Longbridge End of Tenancy Cleaning for Agent-Let Apartments
The apartments built on the old plant let steadily and turn over steadily, so changeover cleans here come up all year. The instruction usually comes from a letting agent, not the outgoing tenant, and it arrives with a handover date attached, so we are working an empty flat to a deadline. Two commuter routes explain the churn: the station and the A38 both put central Birmingham within easy reach, and job moves drive the dates far more than academic terms do.
There is no summer wall of changeovers here, so the diary spreads across the year and a week of notice is usually enough. Alongside check-out cleans we also offer move-in cleans on the same flats, booked and invoiced by the agent to present a property properly before the incoming tenant collects the keys.
- Service
- End of Tenancy Cleaning
- Area covered
- Longbridge, B31 and B45
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- How we do it
- Full property reset against the inventory, oven and appliances included
- From our Selly Oak base
- About 20 minutes
- Price
- Quoted per property before we start (quoting and booking questions)
- Booking
- Call or WhatsApp 07788 574283
The short list a modern Longbridge flat fails on
A modern flat fails an inventory check on a short list of predictable items, which is exactly why it is the cheaper job. The integrated oven is usually the first thing a clerk checks, even at five years old, then the shower screen and its sealant, the washing machine drawer, and vinyl plank flooring that shows scuffing along the traffic line from the door to the kitchen. The Austin-era houses let privately are a longer proposition: older kitchens, freestanding cookers, fitted carpet throughout that has taken several tenancies, and bathrooms where the sealant lost the argument some time ago. Both get cleaned against the same standard, but they take very different amounts of time.
- Integrated ovens in the apartments, usually the first thing a clerk checks even in a young kitchen
- Shower screens, tracks and sealant in flats where the bathroom has no window and only a timed fan
- Vinyl plank flooring scuffed along the traffic line, which photographs badly on a check-out report
- Letting agents working to a fixed handover date, needing the flat finished and the invoice raised against the property
- Privately let Austin-era houses with older kitchens and fitted carpet carrying several tenancies of wear
Shower screen, sealant and balcony track after the kitchen
Where the agent sends the check-in inventory we clean against that document itself, and where there is no inventory we work the standard clerk checklist. The kitchen comes first, because that is where deposits are decided: oven interior, racks and door glass, hob, extractor and filter, then every cupboard inside and out and the appliance seals. In the flats we pay particular attention to the shower screen, the bathroom sealant and the balcony door track, the three things a check-out photograph of a modern flat picks up first. Floors and carpets go last, with extraction quoted separately.
- Cleaned against the actual check-in inventory whenever the agent can forward it, not a generic checklist
- Oven, hob, extractor and filter always included, never itemised as an extra on the invoice
- Shower screen, sealant and balcony door track detailed, because those are what the check-out photographs catch here
- Move-in cleans available on the same flat, booked and invoiced to the agent before key release
More detail on the equipment and the order of work: our end of tenancy cleaning method.
Agent instructed, and spread across the year
Changeover work in Longbridge centres on the one and two-bedroom apartments near the town centre and the station, usually instructed by letting agents managing blocks on the development. Private landlords on the Austin-era streets off Groveley Lane and Longbridge Lane let larger properties on longer terms. Because turnover here follows employment and not a university calendar, it is spread through the year and a slot within the week is usually possible. We come down the A38, roughly twenty minutes from Selly Oak, and fit the clean to the agent’s handover time within our Monday to Saturday hours.
Why a one-bedroom Longbridge flat is the lighter job
Size and condition set it, and on this development that works strongly in a tenant’s favour. A one-bedroom apartment with a single bathroom, an integrated oven and hard flooring throughout sits at the lighter end of move-out cleaning. A three-bedroom Austin-era house with a freestanding cooker, two tenancies worth of carpet and old bathroom sealant is a different order of work entirely. The oven remains the biggest single swing factor in both. After that it is bathroom count, how far mould has travelled into sealant that should have been renewed, and whether carpet extraction is required by the agreement.
Check-out and move-in cleans either side of one handover
Once per tenancy, and often twice on the same flat within a fortnight when the agent books the check-out clean and the move-in clean either side of the handover. Timing is easy here, because these lets end when jobs change and not in one August wave, so a week of notice generally secures a slot. If you already know the handover date, giving us that as soon as it is fixed costs you nothing and locks the morning in.
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Frequently asked questions
Considerably, and it is worth knowing before you take a quote elsewhere. A modern one or two-bedroom flat has one bathroom, an integrated oven that has not had decades of use, and hard flooring instead of fitted carpet. All of that is quicker, and the price reflects that instead of averaging across property types.
Yes, and on this development that is the normal arrangement. We take the instruction from the agent, work to the handover date they set, clean against the check-in inventory if they forward it, and invoice them against the property reference.
A lighter clean carried out after the check-out clean and any works, immediately before the incoming tenant collects the keys, so the flat is presented properly on the day. Agents on the Longbridge blocks can book one straight after the check-out clean, which it follows and does not replace.
Usually about a week, and sometimes less. Lettings here end when people change jobs, not at the end of an academic year, so Longbridge has no single congested season.
Usually, yes. Read the agreement first, because a good many specifically require professional cleaning. On the Austin-era houses that have been let for years the carpets usually warrant it regardless of what the paperwork says. We quote hot water extraction as a separate line and can confirm in writing that it was carried out.
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