In Greenford (UB6) the split is 41% flats to 58% houses over 12,474 households, and the stock is inter-war.
Because 30% of Greenford is privately rented and 17% socially rented, a lot of UB6 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Greenford substrates run to solid London stock brick in UB6, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, measured on the walk in from Greenford (Central) rather than assumed from a map. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Greenford gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here is the mistake that costs a UB6 customer twice.
Greenford 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 — canal-side industry, the Central line's wooden escalator and 1930s semis — which is why a UB6 quote is not a Ealing average.
Wide roads with driveways; the industrial estates carry heavy traffic at peak. Nearest station is Greenford (Central), and one technician with a portable extraction machine and air mover on a single household booking; two technicians on HMO, student accommodation and serviced-apartment rounds where six or more mattresses are cleaned in a day.