End of Tenancy Cleaning in Wigan

Two towns, coalfield terraces, harder water

Wigan is really two towns — Wigan and Leigh — with a lot of mining-and-mill history in between. The stock is mostly dense Victorian and Edwardian terraces, with a fast-growing private rented sector and plenty of older, solid-wall homes. On those the check-out turns on oven and extractor grease, carpet worn through, and damp and condensation in the colder corners. The town-centre regeneration around Wigan Pier and the Galleries adds newer flats with their own glass-and-surface snags.

One thing sets Wigan apart from most of Greater Manchester: the water is slightly hard, around the 111 mark, not the soft supply you get in Manchester or Salford. So limescale on the taps, the kettle and the shower screen genuinely matters here, and we descale as part of the clean. The greener edges — Standish, Aspull, Shevington — are bigger family homes.

• Oven and extractor grease in the Wigan and Leigh terraces
• Damp and condensation in the solid-wall older homes
• Limescale on taps, kettles and shower screens — Wigan’s water is slightly hard
• Glass and surface marks in the Wigan Pier and Galleries new flats

What it costs in Wigan

A studio is from £149, a one-bed £169, a two-bed £219, a three-bed £269 and a four-bed £329 for a standard clean; carpets are the usual add-on and shared houses are priced on the rooms.

Local quotes run from about £125 up to £400-plus for a bigger house, so our band sits at the sensible end. Because the water is slightly hard here, descaling the bathroom and kitchen is part of the price, not an add-on — it is a real deduction in Wigan, unlike the soft-water parts of Greater Manchester.

Descaling included — the water needs it.

Parking and access on move-out day

Most of the borough is unrestricted with driveways; the controlled zones are a handful around Wigan and Leigh town centres, restricted daytime on weekdays and Saturdays. So for most jobs the van parks outside, and for a town-centre flat we sort a permit or come in by train. There is no clean-air charge anywhere in Greater Manchester.

Tell us the address when you book and we plan around it.

We clean to the report

Wigan lettings run through agents like Borron Shaw and Sapphire Homes across Wigan and Leigh, and a check-out is usually an itemised clerk’s report. We clean against it room by room: the oven and damp-prone corners in the terraces, the limescale that this harder water leaves, the glass in the new town-centre flats.

Send the check-in inventory or the check-out report with your details and we work straight off it.