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I am so excited about my London-based domestic company’s fast development, called London Mums United Cleaning Services. That fact makes me happy and satisfied. Now I can see my fulfiled plans, marketing research results, already a part of the industry, trying to compete with the niche’s big lions. For a short time, my small firm has built customers’ trust and nowadays together, we have already had loyal relationships and even friendship.

Pay attention to the details and impress your landlord with excellent property appearance.

For me, honesty and professionalism are the base of each thriving enterprise, whether it is a little or not. That sounds obvious, indeed, but it is hard to establish a factual basis for long-term clients. I am joyful that comes true for my young but growing favourite company continuing to keep the existing customers and to earn new leads through word of mouth. That is impressive and inspire my inner power.

The Purpose of That Post

I want to devote the blog post to those who haven’t got a financial resource to hire a professional end of tenancy cleaning service, although that is not an expensive job at all. Here I will share some important topics of preparing the rental property by ourselves and leaving it in perfect condition.

First Steps Before The Essential End of Tenancy Cleaning

At first, be ready to check the inventory list, which is a part of the tenancy. Make sure that everything is as it should be to avoid unpleasant surprises. It includes furniture, fixtures, fittings. 

Check the inventory list, read your contract and be informed for the end-of-tenancy requirements.

Look at for any damages and replace where it is necessary. Read your contract carefully and be aware of its provisions. 

If you cannot find the initial property inventory, contact the landlord or leasing agent to submit you a copy. They are obligated to do it.

Pay Attention to the Clean Status of the Neglected or Forgotten Items of the Leased Home

To make the estate acceptably purified and fresh, search for damp patches, mildew or leaks anywhere. Check around the roof, windows, sinks and pipes. The loft also is essential, but very often is among the neglected or forgotten dwellings. Exactly there is possible to appear humidity, leaks and mould, so walk through everywhere and be concentrated enough to keep an eye the entire rental tenure, to take care of its pleasing appearance and health status.

Move-our Preparation

Always follow the end of tenancy checklist to be convinced that all of the requirements would be complete successfully. Remember that the chronic lack of cleanliness can cause you a severe headache and damages over the surfaces, decreasing the quality of possessions, furniture, walls and floors.

Usually, despite your habits for cleaning and maintaining, move-out washing is much more complicated than the average chores.

Plan your schedule and start the essential part of the washing at least ten days before to leave the rental home.

To experience that period of your life with satisfaction, self-confidence and calm, be ready for hard work to meet the dwellings’ initial condition before moving in it. Besides the normal tear and wear, the property must be like is brand new-shining, welcoming and fresh smelling, as if nobody has lived there. That is the way toward receiving back your full deposit.

My personal and professional experience as an owner of a housekeeping company that provides end of tenancy cleaning services shows that starting with move-out washing as earlier as possible is the best every tenant can do. That is the secret of escaping overwhelming feelings, rush and push yourself too much.

Prepare the cleaning tools to be more effective in the essential cleaning job.

It would be suitable also to prepare all of the necessary tools and products. Consider which of these you have are old, worn-out, damaged and replace if it is needed.

After that, focus on the most significant high-traffic areas in the household. Entrances, halls and hallways are crucial. Remove spots, marks, fingerprints. Remember the importance of the first impression.

Then pay attention to the kitchen, wipe the countertop, doors, handles, shelves. Empty the cupboards and drawers, wash them from both sides. Be ready for a lot of scrubbing when it comes to oven and grill.

Use rubbing alcohol for the kitchen sink and lend it incredible shine.

For the bathroom cleanliness, use qualified products to get rid of mould, grime and soap scum. Eliminate even the teeny traces of exploitation. That is the most accurate advice I can give you.

Clean the rental home and plan your new life. Be motivated to finish the job in the best possible way. Never allow overwhelming feelings to come to your mind. Be concentrated, in a festive mood, ready to cope with all dirty challenges and continue forward with new energy, hopes and dreams. Inner motivation and appropriate attitude can only help you to prevent from depression and a lack of productivity.

Furthermore, always remember that if you cannot manage to complete all of the tasks, a professional maid service, specialising in end of tenancy cleaning will support you if you decide to rely on it. Experts ensure more different equipment and efficient products rather than regular domestic tools and ingredients. State-of-the-art steamers, vacuum machines and special detergents will save your time, money and inner energy. Landlords are incredibly picky, but you can impress them with hired reliable expert abilities and knowledge, and get the deposit back. 

Dear Friends and Followers, I wish you Good luck and happy days! Be active, and let’s create that blog together, sharing ideas, impressions, inspirations!

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It All Starts With Good Intentions

When the time comes to move house, you might get a bevy of well-meaning relatives offering to help you with your moving out cleaning. Alternatively, you might decide that the easiest way to get your old place tidied up is to call on the friends and relatives.

Professional End of Tenancy Cleaning Service in London

Well, feel free to get the friends and relatives to help you with the heavy lifting and moving the furniture out of the old house and into the new one if you like. But there are quite a few reasons why it’s a lot better to get a team of professional cleaners in to do the moving out cleaning instead of asking the relatives for help.

#1: Professionals Work As A Team

Professional cleaners who do end of tenancy cleaning for a living have a lot of experience working together as a team. They know what needs to be done and who’s responsible for what. There’s usually a checklist that’s approved by most of the housing and tenancy agencies, and there’s a proper team leader. I have been taking notes from what this London based company does – Anyclean (https://www.anyclean.co.uk). They seem to be doing something right being in the cutthroat London house cleaning market since 1998 and still going strong. However – your relatives. Either everybody will think that they know exactly what needs to be done or nobody will really take responsibility. Whichever way your family functions, you could easily end up with (best situation) some cupboards being cleaned twice because both Aunt Michelle and Mum think “I bet you nobody’s thought to wipe out that bathroom cabinet,” or else (worst case) nobody will clean out that bathroom cabinet because everybody thinks that someone else is going to take care of that.

#2 Professionals KNOW The Best Way To Clean Things

A team of professional end of tenancy cleaners will all have been trained to industry standards (at least that’s the case with our commercial cleaning company). This means that they’re all on the same page when it comes to the right way to clean things, and they’ll use the method that works best. If you (or your landlord) are particular about green or sustainable cleaning methods, then they’ll take care of this.

However, if you get your family together, then there will be at least four opinions as to the best way to clean. You’ll have the family member who relies on reading product labels and who will insist on buying (or insist on you buying) one product for the bathroom sink, another product for the kitchen sink and another for…. You get the environmentally aware relative who swears by baking soda and vinegar and will let you know precisely why these are so much better for you and the environment. You also get the one who swears by old-school chlorine bleach for everything and has still got a stockpile of the stuff now that it’s next to impossible to buy it at the supermarket – and who will get into a time-wasting argument with the baking soda enthusiast. Then you have the microfibre cloth enthusiast and possibly the Quentin Crisp wannabe who thinks that a bit of dirt never really hurt anybody and you just have to give things a quick wipe with a wet rag to keep the landlord happy.

In short, you have a recipe for several arguments, which can take the form of long verbal debates or passive-aggression in the form of “cleaning it the RIGHT way” once somebody else has done the job. However, if you’re really lucky, the verbal argument may end with “Very well then, I’ll show you just how well microfibre/bleach/baking soda/Wonder Cleaning Spray works and you can see for yourself.”

#3 Professionals Have The Right Equipment

A team of professional end of tenancy cleaners will bring everything needed to clean your old home properly from top to bottom – and they’ll make sure that every team member is properly equipped with sprays, rubber gloves and cleaning cloths as needed.

However, when you ask your relatives to help you do the moving out cleaning, either you’ll end up with five vacuum cleaners and no mops if you ask them to bring their own cleaning gear, or else everybody will bring so much that it gets in the way and it gets hard to tell who owns which bucket. The other scenario is when you say that you’ll provide all the cleaning gear but when your brothers are standing there with their sleeves rolled up ready to get scrubbing, you realize that Uncle Barry has just loaded the pile of cleaning gear into his van under the impression that it has to be taken to the new place and is now stuck in heavy traffic.

#4 Professionals Don’t Have Small Children Underfoot

Your typical moving out cleaning session as done by relatives usually takes place during the weekend, which means that the kids (yours and theirs) will be around. At worst, your kids will be having a meltdown and you can’t really blame them, as moving is very stressful for a little kid. At best, they’ll be enthusiastic little helpers who will want to have a go with the vacuum cleaner and the sprays (we like their style – that sort of enthusiasm about cleaning might see them join our team one day). In the middle, you get kids who are so excited about having all the fun uncles and aunties around plus the ability to run around like mad now that there’s not so much furniture in the room. Whatever the situation, these small children will get in the way and slow the process of cleaning down, whether someone’s taking time out to soothe a tantrum, whether they’re playing Let’s Chase The Spiders With A Broom or whether they’re playing hookey from the actual cleaning to give a small nephew high-speed rides on top of the vacuum cleaner.

Needless to say, professional cleaners don’t bring their kids to work.

#5 You Don’t Have To Feed The Professionals

If your relatives and friends are helping with the moving out cleaning, you kind of feel obliged to provide snacks or a meal for them as a way of saying thank you. This can mean more mess gets created just after you’ve finished cleaning up, or else that you get an awkward moment when you realize that the kettle and the coffee maker are at your new house being used by the relatives who are helping unpack the gear.

With a team of professionals, then you don’t have to worry about any of this – they’ll take care of themselves and because it’s their job, all you have to do is pay the bill once the job is all over.

#6 Professional End Of Tenancy Cleaners Won’t Judge You

One of the downsides of asking your relatives to clean your house when you’re moving out is that they’ll all get to see exactly what sort of housekeeper you are. If you’re the sort of person who doesn’t mind about this, then good for you. However, if you’ve been a bit sloppy and you know it, then you might feel a bit cringey and ashamed when your mother-in-law comes around to clean your kitchen countertops. If they’re nice, they won’t say anything and they won’t judge you. If they’re tactful, they may merely suggest meeting at restaurants or will bring food with them next time you want to catch up for a meal because they’re thinking “Is it safe to eat at their place? I saw the mould in the kitchen in the old one.” And if they’re not so tactful, they’ll tell you that your housekeeping really just isn’t good enough.

A professional, however, won’t judge you or your standards, no matter how messy your place is or how dirty it is. Trust me, we’ve seen it all and even if we are a bit shocked (it would have be really bad to shock us) then we won’t say a word and we won’t hold it against you personally.

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Merry Christmas everyone!

I am so excited about many things.

First, it is the festive season and that is always something that makes me very happy. I get to spend a lot of time without doing any work, playing games with my son and binge watch Netflix. Nothing out of the ordinary – just a normal London mum, you see.

But this Christmas is totally different.

I am the proud founder of a new London cleaning company called London Mums United Cleaning Services. Did you notice how the football club name gradually transitioned into (well, formed the base of, in order to be precise) a cleaners’ brand? Awesome, isn’t it?

I am so happy. It has been a few months since I last posted here and I have been very, very busy. I have been re-organising my house from top to bottom. I needed to hire domestic cleaners and deep cleaning contractors (technical term is after builders cleaners) on quite a few occasions as the mess was quite significant.

Here is the kicker. I hired 4 or 5 different cleaning companies to carry out various tasks and I wasn’t completely satisfied with any of them. I know I sound harsh and quite subjective but I wasn’t a happy bunny after each clean. The things they missed or failed to do properly were so obvious.

I decided I could do a much better job at cleaning London houses. I sat down with a notepad and pen in my hand and started putting down plans and systems and processes I needed in order to be a functioning cleaners’ business.

As of today I am not quite finished yet but I am confident the launch will be very soon.

Wish me luck!

Stay safe!

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Doesn’t it sound like a proper London footie club, just add the FC at the back – London Mums United FC. Cool, isn’t it?

Hi, everyone, I am Mandy. I am a full-time mum, a passionate blogger obsessed with my son’s football, born and bred in London. I love my city and I love helping fellow humans. But above all – I love my kids.

I feel for new mums. I know their fears. I can relate to their concerns and worrying about anything but above anything – about their children.

Now, being a single parent is not a fair situation to be in, however, life is multi-coloured. It doesn’t only come in dark grey and black. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and a caring helping hand almost everywhere.

In my blog I intend to share life stories, difficulties overcome, problems solved, solutions found, worries put to rest, new ideas etc. Please feel free to use any info you find here to your own benefit without any bother. At the same time, I need to say that whatever worked for me, will not necessarily work for you.

I am not a doctor nor I am a lawyer. Please make your own research and obtain relevant advice before you take any action as a result of anything you have read here.

Are you ready to jump on this journey together with me?

Let’s go.

Initially I was planning to start blogging about anything but kids football. But…

Have you ever been to a kids football game?

Does your kid loves football? You see he’s got a great left foot and spends most of its playtime with a football. You are almost convinced he is the new Ronaldo or Messi. But what do you do to help him chase his dream?

Let’s talk about kids football. This subject I am quite familiar with. If you have a boy (or a girl to that matter) you are very likely to come in contact with the world of football. In London. It’s a total eye opener and a very good crash course into what really goes on with footballers, managers, scouts, coaches etc.

It all starts with your kid and a ball. You see the guy loves to kick his football and the more he does it the more you believe he must carry on doing this in order to progress further. You take him to a local grassroots football club and apply to get him accepted as a young cub (around the age of 5).

Great! Awesome! You are a proud mum whose son now trains with a London grassroots football club. You have to take him training once a week, pay some money each time (ÂŁ1 p er session is normal), make sure he has all his gear – football socks, jersey, shorts, shin pads, football boots (on’t get me started on the subject of football boots). But this is only the beginning.

Now, I have a good tip for you, in case you want something more for your son’s football. Take him to another couple of places to train each week. Do not let that one weekly training make you think this is enough for him. Research private local football schools/academies. There a quite a few in the London and Essex areas. You are expected to pay around ÂŁ5 per 1 hour session. Your boy will love you for it. Boys want to play with other like-minded boys and the game of football is the best thing to bring them together and have fun.

At the same time you are adding more hours of training to his young “career” which will make him a better footballer. Trust me, the number of people who go to extremes in order to provide their kids with the best training, kit and support is enormous. So the competition is unbearable but well worth experiencing as it makes your kid a stronger player.

London is a home to quite a few famous football clubs from all 4 tiers of the English Football League. Every parent with a kid able to move a ball a few metres from his feet is convinced his boy/girl is a future football star. But how many actually make it to a professional level and how many make it to the top?

I will continue in my next post with some statistic, a few stories, beginners’ advice and a joke or two ;).

Stay safe,
Mandy