End of Tenancy Cleaning in Solihull

Bigger houses, more bathrooms: what fails a Solihull check-out

A check-out here usually starts from a well-kept property, which cuts both ways. These properties have generally been looked after, so the failures are specific ones: the oven, the extractor filter, grout and sealant across several bathrooms, and the internal face of the glazing on a rear extension, which photographs badly and is precisely what a clerk points a camera at. Size is the other problem. A five bedroom detached with three bathrooms and two staircases is a long full day, and it will not slot into the gap between one tenant leaving and the next arriving unless somebody booked it in advance.

• Apartments near Touchwood, family lets on the semi streets, and company tenancies on the larger detached houses
• Ovens and extractor filters, the item a clerk checks first and the one tenants leave until last
• Several bathrooms per property, carrying mould and soap scum in grout and sealant, plus any scale the local supply leaves
• Internal glazing on rear extensions, photographed by the clerk and never touched by a departing tenant
• Large properties needing a full day or more, so the date has to be fixed well ahead on the set-day pattern

Kitchen first, then bathrooms, glazing and tracks before the floors

We clean against your check-in inventory where one exists and against the standard clerk checklist where it does not. The kitchen leads, since deposits are won and lost there: the oven cavity, the racks and the door glass, the hob, the extractor housing and its filter, then the cupboards, faces and interiors alike. Bathrooms follow, with grout and sealant given dwell time, since a hard scrub lifts sealant. Internal glazing, sills and door tracks are done before the floors, and carpets are extracted last where the agreement calls for it. You get written confirmation of what was carried out, which agents here generally ask for.

• Cleaned against the check-in inventory itself wherever you can send a copy over
• Oven, hob, extractor and filter included in the price, never added as an extra
• Internal glazing, sills and door tracks done before floors, since that is what the check-out photographs show
• Hot water carpet extraction quoted separately, with written confirmation for the agent or clerk

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: how we do end of tenancy cleaning, step by step.

Where the lets in B91 to B93 actually are

Solihull lets cluster in the town centre, in apartments and converted flats within walking distance of Touchwood and the High Street, and on the semi streets nearer the town centre, where houses are let to families. The larger detached roads have very few, and those tend to be company lets ending. Turnover in the borough is spread across the year with no August pile-up, which helps, but the real constraint is our own diary: we work these postcodes on set days, so a week of notice decides whether we can take it.

Touchwood flat or five-bed detached house: what sets the figure

Size and condition set the price and the spread here is wide. A one bedroom apartment near Touchwood is a straightforward half day. A five bedroom detached house with three bathrooms, a range cooker and a fully glazed rear extension is a full day and more, and no single table could price both fairly. Whatever the property, the oven moves the figure more than anything else, and a neglected double cavity adds hours on its own. Then it is the bathroom count, the depth of the mould in the sealant, the run of internal glazing, and whether extraction is required. Photographs get you a fixed figure.

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Once per tenancy, with a week or more of notice for the set days

Once per tenancy, and here the timing matters more than the season does. Because we cover the borough on scheduled days, a week of notice is what we ask for, and on a large detached house rather more than that. Where a property is being handed back and relet immediately, give us both dates when you book: holding a slot open is far easier than finding one at forty-eight hours notice.