General Repairs & Handyman London

Our general repair services

Eight specialist trade lines run under one diary, one project manager and one invoice. Click through to any service below for room-by-room pricing, scope of works and the typical lead time for that job type.

What we do — every property repair, one number

The phrase "general repairs" covers everything a building throws at you between full refurbishments — the broken latch, the sagging shelf, the slipped slate, the leaking gutter, the jammed sash, the wonky wardrobe, the snapped key in the lock. Most properties throw a dozen of these jobs at a landlord or homeowner across a typical year. Booking each one separately wastes hours of admin and racks up call-out fees.

We run a single dispatch desk for every trade line — handyman, carpentry, locksmith, kitchen fitter, bathroom fitter, glazier, gutter and roof specialist, fencer, gate engineer. A specifier on the landline sizes the job in a five-minute conversation, picks the right tradesman from the diary, and books a single visit. Where the job needs more than one trade (a kitchen with new plumbing and electrics, a roof leak that's flooded a consumer unit, a fence run that needs concrete posts dug), they overlap on the same date so the property only has to be opened once.

Every tradesman runs out of a van stocked with the consumables of their trade — screws, plugs, sealants, silicone, brackets, lengths of architrave and skirting, common cylinder locks, replacement tile clips, gutter hangers. The trip-to-Screwfix-mid-job problem that hourly customers hate gets eliminated about 80% of the time. Materials beyond the standard stock are sourced at trade cost plus 15%, with receipts shown on request.

Comprehensive pricing

Pricing across the general repairs category sits on three structures: an hourly rate for small ad-hoc jobs, fixed prices for common standardised tasks (lock changes, flat-pack assembly, gutter cleans), and written project quotes for anything over a half day. No call-out fee on daytime work, no separate parking charge inside the ULEZ — congestion charge is passed through at cost only on central London bookings.

* Prices include VAT. Materials charged at trade cost plus 15%. Full pricing list on the pricing page.

How it works

From the first phone call to the signed-off job, the workflow is the same on every visit — quick scoping, transparent price, named tradesman, photo evidence and a 12-month guarantee on the work.

Carpentry and joinery in detail

Qualified carpenters on the diary hold City & Guilds Level 2 or 3 in Site Carpentry or Bench Joinery. Routine work covers door hanging (internal and external, FD30 fire doors on HMOs), architrave and skirting installation, fitted shelving, wardrobes, sash window repair (cord replacement, parting beads, weight pocket repair), floor boarding, decking and second-fix snagging. Materials sourced from the usual trade suppliers — Travis Perkins, Jewson, Selco — at trade cost plus 15%.

Heritage joinery — period sash windows in conservation areas, lath-and-plaster wall repair, traditional skirting profile matching — is priced on inspection because of the time involved in matching mouldings to existing stock. Most central London Victorian and Georgian properties get heritage-spec work as standard, and the carpenter will photograph the existing detail before quoting a like-for-like repair.

Kitchens, bathrooms and wet rooms

Full kitchen and bathroom installations are run as project-managed jobs with a single point of contact across plumbing, electrics, tiling, joinery and decoration. Typical timelines: a full bathroom strip-and-fit in a London 2-bed flat is 7–10 working days, a full kitchen with new units, worktops, splashbacks, appliances and electrical re-routing is 10–14 working days. Smaller scope work — replacement worktop only, new tap and basin, new shower enclosure on existing tray, single tile run — is single-day or two-day work.

Because the trades sit in-house, the plumbing, electrics and gas (where a boiler is being moved) all sign off under their own competent person scheme registrations — WRAS approved plumbers, Part P certified electricians, Gas Safe registered engineers — with the certificates added to the landlord file at sign-off. Full pricing and timeline detail sits on the kitchen and bathroom fitting page.

Areas covered

General repair visits run across all 32 London boroughs and the City of London. Heaviest booking volumes come from Camden, Westminster, Islington, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Southwark, Lambeth, Wandsworth, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Haringey and Greenwich.

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