Walk Muswell Hill from Alexandra Palace and Park outwards and the mainly Edwardian pattern is obvious: 63% of the 5,479 households in N10 live in flats, 37% in houses.
35% of households rent privately and 57% own, which is why driveway cleaning demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect with solid brick on the party and external walls, over lath and plaster over timber studs — the reality on the streets around Alexandra Palace and Park behind the plaster in N10. 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 — the pattern behind 5,479 households inside the N10 neighbourhood is the fault we are called back to undo.
Anyone who knows Muswell Hill knows the pattern near Alexandra Palace and Park: edwardian shopping parades on a hilltop with wide views across London. We plan the N10 visit around it. Muswell Hill is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Steep approach roads, tight parades with short loading bays and long garden paths. Nearest station is Highgate (Northern), and 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.