Walk Royal Docks from ExCeL London and the IFS Cloud Cable Car outwards and the recent new-build pattern is obvious: 74% of the 2,668 households in E16 live in flats, 26% in houses.
Private renting sits at 38% and owner-occupation at 23%; the first group books carpet fitting at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — and with 38% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does behind the plaster in E16. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — the pattern behind 2,668 households inside the E16 neighbourhood is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Royal Docks: water on three sides — ExCeL, the cable car and dockside apartment terraces. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Royal Docks is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, event congestion around ExCeL, gated estates and mandatory lift booking — one reason 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. Fitters travelling in use Royal Victoria (DLR).
