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Handyman in Hackney
Handyman work in Hackney covers 15 areas, and the wall behind the plaster changes street by street. 81% of homes here are flats, so half the diary is conversion-flat lath and dot-and-dab board, and half is solid brick and timber stud. Every visit starts with a stud, pipe and cable scan.
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- Since 2019
- 15 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 Hackney permits arranged and paid for by us
The service, locally
Handyman services across Hackney
- Areas covered
- 15Areas covered
- Homes that are flats
- 81%Homes that are flats
- Fixed-price jobs from
- £55Fixed-price jobs from
- Households
- 106,081Households
Instant estimate
Price your Hackney job list
Estimated for Hackney
£110 – £320
Slot needed: One to two hours
- Door easing, hinges and closers
- £55 – £140
- Child and rental safety fixings
- £60 – £160
- 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 Hackney visit works
- Photos and a listSend every job in one message and we return a single written figure for the Hackney visit, same working day.
- Scan first, drill secondNothing is drilled blind: we scan, mark, protect the floor and choose for precast concrete and blockwork.
- Tested and tidiedFixings 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 Hackney
Most likely here
Precast concrete and blockwork — Post-war estates and podium blocks
SDS drill, 8 mm hole, sleeve anchor or screwbolt. Realistic load: 50 kg-plus per fixing. What goes wrong: hitting reinforcement or a buried conduit without a scan first.
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
Fixed prices
Handyman prices in Hackney
| Job | From | To | Time on site | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Shelves and floating units | £65 | £180 | 1–3 hrs | Alcove shelving, floating shelves and brackets set to a laser line |
| TV mounting | £85 | £165 | 1–2 hrs | Bracket into the correct substrate, screen levelled, cables dropped or trunked |
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
Shelves and floating units
£65 – £180
1–3 hrs
Alcove shelving, floating shelves and brackets set to a laser line
TV mounting
£85 – £165
1–2 hrs
Bracket into the correct substrate, screen levelled, cables dropped or trunked
These are the 8 jobs we are booked for most often in Hackney — 76% of homes here are flats, 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.
Why Hello Services
Why Hello Services in Hackney
Photographed and load-tested
Each fixing tested and documented, so landlords and agents get evidence without asking on the streets near Hackney Marshes.
We scan before we drill
Stud, pipe and cable detector on every Clapton wall before the first hole — not after the leak on the Clapton rounds, with a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood.
Rates and local costs
Hourly, half day or full day in Hackney
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 Hackney visitor permits and bay suspensions are arranged, paid for by us and already inside the quoted figure.
- Charging zones
- Hackney 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 Hackney
Included in every visit
- A DBS-checked, insured fitter arriving in Hackney with their own tools, ladders and dust sheets.
- Fixings matched to precast concrete and blockwork — SDS drill, 8 mm hole, sleeve anchor or screwbolt included — rather than whatever came in the flat-pack box.
- Detector before drill, laser line rather than eye, and a load test on each fixing before we sign off.
- Access worked out in advance for Hackney, with London Borough of Hackney permits and charges already inside the price.
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 Hackney
Areas we cover across Hackney
- Handyman in ClaptonClapton (Overground)E5
- Handyman in DalstonDalston Junction (Overground)E8
- Handyman in De Beauvoir TownHaggerston (Overground), across Kingsland RoadN1
- Handyman in Hackney CentralHackney Central (Overground)E8
- Handyman in Hackney WickHackney Wick (Overground)E9
- Handyman in HaggerstonHaggerston (Overground)E2
- Handyman in HomertonHomerton (Overground)E9
- Handyman in HoxtonHoxton (Overground)N1
- Handyman in London FieldsLondon Fields (Overground)E8
- Handyman in Manor HouseManor House (Piccadilly)N4
- Handyman in Newington GreenCanonbury (Overground), ten minutes east of the greenN16
- Handyman in ShoreditchShoreditch High Street (Overground)E1
- Handyman in Stamford HillStamford Hill (Overground)N16
- Handyman in Stoke NewingtonStoke Newington (Overground)N16
- Handyman in Victoria ParkCambridge Heath (Overground)E9
Neighbouring boroughs
Guides
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Other work we do in Hackney
End of tenancy cleaning
Fixing holes filled and touched in, then the whole Clapton flat cleaned for check-out.
One-off deep cleaning
A E5 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 Clapton flat.
About the borough
Hackney in context
Warehouse conversions, Georgian terraces and marshland parks — Shoreditch at one end, Stamford Hill at the other.
- 9,067 households in Clapton, 76% of them flats — the ratio that decides lift, stairs and drilling noise windows
Hackney at a glance
- Postcodes served
- E5
- Nearest station
- Clapton (Overground)
- Dominant wall construction
- precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, often with surface conduit
- Fixing we use most
- SDS drill, 8 mm hole, sleeve anchor or screwbolt
- Realistic load
- 50 kg-plus per fixing
- Most-booked list
- safety fixings, door furniture and shelving drilled into concrete with an SDS
- Watch out for
- drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it
- Charging zones
- Hackney sits outside the Congestion Charge zone and inside ULEZ
- Residents (Clapton)
- 24,518
- Households (Clapton)
- 9,067
- Typical visit
- Half a day in E5
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Clapton Leaside, Lower Clapton, Upper Clapton (E02000355, E02006918, E02006921) — the published geography that covers Clapton, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL).
Questions
Hackney handyman questions
£55 an hour with a one-hour minimum, £190 a half day, £340 a full day.
All 15 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 Hackney
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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