After builders cleaning in Wilmslow, SK9

Cheshire East's Local Plan Strategy describes Wilmslow as a historic core with large late Victorian and Edwardian suburbs beyond it. The council lists four conservation areas under Wilmslow: Hawthorn Lane, Highfield, St Bartholomew's and Styal. Within 800 metres of the middle of Wilmslow East ward there are 16 listed buildings, among them the Grade I Church of St Bartholomew and the Grade II* Hawthorn Hall. The stock is mixed in age: in the Council Tax records for the area, 24.2% of homes with a recorded build date are from 1919 to 1939 and 23.3% from 1973 to 1999.

On a big detached house the time goes into bathrooms and glass. Each bathroom after the first adds about an hour and a half of cleaner time, and a house with four of them is a long day. A rear kitchen extension with bifold doors and rooflights brings film and labels on every pane and dust on frames that sit above the crew's 2 metre ladders, so mention rooflights when you send photos. Large porcelain floor tiles often come with grout haze across the whole floor; that is a separate hard floor cleaning job at £6 a square metre.

Cheshire East says visitor scratch cards in resident parking zones are not for builders or plumbers; a resident having work done, or a landlord who does not live at the property, needs a parking dispensation for the trades instead. A dispensation costs £37 for one day per vehicle, £172 for five days and £333 for ten, lasts at most 10 working days and is digital, so nothing goes on the dashboard. If the house has a drive, tell the office and the question goes away.

The tips have their own rule for vans. A resident arriving in a van, a pick-up or with a trailer of 1.5 to 3.5 metres needs a free household waste permit, valid for six months and six visits, and the council refuses trade waste, naming landlords clearing rental properties and anyone paid to take the waste away. So the old kitchen your builder pulled out goes in a skip or with a licensed carrier, before the clean.