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What should an end of lease cleaning checklist cover in an Alexandria warehouse conversion?
A bond-clean checklist written for Alexandria 2015 warehouse-conversion apartments — polished concrete, steel-framed windows, mezzanine levels and the items agents actually list on exit reports.
A bond clean in an Alexandria 2015 warehouse conversion needs three things a standard checklist misses: neutral pH treatment for polished or sealed concrete, dry-lifting of road grit from steel window frames and tracks before anything wet touches them, and explicit attention to mezzanine balustrades and stair nosings that sit outside normal eye level. Everything else — oven, cupboards, bathrooms, walls, skirtings, vents — follows the usual scope.
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Why the standard checklist under-performs here
Most vacate checklists were written for brick-veneer houses and tiled apartments. Alexandria 2015 has a large stock of former printworks, wool stores and light-industrial sheds converted into apartments, and those buildings behave differently. The floors are polished or sealed concrete rather than tile. The windows are tall steel-framed industrial units facing busy roads. Bedrooms are frequently on a mezzanine reached by an open stair.
The consequence is that a tenant can follow a generic checklist line by line and still fail the outgoing inspection, because the three things most likely to be listed on the exit report were never on the list.
The three conversion-specific items
Handle these first, because they take the longest and they are the ones an agent photographs.
- • Polished and sealed concrete: use a neutral pH detergent only. A strong alkaline cleaner lifts the sheen unevenly and leaves a visible patch that cannot be buffed out without a machine.
- • Steel window frames, sills and tracks: dry-brush and vacuum the grit out before applying any moisture, or it turns to mud in the track and stains the frame.
- • Mezzanine balustrades, handrails and stair nosings: they sit above eye level from the floor and below it from the mezzanine, which is exactly why both the tenant and the cleaner miss them.
- • Exposed brick: dust it, do not wash it. Water darkens old brick unevenly and the marks take days to dry out.
- • High-level light fittings and ductwork: if the ceiling is four metres up, budget for a pole or an extension duster rather than discovering the problem on inspection day.
The rest of the standard scope, in order
Work top to bottom and wet-area last, so you are not walking cleaned floors. Oven, griller and range hood first because degreaser needs dwell time and it is the single most common exit-report failure. Then cupboards and drawers inside and out, including kickboards and cupboard tops. Then bathrooms — shower screen, grout, tap fittings, exhaust fan cover and the back of the toilet pan. Then walls spot-cleaned for scuffs, skirtings, door frames, switch plates and air-conditioning vents. Floors last.
Carpet, where it exists, almost always has to be professionally cleaned with a receipt supplied. Book the extraction for the same day as the clean, not a week earlier, because a week of moving traffic undoes it.
Timing it properly
Book the clean for the day after the removalists finish and before the outgoing inspection — not the same morning as both. Fitting a full vacate clean between a 10am truck and a 2pm inspection is how items get missed and how disputes start.
End of month and the last week before Christmas are the crunch periods in Alexandria. If your lease ends then, book two weeks out.
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Frequently asked questions
Do I need professional carpet cleaning for an Alexandria bond clean?
If the property has carpet, almost every NSW residential lease requires it to be professionally cleaned at the end of the tenancy, and agents increasingly ask for the invoice as evidence. Have it invoiced as a separate line so you can hand the receipt over.
Can I clean the polished concrete myself?
Yes, with a neutral pH detergent and a well-wrung flat mop. The risk is not effort, it is chemistry — supermarket floor cleaners are often alkaline and will dull the finish in patches that are far more expensive to fix than the clean was to outsource.
What is not included in an end of lease clean?
Painting, plaster repair, fixture repair, rubbish removal, and external window faces that need height access are all outside the standard scope. A reputable cleaner quotes those separately before starting rather than adding them to the invoice afterwards.
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