Is it important to clean on completion?

fairy_lights

At very least make sure you clean the loo.

Yue

Please do clean up... The place I moved into recently was absolutely disgusting, I had to spend all weekend cleaning before I could properly unpack things into the kitchen cupboards... I would have thought that was a common courtesy? And it doesn't exactly endear me to things like being sure to forward their post in good time.

DragonQ

You could just pay for someone to do it. I paid for my rented property to be cleaned the last time I moved because the time before it took 3 of us an entire day to clean a 2 bedroom house and we still got pulled up on a couple of things not being clean.

fedupfreddie

If you are taking the cooker clean behind it before moving day, it could be a much longer job than you imagine.

PasturesNew

DragonQ wrote: »

You could just pay for someone to do it. I paid for my rented property to be cleaned the last time I moved because the time before it took 3 of us an entire day to clean a 2 bedroom house and we still got pulled up on a couple of things not being clean.

While a solution on paper, it's still then down to the vagaries of the cleaners actually turning up - working out the time to ask them to turn up - and then still coordinating their arrival with the removal men leaving and having to lock up and dash off with keys while simultaneously also being at another EAs collecting your own new keys.

You could, of course, leave the cleaners to it and ask them to drop the keys off at the EA, but then you're adding further complications and risk into the equation.

It's another variable that can go wrong being brought into a hectic day.

The only way to do it really is to do it in the final 2 weeks, tackle all the jobs one by one, so on the day it really IS just a whip round with a vacuum and duster IF you've got the time.

You can get rolling eyes from stressed removals men as they're wanting to drive to the new address and offload and you're standing there saying "Right, now I just need to clean and vacuum throughout .... then drop this key off ... then collect the new key ... then get to the new house too .... so I might see you there in 3-4 hours"

freeman3030

You've got to clean! Remember you're selling something worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, if you bought a car you would expect it clean! When we got outer house, the previous owners hadn't cleaned and left us dog poo in the garden, the carpets were vile etc. Get organised before hand and clean as you're packing up so on the last day you only have to round round with the Hoover, wipe the skirting boards and give the kitchen and bathroom a once over. Job done!

Drachenfach

As someone who is still scrubbing what appears to be fossilised egg yolk off the shelves of the house she moved into on Friday, please, clean before you leave.

If you have pets, please poo pick as well. Our seller's cats left their parting present on the doormat!

LJS2014

I made sure our place was spotless when we completed on the sale, I was really concerned that the place was left how I would wish to find it. My OH said I was daft and told me to prepare myself for the vendor of our new place not having gone to the same effort for us and he was right, when we got in there it was absolutely vile and it reduced me to tears. I don't think you have to go "all out" but I do think buyers have the right to expect vendors to leave the property in a good standard of cleanliness.

Johnnytwostep

Don't bother, you have sold and not your problem now.

Mahsroh

When I bought my house it was filthy! Spent what felt like a week cleaning.Even have several trips to the tip to get rid of things left behind.

In hindsight I should probably have made a bigger deal about this at the time... though I doubt i'd have had much joy!