Walk East Dulwich from Dulwich Park outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 43% of the 3,337 households in SE22 live in flats, 57% in houses.
25% of households rent privately and 58% own, which is why driveway cleaning demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect solid London stock brick; locally that also means some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — where 58% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year behind the plaster in SE22. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in SE22, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — with 16% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in East Dulwich: lordship Lane's shops and rows of bay-fronted Victorian family houses. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. East Dulwich 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, narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton — one reason one technician and a van-mounted hot-water pressure washer for most driveways; two on larger block-paving jobs where re-sanding is included, since brushing sand in is a second task run alongside the wash. Fitters travelling in use East Dulwich (Thameslink).
