In Dagenham East and Rush Green (RM10) the split is 26% flats to 74% houses over 2,353 households, and the stock is post-war.
Because 29% of Dagenham East and Rush Green is privately rented and 15% socially rented, a lot of RM10 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect cavity brickwork outside, over timber stud partitions inside, measured on the walk in from Dagenham East (District) rather than assumed from a map behind the plaster in RM10. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why a four-hole bracket with two screws in a stud and two in fresh air, as the Dagenham East and Rush Green stock goes, and with 29% 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.
Dagenham East and Rush Green 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 eastern edge of the borough, with the country park and Rush Green hospital — which is why a RM10 quote is not a Barking and Dagenham average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: easy parking and wide roads throughout, with driveways on most streets. Dagenham East (District) is the nearest station, and two crew and a Luton on most garden clearances; three crew and a tipper where the load is mainly soil, turf or rubble and weight rather than volume decides the run.