In Winchmore Hill (N21) the split is 27% flats to 73% houses over 3,056 households, and the stock is mainly Edwardian.
The owner-occupier-led mix here (76% owned, 20% privately rented) means a N21 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Winchmore Hill substrates run to some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick, and with 24% one-person households in Winchmore Hill, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Winchmore Hill stock goes, the reality on the streets around Winchmore Hill Green is the mistake that costs a N21 customer twice.
Winchmore Hill 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 — village green, independent shops and some of the borough's biggest houses — which is why a N21 quote is not a Enfield average.
On access, driveways throughout; the green is a conservation area with loading limits — one reason two operatives with a Luton van as standard, scaling to a second vehicle for a full three-bed or a property with no lift. Fitters travelling in use Winchmore Hill (Great Northern).