End of tenancy cleaning cost Glasgow: real rate card

End of tenancy cleaning cost Glasgow tenants face in 2026 typically lands between £160 for a studio flat and £520 for a four-bed house, with most one and two-bed flats sitting in the £200 to £320 band. The spread comes down to three things: the floor area, the condition you hand it back in, and the add-ons (oven, carpets, walls, balcony) that letting agents will charge separately if you leave them. This piece pulls together a real 2026 rate card, what each line item covers, and where hourly quotes quietly become more expensive than a flat-rate clean.

What is the end of tenancy cleaning cost Glasgow tenants pay?

For a deposit-ready clean in Glasgow, expect £160 to £200 for a studio, £200 to £260 for a one-bed flat, £260 to £340 for a two-bed, £320 to £420 for a three-bed, and £400 to £520 for a four-bed house. These are flat per-property rates, not hourly, and they include all kitchen appliances, bathroom descales, internal windows and skirting work.

The reason the bands have a £40 to £80 spread is condition: a long-let flat that has had four years of cooking and a smoker on the balcony takes longer than the same flat after a six-month single tenancy.

Here is the ScrubClub Glasgow rate card we quote from, updated for 2026:

• Studio flat, standard EOT: £160 to £200
• One-bed flat: £200 to £260
• Two-bed flat: £260 to £340
• Three-bed flat or small house: £320 to £420
• Four-bed house: £400 to £520
• Five-bed and HMO: quoted after a video walkthrough

These prices assume one bathroom. Each additional bathroom adds £15 because the descale, grout work and limescale on shower screens is the slowest part of any EOT clean.

How much should I expect to pay for an end of tenancy clean?

Across Glasgow you should expect to pay between £180 and £350 for a typical one or two-bed flat, before any extras. That figure is consistent with what Checkatrade publishes for the UK average (£180 to £260 for one and two-bed flats), and it is what the larger Glasgow firms quote when you ask for a flat rate rather than an hourly figure.

The trap is the hourly quote. A £18 per hour rate sounds friendly until you realise a two-bed flat genuinely needs nine to twelve hours of solo work to pass an inspection, which puts the all-in cost at £162 to £216 before VAT and add-ons. Once oven and carpets get added, hourly almost always tips over flat-rate. Flat-rate quotes also carry a re-clean guarantee if the agent flags anything, which hourly quotes rarely do.

Standard inclusions in our flat rate

• Inside and outside of all kitchen cupboards, drawers and the fridge or freezer
• Oven, hob, extractor hood and filter degrease
• Bathroom descale, grout work, shower screen and silicone seals
• Internal windows, sills and tracks
• Skirting, doors, frames, light switches and sockets
• Wardrobe interiors and shelving
• Final vacuum, mop and a written sign-off checklist

What are the add-ons that change the final price?

Four add-ons account for roughly 90% of the variance between a £220 quote and a £380 quote: oven deep clean (when it has not been touched all tenancy), carpet steam cleaning, internal wall washing, and external windows or balconies. Each is priced as a separate line item so you can take it or leave it depending on what the inventory report flagged.

Our add-on rates for Glasgow, again as flat per-job prices:

• Oven deep clean (cavity, racks, glass, extractor filter soaked): £45 standard, £65 if heavily carbonised
• Single oven plus separate hob and microwave bundle: £75
• Carpet steam clean: £35 per room, £25 for a hallway, £80 for a typical one-bed flat
• Internal wall washing (matt emulsion, no fresh paint): £60 per room, scuff removal included
• Balcony or shared close stairs (where leased): £40 to £70 depending on depth
• Curtain or blind dust and clean: £15 to £25 per window
• Inside windows already included; external sash and case windows: £8 per pane (West End tenement standard)

Pets add a flat £20 to £40 depending on shedding levels and odour, which goes towards enzyme treatment and extra carpet passes. Mould or damp work in bathrooms is quoted on site because the chemical and time cost varies wildly.

If you want to see exactly which lines an inspector ticks (and therefore which add-ons to spend on), here is what Glasgow letting agents actually inspect, broken down by agency.

What will a cleaner do in 3 hours?

In three hours, a solo cleaner can give a small studio a thorough top-up clean, or do a kitchen-only deep clean in a larger flat, but they cannot deliver a deposit-ready end of tenancy result on anything bigger than a studio. EOT work is volume work: a one-bed flat needs nine to twelve labour hours minimum, and a three-bed house needs eighteen to twenty-four.

Three hours is what you book for a regular fortnightly clean, not a move-out.

Here is roughly what fits inside three hours, by service type:

• Regular domestic clean of a one-bed flat, top to bottom
• Kitchen deep clean only, including oven and hob, in a one-bed flat
• Bathroom deep clean only, in a two-bath flat
• Studio EOT for a tidy single-tenant flat, just about, with no extras

If a cleaning firm is quoting you three hours for a two-bed EOT, what they are quoting is a regular clean rebranded. The inspection will flag it within an hour of you handing the keys back.

Is 20 an hour a lot for a cleaner?

For a fully insured, employed Glasgow cleaner on PAYE with materials supplied, £20 an hour is on the lower end of fair, not high. Once employer NI, holiday pay, public liability insurance, equipment, travel between West End and Southside jobs, and the operational overhead of scheduling are added, the actual cost to a reputable firm is between £18 and £24 per hour.

Anything below £15 is either cash-in-hand, uninsured, or both, which is a deposit risk if something goes wrong.

The Reddit thread on r/glasgow that often comes up in this search has a few horror stories of cleaners trying to charge £90 for a full EOT, then leaving the oven untouched. That is the bottom of the market. The deposit scheme adjudicators will side with the agent if the inventory photos show a £90 oven that should have been £45 to clean properly.

What will letting agents charge if I skip the clean?

Glasgow letting agents will typically deduct £180 to £450 from your deposit for an unclean flat, and they do not use the rates above. They use their preferred contractor rates, which run 30 to 60% above market because the agent takes a margin and the contractor knows the tenant is not the one approving the invoice.

From inventory reports we have seen in West End and Southside flats over the last 12 months, the most common deductions look like this:

• Oven left dirty: £55 to £95 deducted (vs. £45 to £65 paid directly)
• Carpets not cleaned: £120 to £180 for a one-bed flat (vs. £80 booked directly)
• Full EOT clean missed entirely on a two-bed: £320 to £450 (vs. £260 to £340 booked directly)
• Limescale on shower screen flagged: £40 to £60 (vs. included in any EOT booking)
• Bins left or food in fridge: £25 to £50 plus the cleaning cost

On a two-bed in G12 or G41, the median "clean it yourself badly, let the agent re-do it" outcome we see is around £380 against a flat-rate clean of £280. So the agent route costs an extra £100, with the added downside that you are arguing the deduction through the Safe Deposits Scotland adjudication process for six to eight weeks rather than getting your money back in the standard ten days.

How do Glasgow EOT prices vary by neighbourhood?

Prices are broadly flat across the city, but two structural factors push the West End and parts of the Southside up by around 5 to 10%: sandstone tenement flats have more ornate cornicing, deeper skirting, and original sash and case windows, all of which take longer to clean than a 2010 new-build in the East End. The other factor is parking.

A van pass for residents-only zones in G11, G12 and G41 adds a real time cost.

Rough adjustments we apply for Glasgow neighbourhoods:

• West End (G11, G12, G3 sandstone): +5 to 10% on the base rate, includes sash window allowance
• Southside (G41, G42, G43 tenements): +5%, similar window and cornice profile
• City centre new-builds (G1, G2): base rate, fewer architectural quirks
• Bearsden, Newton Mearns and outer suburbs: base rate plus a £15 travel surcharge for the further drive
• East End and Dennistoun (G31, G32): base rate, generally faster jobs

The full per-service rate card with no surprise extras lives on our pricing page, and the flat per-property model means the quote you see at booking is the quote you pay.

When is it worth paying for the more expensive end of tenancy clean?

It is worth paying the higher end of the band when your deposit is more than three times the clean price, when the inventory report is detailed (most West End and Newton Mearns agencies do detailed reports), or when the flat has been lived in for two years or more. Below those thresholds, the gap between a £220 clean and a £320 clean is mostly oven and carpet add-ons, which you can buy individually.

A simple rule we use when quoting: if any of these three are true, take the full clean with all standard add-ons.

1. Your deposit is £900 or more (most Glasgow two-beds and up)
2. You have lived there 18 months or longer, particularly with pets or smokers
3. The agent is Western Lettings, Rettie, Northwood or any of the city's pickier firms with a reputation for detailed inspection reports

Eight years cleaning Glasgow tenements has taught the ScrubClub team that the cheaper-looking quotes almost always cost more by the time the inventory report comes back. The flat-rate model exists precisely so you can compare on a like-for-like basis.

What is included in the ScrubClub end of tenancy guarantee?

Every flat-rate EOT clean we book comes with a 72-hour re-clean guarantee. If the letting agent or inventory clerk flags any of the items on our checklist after the clean, we come back free of charge to redo those specific items, and we provide a dated photo record of the original clean for the deposit scheme if it goes to adjudication.

The guarantee covers everything on the standard EOT checklist. It does not cover damage, repairs, or anything not on the cleaning checklist (broken blinds, scuff marks deeper than emulsion, lost keys). For those, you are looking at the agent's separate handyman rate, which is a different conversation.

For the full move-out method we follow on every job, the Glasgow move in cleaning checklist covers the mirror version from the incoming tenant's side, useful if you want to know what the next person will check.

How do I get an accurate quote for my Glasgow flat?

The quickest accurate quote needs four pieces of information: number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, condition (good, fair, poor) and the add-ons you want priced (oven, carpets, walls, balcony). We quote in 60 seconds online for studios through four-beds.

Anything larger or any HMO we send a short video walkthrough request so we can rate-card it without surprises.

If you are choosing between several Glasgow firms, ask each one for three things in writing: the flat per-property rate, the named add-ons with prices, and the re-clean guarantee window. The firms that hesitate on any of the three are usually the hourly-rate ones that get expensive once the clock starts. You can also see what other Glasgow customers say about the EOT work on the team's Google reviews before you commit.

When you are ready, get a quote in 60 seconds and the price you see at booking is the price you pay.