In Raynes Park (SW20) the split is 51% flats to 49% houses over 3,570 households, and the stock is mainly Edwardian.
Because 35% of Raynes Park is privately rented and 14% socially rented, a lot of SW20 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Raynes Park substrates run to lath and plaster over timber studs in Raynes Park, with solid brick on the party and external walls, the reality on the streets around Cottenham Park. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because which crumbles the key and drops the panel — and a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster, and with 35% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the mistake that costs a SW20 customer twice.
Raynes Park 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 — a quiet family suburb of interwar semis with Cottenham Park nearby — which is why a SW20 quote is not a Merton average.
Driveways on most roads; the level crossing and station parade congest at peak. Nearest station is Raynes Park (South Western), and 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.