End of Tenancy Cleaning in Winson Green

What a Winson Green void inspector will be checking

A Winson Green void usually marks the end of a long tenancy. On the surviving Victorian terraces that can mean ten or fifteen years in the same kitchen, so the cooker gap, the extractor and the cupboard interiors carry all of it, and the bathroom silicone has been wet for most of that time. Soft Elan Valley water means none of this is scale: it is hardened cooking grease, soap scum and mould with roots down in the sealant. The low-rise estate properties are simpler and far more consistent with each other, which makes them quicker and much easier to price in batches. Either way the test is an inspector with a checklist, not a viewing.

• Void standards and inspection checklists set by the provider, with no deposit and no check-in inventory in play
• Ten and fifteen year tenancies ending on the terraces, where the cooker has never once been pulled forward
• Re-let dates that lose rent for every day they slip, so the handback date matters as much as the finish does
• Properties handed over uncleared, or with water and power capped, which changes what can be done on the day
• Batches of near-identical flats on one estate, which price and schedule quite differently to one-off houses

Cleaning to your void standard, with photographs for the inspector

We clean to your void standard where you have one and send it across, and to a full empty-property specification where you do not. Kitchen first: cooker drawn out and the gap behind it done, oven interior and door glass, extractor and filter, every cupboard inside and out, and the wall behind the hob. Bathrooms go back to grout and sealant, and anything rooted through the silicone is photographed and reported as a repair instead of being quietly cleaned over. Every room is then detailed and photographed on completion, so the inspection is checked against a record, not against anybody’s memory.

• Cleaned against the provider’s own void standard whenever it is sent to us, in place of a generic checklist
• Room-by-room completion photographs sent with the invoice, so a queried item can be checked before anyone drives out
• Sealant and grout reported as repairs where mould has grown through, never cleaned over and handed back
• Our own water carried where the supply has been capped, which on a void is more often than not the case

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: end of tenancy cleaning across Birmingham.

Voids, re-let dates and short notice

Voids here do not arrive in a season. They come one at a time, all year round, and usually at short notice, and our Selly Oak base is about twenty minutes away, which makes short notice workable. The terraces take longer than the estate flats and should be quoted separately even when they land on the same instruction. Parking is easier on the Victorian streets than inside the estates, where visitor space is thin and a van needs somewhere it will not be asked to shift from mid-job. Where a block is being turned over in numbers, the flats can be scheduled close together.

Oven, bathrooms, sealant and clearance: what moves a void price

We price from photographs and give a fixed figure, which is the only sensible way to buy a void: an hourly rate on an empty property nobody has looked at is a blank cheque for one of the two parties. The variables are the oven, the number of bathrooms, how far the mould has travelled into the sealant, whether flooring is being cleaned or lifted, and whether the property has genuinely been cleared. A provider putting six flats through in a fortnight can send them as one instruction and get one schedule of fixed figures. We invoice against your purchase order with one line per address.

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Once a tenancy, so the lead time is what needs planning

Once per tenancy, which on this stock can mean once a decade for any given house. Lead time is what needs planning. Tell us the day the keys come back, not the day before the inspection, and a standard terraced void is comfortably finished inside the week. A batch of flats wants a fortnight of notice to schedule properly, less for a single flat.