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Handyman in Swiss Cottage, NW3
In Swiss Cottage (NW3) the job list usually starts with alcove shelving and a TV bracket, both fixed through the plaster into something solid. Finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks. Behind the plaster you will find lath and plaster over timber studs, with solid brick on the party and external walls, each taking a different fixing.
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- £55 an hour, £190 a half day — fixed price for the whole list
- Lath and plaster here, so the fixings are chosen for the wall, not pulled from a pack
- Stud, pipe and cable scan before the first hole, every visit
- London Borough of Camden permits, ULEZ and packaging removal already inside the price
The service, locally
Handyman work in Swiss Cottage
- Per hour, one-hour minimum
- £55Per hour, one-hour minimum
- Swiss Cottage homes are flats
- 89%Swiss Cottage homes are flats
- Fixed-price jobs
- 14Fixed-price jobs
- Households in Swiss Cottage
- 3,083Households in Swiss Cottage
Instant estimate
Price your Swiss Cottage job list
Estimated for Swiss Cottage NW3
£120 – £350
Slot needed: Half day
- Shelves and floating units
- £65 – £180
- Curtain poles and blinds
- £60 – £150
- One-visit saving
- −£25
- Lath, dot-and-dab or concrete fixings
- from £20
£55 minimum charge per visit. Prices include VAT, the van, fixings from our own stock and taking the packaging away. Nothing is added on the day without your written agreement first. You have told us the walls are lath, dot-and-dab or concrete, so we have allowed for the correct anchors and the extra scanning time that goes with them.
How it works
How a Swiss Cottage visit works
- Tell us the whole listA photo per wall lets us read the substrate before quoting, so the Swiss Cottage NW3 price we send is the price you pay.
- Detector out before the drillEvery wall is scanned for studs, pipes and cables, sheets go down, and the fixing is matched to lath and plaster rather than pulled from a pack.
- Load-tested, then clearedFixings are tested, holes made good, waste leaves in the van, and you sign the list off on site.
- Get my price
Walls and fixings
What is behind the plaster in Swiss Cottage
Most likely here
Lath and plaster — Pre-1930 terraces and mansion blocks
Locate the timber lath studs, fix through into the stud with 5 × 80 mm screws. Realistic load: up to 25 kg into a stud, nothing into the plaster itself. What goes wrong: a plasterboard plug in lime plaster crumbles the key and drops the whole panel.
Lath and plaster
Pre-1930 terraces and mansion blocks
- Fixing
- Locate the timber lath studs, fix through into the stud with 5 × 80 mm screws
- Safe load
- Up to 25 kg into a stud, nothing into the plaster itself
- What pulls out
- A plasterboard plug in lime plaster crumbles the key and drops the whole panel
Solid London stock brick
Victorian and Edwardian party and external walls
- Fixing
- 7 mm hammer-drilled hole into the brick body, nylon plug or resin anchor
- Safe load
- 40 kg-plus per fixing when anchored into brick, not mortar
- What pulls out
- Fixing into soft lime mortar joints, which spin out under load
Dot-and-dab plasterboard
1990s onward new builds and conversions
- Fixing
- Long fixings through the void into the blockwork behind, or a spread-load anchor
- Safe load
- 30 kg with a through-fixing, 8 kg on a hollow-wall anchor alone
- What pulls out
- Short screws that only grip the board, then lever it off the dabs
Timber or metal stud partition
Flat conversions and 1960s-onward internal walls
- Fixing
- Stud detector, then fix into the upright; noggins added where the stud misses
- Safe load
- 35 kg into timber, 15 kg into metal stud with a toggle
- What pulls out
- Two of four bracket holes on the stud and two in fresh air
Precast concrete and blockwork
Post-war estates and podium blocks
- Fixing
- SDS drill, 8 mm hole, sleeve anchor or screwbolt
- Safe load
- 50 kg-plus per fixing
- What pulls out
- Hitting reinforcement or a buried conduit without a scan first
Insulated dry lining
Retrofitted period homes and low-energy refurbishments
- Fixing
- Insulation-rated frame fixings that reach the masonry beyond the board and foam
- Safe load
- 25 kg, spread across four points
- What pulls out
- Compressing the insulation so the fixing slowly works loose
Why Hello Services
Why Hello Services in Swiss Cottage
Permits and parking included
London Borough of Camden visitor permits and suspensions are arranged and paid for by us across NW3.
Fixings and filler included
Screws, plugs, resin, silicone and filler come from the van, not from your invoice on the streets near Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence.
Packaging leaves with us
Flat-pack cardboard, polystyrene and old fittings go in the van at the end of the NW3 visit across NW3, with 11% of Swiss Cottage homes being houses.
DBS-checked and insured
For NW3 bookings, £1m public liability and a tradesperson you would be happy to leave in the flat on this side of Camden. It works the same way on every Swiss Cottage (NW3) booking.
Fixed prices
Handyman prices in Swiss Cottage
| Job | From | To | Time on site | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TV mounting | £85 | £165 | 1–2 hrs | Bracket into the correct substrate, screen levelled, cables dropped or trunked |
| Shelves and floating units | £65 | £180 | 1–3 hrs | Alcove shelving, floating shelves and brackets set to a laser line |
| Curtain poles and blinds | £60 | £150 | 1–3 hrs | Poles, tracks and blinds fixed to timber, brick or reinforced plasterboard |
| Flat-pack assembly | £55 | £190 | 1–4 hrs | Wardrobes, beds, desks and drawer units built, levelled and anchored to the wall |
| Silicone and grout renewal | £70 | £170 | 1–3 hrs | Old bead cut out, surfaces sterilised and dried, sanitary silicone reapplied |
| Mirrors, art and heavy hanging | £55 | £130 | 1–2 hrs | Heavy mirrors and framed pieces hung level on the right anchor for the wall |
TV mounting
£85 – £165
1–2 hrs
Bracket into the correct substrate, screen levelled, cables dropped or trunked
Shelves and floating units
£65 – £180
1–3 hrs
Alcove shelving, floating shelves and brackets set to a laser line
Curtain poles and blinds
£60 – £150
1–3 hrs
Poles, tracks and blinds fixed to timber, brick or reinforced plasterboard
Flat-pack assembly
£55 – £190
1–4 hrs
Wardrobes, beds, desks and drawer units built, levelled and anchored to the wall
Silicone and grout renewal
£70 – £170
1–3 hrs
Old bead cut out, surfaces sterilised and dried, sanitary silicone reapplied
Mirrors, art and heavy hanging
£55 – £130
1–2 hrs
Heavy mirrors and framed pieces hung level on the right anchor for the wall
Because 89% of homes here are flats, Swiss Cottage NW3 lists lean towards these 6 jobs. Anything outside them is priced from the same 14-row card on the reference page.
£55 minimum charge per visit. Prices include VAT, the van, fixings from our own stock and taking the packaging away. Nothing is added on the day without your written agreement first. Full price list, fixings matrix and scope policy.
Rates and local costs
Hourly, half day or full day in Swiss Cottage
Hourly rate
£55
per hour, one-hour minimum
Best for one or two small jobs — a shelf, a leaking tap washer, a sticking door.
Half day
£190
up to 4 hours
The most-booked slot in London: three to six jobs from one list, one visit, one price.
Full day
£340
up to 8 hours
A snag list, a whole-flat furniture build, or a move-in day of fixings and fittings.
Same-day call-out
£95
first hour, then hourly
Lock, leak, door or safety job that cannot wait for a booked slot.
- Parking and permits
- London Borough of Camden visitor permits and bay suspensions are arranged, paid for by us and already inside the quoted figure.
- Charging zones
- Part of Camden sits inside the Congestion Charge zone and all of it is inside ULEZ. Our vans are compliant, so ULEZ and the Congestion Charge never appear on your invoice.
- Access and building rules
- Concierge sign-in, goods-lift booking and out-of-hours windows are handled before the visit, so the clock starts when the work does, not in reception.
Screws, plugs, resin anchors, hollow-wall fixings, silicone and filler come out of the van and are inside the price. Anything bought for you — a replacement tap, a door closer, a specific bracket — is charged at cost with the receipt attached to your invoice.
Scope
What is included in Swiss Cottage
Included in every visit
- A DBS-checked, insured fitter arriving in Swiss Cottage NW3 with their own tools, ladders and dust sheets.
- Fixings matched to lath and plaster — Locate the timber lath studs, fix through into the stud with 5 × 80 mm screws included — rather than whatever came in the flat-pack box.
- A stud, pipe and cable scan before drilling, every fixing set to a level and load-tested in front of you.
- Parking, permits and any charge zone sorted with London Borough of Camden by us, not added to your bill on the day.
Not included — and why
- Anything gas — boilers, hobs, pipework — is Gas Safe territory and we will not touch it in Swiss Cottage NW3.
- Consumer units and new circuits, notifiable work that needs Part P sign-off.
- Structural alterations and anything needing London Borough of Camden building control sign-off.
- Drilling into suspected asbestos: pre-2000 lath and plaster finishes get a survey before anyone makes a hole.
The full scope policy, the complete fixings matrix and every fixed price sit on one page: handyman reference.
Coverage
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Other work we do in Swiss Cottage
End of tenancy cleaning
Fixing holes filled and touched in, then the whole Swiss Cottage flat cleaned for check-out.
One-off deep cleaning
A NW3 reset after the drilling, sanding and flat-pack dust has settled.
After builders cleaning
Snag list finished by us, then the builders' dust taken out of the Swiss Cottage flat.
Moving services
Furniture dismantled in NW3, moved, then rebuilt and re-anchored the same day.
House removals
A full Swiss Cottage move where the beds and wardrobes come apart and go back together properly.
House clearance
Old furniture and broken fittings taken away from NW3 before the new ones go up.
About the area
Swiss Cottage in context
Most of Swiss Cottage reads the same way from the pavement: purpose-built mansion flats, post-war blocks with lifts and victorian villas on the side streets. lath and plaster over timber studs is what we meet most in NW3, and Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence is the fixed point crews route by.
Swiss Cottage reads as finchley Road's shops and library beside 1930s flats and post-war blocks, and the walls follow the stock. Purpose-built mansion flats, post-war blocks with lifts and Victorian villas on the side streets. That puts lath and plaster behind most fixings we make in NW3. That substrate wants locate the timber lath studs, fix through into the stud with 5 × 80 mm screws; anything lighter is a call-back, and even done properly the sensible limit is up to 25 kg into a stud, nothing into the plaster itself.
Tenure shapes the list too: 46% of homes here are privately rented and 33% owner-occupied, so we move between check-out make-good in NW3 lets and long-planned improvements in the same week. Finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks. Nearest arrival point for the team is Swiss Cottage (Jubilee), and part of Camden sits inside the Congestion Charge zone and all of it is inside ULEZ — none of it added to your invoice on the day.
- 89% flats, 11% houses across 3,083 Swiss Cottage households (ONS Census 2021)
- Wall we meet most in NW3: Lath and plaster — locate the timber lath studs, fix through into the stud with 5 × 80 mm screws
- Van access and parking: finchley Road is a red route
- NW3 covered, Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence to the borough boundary, £190 a half day
Where Swiss Cottage sits in our coverage
Swiss Cottage sits inside the coverage published on our handyman work in Camden page, which sits under handyman work across London. Same-week crews working this postcode also cover handyman work in Belsize Park NW3 (under ½ mile), handyman work in Hampstead NW3 (under ½ mile), handyman work in West Hampstead NW6 (1.2 miles), handyman work in Kilburn NW6 (1.2 miles) and handyman work in St John's Wood NW8 (1.4 miles). If your address sits on the boundary, book the closest page — the price and the crew are the same. For every trade we run at this postcode, see all services in Swiss Cottage.
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Swiss Cottage NW3 at a glance
- Area
- Swiss Cottage, Camden
- Postcodes served
- NW3
- Nearest station
- Swiss Cottage (Jubilee)
- Dominant wall construction
- lath and plaster over timber studs, with solid brick on the party and external walls
- Fixing we use most
- Locate the timber lath studs, fix through into the stud with 5 × 80 mm screws
- Realistic load
- Up to 25 kg into a stud, nothing into the plaster itself
- Most-booked list
- alcove shelving and a TV bracket, both fixed through the plaster into something solid
- Watch out for
- a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster, which crumbles the key and drops the panel
- Charging zones
- Part of Camden sits inside the Congestion Charge zone and all of it is inside ULEZ
- Residents (Swiss Cottage)
- 7,117
- Households (Swiss Cottage)
- 3,083
- Typical visit
- Half a day in NW3
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Swiss Cottage (E02000182) — the published geography that covers Swiss Cottage, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL).
Questions
Swiss Cottage NW3 handyman questions
£55 an hour with a one-hour minimum, £190 for a half day and £340 for a full day in NW3 around Swiss Cottage (Jubilee), with Camden parking rules in play. Fixed-price jobs start at £55 — flat-pack from £55, TV mounting from £85, shelving from £65 on NW3 jobs, with 36% one-person households here. Send the list and we confirm one written figure on this side of Camden.
Yes. Locally that usually means lath and plaster — locate the timber lath studs, fix through into the stud with 5 × 80 mm screws, holding around up to 25 kg into a stud, nothing into the plaster itself on the streets near Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence — and 11% of Swiss Cottage homes being houses, with this being a short walk from Swiss Cottage (Jubilee). The risk we guard against here is a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster on Camden bookings, with 11% of Swiss Cottage homes being houses, which crumbles the key and drops the panel. Every wall is scanned for studs, pipes and cables before the first hole in Swiss Cottage.
That is how we prefer to work in Swiss Cottage on the Swiss Cottage rounds. Three or more jobs in one half-day slot means one set-up, one parking arrangement and one price of £190 rather than three separate call-outs on Camden bookings, with 21% social-rented stock nearby. Photos of each NW3 wall let us sequence the list so the noisy drilling is done in one block in this 89% flats neighbourhood, with 33% owner-occupation locally.
Replacing what is already there — faceplates, switches, pendants — yes on the Swiss Cottage rounds, with 3,083 households on this patch, with a test on completion. Anything notifiable under Part P — new circuits, a consumer unit, bathroom zones — needs a registered electrician instead for Swiss Cottage (NW3) addresses, with 36% one-person households here. Gas is Gas Safe work full stop, with Camden parking rules in play, so we decline it and point you at an engineer who is registered for it on the streets near Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence.
Finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks on the streets near Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence, with 36% one-person households here. London Borough of Camden visitor permits and bay suspensions are arranged and paid for by us and sit inside the quoted price on NW3 jobs, with 3,083 households on this patch. Concierge sign-in and goods-lift booking are done before the visit on this side of Camden, with 89% of homes here being flats, so the clock starts when the work does.
The van carries the consumables — screws, plugs, resin, hollow-wall anchors, silicone, filler — and they are inside the NW3 figure you were quoted for Swiss Cottage (NW3) addresses, with 36% one-person households here. Because lath and plaster is what we expect here, the right anchors for it are on board before the van sets off on the streets near Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence, with Camden parking rules in play. Anything specific bought for you is charged at cost with the receipt attached to the invoice on Camden bookings, with 33% owner-occupation locally.
Yes. Every area in Camden has its own page on the Swiss Cottage rounds, and we cross borough boundaries constantly. If your address sits on the edge of NW3, book the nearest page and we will confirm the same fixed price on Camden bookings, with this being London Borough of Camden territory.
Source: ONS Census 2021, borough totals via Nomis (table TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003). Figures describe the whole borough, the smallest area ONS publishes every one of these tables for.
Book a handyman in Swiss Cottage NW3
Send your job list and a photo of each wall for a fixed written price the same working day. Fixings, permits and taking the packaging away are already in the figure.
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