In Gants Hill (IG2) the split is 30% flats to 70% houses over 4,097 households, and the stock is inter-war.
The owner-occupier-led mix here (62% owned, 32% privately rented) means a IG2 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Walls are some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and solid London stock brick, measured on the walk in from Gants Hill (Central) rather than assumed from a map, so the fixing that matters in Gants Hill is chosen on site — the usual failure here is fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Gants Hill stock goes, where 62% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
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.
On access, the roundabout is hard to load from; residential roads have driveways — 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 Gants Hill (Central).