In Winchmore Hill (N21) the split is 27% flats to 73% houses over 3,056 households, and the stock is mainly Edwardian.
The owner-occupier-led mix here (76% owned, 20% privately rented) means a N21 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Expect solid London stock brick in N21, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, and with 24% one-person households in Winchmore Hill, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site behind the plaster in N21. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Winchmore Hill gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, and with 20% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the fault we are called back to undo.
Village green, independent shops and some of the borough's biggest houses. That character decides the practical detail of business clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. Winchmore Hill is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, driveways throughout; the green is a conservation area with loading limits — one reason 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. Fitters travelling in use Winchmore Hill (Great Northern).