In Haggerston (E2) the split is 89% flats to 11% houses over 10,083 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
Because 27% of Haggerston is privately rented and 51% socially rented, a lot of E2 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Haggerston substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in E2, often with surface conduit, and with 33% one-person households in Haggerston, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Haggerston stock goes, where 22% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the mistake that costs a E2 customer twice.
Regent's Canal terraces, estate blocks and a fast-changing strip of Kingsland Road. That character decides the practical detail of flat and apartment clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. Haggerston is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, canal bridges limit access, permit bays throughout and estate lifts needing booking — 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 Haggerston (Overground).