In Richmond Hill and Ham (TW10) the split is 35% flats to 65% houses over 2,156 households, and the stock is Georgian and early Victorian.
Because 15% of Richmond Hill and Ham is privately rented and 26% socially rented, a lot of TW10 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Richmond Hill and Ham substrates run to some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and solid London stock brick, and with 30% one-person households in Richmond Hill and Ham, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Richmond Hill and Ham stock goes, and with 15% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the mistake that costs a TW10 customer twice.
Richmond Hill and Ham is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — the protected view from the hill, Ham House and the riverside meadows below — which is why a TW10 quote is not a Richmond upon Thames average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: extremely steep hill, narrow riverside lanes at Ham and conservation-area limits. Richmond (District, Overground, South Western), at the foot of the hill is the nearest station, and one technician for domestic hoods and bathroom fans; two for island canopies and any commercial kitchen.