In West Ham and Plaistow (E13) the split is 55% flats to 45% houses over 3,460 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
With 30% private renting against 29% owner-occupied, most E13 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
West Ham and Plaistow substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in West Ham and Plaistow, often with surface conduit, which is why London Borough of Newham kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded. 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 West Ham and Plaistow stock goes, where 29% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the mistake that costs a E13 customer twice.
West Ham and Plaistow 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 — terraced streets and the memory of the Boleyn Ground, with fast links in every direction — which is why a E13 quote is not a Newham average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: narrow terraced streets with permit bays; the A13 approach is a red route. West Ham (Jubilee, District, DLR, c2c) is the nearest station, 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.