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Handyman in Southwark
Odd jobs across Southwark run to 14 areas. With 78% 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. Riverside loading restrictions, red routes on the New Kent Road and CPZs from SE1 to Peckham.
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- Since 2019
- 14 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 Southwark permits arranged and paid for by us
The service, locally
Handyman services across Southwark
- Areas covered
- 14Areas covered
- Homes that are flats
- 78%Homes that are flats
- Fixed-price jobs from
- £55Fixed-price jobs from
- Households
- 130,820Households
Instant estimate
Price your Southwark job list
Estimated for Southwark
£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 Southwark visit works
- Photos and a listPhotos of each wall and a list of jobs get one fixed written price for Southwark the same working day.
- We scan, then drillNothing is drilled blind: we scan, mark, protect the floor and choose for precast concrete and blockwork.
- 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 Southwark
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
Why Hello Services
Why Hello Services in Southwark
Photographed and load-tested
Each fixing tested and documented, so landlords and agents get evidence without asking for Bermondsey (SE16) addresses.
We scan before we drill
Stud, pipe and cable detector on every Bermondsey wall before the first hole — not after the leak in this 88% flats neighbourhood, with 13% of Bermondsey homes being houses.
Fixed prices
Handyman prices in Southwark
| Job | From | To | Time on site | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat-pack assembly | £55 | £190 | 1–4 hrs | Wardrobes, beds, desks and drawer units built, levelled and anchored to the wall |
| 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 |
| Mirrors, art and heavy hanging | £55 | £130 | 1–2 hrs | Heavy mirrors and framed pieces hung level on the right anchor for the wall |
Flat-pack assembly
£55 – £190
1–4 hrs
Wardrobes, beds, desks and drawer units built, levelled and anchored to the wall
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
Mirrors, art and heavy hanging
£55 – £130
1–2 hrs
Heavy mirrors and framed pieces hung level on the right anchor for the wall
Southwark books this 8-job shortlist more than anything else, because 88% of homes here are flats. 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 Southwark
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 Southwark visitor permits and bay suspensions are arranged, paid for by us and already inside the quoted figure.
- Charging zones
- Part of Southwark sits inside the Congestion Charge zone and all of it is 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 Southwark
Included in every visit
- A DBS-checked, insured fitter arriving in Southwark 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.
- 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 Southwark, with London Borough of Southwark 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 Southwark
Areas we cover across Southwark
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- Handyman in East DulwichEast Dulwich (Thameslink)SE22
- Handyman in Elephant and CastleElephant & Castle (Northern, Bakerloo, Thameslink)SE17
- Handyman in Herne HillHerne Hill (Thameslink, Southeastern)SE24
- Handyman in London Bridge and Bermondsey StreetLondon Bridge (Northern, Jubilee, National Rail)SE1
- Handyman in NunheadNunhead (Southeastern)SE15
- Handyman in PeckhamPeckham Rye (Overground, Thameslink)SE15
- Handyman in RotherhitheRotherhithe (Overground)SE16
- Handyman in South Bank and WaterlooWaterloo (Jubilee, Northern, Bakerloo, National Rail)SE1
- Handyman in Surrey QuaysSurrey Quays (Overground)SE16
- Handyman in WalworthElephant & Castle (Northern, Bakerloo)SE17
Neighbouring boroughs
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Other work we do in Southwark
End of tenancy cleaning
Fixing holes filled and touched in, then the whole Bermondsey flat cleaned for check-out.
One-off deep cleaning
A SE16 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 Bermondsey flat.
About the borough
Southwark in context
South-bank riverfront and Borough Market at the top, Peckham and Dulwich villages at the bottom.
- Housing mix here: 88% flats to 12% houses, 54,359 residents in total
Southwark at a glance
- Postcodes served
- SE16, SE1
- Nearest station
- Bermondsey (Jubilee)
- 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 Southwark sits inside the Congestion Charge zone and all of it is inside ULEZ
- Residents (Bermondsey)
- 54,359
- Households (Bermondsey)
- 23,919
- Typical visit
- Half a day in SE16
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Bermondsey East, Bermondsey North, London Bridge & Bermondsey West, South Bermondsey Central, South Bermondsey East, South Bermondsey West (E02000810, E02000812, E02000816, E02000817, E02000819, E02006942) — the published geography that covers Bermondsey, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL).
Questions
Southwark handyman questions
£55 an hour with a one-hour minimum, £190 a half day, £340 a full day.
All 14 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 Southwark
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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