Deep Cleaning in Cotgrave

Deep Cleaning for Cotgrave homes

These houses were heated by solid fuel before they were heated by gas, and a deep clean is where that turns up. Capped flues, hearths behind boxing, and the airing cupboard where a back boiler used to sit.

A deep clean on this estate turns up the heating history of the house, which is not something we run into in most places. These were built for coal and lived in with coal, and when gas arrived the fireplaces were boxed in, the flues were capped and the back boilers came out. None of that was cleaned first. So the annual list here has items on it that a modern house does not have: a hearth under a chipboard panel, a redundant flue with a vent in it, and the cupboard where the boiler stood, which is now shelves with the old pipework still behind them. In the old village core the job is different again, older floors and lower ceilings, and there the products change rather than the effort.

Cotgrave sits in NG12, under Rushcliffe Borough Council. The housing here is mostly 1960s estate housing built in one go for the colliery, a small old village core around the church, and newer estates put up on and beside the reclaimed pit land, and that is what shapes this job more than the floor area does.

What we run into on Cotgrave deep cleaning jobs

Fine ash is the thing to know about. It is much lighter than household dust, it carries a slight greasiness from the soot in it, and it smears rather than lifts if you go at it damp first. So anywhere with a solid fuel history gets vacuumed with a filtered machine before a cloth goes near it, and the vent in a capped flue gets covered while we work, because knocking the boxing sends a puff of it out into the room and it lands on everything already done. The other place it hides is the top of the boxing itself, which is a horizontal shelf nobody can see from standing height.

How a Cotgrave deep cleaning job actually runs

A deep clean is a whole day in an occupied house, and on the estate the room sizes decide how that day runs. Ground floors are compact, so furniture has to go somewhere while the floor is done and there is rarely a spare room to put it in; we work half a room at a time and put things back as we go rather than emptying it into the hall. Upstairs, landings are narrow and the bathroom is usually the only one, which matters, because a bathroom out of use for a stretch of the afternoon needs saying in advance if anybody is home. Hot water and sockets are the other practical items. Systems here often heat a tank rather than heating on demand, so a job drawing hot water repeatedly wants the timer put on before we arrive rather than halfway through. Bookings cluster in two places: the run up to Christmas, and late spring when the heating goes off and people see what the winter left on the walls. Both fill early, so a date agreed weeks ahead beats a call in the same week.

Who books it here

Houses built in quantity to a few standard types, then bought and altered one at a time over decades, so two identical shells can be very different jobs inside. What sets the hours is the kitchen and the bathroom rather than the shape of the house.

We run Cotgrave on the same round as Edwalton, Keyworth and Gamston.

What we check on every Cotgrave job

The bath panel is where a deep clean earns its name in these bathrooms. Most are a moulded plastic panel clipped or screwed to a timber batten, and because it comes off in seconds nobody ever takes it off. Behind it is bare floor, the trap and the overflow, and whatever has gone down the side of the bath over the years: hair, a razor cap, dust bound into grey fluff by damp air. It is also where a slow weep from a trap shows itself, as a dark ring on the boards or a soft patch at the edge of them. We take the panel off where the fixings allow, vacuum and wash the void, and put it back with the seal along the bottom edge cleaned rather than painted over. If something is leaking we photograph it and tell you, because that is a plumber's job and not a cleaner's.

What the deep cleaning covers

A sample of what is included

• Everywhere else: Carpet edges, which a normal vacuum pass misses
• Bathrooms: Limescale removed from taps, shower head, screen, tiles and grout
• Everywhere else: Radiators, including between the fins and behind
• Kitchen, which is about 40% of the time: Sink, taps, plughole and overflow descaled

That is a sample rather than the whole list. The full deep 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.

The cleaner who comes to your Cotgrave property is directly employed and vetted by us rather than subcontracted, and the questions that come up before a first booking are answered on the FAQ page. If you are not certain this is the right service, the services hub compares all 14.