9,668 households sit inside the KT1 neighbourhood covering Kingston town centre. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile renter-heavy, and 63% of those homes are flats.
Because 40% of Kingston town centre is privately rented and 9% socially rented, a lot of KT1 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are with metal stud partitions between rooms, over dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork, and with 32% one-person households in Kingston town centre, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site, so the fixing that matters in Kingston town centre is chosen on site — the usual failure here is short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, as the Kingston town centre stock goes, where 51% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
Kingston town centre 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 — riverside market town with the Bentall Centre, the ancient market and the bridge — which is why a KT1 quote is not a Kingston upon Thames average.
Pedestrianised centre with timed access, riverside loading limits and a one-way ring road. Nearest station is Kingston (South Western), and a two-person crew and a Luton for flats; three or four crew and two vans for houses with lofts, cellars or garages.