In Moorgate (EC2) the split is 98% flats to 2% houses over 4,914 households, and the stock is recent new-build.
The renter-heavy mix here (37% owned, 48% privately rented) means a EC2 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork in EC2, with metal stud partitions between rooms, a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here behind the plaster in EC2. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Moorgate gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, the reality on the streets around Finsbury Circus Gardens is the fault we are called back to undo.
Moorgate 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 — office core around Finsbury Circus and Liverpool Street, with a small resident population above the shops — which is why a EC2 quote is not a City of London average.
Congestion Charge, weekday loading windows before 10:00, and building managers who require insurance documents. Nearest station is Moorgate (Northern, Elizabeth line), and one technician for a private path; two where a communal walkway has to stay open to residents while the work is done, so one can manage access while the other washes.