In Stratford (E15) the split is 61% flats to 39% houses over 10,391 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
Because 37% of Stratford is privately rented and 35% socially rented, a lot of E15 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, measured on the walk in from Stratford (Central, Jubilee, Elizabeth line, DLR) rather than assumed from a map behind the plaster in E15. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Stratford gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, and with 37% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the fault we are called back to undo.
Stratford 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 — westfield, the Olympic Park and a skyline of new residential towers — which is why a E15 quote is not a Newham average.
Every tower needs a booked goods lift and loading bay; estate roads are camera-controlled. Nearest station is Stratford (Central, Jubilee, Elizabeth line, DLR), 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.