Mattress Cleaning in Sherwood

Mattress Cleaning for Sherwood homes

Big bedrooms, so king size divans that came up the dogleg stair in two halves. The walls behind the beds are solid brick with no cavity, and the head end of the mattress is against the coldest surface in the room.

Bedrooms in this stock are generously sized and the beds match them, so a king here is normal rather than the exception it is in a smaller terrace. The stair is a dogleg with a half landing and a window on it, which is why the divan base came up in two halves and could go back down the same way. The mattress could not. It is one piece that was flexed round that half landing once and nobody intends to repeat it, so it is cleaned in the room, on the base, worked from whichever long side is clear. Third bedrooms over the hall are box rooms taking a single, and the room over the back addition is the cold one.

Sherwood sits in NG5, under Nottingham City Council. 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.

What we run into on Sherwood mattress cleaning jobs

The wall behind the head of the bed is the thing to look at. These are solid brick walls, one brick thick with no cavity in them, and in a bedroom heated for an hour a day the inside face of an exposed wall sits well below the temperature of the rest of the room. Push a bed hard against it and the air behind the headboard stops moving altogether. What we find there is a bloom of fine black spotting on the back of a fabric headboard and along the top side seam of the mattress on that face, in a room that is otherwise dry and perfectly well kept.

How a Sherwood mattress cleaning job actually runs

The room decides the appointment. A mattress here is cleaned where it lies, so the bed needs one long side clear and enough floor to stand a headboard against a wall for an hour, which in a front bedroom is straightforward and in the room over the back addition usually means a chest of drawers going out onto the landing first. Drying is the scheduling problem. Low moisture work still puts water into the ticking, and the bedroom over the kitchen has outside wall on three sides, a radiator that was sized for somewhere warmer and in plenty of houses a window facing away from the sun. Booked for late afternoon in November it will not be comfortable to sleep on that night. So those rooms go in the morning, windows cracked, door propped, and an air mover on the bed if the room is genuinely cold. Whole house lets on these streets are the other half of the work, and there the constraint is the tenancy rather than the weather: mattresses are inventory items, the landlord wants them done between tenants, and there is a fixed void to fit that into.

Who books it here

The housing here is mostly Victorian and Edwardian terraces and semis running off Mansfield Road, with larger detached houses toward Woodthorpe, and that is what shapes this job more than the floor area does.

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

What we check on every Sherwood job

Divans in these bedrooms are almost always on castors, and castors tell you the bed has never moved. Look underneath and there is a rectangle of undisturbed dust with the exact footprint of the base in it, and around the edge of that rectangle the hair and fluff that every vacuum in the room's history has swept to the boundary and left. The platform itself holds a felt of pale fibre shed through the ticking, packed hardest at the head end where the weight sits. On a storage base the interior is worse again, because it is fabric lined, it gets opened perhaps twice a year and it is where spare bedding lives. The last one is the side seam facing the wall. On a king with one long side against the chimney breast, nothing has ever reached that seam, and it holds grit the full length of the bed.

What the mattress cleaning covers

A sample of what is included

• The mattress itself: Label and construction checked before anything is applied
• Stains and odour: Odour traced to its source, because a fragrance laid over a urine mark comes back in the first humid week
• The mattress itself: Pre-treatment matched to the soiling, with proper dwell time
• The rest of the bed: Fabric headboard cleaned to the same standard as the mattress

That is a sample rather than the whole list. The full mattress 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.