HP Pavilion & Spectre Repair Cost UK 2026: Screen, Battery & Keyboard Prices
Direct answer: HP Pavilion and Spectre x360 sit at opposite ends of the HP range, and their repair costs reflect it. A Pavilion screen runs from £94.95 on an older 15 up to £149.95 on a Pavilion Plus, an ENVY x360 around £139.95–£179.95, and a Spectre x360 from £164.95 on a 2019 model up to £219.95 on a current 16. Batteries span £44.95–£119.95 and keyboards £54.95–£149.95 across the three lines. Every figure below is published up front from our live price list — no quote form — with standard screen, battery and keyboard work underwritten for 27 months.
Pavilion is the HP most UK households own; Spectre x360 is the HP they aspire to. The two share a logo and almost nothing else — the Pavilion is a workhorse clamshell engineered to a price, the Spectre a slim, machined-aluminium convertible with an OLED-touch panel and a 360-degree hinge. That difference in engineering is the difference in repair cost: the Spectre's panel, battery and keyboard are all dearer parts in a harder-to-open chassis, and the convertible hinge adds reassembly complexity the Pavilion never has. This page puts the two lines next to each other, with the ENVY x360 — HP's middle convertible — in between, so you can see exactly what your model costs before you book. For the full HP range including EliteBook, start at our HP laptop repair cost hub.
HP Pavilion repair prices
The Pavilion lands on celltech's bench more often than any other HP, and it is the kindest of the three to repair: a conventional IPS panel, a battery that is socketed or only lightly bonded across most years, and a keyboard riveted into an otherwise serviceable, screw-fastened deck. Every figure below is fitted by post and covers the part, the labour and insured return. If your particular Pavilion variant is not in the table, contact us for a quote.
| Model | Screen | Battery | Keyboard | Charging port |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pavilion Plus 16 (2025) | £149.95 | £89.95 | £109.95 | £44.95 |
| Pavilion Plus 14 (2025) | £149.95 | £89.95 | £109.95 | £39.95 |
| Pavilion Plus 14 (2024) | £139.95 | £79.95 | £99.95 | £34.95 |
| Pavilion 15 Intel (2023) | £129.95 | £69.95 | £89.95 | £34.95 |
| Pavilion x360 14 (2024) | £139.95 | £79.95 | £99.95 | £34.95 |
| Pavilion 15 Intel (2021) | £119.95 | £69.95 | £79.95 | £29.95 |
| Pavilion 15 AMD (2020) | £109.95 | £59.95 | £69.95 | £24.95 |
| Pavilion 15 Intel (2019) | £104.95 | £54.95 | £64.95 | £24.95 |
| Pavilion 15 Intel (2018) | £99.95 | £49.95 | £59.95 | £24.95 |
HP ENVY x360 repair prices
The ENVY x360 is where HP's consumer range turns premium without going the whole distance to a Spectre. It borrows the 360-degree convertible hinge and the touch layer, but fits an IPS touch panel rather than the Spectre's OLED — so it costs more to mend than a flat Pavilion clamshell and less than a Spectre. The hinge and digitiser still demand the same unhurried reassembly; only the glass inside is gentler on the bill.
| Model | Screen | Battery | Keyboard | Charging port |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENVY x360 16 (2025) | £179.95 | £99.95 | £129.95 | £54.95 |
| ENVY x360 14 Intel (2025) | £179.95 | £99.95 | £129.95 | £49.95 |
| ENVY x360 16 (2024) | £169.95 | £89.95 | £119.95 | £49.95 |
| ENVY x360 15 AMD (2023) | £159.95 | £79.95 | £109.95 | £44.95 |
| ENVY x360 13 Intel (2023) | £159.95 | £79.95 | £109.95 | £39.95 |
| ENVY x360 15 AMD (2021) | £149.95 | £79.95 | £99.95 | £39.95 |
| ENVY 15 (2020) | £139.95 | £69.95 | £89.95 | £34.95 |
HP Spectre x360 repair prices
The Spectre x360 sits at the top of HP's consumer line, and its repair pricing carries everything that makes the laptop desirable: an OLED-touch display, a machined-aluminium shell pared down to millimetres, and a hinge that folds the whole thing through 360 degrees. The table runs from the current 2025 models back to 2018, and the older Spectres ask noticeably less — their panels and cells are simpler to source and the chassis is a fraction more forgiving to open.
| Model | Screen | Battery | Keyboard | Charging port |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spectre x360 16 (2025) | £219.95 | £119.95 | £149.95 | £69.95 |
| Spectre x360 14 (2025) | £209.95 | £119.95 | £149.95 | £59.95 |
| Spectre x360 16 (2024) | £209.95 | £109.95 | £139.95 | £64.95 |
| Spectre x360 14 (2024) | £199.95 | £109.95 | £139.95 | £54.95 |
| Spectre x360 14 (2023) | £189.95 | £99.95 | £129.95 | £49.95 |
| Spectre x360 14 (2022) | £179.95 | £89.95 | £119.95 | £49.95 |
| Spectre x360 15 (2020) | £169.95 | £79.95 | £109.95 | £44.95 |
| Spectre x360 13 (2019) | £164.95 | £74.95 | £104.95 | £44.95 |
Why Spectre repairs cost more than Pavilion
- Panel technology. A Spectre's OLED-touch assembly is the costliest single part in the consumer HP range, and it moves a screen quote more than anything else. The ENVY x360's touch-IPS panel slots in between it and the plain Pavilion IPS.
- Machined, bonded chassis. The Spectre's aluminium shell is glued and riveted shut, so opening it cleanly is a matter of soft heat, a plastic spudger and patience — hurry it and you crack a body panel. A Pavilion, screw-fastened and built to be serviced, simply lifts apart.
- 360-degree hinge. On the Spectre and ENVY x360 the touch digitiser and display cabling thread through the hinge barrel, and they have to go back so the lid still folds flat and touch still reaches every corner. A Pavilion clamshell carries none of that routing.
- Bonded internal cell. Spectre and current ENVY batteries are glued into the frame; many Pavilions still use a lighter-duty or socketed pack, which is a large part of why a Pavilion battery sits well below a Spectre's.
What a Pavilion or Spectre repair actually involves
On a Pavilion clamshell the work is laptop repair at its most predictable. We split the base off, release the display from its board connector, free the webcam and touch leads, fit the replacement IPS panel, bring the hinges back to factory torque, and run the lid through a full function check — image, touch, camera, even backlight evenness across the panel. The battery sits in plain view once the base is off: connector unclipped, the tired or bloated pack lifted clear, the new cell laid in, and the charge controller re-zeroed so Windows reports the true capacity again. Because modern Pavilion keyboards are riveted into the top cover, a "keyboard repair" is frequently a palmrest or top-cover swap rather than a loose deck — we tell you which it is when we quote, so nothing on the invoice arrives as a surprise.
A Spectre x360 is the opposite temperament. The convertible hinge and the touch-digitiser wiring mean the slim display stack has to come apart slowly — the OLED panel is edge-lit and brittle, so it releases on measured heat, never on force — and the cables that run through the hinge barrel must be re-seated in sequence or the laptop will not fold flat again. The glued-in battery is the part owners least expect to pay labour for: it has to be eased out without nicking the cell, which turns delicate the moment a pack has begun to swell. With the new cell bonded back in, the controller is reset and the shell resealed. The ENVY x360 follows the same script — same hinge, same bonded build — only with the gentler-priced touch-IPS panel in place of the OLED.
Charge-port work divides on the same fault line. Current Spectre and ENVY models draw power through a board-mounted USB-C connector, so a charging fault there is micro-soldering at the connector tier rather than a clip-in socket swap — it sits under the 9-month connector cover, not the 27-month standard. The older barrel-jack Pavilions take a discrete, replaceable DC socket, a simpler and lighter job in the same tier. We establish what has actually failed — the cable, the port, a lifted board pad or the charging IC — before we name a price, because each is a separate repair. Our charging port & DC jack guide sets out the full picture.
OEM-grade parts, not the lowest-priced that fits
The displays, cells and keyboards we fit are OEM-grade — matched to the factory part for colour, brightness, capacity and key travel — and you are told exactly what is going in before a tool comes out. A bargain panel usually gives up colour fidelity and even backlighting, and that loss is most obvious on a Spectre's OLED, where a cut-price substitute looks flat and grey beside the original. Cut-price cells overstate their capacity and bloat early too, which is the last thing you want sealed inside a Spectre or ENVY you cannot easily reopen. Our parts-grade guide goes deeper.
Is repairing a Pavilion or Spectre worth it?
Nearly always — and the answer changes by end of the range. A Pavilion is a mid-priced machine, so a £69.95 battery or a £129.95 screen hands you back a thoroughly usable laptop for a sliver of replacement cost, all sitting under the 27-month cover. A Spectre is in another bracket: a current Spectre x360 16 is a four-figure purchase, so even its £219.95 screen is far less than a new one, and a repair keeps the OLED panel and machined body the laptop was bought for. The one genuine caveat is a board-level fault closing in on what the machine is worth, which we run free and set against the beyond-economical-repair line before you part with anything.
The cover sharpens the maths further. Standard screen, battery and keyboard work runs for 27 months — over two years where most independents stop at twelve — while charging ports and DC jacks sit on the 9-month connector tier and board-level or liquid-damage work on 120 days, each window set to match the repair rather than a single blanket promise.
Repairing your Pavilion or Spectre by post
celltech runs UK-wide as a mail-in workshop, so the Midlands postcode is irrelevant to you. Book at /repair/laptop/hp and send the laptop tracked and insured by Royal Mail Special Delivery — give a Spectre extra padding around the hinge and the USB-C edges, and box a Pavilion 15 rigidly with corner foam. From there we handle it end to end: a free diagnosis, the exact figure confirmed, the OEM-grade part fitted and tested, and the machine sent home tracked and insured with the guarantee on record. Our HP laptop repair by post guide walks the packing through line by line.
All HP laptop repairs
This page is about the consumer range. For HP end to end — Pavilion, ENVY, Spectre, EliteBook, ProBook, OMEN and Victus — head to our HP laptop repair cost hub, or the focused screen replacement and battery replacement pages.
Frequently asked questions
How much does an HP Pavilion screen replacement cost?
From £94.95 on an older Pavilion 15 to £149.95 on a Pavilion Plus, with the common Pavilion 15 Intel (2023) at £129.95. Each model's figure is in the table above, and every one is backed for 27 months.
Is HP Spectre x360 screen repair worth the cost?
Yes — the current Spectre x360 16 screen at £219.95 is a small fraction of replacing a four-figure laptop, and the repair keeps the original OLED panel grade and the machined shell. Earlier Spectres come in lower, from £164.95 on the 2019 model.
What is the most common Pavilion fault?
A worn battery and a cracked display are the two that turn up most on the Pavilion, with stiffening hinges close behind — and a neglected hinge eventually frays the display cable, so it is worth catching early. See our common HP faults guide.
Can celltech repair HP ENVY laptops?
Yes — the whole ENVY x360 line, current and older, is on our price list. As the tables show, the ENVY lands between the Pavilion and the Spectre on both panel grade and cost.
Do you offer a guarantee on Pavilion and Spectre repairs?
27 months on screens, batteries and keyboards — over two years where most independents stop at one. Charging ports and DC jacks run on the 9-month connector tier; board-level and liquid work on 120 days.
How is HP Spectre repair different from Pavilion repair?
The Spectre pairs an OLED-touch panel with a slim, bonded convertible body and a 360-degree hinge, so its parts cost more and its disassembly takes longer. The Pavilion is a screw-fastened IPS clamshell built to be opened — lighter parts, less bench time, a lower bill.