In Bounds Green (N11) the split is 33% flats to 67% houses over 3,635 households, and the stock is mainly Edwardian.
Because 30% of Bounds Green is privately rented and 17% socially rented, a lot of N11 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and solid London stock brick, which is why London Borough of Enfield kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded, so the fixing that matters in Bounds Green is chosen on site — the usual failure here is fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Bounds Green stock goes, the reality on the streets around Bounds Green Road and Broomfield Park's edge.
Bounds Green 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 — quiet terraced streets between Wood Green and the North Circular — which is why a N11 quote is not a Enfield average.
On access, north Circular noise and access limits; side streets have permit bays and narrow turns — one reason two to four operatives for a single-building clear, scaling to two teams working in parallel where a full primary site has to be finished inside a two-week holiday window. Fitters travelling in use Bounds Green (Piccadilly).