End of Tenancy Cleaning in Yardley

The order Yardley lets lose deposits in

Yardley properties lose deposits in a fairly predictable order. The oven comes first, as it does everywhere, and in a let semi with an older freestanding cooker it can outlast the rest of the kitchen put together. Second is the bathroom over the stairs: small, poorly ventilated and tiled, so the sealant round the bath and the grout behind the taps carry mould that a departing tenant has usually sprayed with bleach and left. Third is the carpet on the stairs and landing, which in a long let has taken every trip between floors for two or three years. Bay window boards, reveals and patio door tracks round it off.

• Freestanding cookers in older let kitchens, where the oven alone outlasts the rest of the room
• The small tiled bathroom over the stairs, with mould worked into sealant rather than sitting on it
• Stair and landing carpet in long lets, carrying the whole household’s traffic for years at a stretch
• Bay window boards, reveals and patio door tracks, all standard photograph points on a check-out
• Converted flats on the main-road frontages, which turn over faster than the surrounding semis

Cleaning a Yardley semi against its check-in inventory

Send us the check-in inventory if you have one, and we clean against that document rather than a generic list. Kitchen first: oven interior, racks and door glass, hob, hood and filter, then every cupboard inside and out, fridge and freezer seals, and the washing machine drawer. Bathroom next, with sealant and grout given the time the product needs to work. Then each room in detail, including the bay boards and reveals a clerk will photograph. Floors and carpets go last, with hot water extraction wherever your agreement calls for it.

• Cleaned against your own check-in inventory wherever you can send a copy across
• Oven, hob, hood and filter included as standard, never held back as a chargeable extra
• Bathroom sealant and grout given proper contact time, since the problem here is mould growth, not mineral scale
• Carpet extraction quoted on its own, because not every Yardley tenancy asks for it

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

Where Yardley changeovers come from

Lets in B25 and B26 sit in the converted flats and maisonettes on the main roads, the older terraces, and family semis that ended up let after an owner moved on, and the person arranging a clean here is as likely to be a landlord or a small agent as a departing tenant. Changeovers are spread through the year, with a little more activity over the summer, so booking a week or two ahead onto the Yardley set days usually secures the date you want.

A main-road flat and an extended semi on different tables

Size and condition, in that order, and in Yardley the property type shifts things more than people expect. A one-bedroom converted flat on a main road is a half day. A four-bedroom extended semi with a converted garage, two bathrooms and a neglected freestanding cooker is a wholly different day, and quoting both from one table would mean overcharging one and disappointing the other. Ovens move the number more than anything else does. After that it is how many bathrooms, how deep the mould has gone into sealant, whether the carpets want extraction, and whether the property is empty when we turn up, since clearance is not something we do.

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Booking a Yardley check-out around the handover date

Once per tenancy, and the useful thing about Yardley is the timing. Turnover here is spread across the calendar, and because Yardley bookings are grouped on scheduled days, a week or two of notice is the way to get the date you want.