Bond cleans at the mouth of the Tomaga River
Tomakin sits right where the Tomaga River meets the sea, and that location shapes every exit clean we do here. The homes and units near the river mouth and the beach take in fine sand and a steady film of salt all year, not just over summer. By the time a tenant hands the keys back, that build-up has usually settled into window tracks, shower screen runners and the bottom corners of glass sliders facing the water. When an agent does the final inspection in Tomakin, those are the first places they run a finger. We clean to the REINSW exit standard so the place passes the way it needs to, with the bond-back guarantee behind it: if the agent flags our cleaning, we come back and re-clean within 72 hours at no charge.
We run Tomakin as part of one loop with Broulee and Mossy Point, so getting a vacate clean done here before a handover is straightforward for us. That matters in this town, because tenancies and holiday lets often turn over on the same tight window, and a midday key handover doesn't wait for anyone.
What the salt and sand do to a Tomakin exit clean
On a normal inland house, the bond clean is mostly about the kitchen and the carpets. On a Tomakin rental near the river or the beach, the glass and the metalwork are just as big a job. Salt sits on the outside of windows and dries into a haze that a quick wipe won't shift, and the sand that gets walked in ends up packed into the aluminium tracks of every sliding door and window. We detail all of that as standard on an end of lease clean here: tracks scraped and vacuumed out, screens taken down and washed where they lift, glass done inside and out where we can reach it safely.
Sand is also why carpets come up so often as an add-on in Tomakin. It works its way deep into the pile in the hallway and the bedrooms, and a vacuum alone won't get a place back to exit standard once a full tenancy of beach trips has gone through it. A carpet clean lifts the grit and the salt out of the fibres so the carpet smells and looks right for the inspection, which is exactly what an agent is checking for on the report.
Holiday lets and the Tomakin changeover crowd
Tomakin has a strong holiday-rental scene, and that changes who calls us for an end of lease clean. It isn't only long-term tenants moving out. We get owners taking a property off the short-stay market, or switching it back to a permanent rental, who need a proper vacate-grade clean to reset it rather than just another changeover wipe-down. The two jobs aren't the same. A changeover gets a place guest-ready for the next booking; a bond clean strips it back to the standard an agent signs off on, walls, oven, cupboards and all.
Because we already do so many changeovers around Tomakin and along the Tomaga River, we know which of these places have been worked hard. A holiday house that has run back-to-back bookings through the Christmas and Easter peaks needs more attention at the exit clean than a quiet permanent home. We plan the job around what the property has actually been through, not a one-size checklist.
Everything an agent checks, done to standard
An exit clean is judged against a list, and we work to that same list. In Tomakin that means the oven and griller degreased, the rangehood filter done, cupboards wiped inside and out, and the bathrooms taken back properly: shower screens descaled, grout scrubbed, exhaust fans cleared. River-side homes around Tomakin can hold a bit of damp, so bathroom mould and grout are things the agents here look at closely, and we treat them as standard rather than an extra.
We also do the parts people forget right up until the inspection fails on them. Skirting boards, the tops of doors, light switches, marks on walls, the inside of the laundry. On a beach rental the walls near the back door often carry sandy scuff marks and salt streaks, and those get flagged if they're left. Doing them up front is cheaper than losing part of the bond over them.
A local team, not a flying squad
Capital Coastal Cleaning is an Indigenous-owned business based up the road in Batemans Bay, started in 2023 by the owner, Tyson. It's a small local team, Tyson, Shanice and Lisa, so the person cleaning your Tomakin rental is someone who actually works this coast every week, not a stranger sent down from the city. We're police-checked, fully insured and use low-tox products, which matters in a town where the next tenant or holiday guest might be a young family.
We're open seven days, which suits the way leases and lettings turn over in Tomakin, and we hold a 5.0 rating from 110 Google reviews. If you're lining up a move-out, give us a call on 0479 184 498 and we'll sort the timing around your handover.
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Capital Coastal Cleaning is owner-run by Tyson, who started the business here in Batemans Bay in 2023. A small, police-checked local team, the same faces each visit, and our name on every job, from Durras to Moruya.
