Exterior window cleaning for end of tenancy

aneary

Comms69 wrote: »

- just FYI in blocks of flats - external maintenance would in all likelihood be the responsibility of the management company.

Unless I've been very unlikely this has never been the case.

Flat in Chiswick - Old double fronted Victorian 4 story house 7 flats - Management company were the owners of the flat and they didn't included external window cleaning it was hard enough convincing the lower ground floors that they had to pay for the roof repairs let alone window cleaning.

Flat in Portsmouth - 200 + flats in blocks up to 7 stories built 2007 - Only communal windows cleaned very difficult to clean floor to celling windows which didn't open above ground floor (second on internal flats).

Flat in Southsea - 3 flats in a four story house owned by one landlord - No mention of external window cleaning in agreement.

Red-Squirrel_2

Both blocks of flats I've lived in window cleaning came out of the service charge and was done twice a year by a firm using those platforms on ropes.

LEJC

Comms69 wrote: »

- just FYI in blocks of flats - external maintenance would in all likelihood be the responsibility of the management company.

I agree that external maintenance would be the responsibility of the management company, however like a previous poster has also said I have never encountered a management company who class general external cleaning to be their responsibility.....internal communal areas maybe but not windows fronting individual properties.

I have seen several areas of demised responsibility issued by freeholders where in some cases their management extends to the frames but never the glass

I guess its something that varys between individual properties with no bulk standard answer....