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.
Collier Row substrates run to solid London stock brick; locally that also means some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, and wide suburban roads, driveways and easy kerbside loading. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Collier Row gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, a median age of 39 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here is the mistake that costs a RM5 customer twice.
Collier Row 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 — a large residential suburb north of Romford with its own shopping parade — which is why a RM5 quote is not a Havering average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: wide suburban roads, driveways and easy kerbside loading. Romford (Elizabeth line) is the nearest station, and two to four operatives depending on room count, scaling to a second team on a full-floor or full-closure clearance where the schedule is set by a redevelopment date.