In Aldgate (EC3) the split is 98% flats to 2% houses over 4,914 households, and the stock is post-war.
Because 48% of Aldgate is privately rented and 15% socially rented, a lot of EC3 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Aldgate substrates run to dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork in Aldgate, with metal stud partitions between rooms, where 37% 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 Aldgate gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, which is what a 98% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Aldgate actually produces is the mistake that costs a EC3 customer twice.
Aldgate sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — eastern edge of the Square Mile where office towers meet Whitechapel's high street — which is why a EC3 quote is not a City of London average.
Aldgate gyratory red routes, tower-block concierge sign-in and lift booking. Nearest station is Aldgate (Circle, Metropolitan), and one technician with a portable extraction machine and air mover on a single household booking; two technicians on HMO, student accommodation and serviced-apartment rounds where six or more mattresses are cleaned in a day.