Overview
Cleaning, Moving & Repairs — Selly OakLooking for dependable home services in Selly Oak? Hello Services brings cleaning, house removals, waste clearance and handyman work together under one trusted local team. Serving households right across the Birmingham area — from Selly Oak itself out to Bournville and Harborne — we send fully vetted, insured professionals and agree clear pricing before any work begins. Every Selly Oak job comes with: Covering Selly Oak and nearby BournvilleLocal knowledge of the Birmingham areaOne team for cleaning, moving & repairsBacked by our satisfaction guarantee Get a QuoteBook Online
How Hello Services Supports Selly Oak
Selly Oak homes range from flats and terraces to larger family houses, and Hello Services is equipped for all of them. Our Birmingham teams cover end-of-tenancy and domestic cleaning, house removals, rubbish and furniture clearance, oven and carpet cleaning, flat-pack builds and handyman fixes. Every Selly Oak booking is insured, clearly priced and delivered by trusted local staff, so you always know who is coming and what it costs.
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Local Selly Oak teams
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Every Selly Oak pro is checked and insured for your peace of mind.
One place, all jobs
Cleaning, moving, clearance and handyman work in Selly Oak from a single trusted provider.
Transparent quotes with no hidden fees for Selly Oak customers.
Prices vary by property size, access, parking, workload and service type in Selly Oak. For accurate Selly Oak pricing, visit our prices page or request a tailored quote.
Our Selly Oak Services
Practical property services for homes, landlords, tenants and businesses in Selly Oak.
Cleaning Services in Selly Oak
Our cleaning services in Selly Oak cover end of tenancy cleaning, deep cleaning, domestic cleaning, carpet cleaning, oven and appliance cleaning and after builders cleaning. We help tenants pass check-out, landlords reset properties and homeowners refresh their homes.
Cleaning Services in Selly Oak →Moving Services in Selly Oak
Our moving services in Selly Oak support house removals, flat and student moves, man and van bookings, furniture transport and small office relocations with insured local teams who know Selly Oak.
Moving Services in Selly Oak →Clearance Services in Selly Oak
Our clearance services in Selly Oak include house and flat clearance, furniture and bulky-item removal and licensed rubbish clearance, ideal for end of tenancy, probate, downsizing and landlord clear-outs.
Clearance Services in Selly Oak →Handyman Services in Selly Oak
Our handyman services in Selly Oak cover general repairs, flat-pack furniture assembly, shelving, small fixes and property maintenance for homes, landlords and businesses.
Handyman Services in Selly Oak →Nearby towns we serve
We prioritise Selly Oak and surrounding towns, helping customers across the West Midlands.
Selly Oak on the map
Local coverage across Selly Oak and the surrounding West Midlands.
About Selly Oak
Selly Oak is a busy south Birmingham suburb beside the University and hospital, with a large student community and canal-side spots. Located in Birmingham, West Midlands, it combines a strong local character with easy access to the wider West Midlands conurbation. Its mix of housing — from period terraces and semis to newer developments and flats — shapes how we plan each clean, removal, clearance and handyman visit, so every Selly Oak job is tailored to the property rather than a generic checklist.
Selly Oak at a Glance
Useful local guidance for residents, tenants, landlords and businesses in Selly Oak.
Population
Houses
Flats / Apartments
One-person homes
Sources: population — Weoley & Selly Oak ward (ONS Census 2021); housing type & one-person households — Birmingham (ONS Census 2021).
Helpful answers before booking Hello Services in Selly Oak.
We cover Selly Oak and nearby areas including Edgbaston, Harborne, Bournville, Moseley, Stirchley, plus the wider West Midlands.
In Selly Oak we provide cleaning, moving, clearance and handyman services including end of tenancy cleaning, house removals, rubbish clearance and property repairs.
Yes. We support Selly Oak landlords, letting agents and property managers with end of tenancy cleaning, clearances, handyman repairs and property preparation.
Yes. Every professional covering Selly Oak is vetted and insured for your peace of mind.
Request a free quote online or check our prices page. Final Selly Oak pricing depends on property size, access, parking and workload.
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Tips and guides from the Hello Services blog.
Demand in Selly Oak peaks each spring, when patios, gutters and garages all need attention at once. The guide prices below reflect what Selly Oak (B29) jobs typically settle at — your written quote is fixed before any work starts.
| Service | Guide price | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| End of tenancy clean (2-bed) | £175 | fixed price |
| Deep clean (per hour, 2 cleaners) | £28 | per hour |
| Regular domestic clean | £20 | per hour |
| Man with a van (1 mover) | £46 | per hour |
| House removals (2-bed, local) | £405 | from |
| Handyman call-out (first hour) | £65 | from |
| House clearance (single room) | £140 | from |
Prices include materials, insurance and travel inside B29. Get a fixed quote for Selly Oak.
Local knowledge our Selly Oak teams work to
- Property stock: University quarter of red-brick terraces, HMOs and post-war semis around the Bristol Road corridor.
- Surfaces and materials: Victorian pressed brick, concrete driveways and Marshalls block paving — which dictates the products, dwell times and pressure settings we use.
- Weather and soiling: Student-let front gardens gather leaf mulch that stains sandstone within a season if left.
- Landmarks and orientation: crews work outward from University of Birmingham Old Joe clock tower, so travel time between Selly Oak jobs stays low.
- Access: Parking in B29 is the usual constraint — we check bay suspensions and permit zones before the van is dispatched.
Same-week availability normally extends to Bournville, Harborne, Edgbaston, Kings Heath, stirchley, california and the rest of the West Midlands B29 corridor. Jobs outside that ring are still quoted, with travel shown separately.
Frequently asked
Answers to popular questions
What does a cleaner cost in Selly Oak (B29)?
Regular domestic cleaning in Selly Oak is £20 an hour, a two-bed end of tenancy clean is a fixed £175, and single-room clearance starts at £140. Those B29 figures reflect the housing here — University quarter of red-brick terraces, HMOs and post-war semis around the Bristol Road corridor — because terraces and flats clean faster than large detached plots. Everything is fixed in writing before we start: get a Selly Oak quote.
How do you clean Victorian pressed brick in Selly Oak?
The surface we meet most in Selly Oak is Victorian pressed brick, alongside concrete driveways. It is soft-washed at low pressure with a dwell-time detergent instead of a turbo nozzle, because high pressure strips the jointing sand and pits the face of the brick. See jet washing in Selly Oak for the method, or Selly Oak cleaning services for interior work.
Why do Selly Oak driveways and patios soil so quickly?
Student-let front gardens gather leaf mulch that stains sandstone within a season if left. That is specific to Selly Oak rather than general grime, so B29 exterior work is scheduled for the drier spring and late-summer windows, when treatments cure properly. Guttering, render and driveways in Selly Oak are quoted together when they share the same access.
Which Selly Oak streets and postcodes do you cover?
All of B29 is covered, working outward from University of Birmingham Old Joe clock tower and University of Birmingham Old Joe clock tower across Birmingham. Same-week slots normally reach Bournville, Harborne, Edgbaston, Kings Heath — Bournville is about 0.9 km from the centre of Selly Oak, so one crew often covers both in a day. Addresses just outside that ring are still quoted, with travel shown as its own line.
How quickly can a team reach Selly Oak?
Standard lead time in Selly Oak is 48 hours, with same-day cover when a crew is already working near University of Birmingham Old Joe clock tower. Spring is the busiest window in Selly Oak, when exterior washing and clearances land in the same weeks. A crew finishing in Bournville is roughly 8 minutes away once Birmingham traffic is allowed for. Online booking shows live Selly Oak availability.
What are the parking and access rules for Selly Oak jobs?
Several Selly Oak streets are narrow, back-to-back or one-way, so we size the vehicle to the address rather than the job. Selly Oak is outside the Birmingham Clean Air Zone, so no clean-air charge appears on a B29 quote. Locally that matters most around University of Birmingham Old Joe clock tower, where University quarter of red-brick terraces, HMOs and post-war semis around the Bristol Road corridor leave limited kerb space.
Can you do end of tenancy cleans to Selly Oak letting-agent standards?
Yes — B29 tenancy cleans follow the agent inventory checklist and carry a 72-hour return visit if the check-out flags anything. Selly Oak inspections are common on HMO and student lets, where every room is signed off individually, so rooms are photographed for the deposit file. See end of tenancy cleaning in Selly Oak.
Are Selly Oak teams insured, vetted and licensed for waste?
Every operative working in Selly Oak is ID-checked, reference-vetted and covered by £5m public liability insurance. Clearance and rubbish removal in B29 runs under an upper-tier waste carrier licence, and you get a waste transfer note naming the Selly Oak collection address — the document Birmingham council needs if fly-tipped waste is ever traced back to you. Loads from the University of Birmingham Old Joe clock tower side of Selly Oak are sorted for reuse first, with concrete driveways rubble kept separate so the tipping charge on your quote stays accurate.
Request your fixed Selly Oak quote — most quotes come back the same working day.
Home services prices in Selly Oak
Fixed bands, quoted before we start. What moves the price is access, stair turns, parking distance and the size of the job — not the postcode you live in.
| Package | What it covers | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Half day (4 hours) | One cleaner, own products and machine, fixed price agreed up front. | from £96 |
| 1–2 bed property | Two cleaners, roughly a half-day on site including kitchen and bathrooms. | from £135 |
| 3–4 bed house | Two to three cleaners, full day, stair turns and multiple bathrooms included. | from £225 |
| 5+ bed / large job | Surveyed and quoted after photos or a video walk-through. | from £245 |
Every price includes products, machines, travel inside the West Midlands and our 24-hour re-clean guarantee.
Related services in Selly Oak
The full directory of cleaning, moving, handyman and clearance work we cover across B29 — every service below has its own Selly Oak page with local pricing and access notes.
Service coverage in Selly Oak
We cover the whole of Selly Oak and the surrounding B29 streets, with crews routed from the nearest West Midlands base.
About Selly Oak
Selly Oak (B29, Birmingham, West Midlands) is university quarter of red-brick terraces, HMOs and post-war semis around the Bristol Road corridor. University of Birmingham Old Joe clock tower anchors the area, and the streets around it are built largely in Victorian pressed brick, concrete driveways and Marshalls block paving.
That matters for local property work: student-let front gardens gather leaf mulch that stains sandstone within a season if left. Roughly 49% of the housing stock here pre-dates the war and 62% is flats or terraces, so our crews plan for stair turns, shared entries and tight kerbside loading rather than assuming driveway access.
We work Selly Oak alongside Bournville, Harborne, Edgbaston, Kings Heath, which keeps travel time short and lets us hold morning and afternoon slots in the same B29 run.
- Local authority
- Birmingham City Council
- Postcode districts
- B29
- Landmark
- University of Birmingham Old Joe clock tower
- Private rented homes
- 42% — a steady source of tenancy-driven work.
Spoken like a local in Selly Oak
Our Selly Oak crews are Birmingham crews. They know that addresses are given by ward and island: Kings Heath off the High Street, Digbeth by the Custard Factory, that clean Air Zone compliant vans, permits sorted in advance, and no blocking a residents' bay, and that a local property work booking in B29 is judged on turning up when we said we would. Everything below is written the way the job is actually described on the doorstep here.
- bab
- a friendly term of address used across the city, all ages
- the island
- a roundabout — directions here are given island to island, not by street name
- outdoor
- the off-licence on the corner, still the standard landmark for “park by the...”
- gambol
- a forward roll — and, to a removals crew, what a badly stacked flat-pack load does on the ring road
Birmingham shorthand you will hear on the job
On the doorstep
“Alright, bab — y'am early” — Birmingham expects the slot start, not the slot window
How addresses are given
Addresses are given by ward and island: Kings Heath off the High Street, Digbeth by the Custard Factory
What Selly Oak expects
Clean Air Zone compliant vans, permits sorted in advance, and no blocking a residents' bay
Selly Oak at a glance
The numbers that actually shape a home services quote here: how many homes we can reach, which authority sets the permit and disposal rules, and what the local housing stock looks like once we are inside it.
Population served across B29 and the streets immediately bordering Selly Oak.
Occupied homes in range of a Selly Oak crew without an out-of-area travel charge.
Covered daily — booking outside these codes is still fine, we just confirm travel time first.
Birmingham City Council sets bay suspensions, permit lead times and recycling-centre rules here.
Older fabric means narrow stairs, original tiling and sash windows — all of which add time.
Drives check-out deadlines, agent checklists and short-notice bookings in this postcode.
Stair turns, shared entries and kerbside-only loading are the main cost drivers here.
Rolling twelve-month score across all West Midlands jobs.
Regional customers who book us again or come from a recommendation.
Jobs where the crew arrived inside the agreed one-hour slot.
Population, household and housing-stock figures are indicative, based on ONS mid-year estimates and Census 2021 housing tables. Service percentages are Hello Services' own rolling twelve-month West Midlands figures.
Why choose Hello Services in Selly Oak
Home services is only worth booking if the crew turns up, prices honestly and finishes the spec. These are the commitments we hold ourselves to in Selly Oak.
Vetted, DBS-checked crews
Everyone we send into a Selly Oak property is ID-checked, DBS-screened and works under our own supervision — no unvetted subcontracting.
£5m public liability cover
Every job in Selly Oak is insured to £5m public liability, with goods-in-transit cover on anything we lift, load or take away.
Fixed prices, confirmed in writing
You get the home services 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 Selly Oak traffic, permit zones and parking realities, so crews arrive inside the window we promised.
How it works in Selly Oak
- Step 1
Tell us the job
Send the property size, access notes and dates. Photos of anything awkward in Selly Oak — stairs, narrow entries, permit bays — sharpen the price straight away.
- Step 2
We price it in writing
You get a written figure for any job in the area, itemised, normally within a few hours. No survey fee, and no surcharge for travelling to Selly Oak.
- Step 3
Pick your slot
Choose a morning or afternoon window. We plan around Selly Oak traffic and parking so the crew arrives inside it.
- Step 4
We check it with you
You get a finished-work check against the same list you agreed at the start — no vague "all done" message. Anything below standard is re-done at our cost.
Guides & read next
Practical reading before you book home services in Selly Oak — costs, checklists and what a good job actually looks like.
Selly Oak in pictures
Work we do around Selly Oak (B29)
17 jobs and service illustrations from the cleaning, moving, handyman and clearance teams covering Selly Oak. Tap any image for local pricing and availability for that service.

Selly Oak (B29) — cleaning, moving, handyman and clearance crews working around University of Birmingham Old Joe clock tower.

Evening and weekend Shelf Installation visits for commuters living in Selly Oak.

Mirror & Artwork in Selly Oak: kit, dwell times and parking planned for B29 properties.

Blinds & Curtains in Selly Oak: kit, dwell times and parking planned for B29 properties.

Carpet Fitting in Selly Oak: kit, dwell times and parking planned for B29 properties.

Cat Flap Fitting crews on Selly Oak (B29) streets — insured, DBS-checked and scheduled locally.

Same-week IKEA Assembly slots for Selly Oak households, landlords and letting agents.

Same-week Flat Pack Assembly slots for Selly Oak households, landlords and letting agents.

Evening and weekend Bed Assembly visits for commuters living in Selly Oak.

Same-week Outdoor Furniture slots for Selly Oak households, landlords and letting agents.

Same-week Gym Equipment Assembly slots for Selly Oak households, landlords and letting agents.

TV Mounting in Selly Oak: kit, dwell times and parking planned for B29 properties.

House Clearance in Selly Oak: kit, dwell times and parking planned for B29 properties.

Evening and weekend Furniture Removal visits for commuters living in Selly Oak.

Garden Waste Removal teams covering Selly Oak and the rest of the B29 district.

Commercial Clearance booked across Selly Oak (B29) with the price agreed before we start.

Upholstery & Sofa Cleaning in Selly Oak: kit, dwell times and parking planned for B29 properties.
Nearby services
What we cover in Selly Oak
Every B29 job is quoted on the same fixed price list, whether it’s a one-off clean or a full house clearance in Birmingham.
Specialist jobs in Selly Oak
- Clearance Services in Selly Oak
- Residential Clearance — Selly Oak
- House Clearance — Selly Oak
- Handyman & Assembly Services in Selly Oak
- IKEA Assembly — Selly Oak
- Flat Pack Assembly — Selly Oak
- Appliances Cleaning in Selly Oak
- Oven Cleaning — Selly Oak
- Cooker & Range Cleaning — Selly Oak
- Jet Washing in Selly Oak
- Driveway Cleaning — Selly Oak
- Patio Cleaning — Selly Oak

