In Neasden (NW10) the split is 51% flats to 49% houses over 3,586 households, and the stock is inter-war.
The renter-heavy mix here (35% owned, 47% privately rented) means a NW10 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Neasden substrates run to with solid brick on the party and external walls — and lath and plaster over timber studs, and with 28% one-person households in Neasden, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in NW10, which crumbles the key and drops the panel, the reality on the streets around BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is the mistake that costs a NW10 customer twice.
Neasden 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 Hindu temple, the North Circular and industrial estates beside 1930s housing — which is why a NW10 quote is not a Brent average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: north Circular access is difficult; side streets are wide with driveways. Neasden (Jubilee) is the nearest station, and two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment.