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Laptop Repairs in Hunchy

I cover the Sunshine Coast as well as Brisbane. It is a longer drive, and it changes the flat rate not at all - there is no call-out fee and no surcharge for the distance.

A laptop is harder to live without than a desktop, which is why the promise here is simple: I come to you. No courier, no drop-off, no week without your machine.

Most laptop repairs are screens, batteries and keyboards. All three are usually same-day if the part is on the van.

  • Flat $150 rate
  • No call-out fee
  • 7 days a week
  • Fixed or you do not pay

Onsite rate

$150/ first hour

Call-out fee
$0 - never
Weekend & public holidays
No surcharge
After the first hour
Billed in 15-minute blocks
Replacement parts
At cost, no mark-up
Turnaround
Screens and batteries same-day if the part is in stock
Postcode
4555
Same price as
All Brisbane & Logan & Ipswich

Includes GST for home users. Excluding GST for businesses. If it cannot be fixed, you do not pay.

Laptop repairs in Hunchy

A lot of the work out here is holiday-rental and home-office machines: getting a new laptop set up, keeping a family machine running, and cleaning out the pop-ups that come with whatever the kids have installed.

I repair laptops in Hunchy {postcodeLine}, at your home or office, so you are not without your machine for a week.

Laptop repairs I do

Laptops get carried around and get dropped, so this is a long list:

  • Cracked or shattered screens - LCD and LED panels
  • No display, no backlight, flickering or dead pixels
  • Batteries that will not charge, drain in an hour, or have swollen
  • Dead keyboards, missing keys, unresponsive trackpads
  • Liquid damage from spills
  • Charging ports worn out from cable strain
  • Laptops that overheat, throttle and shut themselves down
  • Slow hard drives replaced with SSDs - the biggest single improvement
  • Failed hard drives and data recovery from failing drives
  • Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and network problems
  • Fan, hinge and chassis repairs
  • New operating system installs on machines that will not boot

SSDs are the single best upgrade

If a laptop is slow and takes a minute or two to start, a mechanical hard drive is almost always the reason. Swapping it for a solid-state drive is the cheapest, most noticeable improvement you can make to an otherwise healthy machine, and it takes about twenty minutes.

I can also copy your files across so you do not lose anything.

Brands

HP, Lenovo, Dell, Apple, Asus, Sony, Toshiba, Acer, Compaq, and the rest. Parts for older models get harder to find, and I will tell you early if that is the situation rather than after ordering the wrong one.

How a visit works

  1. 1

    You call and describe it

    No booking form and no call centre. I will tell you honestly whether it sounds like something I can fix, and roughly what it will cost.

  2. 2

    I come to you

    Early morning, evening, weekend or public holiday - all normal, none surcharged. Home or office. You can watch the work.

  3. 3

    You are told before anything happens

    The price is agreed before the job starts, and if a part is needed you get the cost price rather than a mark-up.

  4. 4

    It works, or you do not pay

    If I cannot fix it, there is no charge. If something I did stops working, I come back and look at it.

Laptop Repairs in Hunchy - common questions

Can you repair a cracked laptop screen at my house?

Yes. Screen replacement is the most common laptop job I do, and it is done at your home or office. It is same-day if the panel is in stock, and I will tell you if it is not before I start.

My laptop battery is swollen. Is it dangerous?

Stop using it and stop charging it. A swollen battery can damage the chassis and in rare cases is a fire risk. Bring it to me and I will replace it. Do not puncture or crush it.

How long does a laptop repair take?

Most repairs are same-day when the part is available. A hard drive or SSD replacement takes about twenty minutes. If a part has to be ordered, I will tell you the wait and you can decide whether to wait or keep using the machine as it is.

Can you recover data from a dead laptop?

Often, yes - from a laptop that will not boot, that has a clicking drive, or that has suffered liquid damage. See the data recovery page for what is and is not recoverable.

Laptop Repairs in Hunchy - call Robert.

Flat $150 for the first hour, in 15-minute blocks after that. No call-out fee to Hunchy, no weekend surcharge, and parts at cost. If it cannot be fixed you do not pay.

Onsite rate
$150
first hour
Call-out fee
$0
never
Weekend surcharge
$0
incl. public holidays
Typical visit
< 1 hr
most problems

Flat $150 first hour · No call-out fee

Request a quote

Only the phone number is required. If you are not sure what is wrong, say that instead - working it out is part of the first hour and it is included in the rate.

Australian mobile, starting with 04.

Town or suburb only, no street address needed. Start typing to search.

Apple and some other brands quote better with it. Skip it if you cannot find it quickly - it will not delay anything.

Up to 5 photos. Handy for a cracked screen or a strange error message.

Or call (07) 3155 2051

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