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Handyman in Croydon
Odd jobs across Croydon run to 10 areas. With 40% of homes in flats, most lists are flat-pack assembly, TV mounting, shelving and door easing — and most of them need a fixing chosen for the substrate rather than pulled from a pack. Tram-track loading limits in the centre, steep Purley hills and wide suburban roads with driveways elsewhere.
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- Since 2019
- 10 areas covered, each with its own page
- £55 an hour, £190 a half day, £340 a full day
- Fixings, filler and packaging removal inside every price
- London Borough of Croydon permits arranged and paid for by us
The service, locally
Handyman services across Croydon
- Areas covered
- 10Areas covered
- Homes that are flats
- 40%Homes that are flats
- Fixed-price jobs from
- £55Fixed-price jobs from
- Households
- 152,945Households
Instant estimate
Price your Croydon job list
Estimated for Croydon
£90 – £255
Slot needed: One to two hours
- Curtain poles and blinds
- £60 – £150
- Mirrors, art and heavy hanging
- £55 – £130
- One-visit saving
- −£25
£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. Batch the list into one visit and you pay for one set-up rather than three. Fixings, plugs and filler are already inside these figures.
How it works
How a Croydon visit works
- Photos and a listPhotos of each wall and a list of jobs get one fixed written price for Croydon the same working day.
- We scan, then drillNothing is drilled blind: we scan, mark, protect the floor and choose for solid london stock brick.
- Signed off with youEvery fixing load-tested, packaging taken away, and a walk-round with you before we leave.
- Get my price
Walls and fixings
What is behind the plaster in Croydon
Most likely here
Solid London stock brick — Victorian and Edwardian party and external walls
7 mm hammer-drilled hole into the brick body, nylon plug or resin anchor. Realistic load: 40 kg-plus per fixing when anchored into brick, not mortar. What goes wrong: fixing into soft lime mortar joints, which spin out under load.
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 Croydon
Fixings and filler included
Screws, plugs, resin, silicone and filler come from the van, not from your invoice in Addiscombe.
Packaging leaves with us
Flat-pack cardboard, polystyrene and old fittings go in the van at the end of the CR0 visit for Addiscombe (CR0) addresses, with 13% social-rented stock nearby.
Fixed prices
Handyman prices in Croydon
| Job | From | To | Time on site | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Door easing, hinges and closers | £55 | £140 | 1–2 hrs | Sticking doors planed and rehung, hinges packed, closers and stops fitted |
| Radiator bleeding and TRV swaps | £60 | £140 | 1–2 hrs | System bled through, thermostatic valve heads replaced, pressure topped up |
| Shelves and floating units | £65 | £180 | 1–3 hrs | Alcove shelving, floating shelves and brackets set to a laser line |
| Taps, washers and waste traps | £65 | £150 | 1–2 hrs | Dripping taps, isolation valves, sink and basin traps and flexible tails |
Door easing, hinges and closers
£55 – £140
1–2 hrs
Sticking doors planed and rehung, hinges packed, closers and stops fitted
Radiator bleeding and TRV swaps
£60 – £140
1–2 hrs
System bled through, thermostatic valve heads replaced, pressure topped up
Shelves and floating units
£65 – £180
1–3 hrs
Alcove shelving, floating shelves and brackets set to a laser line
Taps, washers and waste traps
£65 – £150
1–2 hrs
Dripping taps, isolation valves, sink and basin traps and flexible tails
These are the 8 jobs we are booked for most often in Croydon — 58% of homes here are houses, and the list follows the stock. The full 14-job price list is 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 Croydon
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.
- Parking and permits
- London Borough of Croydon visitor permits and bay suspensions are arranged, paid for by us and already inside the quoted figure.
- Charging zones
- Croydon sits outside the Congestion Charge zone and inside ULEZ.
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 Croydon
Included in every visit
- One vetted fitter for the whole Croydon list, with ladders, tools and sheets already in the van.
- Fixings matched to solid london stock brick — 7 mm hammer-drilled hole into the brick body, nylon plug or resin anchor included — rather than whatever came in the flat-pack box.
- Scanning, levelling and load-testing on every hole — plus packaging and old fittings taken away.
- tram-line crossings, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the tram stops — we plan the Croydon arrival around it and settle permits with London Borough of Croydon ourselves.
Not included — and why
The full scope policy, the complete fixings matrix and every fixed price sit on one page: handyman reference.
Coverage
Handyman work around Croydon
Areas we cover across Croydon
- Handyman in AddiscombeAddiscombe (Tramlink)CR0
- Handyman in CoulsdonCoulsdon South (Southern)CR5
- Handyman in CroydonEast Croydon (Southern, Thameslink, Tramlink)CR0
- Handyman in Crystal PalaceCrystal Palace (Overground, Southern)SE19
- Handyman in KenleyKenley (Southern)CR8
- Handyman in PurleyPurley (Southern)CR8
- Handyman in SandersteadSanderstead (Southern)CR2
- Handyman in South CroydonSouth Croydon (Southern)CR2
- Handyman in South NorwoodNorwood Junction (Southern, Overground)SE25
- Handyman in Thornton HeathThornton Heath (Southern)CR7
Guides
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Related services
Other work we do in Croydon
End of tenancy cleaning
Fixing holes filled and touched in, then the whole Addiscombe flat cleaned for check-out.
One-off deep cleaning
A CR0 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 Addiscombe flat.
About the borough
Croydon in context
A town in its own right — office towers and trams in the centre, Purley and Coulsdon's downland suburbs to the south.
- Housing mix here: 42% flats to 58% houses, 26,774 residents in total
Croydon at a glance
- Postcodes served
- CR0
- Nearest station
- Addiscombe (Tramlink)
- Dominant wall construction
- solid London stock brick, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment
- Fixing we use most
- 7 mm hammer-drilled hole into the brick body, nylon plug or resin anchor
- Realistic load
- 40 kg-plus per fixing when anchored into brick, not mortar
- Most-booked list
- curtain poles, heavy mirrors and a full flat-pack wardrobe anchored to the wall
- Watch out for
- fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body
- Charging zones
- Croydon sits outside the Congestion Charge zone and inside ULEZ
- Residents (Addiscombe)
- 26,774
- Households (Addiscombe)
- 11,026
- Typical visit
- Half a day in CR0
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Addiscombe East, Addiscombe North, Addiscombe West (E02000210, E02000214, E02000215) — the published geography that covers Addiscombe, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL).
Questions
Croydon handyman questions
£55 an hour with a one-hour minimum, £190 a half day, £340 a full day.
All 10 of them, each with its own page covering the housing stock, the wall construction that comes with it and the access reality for a van.
Yes. Snag lists, check-out make-good, safety fixings and void turnarounds are handled with before-and-after photos, an itemised invoice per property and one point of contact for a portfolio.
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 Croydon
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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