Moving and renovation 10 posts
Two jobs with a deadline attached: the clean that has to be done before keys change hands, and the one after the trades leave and the dust keeps settling. What a move-out clean should cover, what Ontario expects of a tenant, how to deal with construction dust, and how the price of each is worked out before anyone starts.
Carpet shows up in listing photos and in the first breath a buyer takes at the door. How to decide between cleaning and replacing, where the clean belongs in the run-up to listing, and what else is worth doing on the same day.
Moving out of a condo is two jobs at once. The lease says what the unit should look like, and the building says when you may use the elevator to get out of it. A checklist that puts both in the right order.
The fine grey film after a renovation will not come off the way household dust does. What you can do yourself with a vacuum and a bucket, what needs equipment, and the dust you should not touch at all.
The empty days between getting the keys and the truck arriving are the only time a home is fully reachable. A checklist for using them well, top to bottom, with the carpets last.
Most move-out cleans are booked with a maid service, and for plenty of units that is the right call. The question is what happens to the carpet, and whether that means a second company on the same tight day.
The standard is lower than most leases imply and higher than leaving the oven as it is. What the Landlord and Tenant Board says, in its own words, and what that looks like in a kitchen.
Why a clean after the trades costs more than a deep clean of the same home, what moves the price, and how to read a quote. Most of the gap is dust you cannot see yet.
Hourly or flat, and which one suits the place you are leaving. What decides the price, the three rooms that decide how long the job takes, and how to read a quote.
Construction dust is not household dust and it does not behave like it. What the final clean after a renovation actually involves, the places that get missed, and what it costs.
Written for a Toronto tenant handing back keys and for a buyer cleaning a house before the furniture arrives. What is in scope, what is not, and the order it has to happen in.
When it is a job, not a read
Move-in and move-out cleaning The clean that gets a deposit back, or the one that means you are not scrubbing out a kitchen somebody else left behind, at midnight. 
Post-renovation cleaning Fine construction dust keeps settling for weeks after the trades leave. This is the clean that actually finishes the job. 
Carpet cleaning Hot water extraction that lifts dirt, grit and allergens out of the pile rather than pushing them further in. Free quote
The clean that gets a deposit back, or the one that means you are not scrubbing out a kitchen somebody else left behind, at midnight. Free quote, and the price is confirmed before we start. How we do it
