Census 2021 puts Cheam at 13,016 households with a median age of 42.2. The inter-war stock is owner-occupier-led, which is why 79% houses and 21% flats need different handling in SM3.
Private renting sits at 15% and owner-occupation at 81%; the first group books shed clearance and removal at short notice, the second plans it.
Cheam substrates run to cavity brickwork outside — and timber stud partitions inside — and with 15% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a four-hole bracket with two screws in a stud and two in fresh air on these streets — and with 24% one-person households in Cheam, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the mistake that costs a SM3 customer twice.
Anyone who knows Cheam knows the pattern near Nonsuch Park and Whitehall, Cheam: a village centre with timber-framed buildings and Nonsuch Park on the edge. We plan the SM3 visit around it. Cheam is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, driveways on nearly every street; the village parade has short loading bays — 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 Cheam (Southern).