In Park Royal (NW10) the split is 66% flats to 33% houses over 4,410 households, and the stock is post-war.
Because 47% of Park Royal is privately rented and 22% socially rented, a lot of NW10 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Park Royal substrates run to dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork in Park Royal, with metal stud partitions between rooms, the reality on the streets around The Guinness brewery site and Central Middlesex Hospital. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, as the Park Royal stock goes, and with 47% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the mistake that costs a NW10 customer twice.
Park Royal 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 — london's largest industrial estate, now with new residential blocks on its edges — which is why a NW10 quote is not a Ealing average.
On access, hGV-heavy estate roads, gated units and new blocks with loading docks — one reason two operatives with a transit-sized van as standard, upsized to a Luton for a double garage or a lock-up with heavy workshop contents. Fitters travelling in use Park Royal (Piccadilly).