3,088 households sit inside the HA3 neighbourhood covering Wealdstone and Harrow Weald. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile owner-occupier-led, and 25% of those homes are flats.
Because 25% of Wealdstone and Harrow Weald is privately rented and 11% socially rented, a lot of HA3 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Wealdstone and Harrow Weald substrates run to solid London stock brick; locally that also means some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, and with 24% one-person households in Wealdstone and Harrow Weald, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Wealdstone and Harrow Weald stock goes, and with 25% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the mistake that costs a HA3 customer twice.
Wealdstone and Harrow Weald 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 industrial side of Harrow, with Kodak's old works and terraced streets — which is why a HA3 quote is not a Harrow average.
On access, terraced streets with on-street parking, plus new blocks with booked lifts — 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 Harrow & Wealdstone (Bakerloo, Overground).