Handyman Services in Edgware

Yes, from 9am to 4.30pm. Saturdays suit owners who want to be in while the work is done, and tenants who are out during the week. Sunday is kept for emergency calls. Book early for a Saturday, especially if the list is long enough for a full day.

We carry the usual consumables: fixings, filler, sealant and some basic timber. For anything specific, like a particular handle, lock, blind or tap, you can buy it, or tell us what you want and we will include it in the quote. In a flat, check first whether the block has rules about front door hardware.

Yes, we work inside flats in purpose-built blocks all the time. If something on the list sits outside your demise, such as a communal door, a corridor light or the fabric of the building, we point that out and suggest the managing agent deals with it, since that is normally the freeholder's work to arrange.

Repairs that match what is there are usually fine; replacements need checking first. The Canons Park Estate is a Harrow conservation area, and since June 1991 an Article 4 direction there has meant planning permission for a new gate, fence or wall, a hard surface, a satellite dish or a new access to the road. Harrow added a further direction in 2022 covering windows, doors, porches and exterior painting on any side facing a road, a waterway or open space, so ask the conservation team about those too. Edgware High Street is a conservation area as well. We can repair rather than replace while you wait for the council's answer.

The handyman side of it, yes. Harrow's fire safety guidance for licensed family homes asks for a fire blanket in the kitchen and sound, close-fitting doors along the escape route, kept shut at night, so we fit the blanket and ease or rehang doors that no longer close properly. Battery carbon monoxide alarms can go up on the same visit: a licence demands one wherever a room used for living has a fixed appliance that burns fuel, gas cookers aside, and a bathroom with a gas boiler counts as such a room. The interlinked, mains-wired smoke alarms Harrow expects on the escape route are electrician work, which we can book into the same day.

No. GOV.UK's party wall guidance says minor work such as drilling to put up shelves or cabinets, replastering, or adding or replacing wiring and sockets needs no notice. Cutting into a party wall or taking a chimney out of it does, and that is a builder's job rather than a handyman's. Shared walls are the norm in Edgware: in Edgware West, a Harrow neighbourhood west of the A5, the Valuation Office's March 2025 figures show semis at 55.6% of homes and detached houses at just 0.6%.

For everyday repairs, hardly at all. Barnet designated the Watling Estate a conservation area in April 1998, and the national permitted development rules still let owners there carry out most small alterations, provided the outside materials look similar to the existing ones. The clearest restriction is cladding: putting render, pebble dash, timber, plastic or tiles over any outside wall needs planning permission on conservation-area land. If a job on your list would change how the front of the house looks, we flag it before starting, and we can repair like for like while you check with Barnet's planners.