Here’s the thing about final inspections: your property manager isn’t judging how many hours you spent cleaning. They’re walking the home with your ingoing condition report and checking specific places — the same places, every property, every time. Know the list and the inspection holds no surprises.
The kitchen: where most bonds are lost
- Inside the oven. The single most-failed item in vacate cleaning. Baked-on carbon on the glass and racks is what they look for first.
- The rangehood filter — pull it out; if it drips grease, it fails.
- Cupboards, inside and out — crumbs in drawers, grease film on doors above the stove.
- Splashback and benchtops, including the silicone joins.
Bathrooms: the detail traps
Shower screens (soap scum shows instantly against light), grout lines, the toilet behind the seat hinges, exhaust fan covers, and drains. A bathroom can look clean at a glance and still fail on these five.
The whole-house sweep
- Skirting boards and door frames (dust and scuff marks)
- Light switches and power points
- Window tracks and sills — a favourite check, because nobody does them
- Ceiling corners for cobwebs
- Marks on walls (spot-clean, don’t repaint patches that won’t match)
Floors and carpets
Hard floors: vacuumed and mopped, including under where furniture stood. Carpets: many WA leases require professional carpet cleaning at vacate — almost always where pets were kept, and often regardless. Check your lease; if it’s required, keep the receipt, because your property manager will ask for it.
Do it yourself or book it?
A thorough vacate clean of an average home is genuinely a full day or two of hard work — usually while you’re also moving house. That’s why bond cleans exist as a service. Our end of lease cleaning covers this whole checklist including the professional carpet steam clean, in one visit with one receipt. Bunbury and the South West — call 0401 990 215 with your handover date.