In Battersea (SW11) the split is 87% flats to 13% houses over 6,832 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
The mixed-tenure mix here (38% owned, 33% privately rented) means a SW11 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Walls are dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork in Battersea, with metal stud partitions between rooms, measured on the walk in from Battersea Power Station (Northern) rather than assumed from a map, so the fixing that matters in Battersea is chosen on site — the usual failure here is short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, as the Battersea stock goes, a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here.
Battersea is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — the rebuilt power station, riverside towers and Victorian streets around the park — which is why a SW11 quote is not a Wandsworth average.
On access, estate loading docks booked in advance, Nine Elms construction diversions and tight terraced streets — 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 Battersea Power Station (Northern).