In Southgate (N14) the split is 45% flats to 55% houses over 10,174 households, and the stock is inter-war.
With 32% private renting against 58% owner-occupied, most N14 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Expect with solid brick on the party and external walls — and lath and plaster over timber studs, and with 26% one-person households in Southgate, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site behind the plaster in N14. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in N14, which crumbles the key and drops the panel, which is what a 45% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Southgate actually produces is the fault we are called back to undo.
Southgate 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 — charles Holden's circular station at the centre of interwar suburbia — which is why a N14 quote is not a Enfield average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: station circus gyratory, but driveways on almost every residential street. Southgate (Piccadilly) is the nearest station, and one technician with a portable extraction machine and air mover on a single household booking; two technicians on HMO, student accommodation and serviced-apartment rounds where six or more mattresses are cleaned in a day.