Domestic Cleaning in Stourbridge

Big Norton and Pedmore houses and too little time

A regular clean here is usually about a house considerably bigger than the time available for it. Plenty of the Norton and Pedmore houses have six rooms on the ground floor, along with a utility, a boot room and a garden room beyond the kitchen, and none of that gets done properly in an evening. Dogs are the other factor where there are any, because the lanes and fields start at the end of the road and the Clent edge is an easy walk, so paw prints across a large hall floor are a weekly job, not an occasional one. The fabric matters as much as the size: wool carpet, oak boards, waxed timber and painted joinery all punish the wrong product, and that damage is slow and cumulative, never obvious on the day.

• Large detached houses and 1930s semis where the ground floor on its own is a two hour job
• Utility rooms, boot rooms and garden rooms that a short visit never reaches
• Dogs walked on the lanes and fields at the edge of town, putting mud back onto a big hall floor all year
• Wool carpet, oak boards and waxed timber that need one settled product policy, written down and kept to
• Older joinery and original fabric in the Oldswinford and Amblecote villas, where a wet method is the wrong method
• Home offices in daily use, which want the same attention as the kitchen

Products for wool and oak agreed before the first visit

The property is scoped room by room before the first visit and what is out of scope is written down alongside what is in, which matters when there are this many rooms to disagree about later. You then get a fixed slot on one of the set Stourbridge days, and if you give us a key or code you do not need to be home for the visit. Hours weight to the kitchen, the hall and the bathrooms rather than dusting bedrooms nobody sleeps in. On wool and waxed timber the products are agreed at the start and written into the scope, so they never change from one visit to the next.

• A written scope naming the rooms that are skipped as well as the ones being cleaned
• A fixed slot on a set Stourbridge day, with the written scope and product list followed every visit
• One agreed product list for wool carpet, oak boards and painted joinery, settled before the first visit
• Key or code access, so nobody needs to be home for the visit

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

What a regular slot out here looks like

Almost all of it is weekly or fortnightly in the bigger houses: Norton, Pedmore, Wollaston and the roads around Mary Stevens Park and Oldswinford. Stourbridge is a Dudley borough town about half an hour from Selly Oak, so bookings are grouped onto set days, and a new property goes onto whichever of those days has room left. Parking and access are rarely an issue on this stock, so the only real constraint is the diary. If a slot needs to move it moves within the set days.

Priced on the hours a larger DY8 house really takes

Priced per visit on how long the property genuinely takes, and the figure holds steady so it can be budgeted. Room count drives the figure more than floor area does, and a property with a utility, a boot room and a garden room has three more rooms than the particulars suggested. A wet winter adds time on hall and kitchen floors without changing the rate.

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Fortnightly for most, weekly with dogs and teenagers

Fortnightly is the common pattern in the larger houses, with weekly where there are dogs, teenagers or a home office in daily use. Monthly works if you keep the day to day going yourself and want the kitchen, bathrooms and floors done properly. Autumn and winter are when weekly earns its money here, because the lanes are wet from October and a large hall floor shows every walk. A house being sold, or one that has had building work in it, wants a deep clean as its own job first, and the regular slot then holds the result.