Student Let Cleaning in East Sussex

What student let cleaning involves

Student let cleaning is the turnaround of a shared house or licensed HMO between one group of tenants and the next, and it is a very particular kind of job. The whole intake tends to move out inside the same fortnight, the property has usually had six or eight people living hard in it for a year, and the next group are often signed up before the last ones have gone. We clean student lets across Sussex to that timetable, with the teams and the equipment to do a full house in a day rather than stretching it across a week you do not have.

A standard turnaround takes in every bedroom, the kitchen, all bathrooms, communal areas, the oven and appliances, the insides of all cupboards and wardrobes, windows internally, and the bins and outside areas that always need attention by the end of the year.

Why student houses need a different approach

A family home is cleaned regularly and needs maintaining. A student house is usually cleaned thoroughly twice a year and needs recovering, which is a different job with different products and considerably more time.

Kitchens take the worst of it, with ovens, extractor filters, grill pans and the gaps beside appliances all needing stripping rather than wiping. Bathrooms in shared houses build limescale and mould far faster because they are in use most of the day. Bedrooms need blu tack marks, poster residue and carpet stains dealing with before an inventory clerk sees them. None of that is difficult, it simply takes people who have done it before and know where to look.

Working to the summer deadline

The whole student calendar squeezes into a few weeks, and everybody in the sector is trying to book the same fortnight. We take student let bookings well ahead and hold the dates, so if you know your tenancies end in the first week of July, tell us in the spring and the slot is yours.

We can work around partial move outs, which is the thing most cleaning companies struggle with. If three of six rooms are empty, we will do those rooms and the communal areas now and come back for the rest, rather than making you wait until the house is finally clear and running out of time before the new tenancy starts.

For landlords and letting agents

If you look after several student properties, we will work to a schedule across the portfolio and invoice monthly rather than job by job. We are used to working from an inventory and to a check out standard, and we are happy to clean to a specific clerk’s requirements if you send them over.

We can also hold keys, meet contractors on site, and let you know what we find. Students rarely report a leaking trap or a broken extractor, so the turnaround clean is often the first time anyone sees the state of the property, and we would far rather tell you in July than have it become a problem in October.

Mid year and one off cleans

Not everything happens in the summer. Plenty of student houses book a clean partway through the year, sometimes because the tenancy agreement requires it, sometimes because parents have arranged it, and sometimes because the house has collectively decided it has gone far enough.

We are glad to do a one off deep clean at any point in the year, and we will invoice whoever is arranging it, whether that is the landlord, the agent or the tenants splitting it between themselves. See Deep Cleans for what that covers.

Communal areas and shared blocks

Larger student properties and purpose built blocks need their communal areas looking after separately, and often on a rota rather than once a year. Stairwells, hallways, shared kitchens, laundry rooms and bin stores all take heavy use and are usually the first thing a prospective tenant sees on a viewing. Escape routes also have to be kept clear under fire safety requirements.

We cover communal cleaning on a weekly or fortnightly schedule alongside the annual turnaround, which you can read about on our Communal Areas page. For blocks with an on site manager we will work to whatever reporting you already have in place rather than introducing another system.

What student let cleaning costs

We price per property rather than per hour, based on the number of bedrooms and bathrooms, the state it is likely to be in, and whether carpets need extraction. You get a fixed figure before we start.

Booking early is the one thing that really brings the cost down. Work booked in the spring for a July turnaround is easier for us to schedule than a call in the last week of June, and we price it accordingly rather than charging a premium for the rush.

Carpet cleaning is usually quoted separately, since not every turnaround needs it, and it is far cheaper booked alongside the clean than as a separate visit. Have a look at Carpet Cleaning and End of Tenancy Cleaning.

Where we cover

We work across Sussex, and student housing is concentrated in particular pockets, so we have written separately about Student Let Cleaning in Brighton, Student Let Cleaning in Hastings and Student Let Cleaning in Eastbourne.

If your properties sit somewhere else in East Sussex, do ring and ask, because we cover a good deal more of the county than most local firms. To arrange student let cleaning, ring 07539 635589 with your tenancy end dates and the number of bedrooms, and we will hold the slot for you.