End of Tenancy Cleaning in Bournville

Long occupancies and Harvey-era joinery at check-out

A long tenancy in a garden-suburb house leaves a particular kind of residue. W. Alexander Harvey’s cottages were built with generous joinery, so there is simply more to be marked down on at check-out: deep skirtings, panelled doors, picture rails, tiled halls and small-paned casements whose glazing bars a departing tenant almost never touches. Kitchens in the older houses often still take a freestanding cooker, and a cooker used for several years without a proper clean is the item a clerk flags first. The interwar semis are more conventional, but after a long let the fitted carpets, the bathroom sealant and the grout are where a deposit goes.

• Trust lettings that turn over one at a time through the year, each after a long occupancy
• Harvey-era interiors with skirtings, panelled doors, picture rails and casement reveals that tenants rarely clean
• Freestanding cookers in the older village kitchens, usually the first thing a clerk marks down
• Long-let interwar semis towards Stirchley with worn fitted carpets and mould in the bathroom grout
• Flats and maisonettes around Mary Vale Road and the Cotteridge side, which turn over more often than the village houses

Kitchen first, then the casement detail a clerk photographs

We clean against your check-in inventory where you have one, and against the standard clerk checklist where you do not. The kitchen comes first because it decides most deposit disputes: oven interior, racks, door glass, hob, extractor and filter, then every cupboard inside and out. In a village house we set aside extra time for the joinery and casement detail that check-out photographs pick up: glazing bars, reveals, sills, picture rails and skirtings. Floors and carpets come last, with hot water extraction where the agreement calls for it. Every part of this is internal, so none of it touches the Trust’s controls on external appearance.

• Worked line by line against the check-in inventory whenever you can send it over
• Extra time set aside for village joinery and casement reveals, which photograph badly if skipped
• Oven, hob, extractor and filter included as standard, never treated as a chargeable extra
• Hot water carpet extraction quoted separately, since not every B30 tenancy requires it

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: how we do end of tenancy cleaning, step by step.

Where move-outs come from in B30

Bournville move-outs come from three places: Trust properties in the village being prepared for the next household, the flats and maisonettes near Mary Vale Road, and private lets on the Stirchley and Cotteridge sides of the postcode. Because they arrive one at a time through the year, a slot within the week is normally possible. Landlords and agents letting a village house need it handed back looking right, and hurried work on original joinery shows up at once in the check-out photographs. Parking in the village is on-street, so an early start before the school run helps on the narrower roads.

A Mary Vale Road maisonette and a four bedroom village house

Size and condition set the price, and in B30 the property type shifts it noticeably. A two-bedroom maisonette near Mary Vale Road is a straightforward half-day job. A four-bedroom village house with a tiled hall, panelled doors, casement reveals throughout and an older freestanding cooker is a different proposition, and pricing the two from one table would be meaningless. The oven is the biggest single variable, and a neglected one can add hours on its own. After that come the number of bathrooms, how deep the mould has gone into grout and sealant, and whether the carpets need hot water extraction.

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Once per tenancy, with July and August the tight weeks

Once per tenancy. B30 turnover is spread across the year, so a week of notice is usually enough and a sooner slot is often possible. Late summer is the one crunch: the postgraduate sharers on the Bournville Lane and Cotteridge side leave in the same few summer weeks as the wider student move-out, so book early if your tenancy ends in July or August.