4,635 households sit inside the TW11 neighbourhood covering Hampton Wick. The build is Georgian and early Victorian, the tenure profile owner-occupier-led, and 53% of those homes are flats.
Because 24% of Hampton Wick is privately rented and 14% socially rented, a lot of TW11 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are lath and plaster over timber studs in Hampton Wick, with solid brick on the party and external walls, and very narrow one-way lanes, bridge traffic and no off-street parking in the old core, so the fixing that matters in Hampton Wick is chosen on site — the usual failure here is a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in TW11, which crumbles the key and drops the panel, where 63% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
Hampton Wick 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 small riverside village opposite Kingston Bridge, at the edge of Bushy Park — which is why a TW11 quote is not a Richmond upon Thames average.
On access, very narrow one-way lanes, bridge traffic and no off-street parking in the old core — one reason two cleaners for a flat, two to three for a house, working together in one visit rather than spreading the job across days. Fitters travelling in use Hampton Wick (South Western).