In Cranford and Heston (TW5) the split is 29% flats to 71% houses over 3,004 households, and the stock is inter-war.
The renter-heavy mix here (43% owned, 41% privately rented) means a TW5 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Walls are some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick, and with 18% one-person households in Cranford and Heston, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site, so the fixing that matters in Cranford and Heston is chosen on site — the usual failure here is fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Cranford and Heston stock goes, a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here.
Cranford and Heston 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 — airport-fringe suburbia with Cranford Park and the M4 close by — which is why a TW5 quote is not a Hounslow average.
Driveways throughout; motorway junctions are close but the side roads are quiet. Nearest station is Hounslow West (Piccadilly), and two movers as standard, three where a Victorian stair turn, a heavy item or a tight completion-day schedule makes the extra pair of hands worth the hourly cost.