In Shepherd's Bush (W12) the split is 87% flats to 13% houses over 9,929 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
The renter-heavy mix here (26% owned, 40% privately rented) means a W12 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Shepherd's Bush substrates run to often with surface conduit, over precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, with 34% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Shepherd's Bush stock goes, and with 40% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the mistake that costs a W12 customer twice.
Shepherd's Bush 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 green, the market and Westfield's mall on the old exhibition grounds — which is why a W12 quote is not a Hammersmith and Fulham average.
Mall service yards, Uxbridge Road bus lanes and permit-only side streets. Nearest station is Shepherd's Bush (Central, Overground), and a two-person crew and a Luton for flats; three or four crew and two vans for houses with lofts, cellars or garages.