Reliable home maintenance, mounting, and repair tasks.
Not sure which service you need? Book a handyman for an hour and tell us about the job. Good for small mixed jobs and anything not on the list.
Fitting a glass bath or shower screen, including tile drilling and sealing for a watertight finish.
Hanging curtain rods, tracks, roller blinds, Venetian blinds, or vertical blinds.
When a door sticks in its frame, has dropped, rattles, will not latch or lets in a draught, we look first at its hinges, its latch and keep, and its edges, and put it right where it hangs. We also fit draught strips and adjust or fit door closers. A door that catches on a new floor is a different job: that is Door Trimming & Shaving.
New carpet, laminate or tiles raise the floor, and the doors that cleared the old one start to catch. We take each door off its hinges, mark the cut from the new floor, trim the bottom edge, seal the bare wood and hang it back. We leave a gap over the floor, so air still passes under the door as well as the door swinging clear.
Wardrobes, beds, chests of drawers, desks, tables and bookcases from the flat pack, built to the maker's instructions in the room where they will stand. A chest of drawers, a wardrobe or a tall bookcase is then fixed to the wall with the fitting the maker supplies. IKEA explains why: a pulled-out drawer works like a lever, and even a small child standing on it can tip a large chest that is not fixed.
Clearing leaves and debris from gutters and downpipes to prevent overflow and water damage.
Replacing worn or broken door locks, handles, and latches for security or a tenancy changeover.
Replacing light switches, power outlets, light fixtures, or fitting new smoke alarms.
Addressing minor plaster cracks, squeaky floors, loose handles, or other general small repairs.
Filling holes, sanding down, and repainting damaged walls, doors, or skirting boards.
Comprehensive handyman checkups and general repairs across multiple areas of the property in a single visit.
The wall decides how a shelf is fixed, so we find out what it is before anything is drilled: solid brick or block, plasterboard on a timber frame, or plasterboard stuck to brick, where the fixing has to reach the brick behind. We put up floating shelves, shelves on brackets, shelving on wall uprights, and shelves cut to fit an alcove, level and fixed for what will sit on them.
Removing old, mouldy silicone and resealing around baths, showers, and sinks to stop leaks and damp.
We fix a flat-screen TV to the wall on a bracket that matches the holes on the back of the set and carries its weight, level and at the height you choose, with the cables tidied into a cover on the wall. On brick or block the bracket is fixed into the masonry. On a plasterboard wall it goes into the timber studs behind the board, which is RoSPA's advice for a TV on plasterboard.
Mounting pictures, heavy mirrors, whiteboards, or gallery walls with correct anchors.
Plumbing Handyman Surrey provides handyman services from our Chessington base across Chessington, Kingston upon Thames and Epsom and the towns and villages around them. Whether you're in the heart of a town or out in a surrounding village, we come to you with the tools and common parts to finish most jobs on the first visit.
