Deep Cleaning in Kingstanding

What the original estate layout puts in every kitchen and bathroom

The plan of these houses produces a predictable list. The kitchen is a modest room at the rear with a back door straight out onto a long garden, so soil comes in on boots all winter and settles behind the cooker and along the skirting. Where a porch was added later it works as a grit trap between the front door and the hall floor. Where a conservatory was added, it has usually drifted into being a store room that nobody has cleaned properly since the year it went up. Upstairs, a shower fitted over the bath leaves mould in the sealant that wiping never actually removes.

• A rear kitchen opening onto a long garden, so winter soil arrives behind the cooker and down the skirting
• Added front porches working as a grit trap between the door and the hall floor
• Rear conservatories that became store rooms and have not had a proper clean since the year they went up
• Mould worked into grout and sealant, with no scale to speak of, because the supply here is soft mid-Wales water
• Kitchens and bathrooms of different generations in identical houses, depending on whether a council programme or a private refit did them last

Dry work floor by floor, then kitchen and bathroom

The order is top down, with the dry work through a whole floor finished before anything wet begins, so what comes loose lands on floors that get done last. The kitchen takes the biggest share of the day: the oven cavity, its racks and the inner door glass, the hob, and the filter taken down out of the hood and degreased on its own. A mould treatment goes onto the sealant and the grout lines and is left alone to work, since scrubbing only makes it pale. Porch, conservatory and stair get their hand finish once everything else is done.

• Dry work finished through a whole floor before a cloth is wrung out anywhere on it
• The cooker drawn out of its gap, so the sides, the wall behind and the floor beneath are all done
• A mould treatment left alone to work on sealant and grout lines, which is the residue soft water leaves
• Porch and conservatory floors included by agreement, since neither belongs in a routine weekly visit

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: deep cleaning across Birmingham.

One-off resets on a B44 semi

A Kingstanding deep clean usually has one of three triggers. A family wanting the house straight before an occasion or the relatives arriving at Christmas. An owner preparing a property that has stayed in one family ever since it was bought from the council. Or a landlord resetting an ex-council semi that has been let for a decade. We are about 33 minutes from Selly Oak, so these are booked as a full day on a scheduled B44 date, never squeezed into an afternoon, and the wide roads mean the van stands at your gate with everything walked in.

One standard semi, priced from photographs on condition

The three-bedroom semi repeats street after street with the same rooms, the same stair and the same modest kitchen, so nothing needs measuring and the quote turns on condition: how bad the oven has got, whether anybody ever replaced the filter in the hood, how far mould has travelled into bathroom sealant, and what has been bolted on since, meaning an extension, a converted boxroom, a porch, or a conservatory you now count as a room. Photographs on WhatsApp get you one fixed number instead of an hourly rate.

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Spring and pre-Christmas for most B44 households

Once a year, in spring or in the weeks running up to Christmas, suits most households here. Twice becomes the sensible interval where a shower sits over the bath, since that room grows mould back into its sealant long before anything else in the house looks dirty. If the property is being sold or relet, a single clean at handover covers it and there is no case for booking a second.