In Charlton (SE7) the split is 48% flats to 52% houses over 5,904 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
Because 20% of Charlton is privately rented and 38% socially rented, a lot of SE7 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect often with surface conduit, over precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, and with 20% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does behind the plaster in SE7. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Charlton gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, the reality on the streets around Charlton House is the fault we are called back to undo.
Charlton 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 — jacobean Charlton House, the Valley stadium and riverside retail parks — which is why a SE7 quote is not a Greenwich average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: match-day restrictions at the Valley, steep village hill and riverside estate roads. Charlton (Southeastern) is the nearest station, and 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.