Walk Chadwell Heath from The Wangey Road recreation ground outwards and the mainly Edwardian pattern is obvious: 32% of the 3,930 households in RM6 live in flats, 68% in houses.
31% of households rent privately and 56% own, which is why factory and industrial clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Walls are some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and solid London stock brick — which is why London Borough of Barking and Dagenham kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded, so the fixing that matters in Chadwell Heath is chosen on site — the usual failure here is fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body on these streets — where 56% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
Anyone who knows Chadwell Heath knows the pattern near The Wangey Road recreation ground: high Road shops on the Roman road, with interwar semis on both sides. We plan the RM6 visit around it. Chadwell Heath is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, high Road is busy with short loading bays; side streets have driveways — one reason three to six operatives depending on the plant, with skates, pallet trucks and a tail-lift 7.5t as standard and a HIAB where a machine cannot be moved to the bay by hand. Fitters travelling in use Chadwell Heath (Elizabeth line).