End of Tenancy Cleaning in Kensal Green

Ground-floor garden flat in a Victorian terrace a few streets off College Road — the quiet residential part of NW10 where the terraces are painted in blues and greens and the front gardens have box hedging. Two bedrooms, bathroom, open-plan kitchen-living room, own entrance from a tiled path, and a private garden at the rear. A couple — she edited documentaries in Soho, he designed for a furniture studio in Hackney Wick — 18 months at £1,900. Winkworth managing from their Kensal Rise office on the corner.

Visitor permit via the Brent app. Parked two streets over. Kit through the own entrance — no communal stairs on a garden flat.

Kitchen-living room. About 16ft by 14ft. Open-plan, the kitchen along the left wall. High ceiling for a ground floor — maybe 2.7 metres. The renovation had character: the landlord had stripped the original floorboards and painted them pale grey. The walls were white, the kitchen was dark green — the kind of flat that ends up in a magazine. Integrated oven, Smeg. Door off, glass out, sprayed. 15 minutes. One pass — 18 months, a couple who cooked with ambition on weekends but ate out during the week. Gas hob: four burners. Extractor: recessed. Worktop: marble-effect quartz. Fridge-freezer: integrated.

The floor. Stripped Victorian boards painted pale grey. Specialist product — painted boards need a non-abrasive cleaner that doesn't dull the finish or leave marks. Mopped in sections, dried between passes. Different from varnished boards (which tolerate more moisture) and different from oiled boards (which need reapplication). 10 minutes for the floor alone.

Two sash windows facing the front garden through the railings. Cleaned per pane. Sills wiped.

Fireplace: original Victorian — a simple cast-iron insert with an arched opening, no surround, just painted plaster either side. The plaster had been painted the same white as the walls. Insert: dry-wiped. Hearth: slate, pH-neutral. 5 minutes.

Bathroom. Walk-in shower with metro tiles, wall-hung basin, wall-hung toilet. Modern throughout. ~265 ppm, 18 months, two people. One pass. Shower: tiled, grouting checked. Chrome polished. Floor: hexagonal mosaic, pH-neutral. 12 minutes.

Two bedrooms. Front: double, bay window at pavement level through the railings. Painted boards — same pale grey. Rear: double, French doors to the garden. Painted boards. Both straightforward.

Private garden. About 25ft. Accessed from the rear bedroom. Patio: flagstone, swept. Garden threshold at the French doors: leaf debris from the cemetery trees beyond the back fence. Cleaned.

3 hours. Two people. The painted floors are where the care goes — the wrong product dulls the finish and the checkout fails. The rest is a well-maintained creative let in a well-renovated NW10 conversion.

Winkworth come next morning. Their NW10 person handles College Road, Bathurst Gardens, and the Chamberlayne conversions — she's been working Kensal for 8 years. Smeg: opened. Painted floors: inspected — no marks, no dulling. Fireplace: insert dry. Bay: per pane. Shower: grouting checked. Garden: patio swept, threshold clear. 6 minutes. Passed.

Deposit back in 5 days. Full return. Couple moving to a 2-bed first-floor flat in Queens Park — more space, still on the Bakerloo.

Kensal Green is where NW10's Victorian bones meet the creative renovation. The floors are stripped and painted, the kitchens are dark green, and the cemetery trees drop leaves over the garden fence. We clean the painted boards with the right product and we don't dull the finish. Our guide on deposit dispute evidence covers painted-floor documentation and garden-flat features.