The journal is where we write down the things worth explaining on a doorstep. Why a gutter that looks fine from the pavement still overflows. What purified water actually does to glass. Whether sealing a patio is worth the money. How often a carpet genuinely needs doing, as opposed to how often somebody would like to sell you one. It is written from the work itself, for anyone with a house or a building to look after.
Some of it will save you from booking a cleaner at all, and that is fine by us. A piece that talks you out of an unnecessary job is worth more than one that talks you into a job you resent paying for. A new post goes up each week, so if there is a question you would like answered here, call or WhatsApp 07788 574283 and ask.
Repairs, decorating, carpets, then the clean, then the inventory. Get that order wrong and you pay for the clean twice. How to cut a void short.
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The HSE has not banned ladders and says so in terms. What the Work at Height Regulations require, and why a ladder suits gutter work badly.
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The full scope room by room, including the jobs that are not in a deep clean as standard: carpets, upper windows, lofts, clearance and any repair.
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Cast iron rusts from the inside out under wet silt. Ogee and half-round, bolted joints, parapet gutters, and why a ladder costs you the fall.
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Gutter cleaning is not priced by bedrooms. Height, run length, access and how full it is set the number. Every variable, so you can read your own quote.
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Fortnightly suits most households. What actually decides the interval, when monthly stops holding, and when not to book a cleaner at all.
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Repairs, decorating, carpets, then the clean, then the inventory. Get that order wrong and you pay for the clean twice. How to cut a void short.
Room by room, in the order a check-out report is written: the oven, the fridge drip channel, the shower screen track and the window reveals.
Cleaning tops the tables at all three England schemes. The TDS 54% and the DPS 29.38% measure different things and must not be averaged.
A blanket professional cleaning clause is unenforceable in England. A deduction for a property returned dirtier than it was let is not.
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Four to eight weeks is the usual interval, and the road decides where you sit in it. Traffic film, tree cover and aspect matter more than house size.
Sashes, Victorian bays, Bournville casements and crittall each want a different method, and no ladder goes on painted render. Why that matters.
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The full scope room by room, including the jobs that are not in a deep clean as standard: carpets, upper windows, lofts, clearance and any repair.
Severn Trent puts the Elan Valley supply into Birmingham at roughly 29 to 51 mg/l. Sutton Coldfield, on South Staffs Water, is 188.9. Different water.
Birmingham city is normally on soft Elan Valley water, so limescale is not where the hours go. Grease, soap scum and mould in grout are.
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Cobwebs, dead flies, dust and condensation on the underside of a conservatory roof. What can be cleaned from the floor, and what cannot be reached.
Polycarbonate and coated glass need different treatment, and green in the flutes is a panel problem, not a cleaning one. What is worth doing here.
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Fortnightly suits most households. What actually decides the interval, when monthly stops holding, and when not to book a cleaner at all.
Rain on about 132 days a year and 1,129,000 trees set the Birmingham cleaning year. Month by month, what is worth doing and when, and what is not.
Registration, insurance, scope and who employs the cleaner tell you more than reviews. A vetting checklist that includes the awkward question about us.
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The HSE has not banned ladders and says so in terms. What the Work at Height Regulations require, and why a ladder suits gutter work badly.
Cast iron rusts from the inside out under wet silt. Ogee and half-round, bolted joints, parapet gutters, and why a ladder costs you the fall.
Gutter cleaning is not priced by bedrooms. Height, run length, access and how full it is set the number. Every variable, so you can read your own quote.
A gutter that overflows along its length is blocked. One that overflows at a single point usually is not. How to tell from the pavement, in the rain.
Gutter clearance is cheap. Replastering an upstairs wall or replacing a rotten fascia is not. What the water does while the gutter stays full.
Solid-brick terraces have no cavity, so an overflowing gutter soaks through to the inside face. Cast iron and uPVC fail in different ways.
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