End of Tenancy Cleaning Stockbridge.

Quick answer for Stockbridge: Stockbridge end of tenancy cleans start at £149 for a studio and £219 for a two bedroom flat, covering Raeburn Place, Deanhaugh Street, Dean Park Street, St Stephen Street and the Colonies off Glenogle Road in EH3 and EH4. Mostly one and two bedroom flats with longer tenancies than the student belt.

Prices in Stockbridge: 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 Stockbridge including Raeburn Place, St Stephen Street, Deanhaugh Street, The Colonies.

The council's New Town appraisal describes the Stockbridge spine as Georgian and Victorian terraces of tenements or three storey houses, lining Kerr Street, Deanhaugh Street, Raeburn Place and Comely Bank Road. Behind them the Raeburn Estate holds the grander terraces, Ann Street the oldest of them and St Bernard's Crescent a late Georgian set piece. The classic tenement flats have big bay windows and high ceilings.

The live market is small flats at large rents. Of the ten Stockbridge properties advertised on Citylets when we last looked, eight were one or two bedroom, running from about £1,150 on Raeburn Place to £1,995 on Mary's Place. Comely Bank Place, Learmonth Grove, Learmonth Crescent, Saxe Coburg Street, Silvermills and Patriothall all carried stock.

The Colonies are the other half of the story and the more distinctive one. Eleven long terraces run perpendicular to Glenogle Road with shorter rows to the east, upper and lower houses with around sixteen dwellings on each level. Cobbled cul-de-sac streets, obelisk piers at the entrances, private gardens with clothes poles, and the external stone stair that gives the upper house its own way in. At Glenogle Terrace the stairs were built inside instead.

The rules are the same across Scotland. Under a Private Residential Tenancy your deposit is held by SafeDeposits Scotland, Letting Protection Service Scotland or MyDeposits Scotland, lodged within 30 working days of the start of the tenancy and capped at two months' rent. A deduction has to be justified against the inventory, the scheme adjudicates a dispute, and a deposit that was never lodged can be penalised at up to three times its value by the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland.

What changes in Stockbridge is the size of the number. Two months' rent on a flat letting at £1,678 is a lot of money to be arguing about, and it makes a rushed clean an expensive way to save an afternoon.

Cleaning is consistently reported as one of the leading causes of deductions in Scotland. Here the pattern is a long tenancy pattern rather than a student one: build up rather than mess. Edinburgh water is soft, around 30 to 31 milligrams per litre from Scottish Water's Glencorse works, so limescale is a much smaller problem than it would be further south, but taps, screens and chrome still mark. Grout discolours slowly. Extractors clog over years. And in a room with a tall bay window, the glass is the first thing the agent sees.

Stockbridge sits in a dip with the Water of Leith running through it, and the Walkway is the pleasant way into town on foot. Lothian services 24, 29, 36 and 42 serve the area, there is no tram stop and no station in Stockbridge, and Raeburn Place is narrow and busy for most of the working day.

Parking is permit controlled across the area and genuinely tight around the Colonies, where the streets are cobbled culs-de-sac with cars along one side. We plan for it: one load in rather than repeated trips back to the van, and not the middle of a Sunday, when the Stockbridge market brings the area to a stop.

Stockbridge does not empty out in July. The tenant base is young professionals, creative workers, small families and downsizers, and students are notably absent from the way the area sells itself. That means lower raw turnover than Marchmont or Polwarth, a steadier flow across the year, and tenancies that run longer.

For you that has two consequences. Getting a slot is usually easy even at short notice, because we are not fighting the student changeover for the same morning. And the clean is likely to be bigger than the bedroom count implies, because three years of living leaves more behind than nine months does. We quote on the length of the tenancy as well as the size of the flat, and in Stockbridge that is rarely a formality.

SouthSide Property Management and Trinity Factors both had Stockbridge flats let when we last checked the market, alongside DJ Alexander, ESPC Lettings, Ben Property, A Flat in Town and Direct Lettings. These are careful operations working expensive stock. They inspect against a written inventory and they are used to flats coming back in good order. On a deposit this size, that is a bar worth clearing.