Custom cleaning quotes in Edinburgh
For cleaning that doesn’t fit a standard booking: a top-floor flat after years of tenants, a short let that needs more than a changeover, a clean and a clear-out before a sale. Describe it, add photos, and Edinburgh providers quote for that job.
Free to request. No card needed to get quotes.
- Your words, your photos
- Providers set the price
- Free in-person visit available
- Payment held until it’s done
- 4.9 / 5Google rating from 113 reviews
- 5 minmedian time to a first quote on Edinburgh requests
Three things that get you an accurate quote. First time.
Providers price exactly what you describe, so the description is the job. You don’t need the right vocabulary; you need the right details.
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The property
What it is (flat, house, studio, HMO, office, holiday let), how many rooms and bathrooms, which floor, whether there’s a lift, and where a provider can park.
- 2
The job and its condition
What you want done, room by room if that helps, and an honest word on the condition: the price is based on it. Add any deadline, such as a key handover, guests arriving or a viewing.
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Photos or a short video
One photo per room, including the worst one, or a 60-second walk-through. The request form takes both, and a video answers most of a provider’s questions before they ask them.
Not sure it can be priced from photos? Ask for an in-person visit. Your first visit for a job is free (one free visit per postcode every 7 days), and a quote given after a visit stays valid for up to 3 months.
A price for your job. Not an average one.
Most Cleanifiq services are priced instantly: you choose rooms and a cleaning level, and the price engine turns each provider’s rate into a fixed quote. That works when the job looks like the checklist. It doesn’t when the flat has been empty for a year, when you need a clean and a clear-out on one visit, or when you want the same provider across several properties every fortnight.
Forcing those jobs into a checklist goes wrong in one of two ways. You under-describe it, the provider arrives to twice the work, and the day starts with an extra payment request. Or you over-describe it and pay for scrubbing a wipe would have done.
A custom quote takes the engine out. You describe the job in your own words, each provider reads it and looks at your photos, and prices it themselves. The quote they send is the job they’ve committed to.
Quotes written for your brief
Each quote is a provider’s price for your description and photos, not a number generated from a room count.
The scope in writing
What’s in the accepted quote is the job. Anything else is agreed in the platform messages before it’s done.
Profiles you can compare
Ratings and reviews come from booked, paid jobs. Choose on track record for your kind of job, not only on price.
Payment held until it’s done
Your money sits with Cleanifiq, not the provider, until the job is completed on the platform.
Honest limit: a custom quote is only as good as the description. If the photos leave out the worst room, the quote won’t cover it, and anything extra on the day comes as a separate request you can accept or decline. When in doubt, ask for a visit.
Free to request. You only book if a quote suits you.
Jobs that suit a custom quote. Examples, not limits.
If the job is a straightforward house clean, deep clean or end of tenancy clean, the instant booking is quicker. These are the jobs where describing it beats choosing from a list.
A property after a long let
Grease in the kitchen, limescale, marks on the walls and a cupboard of things the last tenant left behind. Describe each room’s condition and photograph the worst.
A clean plus a clear-out
A clean, plus bags or furniture that need to go. Say how much has to leave: some providers include removal, others quote the clean only, and the quote will say which.
Regular cleaning across several properties
A set of student flats, a block’s communal stairs or a small office each week. List the postcodes and how often; providers quote per visit, and you can rebook a provider you liked.
Several services on one visit
A deep clean of the bathroom, the oven, the carpets and the inside windows, all on the day you hand back the keys, from one provider rather than four bookings.
Spaces that aren’t homes
A community hall after an event, a studio, a workshop, a shop flat. If it isn’t a standard house or office, describe the space and how it’s used.
Before a sale or a viewing
A property going on the market that needs cleaning and presenting well. Say when the photographer or the first viewing is booked, so quotes come with dates that work.
What a custom quote can cover, and what it can’t.
Providers on Cleanifiq quote custom jobs across homes, lettings and small commercial spaces. These are the usual shapes.
Homes
- Flats, houses, HMOs and student lets
- Any condition, from lived-in to neglected
- One problem room or the whole property
Lettings and short lets
- Between-tenancy cleans that need more than the standard list
- Changeovers with unusual extras
- Several properties on one request
Mixed and other spaces
- Cleaning combined with carpets, oven or inside windows
- Communal stairs and entrances you’re responsible for
- Small offices, studios and event spaces
Not included unless the quote says so
- Biohazards such as bodily fluids, sharps or infestations: request decontamination cleaning instead
- Waste removal, skips or trips to the tip
- Work at height beyond a 3-step ladder or an extension pole
- Repairs and odd jobs (book a handyman instead)
The scope is whatever the accepted quote says. Anything outside it is agreed in the platform before it’s done.
Four steps. You stay in control.
- 01
Describe it
Tell us what needs doing, in your own words, and add photos or a short video.
- 02
Providers quote
Providers who cover your part of Edinburgh read the brief and send a price, or ask to visit if it needs seeing.
- 03
Compare and book
Compare price, reviews and availability. Questions go through the platform messages, so everything agreed is on record.
- 04
Done, then paid
Your payment is held by Cleanifiq and released to the provider after the job is completed.
How much does a custom cleaning quote cost in Edinburgh?
Edinburgh custom jobs tend to cost more than Glasgow’s: across the last year most came to between £92 and £475, with a median of £217. Stairs, larger flats and jobs that combine several services push a quote up the range.
There is no price list for custom jobs. Each provider reads the same description and prices it, so you compare real quotes for your job rather than a guide price that changes when someone arrives.
- Lower end (10th percentile)
- £92
- Median job
- £217
- Upper end (90th percentile)
- £475
What affects the price
- How much needs doing, and the condition it’s in
- Size: rooms, bathrooms, floors and stairs without a lift
- Anything heavy or specialist: bulky waste, carpets, ovens
- Access, parking and the time window you can offer
- A same-day or next-day start (providers can add a surcharge)
Why quotes for the same job differ
Providers set their own rates and read the same brief differently: one may send two people for a day, another one person for two days. Compare what each quote includes, not only the total, and ask in the messages if something isn’t clear.
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Your payment is held
You choose at checkout: pay a deposit (20% of the job, or the provider’s minimum call-out fee if that’s higher) or pay in full. If you pay a deposit, the balance is due by 7:30am on the day of the job. Your money goes to Cleanifiq, not the provider, and release to the provider starts the day after the job, once they’ve completed it on the platform.
Not right? Tell us within 48 hours
Tell us within 48 hours of the job, with photos or a short video of what isn’t right. Your provider gets 48 working hours to come back and put it right at no cost to you, and we hold their payment until it’s settled. If they can’t or won’t, you choose: the value of the unfinished items back as a refund or Cleanifiq credit, or a new, smaller job for just those items with another provider (you see the price before confirming anything).
Checked before they quote
Before a provider can take bookings we check photo ID, proof of address and public liability insurance, plus a criminal record check (Basic Disclosure Scotland or equivalent) and right to work where it applies. For companies we check a director’s ID, the business address, public liability insurance and Companies House status. Documents with expiry dates are re-checked when they expire. Every review on a provider’s profile comes from a booked, paid job. Cleanifiq’s insurance covers a new provider’s first three jobs while their own cover is being verified.
Keep it on the platform
Always pay through Cleanifiq, including for anything added on the day. Work paid for privately falls outside our guarantee, our insurance and our dispute resolution.
Stairs, stone and short lets.
Edinburgh is our second-busiest city for custom quotes, and the jobs have their own patterns. These are the details that change an Edinburgh quote.
9 providers quoting custom jobs
Nine providers quoted custom requests in Edinburgh in the last six months. Requests here are answered quickly: a median of about 5 minutes to the first quote, and three in four within a quarter of an hour.
Common stairs and parking
Old Town and New Town flats often mean several flights of a common stair and no lift, and most of the centre is a controlled parking zone. Put the floor and the parking situation in your brief so quotes include the time it takes to carry kit up.
Short lets with tight turnarounds
If it’s a short-term let and the clean has to fit between guests (August is the obvious squeeze), say how many hours the provider has. A quote for a two-hour window is a different quote from one for a free day.
Recent Cleanifiq jobs around Edinburgh
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- EH7
- EH11
- EH6
- EH9
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- EH1
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- EH12
- EH4
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- EH14
Postcode districts where Cleanifiq jobs (all services) were accepted in the last 12 months, busiest first, including Livingston, Bathgate and Linlithgow in West Lothian.
Custom Cleaning Quote in Edinburgh: your questions
- A request where you describe the cleaning job in your own words instead of choosing rooms and levels from a list. Providers read your description and photos and price that specific job themselves, outside Cleanifiq’s automatic price engine.
- When the job doesn’t fit the standard flows: a property in poor condition, several services in one visit, an unusual space, regular cleaning across several properties, or when you’re not sure what to book. For a straightforward house clean, deep clean or end of tenancy clean, the instant booking is quicker.
- Typical totals from real Cleanifiq custom-quote jobs in Edinburgh over the last 12 months run from about £92 to £475, with a median of £217. The price for your job comes from the providers who read your description.
- They will if you tell providers about it. Say which floor the flat is on, whether there’s a lift and where they can park; providers then build the extra time into the quote instead of finding out on the day.
- For jobs that need seeing first, some providers offer an in-person visit. Your first visit for a job is free (one free visit per postcode every 7 days); a second provider’s visit fee is shown before you book it and refunded if they cancel. A quote given after a visit is valid for up to 3 months.
- You choose at checkout: pay a deposit (20% of the job, or the provider’s minimum call-out fee if that’s higher) or pay in full. If you pay a deposit, the balance is due by 7:30am on the day of the job. Your money goes to Cleanifiq, not the provider, and release to the provider starts the day after the job, once they’ve completed it on the platform.
- Tell us within 48 hours of the job, with photos or a short video of what isn’t right. Your provider gets 48 working hours to come back and put it right at no cost to you, and we hold their payment until it’s settled. If they can’t or won’t, you choose: the value of the unfinished items back as a refund or Cleanifiq credit, or a new, smaller job for just those items with another provider (you see the price before confirming anything).
- Before a provider can take bookings we check photo ID, proof of address and public liability insurance, plus a criminal record check (Basic Disclosure Scotland or equivalent) and right to work where it applies. For companies we check a director’s ID, the business address, public liability insurance and Companies House status. Documents with expiry dates are re-checked when they expire. Every review on a provider’s profile comes from a booked, paid job. Cleanifiq’s insurance covers a new provider’s first three jobs while their own cover is being verified.
- Yes, you can cancel your booking, but cancellation fees may apply depending on timing. More than 2 weeks before: full refund with no deductions. Between 2 weeks and 2 days before: a payment processing fee of 1.69%–5% (depending on payment method) is retained and the rest is refunded. Less than 2 days before (or failing to pay by 7:30 AM on cleaning day): your deposit is retained as a slot reservation fee. After the provider starts: you owe the minimum callout fee or work completed, whichever is greater. Whenever money comes back to you, you can take it as Cleanifiq credit instead of a refund, sometimes with a bonus on top. This policy keeps things fair for both customers and Edinburgh providers.
Describe your job. Get your quotes.
Describe the Edinburgh job in your own words, add photos of the rooms that matter, and compare what comes back. Nothing is charged until you accept a quote.
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