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Cleaning your rental
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While it may sound obvious or even boring, keeping a shared apartment clean and tidy makes a big difference to the vibe in your flat and the relationship with other housemates (Summit teammates) and your landlords (Henry, Erica and Paul). Communal areas (kitchen, living room, hallways and bathrooms), might need some sort of house schedule so that everyone pulls their weight.

In case you are new to living in a shared apartment, we thought we would give you some tips on the sorts of things that fall under the heading ‘cleaning’. We’ll give you more information about now to deep clean the apartment to have it ready to return to us towards the end of the season (which is a much smaller job if you have stayed on top of it all winter).

Cleaning Communal living areas during the season:

Daily:

  • Tidy kitchen after use (put away food, wipe down surfaces)
  • Washing up (pans etc used for cooking and also dishes)
  • Run and unload dishwasher

Weekly:

  • Empty out the bins (might need to do this twice a week).
  • Take our recycling
  • Clean the kitchen, including wiping the sides, cleaning the microwave and hob, and throwing away any mouldy food from the fridge.
  • Scrub the bathroom sink, bath and toilet. Wash any bathroom mats or hand towels.
  • Vacuum all the communal floors.
  • Clean and tidy the living room. Put away any items that shouldn’t be there, tidy the sofas, and wipe the surfaces.

Monthly:

  • Clean the oven.
  • Clean out the fridge and freezer.
  • Mop and vacuum all the communal floors
  • Clean mirrors and windows

Leaving your accommodation:

To get your deposit back at the end of the season, you will need to leave the apartments as clean as you found them.

Here is a checklist to help:

Please let us know if anything is broken or damaged, then we can get it fixed before the next people move in and make sure it’s good for next season!

Cleaning the Kitchen:

  1. Clean the refrigerator, oven, and extractor fan to remove grease and food residue.
  2. Pull the glass shelves and plastic bins out of the refrigerator and clean with soapy water, or if you have space, run them through the dishwasher for a thorough cleaning.
  3. Defrost freezer.
  4. Use oven cleaner to remove any baked-on food inside the oven. The best way is to spray oven cleaner on and leave it for 12 – 24hrs to work… then the over will clean more easily.
  5. Wipe down all cabinets and drawers. You may also want to vacuum dust and dirt from the cabinet interiors.
  6. Vacuum or sweep and mop floors to remove dirt and stains.
  7. Clean the sink and dishwasher to remove soap scum and food particles. Don’t forget to clean the dishwasher filter.
  8. Empty fridge, freezer and all cabinets – do not leave any food, throw it all out.

Here are a few helpful videos if you are unsure how to get kitchen appliances properly clean. Don’t worry if you don’t have exactly the same products as him!

Cleaning the Bathroom:

  1. Clean the shower walls and floor
  2. Clean glass shower doors and fixtures with hard water stains.
  3. Use window cleaner and a micro-fibre towel or quality paper towels on mirrors to both clean and prevent streaking.
  4. To leave the bathroom clean, wipe down all surfaces, including the sink and light switches.
  5. Scrub the toilet and floor around the bathroom.
  6. Vacuum the bathroom floors and vents to remove dirt and dust.
  7. Wet mop the floor.

Cleaning the Bedroom:

  1. Empty and wipe down all cabinets, cupboards, shelves, bedside tables.
  2. Strip bed and fold sheets on top (if you don’t have time to clean them it’s ok).
  3. Leave all linen we provided: 1 fitted sheet, 1 duvet cover, 2 pillowcases, 1 towel.
  4. Make sure each bed has bedding we provided: 2 pillows, 2 pillow protectors, mattress protector, duvet
  5. Hoover bedroom & wet mop the floor
  6. Clean windows
  7. If your bedroom has a balcony, sweep or hoover, remove any rubbish (cigarette buts etc), wipe down any furniture.

Cleaning Living Areas and Common Areas:

  1. Dust and vacuum all living areas, including the living room, hallways, and bedrooms.
  2. Wipe down all surfaces, including door knobs, door frames, light switches, and baseboards.
  3. Clean all windows.
  4. Organize all common areas (all the chairs around the dining table, pillows and blankets back on the sofas etc)
  5. Clear out ski room – do not leave ANY skis or old kit.
  6. Clear the laundry room – don’t leave any laundry left hanging.
  7. Sweep or hoover balconies, remove any rubbish (cigarette buts etc), wipe down any furniture.

Final Cleaning Tasks:

  1. Take out ALL the trash and recycling.
  2. Hoover or sweep all floors and remove dirt and debris.
  3. Make one final pass, opening all cabinet doors and drawers to check for personal items or anything not cleaned.

Lastly, don’t forget to look at the easily missed spaces. The top places most people forget to clean before moving out are:

    1. Top shelves in closets
    2. Bathroom drawers, shelves, and medicine cabinets 
    3. Under the bed or sofa

** REMINDER **

Please only leave what was in the apartments when you arrived… take everything else with you or throw it out. Your deposit will be affected if you don’t clear our the apartments properly: last year everything from socks, underwear, cheese, sodas, skis, gloves, toothbrushes and more were left…. And deposits were reduced.