Census 2021 puts Raynes Park at 3,570 households with a median age of 36.5. The mainly Edwardian stock is renter-heavy, which is why 49% houses and 51% flats need different handling in SW20.
35% of households rent privately and 51% own, which is why TV mounting demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Walls are with solid brick on the party and external walls, over lath and plaster over timber studs — and with 35% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does, so the fixing that matters in Raynes Park is chosen on site — the usual failure here is which crumbles the key and drops the panel, over a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster — and with 30% one-person households in Raynes Park, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
Two streets can behave very differently in Raynes Park: a quiet family suburb of interwar semis with Cottenham Park nearby. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Raynes Park is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, driveways on most roads; the level crossing and station parade congest at peak — one reason one fitter up to 43 inches, two for anything larger or where the screen has to go up a stairwell. Fitters travelling in use Raynes Park (South Western).
