In Ilford (IG1) the split is 45% flats to 55% houses over 11,156 households, and the stock is mainly Edwardian.
Because 46% of Ilford is privately rented and 13% socially rented, a lot of IG1 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect solid London stock brick; locally that also means some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, measured on the walk in from Ilford (Elizabeth line) rather than assumed from a map behind the plaster in IG1. 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 Ilford stock goes, a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here is the fault we are called back to undo.
Ilford 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 major town centre with the Exchange mall and a fast-growing skyline of new flats — which is why a IG1 quote is not a Redbridge average.
Town-centre loading windows, new towers with booked lifts and a busy one-way system. Nearest station is Ilford (Elizabeth line), 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.