End of Tenancy Cleaning in Sherwood Rise

End of Tenancy Cleaning for Sherwood Rise homes

Six and twelve month lets on furnished flats, so the inventory lists the landlord's sofa, mattress and crockery as well as the rooms. Check out is judged on a flat, not a house, and the common stairs outside your door are not yours to clean.

Lets here run short and mostly furnished, so a check out is judged against an inventory listing a sofa, a mattress, a set of crockery and a vacuum as well as the rooms. That list is the standard, not your own idea of clean. We clean to the check in report: the oven, every cupboard and drawer, the fridge defrosted and left open, limescale off the taps and the screen, window interiors and the tracks they run in. The part people get wrong is the boundary. The staircase, the landing and the entrance hall are common parts and they are not on your inventory, so they are not your deduction and they are not in the quote unless you ask for them.

Sherwood Rise sits in NG7, under Nottingham City Council. End of tenancy work dominates, because a converted villa holds four or five tenancies and each one ends on its own date. Landlords book a deep clean when a flat has turned over several times without one. Regular domestic work is smaller flats on a fortnightly slot, plus a monthly pass on the common stairs.

What we run into on Sherwood Rise end of tenancy cleaning jobs

Furnished flats fail on the things that came with them. The mattress is listed with its condition at check in, so it is worth treating rather than turning over and hoping. Wardrobes and drawers get emptied but not wiped, and the inside of a landlord's chest of drawers holds hair and crumbs from several tenancies back. Crockery is the other one. A furnished let is inventoried down to how many plates and mugs there should be, and they have to be clean and in the cupboard, not clean and sitting in the dishwasher. We wash, dry, put back, and take a photograph inside each cupboard, because that is what settles it a fortnight later when somebody disagrees.

How a Sherwood Rise end of tenancy cleaning job actually runs

Check outs here cluster, and that is the practical difficulty. Tenancies in converted flats tend to end with the month, sometimes with the next tenant arriving the same afternoon, so the clean has a window rather than a day. It has to sit after the last box leaves and before the inventory clerk arrives, and where the keys have already gone back to the letting agent, access needs arranging in advance rather than on the morning. Rubbish is the other thing to sort early. A converted house shares a small bin area, usually wheelie bins in the front yard or a passage at the side, and a tenancy's worth of leftovers will not fit in them. Anything bulky, a mattress, a broken drawer unit, a bag of food from the freezer, needs a council collection booked or a run to the household waste site before we start, because a room still being used as storage cannot be cleaned to a standard anybody will sign off. Book the clean as soon as your notice goes in, and give us the clerk's appointment time with it.

Who books it here

Almost every large house has been cut into flats, so the front door opens onto a staircase that four or five households use and none of them own. That common hall is where the dirt collects, and it is usually nobody's job until a letting agent asks.

We run Sherwood Rise on the same round as Carrington, Forest Fields and New Basford.

What we check on every Sherwood Rise job

The tall cupboard is what people forget. Nearly every flat in these buildings has one holding the hot water cylinder, and because it stays warm it becomes where the vacuum, the ironing board, a spare duvet and a bag of shoes live for the whole tenancy. It is listed on the inventory and photographed at check in, and it is almost never emptied, so the shelf above the cylinder carries dust baked hard and the floor of it holds whatever got kicked in. It also holds a smell that transfers to anything aired in there. Electric heaters are the same story where a flat has them instead of radiators. The fins hold dust that scorches the first time the heating comes back on in autumn, and an inventory clerk notices the sooty marks on the wall above one long before the tenant living with it ever does.

What the end of tenancy cleaning covers

A sample of what is included

• Kitchen: Washing machine drawer, rubber seal fold and filter
• Kitchen: Sink, taps and overflow descaled, bin cleaned inside and out
• Bathrooms: Shower screen seals and the tracks they sit in
• Bathrooms: Bath sealant line and overflow

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.