subject: House Cleaning Professional Tips [print this page] Why is cleaning your rental property at the end of your tenancy agreement so crucial in the UK. If you want your deposit back in full from the TDS I suggest you hire a professional end of tenancy cleaning company who specialises in end of tenancy cleaning.
By hiring a professional cleaning company who cleans rental properties they will know to what standard the property needs to be cleaned to. An exceptionally clean, spot less property is required otherwise the Inventory clerk responsible for the check out will record the property as not professionally cleaned.
The impact of this being a few hundred pounds will be deducted from rental deposit which is held by a tenancy deposit scheme. Most rental contracts will require the carpets to be professionally cleaned also, so make sure you comply fully with your contract. If you decide on cleaning your property yourself here's a few tips and tricks to employ when cleaning.
Do don't need many cleaning chemicals to do a professional job, just avoid household bleach. The only time to use bleach is down toilets, that's it. Stick to branded ready mixed chemicals like the ones I have mentioned below.
My advice would be to visit your local pound shop and pound land, you can buy all you need for 10-15. You will need a cheap mop, couple of buckets, furniture polish, a kitchen degreaser spray, bathroom cleaner, and couple of general cleaning sprays, window cleaner, floor cleaner and baby oil which is good for cleaning stainless steel. Then you need a few cleaning sponges, a pack of scourers and lots of kitchen roll. If you can get hold of the blue roll which you see in washrooms, then is absolutely ideal.
Regarding cleaning techniques, the basis is hard work plenty of scrubbing and keep washing out your sponges and scourers. After you clean each item always dry and wipe clean with the kitchen roll. Pay attention to the kitchen and bathroom especially the lime scale on taps. Make sure there's no water marks left on the taps, sink and shower screen. Lime scale can be very difficult to remove, not all lime scale can be removed. When cleaning lime scale off chrome taps be very careful and don't use a harsh cleaning product since it could strip the chrome off the tap.
