In Beckenham (BR3) the split is 68% flats to 32% houses over 9,081 households, and the stock is mainly Edwardian.
Because 31% of Beckenham is privately rented and 9% socially rented, a lot of BR3 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Beckenham substrates run to lath and plaster over timber studs in BR3, with solid brick on the party and external walls, where 60% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in BR3, which crumbles the key and drops the panel, and with 40% one-person households in Beckenham, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the mistake that costs a BR3 customer twice.
Beckenham 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 leafy town with the place park, a long high street and Bowie's early haunts — which is why a BR3 quote is not a Bromley average.
Tram-line crossings, high-street loading windows and driveways on side roads. Nearest station is Beckenham Junction (Southeastern, Tramlink), and a two-person crew and a Luton for flats; three or four crew and two vans for houses with lofts, cellars or garages.