Move-In & Move-Out Cleaning in Dubai & Sharjah

A move-out clean is measured against an inspection. Somebody with a checklist and a financial interest walks the property and decides whether the deposit comes back, and they look at the things that get skipped: oven interior, extract filter, wardrobe interiors and tracks, window tracks, skirtings, behind and under the appliances, and the balcony. Cleanliness in the middle of a room is assumed; the corners are what is graded.

A move-in clean is measured against a family arriving. The priority is the surfaces they will touch before they unpack, which is the kitchen, the bathrooms, inside the wardrobes and anything a previous occupant handled, plus whatever the handover left behind in dust. Both are called the same thing on a booking form, and telling us which one you need changes where the hours go.

An empty property cleans faster and better than a furnished one, because every surface is reachable and nothing has to be worked around or moved twice. If the schedule allows it, cleaning after the furniture leaves and before the new furniture arrives is the single biggest thing you can do to make the job go well.

Where that is not possible, tell us at booking. Cleaning around furniture, boxes and belongings is a different scope and a different time, and we would rather quote for what is actually there than arrive with a team sized for an empty flat.

In practice it is a short list, repeated across almost every inspection: the oven and hob, the extract filter above them, the inside of the fridge, limescale in the bathrooms, the inside of every wardrobe and cupboard, window and sliding door tracks, and the balcony. Those are exactly the items a routine clean does not cover, which is why a property that has been cleaned weekly for two years can still fail an exit inspection.

Damage is not cleaning, and we will say which is which. A scuffed wall, a chipped worktop, a cracked tile or a burn mark is a repair or a deduction, and no amount of scrubbing changes that. Knowing before the inspection is worth more than finding out during it.

These jobs are pinned to dates that do not move: a handover, a tenancy end, a flight. So the slot matters more than on almost any other cleaning job, and the constraint is usually access rather than the work. Who holds the keys, whether the building requires a move-out permit, whether the lift has to be booked, and whether security will admit a team on a Friday are the things that derail a booking.

Tell us the inspection or handover time at booking and we will work back from it. Where the schedule is genuinely tight we will say what can be done in the window rather than accept the booking and disappoint you on the day.

Three things make the difference on the day, and all of them are yours rather than ours. Have the property as empty as it is going to get, because every box that has to be moved twice is time taken from the corners that get graded. Have water and power on: a clean without either is not a clean, and it is the most common reason a team is stood down on arrival.

And have the access sorted: keys collected, the lift booked if the building requires it, the move-out permit issued, and security told a team is coming. None of that is difficult, but each one can cost the slot, and on a job pinned to a handover time there is rarely a second slot that week.