Top Tips for Professional standard cleaning

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Seeking advice - if there is a good thread already in existence or other webpage etc then I'd be grateful for the help.

We move next week. DH and I are both taking 2 days off to pack, the third day he is going with the van and I am staying to clean top to bottom.

We had a warning letter to saywe will be fined if we leave the rental in anything less than a professional standard. DH is hiring a steam cleaner for the carpets but I want that to be the last thing we do. I'm deep cleaning the bathroom and the kitchen this weekend. The deposit on this place is giant (almost 2k) and it will pay for our kitchen revamp and new sofa in teh new house :)

thank you in advance

ecloths are wonderful, I'm a recent convert. You don't use any chemicals with them but they still cut through the grease and any build up from previous cleaning chemical use. When I first used them I felt that it brought things that I thought were clean up like new. You get various kits but they all seem to revolve round the bumpy microfibre cloth for cleaning and the smooth chamois type cloth for polishing.

Tackle each room in a systematic way. The way that housekeepers are trained in 5star hotels etc is 'top to bottom, left to right'
Attack each room in the same way dusting ceiling and walls to get rid of spider webs etc. Then jif for marks on walls.
Go around door frames, cornices, cupboards inside and out. Window frames, windows. Clean doors and handles.
Down to skirting boards etc.
Hoovering/ cleaning carpet/ floors last.

for the grills why dont you soak them in bio washing powder for an hour or more,i do this with the oven racks in my large kitchen sink,is very effective and cheap

good luck with the move

Brilliant tip on moving around the room - I'll use that one long term.

Ok. so.

• Oven sprayed then cleaned after 4 hours
• Extractor grills in 50% of the oven brite solution
• Family Bathroom deep cleaned and all limescale from under and in taps removed
• Ensuites deep cleaned
• All upstairs doors (7) wiped down with baby wipes, front and back, all door frames, all light switches and visible skirting boards
• Oven sprayed again and let for 3 hours - DH wiped it over this evening and left it overnight with another application

Tomorrow I intend to;

• clean out the fridge and freezer.
• DH to hoover all carpets properly including the edges
• Clothes in all wardrobes sorted and packed

well I've learnt a few new cleaning tricks today!

DH got off his arse and did about four hours in the garden. poor dd is poorly so I had to look after her rather than have her play as I worked. I did however manage to do a couple of hours on the kitchen.

I have found Cif on baby wipes is excellent to clean the dust grease layer on the boob and kitchen shelves. the rental has in places never been cleaned properly so I'm doing my y best. tomorrow I'm doing all the tiny tiles which make up the walls. think toothbrush is only option. I can see doing cupboards will be a n hour or twos job!

I don't think your boob needs to be dusted and degreased!

Yes if the Landlord asks to inspect your boob he is definitly out of order .

Will remember the tip for next time my boobs get dusty though....

smirk. what I was trying to say was 'hob'

Am appalled at massive cleaning involved to regain deposit, and wish you well, but please do try to accompany who-ever is inspecting or be prepared to negotiate, as there are some landlords/ladies who always manage to find reason for a deduction.

A solution of bio washing powder is a fantastic degreaser. It did an amazing job on my kitchen cupboards and the extractor grill.

If you use professional cleaners, check their work VERY thoroughly. In our last rental in Australia, the lease said we had to use professionals for venetian blinds and carpets. We engaged someone else to do the rest. We tidied up, moved out. When we came back, the carpets and blinds were fabulous, though I could have done a far better job of the general cleaning.

I'd put a lovely antique brass fireguard of the landlords' in a wardrobe to be out of the way, also a couple of items of ours got left in the move. My items were put in a box and left out for me. The fireguard was gone. I phoned the agents to tell them. They suggested phoning the cleaner. She'd taken it home with her "to keep it safe. . From what? the house was still ours until 3 days later, and time enough to make good all her crap work!

It was returned the next day, but the agents were horrified, as she was recommended by them.

Bloody wrong use of the apostrophe.