In Thamesmead (SE28) the split is 47% flats to 53% houses over 7,133 households, and the stock is post-war.
The social-housing-led mix here (32% owned, 28% privately rented) means a SE28 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Thamesmead, often with surface conduit, with 39% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first behind the plaster in SE28. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Thamesmead stock goes, a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here is the fault we are called back to undo.
Brutalist canals and lakes, now under one of London's biggest regeneration programmes. That character decides the practical detail of mattress cleaning here far more than the borough boundary does. Thamesmead is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Deck-access blocks with limited lifts, long walkway carries and estate service roads. Nearest station is Abbey Wood (Elizabeth line), 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.