End of Tenancy Cleaning in Kingstanding

Why deposits go the same way in identical houses

Deposits go the same way in these houses, because the houses are the same. The cooker leads. It is usually freestanding, has occupied one gap for the length of the tenancy, and carries grease down both flanks and across the floor it stands on. Next comes the bathroom, where a shower over the bath leaves sealant with mould pushed into it that wiping has never reached. Then the kitchen floor and skirting, since a back door onto a long garden brings in soil daily for years. Add a porch full of grit and a conservatory used for storage and a good deal goes untouched.

• Freestanding cookers occupying one gap for a whole tenancy, greasy down both flanks and underneath
• Sealant round a shower fitted over the bath, wiped for years and never once actually treated
• A back door onto a long garden, so the kitchen floor and skirting carry a tenancy of tracked-in soil
• Porches and rear conservatories, which tenants tend to treat as outside the house and clean accordingly
• Void work invoiced to a housing provider or a managing agent, not the person who lived there

Cooker first, then the list, whoever is paying

Where a check-in inventory exists we work to that document, and where none was ever made we use the list clerks apply as standard. The kitchen leads: the oven cavity, racks and inner door glass, the hob, the extractor filter, and the cooker walked out of its gap so both sides, the wall and the floor beneath get dealt with. Sealant and grout are treated for mould and left to dwell, because scrubbing only lightens the staining. Porch, conservatory, stair and skirtings are detailed last, and carpets extracted where the agreement demands it.

• Worked against the original check-in document whenever somebody can dig it out and send it over
• The cooker drawn out of its gap, so the sides, the wall behind and the floor under it are all cleaned
• Porch and conservatory included by default here, because both photograph badly and both get forgotten
• Written confirmation of what was done, which is what a provider’s inspector or an adjudicator asks for

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Who pays for a changeover in B44

Kingstanding move-outs are booked by small landlords with one or two houses on the estate, agents managing a handful, and providers preparing a void before a new tenancy begins. Few follow a house sale. Tenancies end steadily all year, and B44 is covered on scheduled days, so book once the handover date is fixed. These go onto a planned B44 date, and a slipped handover moves you onto the next one without costing you the booking.

A known house quoted as one job, with condition deciding the rest

The three-bedroom semi here is a known quantity, so it is quoted as one job with no room-by-room measuring. Condition decides the rest and the cooker decides most of that, since one that nobody has touched can swallow hours by itself. Beyond it, the questions are how deep the mould has gone into bathroom sealant, whether the stair and the bedroom carpets want extracting, and whether furniture and belongings are still standing in the rooms, which happens more on a long tenancy than anybody expects. Send pictures on WhatsApp for a fixed figure.

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Rolling a slipped handover to the next planned B44 date

One clean per tenancy, and the calendar here is a steady one. Family lets end right across the year, never in a single compressed fortnight, so there is no seasonal crush, but booking ahead onto a planned B44 date is the way to secure yours. Where a provider is turning several properties over on the estate at the same time, send the addresses together so they can be planned into one B44 day.