End of Tenancy Cleaning Tollcross.

Quick answer for Tollcross: Tollcross end of tenancy cleans start at £149 for a studio and £219 for a two bedroom flat, covering Home Street, Lochrin Place, Lochrin Buildings, Gilmore Place and West Tollcross in EH3. Short tenancies and fast turnover, so slots go quickly.

Prices in Tollcross: 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 Tollcross including Home Street, Lochrin, Gilmore Place, West Tollcross.

Tollcross is tenement throughout, and the rented stock sits mostly above the shops, bars and theatres that line Home Street and the junction itself. Two bedroom flats on Home Street advertise around £1,400 to £1,500 a month, and there are one bedroom second floor tenement flats through the same block. Lochrin Place and Lochrin Buildings carry a good share of the smaller lets, including one bedroom ground floor flats and furnished upper flats.

Gilmore Place runs south west out of the junction and is where the larger shares start. It is a long street that straddles Tollcross, Bruntsfield and the Polwarth HMO belt, and the stock changes as you go along it: smaller flats at the Tollcross end, bigger licensed shares as it runs west.

The practical point is that Tollcross covers a wide range of flat sizes in a small area. A one bedroom on Lochrin Place and a five bedroom licensed share further along Gilmore Place are both Tollcross addresses and they are not remotely the same clean, which is why we quote on the property rather than on the postcode.

Your deposit sits in one of the three approved Scottish schemes under a Private Residential Tenancy, lodged within 30 working days of the tenancy starting and capped at two months' rent. Any deduction has to be evidenced against the inventory, and the scheme decides a dispute rather than the landlord.

Cleaning comes up repeatedly as a leading cause of deductions in Scotland. There is no published figure worth quoting, so we will not pretend there is one, but the pattern in a Tollcross flat is consistent enough to plan around.

The two that catch people here are windows and kitchens. The windows because a main-road tenement gathers a genuine film of traffic dust on the inside of the sash as well as the outside, and it is obvious in daylight. The kitchens because Tollcross flats are small and the kitchens are often galley-sized, which means appliances are tight against units and the gaps beside and behind the cooker never get touched during a tenancy.

Tollcross is one of the busiest junctions in the city and Lothian Buses run through it in every direction, which makes getting to a checkout appointment easy. Getting a van in is a different matter, and we plan for it: loading is tight on Home Street, parking is permit-controlled, and the 20mph limit across the surrounding residential streets means journeys take longer than the distance suggests.

On the Low Emission Zone, Tollcross sits on the edge rather than inside. The zone boundary runs through Tollcross itself, and the boundary roads are outside the zone. So a Tollcross job is not an emissions-zone job. It is worth knowing rather than worrying about, and it changes nothing about what we charge.

Tollcross turns over faster than the pure student belt and more evenly through the year. The tenant mix is postgraduates, young professionals and Napier students, and the tenancies are often short because the area is a stepping stone rather than a destination.

That has a real advantage if you are moving out at short notice. Outside the July peak, Tollcross is one of the easier parts of our patch to fit in quickly. Book by 12 noon and we can usually cover you the same day. If a crew has a free slot, you pay the same fixed price as booking ahead. If fitting you in means moving other booked jobs, there may be an additional charge, and you will have the full number before you book rather than after.

We found no dedicated end of tenancy page from any competitor for Tollcross specifically when we researched this area, which is unusual for Edinburgh. Most of the city's suburbs already have somebody writing about them. That is good for you only in one way: it means the flats here are often cleaned by firms who treat Tollcross as an afterthought on a city-wide job sheet, and the difference shows at the inspection.