End of Tenancy Cleaning Polwarth.

Quick answer for Polwarth: Polwarth and Fountainbridge end of tenancy cleans start at £149 for a studio and £219 for a two bedroom flat, with licensed shares priced up the ladder to £349 for five bedrooms and above. Covering Bryson Road, Polwarth Gardens, Harrison and the Fountainbridge canal side in EH11 and EH3.

Prices in Polwarth: studio £149, 1-bed £179, 2-bed £219, 3-bed £259, 4-bed £299, 5+ bedrooms from £349, the same fixed ladder everywhere we clean. We cover all of Polwarth including Bryson Road, Polwarth Gardens, Fountainbridge, Merchiston edge.

Polwarth and Fountainbridge are two markets sharing a border, and it is worth being clear about which one your flat is in.

Polwarth proper is older tenement, heavily converted to licensed houses in multiple occupation for the Napier Merchiston intake. Three, four and five bedroom furnished flats are the standard unit, concentrated on Bryson Road and the streets around it. Rooms here let for roughly £450 to £550 a month, against about £600 in the Marchmont and Meadows belt, which tells you both that this is genuinely a student area and that it is the more affordable one. Edinburgh holds 6,797 licensed HMOs, about 44 per cent of Scotland's entire licensed stock, and a meaningful slice of them sit in this belt.

Fountainbridge is newer. The regeneration along the canal and towards the Quartermile edge has added purpose-built flats let mostly to working professionals on year-round tenancies. Integrated appliances, shower rooms rather than bathrooms, and far less cornice and sash than Polwarth. Different problems, different timing, and generally an easier clean per bedroom.

Deposits are held under a Private Residential Tenancy in SafeDeposits Scotland, Letting Protection Service Scotland or MyDeposits Scotland, lodged within 30 working days and capped at two months' rent. If your landlord failed to lodge it, the First-tier Tribunal can award you up to three times the deposit, which is worth knowing before you accept a deduction quietly.

In a licensed share the deposit is usually joint, and that is the thing that catches people in Polwarth. One person's unwashed shelf in the fridge is everybody's deduction. We clean the whole flat as one job for exactly that reason, and it is generally cheaper split five ways than five separate half-measures.

The work concentrates in three places. The oven and hob, which have taken a full academic year of five people cooking. The bathrooms, because they have taken five people's traffic rather than two. And the fridge and freezer, which in a share are almost always the worst room-for-room item in the flat.

Polwarth and Fountainbridge sit two miles or so west of the Old Town, on Lothian Buses corridors running into the centre and out to Gorgie. The canal path is the pleasant way in and the useless way to move cleaning equipment, so we come by road.

Both areas are outside the Low Emission Zone. Fountainbridge is effectively outside it bar its far eastern tip, and Polwarth is clearly outside. So no part of a job here depends on vehicle emissions standards. As everywhere in Edinburgh, the 20mph residential limit and the bus gates make journeys slower than the mileage suggests, which we build into the schedule rather than the price.

Polwarth runs on the academic calendar, hard. Licensed share tenancies here run to the end of June or the first days of July, and the new Napier and university intake arrives from August. The changeover is concentrated into a few weeks and it is the busiest stretch of our Edinburgh year.

If you are in a share and moving out in that window, get the date in early and book the whole flat as one job. Five separate bookings in the same week in July is the single most expensive way to do this, and it is what happens when a flat share leaves it to the last fortnight.

Fountainbridge does not follow that pattern. Professional tenancies there turn over across the whole year, and it is generally straightforward to get a slot at short notice.

Cullen Property is the most established HMO specialist working this side of the city, with more than twenty years in Edinburgh HMO management and a 4.6 rating from over three hundred Google reviews. Umega, Grant Property and Clan Gordon all run licensed stock in the belt too. Licensed shares are inspected to the licence conditions as well as the tenancy, so the checkout standard in Polwarth is genuinely higher than in an ordinary let, and it is not a place to gamble on a quick tidy.

We found no dedicated competitor end of tenancy page for Polwarth or Fountainbridge when we researched the area. For an Edinburgh suburb with this much licensed rental stock, that is a gap rather than a signal that nobody needs the service.