or Hyson Green and NG7.

What is included

Kitchen

Oven interior, racks, door glass and grill pan
Hob, extractor hood and filter degreased
Inside, on top of and underneath every cupboard and drawer
Fridge and freezer defrosted and washed, left off with doors ajar
Washing machine drawer, rubber seal fold and filter
Dishwasher filter and spray arms
Sink, taps and overflow descaled, bin cleaned inside and out

Bathrooms

Full limescale removal from taps, shower head, screen, tiles and grout
Shower screen seals and the tracks they sit in
Toilet including hinges, base and behind the pan
Bath sealant line and overflow
Extractor vent, cabinet interiors, mirrors and chrome polished

Throughout

Interior windows, sills, frames and tracks
Skirting boards, door tops, light fittings and radiators
Inside wardrobes and drawers
Behind and under furniture where accessible
All floors vacuumed and mopped

What is not included

Carpets, quoted separately as hot water extraction
Exterior windows above ground floor, unless agreed
Removal of belongings or rubbish left in the property

Book the clean for the day after your furniture leaves and at least one full day before your check-out appointment. That gap is your insurance: if the agent finds something, there is time to fix it before the keys change hands. In Lenton, Beeston and Dunkirk the student changeover compresses into a fortnight in late June and July, so book three weeks ahead in that window.

How long it takes

Property	Our team	On your own
Studio	3 hours	5 to 6 hours
1 bedroom	4 hours	7 to 9 hours
2 bedrooms	5 to 7 hours	10 to 14 hours
3 bedrooms	7 to 9 hours	14 to 18 hours
4 bedrooms	9 to 12 hours	18 to 24 hours

The right-hand column is what it takes one person doing it themselves, which is worth knowing before you decide. The oven alone can absorb two of those hours.

What end of tenancy cleaning costs in Nottingham

End of tenancy cleaning, UK average. Nottingham sits in the lower half. Our own cost research puts the Midlands at around the UK average to 10% below it, so Nottingham sits in the lower half of every range on this page.

Property	Typical one-off
Studio	£120 to £180
1 bedroom	£150 to £250
2 bedrooms	£200 to £300
3 bedrooms	£300 to £420
4 bedrooms	£380 to £480
5+ bedrooms	£450 to £600

If one quote is well under the others, it is almost always the oven, the internal windows, the carpets or the re-clean guarantee that has been left out.

Priced separately

Extra	Typical cost
Carpet cleaning, per room	£35 to £60
Stairs and landing carpet	£45 to £85
Single oven deep clean	£45 to £80
Exterior windows	£30 to £90

These are typical Nottingham market ranges, not our price list. We quote a fixed price in writing for your property before anything starts, because a number produced from a bedroom count alone has priced an average property rather than yours. The figures above come from our own UK cost research, set out in full in this guide.

How we work to an inventory

The check-in report is the standard, not our opinion

You are not required to hand back a showroom. You are required to hand it back as clean as it was at check-in, allowing for fair wear and tear. Send us the check-in inventory if you have it and we will work to that document.

Empty property, always

Cleaning around boxes costs more and achieves less, because a good proportion of the surfaces simply cannot be reached. Book us for the day after the van leaves.

The seven items that generate claims

Oven interior and door glass, the washing machine seal, on top of kitchen cupboards, window tracks, behind the toilet, extractor filters, and skirting where furniture stood. Those are what an inventory clerk photographs, and they are done every time whether or not anyone asks.

Photographed on completion

Dated photographs of the oven interior, the shower screen, inside the fridge, every cupboard interior and the window tracks. That evidence settles most disputes on its own, long before any scheme gets involved.

An itemised checklist, not an invoice

A receipt saying cleaning proves you spent money. An itemised checklist proves what was covered, which is the thing actually in dispute if a deduction is proposed.

When to book it

The day after your furniture leaves, and at least one full day before the check-out appointment. That gap is the insurance: if the agent finds something there is time to fix it before the keys change hands. One to two weeks ahead normally, three weeks between late June and August when student and academic tenancies across Nottingham end together.

Whoever turns up is directly employed by us, DBS-checked and reference-verified, which is not the same arrangement as most companies quoting against this. More on how we work on the about page, and the common pre-booking questions are on the FAQ page.

Where we do this

End of Tenancy Cleaning runs across all 23 areas we cover, at the same price with no travel supplement. Each link goes to what this job involves in that particular place.

If you want everything we do in one place rather than this service on its own, the area pages cover that: Beeston, Lenton, Hyson Green, Radford and every other area. The services hub compares this service against the other 7.

What goes wrong, and how to avoid it

The mistakes below account for most of the disappointment in this kind of work, ours included. Several of them will save you money whether you hire us or not.

Cleaning before the furniture goes

Cleaning a furnished flat and then dragging boxes across it is wasted money. A good proportion of the surfaces cannot be reached at all, and those are exactly the ones an inventory clerk photographs.

Booking it for the morning of check-out

Leave a full day. If the agent flags something there is then time to fix it before the keys change hands, which is the entire point of the re-clean guarantee.

Not finding the check-in inventory

It is the document you are judged against, not a general idea of clean. If the oven was already marked at check-in you are not responsible for returning it better than you found it, and that is worth knowing before you spend two hours on it.

Taking a one-line receipt

An invoice saying cleaning proves you spent money. It does not prove what was done, which is the thing in dispute. Always ask for the itemised checklist.

Assuming a professional clean is compulsory

In England it is not. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 stopped landlords requiring it as a condition of the tenancy. They can hold you to the standard; they cannot dictate who meets it.

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What people ask about end of tenancy cleaning in Nottingham

How much should an end of tenancy clean cost?

For a two bedroom property, somewhere around £200 to £300 at UK average rates, and Nottingham sits in the lower half of that. Size drives the number more than anything else, then whether carpets, the oven and internal windows are included. If one quote is well below the others, one of those four is missing from it rather than the company being cheaper.

Is it worth getting an end of tenancy clean?

It is worth it when the deposit at risk is larger than the cost, which is almost always. Cleaning causes more deposit deductions than any other category and has done for five years running. The part you are really buying is the re-clean guarantee: if the agent flags something, someone comes back and fixes it before the keys change hands.

What will a cleaner do in 3 hours?

Three hours is a maintenance clean of a small property, not an end of tenancy clean. It covers kitchen surfaces, bathrooms, floors and dusting. An end of tenancy clean on a two bedroom flat is five to seven hours for a team, because the oven alone can absorb two of them.

What is the 5-5-5 rule for cleaning?

It is a domestic tidying habit, five minutes each on three small tasks, and it has nothing to do with end of tenancy standards. Your check-out is judged against the check-in inventory allowing for fair wear and tear, not against a routine. Ignore the rule and read the inventory.

Questions

End of Tenancy CleaningQuestions

Anything not covered here, ring us on 07438 843980.

What is the re-clean guarantee?

If the letting agent or landlord flags something within 72 hours of us finishing, we come back and put it right at no charge. That guarantee is the main thing you are buying over doing it yourself.

Do you clean the carpets too?

Not as standard. Carpets are quoted separately as hot water extraction. Book them at the same time rather than as a second visit, which incurs a second minimum charge.

Will you give me an itemised checklist?

Yes, always. A receipt saying "cleaning" proves you spent money. An itemised checklist proves what was actually done, and that is the document that matters if a deduction is proposed.

Do I need to be there?

No. We can work from a key collected from the agent, or from a key safe.

What if the property is still furnished?

Tell us when you book. It takes longer, some areas simply cannot be reached, and we note that on the paperwork rather than leaving it ambiguous.

Should I photograph everything afterwards?

Yes. Dated photographs of the oven interior, the shower screen, the carpets and every cupboard interior take ten minutes and settle most disputes on their own.