Walk Deptford from Deptford Market Yard outwards and the Georgian and early Victorian pattern is obvious: 83% of the 7,370 households in SE8 live in flats, 17% in houses.
28% of households rent privately and 24% own, which is why business clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect often with surface conduit, over precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — and with 28% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does behind the plaster in SE8. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in SE8, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — which is why London Borough of Lewisham kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Deptford: market street, the Albany and the creek-side yards of the old naval dockyard. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Deptford is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, market-day closures on Deptford High Street, narrow creek lanes and estate lifts — 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 Deptford (Southeastern).
