In Ilford (IG1) the split is 45% flats to 55% houses over 11,156 households, and the stock is mainly Edwardian.
With 46% private renting against 41% owner-occupied, most IG1 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Expect solid London stock brick in IG1, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, and with 20% one-person households in Ilford, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site behind the plaster in IG1. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Ilford stock goes, which is what a 45% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Ilford actually produces is the fault we are called back to undo.
Ilford 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 major town centre with the Exchange mall and a fast-growing skyline of new flats — which is why a IG1 quote is not a Redbridge average.
On access, town-centre loading windows, new towers with booked lifts and a busy one-way system — one reason two to three operatives as standard, scaling up for a full house with a tight sale deadline. A single point of contact is assigned for the duration of the instruction. Fitters travelling in use Ilford (Elizabeth line).