In Enfield Lock and Ponders End (EN3) the split is 42% flats to 58% houses over 4,419 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
Because 32% of Enfield Lock and Ponders End is privately rented and 25% socially rented, a lot of EN3 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Enfield Lock and Ponders End substrates run to solid London stock brick in EN3, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, and with 32% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Enfield Lock and Ponders End stock goes, which is what a 42% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Enfield Lock and Ponders End actually produces is the mistake that costs a EN3 customer twice.
Enfield Lock and Ponders End 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 — lee Valley waterside, the old small-arms factory and new riverside housing — which is why a EN3 quote is not a Enfield average.
On access, narrow lock-side lanes, new blocks with booked lifts and industrial-estate access roads — one reason two crew and a Luton for a studio or one-bed; three crew and a second van on two- and three-bedroom apartments or any duplex. Fitters travelling in use Enfield Lock (Greater Anglia).