Walk Kensington from Kensington Palace outwards and the period conversion pattern is obvious: 83% of the 13,346 households in W8 live in flats, 17% in houses.
Private renting sits at 46% and owner-occupation at 35%; the first group books clearance services at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect with solid brick on the party and external walls — and lath and plaster over timber studs — where 35% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year behind the plaster in W8. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why which crumbles the key and drops the panel, over a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster — measured on the walk in from High Street Kensington (Circle, District) rather than assumed from a map is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Kensington: the high street, palace gardens and the quiet garden squares of Kensington proper. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Kensington sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
On access, mansion blocks with cage lifts and porter sign-in; Kensington High Street loading windows are short — one reason standard crews are two people with a 3.5-tonne Luton; bigger clears run two vans or return the same day rather than overfilling. Fitters travelling in use High Street Kensington (Circle, District).
