Islington · EC1V · Flat-pack assembly
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Old Street fitters · Fixed written pricesFlat-pack assembly for Old Street (EC1V) households — 4,949 of them, 98% in flats. From £45 fixed, one fitter for most items; two for sliding-door wardrobes, bunk beds and anything that has to be carried up a shared stairwell Insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
Booked mostly by social-housing-led households around Old Street, flat-pack assembly here covers supply-free fitting from £45. With 98% of Old Street's 4,949 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in EC1V shape the slot length we hold.
How it works
Step 1
Boxes opened and the parts list checked before anything is built, so a missing dowel is found at the start and not at the end.
Step 2
Anything that will not fit through a London doorway once built is assembled where it stands.
Step 3
Carcasses squared before the backs go on — the step that stops doors dropping six months later.
Step 4
Tall units strapped or bracketed to the wall, hinges and drawer fronts adjusted.
Step 5
Cardboard flattened and taken away, floor checked for stray fixings.
Why choose us
One fitter for most items; two for sliding-door wardrobes, bunk beds and anything that has to be carried up a shared stairwell. Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards.
Next-day slots are usually available and we hold Saturday appointments for delivery days. Old Street (Northern, Great Northern) is the nearest station, so a EC1V visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Old Street, often with surface conduit — measured on the walk in from Old Street (Northern, Great Northern) rather than assumed from a map in EC1V, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — which is why London Borough of Islington kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded.
Fitters carry £5m public liability cover and anchor every tall unit, which is both the manufacturer's instruction and what building-safety-conscious managing agents expect.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chest of drawers or bedside units | £45 | 30–50 min | A single carcass with drawer runners — the fastest item in the catalogue. |
| Double or king bed frame | £65 | 45–90 min | Slats, side rails and a headboard, with the frame squared so it does not creak later. |
| Two-door wardrobe | £85 | 1.5–2 hrs | Doors have to be aligned on the hinges and the carcass anchored to the wall. |
| Sliding-door or corner wardrobe | £150 | 2.5–4 hrs | Sliding tracks must be dead level or the doors drift; corner units need building in place. |
| Desk, bookcase or shelving unit | £50 | 40–70 min | Quick to build, but tall units are anchored to the wall as standard. |
| Full room, priced by the hour | £45/hr | By quote | Bedroom or nursery sets are cheaper by the hour than item by item once you pass three pieces. |
Chest of drawers or bedside units
£45 · 30–50 min
A single carcass with drawer runners — the fastest item in the catalogue.
Double or king bed frame
£65 · 45–90 min
Slats, side rails and a headboard, with the frame squared so it does not creak later.
Two-door wardrobe
£85 · 1.5–2 hrs
Doors have to be aligned on the hinges and the carcass anchored to the wall.
Sliding-door or corner wardrobe
£150 · 2.5–4 hrs
Sliding tracks must be dead level or the doors drift; corner units need building in place.
Desk, bookcase or shelving unit
£50 · 40–70 min
Quick to build, but tall units are anchored to the wall as standard.
Full room, priced by the hour
£45/hr · By quote
Bedroom or nursery sets are cheaper by the hour than item by item once you pass three pieces.
Prices assume the boxes are on site and the parts are complete. Anti-tip anchoring is included on every tall unit. Rubbish removal of the packaging is free where the crew has kerb access; where a permit or bay suspension is required for the van it is itemised in the quote.
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Coverage
Also in this area
Brackets fixed into the right substrate, cables chased or trunked, screen levelled.
Floating and bracketed shelving into plaster, brick, stud and dot-and-dab.
Blinds, poles and bay tracks measured, levelled and fixed to the reveal you have.
Wardrobes and fitted storage built, levelled and anchored to the wall behind.
Sheds, bases and outdoor storage built square, levelled and weather-fixed.
Sofas, beds and wardrobes taken away and reused or recycled wherever they still can be.
Working in Old Street
The EC1V stock around Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground is post-war. ONS records 98% flats, 2% houses and 4,949 households in Old Street.
28% of households rent privately and 19% own, which is why flat-pack assembly demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Old Street, often with surface conduit — measured on the walk in from Old Street (Northern, Great Northern) rather than assumed from a map, so the fixing that matters in Old Street is chosen on site — the usual failure here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — which is why London Borough of Islington kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded.
Anyone who knows Old Street knows the pattern near Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground: the roundabout, tech offices and warehouse conversions on the City fringe. We plan the EC1V visit around it. Old Street sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
On access, red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards — one reason one fitter for most items; two for sliding-door wardrobes, bunk beds and anything that has to be carried up a shared stairwell. Fitters travelling in use Old Street (Northern, Great Northern).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Old Street and what they live in decides how flat-pack assembly is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Old Street & St Luke's neighbourhood itself — not Islington-wide averages, and not estimates.
10,675
Residents
Old Street & St Luke's neighbourhood, Census 2021
4,949
Households
Median age 31.5
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
38.9%
Privately rented
28.3%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Old Street & St Luke's (E02000576) — the published geography that covers Old Street, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the EC1V district: 51.5268, -0.0978 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Chest of drawers or bedside units starts at £45 in Old Street for Old Street (EC1V) addresses — and a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood, with Islington parking rules in play, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Item count and the type of unit set the price around Old Street (Northern, Great Northern). Sliding-door wardrobes, bunk beds and corner units take two to four times as long as a chest of drawers on Islington bookings, with 28% of EC1V homes being privately rented.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the Old Street rounds, with 28% of EC1V homes being privately rented. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Old Street most weeks on EC1V jobs, with this being a short walk from Old Street (Northern, Great Northern).
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on the Old Street rounds, with Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground a few streets away.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in across EC1V. With 98% of Old Street homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on the Old Street rounds — and 39% one-person households here, with 52% social-rented stock nearby, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
All three. With 28% of Old Street privately rented and 19% owner-occupied, roughly half the EC1V diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door on Islington bookings — and a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood, with 52% social-rented stock nearby.
Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground is the marker we route to on the Old Street rounds — and Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground a few streets away, with this being London Borough of Islington territory, and red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards. A EC1V slot added to an existing Islington round usually lands the same week rather than the next on EC1V jobs, with a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood.
Next-day slots are usually available and we hold Saturday appointments for delivery days on EC1V jobs. Old Street sits close to Old Street (Northern, Great Northern) on the Old Street rounds — and Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground a few streets away, with 98% of homes here being flats, so we can usually add a EC1V job to an existing Islington round at short notice.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Old Street EC1V jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of islington.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
