When you’re moving out of your old home, there are numerous things you need to do to ensure a successful move out. Deep cleaning is one of those things. With a damage deposit on the line, a proper cleaning is not something you want to skip out on. Most property managers are extremely stringent in their cleaning expectations, so we’re here to help you ensure you leave your space ready to go and that you get your deposit back.

The CleanSpace Co professional move out checklist covers the essential steps you need to complete before moving out. Don’t worry about trying to figure out how to do a proper cleaning. Our checklist covers that in depth and makes completing a move out cleaning as easy as following our list.

Professional cleaning tip: Empty your home before completing your deep move out cleaning. Dust and other residue will accumulate while you’re moving your furniture out of the house, so leave all of the cleaning for after moving everything out. Your cleaning will be a lot quicker and easier once your home is empty.

What does a Move-Out cleaning include?

Whether you decide to retain a professional cleaning services company or you end up performing the deep cleaning yourself, it’s important to know what a move out cleaning entails.

The first step CleanSpace Co always recommends to take is to review your home purchase or rental contract. Most likely, specific guidelines will be outlined about the specific criteria that need to be met before moving out. If you can’t find these criteria in your contract, then it’s wise to ask your realtor in order to ensure you don’t lose your damage deposit. But, following our professional move-out cleaning checklist works well to cover your basis.

Move-Out Bedroom Cleaning Checklist

· External surfaces dusted and wiped down

· Wall markings cleaned, and removed

· Mirrors cleaned

· Baseboards dusted and wiped down

· Doorknobs disinfected and wiped down

· Light switches disinfected and wiped down

· Garbage bagged, emptied, and removed

· Wood floors broomed or vacuumed and mopped down

· Carpet and rugs vacuumed and cleaned

· Closet interiors dusted and cleaned

· Closet exteriors wiped down and cleaned

Move-Out Bathroom Cleaning Checklist

Professional Cleaning Tip: If any cleaning products require time to sit and develop, apply your cleaning products and work on other areas of your home. After allowing some time for your products to sit, then revisit your washroom to complete the room.

· Sink sanitized and cleaned

· Toilet interior and exterior sanitized and cleaned

· Mirrors wiped down and cleaned

· Exterior surfaces dusted and wiped down

· Doorknobs and doorframes wiped down and disinfected

· Light switches disinfected and wiped down

· Garbage collected and removed

· Countertops dusted and wiped down

· Bathtub and glass doors sanitized and cleaned

· Markings on walls cleaned and removed

· Hardwood floors broomed or vacuumed, and mopped

· Exterior countertops, and shelves dusted, and wiped down

Move Out Kitchen Cleaning Checklist

Professional Cleaning Tip: Kitchens are often some of the most difficult areas in the home to clean, especially when it comes to older homes. Smells and stains will be found throughout the kitchen and some of these stains will require heavy duty cleaning solutions. For these areas, apply your cleaning solutions, allow your products to take action, and clean other rooms in your home. After some time passes, you can come back to your kitchen to complete your cleaning.

· Dishes washed, and left to dry

· Exterior surfaces dusted and wiped down

· Cabinet interiors dusted and cleaned

· Cabinet exteriors dusted and wiped down

· Kitchen appliances cleaned and wiped down

· Light switches disinfected and wiped down

· Doorknobs disinfected and wiped down

· Markings on walls cleaned and removed

· Garbage gathered, emptied, and removed

· Floor wiped or vacuumed, and moped

· Kitchen appliance interiors emptied and cleaned

· Kitchen appliance exteriors wiped down and cleaned

· Sink and back-splash washed and cleaned

Move Out Living Room Cleaning Checklist

Professional Living Room Cleaning Tip:

Don’t forget to clean your common areas including hallways, stairs, and entryways. These areas are often high traffic with lots of walking occurring through them. For this reason, don’t forget to vacuum and mop these areas.

· Exterior surfaces dusted and wiped down

· Mirrors dusted and cleaned

· Doorknobs disinfected and cleaned

· Light switches disinfected and wiped

· Markings on walls cleaned and removed

· Garbage collected, emptied, and removed

· Carpets and rugs vacuumed and cleaned

· Inside windowsills dusted, wiped and cleaned

· Baseboards dusted, wiped, and cleaned

· Closet exteriors dusted and cleaned

· Closet interiors dusted and cleaned out

What are the tools needed for a move out cleaning?

Completing a deep cleaning requires the right tools. We’ve outlined the tools we utilize to clean hundreds of homes every year. Protective cleaning gear including a face mask, latex gloves, and shoe protectors, a broom or vacuum cleaner, a mop and bucket, kitchen cleaning spray, glass cleaning spray, scouring powder, floor cleaning solution, microfiber cleaning clothes, scrubbing brushes, a squeegee, garbage bags, and eco-friendly multi-purpose cleaning solution.

Completing a deep move out cleaning takes a lot of patience and elbow grease, and can expose you to harmful chemicals if you use the wrong cleaning products. Make sure to do your due diligence and use natural cleaning products that work while minimizing environmental harm and harm to yourself.

Like many of our clients, you may not have the ability to invest into all of the cleaning products required to properly clean your home, and to put away a day or two to complete a deep cleaning while also juggling the long list of other responsibilities required while moving out. Here at CleanSpace Co., we make getting a move out cleaning simple and intuitive. Let the experts take care of providing cleaning services for your home, so you can focus on the things that really matter to you. We make your space a clean space, every time.

CleanSpace Co

60 Atlantic Ave Suite 200, Toronto, ON M6K 1X9

(647) 374-0844

Your Professional Move-Out Cleaning Checklist.