Cost to get a tradesman to install a turntable wall shelf in London?

check your lease. Landlord may not like it.

In rented accomodation, it's always a compromise. As Bob tactfully suggets, it's unlikely the landlord will be terribly chuffed with half a dozen holes in his wall. If you can get your rack so that the needle doesn't jump with footfalls, that may be the best you can get for the mo, and just put up with it until you can get a place of your own.

If it's any comfort. Many of us have been there too!

Good wishes,
James

I'm in N8, Crouch End.

Yes, good chance that my landlord might raise an eyebrow at this, but thought I'd get information on installation before putting it to him.

It's easier for me to imagine how bass would be better with a shelf. Want to get turntable sorted before upgrading downstream. Heed power supply an option but nearly 300. Semi suspended deck: Manticore Mantra.

Seem to get more footfall problems than before so maybe time to be really geeky and pump up the inner tube a little. I like to think that this solution (bike inner tube) is a good as expensive audiophile items.

Still Lp's sound noticeably better than when I sited the deck on top of my IKEA Corras unit.
IKEA Lack table I used to use was only a bit worse than current turntable table. Fingers crossed I should have an old Audiotech table resting in parents lock up garage 500 miles away. But would be 6 months or so before I could possibly get that and awkward to ask them to courier it down to me.

I can't be bothered to experiment with alternative shelves yet e.g. granite or slate. Supermarket granite chopping boards that some of us use under CD players are of course too small for turntables.

Also, I don't fancy isolating hi-fi equipment by having it on top of some sort of sand box (kiln dried sand)as outlined in Hi-Fi World a couple of years ago. No, I don't have to contend with the WAF but Flatmates would no doubt question my sanity if they saw me playing with a sandbox in my bedroom.

So long as the stylus does not jump when these vibrations happen, you are probably better leaving it on the floor stand - horizontal movements through the wall are harder for a deck to deal with than vertical ones through the floor. A really good wall fixing with rawl bolts etc needs a lot of drilling and you would probably be responsible for restoring the wall when you left - so if the drilling is beyond you the making good is likely to be as well, so double expenses!

I remember the Manticore well, and it's a good deck, and I suspect that all the bike tube gubbins will not be doing much for the sound.

Nigel

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My first floor London flat is plagued by frequent mini earthquakes from buses and the occasional truck and train line a few hundred metres away

Won't your walls shake too?
A change of location for you, rather than your turntable maybe the only solution.
Regards,
Steve.