In Chingford (E4) the split is 29% flats to 71% houses over 13,460 households, and the stock is inter-war.
The owner-occupier-led mix here (66% owned, 18% privately rented) means a E4 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Chingford substrates run to solid London stock brick; locally that also means some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, and with 28% one-person households in Chingford, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Chingford gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, where 66% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the mistake that costs a E4 customer twice.
Forest-edge suburbia with the Royal Forest hotel and Connaught Water nearby. That character decides the practical detail of wardrobe assembly here far more than the borough boundary does. Chingford 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: easy access and off-street parking; only Station Road needs timed loading. Chingford (Overground) is the nearest station, and one fitter for a single wardrobe; two for fitted bay systems, sliding-door units and anything carried up a shared stairwell.