In North Harrow and Rayners Lane (HA2) the split is 17% flats to 83% houses over 2,329 households, and the stock is inter-war.
Because 20% of North Harrow and Rayners Lane is privately rented and 2% socially rented, a lot of HA2 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
North Harrow and Rayners Lane substrates run to timber stud partitions inside; locally that also means cavity brickwork outside, which is why London Borough of Harrow kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because North Harrow and Rayners Lane gives us a four-hole bracket with two screws in a stud and two in fresh air, where 78% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the mistake that costs a HA2 customer twice.
Classic Metroland — parades of 1930s shops and endless semis behind. That character decides the practical detail of shed clearance and removal here far more than the borough boundary does. North Harrow and Rayners Lane 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: driveways nearly everywhere; only the parades have restricted bays. Rayners Lane (Metropolitan, Piccadilly) is the nearest station, 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.