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Move-In and Move-Out Cleaning in Toronto, Vaughan, and the GTA
The detailed clean an empty rental or sold home needs before the keys change hands, whether you are moving in or moving out, quoted once the condition has been seen.
Best when
Choose this when a rental, condo, or house has to be handed over empty and inspection-ready on a fixed date — or when you want the place cleaned before you move in.
Where we work
Spotless & Co focuses on Vaughan and serves the full GTA, with scheduling and availability confirmed before booking.
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Where this service fits in the home.
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Moving in and moving out call for the same clean: the work an empty unit needs before a lease ends, a sale closes, or your own furniture arrives. That means inside the appliances, inside cabinets and drawers, closets, baseboards, light fixtures, blinds, wall marks, and the floors underneath everything that has just been carried out — or has not yet been carried in.
Best suited to
- Renters finishing a lease in Vaughan, Toronto, or the wider GTA who need the unit to pass a landlord inspection.
- Owners handing over a sold property on a closing date, once the furniture and boxes have gone.
- Houses where the empty rooms need far more reach than a routine cleaning visit is scoped to give.
- Condo and apartment moves where the building adds elevator, entrance, and loading-window rules to the schedule.
- Anyone moving in who wants the place cleaned while it is still empty and every surface is reachable.
Empty unit, exposed surfaces
An empty home changes what the cleaning has to reach.
A move-out clean is not a regular visit done faster. Once the furniture and boxes are gone, the work moves to everything a lived-in home keeps hidden: the inside of the oven, fridge, and dishwasher, the interior of every cabinet and drawer, closet shelves and rods, baseboards, door frames, light fixtures, blind slats, and the marks left on walls where a bed, a sofa, or a picture hook used to sit. None of that is skipped carelessly during routine cleaning. It simply sits behind belongings that are still in the way.
The trade-off runs in both directions. Nothing has to be lifted, worked around, or put back afterwards, so the sequence is faster and far more predictable than a clean in an occupied home. At the same time, every surface is now visible to whoever inspects it, and a landlord, property manager, or buyer walks an empty room the way an inspector does: ceiling corners, then fixtures, ledges, closet floors, and the strip of baseboard the sofa was covering. The scope has to match that kind of looking rather than an everyday tidy.
Inside the appliances
Oven, cooktop, range hood, fridge including the door seals, and the dishwasher interior, cleaned to the manufacturer's guidance.
Inside the storage
Cabinets, drawers, pantry shelves, closet rods, and the shelf corners that only become reachable once the unit is emptied.
Edges and fittings
Baseboards, door frames, switch plates, light fixtures, blinds, window tracks, and the wall marks furniture leaves behind.
The work
What a finished space looks like.
Scope
What can be included.
- Inside the oven, cooktop, range hood, fridge, and dishwasher, following each appliance's own care guidance.
- Inside cabinets, drawers, pantry shelves, and closets, including shelf corners, rods, and the floor beneath.
- Baseboards, door frames, switch plates, light fixtures, blind slats, and window tracks.
- Wall marks and scuffs treated with the gentlest method the paint finish allows, with anything that needs repair flagged instead.
- Bathrooms, kitchen surfaces, and floors cleaned last so the unit is left dry and ready to inspect.
Timing the visit
Book the clean for after the movers leave.
Work backwards from the moment the keys change hands, not forwards from moving day. A lease end or a closing date is fixed, and the useful question is how much room sits between the last box leaving and the inspection or handover. Cleaning wants to happen inside that gap: late enough that the unit is genuinely empty, early enough that floors dry, a calm walkthrough is possible, and anything that turns up can still be dealt with. Scheduling the final wipe to finish at the same hour the keys are due leaves no margin at all.
Cleaning a half-packed unit costs more and finishes worse. Boxes and remaining furniture mean the same counters and floors get cleaned twice while the surfaces underneath stay untouched, and the closets and cabinets that matter most to an inspection cannot be opened properly. The same applies to painters, repair trades, and anyone doing touch-ups: let them finish first. In a condo the building sets part of the schedule too, because the elevator reservation and loading-dock window that govern the move usually govern the cleaning supplies and the garbage as well.
Work back from the handover
Fix the key-return or closing time first, then place the clean far enough ahead of it for drying time and your own walkthrough.
After the truck, not before
A unit still holding boxes forces duplicated work and leaves the floors, walls, and closets behind them untouched.
Book the building too
Condo and high-rise moves run on elevator reservations, service entrances, and garbage rules the cleaning has to fit around.
Process
How the work gets planned.
Shape the scope
Agree what sits inside the scope: appliance interiors, cabinet interiors, interior windows, blinds, plus any locker or balcony.
Confirm the plan
Receive the quote and checklist before the visit, booked after the movers and with room to spare before the inspection.
What the quote depends on
Move-out work is quoted after the scope has been seen.
The starting prices published elsewhere on this site cover Airbnb turnover, regular, and recurring cleaning. Move-out cleaning is deliberately not on that list, and not because the number is being withheld. An empty two-bedroom that was looked after throughout the tenancy and an empty two-bedroom carrying three years of oven buildup, greasy cabinet interiors, and marked walls are the same size and are nothing like the same job. Pricing either one from a room count alone would be a guess, and a guess that lands short becomes a rushed visit or a revised invoice.
So the quote follows a look at the real scope. Size and layout set the baseline, and condition moves it the most. After that it depends on how much of the detail list is included, whether appliance interiors and cabinet interiors are in or out, how much build-up has accumulated behind and beneath things, and whether the unit will be completely empty when the team arrives. Photos of the kitchen, the bathrooms, and anything unusual get you an accurate figure faster than a description does. Cleaning removes soil, but it cannot repair failed caulking, worn fixtures, or permanent staining, so those are pointed out rather than scrubbed at until a surface is damaged.
Size and layout
Room and bathroom count, how many cabinets and closets there are, and whether a locker, balcony, or garage is part of the handover.
Condition
How much cooking residue, soap scum, dust, pet hair, and wall marking has built up since the last thorough clean.
Included detail
Whether appliance interiors, cabinet interiors, interior windows, and blinds sit inside this visit or are handled separately.
Questions
Questions before you book.
Pricing guides
- House cleaning rates in Toronto
A pricing guide for comparing house cleaning rates in Toronto.
- House cleaning costs across Canada
National context for cleaning costs, and how to compare it against a local quote.
- Professional organizer cost
Explains what affects organizing cost and when cleaning should be paired with it.
How much does it cost, and what changes the price?
Four things, in roughly this order: the size of the unit, its condition after the movers leave, how much of the detail work is in scope, and whether trades still have to finish. The work is quoted after the scope has been reviewed rather than read off a table — the published starting prices cover Airbnb turnover, regular, and recurring cleaning, and an empty unit's condition varies far too much for those figures to mean anything here. Send the size, the condition, and a few photos and you will get an accurate number rather than a range that moves on the day.
Do you handle apartments and condos?
Yes — apartment and condo move-out cleaning is the most common version of this job in Toronto and Vaughan. The unit type mostly changes the logistics rather than the work itself: elevator booking, a service entrance, a loading-dock window, parking, and sometimes a storage locker or balcony to include. Send the building's rules along with the unit details and the visit gets booked around them.
Which areas do you cover?
Spotless & Co is based in Vaughan and also works across Toronto, North York, Etobicoke, Scarborough, East York, Richmond Hill, Thornhill, and Woodbridge. Availability for a specific date and address is confirmed during the quote conversation rather than assumed, so send the postal code with the property details.
Does the unit need to be empty before you arrive?
Wherever possible, yes. Cleaning around boxes and remaining furniture leaves the surfaces underneath untouched and means the same areas get cleaned twice. Book the visit after the movers, painters, and repair trades have finished.
Is a move-out clean the same as a deep clean?
They overlap, but the goal differs. A deep clean tackles buildup in a home that is still lived in, while a move-out clean covers an empty unit against a handover or an inspection. Heavy buildup in an empty unit can need both kinds of time, which is part of what the quote accounts for.
Do you clean before a move-in as well?
Yes. A move-in clean uses the same empty-unit advantage, covering appliance and cabinet interiors, closets, baseboards, and floors before your furniture arrives and hides them again.
Out, then in
Inspect on the way out, and take the same window on the way in.
Do the final inspection once the home has dried and while there is good daylight. Enter each room the way an inspector would and scan clockwise from ceiling to floor, opening cabinets, drawers, appliances, and closets as you go, and looking behind every door. Check that light bulbs work, that garbage and recycling have left by the route the building actually permits, and that supplies, vacuum attachments, and step stools have gone with you. Photographs of the finished rooms, taken to whatever process the lease sets out, are worth keeping with your move records.
Then point the same job the other way. Cleaning the new place before you move in is the identical scope working in your favour: appliance interiors, cabinet and drawer interiors, closet floors and rods, baseboards, and every square foot of hard floor are reachable in one pass for exactly as long as the unit is empty, and awkward to reach properly from the day the truck unloads. It matters more than people expect, because you are inheriting somebody else's kitchen, somebody else's bathroom, and whatever the last tenancy left inside the oven — and a vacant unit staged for showings has usually been tidied rather than cleaned. If the whole move is happening at once, treat the clean, the packing, and the unpacking as separate stages with their own timing.
Inspect the way they will
Walk each room clockwise from ceiling to floor in good light, opening cabinets, appliances, and closets on the way through.
Clear it by the building's rules
Garbage, recycling, and bulky items usually have to leave by a route the building sets, not by the nearest bin.
Book the new place empty
An empty unit is the only time appliance interiors, cabinets, closets, and baseboards are all reachable in one pass, so schedule the visit ahead of the truck rather than after it.
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