In Bromley (BR1) the split is 44% flats to 56% houses over 19,582 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
The owner-occupier-led mix here (62% owned, 24% privately rented) means a BR1 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Expect cavity brickwork outside — and timber stud partitions inside, the pattern behind 19,582 households inside the BR1 neighbourhood behind the plaster in BR1. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Bromley gives us a four-hole bracket with two screws in a stud and two in fresh air, a median age of 39 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here is the fault we are called back to undo.
Bromley 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 — the biggest town centre in south-east London, with the Glades and Church House Gardens — which is why a BR1 quote is not a Bromley average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: pedestrianised High Street with timed access; driveways on the residential roads. Bromley South (Southeastern) is the nearest station, and two crew and a Luton on a small office or shop unit; three to four crew with a 7.5-tonne vehicle on retail strip-outs, warehouses and racking removals.