14,239 households sit inside the E6 neighbourhood covering East Ham. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile renter-heavy, and 35% of those homes are flats.
The renter-heavy mix here (42% owned, 38% privately rented) means a E6 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
East Ham substrates run to some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and solid London stock brick, and with 18% one-person households in East Ham, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because East Ham gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, the reality on the streets around East Ham Nature Reserve at St Mary Magdalene is the mistake that costs a E6 customer twice.
East Ham 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 — high Street North's shops, the Victorian town hall and the nature reserve churchyard — which is why a E6 quote is not a Newham average.
On access, high street loading windows, terraced streets with permit bays and tight rear alleys — 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 East Ham (District, Hammersmith & City).