In Norbiton and Kingston Hill (KT2) the split is 57% flats to 43% houses over 3,377 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
Because 36% of Norbiton and Kingston Hill is privately rented and 12% socially rented, a lot of KT2 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms, the pattern behind 3,377 households inside the KT2 neighbourhood behind the plaster in KT2. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Norbiton and Kingston Hill gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, which is what a 57% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Norbiton and Kingston Hill actually produces is the fault we are called back to undo.
The hospital, the university campus and the climb up to Richmond Park. That character decides the practical detail of building waste clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. Norbiton and Kingston Hill is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, steep Kingston Hill, hospital-area restrictions and student turnover each September — 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 Norbiton (South Western).