Media Wall Installers in Lewisham (SE13, SE6)

Media Walls in Lewisham: What's Included

Frequently Asked Questions

Our ex-council house has concrete walls — does that cause problems for a media wall?

It changes the method and nothing else, and we build on this stock all the time. Concrete and system-built walls can't be chased and don't take ordinary fixings well, so the build adapts in two ways: fixings become resin anchors rated far beyond the load, or the frame goes self-supporting, braced floor to ceiling, carrying its own weight, with only light restraint fixings into the wall, and every cable runs inside the new 120 to 150mm framing zone instead of being chased in. The finished wall is identical to one on Victorian brick. The compensation is that ex-council rooms are usually the easiest to build in: square corners, straight walls, no wonky period alcoves to scribe around.

We already have a plastered chimney breast — can you do just the joinery and shelves?

Yes, and it's a job we take on regularly. Plenty of Lewisham rooms are half-finished: a previous owner built and plastered the wall, or a renovation left clean alcoves with nothing in them. We survey and template the alcoves (Victorian ones are rarely square, and the templating is what makes the difference), build the cabinets and shelves in the Anerley workshop with spray-finished doors, and fit in two days with no wet trades. Typical scopes: alcove cabinets both sides with floating shelves above, a TV bench with cable management, or dropping a fire into an existing recess with the electrics certified and the NICEIC ticket included. You only need the full build if you actually need the full build.

What finishes survive young children — and what should we avoid?

Sprayed MDF in a satin finish is the family workhorse: it shrugs off scuffs, wipes clean, and when a panel finally takes real damage the workshop re-sprays it invisibly. Laminate can't be patched and chips white at the edges. Avoid high gloss (every fingerprint shows and scratches stay forever), open shelving below 1.2 metres (it becomes toy display whether you like it or not), glass doors anywhere, and floating shelves rated for books then loaded with children. Our family-spec details: rounded shelf edges at head heights, push-catch doors with no protruding handles at toddler level, the fire controlled by a remote that lives high, and the screen flush in its recess where small hands can't get behind it. None of this is an upgrade; it's specification.

We're buying in one of the new Lewisham Central towers — can a rented-then-bought flat take a media wall?

Once you own it, yes, with the freeholder's consent letter, which in the Lewisham towers is routine paperwork. The build itself is the self-supporting frame method: new-build partition walls are metal stud and can't carry the load directly, so the frame braces floor to ceiling, carries the TV, electric fire, and joinery itself, and finishes at a slim 120 to 150mm so the living space keeps its floor area. The electric fire is the only fire these buildings can have (no flue, no gas, it's a certified appliance on a 13A spur) and it has never been the sticking point in a consent application we've prepared. While you're still renting, the free-standing reversible version we build for tenants works in these flats too, and converts to a fixed install later.

Media Walls Near Lewisham