Why Lakatamia runs on end-of-tenancy, not tourist turnovers
Step into Lakatamia and the rhythm is obvious — detached houses with gardens, long driveways, and families on year-long tenancies rather than weekly guests. A short-let turnover here is the exception. The rule is the reset between one tenant moving out and the next moving in, often months apart, with the property sitting closed in between. That gap changes the job: dust settles, drains dry out, fridges get switched off and left open, ovens carry a year of family cooking. We treat each house as the slow, heavy clean it actually is, not a rushed hotel flip.
What a between-occupant reset covers here
A house handover in Lakatamia goes deeper than a flat turnover because the wear runs deeper. We work through the kitchen — cooker, hood filter, inside the oven and fridge, splashbacks and cupboards — then the bathrooms for limescale and grout, the bedrooms with beds stripped and remade when a clean set is on site, and every floor vacuumed and mopped including under the beds where a family let hides the dirt. The crew does a final walk-through of the whole house before any photos leave our phones.
Bedsheets and towels: we change them when clean replacements are already at the property - we don’t supply the items ourselves. If the linen cupboard’s bare when we arrive, we photograph the stripped bed and ask before making it up.
Timing windows for houses, not flats
Family homes don’t turn in a four-hour midday gap. A realistic Lakatamia reset for a three-bedroom house is a solid half-day when the condition’s reasonable, and longer when it’s an end-of-tenancy after years of one family. Send us the checkout and move-in dates on WhatsApp and we’ll say honestly whether the window works — we won’t take a job we can’t finish to standard. Where there’s genuine breathing room between occupants, we use it to do the heavier work properly rather than cut corners.
Driveways, gardens, and the parts a flat doesn’t have
Lakatamia properties come with bits a city-centre flat never has — a driveway swept, a front step and porch cleared, a back garden or yard tidied of leaves and bins. We fold those into the reset when you ask for them, because a tenant’s first impression starts at the gate, not the front door. Tell us what the outside needs in the same WhatsApp message and it goes on the same quote.
Pricing and photo proof, on WhatsApp
Every Lakatamia job is priced on the property, not a flat rate. Small apartments usually start from about €45; a full family home or an end-of-tenancy reset is quoted from photos once we’ve seen the size and condition. Send the address, the bedroom count, and two or three pictures — you get a clear number back, and after the crew finishes, photos of the ready house land in your thread before the next occupant collects the keys.
We cover Lakatamia and the rest of south-west Nicosia, plus Nicosia centre, Larnaca, Limassol, Ayia Napa, Protaras, and Paralimni. Got a house just past the edges we haven’t named? Send the pin and we’ll confirm.