What is included in media wall packages?
A media wall package covers four trades and the paperwork that certifies them: timber framework with a ply-backed television mount, first-fix electrics signed off to BS 7671, plasterboard and skim, painting, lighting and hidden cable runs. Your television, a Gas Safe cap on a live gas supply, and any Listed Building Consent sit outside it.
What the money in a package is actually buying
A media wall package is mostly hours rather than materials. Timber, boards, plaster, cable and paint are a modest fraction of the figure. What you pay for is four trades working in sequence inside an occupied living room, each waiting on the one before: a day and a half of framing, half a day of first-fix electrics, a day of boarding and skimming with drying time either side, then second fix, painting and commissioning. That sequence is why our floor sits at £3,500 and why it does not compress much further.
Above the floor, joinery is what really moves a quote. Open shelves either side of the recess add £400–£800, doored cabinetry with drawers £1,200–£2,000, and a floor-to-ceiling library run £2,000–£3,500, which on its own is most of the distance between our floor and our £7,000 ceiling. Cladding shifts the number less, £300–£600 for marble-effect porcelain up to £500–£1,000 for veneered MDF, and lighting less again.
What sits outside the package, and why
Every exclusion on an honest quote comes down to a registration, not to us trimming the job. We are certified to work on your electrics; we are not certified to work on gas. A live supply feeding an old fireplace has to be capped and signed off by a Gas Safe registered engineer before timber goes over it, and it reaches your quote as its own £150–£250 line because it sits under a different scheme. Taking out a chimney breast is structural work that belongs with Building Control. Listed Building Consent is the local authority's decision, and where a property is statutorily listed we prepare and submit the application for £200–£400.
Your television is the other exclusion, and it is deliberate. Screens date faster than joinery, so you choose the model; if you would rather not, we order it on a trade account and hand you the discount. What we commit to is the part behind it, plywood laid into the framework across the whole footprint of the mount so a heavy screen on a full-motion arm bolts into solid timber, with £100–£200 for the extra reinforcement a very large set needs. Some national fixed-price packages do not supply the bracket at all, which is worth checking before you compare figures.
The paperwork that comes with the build
Paperwork is the last thing to leave site and the part you still need years later. The wiring is tested against BS 7671, the 18th Edition, by our own NICEIC-approved electrician, which is how the installation satisfies Part P of the Building Regulations. Low-voltage LED circuits fall under the same certificate. That certificate is handed over at the end of the build, and it is the sheet a conveyancing solicitor or a mortgage lender asks for when the house changes hands.
Then the cover behind it. One year in writing on the build itself, meaning framework, joinery, plasterwork and finishes. Six years of insurance-backed protection riding on the electrical certificate. Two to five years from the manufacturer on the fire, two on a smart LED kit. Where a flue above the structure is still live, Part J of the Building Regulations calls for a ventilation gap behind the framework, and we build that in without being asked.
From our London projects
London property adds a third category, neither included nor excluded but settled at the survey. On Clapham terraces sharing a party wall we pack 100mm Rockwool inside the framework as standard, £150 added, because a hollow structure against a shared wall drums. In converted Victorians around Crystal Palace it is £200 extra for RWA45, which cuts the bass reaching your neighbours by sixty to seventy per cent. Wandsworth's residents-only bays mean paid visitor permits for the build, usually £40–£80, quoted upfront rather than appearing later. Around Hyde Farm in Balham, where most of the estate is locally listed, a heritage-sensitive design statement costs £150–£250 in drafting time.
Leasehold is the other London-only item. Framing counts as a structural alteration, so the freeholder or managing agent has to consent in writing, and we draft the method statement that goes with the request. Around sixty per cent of our Crystal Palace flat clients are leaseholders. Typical figures move by borough as well, £4,400–£5,400 in Crystal Palace and £5,400–£6,500 in Bromley. We have built 350 of these since 2022, and the survey is where yours gets pinned down.
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