The UB6 stock around The Grand Union Canal at Greenford is inter-war. ONS records 41% flats, 58% houses and 12,474 households in Greenford.
Private renting sits at 30% and owner-occupation at 53%; the first group books building waste clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Greenford substrates run to some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and solid London stock brick — which is what a 41% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Greenford actually produces. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body on these streets — and with 24% one-person households in Greenford, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the mistake that costs a UB6 customer twice.
Anyone who knows Greenford knows the pattern near The Grand Union Canal at Greenford: canal-side industry, the Central line's wooden escalator and 1930s semis. We plan the UB6 visit around it. Greenford is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, wide roads with driveways; the industrial estates carry heavy traffic at peak — 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 Greenford (Central).