End of tenancy can be a tedious and tiring period for many tenants as they are required to vacant the unit on a specific date and return the unit to the landlord in a handover condition.
While trying to source for a new place to move in and juggling with the end tenancy details and terms, most tenants tend to find themselves squeezed for time.
Having worked with thousands of tenants for their end tenancy cleaning, below will be details we think may be useful to help you prepare for your end tenancy cleaning.
What is End Tenancy Cleaning ?
End tenancy cleaning is the process where, upon the end of your tenancy contract, you engage a cleaning company to assist your moving out cleaning services before returning the unit to your landlord.
The cleaning services involves will be a deep & thorough cleaning which includes cleaning of stove, hood, oven, washing machine and fridge. Specialised chemicals will be used during the cleaning to ensure that all appliances are oil & dirt free.
Most landlord will have this cleaning service requirement these days in their clause.
How Do You Prepare Your Unit for End Tenancy Cleaning ?
For some of the tenants that we work with for their handover cleaning, it may be the first time that they are working with a cleaning company. To avoid misunderstanding during the cleaning process, it is important to take note of some of the items below:
Prep 1: Engage the Right Cleaning Service
Before your actual cleaning schedule, do check with the cleaning company that you have engage the right cleaning service for the job. The last thing you want is to have the cleaners arrived but failing to bring the right chemicals and tools for your cleaning task.
In our years of cleaning, we have gotten customers engage us for other cleaning services only to realise that the service required is different. This may result in cleaners failing to bring the right tools and chemicals which will result in compromising your cleaning services which we want to avoid.
Prep 2: Empty Your Space
Having worked with thousands of tenants for their end of tenancy cleaning, we get alot of tenants still having items in the cabinets and fridge when we walk through the unit before we start our cleaning. It is important to to clear these items before cleaning as our cleaners, if not instructed, will avoid cleaning the specific cabinets with items or fridge, with food in it, to avoid misunderstanding.
The last things we want is to accidentally dispose your personal items and having to be for which would not be good for both parties.
Prep 3: Moving of Furniture & Personal Belongings
For tenants engaging our cleaning services, we have experience some tenants requesting us to assist in moving their personal belongings and furniture. Although we wouldn’t mind assisting with moving of items in most cases, our personal experience have been that if the furniture or personal belong was broken during the moving process, our cleaners are to be blamed. This would be unfair to our cleaners as they are hired for cleaning and not movers for moving your items.
In the event that our cleaners do assist you with moving your personal items and furniture, please do show some form of appreciation as moving of furniture and personal items is beyond their job scope and doing it, was out of good will.
Get Experienced End Tenancy Cleaning
Having read till the end, we hope some of the above information will be useful to you when you’re engaging your end of tenancy cleaning. Lets us help each other and make the cleaning process and joyous and happy event.
