My landlord is charging me £160 for a deep clean of the old property what to do?

Pixie5740

Reue wrote: »

How does one become a professional cleaner? What is the qualification or registration required?

One needs to be a Chartered Cleaner with the Royal Institute of Cleaners*. Professional cleaning is covered in the link to G_M's Deposits guide which both G_M and I linked to earlier in the thread.


* Not really I made that up.

aneary

The only thing with 'Professional' cleaners most (well where I live) offer a guarantee that if you get charged because cleaning isn't up to standard they will come back and rectify it.

Mr.Generous

Reue wrote: »

How does one become a professional cleaner? What is the qualification or registration required?

It has been established by courts (although not the high court, so not actually case law) on a number of occasions that "professionally cleaned" in a landlord / tenant contract refers to cleaning to a professional standard. You can indeed do it yourself. It includes things like washing down all walls, machine cleaning flooring and carpets as required etc.

charlesworth82 wrote: »

I think profession comes with payment. Clean it yourself and pay yourself

Not quite but effectively true, to clean it to the required standard you are realistically spending the time to safeguard your deposit so in a way accurate.