In Hanwell (W7) the split is 45% flats to 55% houses over 3,219 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
With 31% private renting against 55% owner-occupied, most W7 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Hanwell substrates run to solid London stock brick in Hanwell, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, and with 27% one-person households in Hanwell, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Hanwell stock goes, the reality on the streets around The Wharncliffe Viaduct is the mistake that costs a W7 customer twice.
Hanwell 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 — the Wharncliffe Viaduct, the Brent valley and a village-like clock tower centre — which is why a W7 quote is not a Ealing average.
On access, narrow bridges over the Brent, permit bays near the station and driveways elsewhere — one reason two crew and a Luton on a small office or shop unit; three to four crew with a 7.5-tonne vehicle on retail strip-outs, warehouses and racking removals. Fitters travelling in use Hanwell (Elizabeth line).