In Park Royal (NW10) the split is 66% flats to 33% houses over 4,410 households, and the stock is post-war.
The renter-heavy mix here (31% owned, 47% privately rented) means a NW10 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Park Royal substrates run to dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms, the reality on the streets around The Guinness brewery site and Central Middlesex Hospital. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, as the Park Royal stock goes, a median age of 30 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here is the mistake that costs a NW10 customer twice.
London's largest industrial estate, now with new residential blocks on its edges. That character decides the practical detail of rubbish removal here far more than the borough boundary does. Park Royal is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: hGV-heavy estate roads, gated units and new blocks with loading docks. Park Royal (Piccadilly) is the nearest station, and one person and a car for boot-loads; two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton for anything from a quarter-load upward.