Whose responsibility is HMO communal cleaning, the landlord or the tenants?

The landlord or agent is responsible for keeping the communal areas to the licensing standard. Leaving it to tenants rarely holds, which is why a scheduled clean with a report is the safe route.

Do you provide evidence for the council?

Yes. We file a report after every visit, with photographs on request, so you can evidence the standard to a licensing officer.

Can you cover several HMOs on one schedule?

Yes. Multiple properties go on one schedule with one contact and one set of reports, rather than a separate arrangement for each.

On the number of units or rooms, the communal layout and the frequency. Send us the details and we will confirm a scheduled rate.

Property · HMO

HMO cleaning, reported after every visit

Scheduled cleaning of the communal areas in shared houses, with a written report after every visit, so landlords and agents can evidence the standard to a council, a tenant or each other. Fixed weekly or fortnightly visits, one named contact for every property.

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Schedule

Fixed weekly or fortnightly

Reporting

A written report every visit

Evidence

For councils, tenants and landlords

Coverage

Five UK cities

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The clean you can prove happened.

An HMO licence expects the communal areas kept to a standard, and a dispute over whether they were is hard to settle after the fact. We clean on a fixed schedule and file a report after every visit, so the standard is evidenced rather than argued.

That covers the shared kitchens, bathrooms, stairwells, bin stores and entrances that every tenant uses and nobody owns. One schedule, one named contact, and a record you can send a council or a landlord.

What’s included

—Fixed weekly or fortnightly visits

—Shared kitchens and bathrooms

—Stairwells, landings and corridors

—Bin stores and entrance areas

—Glass, touchpoints and communal floors

—A written report filed after every visit

—Photographs on request for evidence

—One named contact for the property

Communal cleaning for larger residential blocks runs on the same basis, scoped to the building.

The HMO sequence

How an HMO schedule runs.

Property scoped

We take the number of units or rooms and the communal layout, and set the schedule to it.

Scheduled

Fixed weekly or fortnightly visits are booked in, with one named contact for the property.

Cleaned and reported

Each visit is worked to the standard and a report is filed, so the clean is on record.

Evidenced

The report, with photographs on request, is there to send a council, a tenant or a landlord.

These four steps are specific to HMOs. They sit inside the six-stage operating cycle we run on every contract. See how we work

Scope

What an HMO clean does not cover.

Stated plainly so the schedule is predictable. Any of the below can be arranged separately where you need it.

Inside let rooms

We clean the communal areas. Cleaning inside a tenant's room is arranged separately with them.

Repairs and maintenance

We report faults in the communal areas. Repairs sit with the landlord or agent.

Waste beyond the bin store

We keep the bin store tidy. Trade and bulky waste collection is arranged separately.

Garden and grounds

Grounds and gardening are a separate service, not part of the communal clean.

Related work and guidance.

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Guide · For landlords

HMO communal cleaning standards and licensing

The standard HMO licensing actually expects of communal cleaning, and what to put in writing with whoever does it.

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Industry · Property Management

Cleaning for letting agents and property managers

Guide · For landlords

How often should HMO communal areas be cleaned

Questions

HMO cleaning, answered.

For most licensed HMOs, weekly or fortnightly, depending on the number of tenants and the wear on the shared areas. We agree the frequency to the property and hold to it.

HMO cleaning, city by city.

All locations

ManchesterSchedules across the student belt and the central house shares, from our largest team.→LiverpoolStudent houses around Kensington and the Georgian Quarter, reported after every visit.→

Other services.

All services

Communal AreasEntrances, corridors, lifts and stairwells in residential blocks.→Property CleaningPre-viewing cleans and void preparation for managed portfolios.→End of TenancyCleaned to the check-out report, evidenced with dated photographs.→Deep CleaningThe heavier reset after a long tenancy or a refurbishment.→

Get a price for your HMOs.

Tell us how many units or rooms and where they are. We will come back with a scheduled rate and a named contact.

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Service area

About a minute. No obligation.