In Thornton Heath (CR7) the split is 38% flats to 62% houses over 12,862 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
The mixed-tenure mix here (54% owned, 31% privately rented) means a CR7 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Expect solid London stock brick; locally that also means some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, the reality on the streets around Selhurst Park behind the plaster in CR7. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Thornton Heath stock goes, which is what a 38% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Thornton Heath actually produces is the fault we are called back to undo.
Thornton Heath 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 — a busy high street, the pond junction and Selhurst Park's match-day crowds — which is why a CR7 quote is not a Croydon average.
Match-day parking bans, high-street loading windows and narrow terraced streets. Nearest station is Thornton Heath (Southern), and two operatives with a Luton van as standard, scaling to a second vehicle for a full three-bed or a property with no lift.