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 gym equipment assembly at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Custom House, often with surface conduit — which is why London Borough of Newham kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded behind the plaster in E16. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why 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 is the fault we are called back to undo.
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.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: construction diversions, estate service roads and new blocks with booked lifts. Custom House (Elizabeth line, DLR) is the nearest station, and one fitter for bikes, benches and rowers; two for treadmills, racks and multi-gyms, or wherever the machine must be carried above the ground floor.
