Walk Crouch End from Crouch End Clock Tower outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 75% of the 6,451 households in N8 live in flats, 25% in houses.
Private renting sits at 37% and owner-occupation at 51%; the first group books carpet fitting at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are lath and plaster over timber studs in Crouch End, with solid brick on the party and external walls — the reality on the streets around Crouch End Clock Tower, so the fixing that matters in Crouch End is chosen on site — the usual failure here is which crumbles the key and drops the panel — and a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster — measured on the walk in from Hornsey (Great Northern) rather than assumed from a map.
Two streets can behave very differently in Crouch End: the clock tower, Town Hall and a hill village of Victorian terraces with no tube. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Crouch End is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, steep hills, very narrow streets around the Broadway and permit bays all week — one reason one fitter for a room or a straight flight; two for large open-plan floors, winder staircases and anything carried up above the third floor without a lift. Fitters travelling in use Hornsey (Great Northern).
