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Handyman in North Kensington, W10
A bracket is only as good as the wall it is in. North Kensington sits in Kensington and Chelsea, where the stock produces precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, often with surface conduit — get that wrong and the shelf comes down with the plaster attached.
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- £55 an hour, £190 a half day — fixed price for the whole list
- Precast concrete and blockwork 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
- Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea permits, ULEZ and packaging removal already inside the price
The service, locally
Handyman work in North Kensington
- Per hour, one-hour minimum
- £55Per hour, one-hour minimum
- North Kensington homes are flats
- 81%North Kensington homes are flats
- Fixed-price jobs
- 14Fixed-price jobs
- Households in North Kensington
- 3,820Households in North Kensington
Instant estimate
Price your North Kensington job list
Estimated for North Kensington W10
£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 North Kensington visit works
- Send your job listA photo per wall lets us read the substrate before quoting, so the North Kensington W10 price we send is the price you pay.
- We scan, then drillEvery wall is scanned for studs, pipes and cables, sheets go down, and the fixing is matched to precast concrete and blockwork rather than pulled from a pack.
- Load-tested, then clearedEvery 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 North Kensington
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 North Kensington
| 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 |
| Flat-pack assembly | £55 | £190 | 1–4 hrs | Wardrobes, beds, desks and drawer units built, levelled and anchored to the wall |
| Mirrors, art and heavy hanging | £55 | £130 | 1–2 hrs | Heavy mirrors and framed pieces hung level on the right anchor for the wall |
| Curtain poles and blinds | £60 | £150 | 1–3 hrs | Poles, tracks and blinds fixed to timber, brick or reinforced plasterboard |
| Shelves and floating units | £65 | £180 | 1–3 hrs | Alcove shelving, floating shelves and brackets set to a laser line |
| Locks, handles and door furniture | £70 | £160 | 1–2 hrs | Euro cylinders, mortice locks, thumb turns and handles swapped like for like |
TV mounting
£85 – £165
1–2 hrs
Bracket into the correct substrate, screen levelled, cables dropped or trunked
Flat-pack assembly
£55 – £190
1–4 hrs
Wardrobes, beds, desks and drawer units built, levelled and anchored to the wall
Mirrors, art and heavy hanging
£55 – £130
1–2 hrs
Heavy mirrors and framed pieces hung level on the right anchor for the wall
Curtain poles and blinds
£60 – £150
1–3 hrs
Poles, tracks and blinds fixed to timber, brick or reinforced plasterboard
Shelves and floating units
£65 – £180
1–3 hrs
Alcove shelving, floating shelves and brackets set to a laser line
Locks, handles and door furniture
£70 – £160
1–2 hrs
Euro cylinders, mortice locks, thumb turns and handles swapped like for like
These are the 6 jobs we are booked for most often in North Kensington W10 — 81% 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 North Kensington
DBS-checked and insured
£1m public liability and a tradesperson you would be happy to leave in the flat on the North Kensington rounds.
Photographed and load-tested
Each fixing tested and documented, so landlords and agents get evidence without asking around Latimer Road (Circle, Hammersmith & City).
We scan before we drill
Stud, pipe and cable detector on every North Kensington wall before the first hole — not after the leak in North Kensington, with a median age of 38 in this neighbourhood.
One visit, one fixed price
Your whole W10 list quoted in writing the same working day, with no doorstep re-quote on the North Kensington rounds.
Rates and local costs
Hourly, half day or full day in North Kensington
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
- Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea visitor permits and bay suspensions are arranged, paid for by us and already inside the quoted figure.
- Charging zones
- Part of Kensington and Chelsea 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 North Kensington
Included in every visit
- A DBS-checked, insured fitter arriving in North Kensington W10 with their own tools, ladders and dust sheets.
- Van-stock anchors chosen for precast concrete and blockwork, including SDS drill, 8 mm hole, sleeve anchor or screwbolt, at no extra charge.
- Scanning, levelling and load-testing on every hole — plus packaging and old fittings taken away.
- Parking, permits and any charge zone sorted with Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 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 North Kensington W10.
- Consumer units and new circuits, notifiable work that needs Part P sign-off.
- Load-bearing or structural changes, which need building control approval from Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea first.
- Drilling into suspected asbestos: pre-2000 precast concrete and blockwork 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 North Kensington
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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
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What a handyman can and cannot legally do in the UK
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Wall fixings guide: which anchor holds in which London wall
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Other work we do in North Kensington
End of tenancy cleaning
Fixing holes filled and touched in, then the whole North Kensington flat cleaned for check-out.
One-off deep cleaning
A W10 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 North Kensington flat.
Moving services
Furniture dismantled in W10, moved, then rebuilt and re-anchored the same day.
House removals
A full North Kensington move where the beds and wardrobes come apart and go back together properly.
House clearance
Old furniture and broken fittings taken away from W10 before the new ones go up.
About the area
North Kensington in context
Victorian terraces, low-rise estates and housing-association blocks around The Westway Sports Centre, and that stock decides the fixing: precast concrete panels and dense blockwork first, everything else after. Dense residential streets between the Westway and Wormwood Scrubs, so W10 jobs reward a scan over a guess.
Dense residential streets between the Westway and Wormwood Scrubs. For a handyman that matters long before the drill comes out: 81% of the 3,820 households around North Kensington are flats, and the fabric behind their plaster is precast concrete and blockwork. Our fitters answer it with sDS drill, 8 mm hole, sleeve anchor or screwbolt, which takes 50 kg-plus per fixing without creeping in the months afterwards.
With 23% private renting and 46% social renting locally, a good share of North Kensington work is landlord snagging, safety fixings and putting fixing holes right before an inventory. Parking, lifts and sign-in are settled up front: westway underpasses, one-way estate roads and stair-only access in many blocks We arrange Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea permits ourselves, and part of Kensington and Chelsea sits inside the Congestion Charge zone and all of it is inside ULEZ.
- Housing mix here: 81% flats to 19% houses, 8,993 residents in total
- Default fixing for North Kensington: sDS drill, 8 mm hole, sleeve anchor or screwbolt, load-tested to 50 kg-plus per fixing
- Nearest station Latimer Road (Circle, Hammersmith & City); westway underpasses, one-way estate roads and stair-only access in many blocks
- Covering W10 and the streets around The Westway Sports Centre, from £55 an hour
Where North Kensington sits in our coverage
Everything we fit in North Kensington is booked through our handyman work in Kensington and Chelsea page, which sits under handyman work across London. Nearest pages to this one, in travel order: handyman work in Ladbroke Grove W10 (under ½ mile), handyman work in Westbourne Park W10 (under ½ mile), handyman work in Shepherd's Bush W12 (1.4 miles), handyman work in White City W12 (1.4 miles) and handyman work in Kensal Green and Kensal Rise NW10 (1.8 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 North Kensington.
Most booked alongside this in North Kensington
North Kensington W10 at a glance
- Area
- North Kensington, Kensington and Chelsea
- Postcodes served
- W10
- Nearest station
- Latimer Road (Circle, Hammersmith & City)
- 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
- Part of Kensington and Chelsea sits inside the Congestion Charge zone and all of it is inside ULEZ
- Residents (North Kensington)
- 8,993
- Households (North Kensington)
- 3,820
- Typical visit
- Half a day in W10
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood North Kensington (E02000579) — the published geography that covers North Kensington, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL).
Questions
North Kensington W10 handyman questions
£55 an hour with a one-hour minimum, £190 for a half day and £340 for a full day in W10 on the North Kensington rounds, with this being Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea territory. Fixed-price jobs start at £55 — flat-pack from £55, TV mounting from £85, shelving from £65 on W10 jobs, with a median age of 38 in this neighbourhood. Send the list and we confirm one written figure on the streets near The Westway Sports Centre.
Yes. Locally that usually means precast concrete and blockwork — sds drill, 8 mm hole, sleeve anchor or screwbolt, holding around 50 kg-plus per fixing on the North Kensington rounds, with 39% one-person households here. The risk we guard against here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on Kensington and Chelsea bookings, with 3,820 households on this patch. Every wall is scanned for studs, pipes and cables before the first hole in this 81% flats neighbourhood.
Yes — a batched list is the cheapest way to book us in W10 on the North Kensington rounds. Once you are past three jobs, £190 for a half day beats paying the £55 hourly minimum three times over for North Kensington (W10) addresses, with 81% of homes here being flats. Photos of each W10 wall let us sequence the list so the noisy drilling is done in one block in this 81% flats neighbourhood, with 46% social-rented stock nearby.
Like-for-like socket faces, switches and light fittings, yes, tested on completion around Latimer Road (Circle, Hammersmith & City). Anything notifiable under Part P — new circuits, a consumer unit, bathroom zones — needs a registered electrician instead on W10 jobs, with a median age of 38 in this neighbourhood. Gas is Gas Safe work full stop, with Kensington and Chelsea parking rules in play, so we decline it and point you at an engineer who is registered for it on this side of Kensington and Chelsea.
Westway underpasses, one-way estate roads and stair-only access in many blocks on the North Kensington rounds. Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea visitor permits and bay suspensions are arranged and paid for by us and sit inside the quoted price on W10 jobs, with 3,820 households on this patch. Concierge sign-in and goods-lift booking are done before the visit around Latimer Road (Circle, Hammersmith & City), with 39% one-person households here, 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 on Kensington and Chelsea bookings, with The Westway Sports Centre a few streets away. We stock for the North Kensington substrate specifically in this 81% flats neighbourhood — and 39% one-person households here, with 19% of North Kensington homes being houses, so sDS drill, 8 mm hole, sleeve anchor or screwbolt does not turn into a trip to a merchant. Specified items — a particular handle, a named tap — are bought at cost and the receipt goes on your invoice on this side of Kensington and Chelsea, with 46% social-rented stock nearby.
Yes. Every area in Kensington and Chelsea has its own page on the streets near The Westway Sports Centre, with 46% social-rented stock nearby, and we cross borough boundaries constantly. If your address sits on the edge of W10, book the nearest page and we will confirm the same fixed price around Latimer Road (Circle, Hammersmith & City), with 23% of W10 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 North Kensington W10
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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