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Just a quick question...
roguebrogue
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...in your opinions...
Is £200 too much to charge for professional cleaning of a 1 bed flat with kitchen, living room and bathroom?
Is £200 too much to charge for professional cleaning of a 1 bed flat with kitchen, living room and bathroom?
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roguebrogue wrote: »...in your opinions...
Is £200 too much to charge for professional cleaning of a 1 bed flat with kitchen, living room and bathroom?
Depends how dirty it is...0 -
Does appear a bit steep as it coulld surely be done by one person in a few hours. However if the oven needs a deep clean and the bathroom has seen better days then yes it could take more people longer to do the job.A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it - Bob Hope.
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem - Jean Paul Getty0 -
Well we spent an entire day cleaning the flat, and my mum came up spent 3 hours alone scrubbing the kitchen, incl. oven/fridge/microwave.
It was only 5 years old so it was a new flat and, although as professional cleaning seems to be a standard charge from LA these days, we weren't expecting it to be quite so expensive! Unfortunately we didn't take pictures when we were done as we were a bit rushed and had other stuff going on...so I know we're pretty much stuffed.
But just wondered what people opinions were....thanks guys0 -
roguebrogue wrote: »Well we spent an entire day cleaning the flat, and my mum came up spent 3 hours alone scrubbing the kitchen, incl. oven/fridge/microwave.
It was only 5 years old so it was a new flat and, although as professional cleaning seems to be a standard charge from LA these days, we weren't expecting it to be quite so expensive! Unfortunately we didn't take pictures when we were done as we were a bit rushed and had other stuff going on...so I know we're pretty much stuffed.
But just wondered what people opinions were....thanks guys
You had to use a LA cleaning agency ?0 -
No sorry, I wasn't very clear.
I meant it seems that alot of deposits from rentals through letting agents have professional cleaning taken out of them, so we were expecting it, but not to be quite so expensive!0 -
roguebrogue wrote: »No sorry, I wasn't very clear.
I meant it seems that alot of deposits from rentals through letting agents have professional cleaning taken out of them, so we were expecting it, but not to be quite so expensive!
Is it in the AST that it has to be professionaly cleaned ? if it is why did you waste time and effort cleaning it yourself ?0 -
It wasn't no.
We wasted time and effort in an effort to preserve some of our deposit...0 -
roguebrogue wrote: »It wasn't no.
We wasted time and effort in an effort to preserve some of our deposit...
I know how you feel mate , makes you wonder why we bother
still had to chase all the way to the door of the small claims to get OUR money back0 -
Well out of our £600 deposit we're getting £35 back. Stunning.
Makes us feel like bad tenants because, apart from the cleaning, some of it was for the replacement of a sofa which had a scuff on it, and some was for replacing the carpets (which were all cream and admitedly were stained so we were expecting that also).
I mean, we're not stupid, we were expecting to get docked for the carpets, and as I said, some for cleaning, but not £525!0 -
roguebrogue wrote: »Well out of our £600 deposit we're getting £35 back. Stunning.
Makes us feel like bad tenants because, apart from the cleaning, some of it was for the replacement of a sofa which had a scuff on it, and some was for replacing the carpets (which were all cream and admitedly were stained so we were expecting that also).
I mean, we're not stupid, we were expecting to get docked for the carpets, and as I said, some for cleaning, but not £525!
How long were you there ?
carpets have a self life and a percentage comes off their value for each year they are down....
Someone on here will know specifically , i would be onto the LL with a recorded delivery letter stating your not happy with the amount taken...0
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