The E14 stock around Limehouse Basin is Georgian and early Victorian. ONS records 83% flats, 17% houses and 7,637 households in Limehouse.
Private renting sits at 32% and owner-occupation at 25%; the first group books pathway jet washing at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit — and with 32% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does behind the plaster in E14. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in E14, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — and with 30% one-person households in Limehouse, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Limehouse: basin marina, Narrow Street's riverside houses and canal moorings. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Limehouse sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
On access, narrow Street is single-track with no turning; marina blocks need gate codes and lift booking — one reason 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. Fitters travelling in use Limehouse (DLR, c2c).
