End of Tenancy Cleaning in Erdington

Converted-villa kitchens and the lines a B23 clerk flags

The properties themselves generate the problems. A flat converted out of an old villa often has its kitchen fitted into what was a bedroom, with a recirculating hood that vents back into the room, so a year of cooking settles on the walls, the ceiling and the cupboard doors. Bathrooms in the purpose-built blocks are frequently internal, ventilated by a single fan, which is why the sealant is black by the end of a tenancy. Add a landlord in B23 who owns one or two flats and is doing the turnaround personally, and the pressure is to get it right first time and avoid any argument afterwards.

• Kitchens fitted into former bedrooms in converted villas, with a recirculating hood putting grease back into the room
• Internal bathrooms in block flats where one fan is the only ventilation and the sealant has blackened
• Private landlords in Erdington with one or two flats, turning a property round themselves between tenants
• Communal landings and entrance doors that occasionally appear on the check-out for a converted house
• Soft Elan Valley water in B23 and B24, so nobody here loses a deposit over scale: it goes on grease and black sealant

Inventory in hand, kitchen first

Where a landlord or agent can forward the check-in inventory, that document is what we work to, and where nobody can find one we use the list clerks work from as standard. The kitchen is done first because it is where deposits go. Inside the oven, its racks and both faces of the door glass, then the hob, the hood and the filter above it, the slot the cooker slides into, cupboards inside and out, and the seals on the fridge and freezer. Bathrooms go back to grout and sealant with the extractor grille taken off the wall. Every room is then detailed and photographed as it is signed off.

• The check-in inventory used as the working document whenever somebody can dig it out for us
• The bathroom extractor grille taken off and washed, never just wiped through the slots
• Photographs of each completed room, which settles most check-out disagreements before they start
• One confirmed day with keys arranged in advance, so the flat is finished in a single visit

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: the full end of tenancy cleaning process.

Changeovers in B23 flats and conversions

This work is spread across the purpose-built blocks on the arterial roads, the conversions near the station and the old centre, and a scattering of let semis on the outer streets. There is no season to it, so no month is busier to book than another. If the agent gives us a key or a key safe code, nobody needs to be there. When you ask for a price, tell us which floor the flat is on and whether there is a lift, because carrying kit and waste water up three flights is real time.

What shapes the quote on an Erdington flat move-out

Size and condition set the number, and the oven is the biggest single item every time. After that it is how many bathrooms there are, how far mould has gone into the sealant, whether the tenancy demands hot water carpet extraction, and whether belongings are still in the property. Two things are particular to Erdington. A small flat is not proportionally cheap, because the kitchen and a windowless bathroom are effectively the entire job whatever the floor area says. And a top-floor flat with no lift adds carrying time, which belongs in the quote from the start. Photographs of the kitchen and bathroom get you a fixed price.

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Once per tenancy, with changeovers spread through the year

Once per tenancy, booked ahead onto a scheduled B23 or B24 day. Because changeovers here are spread across the calendar, a couple of weeks of notice is normally enough in any month. A landlord with two or three flats does well to book the void week as soon as notice is served, which gets the property re-let faster. If your handover date moves, tell us early and we will move you to the next scheduled Erdington day at no charge.