Uninhabitable apartment cleaning prices in Paris 2nd
An uninhabitable apartment is not quoted by floor area. Two apartments of similar size, in the same building off the Mail, can produce two very different quotes: what counts is how many rooms are genuinely affected, the state of the kitchen and bathroom, and the volume of waste that has to go.
This page does not describe how a job is run: it explains how its price is built. You will find here what pushes a quote for uninhabitable apartment cleaning in the 2nd arrondissement up or down, and why a figure given before anyone has seen the place, or at least some photographs, would be worth nothing at all.
- Floor area and rooms genuinely involved
- State of the kitchen and of the bathroom
- Waste to be removed, odours that have settled in
- Treatments used only where they serve a purpose
Partly affected or damaged throughout: two different quotes
The commonest mistake is to think in terms of total floor area. A job is quoted on what has to be put right, not on what appears in the tenancy agreement. An apartment where only the kitchen and the shower room are out of use calls for a tight, contained operation; the same apartment degraded from the front door to the last cupboard calls for resources, a duration and a team of a completely different order.
A few rooms only
- Damaged areas identified and kept separate
- The rest of the apartment needs ordinary cleaning
- Limited volume of waste, easily transported
- Treatments confined to the affected surfaces
An apartment degraded throughout
- Floors, walls and skirting boards taken room by room
- Kitchen and sanitary fittings stripped back thoroughly
- Removal spread over several vehicle loads
- A larger team and a longer job
What the quote does not cover
- No building work: no decorating, no plumbing, no flooring
- No judgement passed on the occupant
- No refurbishment of furniture that is kept
- No disinfection decided on principle
The Paris building is an item on the quote in its own right
The 2nd arrondissement covers less than a square kilometre and is packed with period buildings whose stairwells were never meant to carry a working site. Many addresses around rue Réaumur, the Sentier and the covered passages have no lift, and the former servants’ rooms on the top floors are reached by a back staircase narrower still. Every bag, every kitchen unit taken out goes down by hand. That carrying time is an item of its own: it changes nothing about the state of the apartment, but it changes the quote.
Then there is the vehicle. In the Montorgueil area and on several streets of the Mail quarter, a space in front of the building is never a given, and the pedestrianised zones add extra distance to carry. Tight courtyards and light wells make bulky items harder to get out. Finally, the mix of homes, offices and wholesale trade means movement through the communal areas has to be timed around the working life of the building, which can break a job into sessions rather than allowing it to run straight through.
How the quote is drawn up
Describing the situation
You tell us the type of property, which rooms are involved, the state of the kitchen and bathroom, and what you can see in terms of waste and odours.
Photographs or a visit
A few images are often enough to set the perimeter. Where the condition is hard to read from pictures, an assessment on site is the better route.
Recording the access constraints
Floor level, width of the staircase, lift, courtyard, whether a vehicle can get close: these are noted before pricing, never discovered on the day.
Separating the items
The quote distinguishes waste removal, surface cleaning and any treatments. Each item stays readable and open to discussion.
Issue and agreement
The document is talked through with you. Nothing is committed without your written approval, and no item is added mid-job without a variation.
The criteria that move the quote
None of these criteria is enough on its own. It is the way they combine that gives the real workload, and that is why one word — uninhabitable — covers situations whose pricing has nothing in common.
| Criterion | What makes it vary |
|---|---|
| Area involved | Not the area of the apartment but that of the rooms genuinely to be put right. A hallway and a bedroom left untouched fall outside the heavy perimeter. |
| Number of rooms affected | Each extra room adds surfaces, corners, skirting boards and furniture to deal with, and therefore time. |
| State of the sanitary fittings | A WC and shower room out of use, blocked waste pipes or destroyed seals take far longer to bring back than a simple descaling. |
| State of the kitchen | Grease on worktops, extractor and low units, abandoned food, pests: the kitchen is very often the heaviest item of all. |
| Waste to be removed | Type and volume: household refuse, textiles, mattresses, ruined furniture. Each category follows its own disposal route and its own mode of transport. |
| Depth of soiling | Recent soiling comes away in one pass; a layer built up over years needs several passes and more consumables. |
| Odours that have settled in | Depending on whether they leave with the waste or have soaked into the fabric of the place, treatment ranges from simple ventilation to taking out porous materials. |
| Treatments required | Disinfection or decontamination are priced only where the condition found justifies them, and always after the cleaning, never in place of it. |
| Accessibility | A high floor, a narrow staircase, no lift, a pedestrianised street, uncertain parking: all of it adds carrying time to the job. |
You do not have to fill this table in yourself. It simply sets out what will be looked at: describing what you can see, even partially, is enough to get the assessment moving.
Related Paris 2nd pages
This page does not describe the job itself: it sets out only what is examined in order to build the quote. To understand the service itself, the further treatments, or the pricing of a wider job, the pages below carry on from this one.
Frequently asked questions about uninhabitable apartment cleaning prices
Why is no price shown on this page?
Because a figure on a page would be wrong in most cases. The same word covers a studio where only the kitchen is out of use and an apartment degraded in every room. Announcing an amount before anyone has seen the place would only mean correcting it later, which helps nobody.
Is the quote worked out by the square metre?
No. Area plays a part, but it says nothing about condition. A large, empty, lightly soiled room is dealt with quickly, while a small, heavily encrusted kitchen ties up a team for a long stretch. Pricing starts from the workload observed, not from a single measurement.
Do I have to estimate the volume of waste myself?
A rough estimate is plenty: an order of magnitude, a few photographs, a mention of the big items such as a mattress or a sofa. The precise measure is taken during the assessment, and the rough figure you give is checked at that point.
Is disinfection included in the price as standard?
No, it is a separate item, offered only when the condition found warrants it. It is applied to surfaces that have already been cleaned. Decontamination is a more particular case again and appears on its own line on the quote.
Do the floor level and the lack of a lift really change the quote?
Yes, and very visibly so in the 2nd. Taking all the waste down an old, sometimes narrow staircase, then carrying it to a vehicle that cannot park outside the building, adds hours that have nothing to do with the state of the apartment.
Can the price change once the job has started?
It does not change by itself. If the assessment turns up a situation different from the one described, a hidden water leak under a unit for instance, the point is raised with you and a variation is put forward. No extra item is carried out without your agreement.
Get a quote for an uninhabitable apartment in the 2nd
Describe the rooms involved, the state of the sanitary fittings and the access to the building: the assessment starts from that, and the quote comes back to you item by item.