Deep Cleaning in Olton

Shaded rooms under the lime trees that never quite dry out

The heavy tree cover along the older Olton roads has an effect indoors that people rarely connect to it. North-facing rooms behind mature limes and sycamores get very little direct sun, so bathrooms and utility rooms dry slowly and mould takes hold in grout and silicone long before anything looks dirty. On the roads closest to Olton Mere the air is damper again. Then there is the fabric itself: bay window seats and reveals, deep cornice, picture rails, panelled doors and tiled hall floors, plus a kitchen that has usually been pushed out into the old scullery with a range cooker sitting in it. A weekly visit cannot reach that much surface.

• Bathrooms and utility rooms in shaded north-facing villa rooms, where grout and silicone stay damp and grow mould
• Bay window seats, reveals, deep cornice and picture rails, every one of them a hand-cleaned surface
• Extended villa kitchens with range cookers and a heavy extractor canopy above them
• Damper air on the roads nearest Olton Mere, which slows a room down after bathing and cooking
• Soap scum on screens and taps, treated with whatever suits the deposit your own water leaves

Cornice down, bay by bay, from a proper platform

We work from the ceiling down and dry before wet, which in a tall Olton room means starting at cornice, picture rail and the tops of the door cases from a proper platform, never from the furniture. Each bay is treated as its own unit: seat, reveals, sills, glazing bars and internal frames. Kitchens and bathrooms are then degreased and sanitised, with grout and silicone given dwell time instead of hard scrubbing. Original tiled halls and any waxed timber are cleaned pH-neutral, with no steam anywhere near old bedding or old finishes.

• Cornice, picture rails and door cases done first from a platform, because these rooms are too tall to reach safely off a chair
• Every bay taken as its own piece of work: seat, reveals, sills, glazing bars and internal frames
• Grout and silicone left to dwell so the mould treatment works without scouring the joint
• Range cooker, hob, extractor canopy and filters degreased, which is where an extended Olton kitchen hides its build-up

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: our deep cleaning method.

Deep cleaning inside an Olton villa

A deep clean here tends to follow one of two events. Somebody has bought a villa on one of the older roads and wants it stripped back before the furniture arrives, or a household wants the whole property reset before Christmas or a family occasion at Olton Friary. The semis between the Warwick Road and the railway more often suit a smaller, targeted deep clean, frequently kitchen and bathrooms only. Practically, this is an easy suburb to work in: the in-and-out drives mean the van sits on the property and kit comes straight through the door, and we are about 22 minutes out from our Selly Oak base in B29.

Villa detail or a 1930s semi: what sets an Olton quote

Condition and detail set the price, not bedroom count, and in Olton the two housing types separate sharply. A villa with three reception rooms, a tiled hall, cornice throughout and two or three bathrooms is a day or more of work, whatever the listing called it. A semi off the Warwick Road of the same nominal size comes in comfortably below that, because there is far less moulding and joinery to clean by hand. Beyond that the number moves on the state of the range cooker and extractor canopy, how far mould has gone into grout and silicone, whether a cellar or a converted top floor is included, and whether carpets are extracted at the same visit. Photographs on WhatsApp get you a fixed price.

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A spring reset and one before Christmas for most villas

Twice a year suits most Olton villas, usually a spring reset and one before Christmas, because the shaded rooms under that tree cover hold damp longer and grout mould comes back faster than it would on an open plot. The semis nearer the railway are generally fine on one deep clean a year alongside regular visits. Where a house is changing hands, a single thorough clean at the point of the move is enough on its own.