The NW6 stock around West End Lane is mainly Victorian. ONS records 88% flats, 12% houses and 4,309 households in West Hampstead.
49% of households rent privately and 30% own, which is why bulky waste collection demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
West Hampstead substrates run to with solid brick on the party and external walls — and lath and plaster over timber studs — where 30% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster; locally that also means which crumbles the key and drops the panel — with 21% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first is the mistake that costs a NW6 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in West Hampstead: three stations, a busy high street and streets of red-brick Victorian conversions. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. West Hampstead sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Very tight parking, narrow terraced streets and flats up two to four flights without lifts. Nearest station is West Hampstead (Jubilee, Overground, Thameslink), and 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.