Deep Cleaning in Dunkirk

Deep Cleaning for Dunkirk homes

The pre-let reset in a two up two down that gained a bathroom in the old scullery and never gained a window to go with it. Ventilation, not effort, is what decides how a Dunkirk deep clean goes.

Deep cleans cluster in August here, ahead of a September start, and they are normally a landlord resetting a property rather than a household doing an annual clean. The work divides differently from a family home. The bathroom is often a converted scullery or a boxed corner of a landing, with no openable window and an extract fan ducted a long way to the outside wall, so scale, sealant mould and a fan that has quietly stopped moving air are three jobs that arrive together. Hard water makes the scale a matter of contact time rather than scrubbing. The kitchen takes most of what is left of the day, and the ceiling above the hob is the surface that shows the difference most obviously once it has actually been washed.

Dunkirk sits in NG7, under Nottingham City Council. The housing here is mostly a compact grid of late Victorian and Edwardian terraces let room by room, with purpose-built student blocks and infill apartment schemes squeezed along the boulevard frontages, and that is what shapes this job more than the floor area does.

What we run into on Dunkirk deep cleaning jobs

The bath panel is worth taking off in a house like this, and almost nobody does it. It is a plastic sheet on four screws, and the void behind it holds everything that has gone down the side of the bath since the panel went on: hair, a slick of old shower gel and, in a fair number of properties, standing water from a weeping trap. That is where the smell people describe as drains is actually coming from, and no amount of work on the visible surfaces touches it. We take the panel off, clear it, wash both faces and put it back, and we say if the trap is weeping rather than leaving it to be found.

How a Dunkirk deep cleaning job actually runs

Not every deep clean here is an August reset before a September start. A good number are triggered mid year by one room changing hands, because rooms in these houses are let individually and a departure in February leaves the rest of the household in place. That is a different job from an empty property. We work around occupied bedrooms, keep the equipment out of a hallway that people still need to use, and confine the noisy part of the day to hours the shift workers in the house have agreed to. The other regular trigger is a licensing inspection on a larger shared house, where the landlord wants the kitchen, the bathroom and the common parts brought to a standard somebody official is going to look at. Owner occupiers on the quieter side streets book differently again, usually once a year and usually in spring. The houses themselves are three storeys more often than not, so a deep clean here includes two flights of stairs and a landing that a family home would not have.

Who books it here

Boxed in by trunk roads, the hospital site and the edge of the university campus, so it is a small place carrying a great deal of traffic that is not going to it. Road dust and road noise shape more of the work here than the housing itself does.

We run Dunkirk on the same round as Lenton, The Park Estate and Beeston.

What we check on every Dunkirk job

We work from the top of each room down, so the tops of doors, picture rails, wardrobe tops and light fittings are done before the floor rather than after it, and nothing lands on a surface that has already been finished. Ovens come apart as far as the manufacturer intended, which means the door glass is separated where the hinges allow it and the shelves and runners are soaked rather than scrubbed dry. Limescale is a contact time problem in this water, so taps, shower screens and the base of the toilet get treated and left rather than attacked. Skirtings are washed by hand, not mopped past. We tell you at the start roughly how long the property will take, and if it is going to run over we ask before staying rather than after. Anything we find that is a repair rather than a clean, a cracked tile or a slow waste, goes on a note for the landlord instead of being covered over.

What the deep cleaning covers

A sample of what is included

• Everywhere else: Carpet edges, which a normal vacuum pass misses
• Kitchen, which is about 40% of the time: Washing machine drawer, door seal and filter
• Bathrooms: Toilet including hinges, base and behind the pan
• Everywhere else: Radiators, including between the fins and behind

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 Dunkirk 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.