End of Tenancy Cleaning in Basildon

End of Tenancy Cleaning in Basildon

What happens to your deposit when you leave a Basildon rental?

Your landlord compares the house with the check in inventory, proposes any deductions in writing, and you either agree or challenge them. The deposit sits in a government backed scheme the whole time, so the landlord can't simply keep it. For most tenancies it can't be more than five weeks' rent.

Within 30 days of paying, you should have been told which scheme holds it: mydeposits, the Tenancy Deposit Scheme or the Deposit Protection Service. Dig out the check in inventory before you move out. It records how clean each room was when you arrived, and that's the standard you'll be held to, not a brand new house.

If you can't agree on a cleaning charge, either side can use the scheme's free dispute service. An adjudicator reads the inventory, the check out report and any photos, then decides what's fair. Clear, dated photos of a clean house put you in a stronger position, so take a few in each room once we've finished.

What counts as fair wear and tear in a Basildon house?

Fair wear and tear is the decline you'd expect from normal living, and a landlord can't charge you for it. Dirt is different. Grease, limescale, dust and marks that a proper clean would remove can be deducted, as long as the home was clean when you moved in.

In a family house that's been lived in for several years, worn carpet on the stairs, light scuffs where furniture stood, sun faded curtains and small nail holes from pictures are usually treated as wear. Grime on the extractor, a crusted oven, a ring of scale round the bath taps or dusty skirting boards upstairs usually aren't. The longer the tenancy and the more people living there, the more wear an adjudicator will normally allow.

Our clean deals with the part you can control. Our Limescale Remover goes on the bath, basin and shower fittings, oven cleaning, if you add it, takes in the racks, trays and door glass, and every radiator and length of skirting gets wiped.

What does an end of tenancy clean include in a new town family home?

Agents check more in a house than in a flat. They go through every bedroom, the stairs and landing, the hall, the downstairs toilet and the garden doors as well as the kitchen and bathroom. In houses from the 1960s and 1970s, original woodwork, radiators and kitchen cupboards gather dust and grease over a tenancy.

We work through the lot. Upstairs that means the landing, banisters, every bedroom and the inside of built in wardrobes. Downstairs we do the kitchen units and appliances inside and out, the glass and frames of patio or garden doors, and the conservatory if you add it. Laminate, vinyl and tiled floors get hard floor cleaning right into the corners, and stained carpets can be booked in for carpet cleaning on the same visit, with upholstery cleaning too if the house was let furnished.

It's a one off clean that goes further than regular domestic cleaning, routine house cleaning or a quick tidy. It's closer to a deep clean of the kitchen and bathroom, because that's what the check out report compares, and the aim is a spotless, empty house the agent can sign off.

How do you book an end of tenancy cleaner in Basildon?

Click Get a quote, enter your postcode and tell us the number of bedrooms and bathrooms, whether the house is furnished and anything extra such as the oven or a conservatory. The form shows a fixed price before you confirm, so there's no ringing round to get quotes from several cleaning companies in Basildon.

Pick a day after your removal van has gone and a day or two before the inspection. That way your cleaner has empty rooms to work in, and there's time left in the 72 hour re clean window if the agent spots anything we should look at again.

You don't have to stay. Hand the keys to the agent, catch your c2c train from Basildon, Laindon or Pitsea and let us get on with it. Keep the driveway clear for the cleaner's car and leave the water and electricity on. If the agent raises a point from our clean, send us the report and we'll return to put it right, which gives you peace of mind once you've moved on.