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The Move-Out Cleaning Checklist for Renters
Deposits in the Klang Valley usually equal two to three months’ rent, and cleaning disputes are the most common reason part of one stays behind. Having cleaned a few hundred handovers, we know exactly what agents look at — because we’ve stood next to them while they looked. Here is their route, in order.
The inspection route
- Front door and shoe area. First impression. Scuff marks off the door, grille wiped, doormat gone or washed.
- Kitchen, always second. Hood filter grease, hob rings, the seal around the sink, and — the classic — inside the cabinets. Crumbs in a drawer read as “nothing else was cleaned properly either.”
- Bathrooms. Limescale on shower screens, the floor trap, stains under the toilet rim, mould in silicone lines. Agents run a finger along the top of the door frame here more than anywhere else.
- Bedrooms. Inside wardrobes, window tracks, aircon filter fronts, curtain rails.
- Balcony last. Algae film on tiles and railings. Five minutes with a stiff brush; renters forget it constantly.
The three deposit-killers
Across the handovers we’ve cleaned, three items cause most deductions: kitchen grease (hood and hob, because degreasing is genuinely hard work), bathroom limescale (because it needs acid-based agents most households don’t own), and window tracks (because nobody thinks of them until the agent slides a window open). If you self-clean, spend your energy on those three before anything cosmetic.
Self-clean or book it?
A genuine handover clean of an empty 1,000 sq ft unit is a full day of hard work with the right agents and tools, or two days without. Against a two-month deposit, a professional move-out clean from RM 420 is cheap insurance — especially since we’ll re-attend free if the agent flags anything within the handover window.
Booking either way: schedule the clean for after the movers, not before. Furniture coming out always leaves dust shadows, drag marks and one mystery stain. Every single time.