Stanyer Cleaning Services Ltd

Name: Stanyer Cleaning Services Ltd
Address: Inverness, GB
Telephone: +447810355942
Price range: ££

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Specialists in clearance and cleaning of all types of property. Window cleaning (commercial/resident

20/10/2026

These are becoming the norm! Abandoned property in need of a clearance and full sanitisation clean. We haven't taken on any new contracts, the workload is the same, but ever since the start of the pandemic, we've found that people's mental health has plummeted.

The first signs of someone suffering with depression, or any other mental health issues, is that their personal hygiene and living environment starts to suffer.

Property cleared, cleaned and readied for trades to enter for a full redecoration and other repairs

11/05/2026

Recent project we recently finished after a serious fire affected 2 adjacent properties

The remit was to not only clear the properties of all personal items of the previous tenants, but to strip the properties back to bare bones, removing all plasterboard walls/ceilings, removing any affected flooring, and removal of all electrical and water services back to the source of property entry. Also the removal of both kitchens and bathrooms

The principle contractor contracted us to evaluate the works because of our expertise handling certain potential hazards within the properties, as well as the scope of the works involved

Both properties were heavily affected by fire, but also water damage from being doused by the fire brigade, which had introduced heavy growth of mould throughout

A number of challenges arose with these 2 properties, including:

The properties were almost 2 hours from Inverness, with no local waste disposal facilities to transfer the waste to, meaning the waste had to be hauled back to inverness and disposed of each day

Access to each properties was difficult, both being in the middle of a housing estate, almost 100 feet from the road, meaning all the waste had to be transferred some distance to be loaded onto the trailers. Due to parking issues, there was no space to place any skips without causing major disruption to the neighbours

Heavy rain and snowfall meant working at the properties was difficult. Also, as the roof of each property was partially collapsed, heavy water ingress had meant that everything was heavy with water, meaning moving sodden waste materials/belongings was hard. Even the simple job of moving a carpet becomes a little difficult when it's tripled in weight with water!

The structure of each property was badly compromised due to both the fire damage, and also almost a year of water damage since the blaze, so a full risk assessment and method statement was produced and followed.

Another reason we were brought into the project was due to the potential of drug use, meaning extra focus was needed on safety

All in, this was a long, dirty, and tiring project, but both properties were successfully stripped back to their bare bones ready for renovation by the principle contractor.

Sometimes with these jobs, we do get half way through and ask 'why did we take this on?!', but continuing on produces satisfying results

13/05/2025

Love these ones. Always satisfying!

We'll quite often be asked to help clients to get back on their feet. Lots of the times when we're approached, it's to help people who've let things get to a point they need the help. Other times it's hoarders/collectors. It's exhausting work, as its not just physical work, but also mentally taxing as you negotiate with the client what to salvage and what to dispose of.

Remit for this one was to clean the obvious rubbish, then tidy and clean what was left.

We do our best to engage and work along with the tenant and their energy levels, which meant dealing with the carpets became a bit much for the client, so we had to leave it as pictured. But a couple of days later, we returned to remove them ready for new ones to be fitted.

13/05/2025

Love these ones. Always satisfying!

We'll quite often be asked to help clients to get back on their feet. Lots of the times we're approached, it's to help people who've let things get to a point they need the help. Other times it's hoarders/collectors. It's exhausting work, as its not just physical work, but also mentally taxing as you negotiate with the client what to salvage and what to dispose of.

Remit for this one was to clean the obvious rubbish, then tidy and clean what was left.

We do our best to engage and work along with the tenant and their energy levels, which meant dealing with the carpets became a bit much for the client, so we had to leave it as pictured. But a couple of days later, we returned to remove them ready for new ones to be fitted.

16/04/2025

Another fire!

Upstairs flat in Tain caught alight (apparently a candle was the cause)

Not only was the flat completely gutted, but the flat below was flooded due to the fire brigade doing their job. Also the neighbouring flats were affected by smoke damage.

Remit was to safely empty both the fire damaged property and the other affected flat below. Gut the 2 fire and flood properties of the ceilings, walls and wood floor right back to bare shell. Also to remove all the loft insulation from all the affected properties (we hate that bit, especially when it's fire damage!) and to clean the adjacent affected properties.

All in, 10 days work. Very messy, very grubby!

Once that's all done, another company was booked to enter and media blast (like shot blasting) the loft space area to remove all soot/charring, and then the refit begins. Hopefully be back to new again in a few months.

23/03/2025

Unusual one this week!

3 storie block of flat, 9 flats in total.

Tenant had an episode, and decided to pour 2x gallon drums of paint over the entire communal area. This was almost 3 months ago, so the paint was walked throughout the whole stairwell by tenants coming and going.

The full clean up was incredibly messy, rehydrating the paint, and lifting it. All this whilst dealing with the tenants coming and going, not understanding the guidance they were given to avoid spreading it further! But we achieved success, and not a drop of contamination in the van afterwards!

23/03/2025

Bit of an unusual one this one, as we don't usually take on gardening works!

We've worked for a particular company for about 20 years, originally conducting evictions on mortgaged properties. We would attend with a sheriff's officer who would carry out the paperwork, while we catered for the lock change, electric shutdown, water drain down, and prep for selling.

We chose to pull out of the that side of things after 2 years of continuous work often conducting 2 or a week, due to seeing the devastating consequences of losing a home. But we carried on working for the company, catering for their properties that needed extra attention before selling on. Either they were repossessed mid-renovation (so plenty of builders waste, rubbish and overgrown gardens), or incredibly messy houses.

This particular one was both...both a mess, a renovation project, as well as having an incredibly overgrown garden with a 6 foot tall mass of brambles that had taken over the entire space.

The property was cleared, cleaned, and the garden stripped right back to allow potential buyers to see what they were buying.

23/03/2025

Sorry we haven't posted in a while...we've been busy!

Since the beginning of last year, the upper end of our work, the really heavy clearances, the major `high dirt' cleans and the bio-hazard work, has really taken over the day to day basic cleans (end of tenancy etc). In fact, so much so that, when people ask me what's the worst job we've done recently, I just don't know, because they're all merging together and they all seem to be as bad as each other!

We've also joined in with a local housing association in their efforts to assist their tenants who've had issues in controlling a liveable condition in their property. We've assisted a number of tenant/clients to sort their home, whether they've had hoarding issues, incapacity or mental health issues, or have literally been incapable of sorting their issues themselves.

These jobs are exhausting, because you're not only dealing with the physical work, but also the mental side of things, often diplomatically negotiating with hoarders, chatting away to people with mental health issues to carefully motivate them, or training them to plan their cleaning/tidying routines. but they're the most satisfying jobs that we do, often getting heartfelt appreciation from the client!

We don't judge, we're just there to help. The phrase "we don't look at what we're coming into, we're seeing what we can come out of" is often mentioned to alleviate a clients anxieties. We can usually see what we can achieve from the outset, and love working along with the client to achieve this

20/08/2024

So we started the business 25 years ago, and initially built up a large window cleaning round of over 500 customers in north ross-shire/sutherland.

Whilst building the window cleaning round, the owner moved from a rented property to a new home he'd bought round the corner. Upon final inspection before leaving, the housing officer (Albyn housing) asked what we did, and asked if we cleaned houses. In need of the work we said yes!

One thing has lead to another, the window cleaning round was split multiple times during it's growth, and divided up to other local guys who needed work. The property cleaning side of the business soon took over and we're where we are today, still doing commercial windows on occasion.

To think where we've come from, to where we are today is a big journey! We're pretty much 80-90% of the time doing the extreme jobs you see in the post. Working for multiple offices of the Highland council, Albyn Housing, social Services throughout the highlands helping their clients, as well as many estate/letting agents and private owners.

We get a huge amount of satisfaction from the work we do, especially when we work along with clients needing help.

19/02/2024

Bit of an interesting day today...
Asked to clear a property after it was abandoned by the tenant.

One of our lads pulled the washing machine out from underneath the worktop to discover this chap sitting on top 🫣. Got the fright of his life!!!

None of us do 'nope ropes', and we had no idea if the snake was venomous, so decided to call the SSPCA, who were amazing with a 20 minute response time! Well done SSPCA !

By the time they arrived, the snake had disappeared under the kitchen units and made its way up the back of the corner unit. Had to dismantle the worktops to reach and retrieve him.

All in, a satisfying end. We often say "we've seen pretty much everything", but usually when we say it, something new pops up.

Can anyone identify our unexpected guest?

Address

Inverness

Telephone

+447810355942

Website

http://www.scsclean.co.uk/

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