In Kensal Green and Kensal Rise (NW10) the split is 55% flats to 45% houses over 3,940 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
Because 30% of Kensal Green and Kensal Rise is privately rented and 21% socially rented, a lot of NW10 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are with solid brick on the party and external walls, over lath and plaster over timber studs, and with 30% one-person households in Kensal Green and Kensal Rise, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site, so the fixing that matters in Kensal Green and Kensal Rise is chosen on site — the usual failure here is which crumbles the key and drops the panel, over a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster, the reality on the streets around Kensal Green Cemetery.
Kensal Green and Kensal Rise 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 — chamberlayne Road's independents and the great Victorian cemetery — which is why a NW10 quote is not a Brent average.
On access, narrow terraced streets, permit bays and railway bridges with height limits — one reason two crew and a Luton on most strip-outs; three crew and a tipper where the load is rubble, hardcore or soil and weight rather than volume decides the run. Fitters travelling in use Kensal Rise (Overground).