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Handyman in Deptford, SE8
A bracket is only as good as the wall it is in. Deptford sits in Lewisham, 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
- London Borough of Lewisham permits, ULEZ and packaging removal already inside the price
The service, locally
Handyman work in Deptford
- Per hour, one-hour minimum
- £55Per hour, one-hour minimum
- Deptford homes are flats
- 83%Deptford homes are flats
- Fixed-price jobs
- 14Fixed-price jobs
- Households in Deptford
- 7,370Households in Deptford
Instant estimate
Price your Deptford job list
Estimated for Deptford SE8
£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 Deptford visit works
- Photos and a listSend every job in one message and we return a single written figure for the Deptford SE8 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 Deptford
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 Deptford
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Locks, handles and door furniture | £70 | £160 | 1–2 hrs | Euro cylinders, mortice locks, thumb turns and handles swapped like for like |
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
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
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 Deptford SE8 — 83% 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 Deptford
We scan before we drill
Stud, pipe and cable detector on every Deptford wall before the first hole — not after the leak for Deptford (SE8) addresses, with 33% one-person households here.
One visit, one fixed price
Your whole SE8 list quoted in writing the same working day, with no doorstep re-quote for Deptford (SE8) addresses.
The right anchor for the wall
We carry the lot, because drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it is what a rushed job leaves behind in Deptford, with 28% of SE8 homes being privately rented.
Permits and parking included
London Borough of Lewisham visitor permits and suspensions are arranged and paid for by us on the Deptford rounds.
Rates and local costs
Hourly, half day or full day in Deptford
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 Lewisham visitor permits and bay suspensions are arranged, paid for by us and already inside the quoted figure.
- Charging zones
- Lewisham 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 Deptford
Included in every visit
- An insured, DBS-checked tradesperson who brings everything needed for a SE8 visit — tools, steps and floor protection.
- SDS drill, 8 mm hole, sleeve anchor or screwbolt and the rest of our van stock, because precast concrete and blockwork is what most SE8 fixings go into.
- Detector before drill, laser line rather than eye, and a load test on each fixing before we sign off.
- market-day closures on Deptford High Street, narrow creek lanes and estate lifts — we plan the Deptford SE8 arrival around it and settle permits with London Borough of Lewisham ourselves.
Not included — and why
- Gas work of any kind: that is Gas Safe registered work, and we say so before you book, not on the day.
- Consumer units and new circuits, notifiable work that needs Part P sign-off.
- Structural alterations and anything needing London Borough of Lewisham building control sign-off.
- Asbestos disturbance — pre-2000 artex, soffits and boards near SE8 are surveyed, never drilled blind.
The full scope policy, the complete fixings matrix and every fixed price sit on one page: handyman reference.
Coverage
Handyman work around Deptford
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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
The real line between handyman work and jobs that need a registered electrician, gas or structural trade.
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Wall fixings guide: which anchor holds in which London wall
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Related services
Other work we do in Deptford
End of tenancy cleaning
Fixing holes filled and touched in, then the whole Deptford flat cleaned for check-out.
One-off deep cleaning
A SE8 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 Deptford flat.
Moving services
Furniture dismantled in SE8, moved, then rebuilt and re-anchored the same day.
House removals
A full Deptford move where the beds and wardrobes come apart and go back together properly.
House clearance
Old furniture and broken fittings taken away from SE8 before the new ones go up.
About the area
Deptford in context
Georgian survivors on Albury Street, Victorian terraces, estates and new creek-side blocks around Deptford Market Yard, and that stock decides the fixing: precast concrete panels and dense blockwork first, everything else after. Market street, the Albany and the creek-side yards of the old naval dockyard, so SE8 jobs reward a scan over a guess.
Market street, the Albany and the creek-side yards of the old naval dockyard. For a handyman that matters long before the drill comes out: 83% of the 7,370 households around Deptford are flats, and the fabric behind their plaster is precast concrete and blockwork. On that wall we use sDS drill, 8 mm hole, sleeve anchor or screwbolt, and we will tell you the honest ceiling: 50 kg-plus per fixing.
Because 28% of homes here are rented privately, we are often working to an agent's deadline — photographs of every fixing and an itemised invoice come as standard. Access is planned before the van leaves. Market-day closures on Deptford High Street, narrow creek lanes and estate lifts. Where London Borough of Lewisham needs a visitor permit or a bay suspension we book it, and lewisham sits outside the Congestion Charge zone and inside ULEZ.
- Housing mix here: 83% flats to 17% houses, 17,675 residents in total
- Wall we meet most in SE8: Precast concrete and blockwork — sDS drill, 8 mm hole, sleeve anchor or screwbolt
- Access: market-day closures on Deptford High Street, narrow creek lanes and estate lifts
- SE8 covered, Deptford Market Yard to the borough boundary, £190 a half day
Where Deptford sits in our coverage
Deptford is one of the neighbourhoods on our handyman work in Lewisham page, which sits under handyman work across London. The same crew works the adjoining postcodes too — handyman work in New Cross SE14 (0.7 miles), handyman work in Greenwich SE10 (1.3 miles), handyman work in Rotherhithe SE16 (1.4 miles), handyman work in Brockley SE4 (1.5 miles) and handyman work in Lewisham SE13 (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 Deptford.
Most booked alongside this in Deptford
Deptford SE8 at a glance
- Area
- Deptford, Lewisham
- Postcodes served
- SE8
- Nearest station
- Deptford (Southeastern)
- 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
- Lewisham sits outside the Congestion Charge zone and inside ULEZ
- Residents (Deptford)
- 17,675
- Households (Deptford)
- 7,370
- Typical visit
- Half a day in SE8
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Deptford North, New Cross & Deptford South (E02000654, E02006798) — the published geography that covers Deptford, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL).
Questions
Deptford SE8 handyman questions
£55 an hour with a one-hour minimum, £190 for a half day and £340 for a full day in SE8 in Deptford, with Deptford Market Yard a few streets away. Fixed-price jobs start at £55 — flat-pack from £55, TV mounting from £85, shelving from £65 for Deptford (SE8) addresses, with 28% of SE8 homes being privately rented. Send the list and we confirm one written figure in this 83% flats neighbourhood.
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 for Deptford (SE8) addresses, with this being a short walk from Deptford (Southeastern). The risk we guard against here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on the Deptford rounds, with 17% of Deptford homes being houses. Every wall is scanned for studs, pipes and cables before the first hole on Lewisham bookings.
Please do: one visit to Deptford beats three. 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 the Deptford rounds, with Deptford Market Yard a few streets away. Send photos of each wall with the list and the estimator on this page shows the one-visit saving before you book on SE8 jobs, with 28% of SE8 homes being privately rented.
Replacing what is already there — faceplates, switches, pendants — yes in this 83% flats neighbourhood, with a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood, with a test on completion. New circuits, consumer units and anything notifiable under Part P, no on this side of Lewisham. Gas is Gas Safe work full stop, with 28% of SE8 homes being privately rented, so we decline it and point you at an engineer who is registered for it in Deptford.
Market-day closures on Deptford High Street, narrow creek lanes and estate lifts on Lewisham bookings. London Borough of Lewisham visitor permits and bay suspensions are arranged and paid for by us and sit inside the quoted price in Deptford, with 7,370 households on this patch. Concierge sign-in and goods-lift booking are done before the visit on this side of Lewisham, with 83% 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 SE8 figure you were quoted on SE8 jobs, with 83% of homes here being flats. Loading for precast concrete and blockwork in advance is why a SE8 visit rarely needs a mid-job supply run on the Deptford rounds, with Lewisham parking rules in play. Anything specific bought for you is charged at cost with the receipt attached to the invoice in Deptford, with a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood.
Yes. Every area in Lewisham has its own page around Deptford (Southeastern), and we cross borough boundaries constantly. If your address sits on the edge of SE8, book the nearest page and we will confirm the same fixed price in Deptford, with a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood.
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 Deptford SE8
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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