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Totnes Grove Dartmouth Road, Bournbrook Selly Park, Birmingham, B29 6EB
Average Property Rating: 4
★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
Number of times reviewed: 1
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Totnes Grove Dartmouth Road, Bournbrook Selly Park, Birmingham
Reviewed 4 May 2019
★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
Firstly the positives - it had a very good fridge and freezer with loads of space !
The property was for 6 people . However, it was clearly a 3 bedroom house in which they had made into a 6 bed house . 4 of the 6 rooms were tiny . Literally tiny . Instead of just accepting this and only putting in a single bed and maybe charging less, double beds were crammed into the already minuscule rooms . I was fortunate and got lucky with one of the 2 bigger rooms . But 4 of my housemates lived in boxes for the year . The bathrooms were not much better . They had clearly been cupboards before the renovation. I believe on of the bedrooms hadn’t previously been the biggish main bathroom. The downstairs bathroom was so small that when you sat on the toilet your knees touched the opposeite wall. It was an exact square probably 1.5m by 1.5m... my middle floor bathroom as with the upstairs one was a bit bigger but still very inconveniently shaped . It was long and skinny- again clearly a cupboard in a past life . All the bathrooms were fitted with sinks made for ants !!! You could not wash your hands without your hands touching the sink or tap - in effect your hands didn’t fit in the sink.
Although, the house wasn’t prone to mound as such many of the bathroom facilities were blocked on arrival and continued to block and flood over our year there . The sink continously blocked as did the shower. The toilet seemed to have far more problems with toilet paper than other toilets I’ve used . This may have been the plumbing but it was not ever properly sorted while we were there . It was only ever temporarily fixed .
Tv was never fixed or properly worked and we never had a working remote for it.
The property had a severe lack of windows which made it very dark and a little prison like . It wasn’t helped by the black floor and all black furnishing and funriture . However it made the house an amazing location for pres as it had a natural dark ambiance .
Overall the properties was ok and I had a fun year here with my friends and the faults never caused us too many problems . Similarly, many of my friends encountered similar problems with their student housing.
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The property was for 6 people . However, it was clearly a 3 bedroom house in which they had made into a 6 bed house . 4 of the 6 rooms were tiny . Literally tiny . Instead of just accepting this and only putting in a single bed and maybe charging less, double beds were crammed into the already minuscule rooms . I was fortunate and got lucky with one of the 2 bigger rooms . But 4 of my housemates lived in boxes for the year . The bathrooms were not much better . They had clearly been cupboards before the renovation. I believe on of the bedrooms hadn’t previously been the biggish main bathroom. The downstairs bathroom was so small that when you sat on the toilet your knees touched the opposeite wall. It was an exact square probably 1.5m by 1.5m... my middle floor bathroom as with the upstairs one was a bit bigger but still very inconveniently shaped . It was long and skinny- again clearly a cupboard in a past life . All the bathrooms were fitted with sinks made for ants !!! You could not wash your hands without your hands touching the sink or tap - in effect your hands didn’t fit in the sink.
Although, the house wasn’t prone to mound as such many of the bathroom facilities were blocked on arrival and continued to block and flood over our year there . The sink continously blocked as did the shower. The toilet seemed to have far more problems with toilet paper than other toilets I’ve used . This may have been the plumbing but it was not ever properly sorted while we were there . It was only ever temporarily fixed .
Tv was never fixed or properly worked and we never had a working remote for it.
The property had a severe lack of windows which made it very dark and a little prison like . It wasn’t helped by the black floor and all black furnishing and funriture . However it made the house an amazing location for pres as it had a natural dark ambiance .
Overall the properties was ok and I had a fun year here with my friends and the faults never caused us too many problems . Similarly, many of my friends encountered similar problems with their student housing.
