In Dagenham (RM10) the split is 24% flats to 76% houses over 15,032 households, and the stock is inter-war.
With 24% private renting against 44% owner-occupied, most RM10 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Dagenham substrates run to often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, where 44% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Dagenham gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, which is what a 24% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Dagenham actually produces is the mistake that costs a RM10 customer twice.
Dagenham is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — heathway shops, Ford's plant on the marshes and streets of estate housing — which is why a RM10 quote is not a Barking and Dagenham average.
On access, wide roads, driveways and easy access; the Heathway has short loading bays — one reason two movers as standard, three where a Victorian stair turn, a heavy item or a tight completion-day schedule makes the extra pair of hands worth the hourly cost. Fitters travelling in use Dagenham Heathway (District).