Deep Cleaning in Hall Green

Garden tread, small bathrooms and a conservatory nobody uses

The interwar semi has a predictable set of places routine cleaning never reaches, and in B28 the garden makes all of them worse. These are long plots, most with a back gate and a rear door opening straight into the kitchen, so soil and leaf litter come in at the back all year and settle under units and along skirtings. Bathrooms in these houses are small, sit over the hall, and vent through one window nobody opens in February, which is where the grout mould comes from. Birmingham draws soft water off the Elan Valley, so nothing in a B28 bathroom is scaled up: it is grease from the hob, soap scum on the shower enclosure and mould in the sealant.

• Rear doors opening straight onto a long garden, so soil and leaf tread arrive at the back of the house all year
• Small bathrooms sitting over the hall with one window and weak or no extraction, where the sealant and grout go black
• Kitchens extended into the rear during the 1980s and 1990s, with an extractor filter nobody has taken out since
• Conservatory interiors written off as storage, with dusty glazing bars, cobwebbed frames and grit walked in off the patio
• A soft Elan Valley supply, so the residue on a B28 shower screen is soap and body oil, with nothing there to descale

Kitchen and bathroom first, the conservatory treated as a room

We work top down and dry before anything wet, then take the kitchen and the bathroom in that order, because those two rooms decide whether a deep clean has actually happened. Ovens, hobs, extractor hoods and the filter inside them are degreased properly, not wiped over. Grout and sealant get solution and dwell time, not a wire brush. The conservatory comes last and is treated as a room in its own right: internal roof glazing, glazing bars, frames, sills, the floor, and the trims where the frame meets the house wall.

• Dry work first across bay reveals, wide sills and the tops of doors, before a wet cloth goes anywhere near them
• Oven, hob, extractor hood and filter degreased, which is where most of the build-up in a B28 kitchen sits
• Grout and sealant given solution and dwell time instead of force, since soap scum and mould are what is really there
• Conservatory cleaned as an interior room, internal roof glazing and frames included, not left off the list

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

Deep cleaning a 1930s semi in B28

The houses in question sit on the avenues off the Stratford Road and the quieter roads running down towards Sarehole Mill and the River Cole, and a deep clean here usually lines up with a sale, a bereavement or a family occasion with a fixed date on it. Houses here are bigger than the frontage suggests, because most carry a rear extension and a conservatory on top of the original footprint, so a three-bedroom semi in Hall Green is rarely a three-bedroom job. Parking is on the drive, which keeps things simple. We are about fifteen minutes out.

Years of one household and a conservatory in scope: the B28 quote

Condition sets the price, not bedroom count, and in B28 two things move it more than anything else. The first is how long the same household has been in the house: thirty years of one family cooking in the same kitchen is a longer degrease than a property changing hands every few years. The second is whether the conservatory is in scope, because a glazed room with an internal roof, glazing bars and a laminate or tiled floor adds real hours and is not something we can do in passing. After that it is bathroom count, the oven, and whether carpets are extracted at the same visit. Photographs on WhatsApp get you a fixed number.

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Once or twice a year, or one clean when a B28 house is emptied

Once or twice a year suits most Hall Green households. Late autumn, before the house fills up for Christmas, is a good slot, and so is spring, when the back door and the conservatory start getting used again and the garden tread picks up. Where a house is being emptied for sale or probate, one clean at the end is the entire job.