Everything that is not repair or the web
The rest of what I do, and still genuinely on offer.
Televisions on walls, an office properly cabled, and old kit taken away for nothing — none of it the main event these days, that is websites and software, but all of it real.
Home entertainment
Mostly televisions, but the whole room usually comes with it.
Television on the wall
Any size, flat or tilting, into brick, block or plasterboard. Levelled properly, at the height you actually watch from rather than the height that is easiest to drill.
Cables out of sight
Signal cables run inside the wall between brush plates. Tidy, reversible, and no trailing HDMI down your chimney breast.
Sound that is worth having
Soundbars, subwoofers and full home cinema, with everything on the right input and one remote that works.
Wi-Fi that reaches
Router moved or a mesh point added where it will actually help, rather than where there happens to be a socket.
Smart bits and pieces
Plugs, speakers, doorbells and cameras — set up, tested, and explained so you can use them.
The whole lot at once
New telly, sound, and everything plugged in and working together in one visit. Cheaper than doing it in three.
Computer & office setup
Not a repair — a workspace that is actually pleasant to sit at.
A desk set up properly
Monitor, keyboard, printer and network point arranged so it works, not just plugged in wherever the cable reached.
Cables tidied and labelled
Sleeved, tied off, and run so the floor under the desk is not a hazard. Worth doing once, properly.
Multi-monitor done right
Arranged, calibrated to match, and set to actually extend rather than mirror by accident.
A network point where you need one
Wi-Fi extended or a cable run to the one room that never gets a signal.
Printer and peripherals joined up
Connected to every machine that needs them, not just the one it happened to be plugged into first.
A quarterly check-in, if you want one
Updates applied, backups actually confirmed rather than assumed, and a straight answer on anything that looks like it is starting to go.
Old kit & your data
Free collection. The bit worth paying for is knowing your data actually went.
You show me the pile
A photo is enough to start with. I will tell you what I can take and what is better going to the council, before either of us wastes a trip.
The drives get wiped
Properly overwritten, in front of you, before anything leaves the house. Deleting files and emptying the bin does not remove them; this does.
I take what I can use
Free. Parts get reused, working machines get a second life, and you get the cupboard back.
A certificate, if you need one
£20 and you get it in writing, with what was wiped and when. Worth having if it is business kit or it held anyone else's information.
An honest word on value
If something is genuinely worth selling, I will say so rather than quietly taking it. That is the whole basis of doing this for free.
What I cannot take
Televisions, old glass monitors, anything genuinely dead. North Lincolnshire Council will collect your first load free, and I will point you at the form.
What it costs
A starting price for each, because the right number depends on the actual room and the actual kit.
£30 call-out. That includes the first hour on site, and it comes off the bill if you go ahead with the work.
£60 for the bigger jobs — wall mounts, full system installs, several machines at once. Same terms.
Across the bridge, add £15 toward the toll. Everything below is a starting price, and parts are on top where they are needed.
For longer work: £50 an hour, or £500 for the day. An hour is the smallest I bill — I will not invoice you for fifteen minutes. Past about four hours the day rate is simply cheaper, so that is what you will be quoted; I am not going to run the clock up to the point where you should have bought a day of my time.
Computer & office setup
from £30
A cable tidy on an existing desk starts at £30; a full workstation set up, arranged and labelled is nearer £70.
Ring me and I will tell you honestly which end of that yours is.
Old kit & your data
from Free
Collection is free for anything I can reuse, and the drive gets wiped in front of you before it leaves. Secure wipes on kit you are keeping start at £15, or £20 with a written certificate.
I am not a registered waste carrier and I am not pretending to be one. Anything properly dead goes to the council collection, which is free for your first load.
TV wall mounting
from £70
Any size, brick or plasterboard, levelled properly and with the signal cables run out of sight.
A new socket behind the television is fixed wiring and belongs to a registered electrician - priced separately and passed through at cost.
Where I come out to
New Holland, Barrow and Barton-upon-Humber, Goxhill, Immingham, Brigg, Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Cleethorpes — and over the bridge to Hull, Hessle and Beverley. If you are just outside that, ring anyway and I will tell you straight whether it is worth it.
Questions I get asked
Can you hide the TV cables?
Yes — the signal cables go inside the wall between two brush plates, which is tidy and completely reversible. Adding a new plug socket behind the telly is different: that is fixed wiring and it belongs to a registered electrician, so I price it as their work and pass it through rather than doing it myself.
Will a TV bracket hold on a plasterboard wall?
Yes, with the right fixings into the studs — and I will find the studs rather than guess. If the wall genuinely will not take it, I will tell you before I start drilling, not after.
Do you supply the TV bracket?
I can, or you can - whichever works out better for you. Tell me the model and I will say honestly which.
My Wi-Fi does not reach upstairs.
Very common, and usually solvable without changing provider. Sometimes it is where the router is sitting; sometimes it needs a mesh point putting in the right place.
What does a desk set-up actually involve?
Getting the monitor, keyboard, printer and network point arranged properly, and the cables run so they are not a trip hazard or an eyesore — cable sleeves and ties, a hidden power strip, and everything labelled so a plug swap next year does not mean tracing wires under the desk again.
What happens to my old kit?
Anything I can reuse, I take for nothing, and I wipe the drive in front of you first — properly overwritten, not just deleted. Anything genuinely dead I will point you at the free council collection rather than carry it myself; I am not a registered waste carrier and I am not pretending to be one.
What if it is worth something?
Then I will tell you. Some kit is genuinely worth selling and you should have that money, not me.
Tell me what it's doing
Tell me which of the three this is, and roughly what you have got — a photo of the telly wall, the desk, or the pile settles most of it before I even ring you back.
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