Old Town & Royal Mile
Closes, stairs and no parking: we come on foot with linen bags, not a van.
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Edinburgh · EH1–EH17Short-let cleaning for Edinburgh’s licensed hosts.
Tenement flats on the fourth floor, key safes round the corner, back-to-backs all August. We clean, make up and restock short lets across the city, and keep the dated record your licence asks you to hold.
Where we clean
Across the city, seven days a week.
Postcodes EH1 to EH17. Further out (South Queensferry, Musselburgh, Dalkeith) by arrangement.
New Town & West End
Georgian flats with high ceilings and higher expectations.
Leith & the Shore
Warehouse lofts and modern blocks with concierge key handling.
Stockbridge & Dean
Colony houses and garden flats; bins and recycling done right.
Marchmont, Bruntsfield, Morningside
Family-size tenements, often three or four bedrooms.
Haymarket, Newington, Portobello
Near the station, the university and the beach.
Your licence
Scottish short-term let licensing, made easier to keep.
Every short let in Scotland has needed a licence since 1 October 2023, with conditions that carry on after it’s granted. Edinburgh asks hosts to declare they hold their documents, so they must be ready on inspection.
What we check and log for you
- Smoke, heat and carbon monoxide alarms tested monthly, with a dated note and photo
- Fire blanket, escape route and fire-safety notice present and unblocked
- Water outlets flushed in quiet spells, for your legionella risk assessment
- Beds made to your licensed occupancy, no extra sofa beds
- Repairs and damage reported with photos: a dated trail of upkeep
What stays with you or your engineers
We are not a licensing agent. These need qualified people, and we’re happy to let them in:
- Gas safety certificate, every year, by a Gas Safe engineer
- EICR and PAT testing by a qualified electrician
- Fire and legionella risk assessments, kept current
- Planning permission: the whole city is a short-term let control area
Visitor levy
The 5% Edinburgh Visitor Levy.
From 24 July 2026, stays in Edinburgh carry a 5% levy on the accommodation price for the first five nights. Hosts register, collect it and file quarterly returns. We don’t collect the levy; that’s between you, your platforms and the council. What helps: your owner app keeps every stay from your calendars in one list per property, with dates and nights, so checking a return against your bookings takes minutes.
August
The Festival, planned from June.
- Extra trained cleaners on the rota, shadowing by July
- Double linen stock per property, so a one-night stay never waits on the laundry
- Pre-Festival deep clean booked in July
- No August surcharge for cleans booked through your calendar
Questions
Edinburgh hosts ask
Can you work in a flat with a shared stair and no parking?
Yes, most of our work is in tenements. Cleaners travel by foot, bike and bus with linen bags; larger drops come by van to the nearest loading point.
Do you handle keys?
We prefer a key safe or smart lock at the property, with codes kept only in our system. We can also hold a spare key securely, logged and tagged without your address.
Will you take a property without a licence?
We clean licensed short lets, lets covered by a temporary licence or exemption (for example during the Festival), and properties that are not short lets at all. Ask us if you’re unsure which applies.
Do you do Festival-only lets?
Yes. Tell us your dates early: we do a launch clean before, turnovers during, and a deep clean when you take it back.
Can you help with the licence inspection?
We can make sure the property is clean, set up to its licensed occupancy and has its alarm tests logged when the inspector calls. The licence itself is between you and the council.
Short let in Edinburgh? Book cleaning.
Add your property, see your price per turnover and pay only after each clean.