Walk Southgate from Southgate Underground station by Charles Holden outwards and the inter-war pattern is obvious: 45% of the 10,174 households in N14 live in flats, 55% in houses.
Private renting sits at 32% and owner-occupation at 58%; the first group books blinds and curtain fitting at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect with solid brick on the party and external walls, over lath and plaster over timber studs — the reality on the streets around Southgate Underground station by Charles Holden behind the plaster in N14. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why which crumbles the key and drops the panel — and a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster — measured on the walk in from Southgate (Piccadilly) rather than assumed from a map is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Southgate: charles Holden's circular station at the centre of interwar suburbia. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Southgate is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Station circus gyratory, but driveways on almost every residential street. Nearest station is Southgate (Piccadilly), and one fitter for standard windows; two for bent bay tracks or full-height stairwell blinds.