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.