A Spruce cleaner vacuuming a hallway during an end-of-tenancy clean in an Auckland home

End of Tenancy Cleaning Auckland

Move-out clean. Bond back, sorted.

Moving out in Auckland is hard enough without the cleaning on top. Our trained local teams follow a checklist we built with property managers, the one inspections go by, and if anything's flagged at handover, we come straight back and put it right.

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A Spruce cleaner wiping a kitchen light fitting during an end-of-tenancy clean in an Auckland home
A Spruce cleaner vacuuming a hallway during an end-of-tenancy clean in an Auckland home
A Spruce cleaner wiping a bathroom mirror during an end-of-tenancy clean in an Auckland home
The Spruce Standard

If it's inside the U, it meets our standard.

The U isn't just our logo. It's the line every clean has to clear before we'll call it done. For an Auckland move-out, that line is set by the property managers who helped us build the checklist: same finish, same trained teams, every job.

We clean for the inspection, not just the eye. Every room, surface and fixture is done to a documented handover checklist built around what property managers actually check, so the place is ready for the part that counts.

We photograph the work before we sign off. A job isn't done in our system until those photos are checked, so if your bond's ever queried, the proof's already there.

You get a trained team, every time. Every Spruce cleaner is signed off before they're let near a handover, so it never comes down to who happens to turn up.

Auckland tenants and property managers trust us with their handovers, including local teams at Harcourts, Crockers, Ray White and Quinovic, and plenty of independents besides.

What's included

What's included in an end-of-tenancy clean.

A move-out clean covers every part of the place your Auckland property manager will check at handover, so nothing on their list catches you out. The full checklist is further down. Here's the headline.

  • Kitchens and bathrooms deep-cleaned: tiles, taps, toilets, showers, vanities, splashbacks.

  • Every surface in the home: benches, cabinets inside and out, wardrobes, shelves, drawers.

  • All floors handled: carpets vacuumed into the corners, hard floors mopped by hand.

  • Spot-cleaned top to bottom: walls, doors, frames, light fittings, switches, power points, skirting.

  • Cobwebs, vents and ceiling fans: the bits most exit cleans skip and inspections pick up.

  • A final walk-through and report: anything that can't be fully restored is photographed and sent to you.

Selling, not renting

Sold your home? We'll get it handover‑ready.

A move-out isn't always for a rental property. When you sell your Auckland home, and there's no property manager and no bond, the handover still has to go smoothly for the new owners. Buyers do a pre-settlement inspection before the keys change hands, so handing the place over spotless keeps that final step simple. We handle it as any other move-out, top to bottom, kitchens and bathrooms cleaned, floors and carpets cleaned, marks and grime lifted. Auckland settlement dates can run tight, so give us yours and we'll time the clean to land just before you hand the keys over.

A freshly cleaned modern kitchen in an Auckland home, ready for settlement
Settlement-readycleaned before you hand over
Pricing

End of tenancy cleaning prices.

Pricing is set by the number of bedrooms, so you see it before you book. From a one-bedroom apartment to a large Auckland family home, the price is fixed up front. Add-ons like oven, carpet and windows are priced separately, so you only pay for what you need.

1 bedroom
1 bathroom
$220
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2 bedroom
1 bathroom
$280
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3 bedroom
1 bathroom
$340
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4 bedroom
1 bathroom
$440
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5 bedroom
1 bathroom
$540
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6+ bedroom
larger homes
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All prices exclude GST. Pricing assumes standard residential condition.

Pay later, move easy
Split your clean into four. Interest-free.

Moving costs add up: bond, movers, deposits. Choose Afterpay at checkout and split your move-out clean into four interest-free payments, on bookings up to $2,000.

No paperwork. No interest. No hit to your moving-week cashflow.

Optional extras

Add-ons for your end‑of‑tenancy clean.

The extras people add most often. Tick them at booking and we'll do the lot in the same visit: one team, one invoice, no juggling providers.

PhotoInside oven
$69
PhotoInside fridge
$50
PhotoInterior windows
from $59
PhotoExterior windows
from $59
PhotoCarpet steam clean
from $159
PhotoFull wall cleaning
$40 per room
PhotoBlind cleaning
$15 per blind
PhotoGrout cleaning
$15 psm
End of tenancy cleaning checklist

End of tenancy cleaning checklist.

The full checklist we built with property managers. Click through each area to see what's covered as standard, plus the optional extras you can bolt on.

Sections

All areas

The whole-property jobs we get through before we start on any single room: top-down, ceiling to floor.

Throughout the home

  • Remove cobwebs
  • Vacuum all floors (corners included)
  • Mop floors (hands for corners)
  • Spot clean walls
  • Clean all doors and door frames
  • Clean under and behind small furniture
  • Wipe light switches, intercoms, AC units & power points
  • Clean light fittings and ceiling fans

Hallways, stairs & laundry

  • Skirting boards wiped throughout
  • Hallways and staircases vacuumed and mopped
  • Laundry surfaces, sink and taps
  • Inbuilt appliances (e.g. dryer) wiped
Step-by-step process

How our end-of-tenancy clean works.

Four stages, same order, every time. We run it the way a property manager works an inspection: top to bottom, dry before wet, then a walk-through.

Instant quote, online or onsite.

Most people get a fixed price in under a minute online. For bigger or non-standard jobs, we'll quote onsite first, so the number's locked in before the day.

  • Pop in your details and a bit about your home, and your price shows in seconds.
  • One of our trained end-of-tenancy teams is assigned and confirmed for your booking.
  • If anything outside the booking needs special attention (e.g. full wall washing), we'll flag it to add before the day.
  • For non-standard jobs or properties not listed online, email or call us for an onsite quote.

The work that starts before we do.

Pre-treatment lets the right products do the hard work while the team gets on with the dry jobs. It's the difference between scrubbing and lifting.

  • Stained toilet bowls treated with a specialist cleaner so it can work while we move on.
  • Tile and grout in the bathroom or kitchen pre-treated wherever it needs it.
  • Booked the oven? It's sprayed early so the chemistry can break down the baked-on stuff.
  • While that works, the team starts the dry clean up high and works down.

Top to bottom. Same order, every time.

Working ceiling to floor is the smartest way through a place: gravity helps, and nothing clean gets dirtied on the way down. Every step's on the checklist.

  • Cobwebs cleared from ceilings, corners and the eaves outside.
  • Ceiling fans, air vents and light fittings dusted and wiped.
  • Back to the pre-treated spots to check the products have done their job.
  • Kitchen: tops of the cabinets first, then splashback and benchtops degreased, then lower cabinet fronts and inside.
  • Windows, frames and blinds (if booked) done while the ladders are out.
  • Walls spot-cleaned, and light switches, intercoms, power points and aircon units wiped.
  • Doors and door frames wiped on both sides.
  • Wardrobes: inside and out, mirrors, and door tracks.
  • Bathrooms: tiles and grout, mirrors and vanities, soap scum and hard-water marks cut back, then toilets, showers and baths scrubbed.
  • Skirting boards wiped throughout.
  • Laundry and any built-in appliances (like the dryer) cleaned.
  • Every floor vacuumed into the corners, hard floors mopped by hand.
  • Carpet steam clean (if booked) goes last, so no one walks across freshly cleaned carpet.

Final walk-through. Nothing missed, nothing hidden.

Before we lock up, the team walks the whole place against the checklist one more time. Anything that genuinely can't be brought back, we photograph and tell you about, so you hear it from us before you hear it from your property manager.

  • The whole checklist walked again, room by room, against what was booked.
  • Any missed spots sorted before the team heads off.
  • Anything that can't be fully cleaned (e.g. damaged grout, permanent stains) is photographed and reported back to you.
  • Jobs needing specialist gear are booked ahead: house washing, pro carpet cleaning, exterior windows, deep grout work.
  • If anything's flagged at handover within 48 hours, we come back and put it right, no charge.
Across Auckland

End of tenancy cleaning, right across Auckland.

Auckland is home turf, so we know what handovers look like here. Our trained teams cover the whole region: the central and city-fringe suburbs, the North Shore over the bridge, West Auckland, the eastern bays, and out south. Pop in your address at booking and it confirms in seconds whether you're in range.

Auckland's rental stock isn't one kind of home, and a handover clean has to suit each. The central suburbs, Grey Lynn, Mt Eden, Kingsland and Ponsonby, are full of older villas and bungalows, where aged grout, sash windows and painted-over surfaces are exactly the spots inspections get picky about. The city and fringe run to apartments and townhouses: smaller footprints, but with body corporate standards to meet and tight turnarounds between tenants. Out on the Shore, west and south it's family homes, where there's simply more ground to cover before the final inspection. We clean every one of them to the same handover standard.

End of tenancy track record
A handover record, not a pitch.
3,000+
End of tenancy cleans completed across Auckland
100%
Bond-back rate on cleaning
48hr
Free reclean window if anything's flagged
100 % Guarantee
Bond not back? We come back.

Our guarantee is simple: if your property manager holds back any of your bond over cleaning we were hired to do, we're back within 48 hours to put it right, no charge. It covers every cleaning task in your booking. The one thing it can't cover is work that wasn't booked, so if windows weren't on your order, they're not part of it.

Reviews

Move-outs, sorted across Auckland.

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Rated 4.9 from 131 Google reviews, and counting. A taste of what Spruce customers say after a clean.

“We were doing a full exit of our rental. They washed the walls, wiped the blinds, and the oven and carpet look brand new. Luke is dedicated, honest and reliable. They were brilliant.”

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Salted JamMission Bay · Move-out

“We chose Spruce based on their amazing reviews and they did not disappoint. Booking online was a breeze and they did an exceptional, meticulous job. The transformation was incredible.”

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Katherine Marshall2 reviews

“Spruce were amazing to deal with. They accommodated my time requests and did the most amazing job, staying three and a half hours to make sure it was thorough. Will definitely use them again.”

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Gina Pettitt1 review
FAQ

End of tenancy cleaning FAQs.

The things Auckland tenants, landlords and property managers ask us most.

All of it. We run move-out and bond cleans across the whole region: city-fringe rentals through Grey Lynn and Mt Eden, the North Shore, east via Howick and Pakuranga, south to Manukau and Papakura, and west out to Henderson and New Lynn. Wherever your tenancy is wrapping up, a trained Auckland team cleans it to the bond-back checklist your property manager inspects against.
Yes, all the time. City and fringe apartments are some of our most common end-of-tenancy jobs. We work around body corporate rules and tight turnaround windows, and we know the detail an apartment handover gets judged on. Let us know at booking if there's a lift to book or a loading dock window for access.
Yes, and they're a big part of what we do. Central Auckland's older homes come with aged grout, sash windows, painted-over surfaces and the odd quirk a newer build doesn't have. Our teams are set up for exactly that, and these are the homes where a careful exit clean makes the biggest difference at inspection.
The sooner the better, especially around the end of the month and over summer, when a lot of Auckland moves house at once. We can often fit in shorter notice, but booking ahead locks in your preferred date. Tell us your handover or settlement date and we'll work back from it.
Yes. Book a bond clean with us and you're covered: if your Auckland property manager holds back any of your bond over cleaning we handled, we're back within 48 hours to fix it at no cost. Sorting the actual refund sits with your property manager (Tenancy Services walks through it in their refunding a bond guide), but the cleaning side is on us.
Give yourself a bit of runway. The smoothest Auckland handovers start early, and Tenancy Services spells out what's on the tenant and what's on the landlord in their ending-a-tenancy checklist, which is the easiest place to begin. The cleaning is our part, and we hand the place back ready for inspection.
The whole property, top to bottom: kitchen, bathrooms, bedrooms and living areas, floors, walls spot-cleaned, the inside and outside of cupboards, doors, skirting and light fittings. Extras like oven, fridge, interior windows and carpet steam are there to tick on at booking if your lease calls for them.
Yes. Send the checklist through at booking and we'll go over it first, and if there's anything beyond our standard scope we'll price it before the day rather than spring it on you. We already work to plenty of Auckland property managers' lists, including teams at Harcourts, Crockers, Ray White and Quinovic, so we know what local inspections look for.
Yes. Everything our teams use is non-toxic and safe around pets and kids, so the place is fine to move into, or hand to the next tenant, the moment we're done. If someone in the home has an allergy or a sensitivity, flag it at booking and we'll switch products to suit.
It's set by how many bedrooms the place has, so the number is the same whether you're leaving a CBD apartment or a four-bedroom out in the suburbs (see the table above). Any add-ons sit on top, priced on their own. Get your exact quote online before you book, with nothing hidden.
Around four hours for a one-bedroom. A bigger home, or one with extras like oven, carpet or windows added on, runs longer. We put an estimated window in front of you at booking so you can plan the day around it.
No need. Most people just leave a key, a lockbox or an entry code and let the team in and out. Tell us how you'd like access handled at booking and we take it from there.
Yes. Moving week stacks up fast, so end-of-tenancy bookings up to $2,000 can go on Afterpay: four interest-free payments spread over six weeks. Pick Afterpay at checkout.
Yes. A formal end-of-tenancy receipt lands automatically once the clean's done, made for landlords and property managers, so you've got something solid to put behind your bond refund.
Jump into your Spruce account any time to move the date, cancel, or add and drop services. We just ask for at least 24 hours' notice on a change or cancellation, otherwise a $60 fee can apply.
Yes. Selling rather than renting? An owner's pre-sale or move-out clean is the same full job, just without a bond or property manager in the picture. We get the place spotless and presentation-ready, whether that's for listing photos and open homes or the final handover to the new owner.
Yes. We'll have the home settlement-ready so you can hand the keys over with confidence on the day. Give us your settlement date when you book and we line the clean up to land right before it.
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