An empty home is the only time everything is reachable. No furniture to work around, no belongings to move twice. It is the easiest home to clean well and the worst one to clean badly, because there is nothing left to hide behind.
Move out cleaning is a deep clean done on empty rooms, which is why it is priced as one. If the rooms are not empty yet because the sorting has not happened, that part is organizing and packing, and it comes first. Landlords and agents usually want the appliances and the insides of cabinets done, so say if there is an inspection to pass and we will work to it.
Most people look for move out cleaning services once a date is already fixed, so tell us the day the keys change hands and we will work back from it. If you want move out services beyond the cleaning itself, the packing and the sorting are ours too.
How long it takes depends on four things: how many bathrooms there are, what state the oven is in, how long it has been since the last proper clean, and how many flights of stairs the work is spread over. Those are the same four things that decide the price, which is why we ask about them before quoting rather than after.
Kitchen. Inside and outside of every cabinet and drawer. Inside the oven, including the racks and the door glass. Inside the fridge and freezer, and behind them. The hood and its filter where the filter lifts out. The dishwasher seal and filter. Sink, taps and splashback. Counters, and the floor out to the edges rather than to the furniture.
Bathrooms. Inside the vanity and the drawers. The shower screen and the tiles, with the grout scrubbed where it has gone dark. The bath, the toilet including behind it and around the base, the extractor cover, the mirror. Taps and shower heads descaled. Floor and edges.
Bedrooms and living rooms. Inside the closets and along their shelves. Interior glass, sills and the window tracks, which hold more than anything else in the room. Door frames, doors and handles. Switches and sockets. Radiators, baseboards, and light fittings at a normal ceiling height. Floors vacuumed and washed to the walls.
Everywhere else. Cobwebs. The hallway, the stairs, the banister and the spindles. The inside of the front door, which is the one surface every visitor touches and nobody cleans.
Landlords and agents look at the same short list almost every time: the oven, the inside of the fridge, the insides of the cabinets, limescale in the bathroom, the window tracks and the floor at the edges. If there is an inspection with a deposit attached to it, tell us and we start from that list rather than finish with it.
Tell us about your home and we will come back with a price.