Walk Crystal Palace from Crystal Palace Park and the dinosaurs outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 68% of the 4,203 households in SE19 live in flats, 32% in houses.
Private renting sits at 27% and owner-occupation at 50%; the first group books building waste clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect with metal stud partitions between rooms, over dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — and with 27% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does behind the plaster in SE19. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in SE19, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — which is why London Borough of Croydon kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Crystal Palace: the park's dinosaurs, the transmitter and a triangle of independent shops on the hill. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Crystal Palace is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
The steepest streets in south London, narrow triangle junctions and permit bays. Nearest station is Crystal Palace (Overground, Southern), and two crew and a Luton on most strip-outs; three crew and a tipper where the load is rubble, hardcore or soil and weight rather than volume decides the run.
