3,460 households sit inside the E13 neighbourhood covering West Ham and Plaistow. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile social-housing-led, and 55% of those homes are flats.
Because 30% of West Ham and Plaistow is privately rented and 40% socially rented, a lot of E13 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
West Ham and Plaistow substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit, and with 25% one-person households in West Ham and Plaistow, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the West Ham and Plaistow stock goes, the reality on the streets around The former Boleyn Ground site is the mistake that costs a E13 customer twice.
West Ham and Plaistow 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 — terraced streets and the memory of the Boleyn Ground, with fast links in every direction — which is why a E13 quote is not a Newham average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: narrow terraced streets with permit bays; the A13 approach is a red route. West Ham (Jubilee, District, DLR, c2c) 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.