3,460 households sit inside the E13 neighbourhood covering West Ham and Plaistow. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile social-housing-led, and 55% of those homes are flats.
The social-housing-led mix here (29% owned, 30% privately rented) means a E13 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in E13, often with surface conduit, and with 25% one-person households in West Ham and Plaistow, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site, so the fixing that matters in West Ham and Plaistow is chosen on site — the usual failure here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the West Ham and Plaistow stock goes, a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here.
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.
On access, narrow terraced streets with permit bays; the A13 approach is a red route — one reason a two-person crew and a Luton for flats; three or four crew and two vans for houses with lofts, cellars or garages. Fitters travelling in use West Ham (Jubilee, District, DLR, c2c).