4,309 households sit inside the NW6 neighbourhood covering West Hampstead. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile renter-heavy, and 88% of those homes are flats.
Because 49% of West Hampstead is privately rented and 21% socially rented, a lot of NW6 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
West Hampstead substrates run to lath and plaster over timber studs in NW6, with solid brick on the party and external walls, the pattern behind 4,309 households inside the NW6 neighbourhood. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in West Hampstead, which crumbles the key and drops the panel, which is what a 88% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering West Hampstead actually produces is the mistake that costs a NW6 customer twice.
West Hampstead sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — three stations, a busy high street and streets of red-brick Victorian conversions — which is why a NW6 quote is not a Camden average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: very tight parking, narrow terraced streets and flats up two to four flights without lifts. West Hampstead (Jubilee, Overground, Thameslink) is the nearest station, and one technician for a private path; two where a communal walkway has to stay open to residents while the work is done, so one can manage access while the other washes.