End of Tenancy - Closet Cleaning

All the stuff we have no immediate need of we store within our closet. Or a garage, or a balcony. The closet is usually located in the middle of a house, with relatively small space inside. There you store all the things you may need someday, but most of them you probably will not. From time to time it is a good idea to do a “review” of the closet and decide which stays and which goes. You should be careful with what you keep because when it comes to leaving the rented place, you need to put and extra effort with the end of tenancy cleaning.

Where To Start With Move Out Cleaning

First of all you have to remove all the stuff from the closet. While it is out it may be a good idea to swipe the dirt from the racks and wipe them down with a cloth. You may even vacuum the floor and the ceiling of the closet, to remove the dust and the spider webs. A good start for an end of tenancy cleaning will be to check for anything you can improve in the closet – add some racks or remove some. You can do a favour to your landlord this way.

Then you may sort the things out – everything that you extracted from the closet must be viewed item by item and separated into two main groups. The first one is with items that you will definitely need. Like tools, for example, or something like that. The other part must be with items that you are going to get rid of. Everything you thought might be a good idea to keep around but you never actually needed. Those are to be discarded and thrown away. Especially if you are moving – you do not want any extra items with you.

If you have stored items in simple boxes, it is fine, but you might consider getting a few plastic boxes instead. There are very cheap plastic crates that you may find in a household store. They can be transparent so you can see what is inside rather than writing it down with collective terms like “stuff”.

Once you have done the sorting out it is quite simple. Put the items in the closet and throw all you do not need away. At the end of tenancy cleaning you will not need to store them away even. Since you are going to leave anyway, you will simply have to pack them up.