End of Tenancy Cleaning in Sparkbrook

What fails a check-out on a Sparkbrook terrace

What fails a check-out on this stock is predictable, and limescale rarely comes into it. The kitchen sits in a narrow rear extension, so the cooker is boxed into a corner beside a gap holding a tenancy’s worth of spillage, the extractor is missing or vents straight back into the room, and the oven has generally not been opened since the previous handover. The bathroom above it shows mould instead, in the grout and around the bath, because this city’s supply is soft. Then the ordinary list: skirtings, door tops, window frames, the hall carpet. And sometimes a house still holds belongings nobody came back for, which have to be cleared before we start.

• Cookers boxed into the corner of a cramped rear kitchen, beside a spillage gap and above an oven never opened
• Extraction that vents back into the room or is absent altogether, leaving grease across tiling and ceiling
• A single bathroom marked down for mould in grout and around the bath, scale being irrelevant on a soft supply
• Social landlord voids that must reach a relet standard, cleaned once the repair trades have finished up
• Belongings and rubbish left in place, which need clearing before the clean, since waste removal is not something we offer

Kitchen first, bathroom second, photographs the same afternoon

We give a firm figure from photographs and it holds on the day unless the property is materially different from what we were shown. Kitchen first, since a check-out is won or lost there: oven interior with the door glass, hob, extractor and its filter, the cooker gap, cupboards inside and out, fridge seals. Bathroom second, worked right down to the silicone. Then every room detailed, floors last. Each room is photographed as it is finished and the set goes over the same afternoon, so a landlord can advertise without making the trip to look at it.

• A fixed quote settled beforehand instead of an hourly rate that quietly expands across the afternoon
• Room photographs sent over the same afternoon, so a property can be relisted without an inspection visit
• Void properties cleaned behind the repair trades, so no room is detailed twice at the landlord’s cost
• Worked against the check-in inventory where the agency still holds one, and a standard clerk list where it does not

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: the full end of tenancy cleaning process.

Turnarounds across the terraced grid, all year

Nothing about this is seasonal in Sparkbrook. Tenancies finish in every month across the terraces either side of the Stratford Road and the later infill housing threaded through them, and much of it is let through local agencies and private landlords. If you give us a key or a keysafe code, you need not be there. Parking is on-street everywhere, so equipment goes in at the door and the van is shifted, not left blocking a road with no passing space. Our Selly Oak B29 base is twenty minutes out, so a slot within the week is usually realistic here.

The things that move a fixed figure on a B11 or B12 void

You get a fixed number before anything starts, not an hourly rate that creeps. It shifts with the size of the property, the condition of the oven, the number of bathrooms and how deeply mould has taken hold in the silicone, and whether carpets want hot water extraction. Clearance and waste removal are not something we offer, so a house left full needs emptying before the clean is booked. Landlords and agencies with several properties can send photographs of each and have every one quoted the same way, as a fixed figure.

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Ring when notice is served, not when the keys come back

Once per tenancy, which on the shorter lets around here can mean the same house twice inside eighteen months. The one useful habit is ringing when notice is served rather than when the keys land back, because the gap between those two dates is precisely the window that lets us fit you in without a letting week being lost to it. Social landlord voids are best booked as soon as the repair works have a finish date attached.