London wallpaper hanging · North London
Local wallpaper hanging for Brent and its 10 covered areas. Wembley's stadium and towers, Kilburn's high street and the Metroland semis of Kingsbury and Queensbury.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feature wall, plain or small repeat | £180 | 3–4 hrs | One wall, but the prep — lining, sizing and filling — is most of the work and all of the finish. |
| Feature wall, large repeat or panoramic mural | £260 | 4–6 hrs | Panels have to be hung in order and matched across the drop; there is no second chance with a mural. |
| Average bedroom, four walls | £450 | 1 day | Corners in a London bedroom are rarely plumb, so every internal corner is overlapped and re-plumbed. |
| Hallway and stairwell | £620 | 1–2 days | Working off a stair platform is slower and needs two people for long drops over the flight. |
| Lining paper before painting, per wall | £120 | 2–3 hrs | Cross-lining hides the ripples in old lime plaster that emulsion would otherwise show up. |
| Stripping old paper, per room | £150 | 3–5 hrs | Steaming, scraping and washing down, plus the repairs the old paper was hiding. |
Feature wall, plain or small repeat
£180 · 3–4 hrs
One wall, but the prep — lining, sizing and filling — is most of the work and all of the finish.
Feature wall, large repeat or panoramic mural
£260 · 4–6 hrs
Panels have to be hung in order and matched across the drop; there is no second chance with a mural.
Average bedroom, four walls
£450 · 1 day
Corners in a London bedroom are rarely plumb, so every internal corner is overlapped and re-plumbed.
Hallway and stairwell
£620 · 1–2 days
Working off a stair platform is slower and needs two people for long drops over the flight.
Lining paper before painting, per wall
£120 · 2–3 hrs
Cross-lining hides the ripples in old lime plaster that emulsion would otherwise show up.
Stripping old paper, per room
£150 · 3–5 hrs
Steaming, scraping and washing down, plus the repairs the old paper was hiding.
Labour prices assume you supply the paper; we can order it at cost. Paste, sizing, lining paper and filler are included. Extensive re-plastering is quoted separately after the walls are stripped, never assumed. Permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge where they apply are itemised in the quote.
Working in Brent
The stock in Brent is 1930s semis, victorian and edwardian terraces in willesden and kilburn, and thousands of new wembley park flats, and the mix changes street by street — Cricklewood (NW2), Harlesden (NW10) and Kensal Green and Kensal Rise (NW10) each behave differently on the day.
London Borough of Brent sets the constraint: event-day controls around wembley, cpzs along kilburn high road, and new-build blocks needing lift and bay booking. Locally that means a5 red route, permit bays and terraced streets with tight parking and very busy high street with short loading bays; side streets are narrow and permit-only. Brent sits outside the Congestion Charge zone, so only ULEZ applies to the van and the quote is that much simpler.
Most flats in Brent are leasehold, and managing agents here routinely ask for a public liability certificate and a method note before a contractor drills anything. We send both with the booking confirmation.
Farmland urbanised by the Metropolitan Railway; the 1924 British Empire Exhibition put Wembley on the map. That history is why Brent property behaves the way it does today.
Scope
Method
Step 1
Walls tested for damp, chalky distemper and blown plaster — the three things that make paper lift within a month.
Step 2
Old paper steamed off, holes filled, sanded and sized so the paste grabs evenly across the wall.
Step 3
Started from a plumbed line rather than a corner, because almost no London corner is square.
Step 4
Drops booked, hung in sequence, pattern matched at each seam and rolled flat without shining the paper.
Step 5
Cut in cleanly at skirting and ceiling, switch plates refitted, floor left clean.
Coverage
Also in this borough
Heavy mirrors, gallery walls and framed prints hung level and anchored for the real weight.
Floating and bracketed shelving into plaster, brick, stud and dot-and-dab.
Gripper, underlay, doorbars and stairs fitted, with the old floor lifted and taken away.
Blinds, poles and bay tracks measured, levelled and fixed to the reveal you have.
Engineered, solid and laminate flooring laid with underlay, beading and doorbars.
Anything that needs to go on a wall — fixed into the right substrate and levelled.
Feature wall, plain or small repeat starts at £180 in Brent, and the ladder runs up to £150 for the largest job on the table above. Prep decides the price far more than the paper does. Chalky lime plaster, previously painted-over paper and out-of-plumb corners each add hours before a single drop is hung. The borough is outside the Congestion Charge zone, so there is no charge to pass on — only ULEZ, which our vans are compliant with.
We cover the whole borough: HA0, HA9, NW10, NW2, NW6, NW9 and W9. On the ground that includes Cricklewood, Harlesden, Kensal Green and Kensal Rise, Kilburn Park and Brondesbury, Kingsbury and Neasden.
Bookings are usually within a week, with a survey first for anything larger than a single feature wall. North London is covered by crews already working in the borough, so travel time is not billed on top.
Event-day controls around Wembley, CPZs along Kilburn High Road, and new-build blocks needing lift and bay booking. Where a permit or a bay suspension is needed we arrange it with London Borough of Brent and show the cost in the quote before you agree it. Nothing is added afterwards.
Yes. 1930s semis, Victorian and Edwardian terraces in Willesden and Kilburn, and thousands of new Wembley Park flats is exactly the stock we work in daily. Where there is no lift, the crew size is set by the floor level at quote stage, so a third-floor walk-up is priced as a third-floor walk-up rather than re-quoted on the doorstep.
Decorators carry £5m public liability cover and work to dust-sheeted, low-odour paste specifications — what concierge buildings and managing agents ask for before they will approve a weekday booking. Certificates go out with the booking confirmation, which is what London Borough of Brent tenancies and most local managing agents ask for.
One decorator for a feature wall or single room; two for stairwells, long drops and murals that must be hung to a strict sequence. Vehicles are ULEZ-compliant, which matters in every Brent postcode, and the crew carries everything needed to complete the job in one visit.
Full re-plastering where the substrate has blown — quoted after stripping, Damp treatment: paper hung over active damp will fail and we will not do it and Removing asbestos-containing textured coatings such as older Artex. If something on that list turns up in Brent, we tell you at survey and point you at the right trade rather than taking the booking anyway.
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Send a few details and you get a written quote for your Brent address, with permits and charges shown separately.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
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