3,056 households sit inside the N21 neighbourhood covering Winchmore Hill. The build is mainly Edwardian, the tenure profile owner-occupier-led, and 27% of those homes are flats.
The owner-occupier-led mix here (76% owned, 20% privately rented) means a N21 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Walls are solid London stock brick in N21, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, and with 24% one-person households in Winchmore Hill, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site, so the fixing that matters in Winchmore Hill is chosen on site — the usual failure here is fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Winchmore Hill stock goes, and with 20% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does.
Winchmore Hill 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 — village green, independent shops and some of the borough's biggest houses — which is why a N21 quote is not a Enfield average.
On access, driveways throughout; the green is a conservation area with loading limits — one reason one technician and a van-mounted hot-water pressure washer for most driveways; two on larger block-paving jobs where re-sanding is included, since brushing sand in is a second task run alongside the wash. Fitters travelling in use Winchmore Hill (Great Northern).