The KT2 stock around Kingston University's Kingston Hill campus is mainly Victorian. ONS records 57% flats, 43% houses and 3,377 households in Norbiton and Kingston Hill.
36% of households rent privately and 52% own, which is why bath and shower screen fitting demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Walls are with metal stud partitions between rooms, over dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — where 52% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year, so the fixing that matters in Norbiton and Kingston Hill is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in KT2, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — and steep kingston hill, hospital-area restrictions and student turnover each september.
Two streets can behave very differently in Norbiton and Kingston Hill: the hospital, the university campus and the climb up to Richmond Park. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Norbiton and Kingston Hill is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, steep Kingston Hill, hospital-area restrictions and student turnover each September — one reason one fitter for a pivot or fixed screen; two for sliding and bi-fold enclosures and any wet-room panel over 190cm, which is awkward to hold plumb alone. Fitters travelling in use Norbiton (South Western).
