End of Tenancy Cleaning: The Two Jobs Letting Agents Check First

Anyone who has rented knows the checkout routine. The inventory clerk walks the property with the original report, photographs everything, and compares. Most of the report passes without comment. Two items almost never do: the inside of the oven and the state of the carpets.

Why these two?

Because they are the two things a normal domestic clean cannot fully restore. Baked-on carbon in an oven and trodden-in traffic lanes on a carpet do not respond to a weekend of scrubbing. Clerks know it, agents know it, and deposit adjudicators see the same photographs every week. They are also the two items where a professional receipt settles the argument before it starts.

What a professional changeover clean involves

• The oven stripped down and cleaned in place, racks and trays in a gel bath, from £75
• Carpets deep cleaned room by room with professional extraction, from £95
• Both jobs done in a single visit, usually within a few hours
• An itemised invoice you can hand straight to the agent or file against the tenancy

Timing the visit

The clean sits best between the final moving day and the checkout inspection. Carpets are dry within hours, so even a tight gap between tenancies is workable. For landlords and agents running several properties, we schedule back to back visits with one point of contact and one invoice, which is most of the reason summer changeover season keeps our vans across Manchester, Liverpool and Warrington.

If a checkout is coming up, send us the property size and date and we will confirm a fixed price and a slot that fits.