End of lease · Mascot & the south
End of Lease Cleaning Mascot and Southern Sydney
Bond cleans for the Mascot apartment towers, the Rockdale and Kogarah blocks and the houses around them — worked against your agent's actual exit checklist rather than a generic list. If the final inspection flags an in-scope item, we come back free.
- Scoped from your own condition report and the agent's checklist
- Free re-clean if inspection raises an in-scope cleaning item
- Carpet extraction scheduled into the same visit
- We tell you what is damage and will not clean out
10+ years cleaning Sydney
Police-checked cleaners, insured, and rostered around Sydney traffic rather than a formula
Rostered this week in
- Mascot
- Rockdale
- Kogarah
- Botany
- $20m public liability
- Police-checked cleaners, inducted on your building
- Rolling agreement
- Written price inside 24 hours, no lock-in
How does end of lease cleaning work in Mascot?
End of lease cleaning — also called bond cleaning or exit cleaning — is a one-off deep clean of a rental property after the tenant has moved out, performed to the standard the managing agent will inspect against. In the Mascot and Rockdale apartment towers it is close to a monthly event, and the agents there inspect to a familiar, consistent standard.
It is more thorough than a regular clean and typically includes oven interiors, racks and door glass, rangehood filters, cooktops and splashbacks, inside all cupboards and wardrobes, skirting boards, door and window tracks, flyscreens, windows inside and out where safely reachable, light fittings, full bathroom detailing including grout and shower screens, and cleaning behind and beneath appliances.
Most NSW residential leases separately require professional carpet cleaning, and where the tenancy included pets, a flea treatment. Cleaning cannot remedy damage or fair wear and tear, and no cleaner can guarantee the return of a bond, which depends on the property’s condition against the ingoing report. Clean Best works from the agent’s own exit checklist and re-cleans any in-scope item raised at final inspection free of charge.
- 10+ years cleaning SydneyOn the road since 2015
- Police-checked cleanersBuilding-inducted, WWCC-cleared where the site needs it
- $20m public liabilityCertificate of currency on request
- Written quote in 24 hoursFixed price, no lock-in contract
The detail
End of lease cleaning Mascot agents sign off without a second visit
End of lease cleaning Mascottenants buy is, in practice, an insurance policy against a specific stranger’s opinion — the property manager walking through with a checklist and the ingoing condition report. Which means the smart way to do the job is to work backwards from that checklist rather than forwards from a generic list of tasks.
Astonishingly few cleaners ask for it. We ask for it first.
The agent’s list beats any generic checklist
Every agency in Sydney has a slightly different exit form, and they weight things differently. Some are obsessive about window tracks and flyscreens. Some care most about the oven. Some will fail a property for the rangehood filter and glance past the skirtings. A generic bond-clean checklist off the internet will get you most of the way and leave you exposed on exactly the items your particular agent looks at hardest.
So send us your ingoing condition report and whatever exit list the agent has given you. We work to that. It costs nothing extra and it is the single biggest determinant of whether the inspection passes first time.
What cleaning can and cannot fix
Here is the honest part, and it is the reason some quotes look cheaper than ours. Cleaning does not fix damage. A burn in the carpet is a burn, not a stain. A chip in the benchtop is a chip. A wall that has been repainted a different shade is a painting issue. Fair wear and tear — the faded curtain, the worn traffic lane, the scuffed door edge — is explicitly not a tenant’s liability under a NSW lease, and no cleaner should be selling you a treatment for it.
We will look at the property and tell you plainly which marks are cleaning problems and which are not. That is a less lucrative conversation for us and it saves you from paying twice to discover the same thing.
The re-clean, and its honest boundary
If the agent’s final inspection flags a cleaning item that was inside our agreed scope, tell us within seven days and we come back and rectify it at no charge. That is not a marketing line, it is a term, and we put it in writing.
What it does not cover: damage, wear, an item that was explicitly excluded from the scope, or something that got dirty after we left — if you moved furniture back in, or the property sat open for a fortnight with the windows up on a main road, that is a new job. We state that boundary up front rather than discovering it in an argument.
The property has to be empty
A bond clean performed around furniture is not a bond clean. The agent will inspect inside the wardrobes, behind the fridge, under where the bed was, and along the skirtings that the couch has been hiding for three years. We need to be able to do all of that, which means booking us after the removalists rather than on the same afternoon.
Carpet, and what most Sydney leases require
Most residential leases in NSW separately require professional carpet cleaning, and many agents want a receipt for it. We do it with hot-water extraction and schedule it into the same visit so the property is finished in one go. If the tenancy had pets, the lease will usually also require a flea treatment, and we book that in with the same job rather than leaving you to organise a third contractor in the week you are moving house.
The bits agents look at and tenants never do
Window tracks. Flyscreens. The rangehood filter. The oven door glass — both panes. Inside the wardrobes and the top shelf nobody has looked at since they moved in. The wall behind the fridge. The exhaust fan in the bathroom. Light switches and their surrounds. That list is where bond inspections are actually won and lost, and it is precisely the list a cheap bond clean skips because nobody notices it missing until the report arrives.
Ring 1300 494 983, send us the checklist, and we will give you a fixed price before we start.
The checklist
Send us the agent's exit list. We will work backwards from it.
Every agency in Sydney inspects slightly differently. Some will fail a property on the window tracks and barely glance at the oven; others are the reverse. A generic bond-clean checklist gets you eighty per cent of the way and leaves you exposed on exactly the items your agent cares most about.
So the first thing we ask for is your ingoing condition report and whatever exit form the agent has sent you. We scope the job against that document. It costs nothing, almost nobody does it, and it is the difference between passing the inspection once and passing it twice.
- Scoped from your agent's own exit form, not a generic list
- Ingoing condition report used as the baseline
- Free re-clean of any in-scope item flagged within seven days
- Honest identification of damage and wear that will not clean out
The scope
What a bond clean covers
The full scope, and yours is adjusted against your agent's actual exit form.
- Oven interior including racks, trays and both panes of the door glass, fully degreased
- Rangehood filter degreased; cooktop, splashback and surrounds cleaned
- Inside and outside of every cupboard, drawer and wardrobe, including the top shelf
- Clean behind and beneath the fridge, the washing machine and any moveable appliance
- Bathrooms fully detailed: shower screen, grout, tiles, bath, basin, taps and exhaust fan
- Toilets cleaned properly — under the seat, around the base, behind the pedestal
- Skirting boards, architraves, door frames and door edges wiped throughout
- Window tracks, sills, channels and flyscreens cleaned — where agents actually look
- Windows cleaned inside, and outside where they can be safely reached
- Light fittings, switches, power points and their surrounds wiped
- Walls spot-cleaned for marks; cobwebs removed from every ceiling corner
- All floors vacuumed and mopped; carpet extracted where the lease requires it
- Laundry detailed: tub, taps, cupboards and behind the machine
- Garage swept, outdoor areas tidied and bins washed out
Cleaning cannot remedy damage, fair wear and tear, or anything noted on your ingoing condition report. We identify those before starting rather than charging you to discover them.
Pricing
Bond clean quotes built from size, bathrooms and the state it is in
A well-maintained property is a much smaller job than a neglected one, and we would rather look than guess. Carpet extraction and pest treatment are scoped separately so you can see what the lease actually requires.
Apartment
A one or two-bedroom unit — a Mascot high-rise, a Newtown flat, a Ryde apartment — empty and ready.
- Worked against your own exit condition report
- Oven, rangehood, cooktop and splashback fully degreased
- Windows, tracks and flyscreens where safely reachable
- Free re-clean if the inspection flags an in-scope item
Fixed in writing before anybody picks up a mop.
House
A three or four-bedroom house with two bathrooms, a laundry, a garage and outdoor areas.
- Full day, often with two cleaners so nothing is rushed
- Inside wardrobes, cupboards, skirtings and behind the appliances
- Carpet extraction scheduled into the same visit
- Garage swept, laundry detailed, outdoor areas tidied
Fixed in writing before anybody picks up a mop.
Large or pet property
Bigger homes, properties left in poor condition, or a tenancy that had pets and needs treatment.
- Extra time scoped honestly rather than rushing a failing job
- Carpet extraction plus flea treatment where the lease requires it
- Mould and heavy grime treated properly, not painted over with product
- Fixed price agreed before we start, in writing
Fixed in writing before anybody picks up a mop.
We walk your site for nothing, then send the number within 24 hours.
Getting started
How a Mascot bond clean runs
Four steps — and step one is the one that decides whether the inspection passes.
- 1
Send us the condition report
Your own ingoing report and the agent's exit checklist. We work against those, not against a generic list off the internet.
- 2
Book it after the removalists
The property has to be empty. A bond clean around furniture is not a bond clean, because the agent will look behind everything.
- 3
Fixed price before we start
In writing, with carpet and any pest treatment scoped separately so you can see what the lease actually requires.
- 4
Inspection, and the re-clean if needed
If the agent flags an in-scope cleaning item within seven days, we come back and fix it at no charge.
FAQ
End of lease cleaning questions from Mascot and Rockdale tenants
Bonds, re-cleans, carpet, pets, and the honest limits of what cleaning can fix.
Will this actually get my bond back?
Cleaning will not fix damage, wear or anything that was already noted on your ingoing condition report — and no cleaner can honestly promise otherwise. What we can do is make sure that nothing on the agent's exit checklist fails because of cleaning. We work against your own condition report rather than a generic list, and if the final inspection raises a cleaning item that was inside our scope, we come back and re-clean it free.
How does the free re-clean actually work?
If the agent's final inspection flags a cleaning item that was inside our agreed scope, tell us within seven days of the inspection and we return and rectify it at no charge. What that does not cover is damage, wear, an item that was excluded from the scope, or something that got dirty after we finished — if you moved furniture back in or the property sat open for a fortnight, that is a different job. We state the boundary in writing so it is not a surprise.
Do I need to have moved everything out first?
Yes, and it makes an enormous difference to the result. A bond clean on a property with furniture still in it is not a bond clean — the agent will inspect behind and underneath everything, and so should we. Empty means we can do the skirtings, the inside of the wardrobes, the floor under where the bed was, and the wall behind the fridge, which is invariably where the marks are.
Is carpet cleaning included?
It is quoted alongside but scoped separately, because most Sydney leases specifically require professional carpet cleaning and many agents want to see a receipt for it. We do it with hot-water extraction, and if we are doing the bond clean we schedule it as part of the same job so the property is finished in one visit rather than two. If the tenancy had pets, the lease usually requires a flea treatment as well.
What about the oven, the rangehood and the windows?
All included in a proper bond clean. Oven interiors including the racks and the glass door, the rangehood filter degreased, the cooktop and the splashback, and windows cleaned inside plus outside where they can be safely reached — the tracks and the flyscreens too, which is where agents look and tenants never do. If windows are above ground level and cannot be safely reached, we say so rather than pretending.
How much notice do you need, and how long does it take?
A few days is comfortable; we can often move faster than that if a lease has caught you out, which it usually has. A one-bedroom apartment is typically a half day. A three-bedroom house is a full day, sometimes with two cleaners. We do not rush it, because a rushed bond clean fails inspection and then costs everybody a second visit. Book it for after the removalists, not the same afternoon.
How is end of lease cleaning Mascot work priced?
By the size of the property, the number of bathrooms, the state it has been left in, and whether carpet cleaning and pest treatment are needed. A property that has been maintained is a much smaller job than one that has not, and we would rather look at it than guess. We give you a fixed price in writing before we start, and it does not move unless the property turns out to be materially different from what we were told.
Keep going
What southern Sydney tenants book alongside the bond clean
Booked into the same visit so you deal with one contractor in the worst week of the year.
Book end of lease cleaning Mascot agents sign off first time
Send us the exit checklist, get a fixed price before we start, and a free re-clean if inspection flags an in-scope item. Call 1300 494 983.