End of Tenancy Cleaning in Sherwood

End of Tenancy Cleaning for Sherwood homes

Period houses divided into flats, let to professionals, where the original features are inventory items. High ceilings mean the cobwebs an inventory clerk photographs are well above where anyone has been cleaning.

Sherwood lets are mostly whole houses to families and professional sharers rather than the student rooms that dominate further west, so check-outs land throughout the year instead of bunching into July, and properties are handed back with the tenant's own furniture gone. What catches people out is scale. A period terrace has more separate surfaces per bedroom than a modern flat: a tiled hall floor, deep skirtings the whole way round, picture rails in most rooms and a cellar head cupboard the inventory almost certainly lists. Loft conversions are common here too, and a third floor bedroom under a sloping ceiling with a roof light in it is an extra room the original tenancy paperwork sometimes still calls a loft.

Sherwood sits in NG5, under Nottingham City Council. Professional households wanting a regular fortnightly clean, and a steady run of deep cleans in period houses where the annual jobs have been left a little too long.

What we run into on Sherwood end of tenancy cleaning jobs

The cellar is the item that decides whether a check-out goes smoothly. Most of these houses have one, most inventories list it, and almost no tenant cleans it, so a fortnight before the inspection there is a room holding somebody's leftover paint tins and a stone thrall under a decade of dust. We will clear cobwebs, sweep the floor and wipe the steps, but we do not remove belongings, and a cellar full of items is quoted as a cellar full of items. Tell us it exists when you book rather than when we arrive.

How a Sherwood end of tenancy cleaning job actually runs

A large share of the lets here are flats carved out of a single house, and that shapes the check out more than the cleaning does. Your front door opens onto a communal landing, the meters sit in a cupboard off the shared hall, and the inventory usually describes the flat alone with the stair and hall belonging to the freeholder. Read the check in report before you book, because the boundary written in the document is rarely the boundary you have been living with. Timing is the other difference. These are professional lets on ordinary notice periods rather than an academic cycle, so check outs land in ones and twos through the year and clerks take daytime appointments midweek. Furniture out, then the clean, then the appointment, with a clear day between the last two. Access on the day matters more than people expect: a first floor flat means every piece of equipment goes up a shared stair, and if the street door sits on a latch that a neighbour keeps dropping, tell us at the booking rather than leaving us on the pavement.

Who books it here

High ceilings, picture rails and coving, which means the high level dusting in a deep clean genuinely needs a step ladder and time allocated to it.

We run Sherwood on the same round as Mapperley, Arnold and New Basford.

What we check on every Sherwood job

The list a clerk works from in a conversion carries items that do not exist in a whole house. The entryphone handset and its cradle, the inside face of your own front door where it opens onto the shared landing, the meter cupboard where the inventory lists it, and the airing cupboard with the cylinder in it all get photographed and are all routinely skipped. Kitchens here are generally fitted into what was a bedroom, so there is a boxed soil pipe or a chimney breast in the corner with units built around it, and the narrow gap beside that boxing is where crumbs and grease collect. Original panelled doors hold dust along the lower edge of each moulded panel. A stained glass panel in a front door is washed rather than scraped, and the lead between the pieces is left alone. Window restrictors, sash catches and their keys are inventory items and are checked as present and working.

What the end of tenancy cleaning covers

A sample of what is included

• Bathrooms: Full limescale removal from taps, shower head, screen, tiles and grout
• Bathrooms: Bath sealant line and overflow
• Throughout: Skirting boards, door tops, light fittings and radiators
• Throughout: All floors vacuumed and mopped

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.