Insured and documented
Work is covered by £5m public liability insurance and we photograph the fixing before the screen goes on, which is what most London leases and letting agents ask for.
Bromley · BR5 · TV mounting
Professional TV mounting in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley, BR5
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local St Mary Cray and Cray Valley fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide TV mounting in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley BR5 for houses and flats around The River Cray and Nugent Shopping Park. From £75, quoted in writing before the visit, with one fitter up to 43 inches, two for anything larger or where the screen has to go up a stairwell Walls are scanned and sounded before anything is drilled.
- Trustpilot 4.5· 3,100+ reviews
- Google 3.9· 1,426 reviews
- £5m public liability
- Licensed waste carrier CBDU300454
- Since 2019
BR5
- TV mounting in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley BR5 from £75, fixed in writing
- Most booked here: safety fixings
- Most borough slots are available within 48 hours, with evening appointments after 6pm on weekdays.
- London Borough of Bromley permits, ULEZ itemised, never hidden
- Trustpilot 4.5· 3,100+ reviews
- Google 3.9· 1,426 reviews
- £5m public liability
- Licensed waste carrier CBDU300454
- Since 2019
- From, up to 42" on a solid wall
- £75From, up to 42" on a solid wall
- St Mary Cray and Cray Valley homes are flats
- 23%St Mary Cray and Cray Valley homes are flats
- Privately rented
- 13%Privately rented
- Households in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley
- 10,135Households in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley
Overview
TV mounting in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley BR5, explained
This page prices TV mounting for St Mary Cray and Cray Valley BR5 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 13% privately rented and 10,135 households in total. Work starts at £75, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Bromley permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
How it works
How TV mounting works in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley
Five steps, the same on every BR5 job, so you know what happens before you commit. In BR5, Council and housing-association blocks built from precast concrete and dense block — measured on the walk in from St Mary Cray (Southeastern) rather than assumed from a map is what we plan for here.
Step 1
Wall check
Detector sweep for cables and pipes, then a substrate test so the fixing matches the wall rather than the other way round.
Step 2
Height and eye-line
We set the centre of the screen to seated eye level and mark it before drilling anything.
Step 3
Bracket fixed
Anchors chosen for the wall type and torqued, with a load check before the screen goes anywhere near it.
Step 4
Screen hung and levelled
Two-person lift on anything over 43 inches, then levelled and the tilt set.
Step 5
Cables and clear-up
Cables trunked, sleeved or chased if quoted, inputs tested and the packaging taken away.
Why choose us
Why St Mary Cray and Cray Valley customers book us
Four things decide whether a BR5 job goes well, and none of them are visible from a price list.
Crew sized to the job
One fitter up to 43 inches, two for anything larger or where the screen has to go up a stairwell. Wide estate roads with kerbside parking and industrial-estate access nearby.
Booked around your day
Most borough slots are available within 48 hours, with evening appointments after 6pm on weekdays. St Mary Cray (Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a BR5 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
St Mary Cray and Cray Valley walls, not generic walls
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley, often with surface conduit, and with 29% one-person households in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site in BR5, 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, as the St Mary Cray and Cray Valley stock goes, the reality on the streets around The River Cray and Nugent Shopping Park.
Fixed prices
TV mounting prices in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley
Fixed prices for BR5 and the rest of Bromley. Screen size and wall type set the price. Dot-and-dab, stud and thin modern partitions cost more than brick because the fixing has to reach something structural.
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up to 42" on a solid wall | £75 | 45–60 min | Brick or block takes a straightforward fixing; the time is levelling and cable dressing. |
| 43"–65" on a solid wall | £95 | 1–1.5 hrs | Two-person lift and a heavier bracket with resin or sleeve anchors rated for the screen. |
| 66"+ or a full-motion arm | £140 | 1.5–2 hrs | Cantilever arms multiply the pull-out load, so the fixing pattern and substrate check take longer. |
| Dot-and-dab or stud wall | £120 | 1.5–2 hrs | The plasterboard carries nothing: we locate studs or fit through-fixings to the masonry behind the void. |
| Cables chased into the wall | £90 | +1–2 hrs | Chasing, back boxes and making good is a separate trade task from hanging the screen. |
| Soundbar, shelf or console added | £35 | +20–30 min | A second fixing line that has to sit level with the screen and hide its own cabling. |
Up to 42" on a solid wall
£75 · 45–60 min
Brick or block takes a straightforward fixing; the time is levelling and cable dressing.
43"–65" on a solid wall
£95 · 1–1.5 hrs
Two-person lift and a heavier bracket with resin or sleeve anchors rated for the screen.
66"+ or a full-motion arm
£140 · 1.5–2 hrs
Cantilever arms multiply the pull-out load, so the fixing pattern and substrate check take longer.
Dot-and-dab or stud wall
£120 · 1.5–2 hrs
The plasterboard carries nothing: we locate studs or fit through-fixings to the masonry behind the void.
Cables chased into the wall
£90 · +1–2 hrs
Chasing, back boxes and making good is a separate trade task from hanging the screen.
Soundbar, shelf or console added
£35 · +20–30 min
A second fixing line that has to sit level with the screen and hide its own cabling.
Prices include the fixings and a straight cable tidy. Brackets can be supplied at cost or you can provide your own. Where a permit or a loading-bay suspension is needed for the van it is itemised in the quote, and Congestion Charge or ULEZ, where they apply, are shown as separate lines rather than folded into the labour rate.
Scope
What's included in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley
The same scope across BR5, whether the job is a single item or a full room.
Included in the price
- In St Mary Cray and Cray Valley: substrate check before anything is drilled — masonry, dot-and-dab, stud or concrete, the way it is done on St Mary Cray and Cray Valley jobs
- On BR5 jobs: fixings rated for the screen weight and, on cantilever arms, the pull-out load, with 23% of homes here being flats, planned around the stair or the lift
- Standard on Bromley bookings: screen levelled, tilt set and cables tidied into trunking or a sleeve, arranged with London Borough of Bromley where the kerb needs it
- Cardboard and packaging taken away — including TV mounting prices
Not included
- Aerial and satellite work, which needs an aerial engineer, quoted separately if you need it arranged in BR5
- New power sockets behind the screen — that is notifiable electrical work, outside the fixed price on St Mary Cray and Cray Valley bookings
- Drilling into a wall we assess as unsafe or a leaseholder's structural wall without written consent, and we will say so before the BR5 visit rather than on the day
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 St Mary Cray and Cray Valley BR5
TV mounting across Bromley and the BR5 district, mapped below.
Also in this area
Other handyman work in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley
Same fitters, same BR5 rounds, same fixed-price approach.
Flat-pack assembly in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley
Wardrobes, beds, desks and storage built, levelled and anchored to the wall.
Shelf installation in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley
Floating and bracketed shelving into plaster, brick, stud and dot-and-dab.
Blinds and curtain fitting in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley
Blinds, poles and bay tracks measured, levelled and fixed to the reveal you have.
All hanging and mounting services in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley
Anything that needs to go on a wall — fixed into the right substrate and levelled.
Most booked alongside this in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley BR5
Working in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley
St Mary Cray and Cray Valley BR5 at a glance
Published figures for the neighbourhood that covers St Mary Cray and Cray Valley — the numbers that actually change a TV mounting quote.
In St Mary Cray and Cray Valley (BR5) the split is 23% flats to 77% houses over 10,135 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
Because 13% of St Mary Cray and Cray Valley is privately rented and 32% socially rented, a lot of BR5 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
St Mary Cray and Cray Valley substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley, often with surface conduit, and with 29% one-person households in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the St Mary Cray and Cray Valley stock goes, the reality on the streets around The River Cray and Nugent Shopping Park is the mistake that costs a BR5 customer twice.
Valley industry, the Cray river and post-war estate housing. That character decides the practical detail of TV mounting here far more than the borough boundary does. St Mary Cray and Cray Valley 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: wide estate roads with kerbside parking and industrial-estate access nearby. St Mary Cray (Southeastern) is the nearest station, and one fitter up to 43 inches, two for anything larger or where the screen has to go up a stairwell.
Area at a glance
St Mary Cray and Cray Valley BR5 by the numbers
Who lives in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley and what they live in decides how tv mounting is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the St Mary Cray East and St Mary Cray North and St Mary Cray South neighbourhood itself — not Bromley-wide averages, and not estimates.
25,670
Residents
St Mary Cray East and St Mary Cray North and St Mary Cray South neighbourhood, Census 2021
10,135
Households
Median age 36.5
Flats vs houses
Flats 22.9%Houses 76.8%
Residents by sex
Male47.1%
Female52.9%
Single-person households
28.9%
Privately rented
13%
- Median age
- 36.5
- Owner-occupied
- 55.4%
- Social rented
- 31.6%
- Postcode districts
- BR5
- Nearest station
- St Mary Cray
- Parking
- CPZ + ULEZ
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods St Mary Cray East, St Mary Cray North, St Mary Cray South (E02000140, E02000145, E02000149) — the published geography that covers St Mary Cray and Cray Valley, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the BR5 district: 51.3917, 0.1034 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Common questions
TV mounting in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley BR5 — your questions.
How much does TV mounting cost in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley BR5?
Up to 42" on a solid wall starts at £75 in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley in this 23% flats neighbourhood, with a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood — and 29% one-person households here, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Screen size and wall type set the price. Dot-and-dab, stud and thin modern partitions cost more than brick because the fixing has to reach something structural in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley, with 13% of BR5 homes being privately rented.
Can you mount a TV on plasterboard in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley BR5?
Yes. In St Mary Cray and Cray Valley the walls we usually meet are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley, often with surface conduit — and a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood, and with 29% one-person households in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site across BR5, with 23% of homes here being flats, so we locate the studs or use through-fixings into the masonry behind the board. The plasterboard itself never carries the screen, whatever the bracket packaging claims around St Mary Cray (Southeastern).
How long does TV mounting take in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley?
A screen up to 42 inches on a solid wall in BR5 takes 45–60 minutes on BR5 jobs. A 43–65 inch screen takes an hour to 90 minutes around St Mary Cray (Southeastern) — and 77% of St Mary Cray and Cray Valley homes being houses, with this being a short walk from St Mary Cray (Southeastern), and a full-motion arm or a dot-and-dab wall pushes it to two hours because the fixing pattern has to reach something structural.
Do you chase cables into the wall in Bromley?
We do, quoted separately from £90 — chasing, back boxes and making good is a different task from hanging the screen across BR5, with 29% one-person households here. In leasehold flats across St Mary Cray and Cray Valley we check the lease first; many London Borough of Bromley blocks require consent before a wall is cut on the streets near The River Cray and Nugent Shopping Park — and this being a short walk from St Mary Cray (Southeastern), with 10,135 households on this patch.
Do you handle difficult access in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley?
Wide estate roads with kerbside parking and industrial-estate access nearby on Bromley bookings. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Bromley it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley — and 77% of St Mary Cray and Cray Valley homes being houses, with this being a short walk from St Mary Cray (Southeastern).
Are your fitters insured for work in BR5?
Work is covered by £5m public liability insurance and we photograph the fixing before the screen goes on on this side of Bromley — and 32% social-rented stock nearby, with a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood, which is what most London leases and letting agents ask for. That paperwork is what most Bromley letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat across BR5, with this being London Borough of Bromley territory.
What is not included in TV mounting in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley?
Aerial and satellite work, which needs an aerial engineer; New power sockets behind the screen — that is notifiable electrical work; Drilling into a wall we assess as unsafe or a leaseholder's structural wall without written consent in this 23% flats neighbourhood — and 77% of St Mary Cray and Cray Valley homes being houses, with 29% one-person households here. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the St Mary Cray and Cray Valley BR5 price you agree is the price you pay on Bromley bookings, with Bromley parking rules in play.
Read next
Guides for St Mary Cray and Cray Valley BR5
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 TV mounting in St Mary Cray and Cray Valley BR5
Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. St Mary Cray and Cray Valley BR5 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.