Walk Queen's Park from Queen's Park itself outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 70% of the 4,160 households in NW6 live in flats, 30% in houses.
Owner-occupation runs at 44% in Queen's Park, so alongside the 36% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Queen's Park substrates run to lath and plaster over timber studs in NW6, with solid brick on the party and external walls — the reality on the streets around Queen's Park itself. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster; locally that also means which crumbles the key and drops the panel — and with 31% one-person households in Queen's Park, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the mistake that costs a NW6 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Queen's Park: the park, Salusbury Road's shops and the Queen's Park Estate cottages. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Queen's Park 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: very narrow estate streets, permit bays and gardens reached only through the house. Queen's Park (Bakerloo, Overground) is the nearest station, and one fitter for standard windows; two for bent bay tracks or full-height stairwell blinds.