Deep Cleaning in Forest Fields

Deep Cleaning for Forest Fields homes

Annual resets on terraces that have been let hard for years. The time goes above head height in ten foot rooms, on a kitchen ceiling that has never been degreased, and on the cold bedroom wall where condensation has been growing all winter.

The deep cleans here are mostly booked by a landlord who is keeping a house rather than selling it, or by a household that has just taken over a whole terrace and wants the previous years off it before they unpack. Either way the backlog sits in the same three places: above head height in rooms with ten foot ceilings, inside a kitchen that has fed several unrelated people at once, and on the cold external wall of a bedroom heated by a panel heater somebody switched on twice a winter. That last one is where the argument usually is, because it looks like dirt, it wipes off, and it comes back by February. We clean it, treat it and then explain what it actually is.

Forest Fields sits in NG7, under Nottingham City Council. The housing here is mostly dense Victorian and Edwardian terraces on a tight grid off Berridge Road and Bentinck Road, a large share of them now shared houses or converted into flats, and that is what shapes this job more than the floor area does.

What we run into on Forest Fields deep cleaning jobs

The kitchen ceiling is the surface that gives one of these houses away. Most of these kitchens are a back addition with a low ceiling, and the extractor over the hob recirculates through a charcoal filter into the same room rather than venting outside, so the fat goes up and stays there. Run a cloth across it and you get a clean stripe against grey. It needs a degreaser with contact time and two passes rather than pressure, because scrubbing takes the emulsion off in patches and leaves the ceiling looking worse than the grease did. We check the filter at the same time and say whether it is due a replacement.

How a Forest Fields deep cleaning job actually runs

A deep clean in one of these terraces is planned around two bottlenecks: one bathroom and one staircase. Everything wet queues behind that bathroom, and every ladder, bucket and machine has to go up and down the same narrow flight, so the day runs top down and back to front. We start with the highest rooms, take the ceilings, picture rails, tops of doors and light fittings while the floors are still going to be walked on, and only then work down to skirtings and floors. Rooms need to be reachable, which in practice means beds pulled out and wardrobes emptied of anything we are not insured to move. We ask about the electrics early, because a house on old wiring with two sockets in a bedroom will not carry a machine and a heater on the same circuit. Water comes from the kitchen and the bathroom, so the order of work is set by which taps are free. On a whole terrace we say at the quote whether it is one long day or two shorter ones rather than running out of light and leaving a room half finished.

Who books it here

Most of the terraces are let room by room, so the communal parts belong to nobody in particular. Hallways, stair carpets and shared kitchens carry the whole house while individual rooms stay reasonable, and a clean booked for one tenant rarely covers the parts that actually need it.

We run Forest Fields on the same round as Hyson Green, New Basford and Radford.

What we check on every Forest Fields job

The checks that matter in a house of this age are the ones that never come up in a weekly clean. We do the tops of doors and frames, the picture rail if there is one, and the moulded edges of a ceiling rose, all of which hold years of dust in a room with high ceilings. Sash windows get the tracks, the meeting rail and the cords cleared, and we say if a cord has parted rather than leaving you to find out. Radiators are done behind and between the fins with a brush and a vacuum, not just wiped on the front. We take the limescale off taps, shower heads and the toilet rim rather than around them, degrease the extractor grille and its housing, clean the cellar head door and its frame, and lift the grout in a tiled hall floor. Where something is worn out rather than dirty we tell you which it is.

What the deep cleaning covers

A sample of what is included

• Bathrooms: Limescale removed from taps, shower head, screen, tiles and grout
• Kitchen, which is about 40% of the time: Inside, on top of and underneath all cupboards
• Everywhere else: Radiators, including between the fins and behind
• Bathrooms: Extractor vent, cabinet interiors, mirrors and chrome

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.