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Handyman in Southgate, N14
Around Southgate Underground station by Charles Holden in Southgate, N14, the stock gives us lath and plaster over timber studs, with solid brick on the party and external walls — which is why the same shelf takes twenty minutes in one flat and an hour in the next. The usual Enfield instruction is alcove shelving and a TV bracket, both fixed through the plaster into something solid.
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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 Enfield permits, ULEZ and packaging removal already inside the price
The service, locally
Handyman work in Southgate
- Per hour, one-hour minimum
- £55Per hour, one-hour minimum
- Southgate homes are flats
- 45%Southgate homes are flats
- Fixed-price jobs
- 14Fixed-price jobs
- Households in Southgate
- 10,174Households in Southgate
Instant estimate
Price your Southgate job list
Estimated for Southgate N14
£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 Southgate visit works
- Photos and a listPhotos of each wall and a list of jobs get one fixed written price for Southgate N14 the same working day.
- 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 Southgate
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 Southgate
Packaging leaves with us
Flat-pack cardboard, polystyrene and old fittings go in the van at the end of the N14 visit on N14 jobs, with 10,174 households on this patch.
DBS-checked and insured
£1m public liability and a tradesperson you would be happy to leave in the flat on N14 jobs.
Photographed and load-tested
Each fixing tested and documented, so landlords and agents get evidence without asking on the streets near Southgate Underground station by Charles Holden.
We scan before we drill
Stud, pipe and cable detector on every Southgate wall before the first hole — not after the leak on the Southgate rounds, with this being London Borough of Enfield territory.
Fixed prices
Handyman prices in Southgate
| Job | From | To | Time on site | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelves and floating units | £65 | £180 | 1–3 hrs | Alcove shelving, floating shelves and brackets set to a laser line |
| Door easing, hinges and closers | £55 | £140 | 1–2 hrs | Sticking doors planed and rehung, hinges packed, closers and stops fitted |
| Locks, handles and door furniture | £70 | £160 | 1–2 hrs | Euro cylinders, mortice locks, thumb turns and handles swapped like for like |
| Taps, washers and waste traps | £65 | £150 | 1–2 hrs | Dripping taps, isolation valves, sink and basin traps and flexible tails |
| Radiator bleeding and TRV swaps | £60 | £140 | 1–2 hrs | System bled through, thermostatic valve heads replaced, pressure topped up |
| Flat-pack assembly | £55 | £190 | 1–4 hrs | Wardrobes, beds, desks and drawer units built, levelled and anchored to the wall |
Shelves and floating units
£65 – £180
1–3 hrs
Alcove shelving, floating shelves and brackets set to a laser line
Door easing, hinges and closers
£55 – £140
1–2 hrs
Sticking doors planed and rehung, hinges packed, closers and stops fitted
Locks, handles and door furniture
£70 – £160
1–2 hrs
Euro cylinders, mortice locks, thumb turns and handles swapped like for like
Taps, washers and waste traps
£65 – £150
1–2 hrs
Dripping taps, isolation valves, sink and basin traps and flexible tails
Radiator bleeding and TRV swaps
£60 – £140
1–2 hrs
System bled through, thermostatic valve heads replaced, pressure topped up
Flat-pack assembly
£55 – £190
1–4 hrs
Wardrobes, beds, desks and drawer units built, levelled and anchored to the wall
Southgate N14 books this 6-job shortlist more than anything else, because 55% of homes here are houses. All 14 fixed prices sit on the shared 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 Southgate
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 Enfield visitor permits and bay suspensions are arranged, paid for by us and already inside the quoted figure.
- Charging zones
- Enfield sits outside the Congestion Charge zone and inside ULEZ. Our vans are compliant, so ULEZ 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 Southgate
Included in every visit
- An insured, DBS-checked tradesperson who brings everything needed for a N14 visit — tools, steps and floor protection.
- Locate the timber lath studs, fix through into the stud with 5 × 80 mm screws and the rest of our van stock, because lath and plaster is what most N14 fixings go into.
- Detector before drill, laser line rather than eye, and a load test on each fixing before we sign off.
- station circus gyratory, but driveways on almost every residential street — we plan the Southgate N14 arrival around it and settle permits with London Borough of Enfield ourselves.
Not included — and why
- Gas appliances and pipework, which legally belong to a Gas Safe engineer.
- New circuits or consumer units, which are notifiable under Part P and need a registered electrician.
- Structural alterations and anything needing London Borough of Enfield 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
Handyman work around Southgate
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Guides
Read before you book
Hiring a handyman in the UK: the complete guide
Scope, legal limits, 2026 prices, vetting questions, wall fixings and a job-list method that gets more done in one visit.
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Handyman prices in London: what jobs actually cost in 2026
Hourly, half-day and fixed job prices, with the London extras that quietly add to a quote.
9 min read
What a handyman can and cannot legally do in the UK
The real line between handyman work and jobs that need a registered electrician, gas or structural trade.
7 min read
Wall fixings guide: which anchor holds in which London wall
The fixing that actually holds in each London wall type, and the realistic load it will take.
8 min read
Related services
Other work we do in Southgate
End of tenancy cleaning
Fixing holes filled and touched in, then the whole Southgate flat cleaned for check-out.
One-off deep cleaning
A N14 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 Southgate flat.
Moving services
Furniture dismantled in N14, moved, then rebuilt and re-anchored the same day.
House removals
A full Southgate move where the beds and wardrobes come apart and go back together properly.
House clearance
Old furniture and broken fittings taken away from N14 before the new ones go up.
About the area
Southgate in context
1930s semis and detached houses with drives, plus Art Deco flats around Southgate Underground station by Charles Holden, and that stock decides the fixing: lath and plaster over timber studs first, everything else after. Charles Holden's circular station at the centre of interwar suburbia, so N14 jobs reward a scan over a guess.
The stock around Southgate Underground station by Charles Holden sets the job. 1930s semis and detached houses with drives, plus Art Deco flats. With 45% of Southgate's 10,174 households in flats, lath and plaster is what our fitters meet on most N14 visits. The anchor that suits it is locate the timber lath studs, fix through into the stud with 5 × 80 mm screws — realistically holding up to 25 kg into a stud, nothing into the plaster itself once it is load-tested.
58% of Southgate households own their home and 26% are single-person, which is why so many N14 bookings are one long list saved up for a single half-day visit at £190. Getting to you is part of the price: station circus gyratory, but driveways on almost every residential street London Borough of Enfield permits and suspensions are arranged and paid for by us, and enfield sits outside the Congestion Charge zone and inside ULEZ.
- 10,174 households in Southgate, 45% of them flats — the ratio that decides lift, stairs and drilling noise windows
- Wall we meet most in N14: Lath and plaster — locate the timber lath studs, fix through into the stud with 5 × 80 mm screws
- Access: station circus gyratory, but driveways on almost every residential street
- N14 covered, Southgate Underground station by Charles Holden to the borough boundary, £190 a half day
Where Southgate sits in our coverage
Everything we fit in Southgate is booked through our handyman work in Enfield page, which sits under handyman work across London. Nearest pages to this one, in travel order: handyman work in Winchmore Hill N21 (1.3 miles), handyman work in Friern Barnet and New Southgate N11 (1.5 miles), handyman work in Bounds Green N11 (1.5 miles), handyman work in Palmers Green N13 (1.6 miles) and handyman work in New Barnet and Cockfosters EN4 (1.6 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 Southgate.
Most booked alongside this in Southgate
Southgate N14 at a glance
- Area
- Southgate, Enfield
- Postcodes served
- N14
- Nearest station
- Southgate (Piccadilly)
- 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
- Enfield sits outside the Congestion Charge zone and inside ULEZ
- Residents (Southgate)
- 27,141
- Households (Southgate)
- 10,174
- Typical visit
- Half a day in N14
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods New Southgate & Arnos Grove, Southgate, Southgate Green (E02000296, E02000304, E02000308) — the published geography that covers Southgate, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL).
Questions
Southgate N14 handyman questions
£55 an hour with a one-hour minimum, £190 for a half day and £340 for a full day in N14 in Southgate, with 55% of Southgate homes being houses. Fixed-price jobs start at £55 — flat-pack from £55, TV mounting from £85, shelving from £65 on Enfield bookings, with 10% social-rented stock nearby. Send the list and we confirm one written figure in this 45% flats neighbourhood.
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 this side of Enfield — and 55% of Southgate homes being houses, with a median age of 39 in this neighbourhood. The risk we guard against here is a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in this 45% flats neighbourhood, with 10,174 households on this patch, which crumbles the key and drops the panel. Every wall is scanned for studs, pipes and cables before the first hole on Enfield bookings.
Batching is the whole point of a N14 half-day slot around Southgate (Piccadilly). One arrival, one set of dust sheets and one London Borough of Enfield permit covers the whole list instead of being repeated per visit in this 45% flats neighbourhood, with this being London Borough of Enfield territory. Photos of each N14 wall let us sequence the list so the noisy drilling is done in one block for Southgate (N14) addresses, with 26% one-person households here.
Like-for-like socket faces, switches and light fittings, yes, tested on completion in this 45% flats neighbourhood. We stop at Part P: no new circuits, no consumer units, no bathroom electrics around Southgate (Piccadilly). Gas is Gas Safe work full stop, with 55% of Southgate homes being houses, so we decline it and point you at an engineer who is registered for it across N14.
Station circus gyratory, but driveways on almost every residential street in Southgate. London Borough of Enfield visitor permits and bay suspensions are arranged and paid for by us and sit inside the quoted price around Southgate (Piccadilly), with 10,174 households on this patch. Concierge sign-in and goods-lift booking are done before the visit in this 45% flats neighbourhood, with a median age of 39 in this neighbourhood, so the clock starts when the work does.
Standard screws, plugs, resin and hollow-wall anchors, silicone and filler come out of the van and are already in the price in this 45% flats neighbourhood, with 32% of N14 homes being privately rented. Loading for lath and plaster in advance is why a N14 visit rarely needs a mid-job supply run on Enfield bookings, with this being London Borough of Enfield territory. Specified items — a particular handle, a named tap — are bought at cost and the receipt goes on your invoice on the Southgate rounds, with a median age of 39 in this neighbourhood.
Yes. Every area in Enfield has its own page for Southgate (N14) addresses, and we cross borough boundaries constantly. If your address sits on the edge of N14, book the nearest page and we will confirm the same fixed price on this side of Enfield, with 32% of N14 homes being privately rented.
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 Southgate N14
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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