In Chadwell Heath (RM6) the split is 32% flats to 68% houses over 3,930 households, and the stock is mainly Edwardian.
The owner-occupier-led mix here (56% owned, 31% privately rented) means a RM6 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Walls are some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and solid London stock brick, which is why London Borough of Barking and Dagenham kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded, so the fixing that matters in Chadwell Heath is chosen on site — the usual failure here is Chadwell Heath gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, where 56% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
Chadwell Heath 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 — high Road shops on the Roman road, with interwar semis on both sides — which is why a RM6 quote is not a Barking and Dagenham average.
On access, high Road is busy with short loading bays; side streets have driveways — one reason two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment. Fitters travelling in use Chadwell Heath (Elizabeth line).