Covering Selly Oak's student housing streets and the newer developments around the old hospital site.
Selly Oak has one of the highest concentrations of student housing in Birmingham, streets of Victorian terraces converted into shared lets for University of Birmingham students. That changes the typical garage door job here: fewer owner-occupier repairs, more landlord maintenance calls, often timed around the summer changeover between tenancies rather than whenever something happens to break.
Garages in this kind of property often aren't used for a car at all, bike storage, bins, or general overflow storage for a house with several tenants is more typical. The door still needs to work and lock properly even if nothing's driving in or out of it, security for whatever's stored inside matters just as much.
A door that's been used by a rotating cast of tenants for years often shows wear a single-family home wouldn't, doors left open, remotes lost between tenancies, general lower-priority maintenance than an owner-occupier would give it. If you manage more than one property here, a scheduled annual check across your portfolio, rather than waiting for a tenant to report a fault, usually costs less over time than reactive repairs.
The A38 Bristol Road runs straight through Selly Oak and gets genuinely busy at peak times, particularly with university term-time traffic added to the usual commute. For anyone booking us near the main road, journey time can vary more than it would on quieter side streets, we factor that into the arrival window we give you.
Yes, if they're reasonably close together, which most of a Selly Oak landlord's portfolio usually is. Ask about a multi-property visit when you book.
Reprogramming a lost remote off the system and issuing a new one is straightforward on most openers. If it's happening repeatedly, a keypad entry instead of remotes might suit a shared property better.
Most calls booked before early afternoon get a same-day slot. No callout fee if we carry out the repair.