End of Tenancy Cleaning Finnieston.

Quick answer for Finnieston: A Finnieston checkout is usually a yellow sandstone tenement flat off a shared close, north of Argyle Street on Kelvinhaugh, Radnor, Derby or Kelvingrove Street. Sash and case windows, cornice, deep skirtings and a kitchen fitted into the old back room take far longer than a modern flat, and they are where deposit deductions in G3 come from. Your deposit sits in one of the three approved Scottish schemes, so the evidence at the end is photographs against the check-in inventory.

Prices in Finnieston: studio £155, 1-bed £189, 2-bed £229, 3-bed £269, 4-bed £309, 5+ bedrooms from £359, the same fixed ladder everywhere we clean. We cover all of Finnieston including Kelvinhaugh, Radnor Street, Derby Street, Kelvingrove Street.

The residential core of Finnieston runs north of Argyle Street. Kelvinhaugh Street, Radnor Street, Derby Street and Kelvingrove Street carry the yellow sandstone tenement blocks that give the area its shape, typically three or four storeys, reached off a tiled close and a stone stair rather than a private hall. Argyle Street itself is the eating and drinking corridor, and it is not where most of our cleans happen. The second kind of stock sits closer to the river, on the reclaimed dock and warehouse ground near Stobcross and the Skypark edge, where newer apartment blocks hold a lot of the area's one and two bedroom lets.

A traditional Finnieston flat has a familiar set of time sinks. Sash and case windows that need the lower sash raised so the runner, the cord and the staff bead can be cleaned rather than wiped around the edge. Deep skirtings and an original cornice, often with a picture rail between them, all of which hold dust that nobody notices until a clerk shines a torch. Panelled internal doors with painted hinges, finger plates and a top edge that collects a grey line. Press cupboards and a box room that has usually been converted into a shower room, which means an extractor fan and a sealed tray in a space with no window. Kitchens are almost always a later fit inside the original back room or scullery, so the units butt against an outside wall and the gap between the cooker and the run of worktop is narrow and greasy.

The newer riverside blocks trade period detail for different work. Engineered wood or vinyl plank floors that mark if the wrong product goes near them, sliding balcony doors with a track full of grit, integrated fridge and dishwasher seals, a utility cupboard with a stacked washer, and a communal landing with a bin store that the block factor keeps an eye on. Furnished house shares on Radnor Street and Derby Street add a third pattern: three and four bedroom flats let to sharers, with a fridge freezer, microwave and washing machine written into the inventory and furniture in every room that has to be moved rather than cleaned around.

Your deposit on a Finnieston flat is held under Scottish rules, not the English ones people often read about online. Your landlord or agent must lodge it with one of the three approved schemes, SafeDeposits Scotland, Letting Protection Service Scotland or mydeposits Scotland, within 30 working days of your tenancy starting, and it cannot be more than the equivalent of two months rent. If there is a disagreement at the end, an adjudicator decides on written evidence and photographs, which is why the check-in inventory matters more than anybody's memory of how the flat looked.

Cleaning is the category that most often puts money at risk, and in G3 the risk clusters in predictable places. The sash window runners, because a wipe of the glass leaves the grit exactly where the clerk looks. The cornice and the top of the panelled doors. The oven, the grill pan and the extractor filter, especially in the older tenement kitchens where the cooker sits tight against a wall and the grease has been building for a whole tenancy. The shower room in a converted box room, where the sealant line and the extractor grille pick up bloom because the space has no natural ventilation. The strip of floor behind a radiator in the back bedroom, and the bit of tiled close directly outside your own door where your lease usually gives you a share of the stair.

Glasgow water comes down from Loch Katrine and is very soft, so limescale is not the running battle it is in the south of England. That is good news, but it changes the job rather than removing it. Soft water leaves a light film and streaking on chrome and glass instead of a hard crust, so taps, shower screens, splashbacks and mirrors have to be buffed dry rather than descaled. Anything left to air dry will haze, and a hazy shower screen in a photograph reads as a dirty shower screen to an adjudicator.

On a furnished share the other recurring deduction is what sits behind and under the landlord's own furniture. If a wardrobe, bed or sofa came with the flat, it is on the inventory, and the clerk can and does move it. We move it first.

Exhibition Centre station sits inside Finnieston on the Argyle Line. It opened in 1894 as Stobcross, closed, then reopened in 1979 and took its current name in 1986. From the platform it is about a four minute walk over the footbridge to the main SEC concourse, and roughly 558 metres, call it nine minutes on foot, to the OVO Hydro. Anderston station is the other walkable rail option, and it is the one that letting listings on Derby Street tend to quote alongside Exhibition Centre.

There is no subway station in Finnieston itself. The nearest stops are Kelvinhall and Kelvinbridge on the West End side, or St Enoch in town, all of which are a walk or a short bus ride away. If a listing has told you the subway is on the doorstep, it is not, and that is worth knowing when you plan a handover day around public transport rather than a van.

Event days are the real planning factor here. When the Hydro or the SEC has a full house, the streets around Stobcross and the lower end of Argyle Street get busy from late afternoon, and parking near the river tightens well before doors open. We would rather start early on those days than fight the traffic, so tell us the date when you book and we will set the arrival time around it. Residential parking around the Kelvinhaugh and Radnor Street blocks is restricted in most bays, so let us know at quote time whether you have a permit, a suspended bay for the removal van, or nothing at all. Parking is planned into the fixed quote, never added to it afterwards.

Finnieston rents to young professionals and creative workers more than to undergraduates. Savills has named it among Glasgow's hotspots for young professionals, Time Out put it on its coolest places to live list in 2025, and The Times ranked it first in its hippest places to live in Britain list back in 2016. The University of Glasgow is about a mile away, so there is postgraduate and staff overlap, but the dominant profile in every source we checked is a working tenant rather than a student one. The pitch that keeps the area full is simple: halfway between the city centre and the West End, with the bars and restaurants of the strip on the doorstep, without paying full city centre rent.

On rent levels, two bedroom flats in G3 typically list somewhere between £1,250 and £1,650 a month. Figures for the wider postcode average vary between market reports, so we would treat that as a range rather than a headline number. What matters for a checkout is the arithmetic that follows from it. With the Scottish cap set at two months rent, a two bedroom Finnieston deposit is commonly in the region of £2,500 to £3,300, and a cleaning deduction argued over a few unloved surfaces is a real amount of money.

Timing is different in Scotland too. A Private Residential Tenancy is open ended, with no fixed end date, and a tenant gives 28 days notice to leave. That means Finnieston moves are spread through the year rather than piling into a September cliff edge, and it means your handover date is often known only four weeks out. Book the clean as soon as you have served notice and you will get the slot you want. Leave it to the last week and you are competing with everybody else in G3 who did the same.

The letting agent picture is worth understanding before you plan the checkout. One national agency has an office physically inside Finnieston on Finnieston Street, and several West End firms list here regularly, but most of them cover the whole West End rather than this postcode alone. In practice that means the clerk who inspects your flat may not have been up your close before, will work strictly from the check-in report, and will not give you the benefit of local knowledge about what a hundred year old sash window normally looks like. The clean has to answer the report, not the reputation of the area.