Crew sized to the job
One fitter for pictures and mirrors up to about 25kg; two for overmantels, full-length glass and anything carried up a communal stairwell. Steep approaches from Crystal Palace, narrow terraced streets and permit bays.
Bromley · SE20 · Mirror and artwork hanging
Professional Mirror and artwork hanging in Penge, SE20
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Penge fitters · Fixed written pricesMirror and artwork hanging in Penge SE20, Bromley, from £45. Victorian terraces and almshouses below Crystal Palace, with a reviving high street, which is why our SE20 quotes account for steep approaches from Crystal Palace, narrow terraced streets and permit bays. You get a fixed price in writing, an insured fitter and a tidy finish.
- Trustpilot 4.5· 3,100+ reviews
- Google 3.9· 1,429 reviews
- £5m public liability
- Licensed waste carrier CBDU300454
- Since 2019
SE20
- Mirror and artwork hanging in Penge SE20 from £45, fixed in writing
- Most booked here: mirrors and framed artwork
- Most slots are within 48 hours, with evenings and Saturdays for restricted buildings.
- London Borough of Bromley permits, ULEZ itemised, never hidden
- Trustpilot 4.5· 3,100+ reviews
- Google 3.9· 1,429 reviews
- £5m public liability
- Licensed waste carrier CBDU300454
- Since 2019
- From, framed picture up to 10kg
- £45From, framed picture up to 10kg
- Penge homes are flats
- 60%Penge homes are flats
- Privately rented
- 24%Privately rented
- Households in Penge
- 8,101Households in Penge
Overview
Mirror and artwork hanging in Penge SE20, explained
Mirror and artwork hanging in Penge SE20 is a fixed-price visit for social-housing-led homes in Bromley, most of them mainly Victorian. 8,101 households sit inside this SE20 patch, 60% of them flats, so we quote on access near The Watermen's Almshouses rather than a London average.
How it works
How mirror and artwork hanging works in Penge
Five steps, the same on every SE20 job, so you know what happens before you commit. Council and housing-association blocks built from precast concrete and dense block, as the Penge stock goes, and with 24% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is what we plan for here.
Step 1
Weigh and read the wall
The piece is weighed and the wall sounded — solid, stud, dot-and-dab or lath — because that decides the fixing.
Step 2
Detector sweep
Cables and pipes traced before drilling; shallow chases behind switches are the usual London hazard.
Step 3
Set the height
Centre set at eye line, lower over a mantel or headboard, marked with a laser rather than a guess.
Step 4
Fix and hang
Cleat, D-rings or a track fitted, the piece lifted on and checked level end to end.
Step 5
Make good and clear up
Old holes filled, dust vacuumed, packaging taken away.
Why choose us
Why Penge customers book us
Local knowledge is not a slogan on this page — it is what stops a bracket coming out of a Penge wall.
Booked around your day
Most slots are within 48 hours, with evenings and Saturdays for restricted buildings. Penge East (Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE20 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
Penge walls, not generic walls
We expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — which is what a 60% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Penge actually produces in SE20, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — measured on the walk in from Penge East (Southeastern) rather than assumed from a map.
Insured and documented
Fitters carry £5m public liability cover and every heavy mirror is photographed on its fixing for the job record.
Fixed prices
Mirror and artwork hanging prices in Penge
Fixed prices for SE20 and the rest of Bromley. Weight and wall type set the price: dot-and-dab, lath and steel lintels each need a different anchor.
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Framed picture up to 10kg | £45 | 15–30 min | One fixing, but the wall is scanned first — London plaster hides shallow pipes and cables. |
| Additional piece, same visit | £20 | 10–20 min | Call-out, sweep and dust sheets are already paid for on the first item. |
| Mirror 10–30kg | £65 | 30–50 min | Two-point fixing into something structural, then a laser check across the width. |
| Overmantel or full-length mirror above 30kg | £95 | 45–90 min | Plate glass needs a cleat rated well above the weight and two people to lift it. |
| Gallery wall, 5–9 pieces | £140 | 1.5–2.5 hrs | Set out on the floor and templated on the wall before a hole goes in. |
| Rail or track hanging system, per 2m | £110 | 1–1.5 hrs | A track spreads the load and lets tenants rehang without new holes. |
Framed picture up to 10kg
£45 · 15–30 min
One fixing, but the wall is scanned first — London plaster hides shallow pipes and cables.
Additional piece, same visit
£20 · 10–20 min
Call-out, sweep and dust sheets are already paid for on the first item.
Mirror 10–30kg
£65 · 30–50 min
Two-point fixing into something structural, then a laser check across the width.
Overmantel or full-length mirror above 30kg
£95 · 45–90 min
Plate glass needs a cleat rated well above the weight and two people to lift it.
Gallery wall, 5–9 pieces
£140 · 1.5–2.5 hrs
Set out on the floor and templated on the wall before a hole goes in.
Rail or track hanging system, per 2m
£110 · 1–1.5 hrs
A track spreads the load and lets tenants rehang without new holes.
Prices include the fixings, a cable and pipe detector sweep and a laser level check. Made-good filling of old holes is included; full redecoration is not. Permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge where they apply are itemised in the written quote.
Scope
What's included in Penge
The same scope across SE20, whether the job is a single item or a full room.
Included in the price
- On SE20 jobs: detector sweep for cables and pipes before any hole is drilled, mirror and artwork hanging included
- In Penge: fixings rated for the actual weight — cleats, toggles, resin or masonry anchors, sized for the steep approaches from crystal palace, narrow terraced streets and permit bays
- Laser level check and height set against eye line, not the sofa, checked on every SE20 visit
- Standard on Bromley bookings: old fixings removed and holes filled flush, with 8,101 households in this neighbourhood, it is the question we are asked most
Not included
- Replacing broken glass or reframing — that is a framer's job, quoted separately if you need it arranged in SE20
- Structural work, new lintels or plastering beyond making good the holes, which we refer on to the right trade in Penge
- Hanging into asbestos insulating board, which needs a licensed contractor, handled by London Borough of Bromley or a specialist contractor instead
Reviews for TV mounting across the UK
4.5 ★ from 3,131 Trustpilot reviews★★★★★Trustpilot
Sulltan is the best handyman in London. He is very reliable and professional. I highly recommend.
★★★★★Trustpilot
I booked online last minute, as I needed a handyman urgently for the next day. When I called Hello Services, I spoke to Michelle and she was extremely helpful and arranged everything within 15 mins. Adam the handy man then came to fix my wardrobe sliding door, which were jammed and came off the ledge… Read in full →
★★★★★Google
Sulltan is the best handyman in London , Highly recommend ......
Read all 29 TV mounting reviews →
Quoted verbatim from reviews customers left on our public Google and Trustpilot profiles. Nothing is edited, shortened beyond the link above, or written by us.
Coverage
Where we work around Penge SE20
Mirror and artwork hanging across Bromley and the SE20 district, mapped below.
Mirror and artwork hanging nearby
Also in this area
Other handyman work in Penge
Same fitters, same SE20 rounds, same fixed-price approach.
TV mounting in Penge
Brackets fixed into the right substrate, cables chased or trunked, screen levelled.
Shelf installation in Penge
Floating and bracketed shelving into plaster, brick, stud and dot-and-dab.
Wallpaper hanging in Penge
Feature walls, murals and full rooms papered, pattern matched and cleanly trimmed.
Blinds and curtain fitting in Penge
Blinds, poles and bay tracks measured, levelled and fixed to the reveal you have.
All hanging and mounting services in Penge
Anything that needs to go on a wall — fixed into the right substrate and levelled.
Most booked alongside this in Penge SE20
Working in Penge
Penge SE20 at a glance
Published figures for the neighbourhood that covers Penge — the numbers that actually change a mirror and artwork hanging quote.
Walk Penge from The Watermen's Almshouses outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 60% of the 8,101 households in SE20 live in flats, 40% in houses.
Private renting sits at 24% and owner-occupation at 43%; the first group books mirror and artwork hanging at short notice, the second plans it.
Penge substrates run to often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — which is what a 60% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Penge actually produces. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — measured on the walk in from Penge East (Southeastern) rather than assumed from a map is the mistake that costs a SE20 customer twice.
Anyone who knows Penge knows the pattern near The Watermen's Almshouses: victorian terraces and almshouses below Crystal Palace, with a reviving high street. We plan the SE20 visit around it. Penge is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: steep approaches from Crystal Palace, narrow terraced streets and permit bays. Penge East (Southeastern) is the nearest station, and one fitter for pictures and mirrors up to about 25kg; two for overmantels, full-length glass and anything carried up a communal stairwell.
Area at a glance
Penge SE20 by the numbers
Who lives in Penge and what they live in decides how mirror and artwork hanging is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Anerley North & Penge West and Penge East neighbourhood itself — not Bromley-wide averages, and not estimates.
18,297
Residents
Anerley North & Penge West and Penge East neighbourhood, Census 2021
8,101
Households
Median age 37.3
Flats vs houses
Flats 60.2%Houses 39.7%
Residents by sex
Male46.8%
Female53.2%
Single-person households
34.9%
Privately rented
23.8%
- Median age
- 37.3
- Owner-occupied
- 42.8%
- Social rented
- 33.4%
- Postcode districts
- SE20
- Nearest station
- Penge East
- Parking
- CPZ + ULEZ
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Anerley North & Penge West, Penge East (E02000130, E02000135) — the published geography that covers Penge, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE20 district: 51.4122, -0.0595 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Common questions
Mirror and artwork hanging in Penge SE20 — your questions.
How much does mirror and artwork hanging cost in Penge SE20?
Framed picture up to 10kg starts at £45 in Penge on Bromley bookings, with The Watermen's Almshouses a few streets away, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Weight and wall type set the price: dot-and-dab, lath and steel lintels each need a different anchor in this 60% flats neighbourhood, with 40% of Penge homes being houses.
Can you hang a heavy mirror on a plasterboard wall in Penge SE20?
Yes. In Penge we meet often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — which is what a 60% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Penge actually produces on this side of Bromley — and 35% one-person households here, so the mirror goes onto a French cleat spanning two studs, with 8,101 households on this patch, or through-fixes to the masonry behind. The board never carries the weight. The failure we undo most here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — measured on the walk in from Penge East (Southeastern) rather than assumed from a map on the streets near The Watermen's Almshouses — and Bromley parking rules in play, with this being London Borough of Bromley territory.
Do you hang gallery walls in Penge?
Often — with 60% of Penge homes being flats, smaller frames are the usual way to fill a wall on this side of Bromley, with Bromley parking rules in play. 5 hours from £140, templated before drilling.
I rent in SE20 — can you hang things without damaging the wall?
24% of homes here are privately rented, so this comes up weekly on Bromley bookings. We fit a picture rail or track — two fixings, not twenty — and can return at check-out to remove it and fill the holes on the Penge rounds, with 33% social-rented stock nearby.
Who books mirror and artwork hanging in Penge SE20 — tenants, landlords or owners?
All three. With 24% of Penge privately rented and 43% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE20 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door in this 60% flats neighbourhood — and The Watermen's Almshouses a few streets away, with 35% one-person households here.
How quickly can you reach Penge from your Bromley round?
The Watermen's Almshouses is the marker we route to around Penge East (Southeastern), with 60% of homes here being flats, and steep approaches from Crystal Palace, narrow terraced streets and permit bays. A SE20 slot added to an existing Bromley round usually lands the same week rather than the next in Penge, with this being London Borough of Bromley territory.
Is same-day or evening mirror and artwork hanging available in Bromley?
Most slots are within 48 hours, with evenings and Saturdays for restricted buildings on Bromley bookings. Penge sits close to Penge East (Southeastern), with The Watermen's Almshouses a few streets away, so we can usually add a SE20 job to an existing Bromley round at short notice on the streets near The Watermen's Almshouses.
Read next
Guides for Penge SE20
Three reads that answer what most people ask before they book.
Handyman
Reliable handyman services: costs, jobs and how to hire
Hourly rates, half-day jobs and the questions worth asking before booking.
Assembly
Flat-pack assembly: DIY or hire a pro?
Which builds are a two-hour job and which reliably eat a weekend.
Assembly
IKEA assembly without the hassle
Wardrobes, beds and kitchen units built and levelled the same day.
Free quote · 1-hour reply
Get a fixed price for Mirror and artwork hanging in Penge SE20
Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Penge SE20 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of bromley.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.