The E16 stock around Custom House station and Victoria Dock is post-war. ONS records 50% flats, 50% houses and 3,330 households in Custom House.
Private renting sits at 24% and owner-occupation at 26%; the first group books carpet fitting at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are often with surface conduit, over precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — the pattern behind 3,330 households inside the E16 neighbourhood, so the fixing that matters in Custom House is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in E16, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — and with 26% one-person households in Custom House, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
Two streets can behave very differently in Custom House: regeneration streets between the docks and Canning Town, transformed by the Elizabeth line. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Custom House is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Construction diversions, estate service roads and new blocks with booked lifts. Nearest station is Custom House (Elizabeth line, DLR), and one fitter for a room or a straight flight; two for large open-plan floors, winder staircases and anything carried up above the third floor without a lift.
