In Hammersmith (W6) the split is 85% flats to 15% houses over 3,807 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
The renter-heavy mix here (23% owned, 38% privately rented) means a W6 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Walls are often with surface conduit, over precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, with 39% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first, so the fixing that matters in Hammersmith is chosen on site — the usual failure here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Hammersmith stock goes, and with 38% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does.
Riverside pubs and the Lyric theatre either side of a busy flyover and bus station. That character decides the practical detail of rubbish removal here far more than the borough boundary does. Hammersmith is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, a4 red route, gyratory congestion and mansion blocks with small original lifts — one reason one person and a car for boot-loads; two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton for anything from a quarter-load upward. Fitters travelling in use Hammersmith (District, Piccadilly, Circle, Hammersmith & City).