In Dagenham (RM10) the split is 24% flats to 76% houses over 15,032 households, and the stock is inter-war.
Because 24% of Dagenham is privately rented and 31% socially rented, a lot of RM10 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect often with surface conduit, over precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, with 31% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first behind the plaster in RM10. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Dagenham gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, where 44% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the fault we are called back to undo.
Dagenham 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 — heathway shops, Ford's plant on the marshes and streets of estate housing — which is why a RM10 quote is not a Barking and Dagenham average.
Wide roads, driveways and easy access; the Heathway has short loading bays. Nearest station is Dagenham Heathway (District), and a two-person crew and a Luton for flats; three or four crew and two vans for houses with lofts, cellars or garages.