In Hoxton (N1) the split is 96% flats to 3% houses over 7,353 households, and the stock is Georgian and early Victorian.
Because 33% of Hoxton is privately rented and 45% socially rented, a lot of N1 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Hoxton substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit, and with 38% one-person households in Hoxton, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Hoxton stock goes, where 22% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the mistake that costs a N1 customer twice.
Hoxton Square, Geffrye Museum gardens and a mix of estates and converted workshops. That character decides the practical detail of mattress cleaning here far more than the borough boundary does. Hoxton is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: low-traffic filters on side streets, permit bays and loft stairs with tight turns. Hoxton (Overground) is the nearest station, 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.