Walk Forest Gate from Wanstead Flats outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 48% of the 10,407 households in E7 live in flats, 52% in houses.
Private renting sits at 38% and owner-occupation at 38%; the first group books blinds and curtain fitting at short notice, the second plans it.
Forest Gate substrates run to with solid brick on the party and external walls — and lath and plaster over timber studs — and with 23% one-person households in Forest Gate, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because which crumbles the key and drops the panel — and a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster — measured on the walk in from Forest Gate (Elizabeth line) rather than assumed from a map is the mistake that costs a E7 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Forest Gate: wanstead Flats on the doorstep and streets of tall Victorian terraces. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Forest Gate is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, elizabeth-line-era demand, narrow streets and permit bays across the conservation areas — one reason one fitter for standard windows; two for bent bay tracks or full-height stairwell blinds. Fitters travelling in use Forest Gate (Elizabeth line).
