A quietly kept London drawing room

A small London team, keeping a short list of homes in good working order.

By recommendation, mostly.

Fettle

What do we do?

Handyman services and home maintenance across London. One team for the whole house – painting and decorating, plastering, plumbing, carpet and end of tenancy cleaning, fences, floors, and the odd jobs in between.

Free 10-minute video call – a £30 visit only if we need to see it

Handyman servicesShelves, TV mounting, flat-pack, doors and the odd jobs on your list.Painting and decoratingWalls, ceilings and woodwork, prepped properly and finished neatly.PlasteringCracks, holes and tired walls made smooth again, ready for paint.Plumbing servicesTaps, toilets, leaks, radiators and new fittings, by our own plumber.End of tenancy cleaningA deep clean plus the small repairs that get your deposit back.Carpet cleaningCarpets, stairs and rugs deep cleaned and stains treated.Fences, gates & gardensFence repairs, gates, decking, jet washing and garden tidy-ups.Flooring & tilingCreaky boards, skirting, cracked tiles and fresh sealant.Home maintenance servicesGutters, damp checks and the once-a-season look-over.

All our services and prices

Same house, N6. Drag to see the difference a season of upkeep makes.

The garden and driveway after Fettle’s work: clipped hedges, fresh planting, tidy pavingThe garden and driveway before: overgrown beds, weeds through the pavingBeforeAfter
Bishopswood Road, Highgate · N6

Same room, NW3. Drag to see what a proper going-over does.

The same dining room after Fettle’s work: fresh paint, restored cornice, warm and finishedA period dining room before: tired dark walls, bare boards, worn furnitureBeforeAfter
Lambolle Road, Belsize Park · NW3

From a wonky fence to a fresh coat of paint.

A bright kitchen extension opening onto a London garden
Plimsoll Road, Highbury · N5

A look inside

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Lambolle Road, Belsize Park · NW3

Lambolle Road, Belsize Park · NW3

Dust sheets down, shoes off, radio low. Work you notice only by the fact everything simply works.

A drawing room with parquet floors and a sculptural staircase
Wadham Gardens, Primrose Hill · NW3

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Your home, kept in fine fettle all year.

The same small team on a schedule – seasonal home checks, gutters, seals and your list worked through. From £29 a month.

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See if there’s room on the list.

One postcode is all it takes. If we have room near you, we’ll say so plainly.

Start with a free 10-minute video call. If we need to see it in person, the £30 visit comes off the work.

Frequently asked questions

Good to know

Everything worth knowing before we start.

Nothing to start. Most jobs begin with a free 10-minute video call: show us the job on your phone and we can usually price it there and then. If we need to see it in person, a visit is £30, it comes straight off the cost whenever you go ahead, and if it turns out not to be a job for us, you don’t pay it. A half-day starts at £140, a full day at £260, materials on top at cost. You will know the price before we lift a tool. Specialist work, such as rendering or tree surgery, is quoted job by job once we have seen it.

Not if you are close by. We are based in Chelsea, and anywhere within about 4 miles has no travel charge. A little further out, up to 6 miles, we add £15 to the job. Beyond that, we book work as half-days or longer, with £25 up to 9 miles and £40 further afield. It covers time on the road and parking, it is never added to the £30 visit, and you will see it on your quote before anything starts. If a job is inside the Congestion Charge zone during charging hours, that is added at cost.

From a wonky fence to a fresh coat of paint, one team does the lot: painting, plastering, plumbing, floors, fences, carpet cleaning, end of tenancy cleans, and the odd jobs that never quite get done. Specialist work, such as rendering or tree surgery, goes to someone we know by name and have used before.

Yes. Our end of tenancy clean covers the whole property, carpets included, plus the small repairs and touch-ups agents check for, with a free re-clean if anything is flagged within 48 hours. A studio starts from £180. Carpet cleaning on its own starts from £45 a room.

We take on a few more homes each season, postcode by postcode, so we can keep doing right by the ones already on the list. Give us your postcode and we will tell you plainly whether there is room near you. We work across north, northwest, west, southwest, south, and central London.

Yes. A small permanent team does the day-to-day work, so it is the same faces each visit. People who know where the stopcock is, and which floorboard creaks.

Usually it starts with a free 10-minute video call, so we can see the job and price it without a trip. If it needs a proper look in person, the visit is £30 – we come round, note what needs doing, and get to know the house. Then you get a plain price, half-day or full-day, with no surprises, and the £30 counts toward it whenever you go ahead. Dust sheets down, shoes off, radio low, and everything left tidy.

Kind words

By recommendation, mostly.

They knew where our stopcock was before we did. Three winters in and it is the same two faces every time, which is rather the whole point.
Sarah M.Plimsoll Road · N5 · Client since 2023
A wonky gate, a dripping tap, and a wall that needed making good. One visit, one team, all of it done by lunch and swept up after.
James & Priya K.Bishopswood Road · N6 · Client since 2023
We have a period house that does not forgive shortcuts. Fettle treat it the way you would hope, quietly and properly, and the price was the price we were told.
Eleanor W.Wadham Gardens · NW3 · Client since 2023
What sold me was the once a season look over. They spotted the gutters going before it became a proper job, which is exactly the sort of thing I never get round to.
Tom H.Highbury New Park · N5 · Client since 2024
Dust sheets down, shoes off, radio low. You would hardly know they had been in, apart from the fact everything simply works again.
Priyanka D.Church Crescent · N10 · Client since 2023
We came to them the way most people seem to, a neighbour would not stop going on about them. Now we are the ones going on about them.
Michael R.Fitzjohn’s Avenue · NW3 · Client since 2024

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