Shelf installation in Fitzrovia, W1

Per shelf, fixed before we arrive: a single floating shelf from £45, a set of three from £95, a heavy-duty run from £75, alcove shelving from £190 and anti-tip anchoring from £35 across W1 — and 20% owner-occupation locally, with this being Westminster City Council territory. Hourly work, for mixed snag lists and salvaged timber, is £55 an hour in W1 with a one-hour minimum on this side of Westminster, with a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood.

A single floating shelf takes about forty minutes including set-out and load testing in Fitzrovia. A set of three is around ninety minutes, an alcove pair three and a half hours on Westminster bookings, with 53% one-person households here, and a full-height chimney-breast pair most of a day. Several shelves in one W1 visit are quicker per shelf than separate call-outs on the streets near The BT Tower.

It depends on the wall, not the shelf. Around Fitzrovia we usually find dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork for Fitzrovia (W1) addresses — and The BT Tower a few streets away, with 20% owner-occupation locally, which gives up to about 35kg a pair once bridged — a plastic plug in the board alone holds almost nothing. We state the safe working load in writing when the run is finished on the streets near The BT Tower — and a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood, with 28% social-rented stock nearby, and we load it in front of you rather than asking you to trust the packaging.

Dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork. Corefix or Geefix through-fixings that bridge the void and land in the block behind Fixings that stop in the plasterboard skin with a 25mm void behind it across W1 — and 20% owner-occupation locally, with 52% of W1 homes being privately rented, so the shelf pulls the board off the dabs — which is exactly what our set-out and fixing choice is designed to avoid.

No. Sheets cover the floor and furniture, the drill is on extraction on this side of Westminster, with 98% of homes here being flats, and we hoover skirting and carpet before we pack up. Dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork in particular is drilled slowly so the debris lifts out instead of blowing across the room on W1 jobs, with 4,257 households on this patch.

That is a fixed per-run extra on your Fitzrovia quote: strip the old shelving, pull the fixings, fill and sand in Fitzrovia, with 53% one-person households here — and 98% of homes here being flats, then take the timber away — so you are not left with a wall of craters and a pile in the hallway.