5,132 households sit inside the TW12 neighbourhood covering Hampton and Hampton Hill. The build is Georgian and early Victorian, the tenure profile owner-occupier-led, and 38% of those homes are flats.
Because 19% of Hampton and Hampton Hill is privately rented and 16% socially rented, a lot of TW12 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and solid London stock brick, the reality on the streets around Hampton Court Palace nearby and Bushy Park behind the plaster in TW12. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Hampton and Hampton Hill stock goes, where 65% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the fault we are called back to undo.
Hampton and Hampton Hill 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 — riverside village near the palace, with the park and reservoirs behind — which is why a TW12 quote is not a Richmond upon Thames average.
On access, riverside lanes are narrow and flood-prone; driveways elsewhere — one reason three to six operatives depending on the plant, with skates, pallet trucks and a tail-lift 7.5t as standard and a HIAB where a machine cannot be moved to the bay by hand. Fitters travelling in use Hampton (South Western).