Pre-move-in cleaning is a step that's easy to skip amid the pressure of moving, but it's the difference between an apartment that feels used and one that feels new. The cleaning covers all the surfaces you don't always see day to day: inside kitchen cabinets, window tracks, baseboards, door frames, and doors.
Unlike routine cleaning, this also addresses what's left behind by previous occupants or contractors: construction dust, grease stains in the kitchen, limescale in the bathrooms, and dirt that's accumulated in hard-to-reach areas.
In the following guides you'll find a detailed checklist and the answer to how long this kind of cleaning really takes.