5,479 households sit inside the N10 neighbourhood covering Muswell Hill. The build is mainly Edwardian, the tenure profile owner-occupier-led, and 63% of those homes are flats.
Because 35% of Muswell Hill is privately rented and 8% socially rented, a lot of N10 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are with solid brick on the party and external walls — and lath and plaster over timber studs, and with 31% one-person households in Muswell Hill, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site, so the fixing that matters in Muswell Hill is chosen on site — the usual failure here is a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster; locally that also means which crumbles the key and drops the panel, the reality on the streets around Alexandra Palace and Park.
Muswell Hill 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 — edwardian shopping parades on a hilltop with wide views across London — which is why a N10 quote is not a Haringey average.
Steep approach roads, tight parades with short loading bays and long garden paths. Nearest station is Alexandra Palace (Great Northern), and two crew and a Luton on a standard timber shed; three crew where the shed is a workshop size, the base is concrete or the only route out is through the house.