The SW7 stock around The Victoria and Albert Museum is period conversion. ONS records 86% flats, 14% houses and 2,840 households in South Kensington.
Private renting sits at 54% and owner-occupation at 38%; the first group books extractor fan cleaning at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are lath and plaster over timber studs in South Kensington, with solid brick on the party and external walls — where 38% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year, so the fixing that matters in South Kensington is chosen on site — the usual failure here is a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in South Kensington, which crumbles the key and drops the panel — measured on the walk in from South Kensington (Circle, District, Piccadilly) rather than assumed from a map.
Two streets can behave very differently in South Kensington: museum quarter, French lycée and cream-stucco crescents. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. South Kensington sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
On access, museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions — one reason one technician for domestic hoods and bathroom fans; two for island canopies and any commercial kitchen. Fitters travelling in use South Kensington (Circle, District, Piccadilly).
