In Tolworth (KT5) the split is 25% flats to 74% houses over 3,374 households, and the stock is inter-war.
The owner-occupier-led mix here (63% owned, 28% privately rented) means a KT5 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Tolworth substrates run to solid London stock brick; locally that also means some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, where 63% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Tolworth stock goes, which is what a 25% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Tolworth actually produces is the mistake that costs a KT5 customer twice.
Tolworth 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 Tolworth Tower landmark on the A3 and quiet 1930s residential grids — which is why a KT5 quote is not a Kingston upon Thames average.
On access, a3 access is fast but unloadable; residential streets have driveways — one reason two operatives with a Luton van as standard, scaling to a second vehicle for a full three-bed or a property with no lift. Fitters travelling in use Tolworth (South Western).