11,120 households sit inside the RM3 neighbourhood covering Harold Wood and Harold Hill. The build is inter-war, the tenure profile owner-occupier-led, and 29% of those homes are flats.
Because 15% of Harold Wood and Harold Hill is privately rented and 29% socially rented, a lot of RM3 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, and with 29% one-person households in Harold Wood and Harold Hill, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site behind the plaster in RM3. 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 Harold Wood and Harold Hill stock goes, the reality on the streets around Central Park, Harold Hill is the fault we are called back to undo.
Harold Wood and Harold Hill 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 — post-war LCC estate at Harold Hill and Elizabeth-line commuter streets at Harold Wood — which is why a RM3 quote is not a Havering average.
On access, wide estate roads with easy parking, plus new blocks with booked lifts — one reason 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. Fitters travelling in use Harold Wood (Elizabeth line).