Domestic Cleaning in Weoley Castle

Three kinds of household, one repeating Corporation plan

Three quite different households want a regular clean on this estate. Long-standing council tenants, many in the same house for decades, want the stairs, the bathroom and the kitchen kept on top of and want a familiar routine on the same weekday each time. Owner-occupiers who bought under right to buy want the ground floor done while they are out at work. Small landlords with an ex-council semi want a mid-tenancy visit that stops a let drifting. All three are helped by the same thing, which is that the plan of the house never changes, so nobody is paying for our guesswork.

• A steep straight stair and a small rear kitchen doing most of the work in every house on the estate
• Long-standing council tenants who want the same weekday each time and a routine that does not change
• Owner-occupiers out at work, giving key or keysafe access on a fixed weekday
• Landlords of a single ex-council semi booking mid-tenancy visits to stop a let sliding
• Right-to-buy additions, a rear extension or a knocked-through reception, that change the timing of an otherwise standard house

A quick scope on a plan that barely changes

The scope is agreed room by room on the first visit, and it takes about twenty minutes in a house whose plan is already familiar from every other one on the street. After that you get the same weekday and roughly the same hour. Time goes to the kitchen, the bathroom and the stairs, because in this house type that is where the dirt is, and the back bedroom is treated as the lighter job unless you say otherwise. The wide estate roads mean the van goes outside and nothing is carried further than your gate.

• A scope settled quickly, because the plan of the house is known before we arrive
• Time weighted to kitchen, bathroom and stairs, with the bedrooms nobody uses given a lighter pass
• A fixed weekday that can actually be held, being ten minutes from base
• Repairs pointed out rather than cleaned around, which matters on a tenanted house

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

What a weekly slot looks like here

The estate spreads out from Weoley Castle Square, and a visit here involves almost no travel time, which is how a shorter slot fits the week so easily. Neighbours are welcome to book on the same day if that suits them. Parking is easy, since the estate was laid out with wide verges and generous roads long before anyone worried about it. Being so close, a paused slot is easy to pick up again, and a short visit can be added in a week when the house has had more than usual through it, such as school holidays or a family visit.

Right-to-buy additions shift an otherwise standard figure

Cleaning is priced per visit and the figure stays the same every time, which on this estate is unusually predictable. A standard three-bedroom Corporation semi takes a standard length of time, so the estimate rests on a known plan. What shifts the number is what right to buy added: a rear extension, a knocked-through front and back reception, a converted boxroom, or a conservatory now wanting to be included. A weekly visit is shorter than a fortnightly one, simply because less has built up between them, which is the whole argument for the shorter slot here.

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Weekly is realistic ten minutes from base

Weekly is worth considering here, since ten minutes from base makes a short slot easy to schedule. Fortnightly works perfectly well for most houses on the estate. Monthly suits households who keep on top of the day-to-day and want the kitchen, bathroom and stairs done properly. Being ten minutes away also makes a short-notice extra visit realistic here when the diary has a gap.