Student accommodation is cleaned and assessed to a calendar, not on demand. SeeForth plans the external work into the summer break, keeps term-time visits short and supervised, and carries out the fire risk assessments the Responsible Person needs. This page shows the student buildings we have worked on and how each job ran.
Request a quoteEvery sector page on this site is built on jobs we have done. These are the student sites, all described without naming the client.
Colchester
A national student accommodation provider asked us to restore the acrylic render and clean every window on two buildings during the summer break. Soft washing at low pressure, rope access from the roof and a spider lift where the ground allowed. When render dust settled on glass we had already cleaned, we went back by rope and cleaned it again. Read the case study.
Hatfield, AL10
Reach and wash with purified water across five accommodation courts on a university campus, in the summer break. Some panels carried construction residue that water would not shift. We cleaned the worst a second time, filmed the result and reported which panels had not responded and why, rather than signing the job off. Read the case study.
Newmarket Road, Cambridge
External window cleaning in September 2025, then rainwater goods clearance in November 2025 and March 2026, on one student block under a planned maintenance agreement. One supplier, one calendar, one point of contact for the site team.
Stratford, E15
Rope access from the roof, one visit a year, booked with the site team so the drops run down the elevations that are empty that day. The glass, frames and ledges are cleaned on the same drop.
Greenwich, SE10
Ground-based purified water cleaning of a low-rise hall, with no ladders on site and no equipment left on the paths between blocks.
Dagenham
A campus on the Essex border cleaned by reach and wash on a rolling programme, elevation by elevation, around lecture timetables.
Rope access and MEWP cleaning of student towers, planned into the summer break or run elevation by elevation in term time.
Soft washing for render, purified water for cladding panels, with a report on any panels that need a different treatment.
November and March clearances on a planned cycle, with photographs of what came out.
For halls, towers and converted blocks, assessed to BS 9792:2025, report within 48 hours.
The anchors the rope access team uses are tested and certificated, with a register for the building.
Netting and spikes on ledges and plant areas, fitted in the break so nesting season does not start on the building.
Student sites in London, Essex, Hertfordshire and Cambridge, from our office at 86-90 Paul Street, EC2. The Colchester, Hatfield, Cambridge, Stratford, Greenwich and Dagenham jobs on this page are all within an hour and a half of the office.
The summer break. The Colchester and Hatfield jobs on this page were both done then, with the buildings empty and the site team releasing each elevation as we needed it. Where a visit has to happen in term time, notices go to residents first and a supervisor stays on the ground.
Yes. Rope access from tested anchors on the roof is how we cleaned the Colchester tower and the Stratford tower. Where the ground allows, a spider lift or MEWP is used instead. Scaffold is a last resort on a student building because of the cost and the weeks it stays up.
Yes. Both of our assessors hold the NSA Level 6 Diploma in Fire Risk Assessment and are IFSM registered. Student accommodation is assessed to BS 9792:2025, the code of practice for fire risk assessment in housing, and the written report arrives within 48 hours of the visit.
We tell you. At Hatfield the report showed which cladding panels had not responded and why, with photographs and video, and recommended a builder's clean by hand. You get evidence to take to the contractor responsible rather than a bill for a clean that did not work.
That is how the Cambridge contract runs: windows, gutters and roof drainage on one planned maintenance agreement, with the fire risk assessment available from the same firm. One calendar and one point of contact for the site team.
Notices go out before any term-time visit. Each morning the site team is told which elevations are in use, so residents on those elevations can keep windows closed and blinds down. A supervisor is on the ground for the whole visit.
Tell us the building and we will tell you what it needs. Call 020 4634 3089 or send the address and a photo.
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