In Surrey Quays (SE16) the split is 76% flats to 22% houses over 4,588 households, and the stock is recent new-build.
Because 41% of Surrey Quays is privately rented and 24% socially rented, a lot of SE16 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect with metal stud partitions between rooms — and dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork, the pattern behind 4,588 households inside the SE16 neighbourhood behind the plaster in SE16. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Surrey Quays gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, and with 41% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the fault we are called back to undo.
Surrey Quays sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — retail park, Greenland Dock moorings and quiet dockland streets — which is why a SE16 quote is not a Southwark average.
On access, wide estate roads with parking bays, but gated developments need codes and lift slots — 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 Surrey Quays (Overground).