Census 2021 puts Southgate at 10,174 households with a median age of 39.2. The inter-war stock is owner-occupier-led, which is why 55% houses and 45% flats need different handling in N14.
Private renting sits at 32% and owner-occupation at 58%; the first group books shed clearance and removal at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are with solid brick on the party and external walls, over lath and plaster over timber studs — and with 26% one-person households in Southgate, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site, so the fixing that matters in Southgate is chosen on site — the usual failure here is a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster; locally that also means which crumbles the key and drops the panel — and station circus gyratory, but driveways on almost every residential street.
Anyone who knows Southgate knows the pattern near Southgate Underground station by Charles Holden: charles Holden's circular station at the centre of interwar suburbia. We plan the N14 visit around it. Southgate is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: station circus gyratory, but driveways on almost every residential street. Southgate (Piccadilly) is the nearest station, and two crew and a Luton on a standard timber shed; three crew where the shed is a workshop size, the base is concrete or the only route out is through the house.