End of Tenancy Cleaning in Northfield

Four or five years of living, all landing on one B31 check-out

Long tenancies are the defining feature of a B31 check-out. Where somebody has been in a semi for four years, the property has not had a thorough clean for four years either, and the whole of it lands on one day at the end. The kitchen is where the money goes: freestanding cookers are common in these houses, the oven has usually never been stripped, and the gap either side of the cooker collects everything that has ever been dropped. Upstairs, the small bathroom with the weak fan has grown mould into the grout and round the bath. Then there is fitted carpet, still the standard floor covering here, holding the entire record of the tenancy in the doorways and on the stairs.

• Tenancies of several years, so the whole accumulation arrives on the check-out day at once
• Freestanding cookers with ovens never stripped, plus the gap either side that collects everything
• Small upstairs bathrooms with weak extraction, where grout and bath sealant have gone mouldy
• Fitted carpet throughout, showing the tenancy in the doorways and on the stair nosings
• Flats and maisonettes on the estates, which turn over faster than the let houses do

Kitchen first and longest, against the inventory or the clerk list

Send us the check-in inventory and we clean against that; where there is not one, we work to the standard clerk’s checklist. The kitchen goes first and gets the most time, because that is where deposits are lost: the oven inside, its racks and door glass, then the hob, the hood and the filter, and after that every cupboard, inside and behind the doors. The cooker comes out so the sides, the back and the floor beneath it are done. Bathrooms next, taken down to the grout. Then every room in detail, then floors, with carpet extraction where the agreement calls for it.

• Worked against your own check-in inventory whenever there is one to work from
• Freestanding cooker pulled out so the sides, the back and the floor underneath are cleaned
• Oven, hob, hood and filter included as standard, never billed on as an extra afterwards
• Carpet extraction priced on its own, because plenty of B31 agreements do not call for it

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

Where B31 changeovers come from

Move-out work in Northfield comes from three places: private landlords with one or two ex-council houses on the estates towards Longbridge, agents handling flats and maisonettes around the Grosvenor and Bristol Road South, and tenants leaving family houses who would sooner pay for the clean than argue about the deposit. None of it is seasonal, which helps you, because B31 changeovers do not all fall in the same few weeks. We can normally be with you within a few days of the phone call.

Condition does most of the moving on a Northfield move-out quote

Property size and the state it is in set the number, and in Northfield the state does most of the moving. A two-bedroom maisonette handed back after a short let is a half-day. A three-bedroom semi at the end of a five-year tenancy, with a cooker that has never been moved and mould through the bath sealant, is a much larger job, and one price table could not fairly cover both. The oven is usually the biggest variable, more so here, where freestanding cookers are the norm. Then it is bathroom count, the state of the sealant, and whether carpets need extracting. Photographs on WhatsApp get you a fixed price.

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Changeovers spread across the year, usually a week of notice

Once per tenancy, and the timing is rarely tight here. B31 changeovers are spread across the calendar, so a week of notice is usually plenty and we can often manage sooner than that. Book as soon as you have a date, not after the keys are due back, because the one part of the day that cannot be compressed is a badly neglected oven, and that is what dictates how long the whole job takes.