In Ickenham (UB10) the split is 12% flats to 88% houses over 2,922 households, and the stock is inter-war.
The owner-occupier-led mix here (82% owned, 14% privately rented) means a UB10 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Ickenham substrates run to timber stud partitions inside; locally that also means cavity brickwork outside, which is why London Borough of Hillingdon kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Ickenham gives us a four-hole bracket with two screws in a stud and two in fresh air, and with 14% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the mistake that costs a UB10 customer twice.
Ickenham 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 — a village green with a pump and pond, surrounded by interwar housing — which is why a UB10 quote is not a Hillingdon average.
On access, wide roads and long driveways; the village centre is narrow but quiet — one reason one technician and a van-mounted dip tank; two for commercial ranges or where a lift booking limits the time on site. Fitters travelling in use Ickenham (Metropolitan, Piccadilly).