Move-in cleaning in Canary Wharf.

A move-in clean and a check-out clean use the same room-by-room checklist, but the timing and the purpose are different. A check-out clean protects the last tenant's deposit. A move-in clean sets the baseline for the next one, so the flat is genuinely ready before anyone unpacks a single box.

It matters because the previous occupant's clean, if there even was one, is an unknown. A fresh move-in clean means the person moving in starts on a flat cleaned to a standard you can see and, for a landlord, one that photographs well for the check-in inventory. Fixed prices run studio £165, one-bed £195, two-bed £245, three-bed £319, four-bed £425, and five bedrooms or more from £495, with the number confirmed in writing before we start.

If you are the one moving in, a move-in clean is the easiest thing to sort before the van arrives. Nobody wants to spend their first evening in a new flat scrubbing someone else's kitchen. Booked for the day before or the morning of your move, the flat is ready to live in from the first box.

It is also a smart moment to document the flat's starting condition for yourself, alongside the check-in inventory, so there is no argument about pre-existing marks when your own tenancy ends. Every job carries our 48-hour re-clean guarantee: if the inventory clerk flags anything, we come back within two working days and put it right, and you keep the timestamped photo record and itemised receipt from the clean either way.