Walk Wimbledon from The All England Lawn Tennis Club outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 47% of the 23,023 households in SW19 live in flats, 53% in houses.
Private renting sits at 34% and owner-occupation at 57%; the first group books extractor fan cleaning at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect with solid brick on the party and external walls — and lath and plaster over timber studs — and with 34% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does behind the plaster in SW19. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why which crumbles the key and drops the panel, over a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster — which is why London Borough of Merton kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Wimbledon: the town centre and theatre below, the Village and common above. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Wimbledon is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, championship-fortnight restrictions, steep Wimbledon Hill Road and Village conservation limits — one reason one technician for domestic hoods and bathroom fans; two for island canopies and any commercial kitchen. Fitters travelling in use Wimbledon (District, Southern, South Western, Tramlink).
