Carpet Cleaning in West Bromwich

Contract tiles, thin landlord carpet and a clause in the agreement

Carpet here tends to be contract grade, and that governs everything about the job. Office and unit floors are tiled with the cheapest specification that met the fit-out budget, then walked in outdoor footwear straight off a Sandwell car park, so they darken along a predictable track from the entrance to the desks while the corners stay near enough new. In the let housing the carpet was chosen by a landlord, is thin, frequently pale, and is asked to survive several households in a row. Layer on the clause in many local agreements requiring a professional clean at the end, and appearance stops being the question: what somebody is contractually obliged to buy becomes the question instead.

• Carpet tiles in offices and unit receptions, darkened along the entrance track while the rest of the floor still looks new
• Abrasive grit walked straight in from forecourts and car parks, which grinds the pile as well as dirtying it
• Thin landlord-specified carpet expected to survive one household after another
• Agreements obliging an outgoing tenant to pay for a professional clean and produce paperwork
• Stairs, landings and bedrooms in family houses, where the carpet takes every trip through the house

Encapsulation for office tiles, extraction for the let houses

Dry vacuuming leads, and it is not a formality: almost everything held in a floor walked on from a car park is dry grit, and adding water to that simply produces slurry down at the backing. A pre-spray follows, left long enough to actually break the soil down and then brushed through the pile. Stairs take a hand tool, because a wand dragged down a flight cleans the treads badly and scuffs the nosings. Office tiles are usually encapsulated, a low-moisture method, so the floor is usable the next working morning instead of damp under somebody’s desk.

• Encapsulation on office and unit tiles, chosen so the floor is walkable when staff arrive the following morning
• Hot water extraction in houses, with the pre-spray given genuine working time before anything is pulled back out
• A test patch for colour fastness before we start, which is no formality on budget carpet fitted for a let
• The entrance track and walkways treated as their own job, separately from the open floor around them

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

Office tiles, walked tracks and tenancy-clause cleans

Commercial jobs sit with the offices and units around the ring road and along the High Street, and low-moisture encapsulation on a Friday or a Saturday means nothing is still drying beneath a desk on Monday. Residential jobs are often move-out work, scattered through the let stock in both postcodes and attached to the tenancy clean itself, alongside family homes booking the stairs and bedrooms. The town is covered on set days, so booking a week or two ahead is the way to get the date you want.

Per room and flight at home, by measured area at the office

Houses are charged per room, with each flight of stairs counted as its own item and a floor beneath the whole job, because getting the machine in and set up costs the same for one room as for three. That arithmetic is why the stairs, the landing and the lounge done in one visit represent much better value than a single room booked alone. Commercial floors are priced on measured area and on how much furniture has to be moved. The assessment never changes with the price: if the pile is walked through, permanently marked or bleached, you hear about it before booking, not after the invoice.

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Once per tenancy, and twice a year for a busy reception

Twelve to eighteen months covers a domestic carpet in ordinary use, dropping towards six months where there are dogs or toddlers. Once per tenancy in rented property, and read the agreement first, because a fair number of local agreements treat it as compulsory instead of optional. Offices and unit receptions carrying real footfall want two visits a year, and refreshing the entrance track on its own between those costs very little, which is usually the smarter spend.