In West Ham and Plaistow (E13) the split is 55% flats to 45% houses over 3,460 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
With 30% private renting against 29% owner-occupied, most E13 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in West Ham and Plaistow, often with surface conduit, a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here behind the plaster in E13. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the West Ham and Plaistow stock goes, with 40% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first is the fault we are called back to undo.
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.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: narrow terraced streets with permit bays; the A13 approach is a red route. West Ham (Jubilee, District, DLR, c2c) 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.