End of Tenancy Cleaning in Forest Fields

End of Tenancy Cleaning for Forest Fields homes

Room by room lets mean check outs happen all year rather than in one summer fortnight, and the inventory covers your room plus a share of rooms four other people used. Read which of the two you are being judged on before booking.

Most check outs here are one room rather than one house. If you signed for a room with shared use of the kitchen and bathroom, your inventory lists your room, the furniture in it, and a share of the communal parts you cannot control on your own. That is a different job from a whole house clean and it needs the paperwork read first. We clean the room to the check-in description, including inside the wardrobe and the chest of drawers, the window and its tracks, and the mattress if the report describes its condition. Then we agree in advance what happens with the kitchen, because you can be charged for a share of a room that four other people also used.

Forest Fields sits in NG7, under Nottingham City Council. Single room check-outs run all year rather than bunching into one summer fortnight, because tenancies here start on whatever date a room fell empty. Landlords book whole house resets between the bigger changeovers, and the households who stay put want a fortnightly visit that keeps the shared kitchen from becoming an argument.

What we run into on Forest Fields end of tenancy cleaning jobs

The two things that cost tenants money in a single room are the walls and the carpet under the bed. Blu tack and poster tape leave an oily halo that spreads into painted plaster over a year, and taking it off with heat or a solvent pulls the paint with it, so we lift what we can and stop before we make a redecoration out of it. Under the bed is the other one. Nobody has vacuumed there since the bed went in, and the pile holds dust, hair and the outline of the frame. It needs the bed moved and a proper pass in both directions, not a nozzle poked underneath.

How a Forest Fields end of tenancy cleaning job actually runs

The date drives everything on a check out here. Room lets in Forest Fields turn over in clusters, and a house can lose three rooms in the same week, so we book to the day the keys go back rather than the day after and we hold the slot rather than moving it. We need the room empty, the meters read, and either a key or somebody there, and we would rather have the check-in inventory in advance than guess what the report describes. On a house where several rooms change at once we do them back to back in one visit, which is faster than three separate trips up the same stairs and easier for the agent to inspect in one go. Practical points get settled before the day: where the van can stop, whether the electricity is still on because we need power for machines, and whether the water has been left on. If a tenant has left furniture or bags behind, that is a removal rather than a clean, and we will tell you before we start rather than working around a pile in the corner.

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 oven is where most check-out deductions come from, so it gets stripped: shelves, runners, the inner door glass where it comes apart, the roof of the cavity and the seal round the door. The extractor filter comes out and gets degreased or, if it is a charcoal cartridge, flagged for replacement. The fridge is emptied, defrosted, cleaned with the seal pulled forward and left switched off with the door propped so it does not go sour before the next tenant. We do window tracks, the runners and the inside of the frame, the insides of wardrobes and drawers, skirtings, the plughole and the waste trap grille, the bin inside and out, and the top of every door. Light switches, sockets and radiators get done rather than passed. We take dated photographs of the finished rooms and send them to whoever booked, so there is a record that matches what the agent sees.

What the end of tenancy cleaning covers

A sample of what is included

• Kitchen: Hob, extractor hood and filter degreased
• Throughout: All floors vacuumed and mopped
• Throughout: Inside wardrobes and drawers
• Throughout: Interior windows, sills, frames and tracks

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.