Census 2021 puts Southgate at 10,174 households with a median age of 39.2. The inter-war stock is owner-occupier-led, which is why 55% houses and 45% flats need different handling in N14.
32% of households rent privately and 58% own, which is why cat flap fitting demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Walls are with solid brick on the party and external walls — and lath and plaster over timber studs — the reality on the streets around Southgate Underground station by Charles Holden, so the fixing that matters in Southgate is chosen on site — the usual failure here is which crumbles the key and drops the panel — and a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster — and with 26% one-person households in Southgate, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
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.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: station circus gyratory, but driveways on almost every residential street. Southgate (Piccadilly) is the nearest station, and one fitter for doors and panels; two where a wall tunnel is core-drilled and the debris has to be carried out of a flat.
