End of Tenancy Cleaning in Bulwell

End of Tenancy Cleaning for Bulwell homes

Rented terraces near the centre, turned around between tenancies to a check-in standard. We photograph the finished property so the next inventory has evidence behind it.

End of tenancy work in Bulwell splits between rented terraces near the centre and flats above the commercial units, and the flats are where the disputes come from. The tenancy usually covers the flat only, but the inventory photographs the route to it, which means a shared stair and a street door that no individual tenant has ever cleaned turn up in the check out. The terraces are more predictable and the voids are tight, since landlords here relet quickly. Either way the property needs to be genuinely empty first, and in a flat above a shop that means the furniture has come down a narrow stair before we come up it.

Bulwell sits in NG6, under Nottingham City Council. Domestic cleaning across the estates, and small commercial premises around the market place and above the shops, which is unusual for a residential area.

What we run into on Bulwell end of tenancy cleaning jobs

The bin arrangement is the item that gets flagged most often on these addresses. Flats above the shops usually share a yard bin store with the business below, and by the end of a tenancy there is a pile of black bags that belongs to nobody in particular. A clerk photographs it. We can clean the store and the floor of the yard, but removing what is in it is a clearance with its own cost, so that needs deciding before the day. The street door itself, its glass and its letter plate take five minutes and always read well.

How a Bulwell end of tenancy cleaning job actually runs

Turnarounds here spread across the year instead of piling into one fortnight, because the rented terraces are let to households and working tenants rather than to students on a September to July cycle. That is genuinely useful when you are booking, since short notice slots tend to exist here in July when half the city has none left. The work itself starts from a property that is properly empty, and empty in a two up two down is very exposed: no curtains, no furniture, and every mark on a wall sitting in plain daylight. The route through is a single line across the ground floor and up one straight staircase, so the order is upstairs first, then down, kitchen last, and out through the front. Landlords relet quickly around here and will usually say in advance which rooms are being recarpeted or repainted, and there is no sense extracting a carpet that is going into a skip on Monday. The rear yard, the gate and the outhouse or coal store appear in most inventories and are almost never in what an outgoing tenant has thought about.

Who books it here

A market town centre that happens to be inside the city. Small commercial units above and behind the shops make up a fair share of the work.

We run Bulwell on the same round as New Basford, Aspley and Hucknall.

What we check on every Bulwell job

The items a clerk writes down in this stock and a tenant forgets: the inside of the wheelie bin, which is an inventory item and comes back filthy every time, the kitchen unit plinths, which unclip and hide everything that has ever been swept toward them, the tiled hearth and its surround, the restrictors and handles on the upstairs windows, and the loft hatch surround, which shows a grey ring if the hatch has been lifted during the tenancy. Extractor filters come out of the hood rather than being wiped through the grille. Radiators are brushed from behind on a long handle and the wall behind them done afterwards. Meter cupboard doors, the fuse board face and the gas cupboard get wiped because they photograph. Curtain poles and blind slats are dusted before the floors are finished, never after, and the front room windows are done from the inside on the same pass.

What the end of tenancy cleaning covers

A sample of what is included

• Bathrooms: Bath sealant line and overflow
• Bathrooms: Full limescale removal from taps, shower head, screen, tiles and grout
• Kitchen: Washing machine drawer, rubber seal fold and filter
• Kitchen: Hob, extractor hood and filter degreased

That is a sample rather than the whole list. The full end of tenancy cleaning page sets out every section of the scope, what is deliberately excluded and why, how long it takes on each property size, and what tends to go wrong.