The KT3 stock around The Korean high street on Burlington Road is mainly Edwardian. ONS records 30% flats, 70% houses and 6,674 households in New Malden.
27% of households rent privately and 67% own, which is why school clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect solid London stock brick in New Malden, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — which is why Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded behind the plaster in KT3. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in KT3, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — and with 24% one-person households in New Malden, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in New Malden: home to Europe's largest Korean community, with a high street to match. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. New Malden is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, driveways on most streets; the high street has short loading bays — one reason two to four operatives for a single-building clear, scaling to two teams working in parallel where a full primary site has to be finished inside a two-week holiday window. Fitters travelling in use New Malden (South Western).