Laptop Repair in Wimbledon

Two laptop faults bring Wimbledon customers to us more than any others: machines that stop charging, and screens broken in transit. Both have a distinctly local flavour. School laptops carried daily to King’s College School and Ursuline High School pick up drops in bags and on hard floors, and family MacBooks in SW19’s longer-term households are often 2015–2019 models now reaching the age where batteries swell and performance sags — problems that build quietly until the machine becomes unusable in the middle of a working week. Charging faults are a speciality here because they’re so often misdiagnosed as “dead laptop” or “dead battery” when the real culprit is the DC power jack. Two Wimbledon examples show the pattern: an Acer with no power at all needed its motherboard-mounted power jack desoldered and replaced — done within a same-day service window — and an HP Envy that wouldn’t charge had a solder joint fractured by years of cable stress, resoldered and tested back to stable charging. Board-level repair like this costs far less than the motherboard replacement a quick-swap shop would quote. Swollen MacBook batteries deserve their own warning: if the trackpad has stiffened or the case no longer sits flat, stop using the machine and get it looked at — a swelling battery can damage the trackpad and chassis if it’s left. We replace the battery and check what the swelling has pushed against. Wimbledon is 12–18 minutes from our Putney workshop and free collection covers most of SW19 including the Village, so you don’t need to come to us: we collect, diagnose, quote, repair and return. Every repair starts with a diagnosis of what’s actually failing rather than a parts guess. The full service is on the main laptop repair page, local coverage on our Wimbledon page, and if your symptom is a battery that won’t charge, our charging-fault diagnosis guide explains what we test first. Call 020 7610 0500 to book a collection.

Based in Putney (SW15), supporting Wimbledon — 12–18 minutes away.