How Much Does Move-Out Cleaning Cost in London, Ontario?

Move-out cleaning isn’t priced from a separate list — it’s your home’s standard cleaning price plus a fixed move-out upgrade. At TidyWay that upgrade is a flat $120 on top of your home’s standard price, and it adds roughly 3 hours of work to turn a maintenance clean into the deeper, empty-home scope movers actually need.

To put real numbers against that, here is what TidyWay charges for a one-time move-out clean at a few common London home sizes, next to the standard clean it’s built on.

A move-out quote is built from the same handful of inputs as any cleaning quote, plus one that’s specific to moving: how much of the home is actually empty.

Home size

More floor area means more surfaces, more cabinetry and more baseboard to cover in detail. Whether a company quotes from bedroom count or square footage, both are trying to answer the same question — how much is there to clean — and a move-out clean touches nearly all of it, not just the rooms you used most.

Bedrooms and bathrooms

Bathrooms move a move-out price more than bedrooms do. Grout, fixtures, glass and vanity interiors all take real time, and a move-out clean deep-cleans grout and vanity cabinets throughout rather than spot-checking them. A one-bathroom home and a two-and-a-half-bathroom home are genuinely different jobs at this scope, which is why bathrooms are priced on their own.

Scope of cleaning

This is the single biggest reason a move-out quote is higher than a standard cleaning quote for the same address. A standard clean maintains a home; a move-out clean resets it — appliance and cabinet interiors, closets, grout, window tracks, door frames and baseboards throughout, not just the surfaces you can reach in an hour. More of it is covered further down.

Condition of the home

A home that’s been kept up and lightly used costs less to reset than one with years of buildup in cabinets, appliances and grout. With flat-rate pricing this is usually handled by being candid about condition when you book, rather than a surprise charge on move-out day — an underestimated job just means the cleaner runs out of time before the home meets the standard you actually need.

Additional services and extras

Interior windows, balcony or patio cleaning, and heavy pet hair removal are optional and priced on top of the move-out scope. They’re also a common reason two move-out quotes look different for no obvious reason, so it’s worth checking what a price already includes before comparing it to another.

Move-out cleaning costs more because it’s more work, not because it’s billed at a different rate. A regular clean keeps an already-reasonable home on track. A move-out clean resets the whole home to the standard a landlord, buyer or property manager expects to see with nothing left behind — and that reset takes hours a maintenance visit simply doesn’t budget for.

Because the difference is scope rather than rate, move-out cleaning is priced as an upgrade on top of your home’s standard price — the same structure TidyWay uses for deep cleaning. The move-out upgrade is a flat $120 and adds roughly 3 hours on site, regardless of your home’s size.

Every dollar of the move-out upgrade goes toward a specific, longer checklist. At TidyWay that checklist covers:

• Kitchen appliance interiors — oven, fridge/freezer and dishwasher.
• Every cabinet and drawer — emptied and wiped inside, throughout the kitchen, bathrooms, bedrooms and living areas.
• Closets cleaned inside — shelves, rods and floors.
• Deep grout cleaning in bathrooms, plus fixtures, tile walls and drains.
• Spot-cleaned walls, doors and door frames throughout the home.
• Window tracks and baseboards, detail cleaned rather than spot-checked.

That’s a materially bigger checklist than a standard clean, which is what the move-out upgrade’s price and added time actually pay for. Interior windows, balcony/patio cleaning and heavy pet hair removal sit outside this standard checklist as optional extras — covered below. For the full room-by-room version of this checklist, see what’s included in move-out cleaning.

TidyWay doesn’t price move-out cleaning differently by home type — the price comes from bedrooms and bathrooms, and the $120 move-out upgrade is the same flat add-on either way. What changes is which end of the pricing table each type of home tends to land on.

For the specifics of each, see apartment cleaning, condo cleaning and house cleaning in London, Ontario — the same bedroom/bathroom pricing shown above applies before the move-out upgrade is added.

A few add-ons genuinely sit outside the standard move-out checklist and are priced separately if you want them:

Cleaning it yourself avoids a cleaning bill, but it isn’t free — it costs your own time on top of everything else moving day already demands, plus whatever supplies and equipment you need to buy or rent for a job you likely won’t do again for years.

The right call often comes down to timing and stakes: a small, lightly-used apartment on a flexible move-out date is more DIY-friendly than a larger home with a hard closing date or a lease that spells out a specific cleaning standard to meet. If you do go the DIY route, our move-out cleaning checklist covers the same scope room by room, and how long it typically takes can help you plan around moving day.

Two move-out quotes for the same home can be far apart for reasons that have nothing to do with quality. Before comparing numbers, make sure you’re comparing the same job:

• Is it actually a move-out scope? Some companies quote a standard clean under a “move-out” label. Ask for the checklist, not a description.
• Is it a fixed price or an hourly estimate? A flat quote and an hourly range aren’t the same commitment on move-out day.
• Are appliance and cabinet interiors included? These are core to a real move-out clean — if they’re priced as extras, the base quote is narrower than it looks.
• Are supplies and equipment included? Some quotes assume you provide products and a working vacuum.
• Is the company insured, and for how much? This matters more in an empty home you may not be present for.
• Are cleaners background-checked? You’re giving access to a property, often unsupervised.
• What happens if a landlord or buyer isn’t satisfied? A written return policy is worth more than a verbal promise, especially against a closing or handover date.
• Can you get a fixed price before the home is empty? Needing an in-home visit costs you an appointment before you know anything.

A cheaper move-out quote is often a narrower one — appliance interiors excluded, an hourly rate that stops when the clock does, or a scope that’s really just a standard clean. For reference on the questions above: TidyWay includes all supplies and equipment, carries $2 million in liability insurance, background-checks every cleaner before their first job, and will return free within 24 hours if a clean isn’t right.

Everything above is meant to help you read any move-out quote. If you want ours, it takes a couple of minutes and no phone call.

You can see the full picture of what we cover on our move-out cleaning page for London, Ontario, and get your price from the same page. Moving into a new home instead? Move-in cleaning uses the same pricing structure.

• Flat, upfront pricing for the move-out scope you select — no hourly meter.
• Insured, background-checked cleaners on every visit.
• Supplies and equipment included, including a vacuum.
• No in-home estimate required to see your exact price.