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Move-In and Move-Out Cleaning
Move-out cleaning returns premises to the condition the lease requires. Move-in cleaning prepares empty space before furniture and staff arrive. Both are done with the space empty, which is what makes them achievable at all.
These are the same job pointed in opposite directions, and both are far easier than cleaning an occupied space because everything is accessible.
Move-Out: Read the Lease First
The standard you are cleaning to is not a cleaning standard. It is whatever your lease says, and lease language on surrender condition varies considerably. Some require broom-clean. Some require the premises returned to the condition at commencement, fair wear excepted, which is a materially higher bar and frequently includes removing installations you added.
Get the clause in front of you before commissioning anything, because the difference between those two standards is large, and a deposit dispute over surrender condition is decided by the clause rather than by how clean the floor looks.
Move-In: The Window Is Narrower Than It Looks
Move-in cleaning has to happen after any works and before furniture arrives, and that gap is frequently a single day because both ends are controlled by other people. Book it as early as the programme allows, and understand that cleaning around delivered furniture is a different and worse job than cleaning an empty floor.
What Both Stages Share
Empty premises expose everything that occupied premises hide. The floor under the desk that has not moved in four years, the wall behind the filing cabinet, the inside of the built-in cupboard. This is the only time any of it is reachable, which is why it is worth specifying properly rather than treating as a formality.
What Is Included
- Full clean of empty premises, all surfaces accessible
- Interior of built-in storage, cupboards and fitted units
- Floor cleaning and restoration where specified
- Restrooms and pantries cleaned to surrender standard
- Internal glazing, frames and partitions
- Removal of adhesive residue, labels and wall fixings marks where achievable
What Is Not Included Unless You Ask for It
This list is here on purpose. When a client and a contractor fall out, the cause is almost always an item each side believed the other had taken care of. Reading it now costs a minute; discovering it in month three costs considerably more.
- Removal of furniture, equipment or tenant installations
- Making good: patching, filling, painting or repair
- Disposal of abandoned furniture and fixtures
- Works required by the lease that are not cleaning
- Cleaning around delivered furniture at move-in rates
Get This Specified
Tell us about the premises and we will attend, survey them, and set out the scope, the exclusions and the labour-hours behind the figure in one document.
Move-In / Move-Out Cleaning — Request a Survey
We attend, survey the premises, and set out the specification and the labour-hours behind it in writing.
Every enquiry receives a reply. Where your managing agent requires a Certificate of Insurance or vendor registration before access is granted, we complete that paperwork ahead of the first shift.
Move-In / Move-Out Cleaning: Frequently Asked Questions
What standard does a move-out clean need to reach?
Whatever the surrender clause in your lease specifies. Broom-clean and condition-at-commencement are very different obligations. Read the clause before commissioning the work.
Do you remove abandoned furniture?
No. That is a removal contractor, and it needs to happen before we attend.
Request a Survey of Your Premises
Tell us the nature of the premises and the hours during which they are available. We attend, survey them, and set out the specification and the labour-hours behind it in writing.