In Collier Row (RM5) the split is 12% flats to 88% houses over 3,167 households, and the stock is post-war.
With 14% private renting against 74% owner-occupied, most RM5 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Walls are solid London stock brick in Collier Row, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, and with 23% one-person households in Collier Row, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site, so the fixing that matters in Collier Row is chosen on site — the usual failure here is fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Collier Row stock goes, the reality on the streets around Collier Row Lane parade.
A large residential suburb north of Romford with its own shopping parade. That character decides the practical detail of mattress cleaning here far more than the borough boundary does. Collier Row is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Wide suburban roads, driveways and easy kerbside loading. Nearest station is Romford (Elizabeth line), 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.