7,842 households sit inside the UB7 neighbourhood covering West Drayton and Yiewsley. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile mixed-tenure, and 36% of those homes are flats.
Because 27% of West Drayton and Yiewsley is privately rented and 26% socially rented, a lot of UB7 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and solid London stock brick, which is what a 36% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering West Drayton and Yiewsley actually produces, so the fixing that matters in West Drayton and Yiewsley is chosen on site — the usual failure here is fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the West Drayton and Yiewsley stock goes, the reality on the streets around West Drayton Green and the Grand Union Canal.
West Drayton and Yiewsley 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 — canal-side town on the Colne, with the green, the station and new housing — which is why a UB7 quote is not a Hillingdon average.
On access, canal bridges limit access; new estates have wide roads and allocated parking — one reason two crew and a Luton for a studio or one-bed; three crew and a second van on two- and three-bedroom apartments or any duplex. Fitters travelling in use West Drayton (Elizabeth line).