Bedrooms
- Beds made up with the linen you provide
- Surfaces dusted and wiped
- Floors vacuumed
- Bins emptied
How linen is supplied is agreed with you. Tell us in the notes.
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A guest never sees the clean. They see the door open. Our vetted, uniformed teams turn your place around between check-out and check-in, on a fixed checklist.
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- The window
- Between check-out and check-in
- Access
- Key safe, smart lock or concierge
- Optional extras
- Oven, fridge, carpets, cabinets
- The quote
- Free, no obligation
The invisible service
The changeover is the product.
Hosts sell an arrival. The clean is what makes it one.
Most of what a short-let host does is invisible to the guest. They never meet the person who cleaned, never see the hour between check-out and check-in. What they meet is the door, the first breath of the place, the bed, the bathroom. That first few minutes is the product, and the changeover is what produces it.
It is also the part of hosting with the least slack. Everything else can be fixed in a message. A missed turnaround cannot, because the next guest is already on the way. That is why a changeover works best as a routine, not an improvisation: the same checklist, the same order, the same team where possible, so it does not depend on who is free that day.
A different job from a home clean
A changeover is not a deep clean and it is not a weekly tidy. It is a reset to a known state, in a window someone else set. The question each time is not "how dirty is it?" but "is it ready for the next person?". That changes how the work is ordered, what gets checked at the end, and why it is worth having a team that has been in the place before.
For a full refresh between seasons or after a long let, a deep clean is the better fit, and the two work well together.
The sheet
What a changeover covers.
A fixed checklist for every turnaround, so the place is set the same way each time. The quote spells out exactly what is included.
Bathroom
- Toilet, basin and shower or bath cleaned
- Mirrors and chrome polished
- Floor mopped
- Bins emptied
Kitchen and living areas
- Worktops, sink and hob wiped down
- Appliance exteriors wiped
- Floors vacuumed and mopped
- Bins emptied and wiped
Oven, fridge and the inside of kitchen cabinets are optional extras.
Entrance
- Door and handles wiped
- Floor cleared and cleaned
- A last look-over of the whole place
Optional extras you can add on the quote form: oven, fridge, carpets and kitchen cabinets.
Your year
Count the nights. Count the changeovers.
London has a rule about how many nights a home can be let without planning permission. Set your pattern and see where it lands.
- The 90th night
- Not reached
- Changeovers a year
- 36
That is 18 nights inside the 90-night allowance.
A simple sum on an even spread across a calendar year, counting at most 31 nights a month. It is not planning advice: check your own council's position before you let.
The 90-night rule
What the rule says, and what it doesn't.
A short planning rule that is easy to half-remember. Here is the whole of it.
In Greater London, letting a home as short-term sleeping accommodation normally needs planning permission, because it counts as a change of use. There is one important exception, and it is the reason so many Londoners can let a spare room or a home while they are away.
A home can be let for up to 90 nights in a calendar year without planning permission.
The two conditions
The exception has two conditions. The first is the cap itself: the nights counted are those of the current use plus every earlier short let of the same home in the same calendar year, and together they cannot exceed 90. The second is council tax: the host has to be liable for council tax on the home for each night that counts.
What it is not
It is a planning rule only. It says nothing about your lease, your mortgage or your insurance, and any of them can forbid or limit letting whatever the planning position is. It can also be switched off locally: the law allows a council, with the Secretary of State's consent, to direct that the exception does not apply to particular premises or to an area, where that is needed to protect local amenity. So the rule describes the default, not a guarantee for your street.
Registration
A national register for short-term lets has been planned, but it is not yet in force. GOV.UK has the current position, and it is worth checking before you plan around it.
This is general information, not legal advice. For your own property, check your lease, mortgage and insurance, and your council's position on short lets.
The window
Work back from the next check-in.
Nobody plans a changeover from the start of it. They plan it from the end.
A turnaround is a deadline with a cleaning job inside it. The deadline is the next guest's arrival, and everything that matters is decided by how much time sits before it.
That is why the first thing we ask is the gap between check-out and the next check-in, not the size of the flat. A long gap gives room for a careful reset. A short one means the checklist has to be tight and the access has to be sorted in advance. Either way, the gap decides the schedule, and the quote is written around it.
Three things to settle up front
- Access. A key safe, a smart lock, a concierge or a hand-over. Say which, and where, in the quote notes.
- Linen and supplies. Whether a set is left ready for the team to make up, or taken away by a laundry service. We don't assume either.
- The gap. Your usual check-out and check-in times, and how tight the tightest changeover gets.
Settle those once and each changeover after it needs no explaining. If a booking pattern changes, tell us and the plan changes with it.
How it works
From the quote to the first changeover.
Four steps, and the first three only happen once.
Tell us about the listing
Postcode, size, how many changeovers you expect, and the gap between check-out and the next check-in. Access and linen go in the notes.
Get your price
A real price back, with no obligation. The quote spells out what is included and any extras you have asked for.
Set up access
A key safe, a smart lock, a concierge or a hand-over: settled once, so every changeover after it runs itself.
Changeovers begin
A vetted, uniformed team works through the checklist in the window you have set, ready for the next arrival.
Also from ReadySpace
For between the bookings.
A changeover keeps a listing turning over. These are the services that most often sit alongside it.
Questions
Host questions, answered.
Can't see yours here? Call us or use the quote form and we'll come back to you.
That depends on the size of the place and what the last stay left behind, so we won't quote a blanket time. Give us the gap between check-out and the next check-in in the quote notes, and the quote says what fits inside it.
The bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen and entrance, worked through on a fixed checklist so the place is set for the next arrival. The oven, fridge, carpets and the inside of kitchen cabinets can be added as optional extras on the quote form. The quote spells out exactly what is included.
Put the arrangements in the quote notes: a key safe, a smart lock, a building concierge, or you handing keys over. Access decides the schedule, so it is better said at the start.
Tell us in the quote notes how you handle them, for example made up from a set you leave ready, or taken away by a laundry service, and we'll say what we can do. We don't assume either way.
In Greater London a home can be let as short-term sleeping accommodation for up to 90 nights in a calendar year without planning permission, under section 44 of the Deregulation Act 2015. That is a planning rule only. A council can remove it for a local area, and your lease, mortgage or insurance may restrict letting too, so check all of them for your own property.
A national register for short-term lets is planned, but it is not yet in force. GOV.UK has the current position.
Yes. Oven, fridge, carpets and kitchen cabinets are optional extras on the quote form. Tick what you need and it goes into the quote. For a full reset between seasons, a deep clean is the better fit.
Fill in the quote form with your postcode, the size of the place and how many changeovers you expect. We come back with a real price, with no obligation.
Every London borough, and the City of London. Add your postcode to the quote form and we'll confirm.
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