In Ickenham (UB10) the split is 12% flats to 88% houses over 2,922 households, and the stock is inter-war.
Because 14% of Ickenham is privately rented and 4% socially rented, a lot of UB10 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Ickenham substrates run to timber stud partitions inside; locally that also means cavity brickwork outside, and with 23% one-person households in Ickenham, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a four-hole bracket with two screws in a stud and two in fresh air, as the Ickenham stock goes, where 82% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the mistake that costs a UB10 customer twice.
Ickenham 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 — a village green with a pump and pond, surrounded by interwar housing — which is why a UB10 quote is not a Hillingdon average.
Wide roads and long driveways; the village centre is narrow but quiet. Nearest station is Ickenham (Metropolitan, Piccadilly), 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.