In Southgate (N14) the split is 45% flats to 55% houses over 10,174 households, and the stock is inter-war.
The owner-occupier-led mix here (58% owned, 32% privately rented) means a N14 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Southgate substrates run to lath and plaster over timber studs in Southgate, with solid brick on the party and external walls, the pattern behind 10,174 households inside the N14 neighbourhood. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because which crumbles the key and drops the panel, over a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster, the reality on the streets around Southgate Underground station by Charles Holden is the mistake that costs a N14 customer twice.
Charles Holden's circular station at the centre of interwar suburbia. That character decides the practical detail of flat and apartment clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. Southgate is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: station circus gyratory, but driveways on almost every residential street. Southgate (Piccadilly) is the nearest station, and 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.