Walk Kingston Vale and Coombe from Richmond Park's Robin Hood Gate outwards and the post-war pattern is obvious: 12% of the 2,354 households in KT2 live in flats, 88% in houses.
Private renting sits at 20% and owner-occupation at 77%; the first group books loft and attic clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are solid London stock brick in KT2, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — the reality on the streets around Richmond Park's Robin Hood Gate, so the fixing that matters in Kingston Vale and Coombe is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in KT2, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — which is why Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded.
Two streets can behave very differently in Kingston Vale and Coombe: private estates of large houses on the slope below Richmond Park's Robin Hood Gate. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Kingston Vale and Coombe is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, private-estate gates and codes, long gravel drives and narrow park-edge lanes — one reason two operatives as standard, one in the loft and one on the ladder and ground floor, which is how a loft clear stays safe rather than a one-person job with a rope and a prayer. Fitters travelling in use Norbiton (South Western).
