A move-out clean has one job: leave the place clean enough that a landlord has nothing to deduct for. That’s a higher bar than a normal clean, because it includes the insides — cabinets, appliances, closets — and the corners furniture has been hiding for years. Here’s the checklist we clean to, room by room.
Kitchen
- Inside and behind the oven, fridge, and dishwasher
- Inside all cabinets and drawers, fronts and handles
- Counters, backsplash, sink, and faucet
- Floors mopped edge to edge, including under appliances
Bathrooms
- Tub, shower, glass, and grout — hard-water spots removed
- Toilet, inside and out, including the base
- Mirror, fixtures, and inside the vanity and drawers
- Exhaust fan cover and floor
Every room
- Baseboards, door frames, doors, and light switches
- Inside closets, shelves, and built-ins
- Window sills, tracks, and interior glass within reach
- Light fixtures, ceiling fans, and vent covers
- Walls spot-cleaned for marks where they come up
- Floors vacuumed and mopped, edge to edge
The two things people forget
First, clean with the home empty — you can’t reach inside cabinets or behind the fridge with boxes in the way, and that interior work is most of what separates a move clean from a normal one. Second, if your lease has its own move-out checklist, clean to that exact list. We do, and we can provide a receipt, which makes the clean hard for a landlord to dispute.
A documented, professional move-out clean is one of the cheapest ways to protect a deposit that’s usually worth far more than the clean itself.