SIX AND A HALF HOURS LATE
We had originally booked cleaners from this company for a 10:00 end-of-tenancy clean, having arranged our removal people and inventory clerk visit around them. They then called two days before the arranged clean to change the visit time to 15:00. After we re-arranged everything else, they eventually turned up at 16:30, and spent 3 hours "cleaning" our 1-bedroom apartment.
INITIAL POOR CLEANING JOB
The inventory clerk was able to point out their awful work immediately. The cleaners left dust, dirt and debris on the floors, skirting boards, mirrors, windows and frames. The bedroom carpet looked like it wasn't cleaned at all. They claimed that the reason why they were unable to clean the carpet was because of its age, which is untrue - the experienced clerk informed me that their steam cleaner was simply below-par. The job looked like it had been done with a standard domestic steam cleaner - if you're hoping to pass an end-of-tenancy inventory check, you need to hire cleaners from a proper company with a professional-grade steam cleaner who can make your carpet look good as new.
We were eventually docked £150 from our deposit (more than the clean itself initially cost!) for a further cleaning charge.
BROKEN OVEN DOOR
To make matters worse, they also broke our oven door while cleaning it, something which we eventually were docked a total of £283 from our deposit to pay for. The company claimed that as their cleaners did not disassemble any of the oven parts, they weren't to be held responsible for the issue. Unfortunately, we didn't think to take photos of the oven before the cleaners came, otherwise we would have had proof that the oven door wasn't broken before their visit.
STOLEN ITEMS
Before leaving the cleaners at the property, I asked if it would be alright to leave them with a small trolley that contained an A3 printer and a set of speakers (worth a combined ~£200), to which they confirmed. When I returned to the property, I was too busy looking attempting to look at the cleaning work they'd done to notice the trolley was missing.
As other reviewers who had items stolen have noted, the company claimed I told the cleaners to throw the items in the bin, which I didn't. They also definitely didn't leave the items by the bins, because these are inaccessible to the public, and you walk past them when you enter the property, so I would have seen if they had. The company then claimed that because I left items in the property, I was in breach of their Terms & Conditions, which state that properties must be left vacant of personal belongings. Apparently this means their cleaners are allowed to steal from you.
MADE-UP Ts&Cs
They repeatedly quoted made-up Terms & Conditions in order to absolve themselves of responsibility, including claims that any issues with cleanliness/damage had to be reported verbally by the client to the cleaner upon returning to the property (in reality, their actual Ts&Cs state that a client has 24 hours to make any complaints in writing). Please, if for some reason you do want to use this company, read their terms before doing so to protect yourself.
RETURN VISIT
After much back-and-forth, we had the company send some cleaners for a return to the property after we had moved out to make good on all the above. Perhaps we should have seen it coming, but according to the estate agents, their cleaner turned up to pick up the keys, and was back to return them within 25 minutes. The result was even more mess and dirt left behind, and further damage to the oven door (shown to us in photographic evidence by the estate agents).
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