In Shoreditch (E1) the split is 98% flats to 2% houses over 3,361 households, and the stock is Georgian and early Victorian.
Because 37% of Shoreditch is privately rented and 43% socially rented, a lot of E1 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in E1, often with surface conduit, and with 41% one-person households in Shoreditch, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site, so the fixing that matters in Shoreditch is chosen on site — the usual failure here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Shoreditch stock goes, where 20% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
Warehouse offices, rooftop bars and Boxpark on the City fringe. That character decides the practical detail of mattress cleaning here far more than the borough boundary does. Shoreditch is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, night-economy congestion, narrow one-way streets and loft buildings with shared goods lifts — one reason 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. Fitters travelling in use Shoreditch High Street (Overground).