End of Tenancy Cleaning Gorgie and Dalry.

Quick answer for Gorgie and Dalry: Gorgie and Dalry end of tenancy cleans start at £149 for a studio and £219 for a two bedroom flat, covering Gorgie Road, Smithfield Street, Wardlaw Street and Wardlaw Place, Dalry Road and the colony terraces off Dalry Place in EH11. Mostly one and two bedroom flats, booked across the year rather than in one summer rush.

Prices in Gorgie and Dalry: studio £149, 1-bed £179, 2-bed £219, 3-bed £259, 4-bed £299, 5+ bedrooms from £349, the same fixed ladder everywhere we clean. We cover all of Gorgie and Dalry including Gorgie Road, Dalry Road, Wardlaw streets, Dalry Colonies.

Gorgie and Dalry are tenement corridors and the flats are smaller than the student belt further south. Of the twelve Gorgie properties advertised on Citylets when we last looked, nine were one bedroom. That tells you what the area actually is: a single tenant and couple market, with a layer of three and four bedroom furnished licensed shares above it rather than the other way round.

The tenements are traditional stone, communal stair, secure entry at street level. Smithfield Street, Wardlaw Street, Wardlaw Place, Stewart Terrace, Westfield Road and Robertson Avenue carry most of the Gorgie one bedroom stock. On the Dalry side, Caledonian Crescent, Caledonian Road, West End Place, Orwell Place, Duff Street and Dundee Terrace do the same job, with two bedroom flats advertised at roughly £1,250 to £1,550 a month.

Then there are the colonies. A run of terraces sits off Dalry Place, reached by cobbled footpaths: Lewis, Walker, Douglas, Cobden, Argyll, Bright, Atholl, McLaren and Breadalbane. They were built in 1868 and 1870 for Caledonian Railway workers, two storey and attic, two up and two down. Squared sandstone, slated roofs with canted dormers, four pane sash and case windows and panelled doors with fanlights, largely original.

Deposits on a Private Residential Tenancy go to SafeDeposits Scotland, Letting Protection Service Scotland or MyDeposits Scotland, lodged within 30 working days of the tenancy starting and capped at two months' rent. A dispute is settled on the inventory and the photographs rather than on anyone's recollection, and a deposit that was never lodged can cost a landlord up to three times its value at the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland.

Cleaning is consistently reported as one of the leading causes of deductions in Scotland, and in a one bedroom flat the whole argument usually comes down to two rooms. The kitchen and the bathroom are where the money is, because there is nowhere in a small flat for the work to hide.

Gorgie Road and Dalry Road add one local problem. Both are heavy bus corridors, and a front facing flat picks up traffic film on the inside of the sashes as well as the outside. It stays invisible until the light comes in at an angle, which is when the agent is standing in the room. A colony house swaps that for its own list: the forestair, the front door glass and the path all read as part of the property.

There is no tram stop in Gorgie or Dalry, whatever a search result tells you. The line runs past to the west, and the nearest stops are Balgreen and Murrayfield Stadium. Getting about here is buses: Lothian services run the Gorgie Road and Dalry Road corridors into the centre, and Haymarket is the anchor station, with Dalry sitting between it and Gorgie.

For a checkout appointment that is straightforward. For us it means what it means everywhere in Edinburgh: the 20mph limit and the bus gates make journeys slower than the mileage suggests. We build that into the schedule rather than the price. Parking is permit controlled on most side streets.

Both areas sit outside the Low Emission Zone, so nothing about a job here depends on vehicle emissions standards.

The useful thing about Gorgie and Dalry is that they do not run on the academic calendar. There are students here, and purpose built student blocks on the Gorgie Road corridor, but the tenant base is mostly working people: single tenants, couples, sharers and families, with Dalry Primary, Tynecastle High and St Cuthbert's in the middle of it and Tynecastle Park at the end of McLeod Street. Flats come free every month of the year.

Outside the July peak this is one of the easier parts of our patch to fit in quickly. Book by 12 noon and we can usually cover you the same day. If a crew has a free slot you pay the standard fixed price. If fitting you in means moving other booked jobs there may be an additional charge, and you will have that number before you book rather than after.

DJ Alexander is the name you meet most often on this corridor: five of the ten Gorgie flats advertised on Citylets when we last checked were theirs. Cullen Property has anchored the west Edinburgh HMO market for more than twenty years, and Clan Gordon, Pure Property Management, The Property Letting Centre and Cornerstone Letting all hold stock across the two areas. They inspect against a written inventory.