End of tenancy cleaning across Islington
From £156 for a studio, fixed by bedrooms, for Islington tenants and landlords, including the seven wards that enter selective licensing on 23 November 2026.
Prices checked October 2026
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Islington’s new selective licensing scheme reaches seven wards on 23 November 2026, and an end of tenancy clean here costs from £156 for a studio flat, priced by the number of bedrooms.
One bedroom is £207, two £243, three £339 and four £425. The borough is mostly flats (83.7% of households at the 2021 Census), and the table below sets each kind of home against the way it is priced.
Islington homes and how each is priced
| Home | Share of Islington households (Census 2021) | End of tenancy price |
|---|---|---|
| Flat in a purpose-built block | 57.4% | By bedrooms, £156 for a studio up to £243 for two bedrooms |
| Flat in a converted or shared house | 21.3% | By bedrooms; a house let room by room is priced per room |
| Flat in another converted building, or in a commercial building | 5.0% | By bedrooms |
| Terraced house | 12.7% | By bedrooms, £339 for three and £425 for four |
| Semi or detached house | 3.6% | By bedrooms, confirmed against the house on the call |
The bedroom count sets the price in every row. What changes is the shape of the day: a terraced house puts stairs and two or three floors into the job, while a flat in a block may mean a lift, a long corridor and a bin store on the ground floor.
Selective licensing from 23 November 2026
Islington runs three licensing schemes for private landlords. Mandatory licensing is for HMOs with 5 or more unrelated people and additional licensing for those with 3 or 4. Selective licensing is the third, and it reaches ordinary private lets in named wards: a home let to one person, to two people sharing or to a single household.
A new selective designation was signed on 21 August 2026. It takes in private rented homes in Barnsbury, Caledonian, Highbury, Junction, Laycock, Mildmay and Tufnell Park wards from 23 November 2026 until 22 November 2031, and the council began taking applications on 7 September 2026. The 2024 designation for Finsbury Park, Hillrise and Tollington carries on beside it. The council’s licensing page has the conditions.
Of the three wards around Angel, only Barnsbury joins the new scheme; St Peter’s and Canalside and St Mary’s and St James’ sit outside both designations. Landlords in Highbury and Angel should check the ward itself, since a postcode can straddle two.
Parking and Arsenal match days
Controlled parking zones cover all of Islington, each on its own hours. Most are controlled from 8.30am to 6.30pm on weekdays, some on Saturdays too; zones C and K run around the clock, and zones D, G, HE, TW, U and Z have short daytime windows.
A move-out clean fills most of a day, so the fixture list matters near the Emirates Stadium. Arsenal home games and big events bring extra controls in zones E, F, G, H, J, L, N, Q and V, and the bays on Drayton Park between Benwell Road and Bryantwood Road can be taken for coach parking. The council tells visitors to use public transport on match days. If your check-out lands on one, say so when we ring back and we can look at the day either side.
Clearing the flat first
Islington collects household bulky waste at £10.82 an item, with a three-item minimum and no more than 10 items a time. Two tied black sacks count as one item, residents on Housing Benefit or Council Tax Support pay half, and everything has to be at ground level at the front of the property by 7am on the day. Book the collection for before the cleaning day, so the cleaners start on empty floors.
An end of tenancy clean covers the inside of everything
An end of tenancy clean is a single visit to an empty flat or house, timed between moving out and the check-out, that returns each room to the condition recorded on the check-in inventory. It goes inside the things a weekly clean leaves shut: cupboards, drawers, wardrobes, the fridge and the window frames.
In the kitchen the cleaners degrease the hob, splashback and extractor grille, wash the fridge and freezer once you have emptied and defrosted them, and clean every cupboard inside and out. In the bathroom they descale the taps, shower head and screen, scrub the grout and clean the toilet, bath and basin. Everywhere else it is skirting boards, doors, frames, switches, radiators, the inside of the windows and the sills, with the floors done last.
The oven is an extra at £31 for a single or £62 for a double or 90cm range: racks, trays and shelf supports are soaked, and the cavity, glass and seals are cleaned by hand. Carpets are £29 a bedroom and £36 for the living room, by hot water extraction. We bring the equipment and the products; you keep the water and electricity on.
If the inventory clerk or letting agent marks something we cleaned, tell us within 48 hours and we return to put it right at no charge.
End of tenancy prices for Islington
Each price is fixed by bedrooms and checked against the home when we ring back, and a shared house is priced by the room. The London price list shows carpets, ovens and every other service.
Where there is no free parking, the street parking cost on the day is added, up to £40.
| What | Price | How it is priced |
|---|---|---|
| Studio flat | £156 | Fixed price for the whole home, kitchen and bathroom included |
| 1-bedroom home | £207 | Fixed price for the whole home, kitchen and bathroom included |
| 2-bedroom home | £243 | Fixed price for the whole home, kitchen and bathroom included |
| 3-bedroom home | £339 | Fixed price for the whole home, kitchen and bathroom included |
| 4-bedroom home | £425 | Fixed price for the whole home, kitchen and bathroom included |
| Oven added to the clean | £31 | Double oven or range £62 |
| Carpets added to the clean | £29 a bedroom | Living room £36 |
One-off work starts at £67.
Booking an Islington move-out clean
Send the form or ring 020 3734 1438 with the postcode, the bedrooms and the check-out date. We call you back to agree the day and the price; a 50% deposit secures it, and the balance is due once the clean is finished. The line is open 8am to 7pm, seven days, and you can ring any time.
More on deposits and check-outs is on the end of tenancy cleaning page for London, and regular cleaning in the borough is on the Islington cleaning services page.
Carpets and ovens in Islington
For the same address, carpet cleaning in Islington and oven cleaning each have a page of their own.
Moving-out cleans in nearby boroughs
The boroughs that border Islington have end of tenancy pages of their own.
- City of LondonEC2V
- CamdenNW1
- HackneyE8
Islington end of tenancy questions
I let a one-bed flat in Highbury ward. Does selective licensing apply?
From 23 November 2026 a private let to one person, two sharers or a single household in Highbury ward falls under the selective scheme, and applications opened on 7 September 2026. A let to 3 or 4 unrelated people comes under additional licensing instead.
Do you cover EC1V as well as the N postcodes?
Yes. We work across N1, N5, N7, N19 and EC1V, which takes in the whole borough from Finsbury and Clerkenwell up to Highbury and Holloway.
Can the cleaners come on an Arsenal match day?
They can, though parking in zones E, F, G, H, J, L, N, Q and V is tighter while the extra controls apply. Give us the date when we ring back and we will check it against the fixtures.
What happens to the bags the tenant left behind?
Book an Islington bulky waste collection before the clean. Two tied black sacks count as one item at £10.82, and the council takes up to 10 items in one go.
Is a shared house cleaned at the bedroom price?
A house let room by room is priced per room, counting each let bedroom and adding the shared kitchen and bathroom once. You get the figure on the call back, before any deposit.
Ring 020 3734 1438 with the Islington postcode and your check-out date.