March Out Cleaning?

kitchpoo

geordie458 wrote: »

I thought this was a money saving site? Paying someone else to clean your married quarter isnt really in the spirit is it?

The most I have billed DE for on move out is £4500!!!!

but cleaning accounted for only £800 of that, and £1000 for the garden.

So a cleaning firm could be money saving.

johng_uk

We ALWAYS use the cleaning services provided now. We never did for the first couple of postings, but it saves loads of hassle at a stressfult ime. We have had various long-distance moves and for £100 odd you get peace of mind.

You know the job will be done properly and if it isn't you wont geit either A) Billed or Called back to clean the place again. The responsibility then lies with the cleaning company.

kitchpoo

Please have a look at my other thread - this should make you feel a bit better about the state of your home...

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1062891

scouse05

Did you get a DVD on your pre-march out? You should have - it tells you what should be done for your march out....personally I cleaned my last place and swore I'd get the cleaners in next time....I'm not too sure now...I still see it as saving money as long as you don't try to do it all in one day like I did....7 hrs later the place was spotless!!! Thankfully it was only a 2 bed flat - I'm going to be starting much earlier this time, doing it room by room in slow time and moving most of my stuff into one or two rooms ready for the movers....well that's my plan anyway...lmao

Good luck!!

EmmEve

I was 36 wks preg when we moved, there was no way i was cleaning!

For the money they cost i think getting cleaners in is soooo worth it. So much less stress at an already stressful enough time!

Bernie

...and when the marchout cleaning services first appearred (at Marham for us), we gleefully took the option and never looked back. Doing it yourself is a false economy.

Our last self-clean MO (in 1990 I think) needed a week of leave for me, the wife packed up her job early, we lived in the place while we cleaned, spent a fortune on takeaways and cleaning materials (you just keep running out) and had a throughly miserable time. Had the wife stayed at work for another week, that would have paid the cost and saved my leave. Once you factor in all the cleaning stuff, the bought-in meals too, let alone the hassle of it all, it became a no-brainer for us.

After that March-Out light-bulb moment so many moons ago, it went like this for us: wife works up to last moment, furniture van pitches up, packs and takes the kit away (while we go visiting and lunch at McDs), take keys round to mate who will do the March-Out, climb in car and drive off to visit family on the way to new posting. All our moves since that were done in a single day, no hassle, no hard work, no wasted leave, no miserable kids - actually enjoyable and simply just brilliant! We never went back to packing and prepping ourselves.

The only prep we did was to drain the dishwasher and washing machine first thing on the day of moving, have the computers packed in the car (never trusted the movers with them), pack our smalls in boxes and the electronics in their cartons, make sure the loft was emptied and garden sorted during the last week. The telly would still be warm as it went on the van!

It was the only way to go....

:beer:

pomp

geordie458 wrote: »

I thought this was a money saving site? Paying someone else to clean your married quarter isnt really in the spirit is it?

when it comes to a march out i will ALWAYS pay somebody to do it! your too busy with packing and trying to sort out yourself, your spouse and kids to be fretting about cleaning.

Even if you do get cleaners in, make sure you check that they did everything they said they would!
One of my previous marchouts the cleaner had missed loads on the cooker and now MHS have take over they will happily bill you for as much as they can.
Even though the cleaner would be called back in to rectify what he had missed it was still a shock to find he had missed stuff i would have expected to be sorted the first time!

Oh dont forget the underside of the top of the grill occasionally missed by us normal humans but never missed by MHS, and if you have an overhead extractor, replace the filters.