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Hobart, Tasmania

House cleaning in Hobart

Hilly streets, old cottages and weatherboard houses under kunanyi / Mount Wellington.

Tell us the clean, the size of the place and your Hobart postcode, and a local cleaning business calls you to go through it.

We find the cleaner. The cleaning business quotes, cleans and invoices you directly.

Tell us the clean once, in a few quick taps
A local cleaning business calls you to talk it through
You agree the price and the day with them

We find the cleaner
Cleaner Scout passes your clean to a local cleaning business. We never clean.
They quote and clean
The business talks the clean through with you, quotes it and does the work.
You agree the price with them
You pay the business directly, and you decide from there.

What happens next

A local cleaning business calls you.

Find a cleaner

Tell us the clean
The kind of clean, the size of the place and your postcode. A few taps.
A local cleaning business takes it
Cleaning businesses near you see the kind of clean, the size and the suburb.
They call you
Talk it through, get their quote, and agree the day. You decide from there.

Hills, old homes and winter: Hobart's quirks for house cleaners

Tasmania's rule for tenants

A Tasmanian tenant keeps the home in a reasonable state of cleanliness and leaves it as nearly as possible in the same condition, apart from reasonable wear and tear. The Tenants' Union of Tasmania says a professional clean isn't needed unless it's warranted, whatever the lease says.

Hills and access

Hobart is built around the foothills of the mountain, and the inner areas are hilly. Say if the house has a long flight of steps, a steep drive or street parking only, because a cleaner carries gear up all of it.

Old, and very old

Battery Point has historic cottages first built for garrison officers, and the inner suburbs have narrow lanes of timber and brick cottages. Later bungalows were mass-produced in weatherboard and then fibro.

The numbers

In the 2021 Census, 29% of occupied homes in Greater Hobart were rented, 85% were separate houses and 8% were flats or apartments. Most cleans here are whole houses, spread across several councils.

Winter

Afternoon humidity at Battery Point averages 64% in June, and August is the wettest month. Light frost occurs most years, and those are the months when bathrooms and shaded rooms dry slowest.

Fibro, asbestos and cleaning older Hobart homes

Many homes built or renovated before 1990 contain asbestos, and old fibro can be one of those materials. Asbestos in good condition is a low risk. Don't drill, sand or cut it, and don't dry sweep or vacuum broken pieces. Tell the business about any damaged sheeting before the day.

For a home you live in, start with a regular clean every week or fortnight. For a cottage that's been shut up over winter, a one-off deep clean takes on the grout, window tracks and inside the cupboards.

Studying at the University of Tasmania in Sandy Bay or in the city and moving out of a share house? An end of lease clean is what you're after, and the Tasmanian rules page sets out what the law asks. Getting an empty place ready for your own furniture? That's a move-in clean.

Access first: our Hobart house cleaning advice

Put access first in the note: the steps, the slope and where a car can stop. It's the thing that surprises a business most here. Then list the bedrooms and bathrooms and any add-ons, so the quote covers the real job on the real block.

By the kind of clean

Cleaning services in Hobart

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Your suburb

House cleaners in suburbs around Hobart

Kingston

Questions

Questions about house cleaning in Hobart

Does Greater Hobart mean Kingston and Glenorchy too?

Use your own postcode in the form, whichever council you're in. Kingston has its own page.

Who holds my bond in Tasmania?

The Rental Deposit Authority. If there's a dispute about a claim, the Residential Tenancy Commissioner decides how much, if any, goes to the owner.

When the cleaning business calls

Have the number of bedrooms and bathrooms handy, and anything extra you want done.
Moving out? Have your entry condition report and the date the keys go back.
Think about access: keys, parking, stairs, and pets that will be home.

Cleaner Scout passes your clean to a local cleaning business. The business quotes, does the work and invoices you directly. We don't clean, and we don't employ cleaners.

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Pick the clean and add your postcode. The next step asks who the business should call.

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