The whole property to check-out standard, inside and out. And unlike most cleaners, we're licensed to take the waste away.
Two universities and a college means several thousand tenancies ending within the same few weeks each summer. Around St Stephen’s, Hales Place, Wincheap and out along the Whitstable Road, whole streets turn over at once, and every landlord and agent in the city wants the same fortnight in July.
Student houses also come with their own issues. Shared kitchens that have taken a year of proper use, gardens nobody has touched since September, and a fair amount left behind at the door. That’s a different job to a family let, and it’s usually a bigger one.
Alongside that there’s the city’s period housing, much of it converted into flats and a good deal of it listed or in a conservation area, plus family lets out at Sturry, Blean and towards the coast.
Book early for the summer window. It’s the busiest fortnight of our year in this part of Kent.
End of Tenancy Cleaning
Cleaned to check-out standard, not domestic standard.
There’s a difference between a property that looks tidy and one that passes an inventory check. The second means inside the appliances, behind them, and all the places a weekly clean skips.
Kitchen: oven, hob, extractor, inside and behind appliances, cupboards inside and out, worktops and splashbacks
Bathrooms: limescale, grout, shower screens, sanitaryware, extractor fans
All rooms: skirting, sockets and switches, door frames, light fittings, radiators
Windows cleaned internally, including frames and sills
Floors vacuumed and mopped throughout
On a shared house the kitchen and bathrooms take the bulk of the time. Worth telling us the bedroom count when you call, since a six-bed HMO is a very different job to a two-bed flat.
Inventory clerks photograph the outside of the property as well as the inside.
A green patio, a mossy path and streaked windows all end up in the check-out report, and none of them get touched by a standard end of tenancy clean.
Gutters are worth a particular mention on student lets, since they’re the one thing nobody has looked at in a year. And because we work from the ground with a reach pole rather than ladders, we can handle the city centre terraces where access is a shared alley or straight through the house.
Because exterior cleaning is our main business, we do both on the same booking:
This is the one that matters most on a student property.
Anyone carrying waste from someone else’s property in England needs to be a registered waste carrier. Plenty of cleaning firms aren’t, which is why what gets left behind ends up in bags by the bins for the landlord to deal with.
We work alongside our sister company, Kent Clearance, which holds an Upper Tier waste carrier registration with the Environment Agency, number CBDU560725. That means anything cleared out during the clean can be taken away and disposed of properly, with a transfer note if you need one for your records.
On a student house in July that’s usually the bigger half of the job. Mattresses, broken furniture, bags of kitchen equipment and whatever has been left in the garden all year. Tell us what’s there when you book and we’ll price it in.
Where we cover
Wincheap, Northgate, St Dunstan’s, St Stephen’s, Hales Place, Thanington and Harbledown, plus Whitstable, Tankerton, Herne Bay, Chestfield, Sturry, Chartham, Bridge, Bekesbourne, Littlebourne and Blean.
We also work right across the rest of Kent, including Ashford, Folkestone, Maidstone, Medway, Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks and Dartford.
Not sure if we come out your way? Give us a call and we’ll tell you straight away.
We also cover Tonbridge, Dover, Deal and everywhere in between.
End of Tenancy Cleaning
The things people ask most before booking.
Tell us what needs cleaning and we’ll come and look at it. No charge, no obligation, and a fixed price in writing before anything starts.
Yes, and a lot of our Canterbury work is exactly that. Tell us the bedroom count when you call, since a six-bed shared house is a very different job to a two-bed flat. July is our busiest fortnight here, so book as early as you can.
Yes. Our sister company Kent Clearance is a registered Upper Tier waste carrier with the Environment Agency, registration CBDU560725, so we can legally remove and dispose of waste from the property. Most end of tenancy cleaners can't, which is why it usually gets left for the landlord.
Yes, and that's the main thing that sets us apart. Most end of tenancy firms only do the inside. Because exterior cleaning is our core business, we can clear the gutters, clean the driveway and do the windows properly as part of the same booking.
Yes. Because we work from the ground with a reach pole rather than ladders, narrow streets and restricted parking are less of a problem than they'd otherwise be. Let us know when you book if access is particularly tight or the property is listed.
Yes. We work with letting agents across Canterbury and can invoice whichever party is arranging the work.
