In Gants Hill (IG2) the split is 30% flats to 70% houses over 4,097 households, and the stock is inter-war.
Because 32% of Gants Hill is privately rented and 6% socially rented, a lot of IG2 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Gants Hill substrates run to solid London stock brick in Gants Hill, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, measured on the walk in from Gants Hill (Central) rather than assumed from a map. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Gants Hill stock goes, which is what a 30% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Gants Hill actually produces is the mistake that costs a IG2 customer twice.
Gants 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 — the Moscow-style station rotunda, a busy roundabout and mansion flats around it — which is why a IG2 quote is not a Redbridge average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: the roundabout is hard to load from; residential roads have driveways. Gants Hill (Central) 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.