Overview
Service availability
Pre Move-In Cleaning is available in 62 West Midlands towns
We cover the B, CV, DY, WV, WS, WR postcode areas daily and the wider ST, TF, SY, HR districts on scheduled runs. Same-week slots are usual, next-day is common outside peak weekends, and every job is confirmed in writing with a fixed price before a crew is booked.
Pre Move-In Cleaning across the West Midlands
There is exactly one day in the life of a home when every cupboard is empty, every floor is clear and nothing has to be moved to be cleaned: the day before you move in. Cleaning then costs less and achieves more than the same job attempted three weeks later around a hallway of boxes, and it is the difference between unpacking into a property and unpacking into someone else's residue.
The previous occupier's exit clean, where there was one, was written to satisfy their agent — not to reassure the person sleeping there next. It rarely covers inside the fridge seals, the washing machine detergent drawer and door gasket, the extractor filter, the underside of toilet seat hinges or the trap in the shower gully. Those are the eight or nine places that decide whether a home smells clean a week after you arrive, and they are the core of what we do on a move-in clean.
Our crews work an empty-property route: sanitise wet rooms and kitchen first, then storage, then walls and joinery, then floors last so the property is finished from the far corner back to the front door. Nothing is walked back over, and you can bring furniture in on top of a floor that has actually been rinsed rather than mopped over dust.
Timing is the practical constraint in this region. Completion funds in a Birmingham or Coventry chain often release mid-afternoon, and the removals crew is frequently held up behind the A38 tunnels or the M6 J6–J9 crawl. We hold evening starts and early-morning slots specifically so the clean fits into the real gap between key release and the van door opening.
How to book
How to book pre move-in cleaning in the West Midlands
- Step 1
Tell us the completion or key date
Even an approximate date gets you into the diary. Chains move, and we would rather hold a flexible slot than lose the day entirely.
- Step 2
Fixed price from a room count
Priced from bedrooms, bathrooms and whether the property is a new-build. Extras like carpets, fogging or sparkle finish are listed separately.
- Step 3
We start whenever keys land
Evening starts, weekend starts and 7am next-morning starts are all normal for us. You call, we go.
- Step 4
Photos and a handover note
A room-by-room photo set the same evening, plus a written note of anything you should know about the property before you unpack.
Not sure which fits? Compare with end of tenancy cleaning in the West Midlands or one-off deep cleaning in the West Midlands, or browse West Midlands cleaning services.
What's included
Kitchen sanitised to food-safe standard
Worktops, splashbacks, sink, taps, and inside every unit and drawer, finished with a food-safe sanitiser rather than a general purpose spray.
Appliance interiors and hidden traps
Fridge shelves and door seals, freezer, washing machine drawer, gasket fold and filter, dishwasher filter and spray arms, oven and hob.
Bathrooms disinfected end to end
WC including the hinge underside and cistern base, shower gully and trap, screen, seals, extractor grille, and all chrome hand-dried.
Every cupboard, wardrobe and airing space
Vacuumed and wiped inside, top and underside of shelving, plus the immersion cupboard and understairs void where present.
Floors cleaned for the fibre or finish
Carpets vacuumed on a slow double pass, hard floors swept and washed with the right pH — nothing alkaline on waxed timber or unsealed quarry tile.
Switches, handles and touch points
Sockets, switch plates, door handles, banister rails, intercom, thermostat and window locks wiped and sanitised.
Internal glass, sills and reveals
Glass, sills, reveals and vents, plus the runner channels that trap grit on uPVC casements.
Handover note
A short written note of anything we found that you will want to know about — a failing seal, a blocked vent, damp behind a unit — with photographs.
Transparent pricing
Pre Move-In Cleaning prices in the West Midlands
| Job | Price | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Studio or 1-bed | from £155 | 2 cleaners, appliances and wet rooms included |
| 2-bed house or flat | from £205 | 2 cleaners, roughly 5 hours |
| 3-bed house | from £265 | 2–3 cleaners, full property including storage |
| 4-bed and larger | from £340 | Team of 3, quoted after a walk-through or video |
| Evening or same-day-of-completion slot | from £40 | Held for chains that complete after 2pm |
| Carpet steam clean before furniture | from £30 per room | Timed so carpets are dry before the van arrives |
| Anti-viral fogging add-on | from £60 | Whole-property touch-point sanitising after the clean |
| New-build sparkle finish | from £190 | Plaster haze, silicone smears, sticker glue and unit dust |
Prices are indicative regional starting points and are confirmed in writing before anything is booked. Town-level prices are shown on each area page below.
Local knowledge that changes the job
New-build handovers in Solihull, Dickens Heath and Longbridge
A developer's own hand-over clean is a builder's clean, and it leaves the three things people notice on night one: a fine plaster haze that reappears when you first run the heating, silicone smears on glass and shower screens, and adhesive residue from stickers on appliances, windows and sanitaryware.
New-build walls are drylined with matt emulsion and burnish permanently under a scrubbing pad, so we work them dry or barely damp with a soft sponge. Engineered timber on the ground floor is another trap — the factory finish hates alkaline product and standing water, so it gets pH-neutral cleaner on a nearly dry mop.
Older stock: what an empty house tells you
Blue-brick Black Country terraces in Tipton, Cradley Heath and Blackheath, and the no-fines concrete stock around Tile Hill and Willenhall in Coventry, both hold cold in the walls. In an empty, unheated property that shows as condensation shadow in corners and behind where a wardrobe stood.
We report that rather than just wiping it, because a shadow you clean off in April tells you something you need to know in November. Our handover note flags cold spots, blocked trickle vents and failing seals with photographs, so you can raise it with a landlord or plan a dehumidifier before the first heating season.
Student and HMO move-ins around B29, B15 and CV1
Selly Oak, Bournbrook, Edgbaston and the streets behind Coventry's Gulson Road turn over in a single fortnight, and a room-by-room move-in is standard: one tenant arrives while another's furniture is still on the landing.
We clean those properties per room with a sign-off each, so the first arrival gets a genuinely finished room rather than waiting on the house. Common parts — kitchen, bathrooms, stairs and hallway — are done last, once the traffic has stopped, and the kitchen is sanitised as a shared food space rather than a domestic one.
Fitting the clean into a real completion day
Keys in a Birmingham chain rarely land before lunchtime, and the removals van is usually somewhere on the M6 between junctions 6 and 9 when you were promised it would be outside. That squeezes the clean into a window that moves twice on the day.
We run pre-move-in work as flexible slots: we will start on key release whenever it happens, work into the evening, or take the property from 7am the following morning. Clean Air Zone charges apply to some older vans entering central Birmingham, so where a job sits inside the CAZ we send compliant vehicles and there is no surcharge passed to you.
Check your postcode
Is Pre Move-In Cleaning covered where you live?
We cover every postcode area in the map below. Type your postcode and we'll take you straight to the page for your town, with local pricing and the access notes our fitters use.
Postcode areas we cover
Tap an area to list its towns. Using a keyboard? Tab to the first area, move between areas with the arrow keys (Home and End jump to the first and last), then press Enter or Space to show or hide that area's towns.
Enter the first part of your postcode, e.g. B93 or CV5, then press Enter.
Where we cover on the map
Pre Move-In Cleaning runs right across the West Midlands conurbation — Birmingham, Solihull, the Black Country and Coventry.
The West Midlands at a glance
The scale we plan pre move-in cleaning around, and how the service has performed across the region over the last twelve months.
Birmingham, Solihull, the Black Country, Coventry and the Staffordshire and Worcestershire fringe.
Every area has its own pre move-in cleaning page with local pricing and access notes.
B, CV, DY, HR, ST, SY, TF, WR, WS, WV — crews are dispatched from the nearest base.
From back-to-back terraces and canal-side flats to interwar semis and new-build estates.
Rolling 12-month West Midlands feedback.
Measured against the slot confirmed at booking.
Repeat and referral share of regional bookings.
Pre Move-In Cleaning by town — all 62 West Midlands areas
Every town has its own page with local pricing, access notes and the practical detail our crews expect to find on the ground.
Birmingham, West Midlands
- Pre Move-In Cleaning in AstonB6
- Pre Move-In Cleaning in Kings HeathB14
- Pre Move-In Cleaning in BournvilleB30
- Pre Move-In Cleaning in Alum RockB8
- Pre Move-In Cleaning in LadywoodB16
- Pre Move-In Cleaning in Selly OakB29
- Pre Move-In Cleaning in ErdingtonB23
- Pre Move-In Cleaning in HarborneB17
- Pre Move-In Cleaning in MoseleyB13
- Pre Move-In Cleaning in EdgbastonB15
- Pre Move-In Cleaning in Sutton ColdfieldB72
Dudley, West Midlands
Herefordshire
Sandwell, West Midlands
Shropshire
Solihull, West Midlands
Staffordshire
Walsall, West Midlands
Warwickshire
West Midlands
Wolverhampton, West Midlands
Related services
- End of Tenancy CleaningFrom £145 per property
- One-Off Deep CleaningFrom £180 per property
- House RemovalsFrom £320 per move
- Disinfection CleaningFrom £120 per visit
Back to West Midlands cleaning services.
Other West Midlands services
Most jobs in the region touch more than one trade — a tenancy clean before a move, an assembly visit after a delivery, or an office contract that needs both. These hubs price each side properly.
Handyman & assembly across the West Midlands
Insured trades for fixing, mounting and assembly — with the wall-type notes each area actually needs.
- Handyman services — The full regional handyman index.
- Flat-pack assembly — Wardrobes, beds and units built and levelled.
- IKEA assembly — PAX, BILLY and KALLAX runs, anchored to the wall.
- TV mounting — Brick, dot-and-dab and stud walls done properly.
- Shelf installation — Floating and bracketed shelving, load-rated.
- Bed assembly — Divans, ottomans and bunk frames.
Commercial & office work
Out-of-hours contracts and business moves across the Birmingham, Solihull and Coventry business parks.
- Commercial cleaning — Contract cleaning with keyholding and audit sheets.
- Office cleaning — Daily or evening desk, kitchen and washroom rounds.
- Office removals — Weekend relocations with crate hire and IT decommissioning.
- Clearance services — Licensed waste carriers with transfer notes.
- Disinfection cleaning — EN 14476 fogging and touch-point rounds with a certificate.
Cleaning across the West Midlands
Domestic and specialist cleaning priced per job, from Birmingham terraces to Coventry new-builds.
- Cleaning services — The full regional cleaning index.
- End of tenancy cleaning — Deposit-standard cleans with an inventory-clerk checklist.
- Regular domestic cleaning — Weekly and fortnightly slots with the same cleaner.
- One-off deep cleaning — Top-to-bottom reset for kitchens, bathrooms and neglected rooms.
- After builders cleaning — Plaster dust, silicone smears and paint spots removed.
- Carpet cleaning — Hot-water extraction for wool, synthetic and rented carpets.
Why choose Hello Services in the West Midlands
Pre move-in cleaning is only worth booking if the crew turns up, prices honestly and finishes the spec. These are the commitments we hold ourselves to in the West Midlands.
Fixed prices, confirmed in writing
You get the pre move-in cleaning price in writing before we start. Access, stair turns and parking are priced in up front, not added afterwards.
Local scheduling, not a call centre
Slots are planned around the West Midlands traffic, permit zones and parking realities, so crews arrive inside the window we promised.
Re-do guarantee
If anything on the pre move-in cleaning spec is missed, we come back and put it right at no extra cost — that is the whole guarantee.
One team for the whole property
Cleaning, moving, handyman and clearance all run from the same the West Midlands scheduling desk, so a multi-part job needs one booking.
Guides & read next
Practical reading before you book pre move-in cleaning in the West Midlands — costs, checklists and what a good job actually looks like.
Pre Move-In Cleaning in the West Midlands — FAQs
Q1.How much is a pre move-in clean?
From £155 for a studio or one-bed, £205 for a two-bed, £265 for a three-bed and £340 for four bedrooms and up. Appliance interiors, wet rooms and inside all storage are included at every size.
Q2.Is this the same as an end of tenancy clean?
The work overlaps heavily but the audience is different. End of tenancy is written to satisfy an inventory clerk's checklist and protect a deposit. A move-in clean is written for the person sleeping there — more sanitising of appliances, traps and touch points, less box-ticking for a report.
Q3.Can you clean on the day of completion?
Yes, and it is our most common booking. Keys in this region often release mid-afternoon, so we hold evening starts. If the chain slips we will move to 7am the next morning at no extra charge as long as you tell us as soon as you know.
Q4.Do you do new-build sparkle cleans?
Yes, from £190 as a package on top of the standard clean. It covers plaster haze, silicone smears, sticker adhesive, unit and wardrobe interiors and the dust that developers leave inside extract vents.
Q5.Will you clean the carpets before my furniture arrives?
Yes, from £30 per room, and it is much better done empty. We schedule it so the carpets have dried before the removals van arrives — usually about two hours with air movers running.
Q6.Do you sanitise or just clean?
Kitchens, bathrooms and touch points are sanitised as standard with a food-safe or virucidal product depending on the surface. Whole-property anti-viral fogging is available from £60 if you want the full treatment.
Q7.What if the previous occupier has left things behind?
We will bag small items and leave them somewhere obvious, and photograph anything larger for you. Furniture and bulk waste removal is a separate service and we can quote it on the day under our waste carrier licence.
Q8.Do you charge extra inside the Clean Air Zone?
No. We run CAZ-compliant vehicles for central Birmingham jobs, so there is no surcharge for a B1 to B5 postcode.
Get a fixed price for pre move-in cleaning today
Tell us the job and your town and we'll confirm the price, the crew and the slot in writing — from £155 per property.