Was this done when you got the keys?

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We’re completing tomorrow.. I’m just finishing packing.

Should I clean the house? Obviously it’s relativley clean anyway but should I do a ‘deep clean’ of skirts etc? Or is this not expected?

I don’t want them to move in and think we’ve left it in a state

We’ve recently bought our first house and it was spotless, which was much appreciated as we had a 3 and 2 year old at the time who both had chicken pox so it was a bit fraught.
I remember moving once as a child though and the house we moved into was pretty filthy.
Some people deep clean, some don’t. I’d try and leave mine in the best state possible I think.

Me too - imagine how you'll feel when you move into your new place and discover you need to give everywhere a good clean before you can unpack.

We always do a proper clean when we move out, it's what we would want when we move into a new place.

Yes, we have always cleaned the place before leaving but somehow never have had the luck that the sellers have cleaned for us as well so we get double cleaning!

It's pretty quick to do though once all the furniture is out.

Always do a very good clean before moving out. My sister moved into a house and she couldnt unpack till her husband and a group off friends had deep cleaned as it was rank, she just sat there crying 8 months pregnant with twins and a 13 month old.....

I followed the removers round with a vacuum cleaner, although all kitchen cupboards had already been thoroughly cleaned as they were emptied. Bathroom was also cleaned the day before and left as I would wish to find it.

It was a wet day so couldn't leave it perfect but the idea was that the buyers wouldn't have to clean up first. I think that's the reasonable approach.

oh, and leave some toilet roll!

Please, please, please clean!! Imagine if you were moving in, clean it to the standard that you would hope to find it in.

I always get contract cleaners in as there is always too much to do to leave it as clean as I want to. I’ve been lucky in that houses I’ve moved into have always been left clean too.

I paid my cleaner to do a deep clean the day before completion day and then I went around cleaning the bits behind and under the furniture as the removal men took stuff away. I also left a welcome to your new home card and a gift set of posh hand soap plus a bottle of fix in the fridge.

Arrived at our new place and it was filthy and the only surprises left for us were the series of bodged DIY jobs we uncovered over the next few weeks!

I think it would be lovely for you to do this for the new movers. I moved into mine last year and the woman had left the place in such a mess, it was disgusting. I have a chronic illness and bad asthma. I had to buy face masks to be able to clean it properly. The place was filthy, I don't think she ever cleaned. I ended up in tears and was a hormonal wreck to be honest when I first seen the place after I got the keys. So yes, cleaning it would be lovely for the newbies.

Ours was grim when we moved in. I spent the first night cleaning the oven/fridge/kitchen floors. She ‘hadn’t had time to clean’ apparently despite very little to move and lots of notice of date. She was also still here when we arrived.

So, yes, clean as much as poss.

It’s clean anyway from general day to day cleaning and I’ve gutted the kitchen and bathroom already. I’ll give the skirts a clean and all wardrobers etc a wipe over too.. I can’t get into the spare room as there’s where all the boxes are stored but once the van is packed tomorrow I’ll give it a once over with the hoover too!

We gave the house a good clean: hoovered the carpets, a good scrub of everything in the kitchen ( cupboards, fridge, cooker etc) and the bathroom, windows etc. The people that sold us our new house left it spotless and it was so much easy to unpack! Therefore we wanted to leave the old house as clean as we could. We didn't have any money left to have the place professionally cleaned but DH and I spent the final afternoon there and cleaning the place. And we left two rolls of toilet paper in the bathroom as well as a list of useful info and papers about the house ( utility suppliers, leaflets for everything we left behind (boiler, washing machine etc) details about the thermostat, central heating, meters, local shops etc.

We left a bottle of fizz, perfectly clean house, full instruction manuals for boiler etc, and a 'hope you're as happy here as we were' card. Buyer is still there 15 years later so I think it worked! We loved our first house.

My Mum did some cleaning and hoovering. I was 5 months pregnant with a chest infection and a 2 year old. We barely finished packing and forgot the contents of the loft. Then the house we were moving to wasn't ready for hours and DH had to help them empty their house. I am never moving again. (New house was very clean though!)

We did. I got a phone call from the EA a couple of days later to say how much our buyers appreciated it, which pleased me.

I always do a deep clean, cleaning as much as possible before hand. The range was cleaned 3 days before the move and not used. The last two moves have been a two day removal, with everything going into storage, so I could clean as the rooms were emptied.
Apart from the manuals, internal keys, codes etc I leave a plan of the garden so the new owners know what the plants are and where the bulbs are planted!

We washed windows inside and out the day before and vacuumed after the removal guys left and made sure the bathrooms were spotless.

I recall moving when I was a teen. Mum and I cleaned our old house from top to bottom. When we arrived at our new home the previous owners hadn't bothered and it was just before Christmas and it was pretty miserable having to go at it.

I have bought and sold three times. I have always cleaned. Nothing OTT, but good enough that I would be happy to move straight in, so hoovered, dusted, wiped down kitchen cabinets, cleaned the loo and wiped down the bath/shower/sinks.

I have never, in any of the three houses I have moved into, found that the previous occupants have done the same. I mean, none of them have been hovels or anything, but they all needed a vacuum, dust and wipe down. It has always surprised me.

When we have sold the houses have probably been the cleanest they have ever been in the entire time we have lived there. We’ve had a cleaner do day to day stuff anyway but then we have followed the removal company round and thoroughly cleaned everywhere after they have left.

I would always leave a house in a clean state, but sometimes there is no time for a final hoover. I would still give my new house a wipe around even of it looked clean.
Although our current house needed gutting and renovating, think threadbare carpets and all yellow from heavy smokers, the previous (deceased) owners daughter still gave it a clean around.

Yes I got my cleaner and a friend of the cleaner for a full day so I knew it was really clean

I would give a more thorough clean than usual, such as wiping out the kitchen cupboards as I empty them. We have always done this, and we’re so pleased when we bought our current house that they had cleaned too! They had even mowed the lawn which meant it didn’t look like a state for the first few weeks. We still cleaned the new house ourselves but it was definitely appreciated.

Ours too was grim when we moved in. Thick dust everywhere and inside cupboard, toilet gross (mould under the rim), wine and all sorts spilt inside the fridge, cooker thick with grease etc. They had made no attempt to clean. Literally packed up and left. Oh and they left things behind that we had expressed they take on the fixtures and fittings list. Terrible sellers throughout. Couldn’t wait to see back of them.