The 67-point end of tenancy cleaning checklist.
Every line a Reading letting agent or inventory clerk works through at checkout, room by room, with a box against each one. Print it, put it on the fridge, and hand the property back with nothing left to deduct for. Free to use and free to share.
Checklist reviewed September 2026.
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Before you start
Twenty minutes of prep saves hours later. Most of the evidence you need in a deposit dispute is gathered here, before a single surface is wiped.
Kitchen
The room that settles most deposit deductions. The oven gets the hardest look of anything in the property on almost every checkout.
Bathrooms
Reading is on hard water. Thames Water states that all the water in its region is hard, so over a long tenancy a bathroom collects scale round the taps, the screen and the plugs, and mould in the grout. Clerks photograph both.
Bedrooms
Wardrobe interiors and the space under the bed are the two spots tenants forget most.
Living room
Presentation counts here. It is the first room the clerk reads as an impression of the whole place.
Hallway, stairs and storage
Agents walk through these first, so they notice them first. If it is on the inventory it is in scope, including the cupboards nobody opens.
Appliances
Anything listed on the inventory as clean at move-in has to be clean at move-out.
The repeating details
Clerks are trained to check the same small items in every single room.
Final walk-through
The last hour protects your deposit more than any other. Evidence beats memory in every dispute.
Printed from readingendoftenancycleaning.co.uk/end-of-tenancy-checklist. Reading End of Tenancy Cleaning, 07350 795399.
If your deposit is disputed
A deposit on an assured tenancy sits in a government-approved protection scheme, which is TDS, DPS or MyDeposits, and every one of them decides a dispute on evidence. This checklist, your before-and-after photographs and a professional cleaning invoice are exactly the paperwork an adjudicator is looking for. Cleaning is the most common cause of disputed deductions in the Tenancy Deposit Scheme's own adjudication figures, and it is also the easiest one to defend once you have a paper trail.
Using this checklist on your own site
Letting agents, landlords, relocation writers and community sites are welcome to print this for tenants, share it, or link to this page as a free resource. If you publish it online, please credit Reading End of Tenancy Cleaning with a link back to this page. Questions, or a line you think is missing: hello@readingendoftenancycleaning.co.uk.
Would rather hand the whole thing over?
This is the scope our own teams work to on a Reading checkout, with a 48-hour re-clean guarantee behind it. See the price list, read what a checkout clean costs in Reading, or get a free quote in about a minute.
Handing keys back today? Ring by 12 noon for a same-day clean. Leaving a shared house on 1 July? See student and HMO cleans. And if money is already being held back, read how to get your deposit back.
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