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# Building cleaning (recoverable from tenant)

Help on the Immodio entry item Building cleaning (recoverable from tenant).

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Use this category for the running costs of building cleaning that are to be assigned to a rental property and recovered from the tenants as part of the operating cost statement.

The category is intended for cleaning costs concerning parts of the building used communally. These include, for example:

* the stairwell
* corridors and entrance areas
* cellar corridors
* laundry rooms
* attic rooms
* shared accesses
* the car of a lift

### Cleaning materials and the cleaning service

Invoices from an external cleaning service can be recorded in this category where they concern the running cleaning of parts of the building used communally. Cleaning materials needed regularly can typically also belong here, for example cleaning products for cleaning the stairwell.

Purchases of cleaning equipment or durable working equipment, on the other hand, are not readily recoverable, for example:

* vacuum cleaners
* brooms / mops
* buckets
* cleaning machines

{% hint style="info" %}
These purchases should **not** be recorded **as recoverable costs of building cleaning**. Maintenance or repair costs for mechanical cleaning aids can be an exception. These can be recoverable where they arise in connection with the running building cleaning.
{% endhint %}

### The landlord's own work

Where the landlord does the cleaning themselves, materials and work can in principle be applied as operating costs.

An arbitrarily chosen amount may not simply be entered, however. As a rule the measure is the amount that would have arisen for an **equivalent service by a third party**.

### Important to know

In principle only running, regularly recurring costs of building cleaning are recoverable.

One-off special cleaning should be checked before it is entered, as it often is not a recoverable operating cost.

The following, for example, do not belong, or do not readily belong, in this category:

* cleaning after building or refurbishment work
* removing exceptional soiling
* facade cleaning