Harborne Move-Out Cleaning: End of Tenancy in Converted Villas
End of tenancy work in Harborne has its own shape. Most lets here go to professionals on fixed terms, and they end at points spread through the year, which shapes both the clean and the timing.
The lets themselves are distinctive. Harborne tenancies are largely professional: a flat carved out of a subdivided villa off the High Street, a newer apartment near Harborne Park Road, or a whole family house let to a consultant or a visiting academic on a twelve-month term. Most of those tenancies end on their own dates, so outside the two hospital rotation peaks a slot within the week is usually possible.
- Service
- End of Tenancy Cleaning
- Area covered
- Harborne, B17
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- How we do it
- Full property reset against the inventory, oven and appliances included
- From our Selly Oak base
- About 10 minutes
- Price
- Quoted per property before we start (common questions)
- Booking
- Call or WhatsApp 07788 574283
Original features a clerk will write down in a villa flat
A Harborne tenancy is judged the same way as any other, against a check-in inventory, but the properties raise different questions. A flat carved out of a Victorian villa keeps original features that a clerk records in detail: cornice, a tiled hearth, sash boxes and shutter recesses, and every one of those gets noted if it is dusty. Family houses let furnished come back with a fitted kitchen the landlord expects returned as it went out. And because rents in B17 are high, the deposits are high too, so the sum at stake in a dispute is larger than the condition of the property would ever suggest.
- Converted flats in subdivided villas, where cornice, sash boxes and shutter recesses are itemised on the inventory
- High B17 rents, so a disputed deposit is a bigger figure than the state of the property suggests
- Furnished professional lets, where the landlord expects the fitted kitchen handed back as it went out
- Tenancies ending on their own dates through the year, with small peaks at the hospital rotation dates
- Landlords relisting fast, often with viewings booked within days of the handover
Kitchen first, then the inventory line by line
We clean against your check-in inventory where you have one and against the standard clerk’s checklist where you do not. Kitchen first, because that is where the flags are: oven interior, racks and door glass, hob, extractor hood and filter, every cupboard inside and out, fridge and freezer including the seals. Bathrooms go back to the grout and the sealant. Then the period detail a Harborne inventory itemises: cornice, picture rails, sash boxes, shutter recesses, deep skirtings and the tops of tall doors. Each room is photographed as it is finished and the set goes to whoever is paying.
- Cleaned against the property’s own check-in inventory whenever the agent will send it over
- Period detail treated as inventory items: cornice, sash boxes, shutter recesses and picture rails
- Room-by-room photographs on completion, dated and sent the same day
- A slot within the week is usually possible in B17, apart from early August and February
More detail on the equipment and the order of work: our end of tenancy cleaning method.
How B17 tenancies actually turn over
The work sits in three places. Flats converted out of the large houses off the High Street and along Harborne Park Road. Newer apartments and infill towards the Park Road end. And whole houses let to professionals, a fair number of them working at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on fixed-term posts, which is why tenancies cluster in early August and again in February when rotations change. Outside those two clusters, a week of notice here is usually plenty.
Size, condition and the oven on a professional let
Priced on size and condition, and in Harborne the condition half of that is usually mild: a professional let handed back after a year is rarely in the state a shared house is. The oven remains the single biggest variable. After that it is the number of bathrooms, whether the property is furnished, whether your agreement requires carpet extraction, and how much original detail there is, because a flat with cornice, shutters and a tiled hearth carries hours that a modern apartment simply does not. If the landlord is relisting within days, say so at the quote and we will schedule to leave a clear day before viewings rather than finishing an hour beforehand.
Timing a B17 check-out around hospital rotation dates
Once per tenancy, and the B17 booking window is a kind one. A week of notice is usually enough and we can often do sooner, because most B17 lets end on their own dates. The exceptions are the hospital rotation dates in early August and February, when several fixed-term lets end together and it pays to book a little further ahead.
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Frequently asked questions
Mostly converted flats in the bigger houses off the High Street, newer apartments near Harborne Park Road, and whole houses on professional lets, many of them furnished. Each one is cleaned against its own check-in inventory.
Yes, and they matter more here than in a modern flat, because a clerk writes them down individually. Cornice, picture rails, shutter recesses, sash boxes and the tops of tall doors all get done. Those are also the items a check-in inventory photographs, which is exactly why they get flagged on the way out.
Yes, and we can often manage less. Harborne has no single changeover fortnight, so B17 dates are rarely all wanted at once. The two periods to book earlier for are early August and February, when a cluster of fixed-term hospital lets end at the same time.
Yes, and it is worth telling us at the quote rather than on the day. We schedule so the property is finished with a clear day before viewings, and the room photographs go over the same afternoon we finish, so the agent can market it without waiting to inspect in person.
Yes, it adds to it. Inside wardrobes and drawers, behind and under anything that moves safely, and the mattress and bed base if the inventory lists them. Carpets can be extracted too where the agreement requires it. Anything too heavy to move safely gets cleaned around, and we tell you which items those were.
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