In Shepherd's Bush (W12) the split is 87% flats to 13% houses over 9,929 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
Because 40% of Shepherd's Bush is privately rented and 34% socially rented, a lot of W12 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Shepherd's Bush substrates run to often with surface conduit, over precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, the pattern behind 9,929 households inside the W12 neighbourhood. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Shepherd's Bush stock goes, and with 40% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the mistake that costs a W12 customer twice.
Shepherd's Bush 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 green, the market and Westfield's mall on the old exhibition grounds — which is why a W12 quote is not a Hammersmith and Fulham average.
On access, mall service yards, Uxbridge Road bus lanes and permit-only side streets — one reason one technician and a van-mounted hot-water pressure washer for most driveways; two on larger block-paving jobs where re-sanding is included, since brushing sand in is a second task run alongside the wash. Fitters travelling in use Shepherd's Bush (Central, Overground).