In Cheam (SM3) the split is 21% flats to 79% houses over 13,016 households, and the stock is inter-war.
The owner-occupier-led mix here (81% owned, 15% privately rented) means a SM3 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Expect timber stud partitions inside in SM3, cavity brickwork outside, and with 24% one-person households in Cheam, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site behind the plaster in SM3. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Cheam gives us a four-hole bracket with two screws in a stud and two in fresh air, where 81% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the fault we are called back to undo.
Cheam 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 village centre with timber-framed buildings and Nonsuch Park on the edge — which is why a SM3 quote is not a Sutton average.
On access, driveways on nearly every street; the village parade has short loading bays — 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 Cheam (Southern).