In Chadwell Heath (RM6) the split is 32% flats to 68% houses over 3,930 households, and the stock is mainly Edwardian.
With 31% private renting against 56% owner-occupied, most RM6 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Walls are solid London stock brick; locally that also means some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, and high road is busy with short loading bays; side streets have driveways, 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 four operatives with a 7.5t tail-lift vehicle on a standard unit, scaling to six with a second vehicle where the handover date is tight. Fitters travelling in use Chadwell Heath (Elizabeth line).