Walk Kensal Green and Kensal Rise from Kensal Green Cemetery outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 55% of the 3,940 households in NW10 live in flats, 45% in houses.
Private renting sits at 30% and owner-occupation at 49%; the first group books bulky waste collection at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect lath and plaster over timber studs in Kensal Green and Kensal Rise, with solid brick on the party and external walls — and with 30% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does behind the plaster in NW10. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why which crumbles the key and drops the panel, over a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster — and with 30% one-person households in Kensal Green and Kensal Rise, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Kensal Green and Kensal Rise: chamberlayne Road's independents and the great Victorian cemetery. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Kensal Green and Kensal Rise is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, narrow terraced streets, permit bays and railway bridges with height limits — one reason one or two crew depending on the item — a sofa or mattress needs two people on a London staircase regardless of how light the piece is. Fitters travelling in use Kensal Rise (Overground).
