End of Tenancy Cleaning Portobello.

Quick answer for Portobello: Portobello end of tenancy cleans start at £149 for a studio and £219 for a two bedroom flat, covering Portobello High Street, Bath Street, Brighton Place, Straiton Place and the Promenade streets in EH15. Two and three bedroom homes are the common size here rather than student shares.

Prices in Portobello: 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 Portobello including Portobello High Street, Bath Street, Brighton Place, Straiton Place.

Portobello has the widest spread of building types of any area we cover, and most of it sits within a few streets of the beach. Describing the frontage along the Promenade, the council's conservation appraisal lists single storey Georgian houses, two storey Victorian terraced properties, large two to three storey detached Victorian villas and four storey Victorian tenements. That is four different cleans on one road.

The Georgian core came first: Portobello High Street with Bath Street and Figgate Street, laid out in 1801 and 1802, then Regent Street, Marlborough Street and the Brighton and Rosefield streets the appraisal calls among the most attractive in the town. Victorian tenements arrived later and pushed into Bath Street, Straiton Place and Marlborough Street, several of them in red sandstone against the grey of the older buildings. Windsor Mansions on Straiton Place dates from 1899 and St James's Terrace on Bath Street from 1870.

Newer stock exists too, including a pair of semi detached houses at Straiton Place from 1990 and a block of flats at the foot of Pittville Street from 1996. The conservation area holds in the order of 1,700 residential units and around 4,500 people, so this is a working neighbourhood rather than a strip of holiday flats. Tenement addresses here have communal stairs and secure entry much as they do in town.

The Scottish rules apply out here exactly as they do in the centre. Under a Private Residential Tenancy your deposit is lodged with SafeDeposits Scotland, Letting Protection Service Scotland or MyDeposits Scotland within 30 working days of the tenancy starting, capped at two months' rent, and any deduction has to stand up against the inventory. If it does not, the scheme decides. 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 the Portobello version of that list has a coastal accent. Sand gets into carpet edges, door thresholds and the runners of sash windows on the streets nearest the beach. Salt air leaves a film on glass, chrome and external door furniture. None of it is damage and all of it is cleaning, and it gets left because it builds slowly enough that you stop seeing it.

Edinburgh water is soft, around 30 to 31 milligrams per litre, so limescale is a smaller problem here than in the south of England. Marks on screens, taps and glass still need work, and on a seafront flat there are more of them.

Portobello is served by Lothian buses 12, 19, 21, 26 and 49, and Brunstane Station is a short walk or bus ride away with ScotRail into Waverley in under ten minutes. There is no tram stop in Portobello.

Being out on the coast means we schedule Portobello differently from the tenement belt. We group jobs here into the same part of the day rather than run back and forth across the city, so if you can be flexible on morning or afternoon we can usually be flexible on the date. Parking is easier than anywhere else on our patch, which matters when a job needs machines carried in.

Portobello is a smaller rental market than the streets we work in town, and we would rather tell you that than dress it up. When we last checked the market there were five Portobello flats advertised on Citylets, against nine in Bruntsfield, ten in Stockbridge and twelve in Gorgie. Citylets also records an average time to let in EH15 of 31 days for a one bedroom and 38 days for a two bedroom, a little slower than the city as a whole.

None of that is a problem. It is a different market. Demand here is families, working professionals and retirees rather than one academic cohort, the three bedroom flat is the most popular type in the area, and there are rooms in shared houses on Straiton Place and the streets behind at around £800 to £850 a month. Towerbank Primary and Portobello High School anchor the family end of it, and family tenancies run long.

Cairn, Milards, Albany Lettings and The Property Letting Centre all had Portobello property on the market when we last looked, and DJ Alexander and Rettie work the area as well. Between them they will walk the flat against a written inventory. If you are handing back a seafront flat, that inventory was written on a day when the windows were clean.