Example plan · Renovation and property handover
An end of tenancy clean in Headington
An example plan for a two-bedroom first-floor flat near Headington's London Road, let through a managing agent and handed back after a three-year tenancy. It shows how the clean is built from the inventory, what is included, and how the handover to the agent works.
Family team
£5m public liability insured
Fixed scope and fee
A team sized to your home
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The flat and the check-out
Two bedrooms, one bathroom, an open-plan kitchen and living room with a laminate floor, and carpets in both bedrooms. The tenant had moved out the day before, the fridge and freezer were defrosted and switched off, and the agent's check-out inspection was booked for 2pm two days later. The tenant sent us the check-in inventory, which listed the oven, the extractor filter and the bathroom sealant as areas the agent would look at closely.
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The plan, room by room
A team of two would spend about five hours in a flat like this. The order matters: kitchen and bathroom first, because they take longest and generate the most mess, then bedrooms and living room, then floors last.
- Kitchen: oven interior, racks and door glass; hob and extractor filter degreased; every cupboard and drawer emptied of crumbs and wiped inside and out; fridge and freezer interiors; sink, taps and tiles descaled; washing machine drawer and door seal
- Bathroom: limescale removed from the shower screen, tiles and taps; grout scrubbed; sealant cleaned, with any mould noted for the agent rather than hidden; extractor cover washed; mirror and light fittings
- Bedrooms and living room: skirting, doors, frames and handles; switches and sockets; radiators front and top; wardrobe interiors and shelves; window sills and internal glass; blinds dusted slat by slat
- Floors: carpets vacuumed with edges and under the radiators done by hand, then professionally cleaned the same afternoon as the plan included carpet cleaning; laminate vacuumed and damp-mopped
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Handing back to the agent
The tenant would not be at the flat, so the plan records where keys are collected from and returned to. We would leave the flat ventilated with windows on the latch, take dated photographs of each room for the tenant's own records, and send the completed checklist and invoice by email so the tenant can forward them to the agent before the inspection.
The plan also notes what we do not do: we do not repair damage, repaint or replace sealant. Where we see something that will be picked up at check-out, we tell the tenant in time for them to arrange it.
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The fee
Renovation and property handover cleaning starts at £195. A two-bedroom flat with carpet cleaning included sits above the starting fee; the exact figure is fixed from the photographs and inventory before the day. If the agent raises a cleaning point at check-out and we hear within 48 hours, we return and put it right at no charge, provided the property has not been reoccupied.
Questions, answered
Useful details before you enquire.
01Do you need the tenant to be there?+
No. Most end of tenancy cleans happen in an empty property with keys collected from an agent, a key safe or a neighbour, as recorded in the plan.
02Can the agent book you directly?+
Yes. We work for letting agents and landlords as well as tenants, and we send the checklist and invoice to whoever instructs us.
A considered next step
Handing a property back?
Send us the inventory and a few photographs. We will confirm the scope, the date and a fixed fee, and send the checklist afterwards.
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