2,564 households sit inside the E13 neighbourhood covering Upton Park. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile renter-heavy, and 36% of those homes are flats.
The renter-heavy mix here (42% owned, 43% privately rented) means a E13 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Expect solid London stock brick in E13, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, and with 18% one-person households in Upton Park, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site behind the plaster in E13. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Upton Park stock goes, where 42% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the fault we are called back to undo.
Upton Park 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 — green Street's sari shops and jewellers — one of London's great shopping streets — which is why a E13 quote is not a Newham average.
On access, green Street loading is tightly timed; side streets are permit-only and narrow — one reason 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. Fitters travelling in use Upton Park (District, Hammersmith & City).