Walk Isle of Dogs from Island Gardens and the Greenwich foot tunnel outwards and the post-war pattern is obvious: 84% of the 12,491 households in E14 live in flats, 16% in houses.
Private renting sits at 45% and owner-occupation at 27%; the first group books construction site clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms — where 27% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year, so the fixing that matters in Isle of Dogs is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in E14, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — and with 33% one-person households in Isle of Dogs, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
Two streets can behave very differently in Isle of Dogs: dock basins ringed by apartment blocks, with Island Gardens facing Greenwich. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Isle of Dogs sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Single access roads onto the island, dock-side loading bays and lift booking in every block. Nearest station is Crossharbour (DLR), and two operatives with a 3.5t tipper as standard, scaling to four operatives and a 7.5t vehicle on strip-outs or where the waste has to be barrowed a long way to the frontage.
