How Much to Charge for an End of Tenancy Clean in 2026

What an end of tenancy quote needs to include

"End of tenancy clean — £250" leaves both sides guessing what's actually covered. Cover these and there's nothing left to argue about on moving day:

1. 1Your business details and, if VAT-registered, your VAT number.
2. 2The property address, size (bedrooms/bathrooms), type, and access arrangements — keys held, a code, or someone letting you in.
3. 3Who's instructing the clean — tenant, landlord or letting agent — and whose name and address go on the invoice.
4. 4Whether there's a specific agent or landlord cleaning checklist or inventory standard to quote against, rather than a generic "deep clean".
5. 5Itemised rooms and tasks — kitchen, each bathroom, all floors, skirting boards, inside cupboards and wardrobes — not one lump-sum figure.
6. 6Add-ons priced separately: oven, carpets (per room), interior windows, upholstery, balcony or patio.
7. 7Whether a re-clean guarantee is included if the agent flags something at check-out, and exactly what triggers it.
8. 8A dated, itemised receipt or completion certificate the tenant or agent can use as evidence if there's a deposit dispute.
9. 9Payment terms and who's actually paying — a tenant paying you privately is a different conversation from a letting agent settling on a monthly account.

The deposit law most quotes get wrong

A huge number of tenancy agreements still contain a clause requiring the outgoing tenant to pay for a "professional end of tenancy clean". Under the Tenant Fees Act 2019, that clause is unenforceable. A landlord can hold a tenant to a professional standard of cleanliness — if the property was professionally cleaned before they moved in, they can be expected to hand it back the same way — but a landlord cannot require the tenant to pay for a professional clean, and cannot nominate a specific cleaning company the tenant must use and pay. Any charge that falls outside the Act's list of "permitted payments" is a prohibited payment, and enforcement carries a civil penalty of up to £5,000, rising to an unlimited fine for repeat breaches.

This doesn't change your day-to-day work if a landlord or letting agent instructs and pays you directly — that's an ordinary commercial arrangement, not a fee charged to a tenant, and nothing about the Act touches it. Where it matters is marketing and expectations: don't imply to a tenant that their tenancy agreement forces them to book you specifically, because it legally can't. What you're actually selling is the thing that genuinely protects their deposit — a professional-standard clean with evidence to prove it — not a contractual obligation that doesn't exist.

Why cleaning causes more deposit disputes than anything else

Cleaning is the single most common reason tenancy deposit disputes get referred to an adjudicator — cited in 42% of cases referred to The Dispute Service in the most recent year it published a full breakdown, ahead of property damage, redecoration and gardening combined. The National Residential Landlords Association's own guidance for preventing these disputes comes down to one principle: the property should be returned to the standard it's documented as having at check-in, with evidence on both ends — a proper check-in inventory describing the original condition, and an end-of- tenancy report or receipt showing what was done at check-out, ideally with photos.

That's exactly the gap a dated, itemised completion certificate fills — not a vague receipt that just says "cleaning", but a document listing the rooms covered, the standard worked to, and the date. It's useful to the tenant as deposit evidence, useful to the landlord or agent as proof of condition at handover, and it's the single most effective thing you can hand over to turn a one-off booking into a letting agent's go-to cleaner for every property they manage.

How to price the work

UK end of tenancy pricing varies by property size and region. These are a fair starting point for 2026:

• Studio or 1-bed flat: £120–£200 outside London, £150–£280 in London and the South East.
• 2-bed flat or house: £200–£300 outside London, £250–£375 in London and the South East.
• 3-bed house: £300–£450 outside London, £375–£560 in London and the South East.
• 4-bed house: £450–£600 outside London, £560–£750 in London and the South East.
• Add-ons, priced separately rather than folded in: oven clean £50–£75, carpet clean £25–£40 per room, interior windows £20–£45, upholstery or a sofa clean £40–£90 per item, balcony or patio £25–£50.

A worked example

A 2-bed flat, cleaned against the letting agent's own check-out checklist, with carpet and oven add-ons requested by the agent:

£405 for a 2-bed flat, cleaned against the letting agent's own checklist, with oven and two-room carpet cleaning as agreed add-ons and interior windows included. Free re-clean of any flagged area within 48 hours of check-out. A dated completion certificate listing every room covered is issued on finishing, for the tenant's and agent's records.

Five details that get end of tenancy quotes accepted faster

• Quote to the agent's own checklist, not a generic clean. Most letting agents and managing agents have a house-standard inventory checklist. Asking for it and pricing against it — rather than a one-line "end of tenancy clean" — signals you've done this before and removes the single biggest source of post-clean disagreement.
• Put a re-clean guarantee in writing, with a time limit. "Free re-clean of any flagged area within 48 hours of check-out" on the quote costs you almost nothing most of the time and removes the tenant's biggest fear — paying twice because a clean didn't pass inspection.
• Hand over a dated completion certificate, not just an invoice. A simple one-page "cleaned to [standard] on [date], rooms covered: [list]" document is the exact kind of evidence a deposit scheme adjudicator wants to see — and it's the difference between a tenant recommending you and never thinking about you again.
• Separate the add-ons instead of guessing a round number. "£260, plus oven £60 and carpets £90 if needed" reads as considered pricing a client can say yes to selectively. A flat "£400 for everything" invites exactly the kind of haggling a scoped list avoids.
• Promise the standard of the clean, not the outcome of the inspection. Be upfront that you can guarantee the property is cleaned to a professional standard, not that a specific landlord will sign off the inspection — it's an honest line that protects you if an unrelated issue (damage, missing items) causes a deduction that was never about cleaning.

The fastest way to do all of this

A single end of tenancy job is easy enough to quote from memory. A full diary of them — each against a different agent's checklist, with its own add-ons, re-clean terms and a completion certificate to issue afterwards — is exactly the kind of thing that turns into a half-remembered WhatsApp thread instead of something either side can point back to if a deposit dispute lands weeks later.

This is what QuoteRocket is for. Describe the job in plain English — "2-bed flat end of tenancy clean, agent checklist, oven and 2-room carpet add-on, 48-hour re-clean guarantee" — and it turns that into a branded, itemised PDF quote in under a minute. Your client accepts it with one tap on their phone, and an accepted quote becomes an invoice in one click — the same branded document doubling as the dated, itemised record that protects everyone if the deposit is ever disputed.

Whichever way you produce the quote, the principle holds: itemise the rooms and add-ons, quote to the agent's actual checklist rather than a generic deep clean, and hand over proof of what was done — not just an invoice for what was charged.

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